Li‐Qing Chen

The paper shows that the Arabidopsis amino acid transporter UmamiT20 contributes to susceptibility to the necrotrophic fungus B. cinerea by facilitating amino acid transport, suggesting a broader role for nutrient transporters in plant-pathogen interactions.

This paper uses a variational autoencoder to design novel mitochondrial targeting sequences across eukaryotic organisms, showing they are functional and diverse.

This study shows SWEET family transporters in plants act as water-conducting carrier proteins through multiple mechanisms, validated by simulations and experiments.

This study uses deep mutational scanning to analyze sequence-function relationships in the plant SWEET transporter AtSWEET13, identifying mutations that enhance transport function and revealing constraints in transmembrane helix 4.