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  • Schenck, C.A., Anthony, T.M.., Jacobs, M., Jones, A.D., Last, R.L (2022) Natural variation meets synthetic biology: promiscuous trichome-expressed acyltransferases from Nicotiana. Plant Physiology DOI:10.1093/plphys/kiac192


  • Schenck, CA, Busta, L (2021) Using interdisciplinary, phylogeny-guided approaches to understand the evolution of plant metabolism. Plant Molecular Biology. DOI:10.1007/s11103-021-01220-1


  • Fan, P., Wang, P., Lou, Y-R., Leong, B.J., Moore, B.M., Schenck, C.A., Combs, R., Cao, P., Brandizzi, F., Shiu, S-H., Last, R.L. (2020) Evolution of a plant gene cluster in Solanaceae and emergence of metabolic diversity. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.56717


  • Moore, B.M., Wang, P., Fan, P., Lee, A., Leong, B., Lou, Y-R., Schenck, C.A., Sugimoto, K., Last, R.L., Lehti-Shiu, M.D., Barry, C.S., Shiu, S-H., (2020) Within and cross species predictions of plant specialized metabolism genes using transfer learning. In Silico Plants. DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.13.112102


  • Schenck, C.A., Last, R.L. (2020) Location, location! Cellular relocalization primes specialized metabolic diversification. FEBS Journal. DOI:10.1111/febs.15097


  • Schenck, C.A., Westphal, J., Jayaraman, D., Garcia, K., Wen, J., Mysore, K.S., Ané, J-M., Sumner, LW, Maeda, H.A. (2020) Role of cytosolic, tyrosine-insensitive prephenate dehydrogenase in Medicago truncatula. Plant Direct. DOI:10.1002/pld3.218


  • Cao, P., Kim, S-J., Xing, A., Schenck, C.A., Liu, L., Jiang, N., Wang, J., Last, R.L., and Brandizzi, F. (2019) Homeostasis of branched-chain amino acids is critical for the activity of TOR signaling in Arabidopsis. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.50747


  • Moore, B.M., Wang, P., Fan, P., Leong, B., Schenck, C.A., Lloyd, J.P., Lehti-Shiu, M.D., Last, R.L., Pichersky, E., Shiu, S-H., (2019) Robust predictions of specialized metabolism genes through machine learning. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1817074116



  • Schenck, C.A., Men, Y., Maeda, H.A. (2017) Conserved molecular mechanism of TyrA dehydrogenase substrate specificity underlying alternative tyrosine biosynthetic pathways in plants and microbes. Front. Mol. Biosci. DOI:10.3389/fmolb.2017.00073


  • Schenck, C.A., Holland, C.K., Schneider, M., Men, Y., Lee, S.G., Jez, J.M., Maeda, H.A. (2017) Molecular basis of the evolution of alternative tyrosine biosynthetic pathways in plants. Nat. Chem. Biol. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.2414


  • Schenck, C.A., Chen, S., Siehl, D.L., Maeda, H. A. (2015) Non-plastidic, tyrosine-insensitive prephenate dehydrogenases from legumes. Nat. Chem. Biol. DOI:10.1038/nchembio.1693