Walii publications

Hunter, K., Brandt, T., Guadalupe, K., Kolamunna, K. C., Lotthammer, J. M., Shamoon, N. M., Niblo, J. K., Nicholson, B., Day, L. M., Martinez, A., Holehouse, A. S., Sukenik, S., & Emenecker, R. J. (2026). Rational design of disordered proteins for sequence–function investigation. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10849-1

Marks, R. A., Abrahams, R. S., & Ekwealor, J. T. B. (2026). Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants. American Journal of Botany, 113(4), e70180. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70180

Martínez-Martínez, C., Zhan, H., Moser, T. H., & Otegui, M. S. (2026). Cryo-Electron Tomography in Plant Biology. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 77(1), 561–584. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-070225-042126

Schuster, J., & VanBuren, R. (2026). Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71466

Walters, C., Heineman, K. D., Hill, L., Tetreault, H., Tyler, P., Zingerman, Z., Ibrahim, S., & Maschinski, J. (2026). Aging and longevity in decades‐old genebanked seeds from U.S. endangered plant species: Assessments using survival and RNA integrity assays. American Journal of Botany, 113(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70169

Wu, X., Bellagio, T., Peng, Y., Czech, L., Lin, M., Lang, P., Epstein, R., Abdelaziz, M., Alexander, J., Alonso-Blanco, C., Andersen, H. L., Berbel, M., Bergelson, J., Bossdorf, O., Burghardt, L., Caton-Darby, M., Colautti, R., Delker, C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., … Exposito-Alonso, M. (2026). Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis. Science, 391(6792). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz0777

Arroyo‐Mosso, I. A., Diaz‐Ardila, H. N., Garciarrubio, A., Kumara, U. G. V. S. S., Rendón‐Luna, D. F., Nava‐Ramírez, T. B., Boothby, T. C., Reyes, J. L., & Covarrubias, A. A. (2025). A Group 6 LEA Protein Plays Key Roles in Tolerance to Water Deficit, and in Maintaining the Glassy State and Longevity of Seeds. Plant, Cell &Amp; Environment, 48(9), 6874–6896. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15649

Biswas S, Boothby TC. Diversity in the protective role(s) of the conserved motif 1 from tardigrade cytoplasmic-abundant heat-soluble proteins during drying. Protein Science. 2025; 34(3):e70059. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.70059

Flores, E., Acharya, N., Castañeda, C. A., & Sukenik, S. (2025). Single-point mutations in disordered proteins: Linking sequence, ensemble, and function. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 91, 102987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2025.102987

Ginell, G. M., Emenecker, R. J., Lotthammer, J. M., Keeley, A. T., Plassmeyer, S. P., Razo, N., Usher, E. T., Pelham, J. F., & Holehouse, A. S. (2025). Sequence-based prediction of intermolecular interactions driven by disordered regions. Science, 388(6749). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8381

Gonzalez, T. J., & Boothby, T. C. (2025). Properties governing dry-state stability of RNA in amorphous sugar formulations. Communications Materials6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00850-y

Holehouse, A. S. & Alberti, S. Molecular determinants of condensate composition. Mol. Cell 85, 290–308 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2024.12.021

Hunter, K. C., Holehouse, A. S., & Sukenik, S. (2025). The sequence basis of reversible protein aggregation. Biophysical Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2025.08.016

Karasov, T. L., Neumann, M., Leventhal, L., Symeonidi, E., Shirsekar, G., Hawks, A., Monroe, G., Barragán, A. C., Bezrukov, I., Friedemann, C., González Hernando, A., Habring, A., Hildebrandt, J., Kersten, S., Lang, P., Latorre, S. M., Lucke, M., Lundberg, D. S., Lutz, U., Exposito-Alonso, M., … Schwab, R. (2024). Continental-scale associations of Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere members with host genotype and drought. Nature Microbiology, 9(10), 2748–2758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01773-z

Leventhal, L., Ruffley, M., & Exposito-Alonso, M. (2025). Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 76. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-071123-095146

Marks, R. A., Lovell, J. T., Carey, S. B., Van Der Pas, L., Chimukuche, N. M., Brůna, T., Plott, C., Webber, J., Lipzen, A., Yan, J., Bauer, D., Bentley, J., Talag, J., McLaughlin, C. M., Barry, K., Grimwood, J., Jenkins, J. W., Schmutz, J., Harkess, A., … Farrant, J. M. (2025). The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination. New Phytologist249(2), 1063–1084. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70700

Marks, R. A., J T B Ekwealor, M A S Artur, Bondi, L., Boothby, T. C., Carmo, O. M. S., Centeno, D. C., Coe, K. K., Dace, H. J. W., Field, S., Hutt, A., Porembski, S., Thalhammer, A., van, Wood, A. J., Alpert, P., Bartels, D., S Boeynaems, Datar, M. N., Giese, T., & Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications. Nature Communications16(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58656-y 

Matheson, J., Exposito-Alonso, M., & Masel, J. (2025). Substitution load revisited: a high proportion of deaths can be selective. Genetics, 229(4). https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/229/4/iyaf011/7979206

Nguyen, K., Biswas, S., Kc, S., Walgren, A., Nicholson, V., Childs, C., Medina-Rodriguez, B. X., Alvarado, V., Sukenik, S., Holehouse, A., & Boothby, T. C. (2025). A phase transition modulates the protective function of a tardigrade disordered protein during desiccation. Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society34(10), e70300. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.70300

Nicholson V, Nguyen K, Gollub E, McCoy M, Yu F, Holehouse AS, et al. LEA_4 motifs function alone and in conjunction with synergistic cosolutes to protect a labile enzyme during desiccation. Protein Science. 2025; 34(2):e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.70028

Prado, K., Holland, B. L., Gardener, B. M., Lundquist, P. K., Santiago, J. P., VanBuren, R., & Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Building Climate-Resilient Crops: Genetic, Environmental, and Technological Strategies for Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf111

Prado, K., Xue, B., Johnson, J. E., Field, S., Stata, M., Hawkins, C. L., Hsia, R.-C., Liu, H., Cheng, S., & Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer. Current Biology35(22), 5502–5520.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.004

Przybylska, M. S., Violle, C., Vile, D., Scheepens, J. F., Cornet, D., Beurier, G., Rouan, L., Estarague, A., Kazakou, E., Mahaut, L., Munoz, F., Weigel, D., Exposito-Alonso, M., Bossdorf, O., Chevin, L.-M., & Vasseur, F. (2025). Divergent and stabilizing selection shape the phenotypic space of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLOS Biology, 23(12), e3003536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003536

Rhee, S. Y., Anstett, D. N., Cahoon, E. B., Covarrubias-Robles, A. A., Danquah, E., Dudareva, N., Ezura, H., Gilbert, K. J., Gutiérrez, R. A., Heck, M., Lowry, D. B., Mittler, R., Muday, G., Mukankusi, C., Nelson, A. D. L., Restrepo, S., Rouached, H., Seki, M., Walker, B., … Weber, A. P. M. (2025). Resilient plants, sustainable future. Trends in Plant Science, 30(4), 382–388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001

Romero-Pérez, P. S., Moran, H. M., Cordone, D. P., Horani, A., Truong, A., Manriquez-Sandoval, E., Ramirez, J. F., Martinez, A., Gollub, E., Hunter, K., Kolamunna, K. C., Lotthammer, J. M., Emenecker, R. J., Liu, H., Iwasa, J. H., Boothby, T. C.,Holehouse, A. S., Fried, S. D., & Sukenik, S. (2025). Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation. Cell Systems, 101407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2025.101407

Saldivar, E. V., Field, S., & Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Cellular view of metabolism: metabolic biomolecular condensates. New Phytologist248(2), 555–562. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70474

Sebé-Pedrós, A., Tanay, A., Lawniczak, M. K. N., Arendt, D., Aerts, S., Archibald, J., Arnone, M. I., Blaxter, M., Cleves, P., Coelho, S. M., Dias, M., Dunn, C., Elek, A., Frazer, J., Gabaldón, T., Gillis, J., Grau-Bové, X., Guigó, R., Hobert, O., Rhee, S. Y… Wang, B. (2025). The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution. Nature645(8082), 877–885. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09312-4

Sommerville, K. D, Hill, L., Offord, C. A., & Walters, C. (2025). Thermal behaviour of lipids in short-lived seeds of Australian rainforest species. Annals of Botany, 136(7), 1547–1564. https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/7/1547/8222995

Stata, M., Greenblum, S., Karia, P., Koriabine, M., Yoshinaga, Y., Keymanesh, K., Zhao, C., O’Malley, R. C., & Rhee, S. Y. (2025, January 1). Single-cell-level response to drought in sorghum bicolor reveals novel targets for improving water use efficiency. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.671794v1

Tetreault, H. M., Zingerman, Z., Hill, L., Ibrahim, S., Maschinski, J., Heineman, K. D, & Walters, C. (2025). Assessing the RNA integrity in dry seeds collected from diverse endangered species native to the USA. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, 1585631. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1585631

VanBuren, R., Nguyen, A., Marks, R. A., Mercado, C., Pardo, A., Pardo, J., Schuster, J., St Aubin, B., Lipham, W. M., & Seung Y, R. (2025). Variability in drought gene expression datasets highlights the need for paired physiology and community standardization. Plant Physiology, 200(1). https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/200/1/kiaf653/8381681

Xue, B., Prado, K., Rhee, S. Y., & Stata, M. (2025). UnigeneFinder: An Automated Pipeline for Gene Calling From Transcriptome Assemblies Without a Reference Genome. Plant Direct9(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70056

Alston, J. J., Soranno, A., Holehouse, A. S. (2024) Conserved molecular recognition by an intrinsically disordered region in the absence of sequence conservation. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.260

Biswas, S., Gollub, E., Yu, F., Ginell, G., Holehouse, A., Sukenik, S., Boothby, T.C. (2024) Helicity of a tardigrade disordered protein contributes to its protective function during desiccation. Protein Science. 33, 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4872 

Czech, L., Spence, J. P., & Expósito-Alonso, M. (2024). grenedalf: population genetic statistics for the next generation of pool sequencing. Bioinformatics, 40(8), btae508. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae508

Gillespie, L. E., Ruffley, M., & Expósito-Alonso, M. (2024). Deep learning models map rapid plant species changes from citizen science and remote sensing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America121(37), e2318296121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318296121

Ginzburg, D. N., Cox, J. A.Rhee, S. Y. (2024) Non‐destructive, whole‐plant phenotyping reveals dynamic changes in water use efficiency, photosynthesis, and rhizosphere acidification of sorghum accessions under osmotic stress. Plant Direct. 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.571

Goeten, D., Walters, C., Hill, L., & Steiner, N. (2024). Embryos of Butia catarinensis are rudimentary and tolerant of desiccation and liquid nitrogen temperatures, but require GA3 to germinate. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 156(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-024-02717-5

Huynh, A. V., Gillespie, L. E., Lopez-Saucedo, J., Tang, C., Sikand, R., & Expósito-Alonso, M. (2024). Contrastive ground-level image and remote sensing pre-training improves representation learning for natural world imagery. In European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 173-190). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.19439

KC, S., Nguyen, K., Nicholson, V.,Walgren, A., Trent, T., Gollub, E.Romero, S., Holehouse, A.S., Sukenik, S., Boothby, T.C. (2024) Disordered proteins interact with the chemical environment to tune their protective function during drying. bioRxiv.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.28.582506 

Kumara, U.G.V.S.S, Ramirez, J.F., Boothby, T.C. (2024) The effect of sucrose polymer-size on glass transition temperature, glass former fragility, and water retention during drying. Frontiers in Materials. 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2024.1351671

Lotthammer, J. M., Ginell, G. M., Griffith, D., Emenecker, R. J., & Holehouse, A. S. (2024). Direct prediction of intrinsically disordered protein conformational properties from sequence. Nature Methods, 21(3), 465–476. doi:10.1038/s41592-023-02159-5 

Marks, R. A. (2024) Resurrection plants revisited: Bridging the gap between bryophytes and angiosperms to decode desiccation tolerance. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19719

Marks, R. A., Delgado, P., Makonya, G. M., Cooper, K., VanBuren, R., Farrant, J. M., (2024) Higher order polyploids exhibit enhanced desiccation tolerance in the grass Microchloa caffra, Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae126

Marks, R.A., Van Der Pas, L., Schuster, J. Gilman, I.S., VanBuren, R., (2024) Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses. Nat. Plants. 10, 1112–1125. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01729-5

Nicholson, V., Meese, E., Boothby, T. C. “Osmolyte-IDP interactions during desiccation.” Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science. Academic Press. August 31, 2024. ISSN 1877-1173. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pmbts.2024.08.007 

Ramirez, J.F., Kumara, U.G.V.S.S, Arulsamy, N., Boothby, T.C. (2024) Water content, transition temperature and fragility influence protection and anhydrobiotic capacity. BBA Advances. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadva.2024.100115 

Sanchez‐Martinez, S., Nguyen, K., Biswas, S., Nicholson, V., Romanyuk, A. V., Ramirez, J., Kc, S., Akter, A., Childs, C., Meese, E. K., Usher, E. T., Ginell, G. M., Yu, F., Gollub, E., Malferrari, M., Francia, F., Venturoli, G., Martin, E. W., Caporaletti, F., Giubertoni, G., Woutersen, S., Sukenik, S., Woolfson, D. N., Holehouse, A. S., Boothby, T. C. (2024) Labile Assembly of a tardigrade protein induces biostasis. Protein Science. 33(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4941

Shorinola, O., Marks, R., Emmrich, P., Jones, C., Odeny, D., Chapman, M.A., (2024) Integrative and inclusive genomics to promote the use of underutilised crops. Nat Commun. 15, 320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44535-x

VanBuren, R.,Nguyen, A., Marks, R.A., Mercado, C., Pardo, A., Pardo, J., Schuster,J., St Aubin, B., Lipham Wilson, M., Rhee, S.Y. (2024) Variability in drought gene expression datasets highlight the need for community standardization. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.04.578814 

Alston, J. J., Ginell, G. M., Soranno, A., & Holehouse, A. S.  (2023). The Analytical Flory Random Coil Is a Simple-to-Use Reference Model for Unfolded and Disordered Proteins. https://doi:10.1101/2023.03.12.531990 

Boeynaems, S., Chong, S., Gsponer, J., Holt, L., Milovanovic, D., Mitrea, D. M., … Kriwacki, R. (2023). Phase separation in biology and disease; current perspectives and open questions. Journal of Molecular Biology, 435(5), 167971. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2023.167971 

Boeynaems, S., Dorone, Y., Zhuang, Y., Shabardina, V., Huang, G., Marian, A., … Gitler, A. D. (2023). Poly(A)-binding protein is an ataxin-2 chaperone that regulates biomolecular condensates. Molecular Cell, 83(12). doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2023.05.025 

Field, S., Jang, G.-J., Dean, C., Strader, L. C., Rhee, S. Y. (2023) Plants use molecular mechanisms mediated by biomolecular condensates to integrate environmental cues with development. The Plant Cell. 35(9), 3173–3186. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad062

Ginzburg, D. N., & Rhee, S. Y. (2023). Evaluating Plant Drought Resistance with a Raspberry Pi and Time-lapse Photography. Bio-Protocol, 13(2), e4593. https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4593

Lalmansingh, J. M., Keeley, A. T., Ruff, K. M., Pappu, R. V., & Holehouse, A. S. (2023). Soursop: A python package for the analysis of simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 19(16), 5609–5620. https://doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00190 

Marks, R.A., Amézquita, E.J., Percival, S., Rougon-Cardoso, A., Chibici-Revneanu, C., Tebele, S.M., Farrant, J.M., Chitwood, D.H., VanBuren, R. (2023) A critical analysis of plant science literature reveals ongoing inequities. PNAS. 120, 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217564120 

Moses, D., Ginell, G. M., Holehouse, A. S., & Sukenik, S. (2023). Intrinsically disordered regions are poised to act as sensors of cellular chemistry. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 48(12), 1019–1034. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2023.08.001 

Packebush, M.H., Sanchez-Martinez, S., Biswas, S., KC, S., Nguyen, K., Ramirez, J.F., Nicholson, V., Boothby, T.C. (2023) Natural and engineered mediators of desiccation tolerance stabilize Human Blood Clotting Factor VIII in a dry state. Scientific Reports. 13, 4542. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31586-9

Romero-Perez, P. S., Dorone, Y., Flores, E., Sukenik, S., Boeynaems, S. (2023) “When Phased without Water: Biophysics of Cellular Desiccation, from Biomolecules to Condensates. Chemical Reviews.123 (14), 9010-9035, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00659

Sanchez-Martinez, S., Ramirez, J.F.,Meese, E.K., Childs, C.A., Boothby, T.C. (2023) The tardigrade protein CAHS D interacts with, but does not retain, water in hydrated and desiccated systems. Scientific Reports. 13, 10449. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37485-3 

Tetreault, H., Fleming, M., Hill, L., Dorr, E., Yeater, K., Richards, C., & Walters, C. (2023). A power analysis for detecting aging of dry‐stored soybean seeds: Germination versus RNA integrity assessments. Crop Science, 63(3), 1481–1493. doi:10.1002/csc2.20821 

VanBuren, R., Wai, C. M., Giarola, V., Župunski, M., Pardo, J., Kalinowski, M., … Bartels, D. (2023). Core cellular and tissue‐specific mechanisms enable desiccation tolerance in craterostigma. The Plant Journal, 114(2), 231–245. doi:10.1111/tpj.16165 

Yu, F., & Sukenik, S. (2023). Structural preferences shape the entropic force of disordered protein ensembles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(19), 4235–4244. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00698 

Chen, A., Tapia, H., Goddard, J. M., & Gibney, P. A. (2022) Trehalose and its applications in the food industry. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 1–34. DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.13048

Ginzburg, D. N., Bossi, F., & Rhee, S. Y. (2022). Uncoupling differential water usage from drought resistance in a dwarf Arabidopsis mutant. Plant Physiology, 190(4), 2115–2121. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac411

Lasker, K., Boeynaems, S., Lam, V., Scholl, D., Stainton, E., Briner, A., Holehouse, A., … Shapiro, L. (2022). The material properties of a bacterial-derived biomolecular condensate tune biological function in natural and synthetic systems. Nature Communications, 13(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33221-z 

Nguyen, K., KC, S., Gonzalez, T., Tapia, H.Boothby, T. C. (2022) Trehalose and tardigrade CAHS proteins work synergistically to promote desiccation tolerance. Commun. Biol 5, 1046. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04015-2

St. Aubin, B., Wai, C. M., Kenchanmane Raju, S. K., Niederhuth, C. E., & VanBuren, R. (2022). Regulatory Dynamics distinguishing desiccation tolerance strategies within resurrection grasses. Plant Direct, 6(12). doi:10.1002/pld3.457 

Boothby, T. C(2021) Water content influences the vitrified properties of CAHS proteins. Mol. Cell 81, 411–413. PMID: 33545054

Dorone, Y.Boeynaems, S., Flores, E., Jin, B., Hateley, S., Bossi, F., Lazarus, E., Pennington, J. G., Michiels, E., De Decker, M., Vints, K., Baatsen, P., Bassel, G. W., Otegui, M. S.Holehouse, A. S.Exposito-Alonso, M.Sukenik, S., Gitler, A. D., Rhee, S. Y. (2021) A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation. Cell 184. PMID: 34233164

Hesgrove, C. S., Nguyen, K. H., Biswas, S., Childs, C. A., Shraddha, K. C., Medina, B. X., Alvarado, V., Sukenik, S., Yu, F., Malferrari, M., Francia, F., Venturoli, G., Martin, E. W., Holehouse, A. S.Boothby, T. C. (2021) Tardigrade CAHS Proteins Act as Molecular Swiss Army Knives to Mediate Desiccation Tolerance Through Multiple Mechanisms. bioRxiv.  DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.16.456555

Marks, R. A., Farrant, J. M., Nicholas McLetchie, D., VanBuren, R. (2021) Unexplored dimensions of variability in vegetative desiccation tolerance. Am. J. Bot. 108, 346–358. PMID: 33421106

Moses, D., Guadalupe, K., Yu, F., Flores, E., Perez, A., McAnelly, R., Shamoon, N. M., Cuevas-Zepeda, E., Merg, A., Martin, E. W., Holehouse, A. S., Sukenik, S. (2021) Hidden structure in disordered proteins is adaptive to intracellular changes. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.24.469609

Moses, D., Yu, F., Ginell, G. M., Shamoon, N. M., Koenig, P. S., Holehouse, A. S.Sukenik, S. (2020) Revealing the Hidden Sensitivity of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to their Chemical Environment. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 10131–10136. PMID: 33191750

Pardo, J., Man Wai, C., Chay, H., Madden, C. F., Hilhorst, H. W. M., Farrant, J. M., VanBuren, R. (2020) Intertwined signatures of desiccation and drought tolerance in grasses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 117, 10079–10088. PMID: 32327609

Boothby, T. C., Tapia, H., Brozena, A. H., Piszkiewicz, S., Smith, A. E., Giovannini, I., Rebecchi, L., Pielak, G. J., Koshland, D., Goldstein, B. (2017) Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation. Mol. Cell 65, 975–984.e5. PMID: 28306513

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