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Note: In publication lists the names of undergrad and grad students are underlined, with undergrads in italics font style.

Original Research Publications

  1. Park J, Khuu N, Howard AS, Mullen RT, Plaxton WC (2012) Bacterial- and plant-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isozymes from developing castor oil seeds interact in vivo and associate with the surface of mitochondria. The Plant Journal (in press)
  2. Dalziel KJ, O'Leary B, Brikis C, Rao SK, She Y-M, Cyr T, Plaxton WC (2012) The bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isozyme from developing castor oil seeds is subject to in vivo regulatory phosphorylation at serine-451. FEBS Letters 586: 1049-1054
  3. O'Leary B, Fedosejevs ET, Hill AT, Bettridge J, Park J, Rao SK, Leach CA, Plaxton WC (2011) Tissue-specific expression and post-translational modifications of plant- and bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isozymes of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis L. Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 5485-5495
  4. O'Leary B, Rao S, Plaxton WC (2011) Phosphorylation of a bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase at serine-425 provides a further tier of enzyme control in developing castor oil seeds. Biochemical Journal 433: 65-74
  5. Tran HT, Qian W, Hurley BA, She Y-M, Wang D, Plaxton WC (2010) Biochemical and molecular characterization of AtPAP12 and AtPAP26: the predominant purple acid phosphatases isozymes secreted by phosphate-starved Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant, Cell & Environment 33: 1789-1803
  6. Hurley BA, Tran HT, Murty N, Park J, Snedden WA, Mullen RT, Plaxton WC (2010) The dual-targeted purple acid phosphatase isozyme AtPAP26 is essential for efficient acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana to nutritional phosphate deprivation. Plant Physiology 153:1112–1122
  7. O'Leary B, Rao S, Kim J, Plaxton WC (2009) Bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) functions as a catalytic and regulatory subunit of the novel class-2 PEPC complex of vascular plants. Journal of Biological Chemistry 284: 24797-243805
  8. Gregory AL, Hurley BA, Tran HT, Valentine AJ, She Y-M, Knowles VL, Plaxton WC (2009) In vivo regulatory phosphorylation of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase AtPPC1 in phosphate-starved Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemical Journal 420: 57-65
  9. Control of Primary Metabolism in PlantsUhrig RG, She Y-M, Leach CA, Plaxton WC (2008) Regulatory monoubiquitination of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in germinating castor oil seeds. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283: 29650-29657 (selected as a JBC 'Paper of the Week').
  10. Tran HT, Plaxton WC (2008) Proteomic analysis of alterations in the secretome of Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cells subjected to nutritional phosphate deficiency. Proteomics 8: 4317-4326
  11. Uhrig RG, O’Leary B, Spang HE, MacDonald JA, She Y-M, Plaxton WC (2008) Co-immunopurification of phosphorylated bacterial- and plant-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases with the plastidial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from developing castor oil seeds. Plant Physiology 146: 1346-1357
  12. Gennidakis S, Rao S, Greenham K, Uhrig RG, O’Leary B, Snedden WA, Lu C, Plaxton WC (2007) Bacterial- and plant-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase polypeptides interact in the hetero-oligomeric Class-2 PEPC complex of developing castor oil seeds. The Plant Journal 52: 839–849
  13. Murmu J, Plaxton WC (2007) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase protein kinase from developing castor oil seeds: Partial purification, characterization, and reversible control by photosynthate supply. Planta 226: 1299-1310
  14. Martin M, Plaxton WC, Podestà FE (2007) Activity and concentration of non-proteolyzed phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in the endosperm of germinating castor oil seeds: effects of anoxia on its activity. Physiologia Plantarum 130: 484-494
  15. Bozzo GG, Dunn EI, Plaxton WC (2006) Differential expression of phosphate-starvation inducible purple acid phosphatase isozymes in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Plant, Cell & Environment 29: 303-313
  16. Veljanovski V, Vanderbeld B, Knowles VL, Snedden WA, Plaxton WC (2006) Biochemical and molecular characterization of AtPAP26, a vacuolar purple acid phosphatase upregulated in phosphate-deprived Arabidopsis suspension cells and seedlings. Plant Physiology 142: 1282-1293
  17. Crowley V, Gennidakis S, Plaxton WC (2005) In vitro proteolysis of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from developing castor oil seeds by an endogenous thiol endopeptidase. Plant Cell Physiology 46: 1855-1862
  18. Tripodi K, Gennidakis S, Turner WL, Plaxton WC (2005) In vivo regulatory phosphorylation of novel phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isoforms in endosperm of developing castor oil seeds. Plant Physiology 139: 969-978
  19. Turner WL, Knowles VL, Plaxton WC (2005) Cytosolic pyruvate kinase subunit composition, activity, and amount in developing castor and soybean seeds, and biochemical characterization of the purified castor seed enzyme. Planta 222: 1051-1062
  20. Weese B, Plaxton WC (2005) Purification and characterization of a homodimeric enolase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301. Journal of Phycology 41: 515-522
  21. Lal AK, Plaxton WC, Kayastha AM (2005) Purification and characterization of an allosteric fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase from mung beans. Phytochemistry 66: 968-974
  22. Bozzo GG, Singh V, Plaxton WC (2004) Phosphate or phosphite addition promotes the proteolytic turnover of phosphate-starvation inducible tomato purple acid phosphatase isozymes. FEBS Letters 573: 51-54
  23. Bozzo GG, Raghothama KG, Plaxton WC (2004) Structural and kinetic properties of a novel purple acid phosphatase from phosphate-starved tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cell cultures. Biochemical Journal 377: 419-428
  24. Blonde JD, Plaxton WC (2003) Structural and kinetic properties of high and low molecular mass phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isoforms from the endosperm of developing castor oil seeds. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 11867-11873
  25. Singh V, Knowles VL, Wood S, Plaxton WC (2003) Phosphite-accelerated programmed cell death in phosphate-starved oilseed rape (Brassica napus) suspension cell cultures. Planta 218: 233-239
  26. Podestà FE, Plaxton WC (2003) Fluorescence study of ligand binding to potato tuber pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase: evidence for competitive binding between fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and fructose-2,6-bisphosphate. Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics 414:101-107
  27. Knowles VL, Plaxton WC (2003) From genome to enzyme: Quantitative analysis of glycolytic and oxidative pentose pathway enzymes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Plant Cell Physiology 44: 758-763
  28. Turner WL, Plaxton WC (2003) Purification and characterization of pyrophosphate- and ATP-dependent phosphofructokinases from banana fruit. Planta 217: 113-121
  29. Bozzo GG, Raghothama KG, Plaxton WC (2002) Purification and characterization of two secreted purple acid phosphatase isozymes from phosphate-starved tomato cell cultures. European Journal of Biochemistry 269: 6278-6287
  30. Rivoal J, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (2002) In vitro phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the green alga Selenastrum minutum. Plant Cell Physiology 43: 785-792
  31. Plaxton WC, Smith CR, Knowles VL, (2002) Molecular and regulatory properties of leucoplast pyruvate kinase from Brassica napus (rapeseed) suspension cells. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 400: 54-62
  32. Rivoal J, Smith CR, Moraes TF, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (2002) Enzyme activity staining after native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using fluorescence detection. Analytical Biochemistry 300: 94-99
  33.  McDonald AE, Niere JO, Plaxton WC (2001) Phosphite disrupts the acclimation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to phosphate starvation. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 47: 969-978
  34. Turner WL, Plaxton WC (2001) Purification and characterization of banana fruit acid phosphatase. Planta 214: 243-249
  35. Knowles VL, Smith CR, Smith CS, Plaxton WC (2001) Structural and regulatory properties of pyruvate kinase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 6301. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276: 20966-20972
  36. Rivoal J, Trzos S, Gage DA, Plaxton WC, & Turpin DH (2001) Two unrelated phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase polypeptides physically interact in the high molecular mass isoform of this enzyme in the unicellular green alga Selenastrum minutum. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276: 12588 12597
  37. Palma DA, Blumwald E, Plaxton WC (2000) Upregulation of vacuolar H+-translocating pyrophosphatase by phosphate starvation of Brassica napus (rapeseed) suspension cell cultures. FEBS Letters 486, 155-158
  38. Turner WL, Plaxton WC (2000) Purification and characterization of cytosolic pyruvate kinase from banana fruit. Biochemical Journal 352, 875-882
  39. Moraes T, Plaxton WC (2000) Purification and characterization of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from Brassica napus (rapeseed) suspension cell cultures. Implications for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase regulation during phosphate starvation, and the integration of glycolysis with nitrogen assimilation. European Journal of Biochemistry 267, 4465-4476
  40. Smith CR, Knowles VL, Plaxton WC (2000) Purification and characterization of cytosolic pyruvate kinase from Brassica napus suspension cell cultures. Implications for the integration of glycolysis with nitrogen assimilation. European Journal of Biochemistry 267, 4477-4485
  41. Grodzinski B, Jiao J, Knowles V, Plaxton W (1999) Photosynthesis & C-partitioning in transgenic tobacco plants deficient in leaf pyruvate kinase. Plant Physiology 120: 887-895
  42. Hodgson RJ, Jia Z, Plaxton WC (1998) Effector induced conformation changes in castor seed cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase: A kinetic and fluorometric study. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1388: 285-294
  43. Hodgson RJ, Plaxton WC (1998) Purification and characterization of cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase from endosperm of germinated castor oil seeds. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 355: 189-196
  44. Murley VR, Plaxton WC (1998) Phosphate starvation inducible pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase occurs in plants whose roots do not form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi. Physiologia Plantarum 103: 405-414
  45. Rivoal J, Plaxton WC, Turpin DH (1998) Purification and characterization of high and low molecular mass isoforms of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Kinetic, structural and immunological evidence suggest that the green algal enzyme is distinct from the procaryotic and higher plants enzymes. Biochemical Journal 331: 201-209
  46. Knowles VL, McHugh SG, Hu Z, Dennis DT, Miki BL, Plaxton WC (1998) Altered growth of transgenic tobacco lacking leaf cytosolic pyruvate kinase. Plant Physiology 116: 45-51
  47. Carswell MC, Grant BR, Plaxton WC (1997) Disruption of the phosphate-starvation response of oilseed rape suspension cells by the fungicide phosphonate. Planta 203: 67-74
  48. Law RD, Plaxton WC (1997) Regulatory phosphorylation of banana fruit phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase by a copurifying phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase-kinase. European Journal of Biochemistry 247: 642-651
  49. Hu Z-H, Plaxton WC (1996) Purification and characterization of cytosolic pyruvate kinase from leaves of the castor oil plant. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 333: 298-307
  50. Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC (1996) Purification and characterization of pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase from phosphate starved Brassica nigra suspension cells. Plant Physiology 112: 343-451
  51. Rivoal J, Dunford R, Plaxton WC, Turpin DH (1996) Purification and properties of four PEP carboxylase isoforms from the green alga Selenastrum minutum. Evidence that association of the 102 kDa catalytic subunit with unrelated polypeptides modifies the physical and kinetic properties of the enzyme. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 332: 47-57
  52. Carswell MC, Grant BR, Niere J, Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC (1996) The fungicide phosphonate disrupts the phosphate starvation response of Brassica nigra seedlings. Plant Physiology 110: 105-110
  53. Negm F, Cornel FA, Plaxton WC (1995) Suborganellar localization and molecular characterization of nonproteolytic degraded leukoplast pyruvate kinase from developing castor oil seeds. Plant Physiology 109: 1461-1469
  54. Gottlob-McHugh S, Knowles VL, Blakeley SD, Sangwan RS, Dennis DT, Miki BL, Plaxton WC (1995) Differential expression of cytosolic and plastidic pyruvate kinases in tobacco. Physiologia Plantarum 95: 507-514
  55. Hodgson RJ, Plaxton WC (1995) Effect of polyethylene glycol on the kinetic, fluorometric and oligomeric properties of castor seed cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. FEBS Letters 368: 559-562
  56. Law RD, Plaxton WC (1995) Purification and characterization of a novel phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from banana fruit. Biochemical Journal 307: 807-816
  57. Gellatly KS, Moorhead GBG, Duff SMG, Lefebvre DD, Plaxton WC (1994) Purification and characterization of a potato tuber acid phosphatase having significant phosphotyrosyl phosphatase activity. Plant Physiology 106: 223-232
  58. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1994) Regulation of carbon metabolism in germinating Ricinus communis cotyledons. I. Developmental profiles for the activity, concentration, and molecular structure of the pyrophosphate- and ATP-dependent phosphofructokinases, PEP carboxylase, and pyruvate kinase. Planta 194: 374-380
  59. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1994) Regulation of carbon metabolism in germinating Ricinus communis cotyledons. II. Properties of PEP carboxylase and cytosolic pyruvate kinase associated with the regulation of glycolysis and nitrogen assimilation. Planta 194: 381-387
  60. Cornel FA, Plaxton WC (1994) Characterization of asparaginyl endopeptidase activity in the endosperm of developing & germinating castor oil seeds. Physiologia Plantarum 91: 599-604
  61. Podestá FE, Moorhead GBG, Plaxton WC (1994) Potato tuber PPi-dependent phosphofructokinase: Effects of thiols and polyalcohols on the enzyme's intrinsic fluorescence, activity and quaternary structure in dilute solutions. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 313: 50-57
  62. Moorhead GBG, Hodgson RJ, Plaxton WC (1994) Co-purification of cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and cytosolic aldolase from endosperm of germinating castor oil seeds. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 312: 326-335
  63. Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC (1994) Induction of PPi-dependent phosphofructokinase by phosphate starvation in seedlings of Brassica nigra. Plant, Cell & Environment 17: 287-294
  64. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1993) Activation of cytosolic pyruvate kinase by polyethylene glycol. Plant Physiology 103: 285-288
  65. Fischer RS, Bonner CA, Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC, Hrazdina G, Jensen, RA (1993) Response of aromatic pathway enzymes of plant suspension cells to phosphate limitation. Biorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 3: 1415-1420
  66. Theodorou ME, Cornel FA, Duff SMG, Plaxton WC (1992) Phosphate starvation inducible synthesis of the "-subunit of pyrophophosphate: fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase in Black Mustard cell-suspension cultures. Journal of Biological Chemistry 267: 21901-21905
  67. Moorhead GBG, Plaxton WC (1992) Evidence that cytosolic aldolase specifically interacts with the ATP- and PPi-dependent phosphofructokinases in carrot storage roots. FEBS Letters 313: 277-280
  68. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1992) Plant cytosolic pyruvate kinase: A kinetic study. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1160: 213-220
  69. Sangwan RS, Singh N, Plaxton WC (1992) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity and concentration in the endosperm of developing and germinating castor oil seeds. Plant Physiology 99: 445-449
  70. Sangwan RS, Gauthier DA, Turpin DH, Pomeroy MK, Plaxton WC (1992) Pyruvate kinase isoenzymes from zygotic and microspore-derived embryos of Brassica napus: Developmental profiles and subunit composition. Planta 187: 198-202
  71. Gottlob-McHugh S, Sangwan, RS, Blakeley SD, Vanlerberghe GC, Turpin DH, Ko K, Plaxton WC, Miki B, Dennis DT (1992) Normal growth of tobacco plants in the absence of cytosolic pyruvate kinase. Plant Physiology 100: 820-825
  72. Ko K, Bornemiscza O, Kourtz L, Ko Z, Plaxton WC, Cashmore AR (1992) Isolation and characterization of a cDNA clone encoding a cognate 70 kDa heat shock protein of the chloroplast envelope. Journal of Biological Chemistry 267: 2986-2993
  73. Plaxton WC (1991) Leucoplast pyruvate kinase from developing castor oil seeds: Characterization of the enzyme's degradation by a cysteine endopeptidase. Plant Physiology 97: 1334-1338
  74. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1991) Association of phosphoenolpyruvate phosphatase activity with the cytosolic pyruvate kinase of germinating mung beans. Plant Physiology 97: 1329-1333
  75. Podestá FE, Plaxton WC (1991) Kinetic and regulatory properties of cytosolic pyruvate kinase from germinating castor oil seeds. Biochemical Journal 279: 495-501
  76. Duff SMG, Plaxton WC, Lefebvre DD (1991) Phosphate starvation response in plant cells: De Novo synthesis and degradation of acid phosphatases. Proceedings National Academy of Science- U.S.A. 88: 9538-9542
  77. Moorhead GBG, Plaxton WC (1991) High-yield purification of potato tuber pyrophosphate: fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase. Protein Expression and Purification 2: 29-33
  78. Blakeley SD, Plaxton WC, Dennis DT (1991) Relationship between the subunits of leucoplast pyruvate kinase from Ricinus communis and a comparison with the enzyme from other sources. Plant Physiology 96: 1283-1288
  79. Duff SMG, Lefebvre DD, Plaxton WC (1991) Purification, characterization, and subcellular localization of an acid phosphatase from black mustard cell-suspension cultures: Comparison with PEP phosphatase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 286: 226-232
  80. Theodorou ME, Elrifi IR, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (1991) Effects of P limitation on respiratory metabolism in the green alga Selenastrum minutum. Plant Physiology 95:1089-1095
  81. Moorhead GBG, Plaxton WC (1990) Purification and characterization of cytosolic aldolase from carrot storage roots. Biochemical Journal 269: 133-139
  82. Lefebvre DD, Duff SMG, Fife CA, Julien Inalsingh C, Plaxton WC (1990) Response to phosphate deprivation in Brassica nigra suspension cells: Enhancement of intracellular, cell surface and secreted phosphatase activities compared to increases in Pi absorption rate. Plant Physiology 93: 504-511
  83. Plaxton W.C, Dennis D.T., Knowles V.L. (1990) Purification of leucoplast pyruvate kinase from developing castor bean endosperm. Plant Physiology 94: 1528-1534
  84. Schuller KA, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (1990) Metabolite regulation of partially purified soybean nodule phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. Plant Physiology 94: 1429-1435
  85. Schuller KA, Plaxton WC, Turpin DH (1990) Regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the green alga Selenastrum minutum: Properties associated with replenishment of TCA cycle intermediates during NH4+ assimilation. Plant Physiology 93: 1303-1311
  86. Vanlerberghe GC, Schuller KA, Smith RG, Feil R, Plaxton WC, Turpin DH (1990) Relationship between NH4+ assimilation rate and in vivo phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity. Regulation of anaplerotic carbon flow in the green alga Selenastrum minutum. Plant Physiology 94: 284-290
  87. Blakeley SD, Plaxton WC, and Dennis DT (1990) The isolation, sequencing & characterization of cDNA clones for the cytosolic isozyme of plant pyruvate kinase. Plant Molecular Biology 15: 665-669
  88. Plaxton WC (1989) Molecular and immunological characterization of plastid and cytosolic pyruvate kinase isozymes from castor oil plant leaf and endosperm. European Journal of Biochemistry 181: 443-451
  89. Plaxton WC, Moorhead GBG (1989) Peptide mapping by CNBr fragmentation using a sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide minigel system. Analytical Biochemistry 178: 391-393
  90. Knowles VL, Dennis DT, Plaxton WC (1989) Purification and characterization of a novel type of pyruvate kinase from the green alga, Selenastrum minutum. FEBS Letters 259: 130-132
  91.  Duff SMG, Moorhead GBG, Lefebvre DD, Plaxton WC (1989) Phosphate starvation inducible 'bypasses' of adenylate and phosphate dependent glycolytic enzymes in Brassica nigra suspension cells. Plant Physiology 90: 1275-1278
  92. Duff SMG, Lefebvre DD, Plaxton WC (1989) Purification and characterization of a phosphoenolpyruvate phosphatase from Brassica nigra suspension cell cultures. Plant Physiology 90: 734-741
  93. Lin M, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (1989a) Pyruvate kinase isozymes from a green alga, Selenastrum minutum. I. Purification, physical, and immunological characterization. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 269: 219-227
  94. Lin M, Turpin DH, Plaxton WC (1989b) Pyruvate kinase isozymes from a green alga, Selenastrum minutum. II. Kinetic and regulatory properties. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 269: 228-238
  95. Plaxton WC (1988) Purification of pyruvate kinase from germinating castor bean endosperm. Plant Physiology 86: 1064-1069
  96. Moorhead GBG, Plaxton WC (1988) Binding of glycolytic enzymes to a particulate fraction in carrot and sugar beet storage roots. Dependence on metabolic state. Plant Physiology 86: 348-351
  97. Plaxton WC, Preiss J (1987) Purification and properties of non proteolytic degraded ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase from maize endosperm. Plant Physiology 83: 105-112
  98. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1986) Glycolytic enzyme binding and metabolic control in anaerobiosis. Journal of Comparative Physiology 156: 635-640
  99. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1985) Tissue specific isozymes of pyruvate kinase in the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum: enzyme modification in response to environmental anoxia. Journal of Comparative Physiology 155: 291-296
  100. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1985) Purification and properties of aerobic and anoxic forms of pyruvate kinase from the hepatopancreas of the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 243: 295-205
  101. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1984) Purification and properties of aerobic and anoxic forms of pyruvate kinase from red muscle tissue of the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum. European Journal of Biochemistry 143: 257-265
  102. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1984) Phosphorylation in vivo of red muscle tissue pyruvate kinase of the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum, in response to anoxic stress. European Journal of Biochemistry 143: 267-272
  103. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1983) Purification and properties of alanopine dehydrogenase isozymes in the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 76B: 321-326
  104. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1982) Alanopine dehydrogenase: purification and characterization of the enzyme from Littorina littorea foot muscle. Journal of Comparative Physiology 149: 57-65
  105. Plaxton WC, Storey KB (1982) Tissue specific isozymes of alanopine dehydrogenase in the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum. Canadian Journal of Zoology 60: 1568-1572
  106. Storey KB, Miller DC, Plaxton WC, Storey JM (1981) Gas liquid chromatography and enzymatic determination of alanopine and strombine in tissues of marine invertebrates. Analytical Biochemistry 125: 50-58
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Review Articles & Book Chapters

  1. Plaxton WC, O'Leary B (2012) The Central Role of Phosphoenolpyruvate Metabolism in Developing Oil Seeds. Book chapter for:  SEED DEVELOPMENT. OMICS Technologies Toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield. (GK Agrawal & R Rakwal; Eds). Publisher: Springer.
  2. Veneklass EJ, Lambers H, Bragg J, Finnegan PM, Lovelock CE, Plaxton WC, Price C, Scheible W-R, Shane MW, White PJ, Raven JA (2012) Opportunities for improving phosphorus-use efficiency in crop plants (a Tansley Review). New Phytologist  (IN PRESS)
  3. Plaxton WC, Tran HT (2011) Metabolic adaptations of phosphate-starved plants. Plant Physiology 156: 1006-1015
  4. O'Leary B, Park J, Plaxton WC (2011) The remarkable diversity of plant phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC): recent insights into the physiological functions and post-translational controls of non-photosynthetic PEPCs. Biochemical Journal 436: 15-44
  5. Tran HT, Hurley BA, Plaxton WC (2010) Feeding hungry plants: The role of purple acid phosphatases in phosphate nutrition. Plant Science 179: 14-27
  6. Plaxton WC (2010) Metabolic Flexibility Helps Plants to Survive Stress. Updated Web-essay for a web-site (http://5e.plantphys.net/) that supplements the 5th Edition of “Plant Physiology” (Taiz & Zeigler). My Web-essay augments Chapter 11 ('Respiration') of this widely used undergraduate textbook.
  7. Bozzo GG & Plaxton WC (2008) The Role of Intracellular and Secreted Purple Acid Phosphatases in Tomato Phosphate Nutrition. In: Tomatoes and tomato products: Nutritional, medicinal and therapeutic properties. (V Preedy & R Watson, eds), Science Publishers, Chpt. 10, pp. 215-234
  8.  Plaxton WC, Podestà FE (2006) The functional organization and control of plant respiration. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 25: 159-198
  9. Plaxton WC (2006) Metabolic Flexibility Helps Plants to Survive Stress. Updated Web-essay for a web-site (http://www.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=e&id=124) that supplements the 4th Edition of “Plant Physiology” (Taiz & Zeigler). My Web-essay (14 pgs & 3 figs) augments Chapter 11 ('Respiration') of this widely used undergraduate textbook.
  10. Plaxton WC (2004) Principles of Metabolic Control. In: “Functional Metabolism of Cells: Control, Regulation, and Adaptation” (KB Storey, ed). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., N.Y. pp 1-24
  11. Plaxton WC (2004) Biochemical Adaptations of Phosphate Starved Plants. In: “Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science” (R Goodman, ed), Marcel Dekker, N.Y. pp. 976-980
  12. Plaxton WC (2002) Metabolic Flexibility Helps Plants to Survive Stress. Web-essay for a web-site (http://www.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=e&id=124) that supplements the 3rd Edition of “Plant Physiology” (Taiz & Zeigler). My Web-essay (12 pgs & 3 figs) occurs in Chapter 11 ('Respiration') of this undergraduate textbook.
  13. McDonald AE, Grant BR, Plaxton WC (2001) Phosphite (phosphorous acid): Its relevance in the environment and agriculture, and influence on the plant phosphate starvation response. Journal of Plant Nutrition 24:1505 1519
  14. Plaxton WC (1999) Metabolic Aspects of Phosphate Starvation in Plants. In: “Phosphorus in Plant Biology: Regulatory Roles in Molecular, Cellular, Organismic, and Ecosystem Processes”, (J Deikman & J Lynch, eds), ASPP, Rockville MD; pp. 164-176
  15. Plaxton WC, Carswell MC (1999) Metabolic Aspects of the Phosphate Starvation Response in Plants. In: “Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses: From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization” (HR Lerner, ed.), M. Dekker Inc., NY; pp. 349-372
  16. Plaxton WC (1997) Metabolic Regulation. In: "Plant Metabolism" (DD Lefebvre, DT Dennis, DH Turpin & DB Layzell, eds), Longman Group, pp. 50-68
  17. Plaxton W.C. (1996) The organization and regulation of plant glycolysis. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 47: 185-214 (review article)
  18. Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC (1995) Adaptations of Plant Respiratory Metabolism to Nutritional Phosphate Deprivation. In: "Environment and Metabolism: Flexibility and Acclimation" (N Smirnoff, ed), BIOS Scientific publishers, London, U.K., pp. 79-109
  19. Duff SMG, Sarath G, Plaxton WC (1994) The role of acid phosphatases in plant phosphorus metabolism (Invited review). Physiologia Plantarum 90: 791-800 (review article)
  20.  Theodorou ME, Plaxton WC (1993) Metabolic adaptations of plant respiration to nutritional phosphate deprivation. Plant Physiology 101: 339-344
  21. Iglesias AA, Plaxton WC, Podestá FE (1993) The role of inorganic phosphate in the regulation of C4 photosynthesis. Photosynthetic Research 35: 205-211
  22. Plaxton WC (1990) Glycolysis In: "Methods in Plant Biochemistry" (P Lea, ed), Vol. 3, Academic Press, N.Y., pp. 145 173
  23. Plaxton WC (1990) Biochemical Regulation. In: "Advanced Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Integration and Control of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism" (DT Dennis & DH Turpin, eds), Longman Group, pp. 28-44
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Books Edited

  1. Control of Primary Metabolism in PlantsPlaxton WC, McManus MT (co-editors) (2006) Control of Primary Metabolism in Plants. Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 22 (13 chapters), Blackwell Publishing, U.K
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Conference Proceedings

  1. Tripodi KE, Plaxton WC (2005) In vivo regulatory phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in developing castor oil seeds. In: “Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives” (A van der Est & D Bruce, eds); pp. 915-918.
  2. Rivoal J, Trzos S, Gage DA, Plaxton WC, & Turpin DH (1999) Characterization of high and low molecular mass isoforms of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the green alga Selenastrum minutum. Proceedings of the 1998 International Photosynthesis Congress, pp.151-155
  3. Turpin DH, Rivoal J, Dunford R, Plaxton WC, Huppe HC (1995) Interaction of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in photosynthetic cells: clues from unicellular algae. In: "Photosynthesis: from Light to Biosphere", Volume V (P Mathis, ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, U.K., pp. 353-358
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