UniProt: Focus on Plant Proteins

Webinar given on June 4, 2025 Overview Are you working on plants and struggling to find information about plant proteins? Are you curious about the biosynthesis of natural compounds like caffeine, capsaicin, and others? Are you interested in the interactions between plant and pathogens? If so, this webinar is for you. UniProt is the world’s leading high-quality, comprehensive and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot curators manually extract information from the scientific literature, including plant proteins. UniProt also provides protein sets (proteomes) for plant species with sequenced genomes. Starting with a biological question (i.e., how to get the list of enzymes involved in the synthesis of CBD or THC), you will explore the different ways of answering it, using UniProt. Hints on how to extend queries to other biological contexts will also be provided. This 1-h webinar introduces the plant-related data in UniProt and how to find it. Outline Overview on UniProtKB UniProtKB is composed of 2 sections (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot & UniProtKB/TrEMBL) UniProtKB record content (sequence & biological knowledge) Proteomes Biocuration, the heart of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Biosynthetic pathways of natural products …illustrated with examples of simple & advanced queries Audience This webinar is for beginners interested in protein enzymes. Learning outcomes At the end of this webinar, the participants are expected to: describe the information on plant proteins found in UniProt, focussing on plant enzymes use the advanced search to query UniProt for plant protein information recall how to find complete plant proteomes know where to find help, documentation and get support Prerequisites Knowledge / competencies Knowledge of biology and plants is required for this course. While this course is designed for beginners, we suggest you view the video Inside expert biocuration in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot prior to the webinar. Technical You are required to have your own computer with an Internet connection. Video The video recorded during the course is available on YouTube. Re-Use Time required: 1 d This presentation is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Please cite: Gasteiger, E., Boutet, E., & Blatter, M.-C. (2025, July 30). UniProt: Focus on Plant Proteins. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16612713