Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas

PhD student at @HHU_de 🇩🇪 | Alumni Pohl Milon’s Lab - @UPCedu 🇵🇪| Biochemistry, Fungal GPCRs

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

🧵 How does a pathogen know it has entered its host?

🎉 Our paper is published in Nature Communications!

We found a co-evolved peptide–GPCR system that helps the corn pathogen Ustilago maydis detect host entry and promote infection.

🔗 Read: https://t.co/H1dzJsYpot

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

@pmilonma Thanks a lot Pohl 🙌🏻

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

🧵 How does a pathogen know it has entered its host?

🎉 Our paper is published in Nature Communications!

We found a co-evolved peptide–GPCR system that helps the corn pathogen Ustilago maydis detect host entry and promote infection.

🔗 Read: https://t.co/H1dzJsYpot

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

First first-author paper from my PhD ✅

Thanks to our funders: DFG, IRTG2466, CEPLAS & CRC1535

Could similar host-dependent signaling mechanisms be hiding in other fungi? Stay tuned for more!

📄 Read: https://t.co/H1dzJsYXe1

#GPCR #FungalBiology #PlantPathology

(6/6)

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

🙌 This work was a team effort!

Thanks to Philip Nakonz, Johannes Postma, Naomi Shtakser, Max Heinen and Florian Altegoer, plus collaborators Min Lu, Nora Marie Kühne, Kai Heimel, Sonja Billerbeck, Orlando Arguello-Miranda and Manav Patel.

(5/6)

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

Here is the working link: https://t.co/WZNugInY6S

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

🧵New preprint!🎉It’s a pleasure to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD journey! We uncover a novel co-evolved peptide–GPCR system in the fungus Ustilago maydis that senses host entry and triggers infection (https://t.co/gN9XGCAVvP...) (1/5)

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

Importantly, this research would not have been possible without funding from the DFG, IRTG 2466, CEPLAS & CRC1535.

👀 Feedback and comments are warmly welcome!

@biorxivpreprint
#GPCR #FungalBiology #PlantPathology #PhDLife

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

I’m so grateful to the amazing @FAltegoer team behind this work, and big thanks to our international collaborators:
- Min & @billerbeck_s. Peptide–GPCR screening (Imperial College London)
- Orlando & Manav. Single-cell tracking & quantitative biology (NC State University)

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

@fidelormz @Nature @AnujR2d2 Congrats Fidel 🎉🙌🏻💪🏻

[Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gmendrojas]

@zegarrv The best! ❤️

[BangeBalcony @BangeBalcony]

Structural and mechanistic basis for the regulation of the chloroplast signal recognition particle by (p)ppGpp - Zegarra - FEBS Letters - Wiley Online Library ⁦@Uni_MR⁩ https://t.co/PEjsesQq1l

[Daniel Schindler @DSchindler_PDR]

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Find superb step by step protocols to harness the power of Golden Gate cloning. Many thanks all authors for their contributions!

[Simon Duerr @simonduerr]

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