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Sibongile Mafu
Sibongile Mafu
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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To gibberellins and beyond! Surveying the evolution of (di) terpenoid metabolism
J Zi, S Mafu, RJ Peters
Annual review of plant biology 65, 259-286, 2014
2682014
Discovery, biosynthesis and stress-related accumulation of dolabradiene-derived defenses in maize
S Mafu, Y Ding, KM Murphy, O Yaacoobi, JB Addison, Q Wang, Z Shen, ...
Plant physiology 176 (4), 2677-2690, 2018
1022018
Molecular Diversity of Terpene Synthases in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
S Kumar, C Kempinski, X Zhuang, A Norris, S Mafu, J Zi, SA Bell, SE Nybo, ...
The Plant Cell 28 (10), 2632-2650, 2016
732016
Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences
Y Ding, KM Murphy, E Poretsky, S Mafu, B Yang, SN Char, ...
Nature Plants 5 (10), 1043-1056, 2019
682019
Probing the promiscuity of ent-kaurene oxidases via combinatorial biosynthesis
S Mafu, M Jia, J Zi, D Morrone, Y Wu, M Xu, ML Hillwig, RJ Peters
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (9), 2526-2531, 2016
642016
A novel labda-7, 13E-dien-15-ol producing bifunctional diterpene synthase from Selaginella moellendorffii
S Mafu, ML Hillwig, RJ Peters
ChemBioChem 12 (13), 1984, 2011
562011
Efficient heterocyclisation by (di) terpene synthases
S Mafu, KC Potter, ML Hillwig, S Schulte, J Criswell, RJ Peters
Chemical communications 51 (70), 13485-13487, 2015
402015
Plant diterpenoid metabolism for manufacturing the biopharmaceuticals of tomorrow: prospects and challenges
S Mafu, P Zerbe
Phytochemistry Reviews 17, 113-130, 2018
392018
Exploring diterpene metabolism in non‐model species: transcriptome‐enabled discovery and functional characterization of labda‐7,13E‐dienyl diphosphate synthase from …
P Zerbe, SM Rodriguez, S Mafu, A Chiang, HK Sandhu, ...
The Plant Journal 83 (5), 783-793, 2015
372015
Biosynthesis of the microtubule-destabilizing diterpene pseudolaric acid B from golden larch involves an unusual diterpene synthase
S Mafu, PS Karunanithi, TA Palazzo, BL Harrod, SM Rodriguez, ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (5), 974-979, 2017
312017
Substitution of Two Active‐Site Residues Alters C9‐Hydroxylation in a Class II Diterpene Synthase
S Mafu, E Fischer, JB Addison, I Riberio Barbosana, P Zerbe
ChemBioChem 17 (24), 2304-2307, 2016
122016
Synthesis of Novel Stilbene–Coumarin Derivatives and Antifungal Screening of Monotes kerstingii-Specialized Metabolites Against Fusarium oxysporum
GW Fotso, B Ngameni, TE Storr, BT Ngadjui, S Mafu, GR Stephenson
Antibiotics 9 (9), 537, 2020
52020
Formal synthesis of pseudolaric acid B
N Mori
Synlett 31 (09), 907-910, 2020
42020
Diterpene biosynthesis in rice blast fungus Magnaporthe
A Shahi, H Yu, S Mafu
Frontiers in Fungal Biology 3, 869823, 2022
32022
High-Throughput Screening Assays to Identify Plant Natural Products with Antifungal Properties Against Fusarium oxysporum
Y Zhang, PL Kao, A Rampal, S Mafu, S Savinov, LJ Ma
Fusarium wilt: Methods and Protocols, 171-184, 2022
32022
Specialized metabolites as mediators for plant–fungus crosstalk and their evolving roles
A Shahi, S Mafu
Current opinion in plant biology 64, 102141, 2021
32021
Elucidation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Sclerotinia
CA Lemire, S Mafu
The FASEB Journal 34 (S1), 1-1, 2020
12020
Biochemical analysis of the TPS-a subfamily in Medicago truncatula
H Hendrickson, M Islam, GF Wabo, S Mafu
Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 1349009, 2024
2024
Diterpene synthases and their use for production of diterpenes
P Zerbe, S Mafu
US Patent 10,982,232, 2021
2021
Molecular diversity of terpene synthases in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.
SK Santosh Kumar, C Kempinski, ZX Zhuang Xun, A Norris, S Mafu, ...
2016
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