News
May 21, 2026
!! PAPER ALERT !!
High-resolution structures of the plant small GTPase RACB show how switching between inactive and active states enables RIPb effector binding, providing a physical link between the cell membrane and microtubules required for fungal pathogen entry.
Mohamadi M, Bradai M, Janowski R, Günsel U, Tran M, Kahl SM, McCollum C, Niessing D, Hückelhoven R and Hagn F, Nucleotide-dependent switching and RIPb effector recognition of the barley susceptibility factor RACB. Commun Biol 9, 691 (2026) (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10316-7)
Nov 6./7., 2025
Grateful for a great symposium on future perspectives of structural biology entitled "Ultra-Highfield NMR and 4D Structural Biology – From Mechanisms to Therapies” hosted by the BNMRZ at the TUM-IAS. For more details see: https://bnmrz.org/4dstructbiol
Oct 27, 2025
Check out our paper “Structural basis of apoptosis induction by the voltage-dependent anion channel” in Nature Commun: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65363-1
See also the press releases by TUM and Helmholtz Munich
Thanks to (former) lab members Melina Daniilidis, Umut Günsel, Kai Fredriksson and Kira Leitl and for the great collaboration with the labs of Christos Gatsogiannis at the University of Münster and Dierk Niessing at Helmholtz Munich and the University of Ulm.