2024
Kreisz, P, Hellens, A, Fröschel, C, Krischke, M, Maag, D, Feil, R, Wildenhain, T, Draken, J, Braune, G, Erdelitsch, L, Cecchino, L, Wagner, T, Müller, MJ, Becker, D, Lunn, JE, Hanson, J, Beveridge, C, Fichtner, F, Barbier, F, Weiste, C, (2023) S1 basic leucine zipper transcription factors shape plant architecture by controlling C/N partitioning to apical and lateral organs. Accepted in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS) (in press).
2023
Fröschel, C, Dröge-Laser W /2023) Hidden in the parts: how the cell type perspective reveals novel insights into plant-microbe interactions Mol. Plant 16:1359-1362.
Bortlik, J, Lühle, J, Alseekh, S, Weiste, C, Fernie, AR, Dröge-Laser, W, Börnke, F (2023) DUF581-9 (At2g44670; FLZ3) negatively regulates SnRK1 activity by interference with T-loop phosphorylation. Plant Physol. (in press).
Hellens, A*, Kreisz, P, Humphreys, R, Feil, R, Lunn, JE, Dröge-Laser, W, Beveridge, C, Fichtner, F, Weiste, C*+, Barbier, F*+, (2023) The transcription factor bZIP11 acts antagonistically with trehalose 6-phosphate to inhibit shoot branching. bioRxiv 2023.05.23.542007; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.23.542007.
2021
Muralidhara, P., Weiste, C., Collani, S.; Krischke, M., Kreisz, P., Draken, J., Feil, R., Mair, A., Teige, M., Müller, M.J., Schmid, M., Becker, D., Lunn, J.E., Rolland, F., Hanson, J., Dröge-Laser, W. (2021). Perturbations in plant energy homeostasis prime lateral root initiation via SnRK1-bZIP63-ARF19 signalling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 118: e2106961118.
Henninger, M, Pedrotti, L, Krischke, M, Draken, J, Wildenhain, T, Fekete, A, Rolland, F, Müller, MJ, Fröschel, C, Weiste, C, Dröge-Laser, W (2021) The evolutionarily conserved konsered kinase SnRK1 orchestrtes resource mobilization during Arabiodpsis seedling establishment. Plant Cell 34: 616-632.
Fröschel C, Komorek J, Marsell A, Lopez-Arboleda W, Attard A, Joëlle Le B, Wolf E, Geldner N, Waller F, Korte A, Dröge-Laser W (2021) Plant roots employ cell-layer specific programs to respond to pathogenic and beneficial microbes. Cell Host Microbe 29: 299-310.
Fröschel C (2021), In-depth evaluation of root infection systems using the vascular fungus Verticillium longisporum as soil-borne model pathogen. Plant Methods 17:57
2019
Fröschel C, Iven T, Schwarz E, Bachmann V, Weiste C, Dröge-Laser W (2019) A Gain-of-Function Screen reveals redundant ERF Transcription Factors providing Opportunities for Resistance Breeding towards the vascular, fungal Pathogen Verticillium longisporum. MPMI 32: 1095-1109.
2018
Dröge-Laser W, Snoek BL, Snel B, Weiste C (2018) The Arabidopsis bZIP Transcription Factor Family - an updatae. Current Opin. Plant Sci. 45, 36-49. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29860175
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) Snf1-RELATED KINASE1-Controlled C/S1-bZIP Signaling Activates Alternative Mitochondrial Metabolic Pathways to Ensure Plant Survival Under Low Energy Stress provoked by extended darkness. Plant Cell 30: 495-50
Dröge-Laser W, Weiste C (2018) The C/S1-bZIP-network: a regulatory hub orchestrating plant energy homeostasis. Trends Plant Sci. 5:422-433.
2017
Weiste C, Pedrotti L, Selvanayagam J, Muralidhara P, Fröschel C, Novák O, Ljung K, Hanson J, Dröge-Laser W (2017). The Arabidopsis bZIP11 transcription factor links low-energy signalling to auxin-mediated control of primary root growth. PLoS Genet. 13: e1006607.
Wehner N, Herfert J, Dröge-Laser W, Weiste C (2017) High-Throughput Protoplast Trans-Activation (PTA) Screening to Define Transcription Factors in Auxin-Mediated Gene Regulation. Methods Mol Biol. 1569:187-202.
2016
Nukarinen E, Nägele T, Pedrotti L, Wurzinger B, Mair A, Landgraf R, Börnke F, Hanson J, Teige M, Baena-Gonzalez 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. Rep. 6: 31697
Walper E, Weiste C, Mueller MJ, Hamberg M, Dröge-Laser W (2016) Screen Identifying Arabidopsis Transcription Factors Involved in the Response to 9-Lipoxygenase-Derived Oxylipins. PLoS One 11: e0153216.
2015
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. eLife doi 10.7554/eLife.05828.
Hartmann, L, Pedrotti, L, Weiste, C, Fekete, A, Schierstaedt, J, Göttler, J, Kempa, S, Krischke, M, Dietrich, K, Mueller, MJ, Vicente-Carbajosa, J, Hanson, J, Dröge-Laser, W (2015). Crosstalk between Two bZIP Signaling Pathways Orchestrates Salt-Induced Metabolic Reprogramming in Arabidopsis Roots. Plant Cell 27: 2244-2260.
Zhang Y, Lee C-W, Wehner N, Imdahl F, Svetlana V, Weiste C, Dröge-Laser W, Deeken R (2015) Regulation of Oncogene Expression in T-DNA-Transformed Host Plant Cells. PLOS Pathogens 11: e1004620
2014
Weiste C, Dröge-Laser W (2014) The Arabidopsis transcription factor bZIP11 activates auxin-mediated transcription by recruiting the histone acetylation machinery. Nature Commun. 5: 3883
2013
Matallana-Ramirez LP, Rauf M, Farage-Barhom S, Dortay H, Xue GP, Dröge-Laser W, Lers A, Balazadeh S, Mueller-Roeber B (2013) NAC transcription factor ORE1 and Senescence-Induced BIFUNCTIONAL NUCLEASE1 (BFN1) constitute a regulatory cascade in arabidopsis. Mol. Plant 6: 1438–1452
2012
Iven T, König S, Singh S, Braus-Strohmeyer SA, Bischoff M, Tietze LF, Braus GH, Lipka V, Feussner I, Dröge-Laser W (2012) Transcriptional Activation and Production of Tryptophan-Derived Secondary Metabolites in Arabidopsis Roots Contribute to the Defense against the Fungal Vascular Pathogen Verticillium longisporun. Mol Plant 0:sss044v1-sss044.
Berendzen KW, Weiste C, Warneke D, Kilian K, Harter K, Dröge-Laser W (2012) Bioinformatic cis-element analyses performed in Arabidopsis and rice disclose bZIP- and MYB-related binding sites as potential AuxRE-coupling elements in auxin-mediated transcription. BMC Plant Biol. 12:125.
2011
Ma J, Hanssen M, Lundgren K, Hermandez L, Delatte T, Ehlert A, Liu CM, Schuepmann H, Dröge-LAser W, Moritz T Smeekens S, Hanson J (2011) The surcose-regulated Arabidopsis transcription factor bZIP11 reprogams meatbolism and regulates trehalose metabolism. New Phytol. 191:733-745.
Dietrich K, Weltmeier F, Ehlert A, Weiste C, Stahl M, Harter K, Dröge-Laser W (2011) Heterodimers of the Arabidopsis transcription factors bZIP1 and bZIP53 reprogram amino acid metabolism during low energy stress. Plant Cell 23(1): 381-95.
Wehner N, Hartmann L, Ehlert A, Böttner S, Oñate-Sánchez L, Dröge-Laser W (2011) High-throughput protoplast transactivation (PTA) system for the analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factor function. Plant J. 68(3):560-9.
Wehner N, Weiste C, Dröge-Laser W (2011) Molecular screening tools to study Arabidopsis transcription factors. Front. Plant Sci. 2: 68.
2010
Iven T, Strathmann A, Böttner S, Zwafink T, Heinekamp T, Guivarc’h A, Roitsch T, Dröge-Laser W (2010) Homo- and heterodimers of tobacco bZIP proteins counteract as positive or negative regulators of transcription during pollen development Plant J. 63.
2009
Böttner S, Iven T, Carsjens CS, Dröge-Laser W (2009) Nuclear accumulation of the ankyrin repeat protein ANK1 enhances auxin mediated transcription accomplished by the bZIP transcription factors BZI-1 and BZI-2. Plant J. 58: 914-926.
Alonso R, Oñate-Sánchez L, Weltmeier F, Ehlert A, Diaz, I, Dietrich K, Vicente-Carbajosa J, Dröge-Laser W (2009) A pivotal role of the basic leucine zipper transcription factor AtbZIP53 in the induction of seed gene expression based on bZIP heterodimerisation and protein complex formation. Plant Cell 21:1746 -1761.
Weltmeier F, Dietrich K, Ehlert A, Schütze K, Rahmani F, Wang X, Harter K, Smeekens S, Vicente-Carbajosa J, Dröge-Laser W (2008) Expression patterns of the Arabidopsis C/S1 bZIP transcription factor genes: availability of heterodimerisation partners controls gene expression in response to nutrient supply, energy status and stress conditions Plant Molecular Biology 69:107-119.
2008
Dröge-Laser W (2008) Regulation of transcription in plants. J. Plant Physiol. 165: 125-126.
2007
Weiste C, Iven T, Fischer U, Oñate-Sánchez L, Dröge-Laser W. (2007) In planta ORFeome analysis by large-scale overexpression of GATEWAY®-compatible cDNA clones - screening for transcription factors involved in stress defense. Plant J. 52: 382-390.
2006
Weltmeier F, Ehlert A, Mayer CS, Dietrich K, Wang X, Schütze K, Alonso R, Harter K, Vicente-Carbajosa J, Dröge-Laser W (2006) Heterodimer induced transactivation: Combinatorial control of proline dehydrogenase (ProDH) gene expression in hypoosmolarity response by specific heterodimerisation of Arabidopsis thaliana bZIP transcription factors. EMBO J. 25: 3133 - 3143.
Ehlert A, Weltmeier F, Wang X, Smeekens S, Vicente-Carbajosa J, Dröge-Laser W (2006) Two-hybrid protein-protein interaction analysis in Arabidopsis protoplasts: Establishment of a heterodimerisation map of group-C and S bZIP transcription factors. Plant J. 46: 890-900.
2004
Fischer U, Dröge-Laser W (2004) Overexpression of the transcription factor NtERF5 leads to resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus Mol. Plant Microbe Int. 17: 1162 – 1171.
Heinekamp T, Kuhlmann M, Strathmann A, Froissard M, Müller A, Perrot-Rechenmann C, Dröge-Laser W (2004) The tobacco bZIP transcription factor BZI-1 binds the GH3in vivo and modulates auxin-induced transcription. Plant J. 38: 298 – 309.
2003
Kuhlmann M, Horvay K, Strathmann A, Heinekamp T, Fischer U, Böttner S, Dröge-Laser W (2003) The α-helical D1 domain of the bZIP transcription factor BZI-1 interacts with the ankyrin-repeat protein ANK1, and is essential for BZI-1 function, both in auxin signalling and pathogen response. J. Biol Chem., 278: 8786-8794.
2002
Lindsay WP, Mc Alister FM, Zhu Q, He X-Z, Dröge-Laser W, Hedrick S, Doerner P, Lamb C, Dixon RA (2002) KAP-2, a protein that binds to the H-box in a bean chalcone synthase promoter, is a novel plant transcription factor with sequence identity to the large subunit of human Ku autoantigen. Plant Mol. Biol. 49: 503 – 514.
Jacoby M, Weisshaar B, Dröge-Laser W, Tiedemann J, Kroij T, Parcy F (2002) The family of bZIP transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana Trends Plant Sci., 7: 106-111.
Heinekamp T, Kuhlmann M, Lenk A, Strathmann A, Dröge-Laser W (2002) The tobacco bZIP transcription factor BZI-1 binds to G-box promoter cis-elements of phenylpropanoid pathway genes in vitro, but it is not involved in their regulation in vivo. Mol. Gen. Genom. 267: 16 – 26.
Javier Paz-Ares and The REGIA Consortium (2002) REGIA, an EU project on functional genomics of transcription factors from Arabidopsis thaliana. Comp. Funct Genom. 3: 102 – 108.
2001
Strathmann A, Kuhlmann M, Heinekamp T, Dröge-Laser W. (2001) BZI-1 specifically heterodimerises with the tobacco bZIP transcription factors BZI-2, BZI-3, and BZI-4 and is functionally involved in flower development. Plant J. 28: 1 – 16.
1997
Dröge-Laser W, Kaiser A, Lindsay WP, Halkier B, Loake GA, Doerner P, Dixon RA, Lamb C (1997) Rapid stimulation of a soybean protein-serine kinase that phosphorylates a novel bZIP transcription factor, G/HBF-1, in the induction of early transcription-dependent defenses.EMBO J. 16: 726 - 738.
Neumann K, Dröge-Laser W, Köhne S, Broer I (1997) Heat-induced instability of transgene expression in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants. Plant Phys. 115: 939 - 947.
1996
Zhu Z, Dröge-Laser W, Dixon RA, Lamb C (1996) Transcriptional activation of plant defense genes. Curr. Opin. Genet. Develop. 5: 624 – 630.
Köhne S, Neumann K, Dröge-Laser W, Broer I (1996) Quantifcation of a heat treatment-induced transgene silencing using single cells of Nicotiana tabacum. In: Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes, E. R. Schmidt, T. Hankeln (Eds.), Springer Verlag Berlin, pp 239-247.
Neumann K, Dröge-Laser W, Köhne S, Pühler A, Broer I (1996) A heat-induced loss of transgene activity detected and analysed in several different transgenic Nicotiana tabacum lines. In: Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes, E. R. Schmidt, T. Hankeln (Eds.), Springer Verlag Berlin, pp 231 - 238.
Broer I, Dröge-Laser W, Gerke M (1996) Examination of the putative horizontal gene tranfer from transgenic plants to agrobacteria. In: Transgenic Organisms and Biosafety: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Stability of DNA, and Expression of Transgenes, E. R. Schmidt, T. Hankeln (Eds.), Springer Verlag Berlin, pp 67-70.
1995
Broer I, Dröge-Laser W, Barker RF, Neumann K, Klipp W, Pühler A (1995) Sequence analysis of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 T-DNA EcoRI fragment 14 revealed the orfs e and f; but only the gene "e" is involved in crown gall tumor formation. Plant Mol. Biol. 27: 41-57.
Vinnemeier J, Broer I, Dröge-Laser W, Pistorius E (1995) Purification and partial characterization of the Streptomyces viridochromogenes phosphinothricin-N-acetyltransferase mediating resistance to the herbicide phosphinothricin in transgenic plants. Z. Naturforsch. 50c: 796 - 805.
1994
Dröge-Laser W, Siemeling U, Broer I, Pühler A (1994) The metabolites of the herbicide L-phosphinothricin (glufosinate): identification, stability and mobility in transgenic, herbicide resistant and untransformed plants. Plant Phys. 105: 159 - 166.
1992
Dröge W, Broer I, Pühler A (1992) Transgenic plants containing the phosphinothricin-N-acetyltransferase gene metabolize the herbicide L-phosphinothricin (glufosinate) differently from untransformed plants. Planta. 187: 142-151.
Broer I, Dröge W, Hillemann D, Neumann K, Walter C, Pühler A (1992) instability of herbicide resistance in transgenic suspension cultures and plants. In: The Biosafty Results of Field Tests of Genetically Modified Plants and Microorganisms. Landsmann, J. (ed.), pp 230-238, Biol. Bundesanstalt f. Land- und Forstwirt., Braunschweig.
