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Maor Bar-Peled
 Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology


E-mail: peled@ccrc.uga.edu
Telephone: 706-542-4496
Fax: 706-542-4412

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Short Biography:
Dr. Bar-Peled received his B.S. in 1985 and his M.S. in 1988 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his Ph.D. studies in 1993 in the Department of Plant Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 1992, Dr. Bar-Peled was a recipient of the Science Prize given by the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science and, in 1993, he received an Israeli Ministry of Education Award. Prior to coming to the University of Georgia, Dr. Bar-Peled spent five years in the Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, first as a postdoctoral fellow then as a senior research scientist. Most recently, Dr. Bar-Peled was a visiting scientist in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Full publications: 11.

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Publications: Author's Last Name: Bar-Peled

Journal Articles
Book Chapters are listed at the bottom of this page.

S. Pattathil, A. Harper, M. Bar-Peled. 2005. Biosynthesis of UDP-xylose: Characterization of a membrane bound UXS2. Planta 221: 538-548. PMID:15655675

A. Frydman, O. Weisshaus, D.V. Huhman, L.W. Sumner, M. Bar-Peled, E. Lewinsohn, R. Fuhr, J. Gressel, Y. Eyal. 2005. Metabolic engineering of plant cells for biotransformation of hesperedin into neohesperidin, a subtrate for productions of the low-calorie sweetener and flavor enhancer NHDC. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53: 9708-9712. PMID:16332119

G. Watt, C. Leoff, A.D. Harper, M. Bar-Peled. 2004. A bifunctional 3,5-epimerase/4-keto reductase for nucleotide-diphospho-rhamnose synthesis in Arabidopsis. J. Plant Physiol. 134: 1337-1346. PMID:15030319

A. Frydman, O. Weisshaus, M. Bar-Peled, D. Huhman, L.W. Sumner, F.R. Marin, E. Lewinsohn, R. Fluhr, J. Gressel, Y. Eyal. 2004. Citrus fruit bitter flavors: isolation and functional characterization of the gene Cm1,2RhaT encoding a 1,2 rhamnosyltransferase, a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of the bitter flavonoids of citrus. Plant J. 40: 88-100. PMID:15361143

M. Bar-Peled, C.L. Griffith, J.J. Ory, T.L. Doering. 2004. Biosynthesis of UDP-GlcA, a key metabolite for capsular polysaccharide synthesis in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Biochem. J. 381: 131-136. PMID:15030319

X.-X. Gu, M. Bar-Peled. 2004. The biosynthesis of UDP-galacturonic acid in plants. Functional cloning and characterization of Arabidopsis UDP-D-glucuronic acid 4-epimerase. J. Plant Physiol. 136: 4256-4264. PMID:15563616

A. Harper, M. Bar-Peled. 2002. Biosynthesis of UDP-xylose: Cloning and characterization of a novel Arabidopsis gene family, UXS, encoding soluble and putative membrane-bound UDP-GlcA decarboxylase isoforms. J. Plant Physiol. 130: 2188-2198. PMID:12481102

M. Bar-Peled, C.L. Griffith, T.L. Doering. 2001. Functional cloning and characterization of a UDP-glucuronic acid decarboxylase: the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans elucidates UDP-xylose synthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 12003-12008. PMID:11593010

A. Faik, M. Bar-Peled, A.E. DeRocher, W. Zeng, R.M. Perrin, C. Wilkerson, N.V. Raikhel, K. Keegstra. 2000. Biochemical characterization and molecular cloning of an alpha-1,2-furcosyltransferase that catalyzes the last step of cell wall xyloglucan biosynthesis in pea.. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 15082-15089. PMID:10747946

Book Chapters

D. Mohnen, M. Bar-Peled, C.R. Somerville. 2008. Biosynthesis of plant cell walls . In: Biomass Recalcitrance (ed: M. Himmel). Chapter 5, pp. 94-187. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.

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