Tel. +44 01223 336990
Jongho Sun
With a career spanning seven years dedicated to antibiotic production in soil bacteria Streptomyces alongside the esteemed Prof. Mervyn Bibb FRS, and an additional two decades delving into calcium signaling in legumes and cereals with Prof. Giles Oldroyd FRS at the John Innes Centre and the University of Cambridge, my journey has been one of continuous exploration and scholarly pursuit.
Throughout my career, I have actively contributed to a myriad of research projects, each serving to deepen my comprehension of biological systems. This scholarly pursuit is underscored by my presence on platforms like Google Scholar, where my contributions are reflected in a citation count of 5005, an h-index of 27, and an i10-index of 29 as of 2023.
Currently, my focal point revolves around the intricate realm of calcium oscillation in cereals. This endeavor is driven by the aspiration to unravel the complexities of symbiotic signaling mechanisms. At the heart of this research lies a profound commitment to the ENSA program, aiming to engineer cereal crops capable of harnessing nitrogen from bacteria. As I navigate the frontiers of scientific inquiry, my passion lies in contributing to advancements that hold the potential to revolutionize agriculture and foster sustainable solutions for the future.
Publication
Xin-Ran Li*, Jongho Sun*, Doris Albinsky*, Darius Zarrabian, Raphaella Hull, Tak Lee, Edwin Jarratt-Barnham, Chai Hao Chiu, Amy Jacobsen, Eleni Soumpourou, Wouter Kohlen, Leonie Luginbuehl, Bruno Guillotin, Tom Lawrensen, Hui Lin, Jeremy Murray, Emma Wallington, Wendy Harwood, Jeongmin Choi, Uta Paszkowski and Giles E. D. Oldroyd (2022) Nutrient regulation of lipochitooligosaccharide recognition in plants via NSP1 and NSP2. Nature Communications. 13: 6421.* Contributed equally to this work.
Haiyue Liu*, Jie-Shun Lin*, Zhenpeng Luo*, Jongho Sun*, Xiaowei Huang*, Yang Yang, Ji Xu, Yong-Fei Wang, Peng Zhang, Giles ED Oldroyd, Fang Xie (2022) Constitutive activation of a nuclear-localized calcium channel complex in Medicago truncatula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (34), e2205920119. * Contributed equally to this work.
Feng Feng, Jongho Sun, Guru V Radhakrishnan, Tak Lee, Zoltán Bozsóki, Sébastien Fort, Aleksander Gavrin, Kira Gysel, Mikkel B Thygesen, Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simona Radutoiu, Jens Stougaard, Giles ED Oldroyd. (2019) A combination of chitooligosaccharide and lipochitooligosaccharide recognition promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in Medicago truncatula. Nature communications. 10:1-12.
Xiaolin Li, Zhiqiong Zheng, Xiangxiao Kong, Ji Xu, Liping Qiu, Jongho Sun, Dugald Reid, Haojie Jin, Stig U Andersen, Giles ED Oldroyd, Jens Stougaard, J Allan Downie, Fang Xie. (2019) Atypical Receptor Kinase RINRK1 Required for Rhizobial Infection but not Nodule Development in Lotus japonicus. Plant physiology 181:804-816.
Roy S., Robson F., Lilley J., Liu C. W., Cheng X., Wen J., Walker S., Sun J., Cousins D., Bone C., Bennett M. J., Downie J. A., Swarup R., Oldroyd G., Murray J. D. (2017) MtLAX2, a Functional Homologue of the Arabidopsis Auxin Influx Transporter AUX1, Is Required for Nodule Organogenesis. Plant Physiology 174:326-338.
Charpentier M., Sun J., Martins T. V., Radhakrishnan G. V., Findlay K., Soumpourou E., Thouin J., Véry A. A., Sanders D., Morris R. J., Oldroyd G. E. (2016) Nuclear-localized cyclic nucleotide-gated channels mediate symbiotic calcium oscillations. Science 352:1102-5.
Vernié T., Kim J., Frances L., Ding Y., Sun J., Guan D., Niebel A., Gifford M. L., de Carvalho-Niebel F., Oldroyd G. E. (2015) The NIN Transcription Factor Coordinates Diverse Nodulation Programs in Different Tissues of the Medicago truncatula Root. Plant Cell 27:3410-24.
Sun J., Miller J. B., Granqvist E., Wiley-Kalil A., Gobbato E., Maillet F., Cottaz S., Samain E., Venkateshwaran M., Fort S., Morris R. J., Ane J. M., Dearie J., Oldroyd G. E.(2015) Activation of symbiosis signaling by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in legumes and rice. Plant Cell 27:823-38.
Zhang X., Dong W., Sun J., Feng F., Deng Y., He Z., Oldroyd G. E., Wang E.(2015) The receptor kinase CERK1 has dual functions in symbiosis and immunity signalling. Plant Journal 81:258-67.
Granqvist E., Sun J., Camp R. O., Pujic P., Normand P., Morris R. J., Geurts R., Oldroyd G. E. (2015) Bacterial-induced calcium oscillations are a common feature of symbiotic signalling in nodulating legumes and non-legumes. New Phytologist. 207:551-558.
Charpentier M., Sun J., Wen J., Mysore K. S., Oldroyd G. E.(2014) ABA promotion of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization requires a component of the PP2A Protein Phosphatase Complex. Plant Physiology 166:2077-90.
Enrico Gobbato, John F. Marsh, Tatiana Vernie´, Ertao Wang, Fabienne Maillet, Jiyoung Kim, J. Benjamin Miller, Jongho Sun, S. Asma Bano, Pascal Ratet,
Kirankumar S. Mysore, Jean De´narie´, Michael Schultze, and Giles E.D. Oldroyd (2012) A GRAS-Type Transcription Factor with a Specific Function in Mycorrhizal
Signaling. Current Biology 22:2236-2241.
Emma Granqvist, Derin Wysham, Saul Hazledine, Wojciech Kozlowski,
Jongho Sun, Myriam Charpentier, Teresa Vaz Martins, Pauline Haleux, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, J. Allan Downie, Giles E.D. Oldroyd and Richard J. Morris (2012). Buffering capacity explains signal variation in symbiotic calcium oscillations. Plant Physiology 160:2300-2310.
Beatrix Horváth, Li Huey Yeun, Ágota Domonkos, Gábor Halász, Enrico Gobbato, Ferhan Ayaydin, Krisztina Miró, Sibylle Hirsch, Jongho Sun, Million Tadege, Pascal Ratet, Kirankumar S. Mysore, Jean-Michel Ané, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, and Péter Kaló (2011) Medicago truncatula IPD3 Is a Member of the Common Symbiotic Signaling Pathway Required for Rhizobial and Mycorrhizal Symbioses. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions. 24:1345-1358.
Ward Capoen, Jongho Sun, Derin Wysham, Marisa S. Otegui, Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran, Sibylle Hirsch, Hiroki Miwa, J. Allan Downie, Richard J. Morris, Jean-Michel Ané and Giles E. D. Oldroyd (2011) The nuclear membranes control symbiotic calcium signalling of legumes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:14348–14353.
Murray JD, Muni RR, Torres-Jerez I, Tang Y, Allen S, Andriankaja M, Li G, Laxmi A, Cheng X, Wen J, Vaughan D, Schultze M, Sun J, Charpentier M, Oldroyd G, Tadege M, Ratet P, Mysore KS, Chen R, Udvardi MK. (2011) Vapyrin, a gene essential for intracellular progression of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, is also essential for infection by rhizobia in the nodule symbiosis of Medicago truncatula. Plant Journal. 65(2):244-52.
Saul Hazledine, Jongho Sun, Derin Wysham, Allan Downie, Giles Oldroyd and Richard Morris (2009) Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Of Nodulation Factor Induced Calcium Oscillations: Evidence for Deterministic Chaos? PLoS One. 4(8):e6637.
Ward Capoen, Jeroen Den Herder, Jongho Sun, Christa Verplancke, Annick De Keyser, Riet De Rycke, Sofie Goormachtig, Giles Oldroyd, and Marcelle Holstersa (2009) Calcium Spiking Patterns and the Role of the Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Kinase CCaMK in Lateral Root Base Nodulation of Sesbania rostrata. Plant Cell. 21:1526-40.
Yiliang Ding, Peter Kalo, Craig Yendrek, Jongho Sun, Yan Liang, John F. Marsh, Jeanne M. Harris and Giles E.D. Oldroyd (2008) Abscisic Acid Coordinates Nod Factor and Cytokinin Signaling during the Regulation of Nodulation in Medicago truncatula. Plant Cell. 20:2681-2695.
Sun J.*.Kosuta S.*, Hazledine S.* Miwa H., Morris R. J., Downie J. A., Oldroyd G. E. (2008) Differential and chaotic calcium signatures in the symbiosis signaling pathway of legumes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105:9823-9828. *contributed equally to this work.
Edgar Peiter, Jongho Sun, Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran, Brendan K. Riley, Anne Heckmann, Marisa J. Otegui, Glenn Freshour, Michael G. Hahn, Douglas R. Cook, Dale Sanders, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, J. Allan Downie, Jean-Michel Ane. (2007) The Medicago Truncatula DMI1 Protein Modulate Cytosolic Calcium Signaling. Plant Physiology. 145:192-203.
John F. Marsh, Alexandra Rakocevic, Lysiane Brocard, Alexis Eschstruth, Raka M. Mitra, Jongho Sun, Sharon R. Long, Michael Schultze, Pascal Ratet and Giles E.D. Oldroyd. (2007) Medicago truncatula NIN is Essential for Nodule Organogenesis in the Absence of Rhizobial Infection. Legume Special Issue in Plant Physiology.144:324-335.
Sun J., Miwa H., Downie A. and Oldroyd G. (2007) Mastoparan activates calcium spiking analogous to Nod factor induced responses in Medicago trunactula root hair cells. Plant Physiology. 144:695-702.
Hiroki Miwa, Jongho Sun, Giles E.D. Oldroyd, and J. Allan Downie (2006) Analysis of Ca2+ spiking using a cameleon Ca2+ sensor in Medicago truncatula indicates roles for optimal spiking frequency and spiking number for nodulation gene induction. Plant Journal. 48:883-894.
Hiroki Miwa, Jongho Sun, Cynthia Gleason, Anne Heckman, Fabien Lombardo, Anne Edwards, Giles E.D. Oldroyd, and J. Allan Downie (2006) New Insights into Nod-Factor-Induced Ca2+ Signalling Determined Using Lotus japonicus Mutants and Transgenic Medicago truncatula Expressing a Ca2+-Sensing Cameleon Protein. Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions Volume 5:54-59.
Hiroki Miwa, Jongho Sun, Giles E.D. Oldroyd, and J. Allan Downie (2006) Analysis of Nod-Factor-Induced Calcium Signaling in Root Hairs of Symbiotically Defective Mutants of Lotus japonicus. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions. 19:914-923.
Sun J., Cardozaa V., Mitchella D., Oldroyd G. and Harrisa J. M. (2006) Crosstalk between the Jasmonic acid, ethylene and Nod factor signal transduction pathways allows integration of diverse signals for regulation of nodulation. Plant Journal. 46:961-970.
Sun, J., Hesketh, A. and Bibb, M. J. (2001) Functional analysis of relA and rshA – two relA/spoT homologues of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). J. Bacteriology. 183:3488-3498.
Hesketh, A., Sun, J. and Bibb, M. J. (2001) Induction of ppGpp synthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) grown under condition of nutritional sufficiency elicits actII-ORF4 transcription and actinorhodin biosynthesis. Molecular Microbiology. 39:136-144.
van der Biezen, E. A., Sun, J., Coleman, M. J., Bibb, M. J. and Jones, J. D. G.. (2000) Arabidopsis RelA/SpoT homologs implicate (p)ppGpp in plant signaling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97:3747-3752.
Sun, J., Kelemen, G. H., Fernandez-Abalos, J. M. and Bibb, M. J. (1999) Green fluorescent protein as a reporter for spatial and temporal gene expression in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Microbiology, 145:2221-2227.
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