Eleanore T. Wurtzel, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Biochemistry City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 
 Biology City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 
 Biological Sciences Lehman College, CUNY 
Area:
Plant Biochemistry; metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; provitamin A carotenoid biosynthesis
Website:
http://maize.lehman.cuny.edu/wurtzel

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2020 Zhu K, Zheng X, Ye J, Jiang Q, Chen H, Mei X, Wurtzel ET, Deng X. Building the Synthetic Biology Toolbox with Enzyme Variants to Expand Opportunities for Biofortification of Provitamin A and Other Health-Promoting Carotenoids. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. PMID 33073979 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c04740  0.772
2020 Shumskaya M, Quinlan RF, Wurtzel ET. Elucidating Carotenoid Biosynthetic Enzyme Localization and Interactions Using Fluorescent Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2083: 223-234. PMID 31745925 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_17  0.777
2020 Wurtzel ET, Beltrán J. Improved Expression and Purification of the Carotenoid Biosynthetic Enzyme Z-ISO. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2083: 53-61. PMID 31745912 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_4  0.413
2018 Wurtzel ET. Changing form and function through carotenoids and synthetic biology. Plant Physiology. PMID 30361256 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.18.01122  0.401
2016 Wurtzel ET, Kutchan TM. Plant metabolism, the diverse chemistry set of the future. Science (New York, N.Y.). 353: 1232-6. PMID 27634523 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aad2062  0.463
2015 Ampomah-Dwamena C, Driedonks N, Lewis D, Shumskaya M, Chen X, Wurtzel ET, Espley RV, Allan AC. The Phytoene synthase gene family of apple (Malus x domestica) and its role in controlling fruit carotenoid content. Bmc Plant Biology. 15: 185. PMID 26215656 DOI: 10.1186/S12870-015-0573-7  0.529
2015 Beltrán J, Kloss B, Hosler JP, Geng J, Liu A, Modi A, Dawson JH, Sono M, Shumskaya M, Ampomah-Dwamena C, Love JD, Wurtzel ET. Control of carotenoid biosynthesis through a heme-based cis-trans isomerase. Nature Chemical Biology. 11: 598-605. PMID 26075523 DOI: 10.1038/Nchembio.1840  0.434
2014 Moise AR, Al-Babili S, Wurtzel ET. Mechanistic aspects of carotenoid biosynthesis. Chemical Reviews. 114: 164-93. PMID 24175570 DOI: 10.1021/Cr400106Y  0.428
2013 Wurtzel ET, Burr FA, Burr B. DNase I hypersensitivity and expression of the Shrunken-1 gene of maize. Plant Molecular Biology. 8: 251-64. PMID 24301129 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00015033  0.749
2013 Shumskaya M, Wurtzel ET. The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway: thinking in all dimensions. Plant Science : An International Journal of Experimental Plant Biology. 208: 58-63. PMID 23683930 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plantsci.2013.03.012  0.422
2012 Tzfadia O, Amar D, Bradbury LMT, Wurtzel ET, Shamir R. The MORPH algorithm: Ranking candidate genes for membership in arabidopsis and tomato pathwaysC W Plant Cell. 24: 4389-4406. PMID 23204403 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.112.104513  0.743
2012 Shumskaya M, Bradbury LM, Monaco RR, Wurtzel ET. Plastid localization of the key carotenoid enzyme phytoene synthase is altered by isozyme, allelic variation, and activity. The Plant Cell. 24: 3725-41. PMID 23023170 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.112.104174  0.489
2012 Quinlan RF, Shumskaya M, Bradbury LM, Beltrán J, Ma C, Kennelly EJ, Wurtzel ET. Synergistic interactions between carotene ring hydroxylases drive lutein formation in plant carotenoid biosynthesis. Plant Physiology. 160: 204-14. PMID 22786888 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.112.198556  0.784
2012 Bradbury LM, Shumskaya M, Tzfadia O, Wu SB, Kennelly EJ, Wurtzel ET. Lycopene cyclase paralog CruP protects against reactive oxygen species in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: E1888-97. PMID 22706644 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1206002109  0.742
2012 Wurtzel ET, Cuttriss A, Vallabhaneni R. Maize provitamin a carotenoids, current resources, and future metabolic engineering challenges. Frontiers in Plant Science. 3: 29. PMID 22645578 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2012.00029  0.701
2011 Meier S, Tzfadia O, Vallabhaneni R, Gehring C, Wurtzel ET. A transcriptional analysis of carotenoid, chlorophyll and plastidial isoprenoid biosynthesis genes during development and osmotic stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bmc Systems Biology. 5: 77. PMID 21595952 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-77  0.775
2010 Vallabhaneni R, Bradbury LM, Wurtzel ET. The carotenoid dioxygenase gene family in maize, sorghum, and rice. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 504: 104-11. PMID 20670614 DOI: 10.1016/J.Abb.2010.07.019  0.766
2010 Vallabhaneni R, Wurtzel ET. From epoxycarotenoids to ABA: the role of ABA 8'-hydroxylases in drought-stressed maize roots. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 504: 112-7. PMID 20637177 DOI: 10.1016/J.Abb.2010.07.005  0.759
2010 Chen Y, Li F, Wurtzel ET. Isolation and characterization of the Z-ISO gene encoding a missing component of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants. Plant Physiology. 153: 66-79. PMID 20335404 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.110.153916  0.655
2009 Vallabhaneni R, Gallagher CE, Licciardello N, Cuttriss AJ, Quinlan RF, Wurtzel ET. Metabolite sorting of a germplasm collection reveals the hydroxylase3 locus as a new target for maize provitamin A biofortification. Plant Physiology. 151: 1635-45. PMID 19767386 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.109.145177  0.729
2009 Li F, Tsfadia O, Wurtzel ET. The phytoene synthase gene family in the Grasses: subfunctionalization provides tissue-specific control of carotenogenesis. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 4: 208-11. PMID 19721751 DOI: 10.4161/Psb.4.3.7798  0.672
2009 Vallabhaneni R, Wurtzel ET. Timing and biosynthetic potential for carotenoid accumulation in genetically diverse germplasm of maize. Plant Physiology. 150: 562-72. PMID 19346441 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.109.137042  0.778
2008 Li F, Vallabhaneni R, Yu J, Rocheford T, Wurtzel ET. The maize phytoene synthase gene family: overlapping roles for carotenogenesis in endosperm, photomorphogenesis, and thermal stress tolerance. Plant Physiology. 147: 1334-46. PMID 18508954 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.108.122119  0.795
2008 Harjes CE, Rocheford TR, Bai L, Brutnell TP, Kandianis CB, Sowinski SG, Stapleton AE, Vallabhaneni R, Williams M, Wurtzel ET, Yan J, Buckler ES. Natural genetic variation in lycopene epsilon cyclase tapped for maize biofortification. Science (New York, N.Y.). 319: 330-3. PMID 18202289 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1150255  0.686
2008 Li F, Vallabhaneni R, Wurtzel ET. PSY3, a new member of the phytoene synthase gene family conserved in the Poaceae and regulator of abiotic stress-induced root carotenogenesis. Plant Physiology. 146: 1333-45. PMID 18162592 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.107.111120  0.775
2007 Li F, Murillo C, Wurtzel ET. Maize Y9 encodes a product essential for 15-cis-zeta-carotene isomerization. Plant Physiology. 144: 1181-9. PMID 17434985 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.107.098996  0.62
2007 Quinlan RF, Jaradat TT, Wurtzel ET. Escherichia coli as a platform for functional expression of plant P450 carotene hydroxylases. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 458: 146-57. PMID 17196929 DOI: 10.1016/J.Abb.2006.11.019  0.785
2006 Cervantes-Cervantes M, Gallagher CE, Zhu C, Wurtzel ET. Maize cDNAs expressed in endosperm encode functional farnesyl diphosphate synthase with geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase activity. Plant Physiology. 141: 220-31. PMID 16581875 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.106.077008  0.51
2004 Gallagher CE, Matthews PD, Li F, Wurtzel ET. Gene duplication in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway preceded evolution of the grasses. Plant Physiology. 135: 1776-83. PMID 15247400 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.104.039818  0.793
2004 Wong JC, Lambert RJ, Wurtzel ET, Rocheford TR. QTL and candidate genes phytoene synthase and zeta-carotene desaturase associated with the accumulation of carotenoids in maize. Tag. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Theoretische Und Angewandte Genetik. 108: 349-59. PMID 14523521 DOI: 10.1007/S00122-003-1436-4  0.412
2004 Wurtzel ET. Chapter five Genomics, genetics, and biochemistry of maize carotenoid biosynthesis Recent Advances in Phytochemistry. 38: 85-110. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-9920(04)80006-6  0.523
2003 Matthews PD, Luo R, Wurtzel ET. Maize phytoene desaturase and zeta-carotene desaturase catalyse a poly-Z desaturation pathway: implications for genetic engineering of carotenoid content among cereal crops. Journal of Experimental Botany. 54: 2215-30. PMID 14504297 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Erg235  0.776
2003 Gallagher CE, Cervantes-Cervantes M, Wurtzel ET. Surrogate biochemistry: use of Escherichia coli to identify plant cDNAs that impact metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 60: 713-9. PMID 12664151 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-002-1182-6  0.4
2001 Wurtzel ET, Luo RB, Yatou O. A simple approach to identify the first rice mutants blocked in carotenoid biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 52: 161-6. PMID 11181725 DOI: 10.1093/Jexbot/52.354.161  0.582
2000 Matthews PD, Wurtzel ET. Metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation in Escherichia coli by modulation of the isoprenoid precursor pool with expression of deoxyxylulose phosphate synthase. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 53: 396-400. PMID 10803894 DOI: 10.1007/S002530051632  0.684
1998 Li Z, Wurtzel ET. The ltk gene family encodes novel receptor-like kinases with temporal expression in developing maize endosperm. Plant Molecular Biology. 37: 749-61. PMID 9678570 DOI: 10.1023/A:1006012530241  0.508
1997 Maluf MP, Saab IN, Wurtzel ET, Sachs MM. Theviviparous12maize mutant is deficient in abscisic acid, carotenoids, and chlorophyll synthesis Journal of Experimental Botany. 48: 1259-1268. DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/48.6.1259  0.398
1996 Li ZH, Matthews PD, Burr B, Wurtzel ET. Cloning and characterization of a maize cDNA encoding phytoene desaturase, an enzyme of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. Plant Molecular Biology. 30: 269-79. PMID 8616251 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00020113  0.744
1995 Stabile JE, Gallagher JC, Wurtzel ET. COLINEARITY OF CHLOROPLAST GENOMES IN DIVERGENT ECOTYPES OF THE MARINE DIATOM SKELETONEMA COSTATUM (BACILLARIOPHYTA)1 Journal of Phycology. 31: 795-800. DOI: 10.1111/J.0022-3646.1995.00795.X  0.353
1991 Fontes EB, Shank BB, Wrobel RL, Moose SP, OBrian GR, Wurtzel ET, Boston RS. Characterization of an immunoglobulin binding protein homolog in the maize floury-2 endosperm mutant. The Plant Cell. 3: 483-96. PMID 1840923 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.3.5.483  0.327
1982 Mizuno T, Wurtzel ET, Inouye M. Cloning of the regulatory genes (ompR and envZ) for the matrix proteins of the Escherichia coli outer membrane. Journal of Bacteriology. 150: 1462-1466. DOI: 10.1128/Jb.150.3.1462-1466.1982  0.432
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