Sibongile Mafu, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2013 Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States 
Area:
Biochemistry, Botany Biology

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2021 Shahi A, Mafu S. Specialized metabolites as mediators for plant-fungus crosstalk and their evolving roles. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 64: 102141. PMID 34814027 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102141  0.475
2020 Fotso GW, Ngameni B, Storr TE, Ngadjui BT, Mafu S, Stephenson GR. Synthesis of Novel Stilbene-Coumarin Derivatives and Antifungal Screening of -Specialized Metabolites Against . Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland). 9. PMID 32854223 DOI: 10.3390/Antibiotics9090537  0.35
2020 Lemire CA, Mafu S. Elucidation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Sclerotinia The Faseb Journal. 34: 1-1. DOI: 10.1096/Fasebj.2020.34.S1.03053  0.479
2019 Ding Y, Murphy KM, Poretsky E, Mafu S, Yang B, Char SN, Christensen SA, Saldivar E, Wu M, Wang Q, Ji L, Schmitz RJ, Kremling KA, Buckler ES, Shen Z, et al. Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences. Nature Plants. PMID 31527844 DOI: 10.1038/S41477-019-0509-6  0.494
2018 Mafu S, Ding Y, Murphy KM, Yaacoobi O, Addison JB, Wang Q, Shen Z, Briggs SP, Bohlmann J, Castro-Falcón G, Hughes CC, Betsiashvili M, Huffaker A, Schmelz EA, Zerbe P. Discovery, biosynthesis and stress-related accumulation of dolabradiene-derived defenses in maize. Plant Physiology. PMID 29475898 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.17.01351  0.404
2017 Mafu S, Karunanithi PS, Palazzo TA, Harrod BL, Rodriguez SM, Mollhoff IN, O'Brien TE, Tong S, Fiehn O, Tantillo DJ, Bohlmann J, Zerbe P. 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. PMID 28096378 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1612901114  0.533
2017 Mafu S, Zerbe P. Plant diterpenoid metabolism for manufacturing the biopharmaceuticals of tomorrow: prospects and challenges Phytochemistry Reviews. 17: 113-130. DOI: 10.1007/S11101-017-9513-5  0.564
2016 Mafu S, Fischer E, Addisson B, Riberio Barbosana I, Zerbe P. Substitution of two active site residues alters C9-hydroxylation in a class II diterpene synthase. Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology. PMID 27735121 DOI: 10.1002/Cbic.201600419  0.501
2016 Kumar S, Kempinski C, Zhuang X, Norris A, Mafu S, Zi J, Bell SA, Nybo SE, Kinison SE, Jiang Z, Goklany S, Linscott KB, Chen X, Jia Q, Brown SD, et al. Molecular Diversity of Terpene Synthases in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. The Plant Cell. PMID 27650333 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.16.00062  0.613
2016 Mafu S, Jia M, Zi J, Morrone D, Wu Y, Xu M, Hillwig ML, Peters RJ. Probing the promiscuity of ent-kaurene oxidases via combinatorial biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26884192 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1512096113  0.459
2015 Mafu S, Potter KC, Hillwig ML, Schulte S, Criswell J, Peters RJ. Efficient heterocyclisation by (di)terpene synthases. Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England). 51: 13485-7. PMID 26214384 DOI: 10.1039/C5Cc05754J  0.596
2015 Zerbe P, Rodriguez SM, Mafu S, Chiang A, Sandhu HK, O'Neil-Johnson M, Starks CM, Bohlmann J. Exploring diterpene metabolism in non-model species: transcriptome-enabled discovery and functional characterization of labda-7,13E-dienyl diphosphate synthase from Grindelia robusta. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 83: 783-793. PMID 26119826 DOI: 10.1111/Tpj.12925  0.511
2014 Zi J, Mafu S, Peters RJ. To gibberellins and beyond! Surveying the evolution of (di)terpenoid metabolism. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 65: 259-86. PMID 24471837 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Arplant-050213-035705  0.604
2011 Mafu S, Hillwig ML, Peters RJ. A novel labda-7,13e-dien-15-ol-producing bifunctional diterpene synthase from Selaginella moellendorffii. Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology. 12: 1984-7. PMID 21751328 DOI: 10.1002/Cbic.201100336  0.617
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