publications

Yorgey, P., Rahme, L.G., Tan, M.-W., and Ausubel, F.M. (2001). The roles of mucD and alginate in the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in plants, nematodes, and mice. Mol. Microbiol. 41: 1063-76

Pujol, N., Link, E.M., Liu, L.X., Kurz, C.L., Alloing, G., Tan, M.-W., Ray, K.P., Solari, R., Johnson, C.D., and Ewbank, J.J. (2000). A reverse genetic analysis of components of the Toll signaling pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans. Curr. Biol. 11: 809-21

Rahme, L.G., Ausubel, F.M., Cao, H., Drenkard, E., Goumnerov, B.C., Lau, G.W., Mahajan-Miklos, S., Plotnikova, J., Tan, M.-W., Tsongalis, J., Walendziewicz, C.L., and Tompkins, R.G. (2000). Plants and animals share functionally common bacterial virulence factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 8815-21

Tan, M.-W. and Ausubel. F.M. (2000). Caenorhabditis elegans: a model genetic host to study Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 3: 29-34

Shirasu, K., Lahaye, T., Tan, M.-W., Zhou, F., Azevedo, C. and Shulze-Lefert, P. (1999). A novel class of eukaryotic zinc-binding proteins is required for disease resistance signaling in barley and development in C. elegans. Cell, 99, 355-366

Mahajan-Miklos, S., Tan, M.-W., Rahme, L.G., and Ausubel, F.M. (1999). Molecular mechanisms of bacterial virulence elucidated using a Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Caenorhabditis elegans pathogenesis model. Cell, 96: 47-56

Tan, M.-W., Rahme, L.G., Sternberg, J.A., Thompkins,R.G. and Ausubel, F.M. (1999). Pseudomonas aeruginosa killing of Caenorhabditis elegans used to identify P. aeruginosa virulence factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 2408-2413

Tan, M.-W., Mahajan-Miklos, S., and Ausubel, F.M. (1999). Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Pseudomonas aeruginosa used to model mammalian bacterial pathogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 715-720

Rahme, L.G., Tan, M.-W., Le, L., Wong, S.M., Tompkins, R.G., Calderwood, S.B., and Ausubel, F.M. (1997). Use of model plant hosts to identify Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94: 13245-50