Plant Structural Biology: Hormonal Regulations

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Overview of Proteins in the Plant Hormone Signaling.- 2. Overview of Protein Degradation in the Plant Hormone Signaling.- 3. Structural Insight into Recognition of Plant Peptide Hormones by Receptors.- Part II. Nuclear receptors.- 4. Auxin.- 5. Structural Biology of Jasmonic Acid Metabolism and Responses in Plants.- 6. Gibberellin.- 7. Strigolactone Signaling Proteins.- 8. Abscisic acid Signaling and Biosynthesis: protein structures and molecular probes.- Part III. Transmembrane Receptors.- 9. Brassinosteroid Sensing and Signaling in Plants.- 10. Cytokinin and Ethylene Signaling.- Part IV. Appendix: Method Guidance.- 11. X-Ray Crystallography.- 12. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.- 13. Structural Biology Using Electron Microscopy.- 14. Biological Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS).- 15. Computational Molecular Modeling Techniques of Biomacromolecular Systems.

Jan Hejatko obtained his Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic under the supervision of Bretislav Brzobohaty and in the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany in the group of Klaus Palme. He continues his work in the field of hormonal signaling and hormonal regulation of plant development as a research group leader and associated professor at CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University.  He is mainly interested in multi-step phosphorelay signaling, signal recognition, specificity and signal integration in plants.

Toshio Hakoshima obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Osaka University, Suita, Japan, followed by postdoctoral research work on structural biology supervised by Alexander Rich at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1982, he joined the Osaka University faculty and continued his work on molecular recognition in protein-nucleic acid systems as an associated professor. In 1994, he moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of structural biology. He was promoted to the Dean of Graduate School of Biological Sciences (2013-2016) and then Executive Director/Vice President of the institute since 2017. He is interested in molecular recognition in signal transduction in the fields of medical science and plant biology and protein engineering of enzymes producing bioplastics.