Plant Molecular Biology Lab
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Paula Duque |
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| Principal Investigator | ||
| duquep@igc.gulbenkian.pt | ||
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Current members |
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| Dóra Szakonyi | Post-Doc researcher |
| María Niño-González | Post-Doc researcher |
| Diogo Godinho | Post-Doc researcher |
| Alba Rodríguez Díez | PhD student |
| José Pedro Melo | PhD student |
| Romana Yañez | PhD student |
| Diogo Lucas | PhD student |
| Patricía Mónica Costa | PhD student |
| Vera Nunes | BSc |
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Collaborators |
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| Isabel Sá Correia | Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal |
| Alexander Jones | The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU), UK |
| Glenda Gillaspy | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Frank Van Breusegem | VIB, Ghent Belgium |
| Dorothee Staiger | University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| Manuel Irimia | CRG, Barcelona, Spain |
| Craig Simpson | The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, UK |
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Current Projects |
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| 2021 – 2024 | A splicing factor regulating seed size and stress response during germination (PTDC/ASP-PLA/2550/2021). Coordinator: Paula Duque | |
| 2020 – 2024 | Translational regulation of a plant heavy metal transporter by upstream Open Reading Frames (uORFs) (PTDC/ASP-PLA/6105/2020). Coordinator: Esther Novo-Uzal |
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Past Projects |
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| 2018-2021 | Posttranscriptional regulation of ABA-dependent stress responses during early plant development. (GRANT_NUMBER: LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-031018) (PTDC/BIA-FBT/31018/2017) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque | |
| 2018-2021 | Role of alternative splicing in cell expansion and plant growth under abiotic stress (PTDC/BIA-BID/30608/2017) Principal Investigator: Guiomar Martín Matas (IGC) | |
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2016-2019 | Alternative Splicing and SR Proteins in ABA-mediated Stress Responses (PTDC/BIA-PLA/1084/2014) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque |
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2012-2015 | Molecular characterization of a novel RNA-binding protein conferring salt and drought tolerance during seed germination (PTDC/AGR-PRO/119058/2010) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque |
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2010-2013 | Resistance to pesticides and other chemical stresses of agricultural interest: Role of plant Major Facilitator Superfamily transporters (PTDC/AGR-AAM/102967/2008) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque |
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2008-2011 | Alternative Splicing of an Arabidopsis RING E3 ubiquitin ligase involved in plant stress and development (PTDC/AGR-GPL/70345/2006) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque |
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2008-2010 | Alternative Splicing in Plant Development and Stress Response (POCI/DG/BIA/82009/2006) Principal Investigator: Paula Duque |
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Main Publications |
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| 2023 | |
| ALBUQUERQUE-MARTINS R, Szakonyi D, Rowe J, Jones AM, Duque P (2023). ABA signaling prevents phosphodegradation of the SR45 splicing factor to alleviate inhibition of early seedling development in Arabidopsis. Plant Communications, 4(2) 100495. dot: 10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100495 | |
| LALOUM T, Carvalho SD, Martín G, Richardson DN, Cruz TMD, Carvalho RF, Stecca KL, Kinney AJ, Zeidler M, Barbosa ICR, Duque P (2023). The SCL30a SR protein regulates ABA-dependent seed traits and germination under stress. Plant Cell & Environment, 46(7) 2112-2127. doi: 10.1111/pce.14593 | |
| SCARPIN MR, Busche M, Martinez RE, Harper LC, Reiser L, Szakonyi D, Merchante C, Lan T, Xiong W, Mo B, Tang G, Chen X, Bailey-Serres J, Browning KS, Brunkard JO (2023). An Updated Nomenclature for Plant Ribosomal Protein Genes. The Plant Cell, 35(2) 640-643. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac333 | |
| 2022 | |
| SCARPIN MR, Busche M, Martinez RE, Harper LC, Reiser L, Szakonyi D, Merchante C, Lan T, Xiong W, Mo B, Tang G, Chen X, Bailey-Serres J, Browning KS, Brunkard JO. (2022) An updated nomenclature for plant ribosomal protein genes. Plant Cell. In Press. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac333 | |
| 2021 | |
| SERRAZINA S, Machado H, Costa RL, Duque P, Malhó R (2021) Expression of Castanea crenata Allene Oxide Synthase in Arabidopsis Improves the Defense to Phytophthora cinnamomi. Frontiers in plant science. Feb 15;12:149. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.628697 | |
| MARTÍN G, Márquez Y, Mantica F, Duque P, Irimia M. (2021) Alternative splicing landscapes in Arabidopsis thaliana across tissues and stress conditions highlight major functional differences with animals. Genome Biol 22, 35 . DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02258-y | |
| MARTÍN G, Duque P (2021) Tailoring photomorphogenic markers to organ growth dynamics, Plant Physiology, Volume 186, Issue 1, May 2021, Pages 239–249.DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab083 | |
| Other Selected Publications | |
| MELO JP, Kalyna M, Duque P (2020) Current Challenges in Studying Alternative Splicing in Plants: The Case of Physcomitrella patens SR Proteins. Front Plant Sci 11: 286. DOI:10.3389/fpls.2020.00286 | |
| NIÑO-GONZÁLEZ M†, Novo-Uzal E†, Richardson DN, Barros PM, Duque P (2019) More transporters, more substrates: The Arabidopsis Major Facilitator Superfamily revisited. Mol Plant 12(9): 1182-1202. DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2019.07.003 | |
| LALOUM T, Martin G, Duque P (2018) Alternative splicing control of abiotic stress responses. Trends Plant Sci 23(2): 140-150. DOI:10.1016/j.tplants.2017.09.019 | |
| REMY E, Niño-González M, Godinho CP, Cabrito TR, Teixeira MC, Sá-Correia I, Duque P (2017) Heterologous expression of the yeast Tpo1p or Pdr5p membrane transporters in Arabidopsis confers plant xenobiotic tolerance. Sci Rep 7: 4529. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04534-7 | |
| GONZÁLEZ E, Duque P (2016) The Arabidopsis SR45 splicing factor, a negative regulator of sugar signaling, modulates SNF1-related protein kinase 1 (SnRK1) stability. Plant Cell 28(8): 1910-1925. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00301 | |
| REMY E, Cabrito TR, Batista RA, Teixeira MC, Sá-Correia I, Duque P (2015) The Major Facilitator Superfamily transporter ZIFL2 modulates cesium and potassium homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol 56(1): 148-162. DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu157 | |
| REMY E, Cabrito TR, Batista RA, Hussein MAM, Teixeira MC, Athanasiadis A, Sá-Correia I, Duque P (2014) Intron retention in the 5’UTR of the novel ZIF2 transporter enhances translation to promote zinc tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plos Genet 10(5): e1004375. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004375 | |
| REMY E, Cabrito TR, Baster P, Batista RA, Teixeira MC, Friml J, Sá-Correia I, Duque P (2013) A Major Facilitator Superfamily transporter plays a dual role in polar auxin transport and drought stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25(3): 901-926. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.110353 | |
| REMY E, Cabrito TR, Batista RA, Teixeira MC, Sá-Correia I, Duque P (2012) The Pht1;9 and Pht1;8 transporters mediate inorganic phosphate acquisition by the Arabidopsis thaliana root during phosphorus starvation. New Phytol 195(2): 356-371. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04167.x | |
| CARVALHO RF, Carvalho SD, Duque P* (2010) The plant-specific SR45 protein negatively regulates glucose and ABA signaling during early seedling development in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 154(2): 772-783. DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.155523 | |
