Browsing by Author "Khan, Morgan F."

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    Characterization and functional analysis of seven flagellin genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae. Characterization of R. leguminosarum flagellins
    (BioMed Central, 2010-08-17) Tambalo, Dinah D.; Bustard, Denise E.; Del Bel, Kate L.; Koval, Susan F.; Khan, Morgan F.; Hynes, Michael
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    Integration of deep transcriptome and proteome analyses reveals the components of alkaloid metabolism in opium poppy cell cultures
    (BMC Plant Biology, 2010-11-18) Desgagné-Penix, Isabel; Khan, Morgan F.; Schriemer, David C.; Cram, Dustin; Nowak, Jacek; Facchini, Peter J.
    Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) is the source for several pharmaceutical benzylisoquinoline alkaloids including morphine, the codeine and sanguinarine. In response to treatment with a fungal elicitor, the biosynthesis and accumulation of sanguinarine is induced along with other plant defense responses in opium poppy cell cultures. The transcriptional induction of alkaloid metabolism in cultured cells provides an opportunity to identify components of this process via the integration of deep transcriptome and proteome databases generated using next-generation technologies.
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    Plant Defense Responses in Opium Poppy Cell Cultures Revealed by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Proteomics
    (Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2008-08-05) Zulak, Katherine G.; Khan, Morgan F.; Alcantara, Joenel; Schriemer, David; Facchini, Peter J.
    Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) produces a diverse array of bioactive benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, including the narcotic analgesic morphine and the antimicrobial agent sanguinarine. In contrast to the plant, cell cultures of opium poppy do not accumulate alkaloids constitutively but produce sanguinarine in response to treatment with certain fungal-derived elicitors. The induction of sanguinarine biosynthesis provides a model platform to characterize the regulation of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid pathways and other defense responses. Proteome analysis of elicitor-treated opium poppy cell cultures by two-dimensional denaturing-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis coupled with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry facilitated the identification of 219 of 340 protein spots based on peptide fragment fingerprint searches of a combination of databases. Of the 219 hits, 129 were identified through pre-existing plant proteome databases, 63 were identified by matching predicted translation products in opium poppy-expressed sequence tag databases, and the remainder shared evidence from both databases. Metabolic enzymes represented the largest category of proteins and included S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, several glycolytic, and a nearly complete set of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes, one alkaloid, and several other secondary metabolic enzymes. The abundance of chaperones, heat shock proteins, protein degradation factors, and pathogenesis-related proteins provided a comprehensive proteomics view on the coordination of plant defense responses. Qualitative comparison of protein abundance in control and elicitor-treated cell cultures allowed the separation of induced and constitutive or suppressed proteins. DNA microarrays were used to corroborate increases in protein abundance with a corresponding induction in cognate transcript levels.