Publications of Sarah E. O’Connor

Carqueijeiro, I.; Koudounas, K.; de Bernonville, T. D.; Sepúlveda, L. J.; Mosquera, A.; Bomzan, D. P.; Oudin, A.; Lanoue, A.; Besseau, S.; Cruz, P. L. et al.; Kulagina, N.; Stander, E. A.; Eymieux, S.; Burlaud-Gaillard, J.; Blanchard, E.; Clastre, M.; Atehortùa, L.; St-Pierre, B.; Giglioli-Guivarc’h, N.; Papon, N.; Nagegowda, D. A.; O’Connor, S. E.; Courdavault, V.: Alternative splicing creates a pseudo-strictosidine beta-D-glucosidase modulating alkaloid synthesis in Catharanthus roseus. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 836 - 856 (2021)

Trenti, F.; Yamamoto, K.; Hong, B.; Paetz, C.; Nakamura, Y.; O’Connor, S. E.: Early and late steps of quinine biosynthesis. Organic Letters 23 (5), pp. 1793 - 1797 (2021)

Rodríguez‐López, C. E.; Hong, B.; Paetz, C.; Nakamura, Y.; Koudounas, K.; Passeri, V.; Baldoni, L.; Alagna, F.; Calderini, O.; O’Connor, S. E.: Two bi-functional cytochrome P450 CYP72 enzymes from olive (Olea europaea) catalyze the oxidative C-C bond cleavage in the biosynthesis of secoxy-iridoids – flavor and quality determinants in olive oil. New Phytologist 229 (4), pp. 2288 - 2301 (2021)

O’Connor, S. E.: Symbionts, peptides, and (no) iron: How ants defend their fungal crop. ACS Central Science 7 (2), pp. 225 - 227 (2021)

Stander, E. A.; Sepúlveda, L. J.; de Bernonville, T. D.; Carqueijeiro, I.; Koudounas, K.; Cruz, P. L.; Besseau, S.; Lanoue, A.; Papon, N.; Giglioli-Guivarc’h, N. et al.; Dirks, R.; O’Connor, S. E.; Atehortùa, L.; Oudin, A.; Courdavault, V.: Identifying genes involved in alkaloid biosynthesis in Vinca minor through transcriptomics and gene co-expression analysis. Biomolecules 10 (12), 1595 (2020)

Davis, K.; Gkotsi, D. S.; Smith, D. R. M.; Goss, R. J. M.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Nicotiana benthamiana as a transient expression host to produce auxin analogs. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 581675 (2020)

de Bernonville, T. D.; Maury, S.; Delaunay, A.; Daviaud, C.; Chaparro, C.; Tost, J.; O’Connor, S. E.; Courdavault, V.: Developmental methylome of the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus unravels the tissue-specific control of the monoterpene indole alkaloid pathway by DNA methylation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 (17), 6028 (2020)

Nguyen, T.-D.; O’Connor, S. E.: The progesterone 5 beta-reductase/iridoid synthase family: A catalytic reservoir for specialized metabolism across land plants. ACS Chemical Biology 15 (7), pp. 1780 - 1787 (2020)

Walia, M.; Teijaro, C. N.; Gardner, A.; Tran, T.; Kang, J.; Zhao, S.; O’Connor, S. E.; Courdavault, V.; Andrade, R. B.: Synthesis of (−)-melodinine K: A case study of efficiency in natural product synthesis. Journal of Natural Products 83 (8), pp. 2425 - 2433 (2020)

Courdavault, V.; Besseau, S.; Oudin, A.; Papon, N.; O’Connor, S. E.: Virus-induced gene silencing: hush genes to make them talk. Trends in Plant Science 25 (7), pp. 714 - 715 (2020)

Neumann, M.; Prahl, S.; Caputi, L.; Hill, L.; Kular, B.; Walter, A.; Patallo, E. P.; Milbredt, D.; Aires, A.; Schöpe, M. et al.; O’Connor, S. E.; van Pée, K.-H.; Ludwig-Müller, J.: Hairy root transformation of Brassica rapa with bacterial halogenase genes and regeneration to adult plants to modify production of indolic compounds. Phytochemistry 175, 112371 (2020)

Dávila-Lara, A.; Rodríguez-López, C. E.; O’Connor, S. E.; Mithöfer, A.: Metabolomics analysis reveals tissue-specific metabolite compositions in leaf blade and traps of carnivorous Nepenthes plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 (12), 4376 (2020)

Courdavault, V.; O’Connor, S. E.; Oudin, A.; Besseau, S.; Papon, N.: Towards the microbial production of plant-derived anticancer drugs. Trends in Cancer 6 (6), pp. 444 - 448 (2020)

Lichman, B. R.; Godden, G. T.; Hamilton, J. P.; Palmer, L.; Kamileen, M. O.; Zhao, D.; Vaillancourt, B.; Wood, J. C.; Sun, M.; Kinser, T. J. et al.; Henry, L. K.; Rodriguez Lopez, C. E.; Dudareva, N.; Soltis, D. E.; Soltis, P. S.; Buell, C. R.; O’Connor, S. E.: The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip. Science Advances 6 (20), eaba0721 (2020)

Walter, A.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S.; van Pée, K.-H.; Ludwig-Müller, J.: Chlorinated auxins–how does Arabidopsis thaliana deal with them? International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 (7), 2567 (2020)

de Bernonville, T. D.; Papon, N.; Clastre, M.; O’Connor, S. E.; Courdavault, V.: Identifying missing biosynthesis enzymes of plant natural products. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 41 (3), pp. 142 - 146 (2020)

Caputi, L.; Franke, J.; Bussey, K.; Farrow, S. C.; Curcino Vieira, I. J.; Stevenson, C. E. M.; Lawson, D. M.; O’Connor, S. E.: Structural basis of cycloaddition in biosynthesis of iboga and Aspidosperma alkaloids. Nature Chemical Biology 16, pp. 383 - 386 (2020)

Carqueijeiro, I.; Langley, C.; Grzech, D.; Koudounas, K.; Papon, N.; O’Connor, S. E.; Courdavault, V.: Beyond the semi-synthetic artemisinin: metabolic engineering of plant-derived anti-cancer drugs. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 65, pp. 17 - 24 (2020)

Yamamoto, K.; Takahashi, K.; Caputi, L.; Mizuno, H.; Rodriguez-Lopez, C. E.; Iwasaki, T.; Ishizaki, K.; Fukaki, H.; Ohnishi, M.; Yamazaki, M. et al.; Masujima, T.; O’Connor, S. E.; Mimura, T.: The complexity of intercellular localisation of alkaloids revealed by single-cell metabolomics. New Phytologist 224 (2), pp. 848 - 859 (2019)

Lichman, B. R.; O’Connor, S. E.; Kries, H.: Biocatalytic strategies towards [4+2] cycloadditions. Chemistry – A European Journal 25 (28), pp. 6864 - 6877 (2019)