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Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
11770
World Ranking
16055
National Ranking
147

Overview

Jürgen Kleine-Vehn is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on plant sciences. Their work spans several interconnected fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers diverse subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, and Physiology. The topics most frequently addressed in their work include Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity.

Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has published in numerous scientific venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Journal of Experimental Botany, Current Biology, and eLife.

Some notable recent publications by Jürgen Kleine-Vehn include:

  • Regulation of immune receptor kinase plasma membrane nanoscale organization by a plant peptide hormone and its receptors, 2022, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Same same, but different: growth responses of primary and lateral roots, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • PIN-LIKES Coordinate Brassinosteroid Signaling with Nuclear Auxin Input in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2020, Current Biology
  • Getting to the root of belowground high temperature responses in plants, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • A glossary of plant cell structures: Current insights and future questions, 2021, The Plant Cell

Throughout their career, Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Sascha Waidmann
  • Kai Dünser
  • Mugurel I. Feraru
  • Elena Feraru
  • Elke Barbez

The nature of these collaborations and the diversity of publication venues reflect a broad engagement with experimental botany, molecular plant biology, and related areas. Their research outputs contribute to ongoing discussions in plant molecular mechanisms, growth responses, and signaling pathways.

Best Publications

  • Auxin inhibits endocytosis and promotes its own efflux from cells

    Tomasz Paciorek;Eva Zazímalová;Nadia Ruthardt;Jan Petrásek

  • ABP1 Mediates Auxin Inhibition of Clathrin-Dependent Endocytosis in Arabidopsis

    Stephanie Robert;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Elke Barbez;Michael Sauer

  • A novel putative auxin carrier family regulates intracellular auxin homeostasis in plants

    Elke Barbez;Martin Kubeš;Jakub Rolčík;Chloé Béziat

  • Differential degradation of PIN2 auxin efflux carrier by retromer-dependent vacuolar targeting

    Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Johannes Leitner;Marta Zwiewka;Michael Sauer

  • Auxin: simply complicated

    Michael Sauer;Stéphanie Robert;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

  • Gravity-induced PIN transcytosis for polarization of auxin fluxes in gravity-sensing root cells

    Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Zhaojun Ding;Angharad R. Jones;Masao Tasaka

  • Light-mediated polarization of the PIN3 auxin transporter for the phototropic response in Arabidopsis

    Zhaojun Ding;Carlos S Galván-Ampudia;Carlos S Galván-Ampudia;Emilie Demarsy;Łukasz Łangowski

  • Cytokinin Modulates Endocytic Trafficking of PIN1 Auxin Efflux Carrier to Control Plant Organogenesis

    Peter Marhavý;Agnieszka Bielach;Lindy Abas;Anas Abuzeineh

  • Subcellular trafficking of the Arabidopsis auxin influx carrier AUX1 uses a novel pathway distinct from PIN1.

    Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Pankaj Dhonukshe;Ranjan Swarup;Malcolm Bennett

  • ARF GEF-Dependent Transcytosis and Polar Delivery of PIN Auxin Carriers in Arabidopsis

    Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Pankaj Dhonukshe;Michael Sauer;Michael Sauer;Philip B. Brewer

  • Plasma membrane-bound AGC3 kinases phosphorylate PIN auxin carriers at TPRXS(N/S) motifs to direct apical PIN recycling

    Pankaj Dhonukshe;Fang Huang;Carlos S. Galvan-Ampudia;Ari Pekka Mähönen

  • Recycling, clustering, and endocytosis jointly maintain PIN auxin carrier polarity at the plasma membrane

    Jürgen Kleine‐Vehn;Jürgen Kleine‐Vehn;Krzysztof Wabnik;Alexandre Martinière;Łukasz Łangowski

  • Cell wall constrains lateral diffusion of plant plasma-membrane proteins

    Alexandre Martinière;Irene Lavagi;Gayathri Nageswaran;Daniel J Rolfe

  • PIN polarity maintenance by the cell wall in Arabidopsis.

    Elena Feraru;Mugurel Ioan Feraru;Mugurel Ioan Feraru;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Alexandre Martinière

  • GOLVEN Secretory Peptides Regulate Auxin Carrier Turnover during Plant Gravitropic Responses

    Ryan Whitford;Ana Fernandez;Ricardo Tejos;Amparo Cuéllar Pérez

  • PIN Auxin Efflux Carrier Polarity Is Regulated by PINOID Kinase-Mediated Recruitment into GNOM-Independent Trafficking in Arabidopsis

    Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Fang Huang;Satoshi Naramoto;Satoshi Naramoto;Jing Zhang;Jing Zhang;Jing Zhang

  • The Clathrin Adaptor Complex AP-2 Mediates Endocytosis of BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 in Arabidopsis

    Simone Di Rubbo;Niloufer G. Irani;Soo Youn Kim;Zheng-Yi Xu

  • Cellular Auxin Homeostasis: Gatekeeping Is Housekeeping

    Michel Ruiz Rosquete;Elke Barbez;Elke Barbez;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

  • SCFTIR1/AFB-auxin signalling regulates PIN vacuolar trafficking and auxin fluxes during root gravitropism

    Pawel Radoslaw Baster;Stephanie Robert;Stephanie Robert;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Steffen Vanneste

  • Extracellular matrix sensing by FERONIA and Leucine‐Rich Repeat Extensins controls vacuolar expansion during cellular elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Kai Dünser;Shibu Gupta;Aline Herger;Mugurel I Feraru

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiří Friml
Jiří Friml Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Eva Benková
Eva Benková Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Michael Sauer
Michael Sauer University of Potsdam
Steffen Vanneste
Steffen Vanneste Ghent University
Remko Offringa
Remko Offringa Leiden University
Ben Scheres
Ben Scheres Wageningen University & Research
Tom Beeckman
Tom Beeckman Ghent University
Ive De Smet
Ive De Smet Ghent University
Grégory Mouille
Grégory Mouille Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich

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