{"id":2368,"date":"2026-08-21T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:51:22","slug":"two-new-review-articles-from-the-shabek-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/two-new-review-articles-from-the-shabek-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new Review Articles from the Shabek Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">We are excited to share two recently published review articles highlighting emerging directions in plant signaling and structural biology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The first, led by <span class=\"s1\"><b>Dr. Malathy Palayam<\/b><\/span> and published in <span class=\"s1\"><i>Current Opinion in Plant Biology<\/i><\/span>, is titled <span class=\"s1\"><b>\u201cBeyond prediction: why experimental structural biology remains essential in plants.\u201d<\/b><\/span> The review discusses the rapidly evolving landscape of structural biology in the era of powerful AI-based structure prediction, highlighting why experimental approaches remain essential for uncovering protein dynamics, molecular interactions, ligand recognition, and regulatory mechanisms in plant biology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The second, written by <span class=\"s1\"><b>Dr. Nitzan Shabek<\/b><\/span> and published in the <span class=\"s1\"><i>Journal of Experimental Botany<\/i><\/span>, is titled <span class=\"s1\"><b>\u201cFrom signaling to catabolism: terminal tails in plant hormone regulation.\u201d<\/b><\/span> This review explores hormone deactivation as an important regulatory layer in plant signaling, with a particular focus on emerging mechanisms controlling hormone catabolism and the stability of catabolic enzymes through the ubiquitin system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Congratulations to Malathy and the team on these new publications!<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2367 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13-1024x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13-1024x400.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13-300x117.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13-768x300.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13-1536x600.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9F40F8B3-09A3-4A4A-B57C-1DC56DA2BD13.jpeg 1634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nLinks to the papers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1369526626000804?via%3Dihub\"><b><em>Beyond prediction: why experimental structural biology remains essential in plants<\/em> <\/b><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/erag317\"><em><b>From signaling to catabolism: terminal tails in plant hormone regulation.<\/b><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to share two recently published review articles highlighting emerging directions in plant signaling and structural biology. The first, led by Dr. Malathy Palayam and published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology, is titled \u201cBeyond prediction: why experimental structural biology remains essential in plants.\u201d The review discusses the rapidly evolving landscape of structural<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/two-new-review-articles-from-the-shabek-lab\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","category-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shabek-lab.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}