TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abdirashid, Hashim
A1  - Lenhard, Michael
T1  - Say it with double flowers
JF  - Journal of experimental botany
N2  - Every year, lovers world-wide rely on mutants to show their feelings on Valentine's Day. This is because many of the most popular ornamental flowering plants have been selected to form extra petals at the expense of reproductive organs to enhance their attractiveness and aesthetic value to humans. This so-called 'double flower' (DF) phenotype, first described more than 2000 years ago (Meyerowitz et al., 1989) is present, for example, in many modern roses, carnations, peonies, and camellias. Gattolin et al. (2020) now identify a unifying explanation for the molecular basis of many of these DF cultivars.
KW  - ABCE model
KW  - APETALA2
KW  - double flowers
KW  - flower development
KW  - homoeotic
KW  - mutants
KW  - microRNA172
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa109
SN  - 0022-0957
SN  - 1460-2431
VL  - 71
IS  - 9
SP  - 2469
EP  - 2471
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kapp, A.
A1  - Beissenhirtz, Moritz Karl
A1  - Geyer, F.
A1  - Scheller, F.
A1  - Viezzoli, Maria Silvia
A1  - Lisdat, Fred
T1  - Electrochemical and sensorial behavior of SOD mutants immobilized on gold electrodes in aqueous/organic solvent mixtures
JF  - Electroanalysis : an international journal devoted to fundamental and practical aspects of electroanalysis
N2  - A cysteine mutant of a monomeric human Cu, Zn-SOD (Glycine 61, Serine 142) has been immobilized directly on gold electrodes using the thiol groups introduced. The electrochemical behavior of the surface confined protein was studied in mixtures of aqueous buffer and DMSO up to an organic solvent content of 60%. The formal potential was found to be rather independent of the DMSO content. However, half peak width increased and the redoxactive amount clearly decreased with raising DMSO content. In addition, the kinetics of the heterogeneous electron transfer became slower; but still a quasireversible electrochemical conversion of the mutant SOD was feasible. Thus, the electrodes were applied for sensorial superoxide detection. At a potential of +220 mV vs. Ag/AgCl advantage was taken of the partial oxidation reaction of the enzyme. A defined superoxide signal was obtained in solutions up to 40% DMSO. The sensitivity of the mutant electrodes decreased linearly with the organic solvent content in solution but was still higher compared to conventional cyt.c based sensors. At DMSO concentrations higher than 40% no sensor response was detected.
KW  - SOD
KW  - mutants
KW  - gold electrodes
KW  - DMSO
KW  - electrochemistry
Y1  - 2006
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.200603620
SN  - 1040-0397
VL  - 18
SP  - 1909
EP  - 1915
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -