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1 month ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Si Wu |Youjun Zhang |Mohamed A. Salem |Urszula Luzarowska
INTRODUCTION β-Alanine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid found in all living organisms. In plants and microbes, β-alanine is the precursor of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5). Pantothenic acid is in turn the precursor of coenzyme A, a cofactor required by many metabolic enzymes (White et al., 2001).
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
nature.com | Alisdair R. Fernie |Youjun Zhang
AbstractPaclitaxel rapidly became one of the most effective anticancer drugs. However, the production of paclitaxel is hindered by substantial challenges, particularly considering the significant quantities of drug required and the inherently low concentration of paclitaxel and its intermediates in plants. Paclitaxel is currently produced in a so-called semi-synthesis in which baccatin III is extracted from Taxus species and chemically converted to paclitaxel.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Richard Dorrell |Youjun Zhang |Yue Liang |Nolwenn Guéguen
AbstractOrganic carbon fixed in chloroplasts through the Calvin Cycle can be diverted towards different metabolic fates, including cytoplasmic and mitochondrial respiration; gluconeogenesis; and synthesis of diverse plastid metabolites via the pyruvate hub. In plants, pyruvate is principally produced via cytoplasmic glycolysis, although a plastid-targeted lower glycolytic pathway is known in non-photosynthetic tissue.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 00039-x&sz=64)
cell.com | Fang Liu |Alisdair R. Fernie |Youjun Zhang
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Richard Dorrell |Youjun Zhang |Yue Liang |Nolwenn Guéguen
AbstractThe authors have withdrawn this manuscript due to a duplicate posting of manuscript number BIORXIV/2022/507166. Therefore, the authors do not wish this work to be cited as reference for the project. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author. The correct preprint can be found at doi: 10.1101/2022.09.08.507166
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Richard Dorrell |Youjun Zhang |Yue Liang |Nolwenn Guéguen
AbstractOrganic carbon fixed in chloroplasts through the Calvin Cycle can be diverted towards different metabolic fates, including cytoplasmic and mitochondrial respiration; gluconeogenesis; and synthesis of diverse plastid metabolites via the pyruvate hub. In plants, pyruvate is principally produced via cytoplasmic glycolysis, although a plastid-targeted lower-half glycolytic pathway is known in non-photosynthetic tissue.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
mdpi.com | Xinyue Wu |Zijian Zhao |Zirun Zhao |Youjun Zhang
1. IntroductionPotassium is one of the most important plant nutrients and is essential for plant growth, metabolism, and development [1,2]. Potassium is the most abundant cation in living plant cells and plays an important role in osmotic adjustment, protein synthesis, membrane polarization control, carbohydrate metabolism, and enzyme activation [3,4,5,6]. From the perspective of plant nutrition, potassium can be divided into mineral potassium, slowly available potassium, and available potassium.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jonas Giese |Dirk M Walther |Youjun Zhang |Jürgen Eirich
MS data analysis MS raw data were analyzed using MaxQuant (MQ) software package (v 1.6.3.4, www.maxquant.org) (Tyanova, Temu, & Cox, 2016), and searched against the Araport11 database (v2016/06, www.bar.utoronto.ca/thalemine) and a list of common contaminants and a reverse decoy database was included. All raw files from the dimethyl-labeling experiment including proteome, acetylome, and phosphoproteome were searched within one run using different parameter groups and separated fractions.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 00130-9&sz=64)
cell.com | Youjun Zhang |Alisdair R. Fernie
In plants, uridine diphosphate (UDP)-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) catalyze glycosylation of secondary metabolites, but assigning physiological functions to UGTs is still a daunting task. The recent study of Wu et al . presents a useful method to resolve this problem by elegantly combining modification-specific metabolomics with isotope tracing.
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Apr 16, 2023 | 00130-9&sz=64)
cell.com | Youjun Zhang
