Stephan Wenkel

Associate Professor

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Biography

In my research group, we are interested in how plants adjust their development to environmental signals. Currently we work on two main topics:

Many proteins achieve their function by acting as part of multi-protein complexes. The formation of these complexes is highly regulated and mediated through domains of protein-protein interaction. Disruption of a complex or of the ability of the proteins to form homodimers, heterodimers or multimers can have severe consequences for cellular function. In this context, the formation of dimers and multimers can be perturbed by proteins we refer to as 'microProteins'. These disruptive protein species contain the protein-interaction domains of bona fide interaction partners, but lack the functional domains required for the activation of, for example, transcription or DNA binding.

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