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Manfred Heinlein

Manfred Heinlein

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
8943
World Ranking
17211
National Ranking
736

Overview

Manfred Heinlein is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and has a research focus primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple interrelated subfields including Plant Science, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist has a particular focus on several main research topics:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Their recent scholarly contributions include:

  • "Potential Impact of Global Warming on Virus Propagation in Infected Plants and Agricultural Productivity," 2021, published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "dsRNA-induced immunity targets plasmodesmata and is suppressed by viral movement proteins," 2023, published in The Plant Cell
  • "Expression Profile Matrix of Arabidopsis Transcription Factor Genes Suggests Their Putative Functions in Response to Environmental Stresses," 2021, published in UNC Libraries
  • "Reticulon-like properties of a plant virus-encoded movement protein," 2020, published in New Phytologist
  • "In Vivo Aniline Blue Staining and Semiautomated Quantification of Callose Deposition at Plasmodesmata," 2022, published in Methods in Molecular Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heinlein include:

  • Ana R. Sede
  • Caiping Huang
  • Laura Elvira-González
  • Jérôme Mutterer
  • Ekaterina A. Lazareva

The primary venues for Heinlein's publications are:

  • Methods in Molecular Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Communications Biology

In addition to journal articles, Heinlein has contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, with works including Plasmodesmata (2022) and RNA Tagging (2020).

Best Publications

  • Expression Profile Matrix of Arabidopsis Transcription Factor Genes Suggests Their Putative Functions in Response to Environmental Stresses

    Wenqiong Chen;Nicholas J. Provart;Jane Glazebrook;Fumiaki Katagiri

  • Interaction of Tobamovirus Movement Proteins with the Plant Cytoskeleton

    Manfred Heinlein;Bernard L. Epel;Hal S. Padgett;Roger N. Beachy

  • Changing patterns of localization of the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein and replicase to the endoplasmic reticulum and microtubules during infection

    M. Heinlein;H.S. Padgett;J.S. Gens;B.G. Pickard

  • Pathogen-induced systemic plant signal triggers DNA rearrangements

    Igor Kovalchuk;Olga Kovalchuk;Véronique Kalck;Vitaly Boyko

  • Double-stranded RNAs induce a pattern-triggered immune signaling pathway in plants

    Annette Niehl;Ines Wyrsch;Thomas Boller;Manfred Heinlein;Manfred Heinlein

  • A family of plasmodesmal proteins with receptor-like properties for plant viral movement proteins.

    Khalid Amari;Emmanuel Boutant;Christina Hofmann;Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger

  • Plant virus replication and movement.

    Manfred Heinlein

  • Function of microtubules in intercellular transport of plant virus RNA

    Vitaly Boyko;Jacqueline Ferralli;Jamie Ashby;Paul Schellenbaum

  • Local expression of enzymatically active class I β‐1, 3‐glucanase enhances symptoms of TMV infection in tobacco

    Gregor L. Bucher;Corina Tarina;Manfred Heinlein;Francesco Di Serio

  • Macromolecular transport and signaling through plasmodesmata.

    Manfred Heinlein;Bernard L Epel

  • Cellular pathways for viral transport through plasmodesmata

    Annette Niehl;Manfred Heinlein;Manfred Heinlein

  • The immunity regulator BAK1 contributes to resistance against diverse RNA viruses.

    Camilla Julie Kørner;Dominik Klauser;Annette Niehl;Ana Domínguez-Ferreras

  • Distribution of tobamovirus movement protein in infected cells and implications for cell-to-cell spread of infection.

    Hal S. Padgett;Bernard L. Epel;Theodore W. Kahn;Manfred Heinlein

  • Control of dynamic CFTR selectivity by glutamate and ATP in epithelial cells

    M. M. Reddy;P. M. Quinton;P. M. Quinton

  • m5C Methylation Guides Systemic Transport of Messenger RNA over Graft Junctions in Plants

    Lei Yang;Valentina Perrera;Eleftheria Saplaoura;Federico Apelt

  • Modification of Small RNAs Associated with Suppression of RNA Silencing by Tobamovirus Replicase Protein

    Hannes Vogler;Rashid Akbergenov;Padubidri V. Shivaprasad;Vy Dang

  • Synthetic biology approach for plant protection using dsRNA.

    Annette Niehl;Marjukka Soininen;Minna Marjetta Poranen;Manfred Heinlein

  • Transport of TMV Movement Protein Particles Associated with the Targeting of RNA to Plasmodesmata

    Adrian Sambade;Katrin Brandner;Christina Hofmann;Mark Seemanpillai

  • Cell-to-cell movement of TMV RNA is temperature-dependent and corresponds to the association of movement protein with microtubules.

    Vitaly Boyko;Jacqueline Ferralli;Manfred Heinlein

  • Plasmodesmata: dynamic regulation and role in macromolecular cell-to-cell signaling.

    Manfred Heinlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy Washington University in St. Louis
Yves Mély
Yves Mély University of Strasbourg
Valerian V. Dolja
Valerian V. Dolja Oregon State University
Thomas Hohn
Thomas Hohn University of Basel
Jean-François Nicoud
Jean-François Nicoud University of Strasbourg
Thomas Boller
Thomas Boller University of Basel
Peter Starlinger
Peter Starlinger University of Cologne
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
Barbara Hohn
Barbara Hohn Friedrich Miescher Institute
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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