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Preprint alert! 🗞
We used SynBio to "simplify" the plant oxygen sensing pathway and implement it in yeast🍄.
We can now control yeast growth through oxygen!
But most importantly,
Here's a very short recap of what we understood thanks to it:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:

Big congratulations!!

Nonuple atg8 mutant provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of ATG8 isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana Autophagy sustains cellular health by recycling damaged or excess components through autophagosomes. It is mediated by conserved ATG proteins, which coordinate autophagosome biogenesis and selective c...

NEW #Preprint on #ATG8 specialization in #autophagy in #plants: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience A short 🧵

Yasin Dagdas portait

We are very happy to welcome Yasin Dagas soon starting as a Heisenberg professor at COS. Yasin's topic is evolutionary cell biology focusing on autophagy in plants and beyond. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... @dfgpublic.bsky.social