Plant Stress Signaling Lab
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Elena Baena-González |
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| Principal Investigator | ||
| ebaena@igc.gulbenkian.pt | ||
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Current members |
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| Borja Belda-Palazón | Post-Doc Researcher |
| Liliana Ferreira | Post-Doc Researcher |
| Bruno Peixoto | PhD |
| Filipa Lopes | PhD |
| Mónica Costa | PhD student |
| Diana Barata | PhD student |
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Collaborators |
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| Pedro L. Rodriguez | Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP) Valencia, Spain |
| John E. Lunn | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP), Golm, Germany |
| Mark Stitt | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP), Golm, Germany |
| Henrik Jönsson | Sainsbury Laboratories Cambridge University (SLCU), Cambridge, UK |
| Benoit Landrein | École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Lyon, France |
| Tom Beeckman | VIB-University of Ghent, Belgium |
| Pilar Cubas | Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid, Spain |
| Johannes Hanson | Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC), Umeå University, Sweden |
| Christian Meyer | Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJBP), INRA, Versailles, France |
| Alejandro Ferrando | Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP) Valencia, Spain |
| Emilio Gutierrez | Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (IBVF), Sevilla Spain |
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Current Projects |
| 2022 – 2023 | SolSnRK1: Developing an essential SnRK1 toolkit in tomato (EXPL/ASP-AGR/1329/2021). Coordinator: Ana Confraria |
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2021-2024 | Impact of ABA signalling on plant growth regulatory pathways and root architecture (PTDC/BIA-FBT/4942/2020) Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2018-2022 | Molecular mechanisms of energy management in plants (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-028128) Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2018-2022 |The role of energy signalling in shoot branching(PTDC/BIA-BID/32347/2017) Principal Investigator: A. Confraria (IGC) |
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Past Projects |
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2016-2019 | Integration of carbon and hormone signaling in plants (PTDC/BIA-PLA/7143/2014) Principal Investigator: A. Rodrigues (IPL, Peniche, Portugal) |
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2013-2015 | SnRK1 regulation and cross-talk with the ABA pathway (PTDC/BIA-PLA/3937/2012) Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2010-2013 |Novel regulatory mechanisms of the energy sensor kinases in Arabidopsis PTDC/AGR-AAM/104939/2008 Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2010-2013 | The role of miRNAs in plant energy signaling (PTDC/BIA-BCM/107924/2008) Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2010-2012 | Acções Integradas, Accão no. E-26/10, Characterization of protein phosphatases type 2C (PP2Cs) as regulators of Snf1-related kinases (SnRK1s) and their contribution to ABA signaling, Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2010-2015 | EMBO Installation Grant, EMBO-Proj.1984, Stress, energy and development: connecting the dots, Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2008-2011 | Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant MBO Installation Grant, PIRG03-GA-2008-231020, Energy signaling in the stress response, Principal Investigator: Elena Baena |
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2011-2014 | Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, FP7-people-2010-ITN Project 264474, MERIT—Metabolic Reprogramming by Induction of Transcription (partner) |
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Main selected publications |
| 2022 |
| ALVES A, Confraria A, Lopes S, Costa B, Perdiguero P, Milhinhos A, Baena-González E, Correia S, Miguel CM (2022) miR160 Interacts in vivo With Pinus pinaster AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 18 Target Site and Negatively Regulates Its Expression During Conifer Somatic Embryo Development. Frontiers in Plant Science,13. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.857611< |
| BELDA-PALAZÓN B, Costa M, Beeckman T, Rolland F, Baena-González E (2022) ABA represses TOR and root meristem activity through nuclear exit of the SnRK1 kinase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,119(28). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204862119 |
| HENRIQUES R, Calderan-Rodrigues MJ, Crespo JL, Baena-González E, Caldana C (2022) Growing of the TOR world. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 6987-6992. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac401 |
| MORAES TA, Mengin V, Peixoto B, Encke B, Krohn N, Höhne M, Krause U, Stitt M (2022) The circadian clock mutant lhy cca1 elf3 paces starch mobilization to dawn despite severely disrupted circadian clock function. Plant Physiology,189(4) 2332-2356. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac226 |
| 2021 |
| PEIXOTO B, Moraes TA, Mengin V, Margalha L, Vicente R, Feil R, Höhne M, Sousa AG, Lilue J, Stitt M, Lunn, J.E., 2021. Impact of the SnRK1 protein kinase on sucrose homeostasis and the transcriptome during the diel cycle. Plant physiology, 187(3), pp.1357-1373. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab350 |
| Other Selected Publications |
| BELDA-PALAZÓN B, Adamo M, Valerio C, Ferreira L, Confraria A, Reis-Barata D, Rodrigues A, Meyer C, Rodrigues PL, Baena-González E* (2020) A dual function of SnRK2 kinases in the regulation of SnRK1 and plant growth. Nat. Plants 6, 1345–1353. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00778-w |
| BAENA-GONZÁLEZ E*, Lunn JE* (2020) SnRK1 and trehalose 6-phosphate – two ancient pathways converge to regulate plant metabolism and growth. Curr Op Plant Biol. 55, 52-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.010 |
| MARGALHA L, Confraria A, Baena-González E* (2019) SnRK1 and TOR: modulators of growth-defense trade-offs in plant stress responses. J Exp Bot 70, 2261-2274. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz066 |
| PEDROTTI L, Weiste C, Nägele T, Wolf E, Lorenzin F, Dietrich K, Mair A, Weckwerth W, Teige M, Baena-González E, Dröge-Laser W (2018) SnRK1-1 C/S1-bZIP signalling activates alternative mitochondrial metabolic pathways to ensure plant survival upon low energy stress. Plant Cell 30, 495-509. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.00414 |
| MANCIO-SILVA L, Slavic K, Grilo Ruivo MT, Grosso AR, Modrzynska KK, Medina Vera I, Sales-Dias J, Gomes AR, MacPherson CR, Crozet P, Adamo M, Baena-Gonzalez E, Tewari R, Llinás M, Billker O, Mota MM (2017) Nutrient sensing modulates malaria parasite virulence. Nature 547, 213-216. DOI: 10.1038/nature23009 |
| BAENA-GONZÁLEZ E*, Hanson J (2017) Shaping plant development through the SnRK1-TOR metabolic regulators. Curr Opin Plant Biol 35, 152-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.12.004 |
| NUKARINEN E, Nägele T, Pedrotti L, Wurzinger B, Mair A, Landgraf R, Börnke F, Hanson J, Teige M, Baena-González E, Dröge-Laser W, Weckwerth W (2016) Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals the role of the AMPK plant ortholog SnRK1 as a metabolic master regulator under energy deprivation. Sci Reps 6, 31697. DOI: 10.1038/srep31697 |
| CARVALHO RF, Szakonyi D, Simpson CG, Barbosa IC, Brown JW, Baena-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, 1910-1925. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00301 |
| CROZET P, Margalha L, Butow R, Fernandes N, Elias A, Orosa B, Tomanov K, Teige M, Bachmair A, Sadanandom A, Baena-González E* (2016) SUMOylation represses SnRK1 signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant J 85, 120-133. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13096 |
| MAIR A, Pedrotti L, Wurzinger B, Anrather D, Simeunovic A, Weiste C, Valerio C, Dietrich K, Kirchler T, Nägele T, Vicente Carbajosa J, Hanson J, Baena-González E, Chaban C, Weckwerth W, Dröge-Laser W, Teige M (2015) SnRK1-triggered switch of bZIP63 dimerization mediates the low-energy response in plants. Aug 11;4:e05828. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05828 |
| MARTINHO C, Confraria A, Elias A, Crozet P, Rubio-Somoza I, Weigel D, Baena-González E* (2015) Dissection of miRNA pathways using Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts, Mol Plant 6, 261-275. DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.10.003 |
| RUBIO-SOMOZA I, Chuan-Miao Z, Confraria A, Martinho C, von Born P, Baena-Gonzalez E, Wang JW, Weigel D (2014) Temporal control of leaf complexity by miRNA-regulated licensing of protein complexes, Curr Biol 24, 2714-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.058 |
| MARGALHA L, Confraria A, Rodrigues A, Martinho C, Adamo M, Elias A, Baena-González E* (2014) Mechanisms of regulation of SNF1/AMPK/SnRK1 protein kinases. Front Plant Sci 5, 190. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00190 |
| RODRIGUES A, Adamo M, Crozet P, Margalha L, Confraria A, Martinho C, Elias A, Rabissi A, Lumbreras V, González-Guzmán M, Antoni R, Rodriguez PL, Baena-González E* (2013) ABI1 and PP2CA phosphatases are negative regulators of SnRK1 signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25, 3871-3884. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.114066 |
| CONFRARIA A, Martinho C, Elias A, Rubio-Somoza I, Baena-González E (2013) miRNAs mediate SnRK1-dependent energy signaling in Arabidopsis. Front Plant Sci 4:197. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00197 |
| BAENA-GONZÁLEZ E* (2010) Energy Signaling in the Regulation of Gene Expression during Stress. Mol Plant 3:300-313. DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp113 |
| BAENA-GONZÁLEZ E, Sheen J (2008) Convergent energy and stress signaling. Trends Plant Sci 3: 474-482. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.06.006 |
| BAENA-GONZÁLEZ E, Rolland F, Thevelein J, Sheen J (2007) A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signaling. Nature 448: 938-942. DOI: 10.1038/nature06069 |
| BISHOP CL, Ulas S, Baena-González E, Aro E-M, Purton S, Nugent JH, Mäenpää P (2007) The PsbZ subunit of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modulates electron flow through the photosynthetic electron transfer chain. Photosynth Res 93: 139-147. DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9182-0 |
| ROLLAND F, Baena-González E, Sheen J (2006) Sugar Sensing and Signaling in Plants: Conserved and Novel Mechanisms. Annu Rev Plant Biol 57: 675-709. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105441 |
