This list of publications includes those publications of the founding members of this website that are relevant to aromatic amino acid metabolism.
Authorship by R. Jensen, J. Song, and C. Bonner highlighted with black, red, and
blue lettering, respectively. Where possible, HTML and pdf files are provided for download. In some cases, notes, clarifications, text corrections,
figure corrections or improvements are also provided.
- Jensen, R. A., and E. W. Nester. 1965. The
regulatory significance of intermediary metabolites: control of aromatic acid biosynthesis by feedback inhibition
in Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Biol 12:468-481.
- Jensen, R. A., and E. W. Nester. 1966. Regulatory
enzymes of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis.
I. Purification and properties of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase. J Biol Chem 241:3365-3372. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and E. W. Nester. 1966. Regulatory
enzymes of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis.
II. The enzymology of feedback
inhibition of 3-deoxy-D- arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthetase. J Biol Chem 241:3373-3380. [PDF]
- Nester, E. W., R. A. Jensen.
1966. Control of aromatic acid biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis: sequential feedback inhibition. J
Bacteriol 91:1594-1598. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., D. S. Nasser, and E. W. Nester.
1967. The comparative control of a branch-point enzyme in microorganisms. J
Bacteriol 94:1582-1593. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1968. A biochemical basis for
apparent abortive transformation in Bacillus subtilis. Genetics 60:707-717. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and D. S. Nasser. 1968. Comparative
regulation of isoenzymic 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthetases in microorganisms. J Bacteriol 95:188-196. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Champney, W. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1969. D-Tyrosine
as a metabolic inhibitor of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol 98:205-214. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1969. Antimetabolite action of
5-methyltryptophan in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 97:1500-1501. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1969. Metabolic Interlock:
regulatory interactions exerted between biochemical pathways. J Biol Chem 244:2816-2823. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Nester, E. W., R. A. Jensen, and D. S. Nasser. 1969.
Regulation of enzyme synthesis in the aromatic amino acid pathway of Bacillus
subtilis. J Bacteriol 97:83-90. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Champney, W. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. Metabolic
influences on tyrosine excretion in Bacillus subtilis. J
Bacteriol 104:351-359. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Champney, W. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. The
enzymology of prephenate dehydrogenase in Bacillus subtilis. J
Biol Chem 245:3763-3770. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Champney, W. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. Molecular
events in the growth inhibition of Bacillus subtilis by D-tyrosine. J Bacteriol 104:107-116. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1970. Taxonomic implications of
temperature dependence of the allosteric inhibition of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase in Bacillus. J Bacteriol 102:489-497. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and J. L. Rebello. 1970.
Comparative allostery of microbial enzymes at metabolic branch-points: evolutionary implications, vol. 11.
American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC.
- Jensen, R. A., and S. L. Stenmark. 1970.
Comparative allostery of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthetase as a molecular basis for classification. J Bacteriol 101:763-769. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and W. Trentini. 1970. Alternative
allosteric effects exerted by end products upon a two-substrate enzyme in Rhodomicrobium
vannielii. J Biol Chem 245:2018-2022. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Kane, J. F., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. Metabolic
Interlock: the influence of
histidine on tryptophan biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis. J Biol
Chem 245:2384-2390. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Kane, J. F., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. Enzyme induction
in the tryptophan biosynthetic pathway in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 38:1161-1167. [ABSTRACT]
- Kane, J. F., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. The molecular
aggregation of anthranilate synthase in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 41:328-333. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Rebello, J. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1970. Metabolic
Interlock: the multi-metabolite control of prephenate dehydratase activity in Bacillus
subtilis. J Biol Chem 245:3738-3744. [PDF]
- Kane, J. F., S. L. Stenmark, D. H. Calhoun, and R. A. Jensen. 1971. Metabolic Interlock:
the role of the subordinate type of enzyme in the regulation of a
complex pathway. J Biol Chem 246:4308-4316. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Calhoun, D. H., M. Carson, and R. A. Jensen. 1972.
The branch point metabolite for pyocyanine biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
J Gen Microbiol 72:581-583.
- Calhoun, D. H., and R. A. Jensen. 1972.
Significance of altered carbon flow in aromatic amino acid synthesis: an approach to the isolation of
regulatory mutants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Bacteriol 109:365-372. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ingram, L. O., D. L. Pierson, J. F. Kane, C. Van Baalen, and R. A. Jensen. 1972. Documentation of auxotrophic mutation in
blue-green bacteria:
characterization of a tryptophan auxotroph in Agmenellum quadruplicatum. J Bacteriol 111:112-118. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., S. L. Stenmark, and W. S. Champney.
1972. Molecular basis for the differential anti-metabolite action of D-tyrosine
in strains 23 and 168 of Bacillus subtilis.
Arch Microbiol 87:173-180. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and R. Twarog. 1972. Allostery of
3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase in Clostridium:
another conserved generic characteristic. J Bacteriol 111:641-648. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Kane, J. F., W. M. Holmes, and R. A. Jensen. 1972.
Metabolic Interlock: the dual
function of a folate pathway gene as an extra-operonic gene of tryptophan
biosynthesis. J Biol Chem 247:1587-1596. [PDF]
- Calhoun, D. H., D. L. Pierson, and R. A. Jensen.
1973. Channel-shuttle mechanism for the regulation of phenylalanine and
tyrosine synthesis at a metabolic branch point in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
J Bacteriol 113:241-251. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Calhoun, D. H., D. L. Pierson, and R. A. Jensen.
1973. The regulation of tryptophan biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mol Gen Genetics 121:117-132.
- D'Ambrosio, S. M., G. I. Glover, S. O. Nelson, and R. A. Jensen. 1973. Specificity of the tyrosine-phenylalanine transport system in Bacillus
subtilis. J Bacteriol 115:673-681. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ingram, L. O., and R. A. Jensen. 1973. Growth
inhibition by L-phenylalanine in Agmenellum quadruplicatum: a clue
to some amino acid interrelationships. Arch Microbiol 91:221-233.
- Jensen, R. A., D. H. Calhoun, and S. L. Stenmark.
1973. Allosteric inhibition of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase by tyrosine,
tryptophan and phenylpyruvate in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biochim Biophys Acta 293:256-268.
- Kane, J. F., W. M. Holmes, K. L. Smiley, and R. A. Jensen. 1973. Rapid regulation of an anthranilate synthase aggregate by
hysteresis. J Bacteriol 113:224-232. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Carson, M., and R. A. Jensen. 1974. Phenotypic
recognition of pyocyanine mutants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J
Bacteriol 117:312-314. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., S. L. Stenmark-Cox, and D. L. Pierson.
1974. Mis-regulation of 3-deoxy-D- arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthetase does not account for growth inhibition by phenylalanine
in Agmenellum quadruplicatum. J Bacteriol 120:1124-1132. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Pierson, D. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1974. Metabolic
Interlock: control of an interconvertible prephenate dehydratase by hydrophobic
amino acids in Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Biol 90:563-579.
- Stenmark, S. L., D. L. Pierson, F. I. Glover, and R. A. Jensen. 1974. Blue-green bacteria synthesize L-tyrosine by
the pretyrosine pathway. Nature 247:290-292.
- D'Ambrosio, S. M., F. I. Glover, and R. A. Jensen.
1975. Kinetics of affinity labeling the L-tyrosine/L-phenylalanine transport system in Bacillus
subtilis. Arch Biochem Biophys Arch
Biochem Biophys:754-760. [PDF]
- Glover, G. I., S. M. D'Ambrosio, and R. A. Jensen.
1975. Versatile properties of a nonsaturable, homogeneous transport system in Bacillus
subtilis: genetic,
kinetic and affinity-labeling studies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 72:814-818. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and D. L. Pierson. 1975.
Evolutionary implications of different types of microbial enzymology for L-tyrosine
biosynthesis. Nature 254:667-671.
- Jensen, R. A., and S. L. Stenmark. 1975. The
ancient origin of a second microbial pathway of L-tyrosine
biosynthesis in prokaryotes. J Mol Evol 4:249-259. [PDF]
- Stenmark-Cox, S. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1975. Prephenate
dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a regulated
component of the channel-shuttle mechanism controlling tyrosine-phenylalanine
synthesis. Arch Biochem Biophys 167:540-546.[ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1976. Enzyme recruitment in
evolution of new function. Ann Rev Microbiol 30:409-425. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., L. O. Zamir, M. St. Pierre, N. Patel, and D. L. Pierson. 1977. Isolation and preparation of pretyrosine,
accumulated as a dead-end
metabolite by Neurospora crassa. J Bacteriol 132:896-903. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Patel, N., D. L. Pierson, and R. A. Jensen. 1977.
Dual enzymatic routes to L-tyrosine and L-phenylalanine via pretyrosine in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Biol Chem 252:5839-5846. [PDF]
- Friedman, E., and R. A. Jensen. 1978. An
anthranilate synthase of the extreme aminase type in a species of blue-green
bacteria (algae). Genetics 16:867-881. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Patel, N., S. Stenmark-Cox, and R. A. Jensen.
1978. Enzymological basis of reluctant auxotrophy for phenylalanine and
tyrosine in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Biol Chem 253:2972-2978. [PDF]
- Byng, G. S., D. C. Eustice, and R. A. Jensen. 1979.
Biosynthesis of phenazine pigments in mutants and wild-type cultures of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. J Bacteriol 138:846-852. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fazel, A. M., and R. A. Jensen. 1979. Obligatory
biosynthesis of L-tyrosine via the pretyrosine branchlet in
coryneform bacteria. J Bacteriol 138:805-815. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fazel, A. M., and R. A. Jensen. 1979. Aromatic
aminotransferases in coryneform bacteria. J Bacteriol 140:580-587. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Rubin, J. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1979. The
enzymology of L-tyrosine biosynthesis in mung bean (Vigna
radiata [L.] Wilczek) Plant Physiol 64:727-734. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., R. J. Whitaker, R. L. Gherna, and R. A. Jensen. 1980. Variable enzymological patterning in tyrosine biosynthesis as a
means of determining natural relatedness among the Pseudomonadaceae.
J Bacteriol 144:247-257. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fazel, A. M., J. R. Bowen, and R. A. Jensen.
1980. Arogenate (pretyrosine) is an obligatory intermediate of L-tyrosine
biosynthesis: confirmation in a
microbial mutant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
(Biochemistry) 77:1270-1273. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fazel, A. M., and R. A. Jensen. 1980. Regulation
of prephenate dehydratase in coryneform species of bacteria by L-phenylalanine
and by remote effectors. Arch Biochem Biophys 200:165-176.
- Hall, G., M. B. Flick, and R. A. Jensen. 1980.
Approach to recognition of regulatory mutants of cyanobacteria. J Bacteriol 143:981-988. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Hall, G. C., and R. A. Jensen. 1980. Enzymological
basis for growth inhibition by L-phenylalanine in the
cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. 29108.
J Bacteriol 144:1034-1042. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zamir, L. O., R. A. Jensen, B. Arison, A. Douglas, G. Albers-Schonberg, and J. R.
Bowen. 1980. Structure of arogenate
(pretyrosine), an amino acid intermediate of aromatic biosynthesis. J Am Chem
Soc 102:4499-4504.
- Byng, G. S., R. J. Whitaker, C. Flick, and R. A. Jensen. 1981. Enzymology of L-tyrosine biosynthesis in corn (Zea
mays). Phytochemistry 20:1289-1292.
- Byng, G. S., R. J. Whitaker, C. L. Shapiro, and R. A. Jensen. 1981. The aromatic amino acid pathway branches at L-arogenate
in Euglena gracilis. Mol Cell Biol 1:426-438. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Flick, C. E., R. A. Jensen, and D. A. Evans.
1981. Isolation, protoplast culture, and plant regeneration of PFP-resistant
variants of N. tabacum
Su/Su. . Z Pflanzenphysiol 103:239-245.
- Hall, G. C., and R. A. Jensen. 1981. Regulatory
isozymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthase in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain ATCC 29151. J Bacteriol 148:361-364.
- Hall, G. C., and R. A. Jensen. 1981. Isolation of
cyanobacterial auxotrophs by direct selection of regulatory-mutant phenotypes.
Curr Microbiol 6:189-194.
- Jensen, R. A., and D. H. Calhoun. 1981.
Intracellular roles of microbial aminotransferases: overlap enzymes across
different biochemical pathways. Crit Rev Microbiol 8:229-266.
- Marusich, W. C., L. O. Zamir, and R. A. Jensen.
1981. Induction of L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase during
utilization of phenylalanine as a carbon or nitrogen source in Rhodotorula
glutinis. J Bacteriol 146:1013-1019. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Shapiro, C. L., R. A. Jensen, K. A. Wilson, and J. R. Bowen. 1981. An assay for activity of arogenate dehydratase based upon the
selective oxidation of arogenate. Anal Biochem 110:27-30.
- Whitaker, R. J., G. S. Byng, R. L. Gherna, and R. A. Jensen. 1981. Comparative allostery of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase as an indicator
of taxonomic relatedness in pseudomonad genera. J Bacteriol 145:752-759. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Whitaker, R. J., G. S. Byng, R. L. Gherna, and R. A. Jensen. 1981. Diverse enzymological patterns of phenylalanine biosynthesis in
pseudomonads are conserved in parallel with deoxyribonucleic acid homology
groupings. J Bacteriol 147:526-534. [ABSTRACT][PDF][Table 2][Table 3]
- Byng, G. S., J. F. Kane, and R. A. Jensen. 1982.
Diversity in the routing and regulation of complex biochemical pathways as
indicators of microbial relatedness. Crit Rev Microbiol 9:227-252.
- Gaines, C. G., G. S. Byng, R. J. Whitaker, and R. A. Jensen. 1982. L-Tyrosine regulation and biosynthesis via
arogenate dehydrogenase in suspension-cultured cells of Nicotiana silvestris (Speg. et Comes). Planta 156:233-240.
- Hall, G. C., M. B. Flick, R. L. Gherna, and R. A. Jensen. 1982. Biochemical diversity for biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids
among the cyanobacteria. J. Bacteriol 149:65-78. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and G. C. Hall. 1982. Endo-oriented
control of pyramidally arranged metabolic branchpoints. Trends Biochem Sciences
7:177-180.
- Rubin, J. L., C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen.
1982. Enzymological basis for herbicidal action of glyphosate. Plant Physiol 70:833-839. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Whitaker, R. J., M. J. Fiske, and R. A. Jensen.
1982. Pseudomonas aeruginosa possesses two novel regulatory isozymes of
3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase. J Biol Chem
257:12789-12794. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Whitaker, R. J., C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen.
1982. A multi-specific quintet of aromatic aminotransferases that overlap
different biochemical pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Biol
Chem 257:13550-13556. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., A. Berry, and R. A. Jensen. 1983. A
pair of regulatory isozymes for 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase is conserved
within Group I pseudomonads. J. Bacteriol 156:429-433. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1983. Impact of
isozymes upon partitioning of carbon flow and regulation of aromatic
biosynthesis in prokaryotes, vol. 8. Alan R. Liss, Inc, New York.
- Byng, G. S., J. L. Johnson, R. L. Whitaker, R. L. Gherna, and R. A. Jensen. 1983. The evolutionary pattern of aromatic amino
acid biosynthesis and the emerging phylogeny of pseudomonad bacteria. J Mol
Evol 19:272-282. [ABSTRACT]
- Byng, G. S., R. J. Whitaker, and R. A. Jensen.
1983. Evolution of L-phenylalanine biosynthesis in rRNA homology
Group I of Pseudomonas. Arch
Microbiol. 136:163-168. [ABSTRACT]
- Fiske, M. J., R. J. Whitaker, and R. A. Jensen.
1983. Hidden overflow pathway to L-phenylalanine in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. J Bacteriol 154:623-631. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Hall, G. C., M. B. MB Flick, and R. A. Jensen. 1983.
Regulation of the aromatic pathway in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus
sp. strain PCC 6301 (Anacystis nidulans).
J. Bacteriol. 153:423-428. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zamir, L. O., E. Jung, and R. A. Jensen. 1983.
Co-accumulation of prephenate, L-arogenate and spiro-arogenate in
a mutant of Neurospora. J Biol Chem 258:6492-6496. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zamir, L. O., R. Tiberio, and R. A. Jensen. 1983.
Differential acid-catalyzed aromatization of prephenate, arogenate, and
spiro-arogenate. Tetrahedron Lett 24:2815-2818.
- Zamir, L. O., R. Tiberio, E. Jung, and R. A. Jensen.
1983. Isolation and structure determination of a novel
spiro-γ-lactam:
spiro-arogenate. J Biol Chem 258:6486-6491.
- d'Amato, T. A., R. Ganson, C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen. 1984. Subcellular localization of chorismate-mutase isoenzymes in
protoplasts from mesophyll and suspension-cultured cells of Nicotiana
silvestris. Planta 162:104-108. [PDF]
- Goers, S. K., and R. A. Jensen. 1984. Separation
and characterization of two chorismate-mutase isoenzymes from Nicotiana
silvestris. Planta 162:109-116. [PDF]
- Goers, S. K., and R. A. Jensen. 1984. The
differential allosteric regulation of two chorismate-mutase isoenzymes of Nicotiana
silvestris. Planta 162:117-124.
- Rubin, J. L., C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen.
1984. Glyphosate inhibition of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase from
suspension-cultured cells of Nicotiana silvestris. Plant Physiol 75:839-845. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Berry, A., G. S. Byng, and R. A. Jensen. 1985.
Interconvertible molecular-weight forms of the bifunctional chorismate
mutase-prephenate dehydratase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.
Arch Biochem Biophys 243:470-479. [ABSTRACT]
- Berry, A., J. L. Johnson, and R. A. Jensen. 1985.
Phenylalanine hydroxylase and isozymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in relationship
to the phylogenetic position of Pseudomonas acidovorans (Ps. sp. ATCC 11299a). Arch Microbiol 141:32-39. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1985. Novel
features of prephenate aminotransferase from cell cultures of Nicotiana
silvestris. Arch Biochem Biophys 238:237-246. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., A. Berry, and R. A. Jensen. 1985.
Evolutionary implications of features of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in
the genus Acinetobacter. Arch Microbiol 143:122-129. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., R. L. Whitaker, and R. A. Jensen. 1985.
Glyphosate as a probe of the pentafunctional arom protein of Euglena
gracilis. Can J Bot 63:1021-1024.
- Jensen, R. A. 1985. Biochemical pathways in
prokaryotes can be traced backward through evolutionary time. Mol Biol Evol 2:92-108. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Rubin, J. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1985. Differentially regulated
isozymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthase from seedlings of Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek. Plant Physiol 79:711-718. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Whitaker, R. L., A. Berry, G. S. Byng, M. J. Fiske, and R. A. Jensen. 1985. Clues from Xanthomonas campestris
about the evolution of aromatic biosynthesis and its regulation. J Mol Evol 21:139-149. [ABSTRACT][Correction]
- Zamir, L. O., R. Tiberio, M. J. Fiske, A. Berry, and R. A. Jensen. 1985. Enzymatic and non-enzymatic dehydration reactions of L-arogenate.
Biochemistry 24:1607-1612. [ABSTRACT]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1986. The
evolutionary history of two bifunctional proteins that emerged in the purple
bacteria. Trends Biochem Sci 11:108-112.
- Ahmad, S., B. Rightmire, and R. A. Jensen. 1986.
Evolution of the regulatory isozymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase present in the Escherichia
coli genealogy. J Bacteriol 165:146-154. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Byng, G. S., A. Berry, and R. A. Jensen. 1986. Evolution
of aromatic biosynthesis and fine-tuned phylogenetic positioning of Azomonas,
Azotobacter and rRNA Group I pseudomonads. Arch Microbiol 144:222-227. [ABSTRACT]
- Fischer, R. S., A. Berry, C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen. 1986. Comparative action of glyphosate as a trigger of energy drain in
eubacteria. J Bacteriol 168:1147-1154. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ganson, R., T. d'Amato, and R. A. Jensen. 1986.
The two-isozyme system of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in Nicotiana
silvestris and other higher plants. Plant
and Cell Physiol 82:203-210. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1986. Tyrosine and phenylalanine
biosynthesis: relationship between
alternative pathways, regulation and subcellular location ISBN 0-306-42283-2. Rec Adv Phytochem
20:57-82.
- Jensen, R. A. 1986. The shikimate/arogenate
pathway: link between carbohydrate metabolism and secondary metabolism. Physiol
Plant 66:164-168.
- Jung, E., L. O. Zamir, and R. A. Jensen. 1986.
Chloroplasts of higher plants synthesize L-phenylalanine via L-arogenate. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83:7231-7235. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Evolution of
the biochemical pathway for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Serpens
flexibilis in relationship to its phylogenetic position. Arch
Microbiol 147:8-12.
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. The prephenate
dehydrogenase component of the bifunctional T-protein in enteric bacteria can
utilize L-arogenate. FEBS Lett 216:133-139. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. A simple
spectrophotometric assay for arogenate dehydratase. Anal Biochem 163:107-111. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., J. L. Johnson, and R. A. Jensen. 1987.
The recent evolutionary origin of the phenylalanine-sensitive isozyme of
3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthase in the enteric lineage of bacteria. J Mol Biol 25:159-167. [ABSTRACT]
- Berry, A., R. K. Bhatnagar, and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Enzymic
basis for leakiness of auxotrophs for phenylalanine in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. J Gen Microbiol 133:3257-3263. [ABSTRACT]
- Berry, A., R. A. Jensen, and A. T. Hendry. 1987. Enzymatic
arrangement and allosteric regulation of the aromatic amino acid pathway in Neisseria
gonorrhoeae. Arch Microbiol 149:87-94. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Berry, A., A. Liss, and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Enzymological
features of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis reflect the phylogeny of
mycoplasmas. J Gen Microbiol 133:2147-2154. [ABSTRACT]
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. In: METHODS
IN ENZYMOLOGY - Prephenate aminotransferase. 142:479-487.
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Arogenate
dehydrogenase. In: METHODS IN
ENZYMOLOGY - Chapter 58 142:488-494.
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. A selective
assay for prephenate aminotransferase activity in suspension-cultured cells of Nicotiana
silvestris cells. Planta 172:417-423. [ABSTRACT]
- Fischer, R. S., C. G. Gaines, and R. A. Jensen.
1987. Glyphosate sensitivity of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase
from Bacillus subtilis depends upon state of activation induced
by monovalent cations. Arch Biochem Biophys 256:325-334.
- Fischer, R. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Arogenate
dehydratase. METHODS IN ENZYMOLOGY 142:495-502.
- Fischer, R. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Prephenate
dehydrogenase (monofunctional). In:
METHODS IN ENZYMOLOGY -Chapter 60 142:503-507.
- Fischer, R. S., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Prephenate
dehydratase (monofunctional). In:
METHODS IN ENZYMOLOGY - Chapter 61 142:507-512.
- Ganson, R., and R. A. Jensen. 1987. Response of
cytosolic-isozyme and plastid-isozyme levels of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase to physiological
state of Nicotiana silvestris in
suspension culture. Plant Physiol 83:479-482. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and R. S. Fischer. 1987. The
postprephenate biochemical pathways to phenylalanine and tyrosine: An overview, p. 472-478. In
S. P. SP Colowick and N. O. Kaplan (ed.), Metabolism of aromatic amino acids
and amines - In: METHODS IN
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- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. New prospects
for deducing the evolutionary history of metabolic pathways in
prokaryotes: Aromatic biosynthesis
as a case-in-point. Origins of Life & Evol Biosphere 18:41-57. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. Phylogenetic
distribution of components of the overflow pathway to L-phenylalanine
within the enteric lineage of bacteria. Curr Microbiol 16:295-302. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. The
phylogenetic origin of the bifunctional tyrosine-pathway protein in the enteric
lineage of bacteria. Mol Biol Evol 5:282-297. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. The stable
evolutionary fixation of a bifunctional tyrosine-pathway protein in enteric
bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 52:109-116.
- Ahmad, S., A.-T. Wilson, and R. A. Jensen. 1988.
Chorismate mutase: prephenate dehydratase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus: purification, properties and
immunological cross-reactivity. Eur J Biochem 176:69-79. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Berry, A., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. Biochemical evidence for
phylogenetic branching patterns:
Biochemical-pathway characteristics can indicate points of divergence
among prokaryotes. BioScience 38:99-103.
- Bonner, C. A., J. Vrba, and R. A. Jensen. 1988.
Response of aromatic-pathway enzymes to changing physiological states of growth
in suspension cultures of Nicotiana silvestris. Physiol Plant 73:451-456. [ABSTRACT]
- Ganson, R. L., and R. A. Jensen. 1988. The
essential role of cobalt in the inhibition of the cytosolic isozyme of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase from Nicotiana
silvestris by glyphosate. Arch Biochem
Biophys 260:85-93. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., and S. Ahmad. 1988. Evolution and
phylogenetic distribution of the specialized isozymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in Superfamily-B
prokaryotes. Microbiol Sci 5:316-319. [ABSTRACT]
- Jensen, R. A., T. d'Amato, and L. I. Hochstein.
1988. An extreme-halophile archaebacterium possesses the interlock type of
prephenate dehydratase characteristic of the Gram-positive eubacteria. Arch
Microbiol 149:365-371. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zamir, L. O., R. Tiberio, K. A. Devor, F. Sauriol, and R. A. Jensen. 1988. Structure of D-prephenyllactate: a carboxycyclohexadienyl metabolite
from Neurospora crassa. J Biol Chem 263:17284-17290. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1989. The stable
phylogenetic distribution of the recently evolved L-phenylalanine-inhibited
isozyme of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in enteric
bacteria. Curr Microbiol 18:341-349. [PDF]
- Ahmad, S., and R. A. Jensen. 1989. Utility of a
bifunctional tryptophan pathway enzyme for the classification of the
Herbicola-Agglomerans complex of bacteria. Inter J Syst Bacteriol 39:100-104.
- Bhatnagar, R. K., A. Berry, A. T. Hendry, and R. A. Jensen. 1989. The biochemical basis for growth inhibition by L-phenylalanine
in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Mol Microbiol 3:429-436. [ABSTRACT]
- Bhatnagar, R. K., A. T. Hendry, K. T. Shanmugam, and R. A. Jensen. 1989. The broad-specificity, membrane-bound lactate
dehydrogenase of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Ties to aromatic metabolism. J Gen Microbiol 135:353-360. [ABSTRACT]
- Jensen, R. A., P. F. Morris, C. A. Bonner, and L. O. Zamir. 1989. Biochemical interface between aromatic amino acid biosynthesis
and secondary metabolism, p. 89-107. In N. Lewis and M. Paice
(ed.), Plant Cell Wall Polymers Biogenesis and Biodegradation, vol. 399.
- Morris, P. F., C. A. Bonner, R.-L. Doong, P. S. Subramaniam, R. S. Fischer, and R. A.
Jensen. 1989. Mechanical wounding induces the
entire primary pathway of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis (Life Sci. Advances) (Series B). Plant Physiol 8:35-39.
- Morris, P. F., R.-L. Doong, and R. A. Jensen.
1989. Evidence from Solanum tuberosum in support of the
dual-pathway hypothesis of aromatic biosynthesis. Plant Physiol 89:10-14. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Ahmad, S., W. G. Weisburg, and R. A. Jensen.
1990. Evolution of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and application to the
fine-tuned phylogenetic positioning of enteric bacteria. J Bacteriol 172:1051-1061. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Bonner, C. A., R. S. Fischer, S. Ahmad, and R. A. Jensen. 1990. Remnants of an ancient pathway to L-phenylalanine
and L-tyrosine in enteric bacteria: evolutionary implications and
biotechnological impact. Appl Environ Microbiol 56:3741-3747. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Hendry, A. T., R. K. Bhatnagar, K. T. Shanmugam, and R. A. Jensen. 1990. Exploitation of the broad specificity of the
membrane-bound isozyme of lactate dehydrogenase for direct selection of null
mutants in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Gen Microbiol 136:45-50. [ABSTRACT]
- Hrazdina, G., and R. A. Jensen. 1990. Multiple
parallel pathways in plant aromatic metabolism?, p. 27-42. In P.
A. Srere, M. E. Jones, and C. Mathews (ed.), Plant Cell Wall Polymers
Biogenesis and Biodegradation, vol. 133, Wiley-Liss, NY.
- Jensen, R. A., and S. Ahmad. 1990. Nested gene
fusions as markers of phylogenetic branchpoints in prokaryotes. Trends Ecol
Evol 5:219-224.
- Xia, T., and R. A. Jensen. 1990. A single cyclohexadienyl
dehydrogenase specifies the prephenate dehydrogenase and arogenate
dehydrogenase components of the dual pathways to L-tyrosine in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. J Biol Chem 265:20033-20036. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1991. Response of
arogenate dehydratase to changing physiological states of growth in suspension
cultures of Nicotiana silvestris. Plant Science 74:229-234.
- Doong, R.-L., S. Ahmad, and R. A. Jensen. 1991.
Higher plants express 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase. Plant Cell & Envir 14:113-120.
- Fischer, R. S., G. Zhao, and R. A. Jensen. 1991.
Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the P-protein gene (pheA) of Pseudomonas
stutzeri in Escherichia coli: implications for evolutionary
relationships in phenylalanine biosynthesis. J Gen Microbiol 137:1293-1301. [ABSTRACT]
- Xia, T., S. Ahmad, G. Zhao, and R. A. Jensen. 1991. A single
cyclohexadienyl dehydratase specifies the prephenate dehydratase and arogenate
dehydratase components of one of two independent pathways to L-phenylalanine
in Erwinia herbicola. Arch Biochem
Biophys 286:461-465. [ABSTRACT]
- Zamir, L. O., K. A. Devor, R. A. Jensen, R. Tiberio, F. Sauriol, and O. Mamer. 1991. Biosynthesis of isochorismate in Klebsiella
pneumoniae: origin of
0-2. Can J Microbiol 37:276-280. [ABSTRACT]
- Doong, R.-L., J. E. Gander, R. J. Ganson, and R. A. Jensen. 1992. The cytosolic isoenzyme of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in Spinacia
oleracea and other higher plants: extreme substrate ambiguity and other
properties. Physiol Plant 84:351-360. [ABSTRACT]
- Doong, R.-L., and R. A. Jensen. 1992. Synonymy of
the three apparent isoenzymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase in Pisum
sativum L. with 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate
8-phosphate synthase and the DS-Co/DS Mn isoenzyme pair. The New Phytologist 121:165-171. [ABSTRACT]
- Hrazdina, G., and R. A. Jensen. 1992. Spatial
organization of enzymes in plant metabolic pathways. Annu Rev Plant
Physiol Plant Mol Biol 43:241-267. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. A. 1992. An emerging outline of the
evolutionary history of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, p. 205-236. In
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Press, Inc, Boca Raton, FL.
- Xia, T., and R. A. Jensen. 1992. Monofunctional chorismate
mutase from Serratia rubidaea: a paradigm system for the three-isozyme gene family of
enteric bacteria. Arch Biochem Biophys 294:147-153. [ABSTRACT]
- Xia, T., G. Zhao, R. Fischer, and R. A. Jensen. 1992. A
monofunctional prephenate dehydrogenase created by cleavage of the 5' 109-bp of
the tyrA gene from Erwinia herbicola. J Gen Microbiol 138:1309-1316. [ABSTRACT]
- Xia, T., G. Zhao, and R. A. Jensen. 1992. Loss of allosteric
control but retention of the bifunctional catalytic competence of a fusion
protein formed by excision of 260 base pairs from the 3' terminus of pheA from Erwinia
herbicola. Appl Environ Microbiol 58:2792-2798. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zhao, G. S., T. H. Xia, R. S. Fischer, and R. A. Jensen.
1992. Cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Molecular cloning of the gene and characterization of the gene product. J Biol
Chem 267:2487-93. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Doong, R.-L., R. Ganson, and R. A. Jensen. 1993.
Plastid-localized 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase
(DS-Mn): the early-pathway target
of sequential feedback inhibition in higher plants. Plant, Cell & Envir 16:393-402.
- Fischer, B., C. A. Bonner, D. R. Boone, and R. A. Jensen. 1993. Clues from a halophilic methanogen about aromatic amino acid
biosynthesis in archaebacteria. Arch Microbiol 160:440-446. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fischer, R. S., C. A. Bonner, M. E. Theodorou, W. C. Plaxton, G. Hrazdina, and R. A.
Jensen. 1993. Response of aromatic pathway
enzymes of plant suspension cells to phosphate limitation. Bioorg & Med
Chem Lett 7:1415-1420.
- Obmolova, G., A. Teplyakov, T. Xia, and R. Jensen.
1993. Preliminary crystallographic study of cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. J Mol Biol 232:992-994. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Xia, T., J. Song, G. Zhao, and R. A. Jensen. 1993. The
aroQ-encoded monofunctional chorismate mutase (CM-F) protein is a periplasmic
enzyme in Erwinia herbicola. J Bacteriol 175:4729-4737. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Xia, T., G. Zhao, and R. A. Jensen. 1993. The pheA/tyrA/aroF
region from Erwinia herbicola: An emerging comparative basis for analysis of gene
organization and regulation in enteric bacteria. J Mol Evol 36:107-120. [ABSTRACT]
- Zamir, L. O., A. Nikolakakis, C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen.
1993. Evidence for enzymatic formation of isoprephenate from isochorismate.
Bioorg & Med Chem Lett 7:1441-1446.
- Zhao, G., T. Xia, H. Aldrich, and R. A. Jensen. 1993.
Cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a
periplasmic protein. J Gen Microbiol 139:807-813. [
ABSTRACT]
- Zhao, G., T. Xia, L. O. Ingram, and R. A. Jensen. 1993. An
allosterically insensitive class of cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenase from Zymomonas
mobilis. Eur J Biochem 212:157-165. [ABSTRACT]
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1994. Cloning of
cDNA encoding the bifunctional dehydroquinase:shikimate dehydrogenase of aromatic amino acid
biosynthesis in Nicotiana tabacum. Biochem J 302:11-14. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Gu, W., G. Zhao, C. Eddy, and R. A. Jensen. 1994. Imidazole
acetol phosphate aminotransferase in Zymomonas mobilis: molecular-genetic, biochemical and
evolutionary analyses. J Bacteriol 177:1576-1584. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Subramaniam, P. S., R. K. Bhatnagar, A. Hooper, and R. A. Jensen. 1994. The dynamic progression of evolved character states for aromatic
amino acid biosynthesis in gram-negative bacteria. Microbiology 140:3431-3440. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Zhao, G., T. Xia, J. Song, and R. A. Jensen. 1994. Pseudomonas
aeruginosa possesses homologues of mammalian phenylalanine
hydroxylase and 4a-carbinolamine dehydratase/DCoH as part of a three-component
gene cluster. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:1366-1370. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Abou-Zeid, A., G. J. W. Euverink, G. I. Hessels, and R. A. Jensen.
1995. Biosynthesis of L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine in the actinomycete Amycolatopsis
methanolica. Appl & Environ Microbiol 61:1298-1302. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Bonner, C. A., R. S. Fischer, R. R. Schmidt, P. W. Miller, and R. A. Jensen. 1995. Distinctive enzymes of aromatic amino acid
biosynthesis that are highly conserved in land plants are also present in the
chlorophyte alga Chlorella sorokiniana. Plant and Cell Physiol 36:1013-1022. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
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pathways in enterics, p. 2649-2662. In F. C. Neidhardt (ed.),
Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. ASM Publications.
- Jensen, R. A., and W. Gu. 1996. Evolutionary
recruitment of biochemically specialized subdivisions of Family-I within the
protein superfamily of aminotransferases. J. Bacteriol 178:2161-2171. [PDF]
- Song, J., and R. A. Jensen. 1996. PhhR, a divergently
transcribed activator of the phenylalanine hydroxylase gene cluster of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol 22:497-507. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Fischer, R. S., J. Song, W. Gu, and R. A. Jensen.
1997. L-Arogenate is a chemoattractant which can be utilized as the sole source
of carbon and nitrogen by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Appl Environ
Microbiol 63:567-573. [PDF]
- Gu, W., D. S. Williams, H. C. Aldrich, G. Xie, D. W. Gabriel, and R. A. Jensen. 1997. The aroQ and pheA domains of the bifunctional P-protein from Xanthomonas
campestris in a context of genomic
comparison. Microb Comp Genomics 2:141-158. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Rebrin, I., J. E. Ayling, J. Song, and R. A. Jensen.
1997. Mechanistic studies of 4a-hydroxytetrahydropterin dehydratase from Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. (Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium). Eds. W. Pfleiderer and H. Rokos. Blackwell Science, Berlin pp. 631-634 (1997). [PDF]
- Bonner, C. A., and R. A. Jensen. 1998. Upstream
metabolic segments that support lignin biosynthesis, p. 29-41. In
N. G. Lewis and S. Sarkanen (ed.), Lignin and Lignan Biosynthesis. ACS Symposium Series 399. [PDF]
- Gu, W., J. Song, C. A. Bonner, G. Xie, and R. A. Jensen. 1998.
PhhC is an essential aminotransferase for aromatic amino acid catabolism in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. Microbiology 144 ( Pt 11):3127-34. [PDF]
- Subramaniam, P. S., G. Xie, T. Xia, and R. A. Jensen.
1998. Substrate ambiguity of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate
8-phosphate synthase from Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the context of its membership in a protein family containing a
subset of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthases. J Bacteriol 180:119-127. [HTML][PDF]
- Kongsaeree, P., J. Liang, R. A. Jensen, and J. Clardy.
1999. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the Pseudomonas
aeruginosa cyclohexadienyl dehydratase. Acta Crystallogr D Biol
Crystallogr 55 ( Pt 2):539-141. [PDF]
- Song, J., T. Xia, and R. A. Jensen. 1999. PhhB, a Pseudomonas
aeruginosa homolog of mammalian pterin 4a-carbinolamine dehydratase/DCoH, does not regulate
expression of phenylalanine hydroxylase at the transcriptional level. J
Bacteriol 181:2789-2796. [PDF]
- Xie, G., C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen. 1999. A probable
mixed-function supraoperon in Pseudomonas exhibits gene
organization features of both intergenomic conservation and gene shuffling. J
Mol Evol 49:108-21. [ABSTRACT][PDF][Erratum][Notes]
- Xie, G., T. S. Brettin, C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen.
1999. Mixed-function supraoperons that exhibit overall conservation, albeit
shuffled gene organization, across wide intergenomic distances within
eubacteria. Microb Comp Genomics 4:5-28. [ABSTRACT][PDF][Notes]
- Ossipov, V., C. A. Bonner, S. Ossipov, and R. A. Jensen. 2000. Broad-specificity quinate (shikimate) dehydrogenase from Pinus
taeda needles. Plant Physiol & Biochem 38:923-928.
- Xie, G., C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen. 2000.
Cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas stutzeri exemplifies
a widespread type of tyrosine-pathway dehydrogenase in the TyrA protein family.
Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 125:65-83. [PDF]
- Calhoun, D. H., C. A. Bonner, W. Gu, G. Xie, and R. A. Jensen. 2001. The emerging periplasm-localized subclass of
AroQ chorismate mutases, exemplified by those from Salmonella typhimurium
and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Genome Biol 2:RESEARCH0030.1-0030.16. [HTML][PDF]
- Gosset G, C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen. 2001. Microbial
origin of plant-type 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthases, exemplified by
the chorismate- and tryptophan-regulated enzyme from Xanthomonas
campestris. J Bacteriol 183:4061-4070. [HTML][PDF]
- Jensen, R. 2001. Orthologs and paralogs -- we need to get it right. Genome Biol 2:interactions1002.1-1002.3. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. A., G. Xie, D. H. Calhoun, and C. A. Bonner. 2002. The correct phylogenetic relationship of KdsA (3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase) with one of two
independently evolved classes of AroA (3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate
7-phosphate synthase). J Mol Evol 54:416-23. [PDF]
- Xie, G., C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen. 2002. Dynamic
diversity of the tryptophan pathway in chlamydiae: reductive evolution and a
novel operon for tryptophan recapture. Genome Biol 3:research0051.1-0051.17. [PDF]
- Xie, G., C. Forst, C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen. 2002.
Significance of two distinct types of tryptophan synthase beta chain in
Bacteria, Archaea and higher plants. Genome Biol 3:RESEARCH0004.1-0004.13. [HTML][PDF][Replacement for Fig. 6]
- Xie G, N. O. Keyhani, C. A. Bonner, and R. A. Jensen.
2003. Ancient origin of the tryptophan operon and the subsequent dynamics of
evolutionary change. Microbiol Mol Biol 67:303-342. [HTML][PDF][Corrected version of Fig. 9][Colored version of Fig. 10][Corrected version of Fig. 12]
- Xie, G., C. A. Bonner, T. Brettin, R. Gottardo, N. O. Keyhani, and R. A. Jensen. 2003. Lateral gene transfer and ancient paralogy of
operons containing redundant copies of tryptophan-pathway genes in Xylella species
and in heterocystous cyanobacteria. Genome Biol 4:R14. [PDF]
- Bonner CA, R. A. Jensen, J. E. Gander, and N. O. Keyhani. 2004. A core catalytic domain of the TyrA protein family: arogenate
dehydrogenase from Synechocystis. Biochem J 382:279-291. [PDF][Correction to Fig. 7]
- Xie G, C. A. Bonner, J. Song, N. O. Keyhani, and R. A. Jensen.
2004. Inter-genomic displacement via lateral gene transfer of bacterial trp
operons in an overall context of vertical genealogy. BMC Biology 2:15. [HTML][PDF][Supplementary Table]
- Gutierrez-Preciado, A., R. A. Jensen, C. Yanofsky, and E. Merino.
2005. New insights into regulation of the tryptophan biosynthetic operon in
Gram-positive bacteria. Trends Gen 21:432-436. [ABSTRACT][PDF]
- Overbeek, R., T. Begley, R. M. Butler, J. V. Choudhuri, H.-Y. Chuang, M. Cohoon, V. de
Crecy-Lagard, N. Diaz, T. Disz, R. Edwards, M. Fonstein, E. D. Frank, S.
Gerdes, E. M. Glass, A. Goesmann, A. Hanson, D. Iwata-Reuyl, R. Jensen, N.
Jamshidi, L. Krause, M. Kubal, N. Larsen, B. Linke, A. C. McHardy, F. Meyer, H.
Neuweger, G. Olsen, R. Olson, A. Osterman, V. Portnoy, G. D. Pusch, D. A.
Rodionov, C. Ruckert, J. Steiner, R. Stevens, I. Thiele, O. Vassieva, Y. Ye, O.
Zagnitko, and V. Vonstein. 2005. The Subsystems
Approach to Genome Annotation and its Use in the Project to Annotate 1000
Genomes. Nucl. Acids Res. R10.1093/nar/gki866 33:5691-5702. [HTML][PDF]
- Song, J., C. A. Bonner, M. Wolinsky, and R. A. Jensen.
2005. The TyrA family of aromatic-pathway dehydrogenases in phylogenetic
context. BMC Biology 3:13. [HTML][PDF][Table of Contents][Replacement for Fig. 2]
- Bonner, C. A., T. Disz, K. Hwang, J. Song, V. Vonstein, R. Overbeek, and R. A. Jensen
2008. Cohesion Group Approach for Evolutionary Analysis of TyrA, a Protein Family with Wide-Ranging Substrate Specificities. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 72(1):13-53. [HTML][PDF]
- Merino, E., R. A. Jensen, and C. Yanofsky. 2008. Evolution of bacterial trp operons and their regulation. Curr Opin Microbiol 11:78-86.
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