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Overview

David R. Trentham is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research integrates multiple subfields including Plant Science, Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, which include:

  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism

Trentham has published research in multiple scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Their recent published papers are:

  • Structure and activity of a phosphinothricin N-acetyltransferase (PSPTO_3321) from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, 2025, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Development of bifunctional fluorescent probes and their application to α-helix labelling, 2025, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Anna M. Davies
  • Brian J. Sutton
  • Paul R. Brown
  • Laszlo Kondacs
  • Thomas Kampourakis

Best Publications

  • Photolabile 1-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyl phosphate esters of adenine nucleotide analogs. Synthesis and mechanism of photolysis

    Jeffery W. Walker;Gordon P. Reid;James A. McCray;David R. Trentham

  • Kinetics of smooth and skeletal muscle activation by laser pulse photolysis of caged inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate.

    J. W. Walker;A. V. Somlyo;Y. E. Goldman;A. P. Somlyo

  • Reversible inactivation of K+ channels of Vicia stomatal guard cells following the photolysis of caged inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate.

    Michael R. Blatt;Gerhard Thiel;David R. Trentham

  • Phosphate release and force generation in skeletal muscle fibers

    Mark G. Hibberd;Jody A. Dantzig;David R. Trentham;Yale E. Goldman

  • The magnesium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase of myosin. Two-step processes of adenosine triphosphate association and adenosine diphosphate dissociation.

    Clive R. Bagshaw;John F. Eccleston;Fritz Eckstein;Roger S. Goody

  • A new approach to time-resolved studies of ATP-requiring biological systems; laser flash photolysis of caged ATP.

    James A. McCray;Leo Herbette;Toru Kihara;David R. Trentham

  • Dynamic measurement of myosin light-chain-domain tilt and twist in muscle contraction

    J. E. T. Corrie;B. D. Brandmeier;R. E. Ferguson;D. R. Trentham

  • Tilting of the light-chain region of myosin during step length changes and active force generation in skeletal muscle

    M. Irving;T. St Claire Allen;C. Sabido-David;J. S. Craik

  • Cross-bridge kinetics, cooperativity, and negatively strained cross-bridges in vertebrate smooth muscle. A laser-flash photolysis study.

    Avril V. Somlyo;Yale E. Goldman;Taro Fujimori;Meredith Bond

  • Inositol trisphosphate, calcium and muscle contraction.

    A. P. Somlyo;J. W. Walker;Y. E. Goldman;David Rostron Trentham

  • The kinetics of magnesium adenosine triphosphate cleavage in skinned muscle fibres of the rabbit

    M A Ferenczi;E Homsher;D R Trentham

  • Some Observations Relating to Acyl Mobility in Aminoacyl Soluble Ribonucleic Acids

    B. E. Griffin;M. Jarman;C. B. Reese;J. E. Sulston

  • Photolytic Cleavage of 1-(2-Nitrophenyl)ethyl Ethers Involves Two Parallel Pathways and Product Release Is Rate-Limited by Decomposition of a Common Hemiacetal Intermediate

    John E. T. Corrie;Andreas Barth;V. Ranjit N. Munasinghe;David R. Trentham

  • Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Intermediates and Products from Photolysis of 1-(2-Nitrophenyl)ethyl Phosphates: Reaction of the 2-Nitrosoacetophenone Byproduct with Thiols

    Andreas Barth;John E. T. Corrie;Michael J. Gradwell;Yashusi Maeda

  • Mechanism of 2-chloro-(epsilon-amino-Lys75)-[6-[4-(N,N- diethylamino)phenyl]-1,3,5-triazin-4-yl]calmodulin interactions with smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase and derived peptides.

    Katalin Torok;David R. Trentham

  • Transient Kinetics of the Mg++ dependant ATP-ase of Myosin and its Proteolytic Subfragments

    C. R. Bagshaw;J. F. Ecclestone;D. R. Trentham;D. W. Yates

  • ATPase kinetics on activation of rabbit and frog permeabilized isometric muscle fibres: a real time phosphate assay

    Zhen-He He;Rod K. Chillingworth;Martin Brune;John E. T. Corrie

  • The active chemical state of D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate in its reactions with D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, aldolase and triose phosphate isomerase.

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  • Oxygen exchange between Pi in the medium and water during ATP hydrolysis mediated by skinned fibers from rabbit skeletal muscle. Evidence for Pi binding to a force-generating state.

    M R Webb;M G Hibberd;Y E Goldman;D R Trentham

  • Photochemical Release of ATP from "Caged ATP" Studied by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

    Andreas Barth;Karin Hauser;Werner Maentele;John E. T. Corrie

  • Photolabile precursors of inositol phosphates. Preparation and properties of 1-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyl esters of myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate

    Jeffery W. Walker;James Feeney;David R. Trentham

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. T. Corrie
John E. T. Corrie Medical Research Council
Malcolm Irving
Malcolm Irving King's College London
Yale E. Goldman
Yale E. Goldman University of Pennsylvania
Avril V. Somlyo
Avril V. Somlyo University of Virginia
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Michael A. Geeves
Michael A. Geeves University of Kent
James Feeney
James Feeney Medical Research Council
Dario R. Alessi
Dario R. Alessi University of Dundee
Jack H. Kaplan
Jack H. Kaplan University of Illinois at Chicago
Yoshiki Katayama
Yoshiki Katayama Kyushu University

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