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National Ranking
391

Overview

Karl J. Oparka is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. The research focus spans multiple disciplines primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Chemistry and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's subfields of study include:

  • Biophysics
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology

Research topics addressed by Karl J. Oparka cover areas such as:

  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Recent publications include:

  • "A Palette of Minimally Tagged Sucrose Analogues for Real-Time Raman Imaging of Intracellular Plant Metabolism," 2021, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "A Palette of Minimally Tagged Sucrose Analogues for Real-Time Raman Imaging of Intracellular Plant Metabolism," 2021, published in Angewandte Chemie
  • "Preparation and Imaging of Specialized ER Using Super-Resolution and TEM Techniques," 2024, published in Methods in Molecular Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kirsten Knox
  • Fabio De Moliner
  • Doireann Gordon
  • Martin Lee
  • William J. Tipping

Publication venues where Karl J. Oparka has contributed notably are:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Methods in Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Stacks on tracks: the plant Golgi apparatus traffics on an actin/ER network†

    Petra Boevink;Karl Oparka;Simon Santa Cruz;Barry Martin

  • Simple, but Not Branched, Plasmodesmata Allow the Nonspecific Trafficking of Proteins in Developing Tobacco Leaves

    Karl J. Oparka;Alison G. Roberts;Petra C. Boevink;Simon Santa Cruz

  • Plasmodesmata and the control of symplastic transport

    A. G. Roberts;K. J. Oparka

  • Sieve elements and companion cells-traffic control centers of the phloem

    Karl J. Oparka;Robert Turgeon

  • Characterization of cucumber mosaic virus. IV. Movement protein and coat protein are both essential for cell-to-cell movement of cucumber mosaic virus

    Tomas Canto;Denton A.M. Prior;Karl-Heinz Hellwald;Karl J. Oparka

  • Tuberization in Potato Involves a Switch from Apoplastic to Symplastic Phloem Unloading

    Roberto Viola;Alison G. Roberts;Sophie Haupt;Silvia Gazzani;Silvia Gazzani

  • Phloem Unloading in Sink Leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana: Comparison of a Fluorescent Solute with a Fluorescent Virus.

    Alison G. Roberts;Simon Santa Cruz;Ian M. Roberts;Denton A. M. Prior

  • Getting the message across: how do plant cells exchange macromolecular complexes?

    Karl J Oparka

  • Real-time imaging of phloem unloading in the root tip of Arabidopsis

    K.J. Oparka;C.M. Duckett;D.A.M. Prior;D.B. Fisher

  • Expression of GFP-fusions in Arabidopsis companion cells reveals non-specific protein trafficking into sieve elements and identifies a novel post-phloem domain in roots.

    Ruth Stadler;Kathryn M. Wright;Christian Lauterbach;Gabi Amon

  • THE GREAT ESCAPE: Phloem Transport and Unloading of Macromolecules1

    Karl J. Oparka;Simon Santa Cruz

  • The photoreversible fluorescent protein iLOV outperforms GFP as a reporter of plant virus infection

    Sean Chapman;Christine Faulkner;Eirini Kaiserli;Carlos Garcia-Mata

  • Direct evidence for pressure-generated closure of plasmodesmata

    K.J. Oparka;D.A.M. Prior

  • Gating of epidermal plasmodesmata is restricted to the leading edge of expanding infection sites of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV).

    K.J. Oparka;D.A.M. Prior;S. Santa Cruz;H.S Padgett

  • Dye-coupling in the root epidermis of Arabidopsis is progressively reduced during development

    Catherine M. Duckett;Karl J. Oparka;Denton A. M. Prior;Liam Dolan

  • High-Throughput Viral Expression of cDNA–Green Fluorescent Protein Fusions Reveals Novel Subcellular Addresses and Identifies Unique Proteins That Interact with Plasmodesmata

    Nieves Medina Escobar;Sophie Haupt;Graham Thow;Petra Boevink

  • Cell-to-Cell and Phloem-Mediated Transport of Potato Virus X: The Role of Virions

    Simon Santa Cruz;Alison G. Roberts;Denton A. M. Prior;Sean Chapman

  • Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

    Amedeo Alpi;Nikolaus Amrhein;Adam Bertl;Michael R. Blatt

  • Two Plant–Viral Movement Proteins Traffic in the Endocytic Recycling Pathway

    Sophie Haupt;Graham H. Cowan;Angelika Ziegler;Alison G. Roberts

  • Functional analysis of a DNA-shuffled movement protein reveals that microtubules are dispensable for the cell-to-cell movement of Tobacco mosaic virus

    Trudi Gillespie;Petra Boevink;Sophie Haupt;Alison G. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra C. Boevink
Petra C. Boevink James Hutton Institute
Chris Hawes
Chris Hawes Oxford Brookes University
Norbert Sauer
Norbert Sauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter Palukaitis
Peter Palukaitis Seoul Women's University
John W. S. Brown
John W. S. Brown James Hutton Institute
Michael E. Taliansky
Michael E. Taliansky James Hutton Institute
Roger A. Leigh
Roger A. Leigh University of Cambridge
Roberto Viola
Roberto Viola James Hutton Institute
Robert Turgeon
Robert Turgeon Cornell University
David J. Robinson
David J. Robinson University of Aberdeen

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