Michael P Torrens-Spence
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Torrens-Spence M, Matos J, Li T, Kastner D, Kim C, Wang Z, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2024 Nov;
15(1):10356.
PMID: 39609394
Salicylic acid (SA) production in Brassicaceae plants is uniquely accelerated from isochorismate by EPS1, a newly identified enzyme in the BAHD acyltransferase family. We present crystal structures of EPS1 from...
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Torrens-Spence M, Glinkerman C, Gunther J, Weng J
Curr Opin Plant Biol
. 2021 Jan;
60:101999.
PMID: 33450608
Imine chemistry represents an important category of chemical reactions involved in the biosynthesis of plant natural products, ranging from the newly discovered mobile defense hormone N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid to the red-to-yellow...
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Torrens-Spence M, Chiang Y, Smith T, Vicent M, Wang Y, Weng J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2020 May;
117(20):10806-10817.
PMID: 32371491
Radiation of the plant pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) family has yielded an array of paralogous enzymes exhibiting divergent substrate preferences and catalytic mechanisms. Plant AAADs catalyze...
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Torrens-Spence M, Bobokalonova A, Carballo V, Glinkerman C, Pluskal T, Shen A, et al.
Mol Plant
. 2019 Nov;
12(12):1577-1586.
PMID: 31760159
Salicylic acid (SA) is an important phytohormone mediating both local and systemic defense responses in plants. Despite over half a century of research, how plants biosynthesize SA remains unresolved. In...
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Pluskal T, Torrens-Spence M, Fallon T, De Abreu A, Shi C, Weng J
Nat Plants
. 2019 Jul;
5(8):867-878.
PMID: 31332312
Kava (Piper methysticum) is an ethnomedicinal shrub native to the Polynesian islands with well-established anxiolytic and analgesic properties. Its main psychoactive principles, kavalactones, form a unique class of polyketides that...
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Cheng J, Hu G, Xu Y, Torrens-Spence M, Zhou X, Wang D, et al.
Metab Eng
. 2019 Jun;
55:23-32.
PMID: 31220662
Bioplastics produced from microbial source are promising green alternatives to traditional petrochemical-derived plastics. Nonnatural straight-chain amino acids, especially 5-aminovalerate, 6-aminocaproate and 7-aminoheptanoate are potential monomers for the synthesis of polymeric...
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Torrens-Spence M, Pluskal T, Li F, Carballo V, Weng J
Mol Plant
. 2017 Dec;
11(1):205-217.
PMID: 29277428
Salidroside is a bioactive tyrosine-derived phenolic natural product found in medicinal plants under the Rhodiola genus. In addition to their anti-fatigue and anti-anoxia roles in traditional medicine, Rhodiola total extract...
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Torrens-Spence M, von Guggenberg R, Lazear M, Ding H, Li J
BMC Plant Biol
. 2014 Sep;
14:247.
PMID: 25230835
Background: Type II pyridoxal 5'-phosphate decarboxylases are an important group of phylogenetically diverse enzymes involved in amino acid metabolism. Within plants, this group of enzymes is represented by aromatic amino...
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Torrens-Spence M, Lazear M, von Guggenberg R, Ding H, Li J
Phytochemistry
. 2014 Aug;
106:37-43.
PMID: 25107664
Plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylases (AAADs) catalyze the decarboxylation of aromatic amino acids with either benzene or indole rings. Because the substrate selectivity of AAADs is intimately related to their...
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Torrens-Spence M, Liu P, Ding H, Harich K, Gillaspy G, Li J
J Biol Chem
. 2012 Dec;
288(4):2376-87.
PMID: 23204519
Plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) enzymes are capable of catalyzing either decarboxylation or decarboxylation-deamination on various combinations of aromatic amino acid substrates. These two different activities result in the...