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Overview

Lee J. Sweetlove is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology and Plant Science. Other subfields of study include Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Biochemistry.

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology

Lee J. Sweetlove has published extensively, contributing to major journals in the field. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Cell
  • Nature Plants

Notable recent papers by Lee J. Sweetlove are:

  • Synchronization of developmental, molecular and metabolic aspects of source-sink interactions (2020), published in Nature Plants
  • Alternative Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Modes Provide Environment-Specific Water-Saving Benefits in a Leaf Metabolic Model (2020), published in The Plant Cell
  • A moonlighting role for enzymes of glycolysis in the co-localization of mitochondria and chloroplasts (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Multiple Metabolic Innovations and Losses Are Associated with Major Transitions in Land Plant Evolution (2020), published in Current Biology
  • Flux balance analysis of metabolism during growth by osmotic cell expansion and its application to tomato fruits (2020), published in The Plant Journal

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alisdair R. Fernie
  • R. George Ratcliffe
  • Sanu Shameer
  • Mark D. Fricker
  • Anya Lindström Battle

Best Publications

  • Respiratory metabolism: glycolysis, the TCA cycle and mitochondrial electron transport.

    Alisdair R Fernie;Fernando Carrari;Lee J Sweetlove

  • Not just a circle: flux modes in the plant TCA cycle

    Lee J. Sweetlove;Katherine F.M. Beard;Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • The impact of oxidative stress on Arabidopsis mitochondria.

    Lee Sweetlove;Joshua Heazlewood;V. L. Herald;Ruth Holtzapffel

  • Analysis of the Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Proteome

    A. Harvey Millar;Lee J. Sweetlove;Philippe Giegé;Christopher J. Leaver

  • ROS signalling - specificity is required.

    Ian M. Møller;Lee J. Sweetlove

  • Integrated Analysis of Metabolite and Transcript Levels Reveals the Metabolic Shifts That Underlie Tomato Fruit Development and Highlight Regulatory Aspects of Metabolic Network Behavior

    Fernando Carrari;Charles Baxter;Björn Usadel;Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak

  • Enzymes of Glycolysis Are Functionally Associated with the Mitochondrion in Arabidopsis Cells

    P. Giege;J. L. Heazlewood;U. Roessner-Tunali;A. H. Millar

  • Enhanced Photosynthetic Performance and Growth as a Consequence of Decreasing Mitochondrial Malate Dehydrogenase Activity in Transgenic Tomato Plants

    Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Fernando Carrari;Anna Lytovchenko;Anna M.O. Smith

  • The role of dynamic enzyme assemblies and substrate channelling in metabolic regulation.

    Lee J. Sweetlove;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Deficiency of mitochondrial fumarase activity in tomato plants impairs photosynthesis via an effect on stomatal function.

    Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Fernando Carrari;Yves Gibon;Ronan Sulpice

  • Metabolic control and regulation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in photosynthetic and heterotrophic plant tissues.

    Wagner L. Araújo;Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Zoran Nikoloski;Lee J. Sweetlove

  • The NADPH-dependent thioredoxin system constitutes a functional backup for cytosolic glutathione reductase in Arabidopsis.

    Laurent Marty;Wafi Siala;Markus Schwarzländer;Mark D. Fricker

  • Confocal imaging of glutathione redox potential in living plant cells

    M. Schwarzländer;M.D. Fricker;C. Müller;L. Marty

  • The metabolic response of heterotrophic Arabidopsis cells to oxidative stress

    Charles J. Baxter;Henning Redestig;Nicolas Schauer;Dirk Repsilber

  • A Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of Arabidopsis and Some of Its Properties

    Mark G. Poolman;Laurent Miguet;Lee J. Sweetlove;David A. Fell

  • Glycolytic Enzymes Associate Dynamically with Mitochondria in Response to Respiratory Demand and Support Substrate Channeling

    James W.A. Graham;Thomas C.R. Williams;Megan Morgan;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Mitochondrial uncoupling protein is required for efficient photosynthesis

    Lee J. Sweetlove;Anna Lytovchenko;Megan Morgan;Adriano Nunes-Nesi

  • Proteins of Diverse Function and Subcellular Location Are Lysine Acetylated in Arabidopsis

    Iris Finkemeier;Miriam Laxa;Laurent Miguet;Andrew J. M. Howden

  • A custom microarray analysis of gene expression during programmed cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jodi A. Swidzinski;Lee J. Sweetlove;Christopher J. Leaver

  • The mitochondrial type II peroxiredoxin F is essential for redox homeostasis and root growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under stress.

    Iris Finkemeier;Megan Goodman;Petra Lamkemeyer;Andrea Kandlbinder

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Markus Schwarzländer
Markus Schwarzländer University of Münster
Mark D. Fricker
Mark D. Fricker University of Oxford
Christopher J. Leaver
Christopher J. Leaver University of Oxford
Andreas J. Meyer
Andreas J. Meyer University of Bonn
Fernando Carrari
Fernando Carrari University of Buenos Aires
Adriano Nunes-Nesi
Adriano Nunes-Nesi Universidade Federal de Viçosa
David A. Fell
David A. Fell Oxford Brookes University
David C. Logan
David C. Logan University of Angers
Jens Nielsen
Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology

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