Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

Publications of Dirk Walther

Journal Article (92)

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Paajanen, P.; Tomkins, M.; Hoerbst, F.; Veevers, R.; Heeney, M.; Thomas, H. R.; Apelt, F.; Saplaoura, E.; Gupta, S.; Frank, M. et al.; Walther, D.; Faulkner, C.; Kehr, J.; Kragler, F.; Morris, R. J.: Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication. Nature Plants (2025)

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Hernández-Sánchez, I.E.; Rindfleisch, T.; Alpers, J.; Dulle, M.; Garvey, C. J.; Knox-Brown, P.; Miettinen, M. S.; Nagy, G.; Pusterla, J. M.; Rekas, A. et al.; Shou, K.; Stadler, A. M.; Walther, D.; Wolff, M.; Zuther, E.; Thalhammer, A.: Functional in vitro diversity of an intrinsically disordered plant protein during freeze–thawing is encoded by its structural plasticity. Protein Science 33 (5), e4989 (2024)

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Uflewski, M.; Rindfleisch, T.; Korkmaz, K.; Tietz, E.; Mielke, S.; Correa Galvis, V.; Dünschede, B.; Luzarowski, M.; Skirycz, A.; Schwarzländer, M. et al.; Strand, D.; Hertle, A. P.; Schünemann, D.; Walther, D.; Thalhammer, A.; Wolff, M.; Armbruster, U.: The thylakoid proton antiporter KEA3 regulates photosynthesis in response to the chloroplast energy status. Nature Communications 15, 2792 (2024)

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Murik, O.; Geffen, O.; Shotland, Y.; Fernandez-Pozo, N.; Ullrich, K. K.; Walther, D.; Rensing, S. A.; Treves, H.: Genomic imprints of unparalleled growth. New Phytologist 241 (3), pp. 1144 - 1160 (2023)

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Back, G.; Walther, D.: Predictions of DNA mechanical properties at a genomic scale reveal potentially new functional roles of DNA flexibility. NAR: genomics and bioinformatics 5 (4), lqad097 (2023)

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Giese, J.; Eirich, J.; Walther, D.; Zhang, Y.; Lassowskat, I.; Fernie, A. R.; Elsässer, M.; Maurino, V. G.; Schwarzländer, M.; Finkemeier, I.: The interplay of post-translational protein modifications in Arabidopsis leaves during photosynthesis induction. The Plant Journal 116 (4), pp. 1172 - 1193 (2023)

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Weiszmann, J.; Walther, D.; Clauw, P.; Back, G.; Gunis, J.; Reichardt, I.; Koemeda, S.; Jez, J.; Nordborg, M.; Schwarzerova, J. et al.; Pierides, I.; Nägele, T.; Weckwerth, W.: Metabolome plasticity in 241 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveals evolutionary cold adaptation processes. Plant Physiology 193 (2), pp. 980 - 1000 (2023)

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Qiu, Y.; Li, Z.; Walther, D.; Köhler, C.: Updated phylogeny and protein structure predictions revise the hypothesis on the origin of MADS-box transcription factors in land plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40 (9), msad194 (2023)

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Loiacono, F.V.; Walther, D.; Seeger, S.; Thiele, W.; Gerlach, I.; Karcher, D.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.: Emergence of novel RNA editing sites by changes in the binding affinity of a conserved PPR protein. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (12), msac222 (2022)

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Chen, L.; Zhao, H.; Chen, Y.; Jiang, F.; Zhou, F.; Liu, Q.; Fan, Y.; Liu, T.; Tu, W.; Walther, D. et al.; Song, B.: Comparative transcriptomics analysis reveals a calcineurin B-like gene to positively regulate constitutive and acclimated freezing tolerance in potato. Plant, Cell and Environment 45 (11), pp. 3305 - 3321 (2022)

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Fischer, A.; Dotzek, J.; Walther, D.; Greiner, S.: Graph-based models of the Oenothera mitochondrial genome capture the enormous complexity of higher plant mitochondrial DNA organization. NAR: genomics and bioinformatics 4 (2), lqac027 (2022)

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Hoang, Y.; Gryzik, S.; Hoppe, I.; Rybak, A.; Schädlich, M.; Kadner, I.; Walther, D.; Vera, J.; Radbruch, A.; Groth, D. et al.; Baumgart, S.; Baumgrass, R.: PRI: Re-analysis of a public mass cytometry dataset reveals patterns of effective tumor treatments. Frontiers in immunology 13, 849329 (2022)

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Thieme, S.; Walther, D.: Biclique extension as an effective approach to identify missing links in metabolic compound-protein interaction networks. Bioinformatics advances 2 (1), vbac001 (2022)

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Martinez-Seidel, F.; Hsieh, Y.-C.; Walther, D.; Kopka, J.; Firmino, A.: COSNet(i): ComplexOme-Structural Network Interpreter used to study spatial enrichment in metazoan ribosomes. BMC Bioinformatics 22, 605 (2021)

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Moreno, J.C.; Rojas, B.E.; Vicente, R.; Gorka, M.; Matz, T.; Kosmacz, M.; Peralta-Ariza, J.S.; Zhang, Y.; Alseekh, S.; Childs, D. et al.; Luzarowski, M.; Nikoloski, Z.; Zarivach, R.; Walther, D.; Hartman, M.D.; Figueroa, C.M.; Iglesias, A.A.; Fernie, A. R.; Skirycz, A.: Tyr-Asp inhibition of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase affects plant redox metabolism. EMBO Journal 40 (15), e106800 (2021)

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Back, G.; Walther, D.: Identification of cis-regulatory motifs in first introns and the prediction of intron-mediated enhancement of gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Genomics 22 (1), 390 (2021)

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Kuang, J.-F.; Wu, C.-J.; Guo, Y.-F.; Walther, D.; Shan, W.; Chen, J.-Y.; Chen, L.; Lu, W.-J.: Deciphering Transcriptional Regulators of Banana Fruit Ripening by Regulatory Network Analysis. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19 (3), pp. 477 - 489 (2021)

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Martinez-Seidel, F.; Beine-Golovchuk, O.; Hsieh, Y.-C.; El Eshraky, K.; Gorka, M.; Cheong, B.-E.; Jimenez‐posada, E.V.; Walther, D.; Skirycz, A.; Roessner, U. et al.; Kopka, J.; Firmino, A.: Spatially enriched paralog rearrangements argue functionally diverse ribosomes arise during cold acclimation in arabidopsis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (11), 6160 (2021)

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Schumacher, C.; Thümecke, S.; Schilling, F.; Koehl, K. I.; Kopka, J.; Sprenger, H.; Hincha, D. K.; Walther, D.; Seddig, S.; Peters, R. et al.; Zuther, E.; Haas, M.; Horn, R.: Genome-wide approach to identify quantitative trait loci for drought tolerance in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (11), 6123 (2021)

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Zaborowski, A. B.; Walther, D.: Determinants of correlated expression of transcription factors and their target genes. Nucleic Acids Research 48 (20), pp. 11347 - 11369 (2020)

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Gottmann, P.; Ouni, M.; Zellner, L.; Jähnert, M.; Rittig, K.; Walther, D.; Schürmann, A.: Polymorphisms in miRNA binding sites involved in metabolic diseases in mice and humans. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 7202 (2020)

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Haas, M.; Sprenger, H.; Zuther, E.; Peters, R.; Seddig, S.; Walther, D.; Kopka, J.; Hincha, D. K.; Koehl, K. I.: Can Metabolite- and Transcript-Based Selection for Drought Tolerance in Solanum tuberosum Replace Selection on Yield in Arid Environments? Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 1071 (2020)

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Kaiser, E.; Walther, D.; Armbruster, U.: Growth under fluctuating light reveals large trait variation in a panel of arabidopsis accessions. Plants 9 (3), 319 (2020)

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Knox-Brown, P.; Rindfleisch, T.; Günther, A.; Balow, K.; Bremer, A.; Walther, D.; Miettinen, M.S.; Hincha, D. K.; Thalhammer, A.: Similar yet different–structural and functional diversity among arabidopsis thaliana LEA_4 proteins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 (8), 2794 (2020)

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Sujeeth, N.; Mehterov, N.; Gupta, S.; Qureshi, M. K.; Fischer, A.; Proost, S.; Omidbakhshfard, M. A.; Obata, T.; Benina, M.; Staykov, N. et al.; Balazadeh, S.; Walther, D.; Fernie, A. R.; Mueller-Roeber, B.; Hille, J.; Gechev, T. S.: A novel seed plants gene regulates oxidative stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 77, pp. 705 - 718 (2020)

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Watanabe, M.; Ueda, Y.; Kondo, K.; Ishikawa, S.; Tohge, T.; Burgos, A.; Brotman, Y.; Fernie, A. R.; Walther, D.; Hoefgen, R. et al.; Wissuwa, M.: Metabolomic markers and physiological adaptations for high phosphate utilization efficiency in rice. Plant, Cell and Environment 43 (9), pp. 2066 - 2079 (2020)

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Armarego-Marriott, T.; Kowalewska, L.; Burgos, A.; Fischer, A.; Thiele, W.; Erban, A.; Strand, D.; Kahlau, S.; Hertle, A. P.; Kopka, J. et al.; Walther, D.; Reich, Z.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Highly Resolved Systems Biology to Dissect the Etioplast-to-Chloroplast Transition in Tobacco Leaves. Plant Physiology 180 (1), pp. 654 - 681 (2019)

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Heyneke, E.; Watanabe, M.; Erban, A.; Duan, G.; Buchner, P.; Walther, D.; Kopka, J.; Hawkesford, M. J.; Hoefgen, R.: Effect of Senescence Phenotypes and Nitrate Availability on Wheat Leaf Metabolome during Grain Filling. Agronomy 9 (6), 305 (2019)

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Sobanski, J.; Giavalisco, P.; Fischer, A.; Kreiner, J.M.; Walther, D.; Schöttler, M. A.; Pellizzer, T.; Golczyk, H.; Obata, T.; Bock, R. et al.; Sears, B.B.; Greiner, S.: Chloroplast competition is controlled by lipid biosynthesis in evening primroses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (12), pp. 5665 - 5674 (2019)

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Wu, G.; Meyer, E. H.; Richter, A. S.; Schuster, M.; Ling, Q.; Schöttler, M. A.; Walther, D.; Zoschke, R.; Grimm, B.; Jarvis, R. P. et al.; Bock, R.: Control of retrograde signalling by protein import and cytosolic folding stress. Nature Plants 5 (5), pp. 525 - 538 (2019)

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Beine-Golovchuk, O.; Firmino, A.; Dabrowska, A.; Schmidt, S.; Erban, A.; Walther, D.; Zuther, E.; Hincha, D. K.; Kopka, J.: Plant Temperature Acclimation and Growth Rely on Cytosolic Ribosome Biogenesis Factor Homologs. Plant Physiology 176 (3), pp. 2251 - 2276 (2018)

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Perlaza-Jiménez, L.; Walther, D.: A genome-wide scan for correlated mutations detects macromolecular and chromatin interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Research 46 (16), pp. 8114 - 8132 (2018)

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Sprenger, H.; Erban, A.; Seddig, S.; Rudack, K.; Thalhammer, A.; Le, M. Q.; Walther, D.; Zuther, E.; Koehl, K. I.; Kopka, J. et al.; Hincha, D. K.: Metabolite and transcript markers for the prediction of potato drought tolerance. Plant Biotechnology Journal 16 (4), pp. 939 - 950 (2018)

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Stoessel, D.; Schulte, C.; Teixeira dos Santos, M. C.; Scheller, D.; Rebollo-Mesa, I.; Deuschle, C.; Walther, D.; Schauer, N.; Berg, D.; Nogueira da Costa, A. et al.; Maetzler, W.: Promising Metabolite Profiles in the Plasma and CSF of Early Clinical Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 10, 51 (2018)

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Stoessel, D.; Stellmann, J.-P.; Willing, A.; Behrens, B.; Rosenkranz, S. C.; Hodecker, S. C.; Stuerner, K. H.; Reinhardt, S.; Fleischer, S.; Deuschle, C. et al.; Maetzler, W.; Berg, D.; Heesen, C.; Walther, D.; Schauer, N.; Friese, M. A.; Pless, O.: Metabolomic Profiles for Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Stratification and Disease Course Monitoring. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12, 226 (2018)

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Heyneke, E.; Watanabe, M.; Erban, A.; Duan, G. Y.; Buchner, P.; Walther, D.; Kopka, J.; Hawkesford, M. J.; Hoefgen, R.: Characterization of the Wheat Leaf Metabolome during Grain Filling and under Varied N-Supply. Frontiers in Plant Science 8, 2048 (2017)

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Korkuc, P.; Walther, D.: Towards understanding the crosstalk between protein post-translational modifications: Homo- and heterotypic PTM pair distances on protein surfaces are not random. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (1), pp. 78 - 92 (2017)

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Ploetner, B.; Nurmi, M.; Fischer, A.; Watanabe, M.; Schneeberger, K.; Holm, S.; Vaid, N.; Schöttler, M. A.; Walther, D.; Hoefgen, R. et al.; Weigel, D.; Laitinen, R.: Chlorosis caused by two recessively interacting genes reveals a role of RNA helicase in hybrid breakdown in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 91 (2), pp. 251 - 262 (2017)

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Weissenborn, S.; Walther, D.: Metabolic Pathway Assignment of Plant Genes based on Phylogenetic Profiling-A Feasibility Study. Frontiers in Plant Science 8, 1831 (2017)

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Korkuc, P.; Walther, D.: Spatial proximity statistics suggest a regulatory role of protein phosphorylation on compound binding. Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics 84 (5), pp. 565 - 579 (2016)

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Walther, D.; Kragler, F.: Mobile RNAs convey the message. Nature Plants 2 (4), 16040 (2016)

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Korkuc, P.; Walther, D.: The Identification of Cis-Regulatory Sequence Motifs in Gene Promoters Based on SNP Information. PLANT SYNTHETIC PROMOTERS: METHODS AND PROTOCOLS, pp. 31 - 47 (2016)

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Lis, M.; Walther, D.: The orientation of transcription factor binding site motifs in gene promoter regions: does it matter? BMC Genomics 17, 185 (2016)

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Sprenger, H.; Kurowsky, C.; Horn, R.; Erban, A.; Seddig, S.; Rudack, K.; Fischer, A.; Walther, D.; Zuther, E.; Koehl, K. I. et al.; Hincha, D. K.; Kopka, J.: The drought response of potato reference cultivars with contrasting tolerance. Plant Cell Environment 39 (11), pp. 2370 - 2389 (2016)

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Zhang, W.; Thieme, C. J.; Kollwig, G.; Apelt, F.; Yang, L.; Winter, N.; Andresen, N.; Walther, D.; Kragler, F.: tRNA-Related Sequences Trigger Systemic mRNA Transport in Plants. Plant Cell 28 (6), pp. 1237 - 1249 (2016)

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Salek, R. M.; Neumann, S.; Schober, D.; Hummel, J.; Billiau, K.; Kopka, J.; Correa, E.; Reijmers, T.; Rosato, A.; Tenori, L. et al.; Turano, P.; Marin, S.; Deborde, C.; Jacob, D.; Rolin, D.; Dartigues, B.; Conesa, P.; Haug, K.; Rocca-Serra, P.; O'Hagan, S.; Hao, J.; Vliet, M. v.; Sysi-Aho, M.; Ludwig, C.; Bouwman, J.; Cascante, M.; Ebbels, T.; Griffin, J. L.; Moing, A.; Nikolski, M.; Oresic, M.; Sansone, S.-A.; Viant, M. R.; Goodacre, R.; Guenther, U. L.; Hankemeier, T.; Luchinat, C.; Walther, D.; Steinbeck, C.: COordination of Standards in MetabOlomicS (COSMOS): facilitating integrated metabolomics data access. Metabolomics 11 (6), pp. 1587 - 1597 (2015)

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Thieme, C. J.; Rojas-Triana, M.; Stecyk, E.; Schudoma, C.; Zhang, W.; Yang, L.; Minambres, M.; Walther, D.; Schulze, W. X.; Paz-Ares, J. et al.; Scheible, W.-R.; Kragler, F.: Endogenous Arabidopsis messenger RNAs transported to distant tissues. Nature Plants 1, 15025 (2015)

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Duan, G. Y.; Walther, D.: The Roles of Post-translational Modifications in the Context of Protein Interaction Networks. PLoS Computational Biology 11 (2), e1004049 (2015)

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Duan, G. Y.; Walther, D.: Computational phosphorylation network reconstruction: methods and resources. Methods in Molecular Biology 1306, pp. 177 - 194 (2015)

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Korkuc, P.; Walther, D.: Physicochemical characteristics of structurally determined metabolite-protein and drug-protein binding events with respect to binding specificity. Frontiers in molecular biosciences 2, 51 (2015)

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