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Sibongile Mafu

University of California, DavisORCID

Also Known As

Mafu, Sibongile, S. Mafu, Sibongile Mafu

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University of California, DavisIowa State UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreScripps Institution of Oceanography
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About

Sibongile Mafu is an author at University of California, Davis specializing in engineering, biosynthesis, and biochemistry.

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Sibongile Mafu

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Discovery, Biosynthesis and Stress-Related Accumulation of Dolabradiene-Derived Defenses in Maize

Sibongile Mafu, Yezhang Ding, Katherine M. Murphy,

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

2018

125

Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences

Yezhang Ding, Katherine M. Murphy, Elly Poretsky,

Nature Plants

2019

90

Molecular Diversity of Terpene Synthases in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Santosh Kumar, Chase F. Kempinski, Xun Zhuang,

The Plant Cell

2016

73

Probing the promiscuity of <i>ent</i> -kaurene oxidases via combinatorial biosynthesis

Sibongile Mafu, Meirong Jia, Jiachen Zi,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2016

59

A Novel Labda‐7,13<i>E</i>‐dien‐15‐ol‐Producing Bifunctional Diterpene Synthase from <i>Selaginella moellendorffii</i>

Sibongile Mafu, Matthew L. Hillwig, Reuben J. Peters

ChemBioChem

2011

48

Plant diterpenoid metabolism for manufacturing the biopharmaceuticals of tomorrow: prospects and challenges

Sibongile Mafu, Philipp Zerbe

Phytochemistry Reviews

2017

46

Efficient heterocyclisation by (di)terpene synthases

Sibongile Mafu, Kevin C. Potter, Matthew L. Hillwig,

Chemical Communications

2015

42

Exploring diterpene metabolism in non‐model species: transcriptome‐enabled discovery and functional characterization of labda‐7,13<i>E</i>‐dienyl diphosphate synthase from <i>Grindelia robusta</i>

Philipp Zerbe, Selina Marakana Rodriguez, Sibongile Mafu,

The Plant Journal

2015

28

Biosynthesis of the microtubule-destabilizing diterpene pseudolaric acid B from golden larch involves an unusual diterpene synthase

Sibongile Mafu, Prema S. Karunanithi, Teresa A. Palazzo,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2017

26

Substitution of Two Active‐Site Residues Alters C9‐Hydroxylation in a Class II Diterpene Synthase

Sibongile Mafu, Emil C. Fischer, Bennett Addison,

ChemBioChem

2016

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