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Baena, G., Xia, L., Waghmare, S., Yu, Z., Guo, Y., Blatt, M. R., Zhang, B., Karnik, R. (2024) Arabidopsis SNARE SYP132 impacts on PIP2;1 trafficking and function in salinity stress. Plant Journal, 118, pp. 1036-1053. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.16649)

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Blatt, M. R. (2024) A charged existence: a century of transmembrane ion transport in plants. Plant Physiology, (doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiad630)

Shahzad, Z., Tournaire‐Roux, C., Canut, M., Adamo, M., Roeder, J., Verdoucq, L., Martinière, A., Amtmann, A., Santoni, V., Grill, E., Loudet, O., Maurel, C. (2024) Protein kinase SnRK2. 4 is a key regulator of aquaporins and root hydraulics in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 117, pp. 264-279. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.16494)

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Karnik, R., Blatt, M. R. (2023) Analyzing protein–protein interactions using the split-ubiquitin system. Humana Press

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Thu, N. B.A., Amtmann, A., Blatt, M. R., Nguyen, T.-H. (2022) Stomata under salt stress—what can mechanistic modeling tell us? Academic Press

Wang, Y., Pan, P., Khan, A., Çil, Ç., Pineda, M. A. (2022) Synovial fibroblast sialylation regulates cell migration and activation of inflammatory pathways in arthritogenesis. Frontiers in Immunology, 13, (doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.847581)

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Eaglesfield, R., Madsen, M. A., Sanyal, S., Reboud, J., Amtmann, A. (2021) Co-translational recruitment of ribosomes in minimal protocells recreates a translocon-independent mechanism of proteorhodopsin biogenesis. iScience, 24, (doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102429)

van Beek, L., McClay, É., Patel, S., Schimpl, M., Spagnolo, L., Maia de Oliveira, T. (2021) PARP power: a structural perspective on PARP1, PARP2, and PARP3 in DNA damage repair and nucleosome remodelling. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22, (doi: 10.3390/ijms22105112)

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