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Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Hans-Knöll-Straße 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
oconnor (at) ice.mpg.de
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Preprint for Euphoria acyltransferases
Congrats to Carsten, Matilde ad Proashant- our preprint on Euphorbia acyltransferases in collaboration with Ian Graham at York....
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Mar 171 min read
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Congratulations Dr. Kamileen!!
Congrats to Omar on his successful PhD defence!
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Jan 201 min read
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Kratom alkaloid biosynthesis: how this plant epimerizes a highly conserved stereocenter.
All 3000 monoterpene indole alkaloids are made by a stereoselective Pictet Spengler reaction that leads to a tetrahydro-beta-carboline...
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Dec 14, 20241 min read
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A few amino acid changes to a cytochrome P450 leads to enormous chemical diversity
See Omar and Benke's preprint showing how a single CYP71 can be mutated to lead to 4 monoterpene indole alkaloid scaffolds. They also...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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Single cell mass spectrometry of plant cell culture
Carmen's preprint shows how single cell mass spectrometry can be used to measure the metabolic heterogeneity of plant cell culture....
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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Ipecac alkaloids
See Maite's preprint to see how two different plants – separated by a 100 million years of evolution – both make the ipecac alkaloids...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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New way for plants to make indole.
Check out Matilde's preprint on how eudicot plants make indole. She discovered a zombie version of the tryptophan beta subunit protein...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Marianna!!
Congratulations to Marianna on a spectacular PhD thesis defense.
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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News items here
I stopped engaging with social media, so I no longer post on X or Bluesky. So I set up this page to post news items from the group.
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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