Publications

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Matthew D. Lemke, Alexa N. Abate, and Jesse D. Woodson. 2024. Investigating the mechanism of chloroplast singlet oxygen signaling in the Arabidopsis thaliana accelerated cell death 2 mutant. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 19:1, 2347783, DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2024.2347783

Matthew. D. Lemke and Jesse D. Woodson. 2024. A genetic screen for dominant chloroplast reactive oxygen species signaling mutants reveals life stage-specific singlet oxygen-signaling networks. Frontiers in Plant Science. Volume 14:1331346 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1331346.

▲ Jesse D. Woodson, Matthew D. Lemke, David W. Tano, and Snigdha Rai. 2024. Chloroplast stress signals: control of retrograde signaling, chloroplast turn-over, and cell fate decisions. Nucleic Acid and Molecular Biology, "Chloroplast gene expression" (Springer-Nature). In press.

David W. Tano, Marta A. Kozlowska, Robert A. Easter, and Jesse D. Woodson. 2023. Multiple pathways mediate chloroplast singlet oxygen stress signaling. Plant Molecular Biology. 111:167-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-022-01319-z

Pierre Goloubinoff, Jesse D. Woodson, Lucia Strader, and Zhengqing Fu. 2022. Important questions and future directions in plant biochemistry. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 47:811-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2022.07.003

▲ Matthew. D. Lemke and Jesse D. Woodson. 2022. Targeted for destruction: degradation of singlet oxygen-damaged chloroplasts. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 17(1):2084955. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2022.2084955

▲ Jesse D. Woodson. 2022. Control of chloroplast degradation and cell death in response to stress. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 47:841-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2022.03.010

▲ David W. Tano and Jesse D. Woodson. 2022. Putting the brakes on chloroplast stress signaling. Molecular Pant. 15(3): 388-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.02.009

Karen E. Fisher, P. Krishnamoorthy, Matthew S. Joens, Joanne Chory, James A. J. Fitzpatrick, and Jesse D. Woodson. 2022. Singlet oxygen leads to structural changes to chloroplasts during degradation in the Arabidopsis thaliana plastid ferrochelatase two mutant. Plant and Cell Physiology. 63(2):248-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcab167

*   Cover article and featured author [Link].

Matthew. D. Lemke, Karen E. Fisher, Marta A. Kozlowska, David W. Tano, Jesse D. Woodson. 2021. The core autophagy machinery is not required for chloroplast singlet oxygen-mediated cell death in the Arabidopsis thaliana plastid ferrochelatase two mutant. BMC Plant Biology. 21:342. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03119-x

▲ Jesse D. Woodson. 2021. All in the timing: epigenetic control of greening. New Phytologist. 231(3): 907-9. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17454.

Kamran Alamdari, K. E. Fisher, D. W. Welsh, S. Rai, K. R. Palos, A. D. L. Nelson, & Jesse D. Woodson. 2021. Chloroplast quality control pathways are dependent on plastid DNA synthesis and nucleotides provided by cytidine triphosphate synthase two. New Phytologist. 231(4):1431-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17467.

Yuta Kikuchi, S. Nakamura, Jesse D. Woodson, H. Ishida, Q. Ling, J. Hidema, R. P. Jarvis, S. Hagihara, M. Izumi. 2020. Chloroplast Autophagy and Ubiquitination Combine to Manage Oxidative Damage and Starvation Responses. Plant Physiology. 183(4):1531-1544.

Kamran Alamdari, K. E. Fisher, A. B. Sinson, J. Chory, & Jesse D. Woodson. 2020. Roles for the chloroplast‐localized pentatricopeptide repeat protein 30 and the ‘mitochondrial’ transcription termination factor 9 in chloroplast quality control. The Plant Journal. 104:735-751.

▲ Jesse D. Woodson. 2019. Chloroplast stress signals: regulation of cellular degradation and chloroplast turnover. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 52:30–37.

▲ Jesse D. Woodson. 2016. Chloroplast quality control – Balancing energy production and stress. New Phytologist. 212:36-41.

Jesse D. Woodson, M. S. Joens, A. B. Sinson, J. Gilkerson, P. A. Salome, D. Weigel, J. A. Fitzpatrick, & J. Chory. 2015. Ubiquitin facilitates a quality control pathway that removes damaged chloroplasts. Science. 350:450-4.
*   Comment in New York Times article 10-27-15. [Link]
*   The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) paper of the month. [Link]
*   Comment in 2016 Trends Cell Biol. Jan;26(1):3-5. [Link]
*   Comment in 2016 Curr. Biol. Jan 11;26(1):R38-40. [Link]

▲ Jesse D. Woodson, J. Chory. 2014. Sense and adaptation: Signaling between the nucleus and genome-containing organelles. The Biochemist. 36:5: 6–10.

Jesse D. Woodson, J. M. Perez-Ruiz, R. J. Schmitz, J. R. Ecker, & J. Chory. 2013. Sigma factor mediated plastid retrograde signals control nuclear gene expression. Plant J. 73:1-13.
*   Cover article and featured article

▲ Jesse D. Woodson and J. Chory. 2012. Organelle signaling: how stressed chloroplasts communicate with the nucleus. Curr. Biol. 22:R690-2.

Jesse D. Woodson, J. M. Perez-Ruiz, & J. Chory. 2011. Heme synthesis by plastid ferrochelatase I regulates nuclear gene expression in plants. Curr. Biol. 21:897-903.
*   Comment in 2011 Curr Biol. 21:R391-3. [Link]

▲ J. C. Escalante-Semerena, Jesse D. Woodson, N. R. Buan, & C. L. Zayas.  "Conversion of Cobinamide to Coenzyme B12. In: "Tetrapyrroles: Birth, Life, and Death", M. J. Warren & Alison Smith (eds), Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, USA. 2009.

▲ Jesse D. Woodson and J. Chory. 2008. Coordination of gene expression between organellar and nuclear genomes. Nat. Rev. Gen. 9:383-95.

M. M. Otte, Jesse D. Woodson, & J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2007. The thiamine kinase (YcfN) enzyme plays a minor but significant role in cobinamide salvaging in Salmonella enterica. J. Bacteriol. 189:7310-5.

Jesse D. Woodson and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2006. The cbiS Gene of the archaeon Methanopyrus kandleri encodes a bifunctional enzyme with adenosylcobinamide amidohydrolase and a-ribazole-phosphate phosphatase activities. J. Bacteriol. 188:4227-35.

C. L. Zayas, Jesse D. Woodson, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2006. The cobZ gene of Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 encodes the non-orthologous replacement of the a-ribazole-5’ phosphate phosphatase (CobC) enzyme of Salmonella enterica. J. Bacteriol. 188:2740-3.

Jesse D. Woodson, A. A. Reynolds, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2005. ABC transporter for corrinoids in Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1. J. Bacteriol. 187:5901-9.

Jesse D. Woodson and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2004. CbiZ, an Amidohydrolase Enzyme Required for Salvaging the Coenzyme B12 Precursor Cobinamide in Archaea. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101:3591-6

Jesse D. Woodson, C. L. Zayas, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2003. A New Pathway for Salvaging the Coenzyme B12 Precursor Cobinamide in Archaea Requires Cobinamide- Phosphate Synthase (CbiB) Enzyme Activity. J. Bacteriol. 185:7193-201.

Jesse D. Woodson, R. F. Peck, M. P. Krebs, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2003. The cobY Gene of the Archaeon Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 is Required for De Novo Cobamide Synthesis. J. Bacteriol. 185:311-316.