Key findings:
🧫 conserved across diverse pseudomonads
🦠 surface-exposed and associated with outer membrane vesicles
✂️ inhibits plant PLCPs
🌱 required for efficient early root colonization
🧮 influences root-associated microbial community structure
📢 new preprint!
How do commensal bacteria establish themselves on plant roots despite plant immunity?
We identify Cpi1, a conserved membrane-anchored protease inhibitor in Pseudomonas that promotes early root colonization and modulates microbial community assembly.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Plant Biotechnology.
❗Application Deadline: 10 July 2026
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We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Thanks to all authors for a fantastic collaboration. Special thanks to Daniel Moser for leading this work and many thanks to @ceplas.bsky.social for supporting this project.
As promised: We have an open 2-year postdoc position in my lab at HHU Düsseldorf, starting September 2026.
Come join us and help pioneering structural biology of fungal GPCRs!
More about the lab: altegoerlab.de
Apply here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
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IN BRIEF: A multi-layered disruption: how calcium, acidification, and ROS signals converge to shut down energy metabolism in incompatible pollen (Ved Prakash) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear.
Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📢 Inviting submissions for the MPMI Focus Issue on Plant Receptors and Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions!
Research & reviews across all areas of immune receptor biology. If you have an idea, please reach out (via link below). Pls repost
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