The latest issues of the journals Plant Physiology and Nature Communications feature publications by staff from the Department of Plant Molecular Physiology led by Prof. Michał Jasiński.

The May issue of Plant Physiology includes an article entitled Message hidden in α-helices-toward a better understanding of plant ABCG transporters’ multispecificity, authored by: Wanda Biała-Leonhard, Aleksandra Bigos, Jan Brezovski, and Michal Jasinski.

The review publication focuses on recent developments in the structural biology of ABCG family proteins, and presents and analyses in silico modelling capabilities, internal and external factors that may affect the substrate selectivity of these proteins.

What’s more, the publication is also featured on the journal’s cover!

Link to publication: https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/198/1/kiaf146/8112849

A key residue of the extracellular gate provides quality control contributing to ABCG substrate specificity was published in the latest issue of Nature Communications, authored by: Jian Xia, Alexandra Siffert, Odalys Torres, Francesca Iacobini, Joanna Banasiak, Konrad Pakuła, Jörg Ziegler, Sabine Rosahl, Noel Ferro, Michał Jasinski, Tamás Hegedűs, and Markus Geisler.

Prof. Jasiński’s team contributed to the analysis ofamino acid variation in a region relevant to the substrate specificity of ABCG proteins and investigating the importance of individual amino acids for transport. Understanding the molecular determinants of selectivity toward transported molecules may have broad implications for plant biology, especially in the context of balancing growth and defence processes described in this publication.

Link to publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59518-3