Sibongile Mafu, Ph.D.

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2013 Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States 
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Biochemistry, Botany Biology
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Reuben Peters grad student 2013 Iowa State
 (Investigating the evolution of cytochromes P450 involved in GA biosynthesis.)
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Shahi A, Mafu S. (2021) Specialized metabolites as mediators for plant-fungus crosstalk and their evolving roles. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 64: 102141
Fotso GW, Ngameni B, Storr TE, et al. (2020) Synthesis of Novel Stilbene-Coumarin Derivatives and Antifungal Screening of -Specialized Metabolites Against . Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland). 9
Lemire CA, Mafu S. (2020) Elucidation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Sclerotinia The Faseb Journal. 34: 1-1
Ding Y, Murphy KM, Poretsky E, et al. (2019) Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences. Nature Plants
Mafu S, Ding Y, Murphy KM, et al. (2018) Discovery, biosynthesis and stress-related accumulation of dolabradiene-derived defenses in maize. Plant Physiology
Mafu S, Karunanithi PS, Palazzo TA, et al. (2017) Biosynthesis of the microtubule-destabilizing diterpene pseudolaric acid B from golden larch involves an unusual diterpene synthase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mafu S, Zerbe P. (2017) Plant diterpenoid metabolism for manufacturing the biopharmaceuticals of tomorrow: prospects and challenges Phytochemistry Reviews. 17: 113-130
Mafu S, Fischer E, Addisson B, et al. (2016) Substitution of two active site residues alters C9-hydroxylation in a class II diterpene synthase. Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
Kumar S, Kempinski C, Zhuang X, et al. (2016) Molecular Diversity of Terpene Synthases in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. The Plant Cell
Mafu S, Jia M, Zi J, et al. (2016) Probing the promiscuity of ent-kaurene oxidases via combinatorial biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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