Projects
Research area A
– Proteins interacting with nucleic acids –
A01 –  Structure-function analysis of NAC transcription factor proteoforms 
PIs // Jochen Balbach, Carolin Delker
A02 –  Functional proteoform variation in thermomorphogenesis master regulators   
PIs // Marcel Quint, Andrea Sinz
A03 –  Mutation-sensitive prediction of transcription factor-DNA interactions in plants   
PIs // Ivo Grosse, Jens Meiler
A04 –  Quantitative cytogenetic characterisation and structural analysis of REC8 proteoforms in plant meiosis 
PIs // Steven Dreissig, Panagiotis Kastritis
A05 –  Targeting of function and structure of Arabidopsis dicing complex proteoforms on microRNA biogenesis
PIs // Sascha Laubinger, Clara T. Schoeder
A06 – Functional significance of Argonaute 2 (AGO2) proteoforms in the antiviral response in Arabidopsis thaliana
DFG Projektnummer 497814656
PIs // Sven-Erik Behrens, Selma Gago Zachert
Research area B
– Proteins involved in signalling pathways (upstream of transcription) –
B01 –  Natural allelic variation of PI4P 5-kinases modulating plasma membrane-associated processes in plants 
PIs // Ingo Heilmann, Andrea Sinz
B02 –  Allelic variation in the control of calcium-dependent protein kinase activity and function in plant-environment interactions   
PIs // Tina Romeis, Andrea Sinz
B03 –  Allelic variation of a vacuolar cation channel modulating ion homeostasis and calcium signalling in plants   
PIs // Edgar Peiter, Tina Romeis
B04 –  Impact of allelic variation in jasmonate repressors on proteoform structure, co-receptor assembly and plant performance
PIs // Jochen Balbach, Debora Gasperini
B05 –  Role of plant SRO proteoforms in tolerance to oxidative and salinity stress
PIs // Milton T. Stubbs, Lennart Wirthmüller
Research area C
– Proteins with enzymatic functions –
C01 –  Climate-associated functional polymorphisms of terpene synthases in Arabidopsis thaliana
PIs // Jörg Degenhardt, Martin Weissenborn
C02 –  Relevance of natural allelic variation in YUCCA genes for proteoform modulation, local auxin biosynthesis and phenotypic variation in natural Arabidopsis accessions   
PIs // Milton T. Stubbs, Nicolaus von Wirén
C03 –  Impact of natural LPR1 proteoforms on Fe-dependent phosphate sensing   
PIs // Steffen Abel, Christin Naumann, Milton T. Stubbs
C04 –  Function of mevalonate kinase proteoforms in the adaptation to specific climates 
PIs // Panagiotis Kastritis, Alain Tissier
C05 –  Impact of natural allelic variation on structure and function of the immune proteases SAP1 and SAP2
PIs // Christian Ihling, Mariana Schuster
Research area D
– Genome- and proteome-wide future resources –
D01 –  Modeling, understanding, and predicting >2 million Arabidopsis proteoforms in the post-genomic era
PIs // Georg Kuenze, Panagiotis Kastritis
D02 –  Development of SNPstar 2.0 and computational prediction of putative proteoform candidates with high functional proteoform variation   
PIs // Ivo Grosse, Marcel Quint
Support Projects Z
Z01 –  Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre
Marcel Quint, Julia Grimmer
Z02A –  Protein Expression, Purification and Analysis   
Markus Pietzsch, Bodo Moritz
Z02B –  Proteomic Mass Spectrometry   
Matthew Fuszard
