Enoch Lok Him Yuen (@EnochYuen)

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Enoch Lok Him Yuen @EnochYuen Sep 6, 2025

⚠️Excited to share my latest in @ThePlantCell🌱! We show that chloroplasts form membrane contact sites (MCS) with the pathogen interface to drive focal immunity, mediated by a tethering complex🔗!

Full story 👉 doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity

academic.oup.com Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune... Chloroplast tethering to the pathogen interface via membrane contact sites promotes focal callose deposition and strengthens plant immunity.

Enoch Lok Him Yuen @EnochYuen Oct 9

🚨 How do plants detect when pathogens hijack their enzymes? 🦠

📄 Our new preprint shows effectors exploit TOPGAP, a Rab GAP regulating membrane trafficking 🚚 🌱 Plants sense its deregulation via the helper NLR NRC4 and execute cell death 💀

🔗 doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

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Enoch Lok Him Yuen @EnochYuen Apr 9

New review out in Open Biology by @royalsociety 🌱🔬🧬!
Together with @Tolga_Bzkrt, we explore how pathogens — from viruses and bacteria to fungi, oomycetes and nematodes — hijack or suppress host autophagy to promote infection in plants.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsob.2…

#Research #Autophagy #PlantImmunity

Enoch Lok Him Yuen @EnochYuen Mar 31

Our paper in The Plant Cell 🪴 showed that chloroplasts form defence-related membrane contact sites (MCS) with the pathogen interface, helping drive focal immunity in plants:
academic.oup.com/plcell/article…
@Tolga_Bzkrt

academic.oup.com Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune... Chloroplast tethering to the pathogen interface via membrane contact sites promotes focal callose deposition and strengthens plant immunity.

The Plant Cell @ThePlantCell Mar 31

Yuen loves plant science because it bridges fundamental discovery with real-world impact. #WeAreASPB
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Enoch Lok Him Yuen @EnochYuen Mar 23

Really excited to see this out - some incredibly stunning time-lapse imaging capturing the full dynamics of plant immune cell death!

Chih-Hang Wu @AdamWu9527 Mar 23

I’m very excited to share this work! Understanding plant hypersensitive cell death has been a key challenge. Using time-lapse imaging, we captured the full process: from calcium influx to organelle breakdown and cell collapse. @YiFeng_eYFP @IPMBSinica
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