List of works by Steven Ball

A Chlamydomonas reinhardtii low-starch mutant is defective for 3-phosphoglycerate activation and orthophosphate inhibition of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

A forward genetic approach in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a strategy for exploring starch catabolism

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Amylopectin biogenesis and characterization in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the intracellular development of which is restricted in the HepG2 cell line.

scientific article published on 24 December 2004

Amylose Is Synthesized in Vitro by Extension of and Cleavage from Amylopectin

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Biochemical Characterization of Wild-Type and Mutant Isoamylases of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Supports a Function of the Multimeric Enzyme Organization in Amylopectin Maturation

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Biotic Host-Pathogen Interactions As Major Drivers of Plastid Endosymbiosis

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Biotic interactions as drivers of algal origin and evolution.

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Blurred pictures from the crime scene: the growing case for a function of Chlamydiales in plastid endosymbiosis

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Bound Substrate in the Structure of Cyanobacterial Branching Enzyme Supports a New Mechanistic Model

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Characterization of Function of the GlgA2 Glycogen/Starch Synthase in Cyanobacterium sp. Clg1 Highlights Convergent Evolution of Glycogen Metabolism into Starch Granule Aggregation

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Chlamydia, cyanobiont, or host: who was on top in the ménage à trois?

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Chlamydomonas starchless mutant defective in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase hyper-accumulates triacylglycerol.

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Circadian clock regulation of starch metabolism establishes GBSSI as a major contributor to amylopectin synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Commentary: Plastid establishment did not require a chlamydial partner

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Comparison of Chain-Length Preferences and Glucan Specificities of Isoamylase-Type α-Glucan Debranching Enzymes from Rice, Cyanobacteria, and Bacteria

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Control of starch composition and structure through substrate supply in the monocellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

scientific article published in July 1996

Convergent evolution of polysaccharide debranching defines a common mechanism for starch accumulation in cyanobacteria and plants.

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Crystal Structure of the Chlamydomonas Starch Debranching Enzyme Isoamylase ISA1 Reveals Insights into the Mechanism of Branch Trimming and Complex Assembly

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Crystallization and crystallographic analysis of branching enzymes from Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

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Diversity of reaction characteristics of glucan branching enzymes and the fine structure of α-glucan from various sources

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

EVOLUTION. Pathogen to powerhouse

scientific article published in February 2016

Early gene duplication within chloroplastida and its correspondence with relocation of starch metabolism to chloroplasts

scientific article published on 3 February 2008

Effects of granule-bound starch synthase I-defective mutation on the morphology and structure of pyrenoidal starch in Chlamydomonas

scientific article published on 9 September 2010

Engineering the chloroplast targeted malarial vaccine antigens in Chlamydomonas starch granules

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2010)

Eukaryotic microalgae genomics. The essence of being a plant

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Evolution of plant-like crystalline storage polysaccharide in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii argues for a red alga ancestry

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Extreme genome diversity in the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

F ROM B ACTERIAL G LYCOGEN TO S TARCH : Understanding the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule

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From glycogen to amylopectin: a model for the biogenesis of the plant starch granule

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Functions of heteromeric and homomeric isoamylase-type starch-debranching enzymes in developing maize endosperm

scientific article published on 6 May 2010

Further evidence for the mandatory nature of polysaccharide debranching for the aggregation of semicrystalline starch and for overlapping functions of debranching enzymes in Arabidopsis leaves

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

Gasping for air.

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Genetic dissection of floridean starch synthesis in the cytosol of the model dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii

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Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features

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Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

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Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida

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Glycogen phosphorylase, the product of the glgP Gene, catalyzes glycogen breakdown by removing glucose units from the nonreducing ends in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on July 2006

Granule-bound starch synthase I. A major enzyme involved in the biogenesis of B-crystallites in starch granules

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Hydrogen production in Chlamydomonas: photosystem II-dependent and -independent pathways differ in their requirement for starch metabolism

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Infection and the first eukaryotes--Response

scientific article published in May 2016

Metabolic Symbiosis and the Birth of the Plant Kingdom

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Metabolic effectors secreted by bacterial pathogens: essential facilitators of plastid endosymbiosis?

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Metabolic symbiosis and the birth of the plant kingdom

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Microarray data can predict diurnal changes of starch content in the picoalga Ostreococcus

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Molecular and biochemical analysis of periplastidial starch metabolism in the cryptophyte Guillardia theta

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Molecular evolution accompanying functional divergence of duplicated genes along the plant starch biosynthesis pathway

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Mutants of Arabidopsis lacking a chloroplastic isoamylase accumulate phytoglycogen and an abnormal form of amylopectin

scientific article published in 2005

Mutants of Arabidopsis lacking starch branching enzyme II substitute plastidial starch synthesis by cytoplasmic maltose accumulation

scientific article published on 06 October 2006

Nature of the periplastidial pathway of starch synthesis in the cryptophyte Guillardia theta

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Pathway of cytosolic starch synthesis in the model glaucophyte Cyanophora paradoxa

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Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence supports the recruitment of an ADP-glucose translocator for the export of photosynthate during plastid endosymbiosis.

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Physicochemical variation of cyanobacterial starch, the insoluble α-Glucans in cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Plastidial phosphorylase is required for normal starch synthesis inChlamydomonas reinhardtii

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Preamylopectin Processing: A Mandatory Step for Starch Biosynthesis in Plants

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Progress in understanding the biosynthesis of amylose

Relationships between PSII-independent hydrogen bioproduction and starch metabolism as evidenced from isolation of starch catabolism mutants in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Role of the Escherichia coli glgX gene in glycogen metabolism

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STA11, a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii locus required for normal starch granule biogenesis, encodes disproportionating enzyme. Further evidence for a function of alpha-1,4 glucanotransferases during starch granule biosynthesis in green algae

scientific article published in May 2003

Sequestration of host metabolism by an intracellular pathogen

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Soluble starch synthase I: a major determinant for the synthesis of amylopectin in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves.

scientific article published in August 2005

Starch granules: structure and biosynthesis

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Starchless mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lack the small subunit of a heterotetrameric ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

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The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions

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The Endopolysaccharide Metabolism of the Hyperthermophilic Archeon Thermococcus hydrothermalis : Polymer Structure and Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

The Transition from Glycogen to Starch Metabolism in Cyanobacteria and Eukaryotes

The debranching enzyme complex missing in glycogen accumulating mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii displays an isoamylase-type specificity

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

The evolution of glycogen and starch metabolism in eukaryotes gives molecular clues to understand the establishment of plastid endosymbiosis

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The heterotrophic dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii defines a model genetic system to investigate cytoplasmic starch synthesis.

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

The phenotype of soluble starch synthase IV defective mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests a novel function of elongation enzymes in the control of starch granule formation.

scientific article published in January 2007

The relocation of starch metabolism to chloroplasts: when, why and how.

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

Toward an understanding of the function of Chlamydiales in plastid endosymbiosis

scientific article published on 14 February 2015

Transition from glycogen to starch metabolism in Archaeplastida

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Variation in Storage α-Glucans of the Porphyridiales (Rhodophyta)

scientific article published on 13 December 2007

Was the Chlamydial Adaptative Strategy to Tryptophan Starvation an Early Determinant of Plastid Endosymbiosis?

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

When simpler is better. Unicellular green algae for discovering new genes and functions in carbohydrate metabolism

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