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Maor Bar-Peled
Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyE-mail:
peled@ccrc.uga.edu
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Short Biography
Research Interests keywords and Selected Recent Publications All Publications |
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.To Top |
Research Interests:For Research Interests click on this linkTo Top |
Keywords and Selected Recent Publications:Keywords: Nucleotide sugar, polysaccharide biosynthesis, glycosyl transferase, Cryptococcus neoformans, capsular polysaccharides
Selected Publications: Bar-Peled, M., E. Lewinsohn, R. Fluhr, and J. Gressel. 1991. UDP-rhamnose:flavanone-7-O-glucoside-2"- O-rhamnosyltransferase, purification and characterization of an enzyme catalyzing the production of bitter compounds in citrus. J. Biol. Chem. 266: 20953-20959. Bar-Peled, M., R. Fluhr, and J. Gressel. 1993. Juvenile-specific localization and accumulation of a rhamnosylsferase and its bitter flavonoid in foliage, flowers, and young citrus fruits. Plant Physiol. 103: 1377-1384. Bar-Peled, M., A.S. Conceicao, L. Frigerio, and N.V. Raikhel. 1995. Expression and regulation of aERD2, a gene encoding the KDEL receptor homolog in plants and other genes encoding proteins involved in ER-Golgi vesicular trafficking. Plant Cell 7: 667-676. Bar-Peled, M., A.S. Conceicao, L. Frigerio, and N.V. Raikhel. 1995. Developmental and stress regulation of aERD2, gene in Arabidopsis plants. J. Cell Biochem. 19: 150. Bar-Peled, M., D. Bassham, and N.V. Raikhel. 1996. Transport of proteins in eukaryotic cells: more questions ahead. Plant Mol. Biol. 32: 223-249. Bar-Peled, M. and N.V. Raikhel. 1996. A method for isolation and purification of specific antibodies to a protein fused to the GST. Anal. Biochem. 241: 140-142. Bar-Peled, M. and N.V. Raikhel. 1997. Characterization of AtSEC12 and AtSAR: proteins likely involved in ER and Golgi transport. Plant Physiol. 114: 315-324. Bar-Peled, M., S. Ahmed, and N.V. Raikhel. 1997. Cloning and subcellular location of an Arabidopsis receptor-like protein that shares common features with protein sorting receptors of eukaryotic cells. Plant Physiol. 114: 325-336. Bar-Peled, M. and N.V. Raikhel. 1997. An efficient method for cloning in-frame fusion protein genes. Anal. Biochem. 250: 262-264. Bar-Peled, M., R.M. Perrin, A.E. DeRocher, W. Zeng, L. Norambuena, A. Orellana, N.V. Raikhel, and K. Keegstra. 1999. Xyloglucan fucosyltransferase, an enzyme involved in plant cell wall biosynthesis. Science 284: 1976-1979. Faik, A., M. Bar-Peled, A.E. DeRocher, W. Zeng, R.M. Perrin, N.V. Raikhel, and K. Keegstra. 2000. Biochemical characterization and molecular cloning of an a(1,2)fucosyltransferase that catalyzes the last step of cell wall xyloglucan biosynthesis in pea. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 15082-15089. Bar-Peled, M., C.L. Griffith, and 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. Harper, A. and 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. Plant Physiol. 130: 2188-2198. Watt, G., C. Leoff, A.D. Harper, and M. Bar-Peled. 2004. A bifunctional 3,5-epimerase/4-keto reductase for nucleoside-diphospho-rhamnose synthesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 134: 1337-1346. Frydman, A., O. Weisshaus, M. Bar-Peled, D. Huhman, L.W. Sumner, F.R. Marin, E. Lewinsohn, R. Fluhr, J. Gressel, and 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. Bar-Peled, M., C.L. Griffith, J.J. Ory, and 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. Gu, X. and M. Bar-Peled. 2004. The biosynthesis of UDP-galacturonic acid in plants. Functional cloning and characterization of Arabidopsis UDP-D-glucuronic acid 4-epimerase. Plant Physiol. 136: 4256-4264. Pattathil, S., A. Harper, and M. Bar-Peled. 2005. Biosynthesis of UDP-xylose: Characterization of a membrane bound UXS2. Planta 221: 538-548.
Frydman, A., O. Weisshaus, D.V. Huhman, L.W. Sumner, M. Bar-Peled, E. Lewinsohn, R. Fluhr, J. Gressel, and Y. Eyal. 2005. Metabolic engineering of plant cells for biotransformation of hesperedin into neohesperidin, a substrate for production of the low-calorie sweetener and flavor enhancer NHDC. J. Ag. Food Chem. 53: 9708-9712.
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