Excited to share our newly published "A Multidimensional View of Biomolecular Condensates in Plant Biology" in the Annual Review of Plant Biology!
We discuss emerging mechanisms, biological functions, and future directions. 🌱🔬 - https://t.co/qTpzGvG3Mv
Check out our latest work! AlphaFold 3 revealed a transient immune receptor complex that eluded biochemical studies for almost a decade🤯 We describe a conserved structural logic underlying sensor–helper communication in an NLR immune receptor network 🧵👇
https://t.co/H55EMmrtZn
Just published: The Hidden Handshake: How AlphaFold Solved a Decade-Long Mystery in Plant Immunity
Over ten years in the making - generations of students and postdocs, countless false starts, and others were chasing this too. Here's the structural basis of NLR activate-and-release, and, yes, we can engineer it.
https://t.co/BQGn21xMZX
Really proud of this collaborative work exploring how fungal effectors exploit prion-like domains to access plastids and influence plant metabolism during symbiosis. Great to see the PEPSI–DXR story come together. @neto_flames@JohanaMisas@TheVilchezLab
https://t.co/5FQiiS9lUa
🚨 Paper out now in #ScienceAdvances@ScienceMagazine
🌱🦠 Pathogens don’t just target protein degradation—they also hijack host translation. "Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" ⚖️♻️
https://t.co/6oe1qr2Pnh
Pinner and Dietz made DNA origami shells which mimic biological clathrin proteins by grabbing onto lipid membranes and pulling out roughly spherical buds! Link "Programmable DNA shell scaffolds for directional membrane budding": https://t.co/K3nTgWf7j3
Really proud of this work led by Ruben Eichfeld! We show how a CBM domain gain/loss can rewire fungal chitinases, turning them from antifungal enzymes into immune-suppressing effectors that support plant symbiosis. https://t.co/WyuKbZN7EQ
New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs Ni Zhan & @ranjithbio: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing https://t.co/2ZILMnEAvy A short 🧵
Interesting paper on the degradation of DELLAS (gibberellin pathway) by a plasma membrane localized E3 ubiquitin ligase to regulate growth under C/N imbalance #proteostasis
https://t.co/Tt7Ld4wK9G
Cell-surface receptors play key roles across many biological processes.
In plants, these receptor families have undergone remarkable expansion. Here, we systematically review these receptors in @ThePlantJournal.
Happy to see this out!
https://t.co/Bnk6ss3F2j
We are pleased to announce that CEPLAS has open research positions for both doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Please help in spreading the word:
https://t.co/b2bmEgPhum
[@IPMBSinica Seminar]
2026-02-25 10:30; A134, Ag Tech Bldg
Speaker:Prof. Marco Trujillo @TrujilloLab (Head, Department of Plant Immune Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
Title:Protein homeostasis networks - challenges and opportunities for stressed plants
Exciting work from @SpoelLab
Ubiquitin recognition integrates plant immune signaling by cell-surface and intracellular receptors @PPStasis
https://t.co/vKGI0CjyZp
Phosphorylation and ubiquitination synergistically promote the degradation of OsRbohB to modulate rice immunity (Hui Tao , Ruyi Wang , Feng He , Chongyang Zhang , et al) https://t.co/anLdGdLN91 @ASPB#PlantSci