Researcher Portfolio
Rodriguez Lopez, Carlos E.
Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Prof. Dr. Sarah O'Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Researcher Profile
Position: Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Prof. Dr. Sarah O'Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Additional IDs: Iris: 7009
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons240943
Publications
: Kunert, M., Langley, C., Lucier, R., Ploß, K., Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Serna Guerrero, D. A., Rothe, E., O’Connor, S. E., & Sonawane, P. D. (2023). Promiscuous CYP87A enzyme activity initiates cardenolide biosynthesis in plants. Nature Plants, 9, 1607-1617. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01515-9. [PubMan] : Hernández-Lozada, N. J., Hong, B., Wood, J. C., Caputi, L., Basquin, J., Chuang, L., Kunert, M., Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Langley, C., Zhao, D., Buell, C. R., Lichman, B. R., & O’Connor, S. E. (2022). Biocatalytic routes to stereo-divergent iridoids. Nature Communications, 13: 4718. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32414-w. [PubMan] : Hong, B., Grzech, D., Caputi, L., Sonawane, P. D., Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Kamileen, M. O., Hernández-Lozada, N. J., Grabe, V., & O’Connor, S. E. (2022). Biosynthesis of strychnine. Nature, 607, 617-622. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04950-4. [PubMan] : Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Jiang, Y., Kamileen, M. O., Lichman, B. R., Hong, B., Vaillancourt, B., Buell, C. R., & O’Connor, S. E. (2022). Phylogeny-aware chemoinformatic analysis of chemical diversity in Lamiaceae enables iridoid pathway assembly and discovery of aucubin synthase. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(4): msac057. doi:10.1093/molbev/msac057. [PubMan] : Rodríguez‐López, C. E., Hong, B., Paetz, C., Nakamura, Y., Koudounas, K., Passeri, V., Baldoni, L., Alagna, F., Calderini, O., & O’Connor, S. E. (2021). Two bi-functional cytochrome P450 CYP72 enzymes from olive (Olea europaea) catalyze the oxidative C-C bond cleavage in the biosynthesis of secoxy-iridoids – flavor and quality determinants in olive oil. New Phytologist, 229(4), 2288-2301. doi:10.1111/nph.16975. [PubMan] : Dávila-Lara, A., Rodríguez-López, C. E., O’Connor, S. E., & Mithöfer, A. (2020). Metabolomics analysis reveals tissue-specific metabolite compositions in leaf blade and traps of carnivorous Nepenthes plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(12): 4376. doi:10.3390/ijms21124376. [PubMan] : Lichman, B. R., Godden, G. T., Hamilton, J. P., Palmer, L., Kamileen, M. O., Zhao, D., Vaillancourt, B., Wood, J. C., Sun, M., Kinser, T. J., Henry, L. K., Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Dudareva, N., Soltis, D. E., Soltis, P. S., Buell, C. R., & O’Connor, S. E. (2020). The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip. Science Advances, 6(20): eaba0721. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba0721. [PubMan]