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Prof. Dr. Ulla Bonas

Institute of Biology, Dept. of Genetics
Martin- Luther- University
Halle- Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. habil. Ulla Bonas
Weinbergweg 10
D- 06120 Halle (Saale)
Germany

Phone: +49- 345- 552 6290
Fax: +49- 345- 552 7277
E-mail: ulla.bonas@genetik.uni-halle.de

Awards

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2011

http://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/2011/bonas/index.html

Publications 2011

Schmidtke C, Findeiß S, Sharma CM, Kuhfuß J, Hoffmann S, Vogel J, Stadler PF and Bonas U (2011) Genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the plant pathogen Xanthomonas identifies sRNAs with putative virulence functions. Nucleic Acids Research 40: 2020-2031

Geißler R, Scholze H, Hahn S, Streubel J, Bonas U, Behrens S E and Boch J (2011) Transcriptional activators of human genes with programmable DNA-specificity. PLoS One 6: e19509

Publications 2010

Szczesny R, Jordan M, Schramm C, Schulz S, Cogez V, Bonas U and Büttner D (2010) Functional characterization of the Xcs and Xps type II secretion ATPase HrcN from the plant pathogen Xathomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. New Phytologist 187: 983-1002

Szczesny R, Büttner D, Escolar L, Schulze S, Seiferth A and Bonas U(2010) Suppression of the AvrBs1-specific hypersensitive response by the YopJ effector homolog AvrBsT from Xanthomonas depends on a SNF1-related kinase. New Phytologist 187: 1058-1074

Findeiß S, Schmidtke C, Stadler PF and Bonas U (2010) A novel family of plasmid-transferred anti-sense ncRNAs. RNA Biology 7: 1-5

Publications 2009

Boch J, Scholze H, Schornack S, Landgraf A, Hahn S, Kay S, Lahaye T, Nickstadt A, Bonas U (2009)
Breaking the code of DNA-binding specificity of TAL-type III effectors.
Science (in press)

Römer P, Strauss T, Hahn S, Scholze H, Morbitzer R, Grau J, Bonas U, Lahaye T (2009)
Recognition of AvrBs3-Like Proteins is mediated by specific binding to promoters of matching pepper Bs3 Alleles.
Plant Physiol 150: 1697-1712
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Kay S, Hahn S, Marois E, Wieduwild R, Bonas U (2009)
Detailed analysis of the DNA recognition motifs of the Xanthomonas type III effectors AvrBs3 and AvrBs3?rep16.
Plant J 59: 859-871
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Gürlebeck D, Jahn S, Gürlebeck N, Szczesny R, Szurek B, Hahn S, Hause G, Bonas U (2009)
Visualization of novel virulence activities of the Xanthomonas type III effectors AvrBs1, AvrBs3 and AvrBs4.
Mol Plant Pathol 10: 175-188
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Publications 2008

Lorenz C, Schulz S, Wolsch T, Rossier-Conway O, Bonas U, Büttner D (2008)
HpaC controls substrate specificity of the Xanthomonas type III secretion system.
PLoS Pathogens 4: e1000094
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Lorenz C, Kirchner O, Egler M, Stuttmann J, Bonas U, Büttner D (2008)
HpaA from Xanthomonas is a regulator of type III secretion.
Mol Microbiol 69: 344-360
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Publications 2007

Büttner D, Noël L, Stuttmann J, Bonas U (2007)
Characterization of the non-conserved hpaB-hrpF region in the hrp pathogenicity island from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20: 1063-1074
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Kay S, Hahn S, Marois E, Hause G, Bonas U (2007).
A bacterial effector acts as a plant transcription factor and induces a cell size regulator.
Science 318: 648-651
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Römer P, Hahn S, Jordan T, Strauß T, Bonas U, Lahaye T (2007) .
Plant pathogen recognition mediated by promoter activation of the Pepper Bs3 resistance gene.
Science 318: 645-648
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Thieme F, Szczesny R, Urban A, Kirchner O, Hause G, Bonas U (2007)
New type III effectors from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria trigger plant reactions dependent on a conserved N-myristoylation motif.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20: 1250-1261
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Moss WP, Byrne JM, Campbell HL, Ji P, Bonas U, Jones JB, Wilson M (2007)
Biological control of bacterial spot of tomato using hrp mutants of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria.
Biological Control 41:199-206
Link to abstract on ScienceDirect

Publications 2006

Weber E, Berger C, Bonas U, Koebnik R. (2006)
Refinement of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrpD and hrpE operon structure.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20: 559-567.
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Koebnik R, Krüger A, Thieme F, Urban A, Bonas U (2006)
Specific binding of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria AraC-type transcriptional activator HrpX to plant-inducible promoter boxes.
J Bacteriol 188: 7652-7660
Link to abstract at J Bacteriol

Gürlebeck D, Thieme F, Bonas U (2006)
Type III effector proteins from the plant pathogen Xanthomonas and their role in the interaction with the host plant.
J Plant Physiol 163: 233-255
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Büttner D, Bonas U (2006)
Who comes first? How plant pathogenic bacteria orchestrate type III secretion.
Curr Opin Microbiol 9: 193-200
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Büttner D, Lorenz C, Weber E, Bonas U (2006)
Targeting of two effector protein classes to the type III secretion system by a HpaC- and HpaB-dependent protein complex from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria.
Mol Microbiol 59: 513-527
Link to abstract at SFB 648

Publications 1984-2005

2005

Kabisch U, Landgraf A, Krause J, Bonas U, Boch J (2005)
Type III secretion chaperones ShcS1 and ShcO1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC 3000 bind more than one effector.
Microbiology 151: 269-280
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Thieme F, Koebnik R, Bekel T, Berger C, Boch J, Büttner D, Caldana C, Gaigalat L, Goesmann A, Kay S, Kirchner O, Lanz B, Linke B, McHardy AC, Meyer F, Mittenhuber G, Nies DH, Niesbach-Klösgen U, Patschkowski T, Rückert C, Rupp O, Schneiker S, Schuster SC, Vorhölter F, Weber E, Pühler A, Bonas U, Bartels D, Kaiser O (2005)
Insights into genome plasticity and pathogenicity of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv.vesicatoria revealed by the complete genome sequence.
J Bacteriol 187: 7254-7266

Schornack S, Peter K, Bonas U, Lahaye T (2005)
Expression levels of avrBs3-like genes affect recognition specificity in tomato Bs4 but not in pepper Bs3 mediated perception.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18: 1215-1225

Weber E, Ojanen-Reuhs T, Huguet E, Hause G, Romantschuk M, Korhonen TK, Bonas U, Koebnik R (2005)
The type III-dependent Hrp pilus is required for productive interaction of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoriawith pepper host plants.
J Bacteriol 187: 2458-2468

Kay S, Boch J, Bonas U (2005)
Characterization of AvrBs3-like effectors from a Brassicaceae pathogen reveals virulence and avirulence activities and a protein with a novel repeat architecture.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18: 838-848

Gürlebeck D, Szurek B, Bonas U (2005)
Dimerization of the bacterial effector protein AvrBs3 in the plant cell cytoplasm prior to nuclear import.
Plant J 42: 175-187

2004

Büttner D, Bonas U (2004)
Bacterial system for protein transport in eukaryotic cells. Patent WO/2005/085417

Schornack S, Ballvora A, Gürlebeck D, Peart J, Baulcombe D, Baker B, Ganal M, Bonas U, Lahaye T (2004)
The tomato resistance protein Bs4 is a predicted non-nuclear TIR-NB-LRR protein that mediates defense responses to severely truncated derivatives of AvrBs4 and overexpressed AvrBs3.
Plant J 37: 46-60

Keshavarzi M, Soylu S, Brown I, Bonas U, Nicole M, Rossiter J, Mansfield J (2004)
Basal defenses induced in pepper by lipopolysaccharides are suppressed by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 17: 805-815

Büttner D, Gürlebeck D, Noël LD, Bonas U (2004)
HpaB from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria acts as an exit control protein in type III-dependent protein secretion.
Mol Microbiol 54: 755-768

2003

Noël L, Thieme F, Gäbler J, Büttner D, Bonas U (2003)
XopC and XopJ, two novel type III effector proteins from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
J Bacteriol 185: 7092-7102

Büttner D, Noël L, Thieme F, Bonas U (2003)
Genomic approaches in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria allow fishing for virulence genes.
J Biotechnol 106: 203-214

Büttner D, Bonas U (2003)
Common infection strategies of plant and animal pathogenic bacteria. Curr Op
Plant Biol 6: 312-219

2002

Szurek B, Rossier O, Hause G., Bonas U (2002)
Type III-dependent translocation of the Xanthomonas AvrBs3 protein into the plant cell.
Mol Microbiol 46: 13-23

Noël L, Thieme F, Nennstiel D, Bonas U (2002)
Two novel type III-secreted proteins of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria are encoded within the hrp pathogenicity island.
J Bacteriol 184: 1340-1348

Marois E, Van den Ackerveken G, Bonas U (2002)
The Xanthomonas type III effector protein AvrBs3 modulates plant gene expression and induces cell hypertrophy in the susceptible host.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 15: 637–646

Lahaye T, Szurek B, Marois E, Schornack S, Jordan T, Büttner D, Escolar L, Thieme F, Noël L, Bonas U (2002)
Role of type III effector proteins from Xanthomonas in the interaction with the plant.
In: Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, Vol. 3, IS-MPMI, St. Paul, MN; S.A. Leong, C. Allen, and E.W. Triplett, eds., p. 135-140

Karsies A, Merkle T, Szurek B, Bonas U, Hohn T, Leclerc D. (2002)
Regulated nuclear targeting of cauliflower mosaic virus.
J Gen Virol 83: 1783-1790

Büttner D, Nennstiel D, Klüsener B, Bonas U (2002)
Functional analysis of HrpF, a putative type III translocon protein from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
J Bacteriol 184: 2389–2398

Büttner D, Bonas U (2002)
Getting across – bacterial type III effector proteins on their way to the plant cell.
EMBO J 21: 5313-5322

Büttner D, Bonas U (2002)
Port of entry - the type III secretion translocon.
Trends Microbiol 10: 186-192

Bonas U, Lahaye T (2002)
Plant disease resistance triggered by pathogen-derived molecules: refined models of specific recognition.
Curr Op Microbiol 5: 44-50

2001

Szurek B, Marois E, Bonas U, Van den Ackerveken G (2001)
Eukaryotic features of the Xanthomonas type III effector AvrBs3: protein domains involved in transcriptional activation and the interaction with nuclear import receptors from pepper.
Plant J 26: 523-534.

Noël L, Thieme F, Nennstiel D, Bonas U (2001)
cDNA-AFLP analysis unravels a genome-wide hrpG-regulon in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv.vesicatoria .
Mol Microbiol 41: 1271-1281

Escolar L, Van den Ackerveken G, Pieplow S, Rossier O, Bonas U (2001)
Type III secretion and in planta recognition of the Xanthomonas avirulence proteins AvrBs1 and AvrBsT.
Mol Plant Pathol 2: 287-296

Ballvora A, Schornack S, Baker BJ, Ganal M, Bonas U, Lahaye T (2001)
Chromosome landing at the tomato Bs4 locus.
Mol Genet Genomics 266: 639-645

Ballvora A, Pierre M, Van den Ackerveken G, Schornack S, Rossier O, Ganal M, Lahaye T, Bonas U (2001)
Genetic mapping and functional analysis of the tomato Bs4 locus governing recognition of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria AvrBs4 protein.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 14: 629-638

2000

Rossier, O., Van den Ackerveken G, Bonas U (2000)
HrpB2 and HrpF from Xanthomonas are type III-secreted proteins and essential for pathogenicity and recognition by the host plant.
Mol Microbiol 38: 828-838

Pierre M, Noël L, Lahaye T, Ballvora A, Veuskens J, Ganal M, Bonas U (2000)
High-resolution genetic mapping of the pepper resistance locus Bs3 governing recognition of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria AvrBs3 protein.
Theor Appl Genet 101: 255-263

Nennstiel D, Boch J, Bonas U (2000)
Bakterielle Phytopathogenese – Xanthomonas als Modellorganismus. Biospektrum 6: 23-26

Mudgett MB, Chesnokova O, Dahlbeck D, Clark E T, Rossier O, Bonas U, Staskawicz BJ (2000)
Molecular signals required for type III secretion and translocation of the Xanthomonas campestris AvrBs2 protein to pepper plants. Proc Nat Acad Sci U S A 97: 13324-13329

Bonas U, Ballvora A, Büttner D, Hahn K, Lahaye T, Marois E, Nennstiel D, Noël L, Pierre M, Szurek B, Van den Ackerveken G, Rossier R (2000)
Hrp type III secretion-mediated signaling between Xanthomonas and the plant.
In: Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2, IS-MPMI, St. Paul, MN

Bonas U, Van den Ackerveken G, Büttner D, Hahn K, Marois E, Nennstiel D, Noël L, Rossier O, Szurek B (2000)
How the bacterial plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria conquers the host.
Mol Plant Pathol 1: 73-76

Astua-Monge G, Minsavage GV, Stall RE, Davis MJ, Bonas U, Jones JB (2000)
Resistance of tomato and pepper to T3 strains of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is specified by a plant-inducible avirulence gene.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 13: 911-921

1999

Wengelnik K, Rossier O, Bonas U (1999)
Mutations in the regulatory gene hrpG of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria result in constitutive expression of all hrp genes.
J Bacteriol 181: 6828-6831

Rossier O, Wengelnik K, Hahn K, Bonas U (1999)
The Xanthomonas Hrp type III system secretes proteins from plant and mammalian bacterial pathogens.
Proc Nat Acad Sci U S A 96: 9368-9373

Bonas U, Van den Ackerveken G (1999)
Gene-for-gene interactions: bacterial avirulence proteins specify plant disease resistance.
Curr Op Microbiol 2: 94-98

1998

Huguet E, Hahn K, Wengelnik K, Bonas U (1998)
hpaA mutants of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria are affected in pathogenicity but retain the ability to induce host-specific hypersensitive reaction.
Mol Microbiol 29: 1379-1390

1997

Van den Ackerveken G, Bonas U (1997)
Bacterial avirulence proteins as triggers of plant disease resistance.
Trends Microbiol 5: 394-398

Huguet E, Bonas U (1997)
hrpF of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria encodes an 87-kDa protein with homology to NolX of Rhizobium fredii.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 10: 488-498

Bonas U, Van den Ackerveken G (1997)
Recognition of bacterial avirulence proteins occurs inside the plant cell: a general phenomenon in resistance to bacterial diseases?
Plant J 12: 1-7

Ojanen-Reuhs T, Kalkkinen N, Westerlund-Wikström B, Van Doorn J, Haahtela K, Nurmiaho-Lassila E-L, Wengelnik K,Bonas U, Korhonen TK (1997)
Characterization of the fimA gene encoding bundle-forming fimbriae of the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestrispv. vesicatoria
J Bacteriol 179: 1280-1290

1996

Wengelnik K, Van den Ackerveken G, Bonas U (1996)
HrpG, a key hrp regulatory protein of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is homologous to two-component response regulators.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 9: 704-712

Wengelnik K, Bonas U (1996)
HrpXv, an AraC-type regulator, activates expression of five out of six loci in the hrp cluster of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
J Bacteriol 178: 3462-3469

Wengelnik K, Marie C, Russel M, Bonas U (1996)
Expression and localization of HrpA1, a protein of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria essential for pathogenicity and induction of the hypersensitive reaction.
J Bacteriol 178: 1061-1069

Van den Ackerveken G, Marois E, Bonas U (1996)
Recognition of the bacterial avirulence protein AvrBs3 occurs inside the host plant cell.
Cell 87: 1307-1316

Horns T, Bonas U (1996)
The rpoN gene of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is not required for pathogenicity.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 9: 856-859

Bonas U, Huguet E, Noël L, Pierre M, Rossier O, Wengelnik K, Van den Ackerveken G (1996)
Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrp gene regulation and avirulence gene avrBs3 recognition.
In: Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, IS-MPMI, St. Paul, MN, p. 203-208

Bonas U, Van den Ackerveken G (1996)
Bacterial hrp and avirulence genes are key determinants in plant pathogen interaction.
In: Aerial Plant Surface Microbiology. C. Morris, P. C. Nicot, C. Nguyen-The (eds), Plenum Press, New York, p. 59-72

Bogdanove A, Beer SV, Bonas U, Boucher CA, Collmer A, Coplin DL, Cornelis GR, Huang H-C, Hutcheson SW, Panopoulos NJ, Van Gijsegem F (1996)
Unified nomenclature for broadly conserved hrp genes of phytopathogenic bacteria.
Mol Microbiol 20: 681-683

1995

Fenselau S, Bonas U (1995)
Sequence and expression analysis of the hrpB pathogenicity operon of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria which encodes eight proteins with similarity to components of the Hrp, Ysc, Spa, and Fli secretion systems.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 8: 845-854

Brown I, Mansfield J, Bonas U (1995)
hrp genes in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria determine ability to suppress papillae deposition in pepper mesophyll cells.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 8: 825-836

1994

Bonas U, Fenselau S, Horns T, Marie C, Moussian B, Pierre M, Wengelnik K, Van den Ackerveken G (1994)
hrp and avirulence genes of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria controlling the interaction with pepper and tomato.
In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe-Interactions. M. Daniels, J. A. Downie, A. E. Osbourn (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 3, p. 57-64

Bonas U (1994).
hrp genes of phytopathogenic bacteria.
Curr. Top. Microbiol Immunol 192: 79-98.

Leite RP, Minsavage GV, Bonas U, Stall RE (1994)
Detection and identification of plant pathogenic strains of Xanthomonas based on amplification of DNA sequences related to the hrp genes of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
Appl Environ Microbiol 60: 1068-1077

Bonas U (1994)
Bacterial home goal by harpins.
Trends Microbiol 2: 1-2

1993

Conrads-Strauch J, Balbo I, Bonas U (1993)
Repetitive motifs in the avrBs3 avirulence family determine specificity of resistance to Xanthomonas campestris pv.vesicatoria .
In: Mechanisms of Plant Defense Responses. B. Fritig and M. Legrand (ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 37-40

Bonas U, Conrads-Strauch J, Fenselau S, Horns T, Wengelnik K, Schulte R (1993)
Molecular genetic analysis of hrp and avirulence genes of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe-Interactions. E. Nester, D. P. S. Verma (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers p. 275-279

1992

Fenselau S, Balbo I, Bonas U (1992)
Determinants of pathogenicity in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria are related to proteins involved in secretion in bacterial pathogens of animals.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 5: 390-396

Herbers K, Conrads-Strauch J, Bonas U (1992)
Race-specificity of plant resistance to bacterial spot disease determined by repetitive motifs in a bacterial avirulence protein.
Nature 356: 172-174

Schulte R, Bonas U (1992)
A Xanthomonas pathogenicity locus is induced by sucrose and sulfur-containing amino acids.
Plant Cell 4: 79-86

Schulte R, Bonas U (1992)
The expression of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrp gene cluster that determines pathogenicity and hypersensitivity on pepper and tomato is plant-inducible.
J Bacteriol 174: 815-823

1991

Knoop V, Staskawicz BJ, Bonas U (1991)
The expression of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is not under the control of hrp genes and is independent of plant factors.
J Bacteriol 173: 7142-7150

Canteros B, Minsavage G, Bonas U, Pring D, Stall R (1991)
A gene from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria that determines avirulence in tomato is related to avrBs3.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 4: 628-632

Bonas U, Schulte R, Fenselau S, Minsavage GV, Staskawicz BJ, Stall RE (1991)
Isolation of a gene cluster from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria that determines pathogenicity and the hypersensitive response on pepper and tomato.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 4: 81-88

Schulte R, Herbers K, Fenselau S, Balbo I, Stall RE, Bonas U (1991)
. Characterization of genes from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria that determine avirulence and pathogenicity on pepper and tomato.
In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe-Interactions. H. Hennecke, D. P. S. Verma (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 61-64

1990

Bonas U, Knoop V, Koßmann J, Stall RE, Staskawicz BJ (1990)
Genetic and molecular characterization of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
In: Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. Ed.: Z. Klement; Budapest, Hungary. p. 369-374

Minsavage GV, Dahlbeck D, Whalen MC, Kearney B, Bonas U, Staskawicz BJ, Stall RE (1990)
Gene-for-gene relationships specifying disease resistance in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria -pepper interactions.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 3: 41-47

1989

Bonas U, Stall RE, Staskawicz BJ (1989)
Genetic and structural characterization of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
Mol Gen Genet 218: 127-136

1988

Bonas U, Staskawicz BJ (1988)
Genetic and structural characterization of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria .
In: Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Ed.: R. Palacios, D. P. Verma; APS Press, USA, p. 275-276

Staskawicz BJ, Bonas U, Dahlbeck D, Huynh T, Kearney B, Ronald P, Whalen M (1988)
Molecular determinants of specificity in plant-bacterial interactions.
In Physiology and Biochemistry of Plant-Microbial Interactions, N. T. Keen, T. Kosuge, and L. L.Walling, eds. (Rockville, Maryland: American Society of Plant Physiologists) , p. 124-130

Borkird C, Choi JH, Jin Z, Franz G, Hatzopoulos P, Chorneau R, Bonas U, Pelegri F, Sung ZR (1988)
Developmental regulation of embryonic genes in plants.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 85: 6399-6403

Sommer H, Bonas U, Saedler H (1988)
Transposon-induced alterations in the promoter region affect transcription of the chalcone synthase gene ofAntirrhinum majus.
Mol Gen Genet 211: 49-55

1984

Bonas U, Sommer H, Saedler H (1984)
The 17-kb Tam1 element of Antirrhinum majus induces a 3-bp duplication upon integration into the chalcone synthase gene.
EMBO J 3: 1015-1019

Bonas U, Sommer H, Harrison BJ, Saedler H (1984)
The transposable element Tam1 of Antirrhinum majus is 17 kb long.
Mol Gen Genet 194: 138-143

Saedler H, Bonas U, Gierl A, Harrison BJ, Klösgen RB, Nevers P, Petersen PA, Schwarz-Sommer Zs, Sommer H, Upadhyaya K, Wienand U (1984)
Transposable elements in Antirrhinum majus and Zea mays. Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
Quant Biol. Vol. 49: 355-361

Bonas U (1984)
In-vitro-Klonierung eines transponierbaren Elements im Gen der Chalkon-Synthase von Antirrhinum majus.
Dissertation, Köln

Invited Reviews & Book Chapters

Büttner D, Bonas U (2009)
Regulation and secretion of Xanthomonas virulence factors.
FEMS Microbiol Rev (in press)

Kay S, Bonas U ( 2009)
How Xanthomonas type III effectors manipulate the host plant.
Curr Opin Microbiol 12: 37-43
Link to abstract at PubMed