Scientific Commons: Paul V. Viitanen

Identification, characterization, and DNA sequence of a functional "double" groES-like chaperonin from chloroplasts of higher plants. (1992)

Bertsch, Uwe, Soll, Jürgen, Seetharam, Ramnath, Viitanen, Paul V.

Chloroplasts of higher plants contain a nuclear-encoded protein that is a functional homolog of the Escherichia coli chaperonin 10 (cpn10; also known as groES). In pea (Pisum sativum), chloroplast...

Cloning of the SNG1 Gene of Arabidopsis Reveals a Role for a Serine Carboxypeptidase-like Protein as an Acyltransferase in Secondary Metabolism

Lehfeldt, Claus, Shirley, Amber M., Meyer, Knut, Ruegger, Max O., Cusumano, Joanne C., Viitanen, Paul V., ...

Serine carboxypeptidases contain a conserved catalytic triad of serine, histidine, and aspartic acid active-site residues. These enzymes cleave the peptide bond between the penultimate and C-terminal...

Alternate Energy-Dependent Pathways for the Vacuolar Uptake of Glucose and Glutathione Conjugates1

Bartholomew, Dolores M., Van Dyk, Drew E., Lau, Sze-Mei Cindy, O'Keefe, Daniel P., Rea, Philip A., Viitanen, Paul V.

Through the development and application of a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based procedure for measuring the transport of complex organic molecules by vacuolar membrane vesicles in vitro,...

Metabolic Engineering of the Chloroplast Genome Using the Echerichia coli ubiC Gene Reveals That Chorismate Is a Readily Abundant Plant Precursor for p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Biosynthesis1

Viitanen, Paul V., Devine, Andrew L., Khan, Muhammad Sarwar, Deuel, Deborah L., Van Dyk, Drew E., Daniell, Henry

p-Hydroxybenzoic acid (pHBA) is the major monomer in liquid crystal polymers. In this study, the Escherichia coli ubiC gene that codes for chorismate pyruvate-lyase (CPL) was integrated into the...

Identification of Membrane Protein Associated with Sucrose Transport Into Cells of Developing Soybean Cotyledons 1

Ripp, Kevin G., Viitanen, Paul V., Hitz, William D., Franceschi, Vincent R.

The photolyzable sucrose derivative 6′-deoxy-6′-(4-azido-2-hydroxy)-benzamidosucrose (6′-HABS), competitively inhibited the influx of [14C] sucrose into protoplasts from developing soybean...