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List of works by Alison Gail Smith

A Single Precursor Protein for Ferrochelatase-I fromArabidopsisIs Importedin Vitrointo Both Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

A fragment-based approach to identifying ligands for riboswitches

scientific article

A heterogeneous microbial consortium producing short-chain fatty acids from lignocellulose

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

A look at diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) in algae

scientific article published on June 29, 2012

A model for tetrapyrrole synthesis as the primary mechanism for plastid-to-nucleus signaling during chloroplast biogenesis

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

A novel calcium-binding protein from Euglena gracilis. Characterisation of a cDNA encoding a 74-kDa acidic-repeat protein targeted across the endoplasmic reticulum

scientific article

A trio of viral proteins tunes aphid-plant interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Accelerated cell death 2 suppresses mitochondrial oxidative bursts and modulates cell death in Arabidopsis

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Algae acquire vitamin B12 through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria

scientific article

Algae need their vitamins

scientific article published on August 2006

An Engineered Community Approach for Industrial Cultivation of Microalgae

scientific article

Analysis of Chlamydomonas thiamin metabolism in vivo reveals riboswitch plasticity

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Assessing the environmental sustainability of biofuels

scientific article published on October 2014

Biodiesel from algae: challenges and prospects

scientific article

Bionic 3D printed corals

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Biosynthesis of pantothenate

scientific article

Birth of a Photosynthetic Chassis: A MoClo Toolkit Enabling Synthetic Biology in the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Candida yeast long chain fatty alcohol oxidase is a c-type haemoprotein and plays an important role in long chain fatty acid metabolism

scientific article

Characterization of the evolutionarily conserved iron-sulfur cluster of sirohydrochlorin ferrochelatase from Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article

ChemInform Abstract: Evolution of Enzymes and Pathways for the Biosynthesis of Cofactors

Chlorophyll and folate: intimate link revealed by drug treatment

scientific article published in January 2009

Comparative analysis of the Escherichia coli ketopantoate hydroxymethyltransferase crystal structure confirms that it is a member of the (betaalpha)8 phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate superfamily

scientific article published on July 2003

Cross-exchange of B-vitamins underpins a mutualistic interaction between Ostreococcus tauri and Dinoroseobacter shibae

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Crystal structure of Escherichia coli ketopantoate reductase in a ternary complex with NADP+ and pantoate bound: substrate recognition, conformational change, and cooperativity

scientific article

Crystal structure of aspartate decarboxylase at 2.2 A resolution provides evidence for an ester in protein self-processing

scientific article

Development of Novel Riboswitches for Synthetic Biology in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Direct exchange of vitamin B12 is demonstrated by modelling the growth dynamics of algal-bacterial cocultures

scientific article

Disruption of two defensive signaling pathways by a viral RNA silencing suppressor

scientific article published in July 2010

Do red and green make brown?: perspectives on plastid acquisitions within chromalveolates

scientific article

Editorial: Vitamins and cofactors—chemistry, biochemistry and biology

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Effects of Copper and pH on the Growth and Physiology of Desmodesmus sp. AARLG074

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Elucidating biosynthetic pathways for vitamins and cofactors

scientific article

Establishing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as an industrial biotechnology host

scientific article

Evolution of enzymes and pathways for the biosynthesis of cofactors

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Expression analysis of the two ferrochelatase genes in Arabidopsis in different tissues and under stress conditions reveals their different roles in haem biosynthesis

scientific article published in November 2002

Fidelity of targeting to chloroplasts is not affected by removal of the phosphorylation site from the transit peptide

scientific article

Functional identification of AtFao3, a membrane bound long chain alcohol oxidase in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published in September 2004

Green genes: bioinformatics and systems-biology innovations drive algal biotechnology

scientific article published on 21 October 2014

Green or red: what stops the traffic in the tetrapyrrole pathway?

scientific article

Hydrocarbons Are Essential for Optimal Cell Size, Division, and Growth of Cyanobacteria

scientific article

Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis gene encoding the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis enzyme uroporphyrinogen III synthase

scientific article

Identification and characterization of the terminal enzyme of siroheme biosynthesis from Arabidopsis thaliana: a plastid-located sirohydrochlorin ferrochelatase containing a 2FE-2S center.

scientific article

Identification of novel ligands for thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) riboswitches

scientific article

Influence of nitrogen-limitation regime on the production byChlorella vulgarisof lipids for biodiesel feedstocks

article

Insights into the evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy from sequenced algal genomes

scientific article published on 6 May 2011

Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome of Porphyra umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)

scientific article

Iron-sulfur proteins as initiators of radical chemistry

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Isolated plant mitochondria import chloroplast precursor proteins in vitro with the same efficiency as chloroplasts

scientific article published on 3 December 2001

Kinetic modelling of growth and storage molecule production in microalgae under mixotrophic and autotrophic conditions

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Life cycle assessment on microalgal biodiesel production using a hybrid cultivation system

scientific article published on 26 April 2014

Measurement of ferrochelatase activity using a novel assay suggests that plastids are the major site of haem biosynthesis in both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic cells of pea (Pisum sativum L.).

scientific article published on March 2002

Metal and cofactor insertion

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Mutualistic interactions between vitamin B12 -dependent algae and heterotrophic bacteria exhibit regulation

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

NO-Mediated [Ca2+]cyt Increases Depend on ADP-Ribosyl Cyclase Activity in Arabidopsis

scientific article

NOX or not? Evidence for algal NADPH oxidases

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Organisation of the pantothenate (vitamin B5) biosynthesis pathway in higher plants

scientific article published in January 2004

PPR proteins - orchestrators of organelle RNA metabolism

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Pantothenate biosynthesis in higher plants

scientific article

Pea chloroplast genes encoding a 4 kDa polypeptide of photosystem I and a putative enzyme of C1 metabolism

scientific article published on May 1991

Phycobilisome-Deficient Strains of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Have Reduced Size and Require Carbon-Limiting Conditions to Exhibit Enhanced Productivity

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Plants need their vitamins too.

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Porphobilinogen deaminase is encoded by a single gene in Arabidopsis thaliana and is targeted to the chloroplasts

scientific article published on November 1994

Probing hot spots at protein-ligand binding sites: a fragment-based approach using biophysical methods

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Probing riboswitch-ligand interactions using thiamine pyrophosphate analogues.

scientific article

Quantitative tracking of the growth of individual algal cells in microdroplet compartments

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Regulation of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 and isochorismate synthase gene expression in Arabidopsis

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Regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in higher plants

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Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Roles of vitamins B5, B8, B9, B12 and molybdenum cofactor at cellular and organismal levels.

scientific article published on 20 August 2007

Seedlings Lacking the PTM Protein Do Not Show a genomes uncoupled (gun) Mutant Phenotype.

scientific article

Snow algae communities in Antarctica: metabolic and taxonomic composition

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Structural constraints on protein self-processing in L-aspartate- -decarboxylase

scientific article

Structural insights into the evolution of the pantothenate-biosynthesis pathway

scientific article published in June 2003

Structure of E. coli ketopantoate hydroxymethyl transferase complexed with ketopantoate and Mg2+, solved by locating 160 selenomethionine sites

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Structure ofEscherichia coliaspartate α-decarboxylase Asn72Ala: probing the role of Asn72 in pyruvoyl cofactor formation

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Substrate-induced closing of the active site revealed by the crystal structure of pantothenate synthetase from Staphylococcus aureus

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Tetrapyrrole profiling in Arabidopsis seedlings reveals that retrograde plastid nuclear signaling is not due to Mg-protoporphyrin IX accumulation

scholarly article

The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle

scientific article published on July 2010

The complete nucleotide sequence of the intergenic spacer region of an rDNA operon from Brassica oleracea and its comparison with other crucifers

scientific article published in June 1991

The crystal structure of E. coli pantothenate synthetase confirms it as a member of the cytidylyltransferase superfamily

scientific article published in May 2001

The crystal structure of Escherichia coli ketopantoate reductase with NADP+ bound

scientific article published in June 2005

The design and synthesis of inhibitors of pantothenate synthetase.

scientific article

The hydroxyl radical in plants: from seed to seed

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The origin of intermediate species of the genus Sorbus

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Thiamine biosynthesis in algae is regulated by riboswitches

scholarly article

Threonine 57 is required for the post-translational activation ofEscherichia coliaspartate α-decarboxylase

scientific article

Thylakoid terminal oxidases are essential for the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to survive rapidly changing light intensities

scientific article

Towards engineering increased pantothenate (vitamin B(5)) levels in plants

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Treatment of Phaeodactylum tricornutum cells with papain facilitates lipid extraction

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Triacylglyceride production and autophagous responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii depend on resource allocation and carbon source

scientific article

Two different genes encode ferrochelatase in Arabidopsis: mapping, expression and subcellular targeting of the precursor proteins

scientific article published in August 1998

Two types of ferrochelatase in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues of cucumber: their difference in phylogeny, gene expression, and localization

scientific article published on 23 October 2001

Unraveling vitamin B12-responsive gene regulation in algae

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Use of a genomic clone for ribosomal RNA from Brassica oleracea in RFLP analysis of Brassica species

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Validating Fragment-Based Drug Discovery for Biological RNAs: Lead Fragments Bind and Remodel the TPP Riboswitch Specifically

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Widespread decay of vitamin-related pathways: coincidence or consequence?

scientific article published on 25 April 2013

pH-tuneable binding of 2′-phospho-ADP-ribose to ketopantoate reductase: a structural and calorimetric study

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