Eui Hwan Chung
Education:
· Ph.D, Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey L. Dangl
· M.Sc, Molecular Plant Pathology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Thesis Adviser: Dr. Byung Kook Hwang
· B.Sc, Plant Pathology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Supervised by: Dr. Byung Kook Hwang
Project Description:
I
am currently investigating the function of plant NLR immune
receptor in response to bacterial pathogen invasion in Arabidopsis. I
have
studied the role of RIN4 targeted by bacterial type III effectors in
plant
immunity as a phophoswitch that contributes two tiers of plant immune
response,
Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs)-triggered immunity (MTI)
and
effector-triggered immunity (ETI).
Publications:
Chung
EH, El-Kasmi F,
He Y, Loher A and Dangl JL (2014) A
Plant Phosphoswitch Platform Repeatedly Targeted by Type III Effector
Proteins
Regulates the Output of Both Tiers of Plant Immune Receptors, Cell
Host & Microbe,
doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2014.09.004
“Exceptional”
paper from Faculty 1000
Huang
HS, Yoon BJ, Brooks S, Bakal R, Larsen RS, Wallace ML, Han
JE, Chung EH, Zylka MJ, and Philpot
B (2014) Snx14 regulates neuronal
excitability, promotes synaptic transmission, and is imprinted in the
brain of
mice. PLoS ONE,
9(5):e98383. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098383
Kim
NH,
Kim DS, Chung EH, and Hwang BK (2014) Pepper suppressor of the G2
allele of skp1 interacts with the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase 1
and type
III effector AvrBsT and promotes the hypersensitive cell death response
in a
phosphorylation-dependent manner. Plant Physiology 165:76-91.
He
Y*, Chung EH*, Hubert DA, Tornero
P, and
Dangl JL (2012) Specific missense
alleles of the Arabidopsis Jasmonic Acid co-receptor COI1 regulate
innate
immune receptor accumulation and function PLoS Genetics 8(10): e1003018.
doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003018 *Equal contribution
Cherkis
KA, Temple B, Chung EH, Sondek J and
Dangl JL (2012) AvrRpm1
missense mutations weakly
activate RPS2-mediated immune response in Arabidopsis
thaliana. PLoS
ONE 7(8): e42633. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042633
Gao,
Z, Chung EH, Eitas TK, and Dangl JL
(2011) The plant intracellular
innate
immune receptor RPM1 is activated at, and functions on, the plasma
membrane. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. 108 (18), 7619-7624.
Chung
EH.
(2011) Mechanisms
of Plant Immune Receptor RPM1 and its Associated Proteins in
Disease Resistance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC,
USA (Ph.D.
Dissertation)
Chung
EH,
da Cunha L, Wu A, Gao Z, Afzal A.J, Mackey D
and Dangl JL (2011) Specific
threonine phosphorylation of a host target mediated by two unrelated
type III
effector proteins results in activation of a host innate immune
receptor in
plants. Cell Host
& Microbe 9(2): 125-136.
Previewed
by Dr. Roger W. Innes in the
same issue as an featured article
“must
read” paper from Faculty 1000
Jung
EH,
Jung HW, Lee SC, Han SW, Heu S, and Hwang BK (2004)
Identification of a novel pathogen-induced gene encoding a
leucine-rich repeat protein expressed in phloem cells of Capsicum
annuum. Biochim.
Biophys. Acta 1676(3):
211-22
Kim
YJ, Jung EH, Hwang SH, Go SJ, and
Hwang DJ (2004) AP2/EREBP
transcription factors
in Rice. The Plant
Pathology Journal 20(1): 41-45.
Jung
EH.
(2002) Identification
and Functional Analysis of a
Novel Gene Encoding Leucine-Rich Repeat (LRR) protein as a Molecular
Marker for
Microbial Perception in Capsicum annuum,
Korea University, Seoul, Korea (M.S. Thesis)