Defensins from Insects and Plants Interact with Fungal Glucosylceramides

Karin Thevissen, Dirk Warnecke, Isabelle François, +7

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Cholesterol glucosylation promotes immune evasion by Helicobacter pylori

Christian Wunder, Y Churin, Florian Winau, +7

Nature Medicine

InflammationImmune EvasionImmunologyLipoprotein MetabolismMedicine

Glucosylceramide Synthases, a Gene Family Responsible for the Biosynthesis of Glucosphingolipids in Animals, Plants, and Fungi

Martina Leipelt, Dirk Warnecke, Ulrich Zähringer, +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Cloning and Functional Expression of UGT Genes Encoding Sterol Glucosyltransferases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, Pichia pastoris, and Dictyostelium discoideum

Dirk Warnecke, Ralf Erdmann, Annette Fahl, +5

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Functional Characterization of a Higher Plant Sphingolipid Δ4-Desaturase: Defining the Role of Sphingosine and Sphingosine-1-Phosphate in Arabidopsis    

Louise V. Michaelson, Simone Zäuner, Jennifer E. Markham, +8

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plant Molecular BiologyBiosynthesisEngineeringBiochemistryArabidopsis Insertion Mutants +9

Cloning of a Cholesterol-α-glucosyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori

Anne-Hélène Lebrun, Christian Wunder, Janosch Hildebrand, +6

Journal of Biological Chemistry

GlycoproteomicsBiosynthesisYeast Pichia PastorisBiochemistryNatural Sciences +12

Sterol glycosides and cerebrosides accumulate in <i>Pichia pastoris</i>, <i>Rhynchosporium secalis</i> and other fungi under normal conditions or under heat shock and ethanol stress

Takeshi Sakaki, Ulrich Zähringer, Dirk Warnecke, +3

Yeast

Analysis of the Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis Pathway in the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Carsten Wrenger, Marie-Luise Eschbach, Ingrid Müller, +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

BiosynthesisCellular EnzymologyBiochemistryMedicineNatural Sciences +12

UDP-glucose:sterol glucosyltransferase: cloning and functional expression in Escherichia coli/

Dirk Warnecke, M. Baltrusch, Friedrich Buck, +2

Plant Molecular Biology

Novel processive and nonprocessive glycosyltransferases from <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> synthesize glycoglycerolipids, glycophospholipids, glycosphingolipids and glycosylsterols

Petra Jorasch, Dirk Warnecke, Buko Lindner, +2

European Journal of Biochemistry

EngineeringGlycobiologyBacteriologyBiosynthesisMetabolic Engineering +15