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Köllner, Tobias G.

Department of Biochemistry, Prof. J. Gershenzon, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society, 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
Position: Department of Biochemistry, Prof. J. Gershenzon, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Additional IDs: IRIS: 2256
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons3982

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Publications

 
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 : Stathaki, A., Alam, R. M., Köllner, T. G., & O’Connor, S. E. (2025). Engineering of insect juvenile hormone III biosynthesis in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana. Metabolic Engineering, 88, 77-84. doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2024.12.005. [PubMan] : Schneider, F., Zafra-Delgado, O., Koellner, T. G., & Hellwig, F. (2025). Unravelling evolution in the homoploid complex of Baccharis L. in Chile. Authorea. doi:10.22541/au.173884703.35814174/v1. [PubMan] : Florean, M., Schultz, H., Wurlitzer, J., O’Connor, S. E., & Köllner, T. G. (2025). Independent evolution of plant natural products: Formation of benzoxazinoids in Consolida orientalis (Ranunculaceae). Journal of Biological Chemistry, 301(1): 108019. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2024.108019. [PubMan] : Chen, X., Urban, J. M., Wurlitzer, J., Wei, X., Han, J., O’Connor, S. E., Rudolf, J. D., Köllner, T. G., & Chen, F. (2024). Canonical terpene synthases in arthropods: Intraphylum gene transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(51): e2413007121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2413007121. [PubMan] : Thoenen, L., Kreuzer, M., Pestalozzi, C., Florean, M., Mateo, P., Züst, T., Wei, A., Giroud, C., Rouyer, L., Gfeller, V., Notter, M. D., Knoch, E., Hapfelmeier, S., Becker, C., Schandry, N., Robert, C. A. M., Köllner, T. G., Bruggmann, R., Erb, M., & Schlaeppi, K. (2024). The lactonase BxdA mediates metabolic specialisation of maize root bacteria to benzoxazinoids. Nature Communications, 15: 6535. doi:10.1101/2023.09.22.559061. [PubMan] : Florean, M., Schultz, H., Grabe, V., Luck, K., O’Connor, S. E., & Köllner, T. G. (2024). Highjacked by a pseudoenzyme: How eudicot plants make indole. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology. doi:10.1101/2024.08.26.609694. [PubMan] : Lyu, H., Ernst, L., Nakamura, Y., Okamura, Y., Köllner, T. G., Luck, K., Liu, B., Chen, Y., Beerhues, L., Gershenzon, J., & Paetz, C. (2024). Phenylphenalenones and linear diarylheptanoid derivatives are biosynthesized via parallel routes in Musella lasiocarpa, the chinese dwarf banana. Organic Letters, 26(26), 5522-5527. doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01750. [PubMan] : Xu, H., Köllner, T. G., Chen, F., & Dickschat, J. S. (2024). Functional and mechanistic characterization of the 4,5-diepi-isoishwarane synthase from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana. Chembiochem, e202400104. doi:10.1002/cbic.202400104. [PubMan] : Xu, H., Köllner, T. G., Chen, F., & Dickschat, J. S. (2024). Mechanistic characterisation of a sesquiterpene synthase for asterisca-1,6-diene from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana and implications for pentalenene biosynthesis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 22(7), 1360-1364. doi:10.1039/d3ob02088f. [PubMan] : Gikonyo, M. W., Ahn, S.-J., Biondi, M., Fritzlar, F., Okamura, Y., Vogel, H., Köllner, T. G., Şen, I., Hernández-Teixidor, D., Lee, C.-F., Letsch, H., & Beran, F. (2024). A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, qpad197, pp. 127-145. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpad197. [PubMan] : Müller, A. T., Nakamura, Y., Reichelt, M., Luck, K., Cosio, E., Lackus, N., Gershenzon, J., Mithöfer, A., & Köllner, T. G. (2024). Biosynthesis, herbivore induction, and defensive role of phenylacetaldoxime glucoside. Plant Physiology, 194(1), 329-346. doi:10.1093/plphys/kiad448. [PubMan] : Jiang, Y., Chen, F., Song, A., Zhao, Y., Chen, X., Gao, Y., Wei, G., Zhang, W., Guan, Y., Fu, J., Chen, J., Guo, W., Wang, Z., Köllner, T. G., Li, Z., Liu, N., Sui, S., Zhang, L., & Chen, F. (2023). The genome assembly of Chimonanthus praecox var. concolor and comparative genomic analysis highlight the genetic basis underlying conserved and variable floral traits of wintersweet. Industrial Crops and Products, 206: 117603. doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2023.117603. [PubMan] : Köllner, T. G., Gershenzon, J., Peters, R. J., Zerbe, P., & Schmelz, E. A. (2023). The terpene synthase gene family in maize – a clarification of existing community nomenclature. BMC Genomics, 24: 744. doi:10.1186/s12864-023-09856-7. [PubMan] : Florean, M., Luck, K., Hong, B., Nakamura, Y., O’Connor, S. E., & Köllner, T. G. (2023). Reinventing metabolic pathways: Independent evolution of benzoxazinoids in flowering plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(42): e2307981120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2307981120. [PubMan] : Chen, X., Nowicki, M., Wadl, P. A., Zhang, C., Köllner, T. G., Payá-Milans, M., Huff, M. L., Staton, M. E., Chen, F., & Trigiano, R. N. (2023). Chemical profile and analysis of biosynthetic pathways and genes of volatile terpenes in Pityopsis ruthii, a rare and endangered flowering plant. PLoS One, 18(6): e0287524. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0287524. [PubMan] : Kreuzenbeck, N. B., Dhiman, S., Roman, D., Burkhardt, I., Conlon, B. H., Fricke, J., Guo, H., Blume, J., Görls, H., Poulsen, M., Dickschat, J. S., Köllner, T. G., Arndt, H.-D., & Beemelmanns, C. (2023). Isolation, (bio)synthetic studies and evaluation of antimicrobial properties of drimenol-type sesquiterpenes of Termitomyces fungi. Communications Chemistry, 6(1): 79. doi:10.1038/s42004-023-00871-z. [PubMan] : Petrén, H., Köllner, T. G., & Junker, R. R. (2023). Quantifying chemodiversity considering biochemical and structural properties of compounds with the R package chemodiv. New Phytologist, 237(6), 2478-2492. doi:10.1111/nph.18685. [PubMan] : Nosenko, T., Zimmer, I., Ghirardo, A., Köllner, T. G., Weber, B., Polle, A., Rosenkranz, M., & Schnitzler, J.-P. (2023). Predicting functions of putative fungal sesquiterpene synthase genes based on multiomics data analysis. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 165: 103779. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2023.103779. [PubMan] : Rebholz, Z., Lancaster, J., Larose, H., Khrimian, A., Luck, K., Sparks, M. E., Gendreau, K. L., Shewade, L., Köllner, T. G., Weber, D. C., Gundersen-Rindal, D. E., O’Maille, P., Morozov, A. V., & Tholl, D. (2023). Ancient origin and conserved gene function in terpene pheromone and defense evolution of stink bugs and hemipteran insects. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 152: 103879. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2022.103879. [PubMan] : Krause, T., Wiesinger, P., González-Cabanelas, D., Lackus, N., Köllner, T. G., Klüpfel, T., Williams, J., Rohwer, J., Gershenzon, J., & Schmidt, A. (2023). HDR, the last enzyme in the MEP pathway, differently regulates isoprenoid biosynthesis in two woody plants. Plant Physiology, 192(2), 767-788. doi:10.1093/plphys/kiad110. [PubMan] : Müller, A. T., Reichelt, M., Cosio, E. G., Salinas, N., Nina, A., Wang, D., Moossen, H., Geilmann, H., Gershenzon, J., Köllner, T. G., & Mithöfer, A. (2022). Combined –omics framework reveals how ant symbionts benefit the Neotropical ant-plant Tococa quadrialata at different levels. iScience, 25(10): 105261. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105261. [PubMan] : Köllner, T. G., David, A., Luck, K., Beran, F., Kunert, G., Zhou, J.-J., Caputi, L., & O’Connor, S. E. (2022). Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(42): e2211254119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2211254119. [PubMan] : Gordon, H., Fellenberg, C., Lackus, N., Archinuk, F., Sproule, A., Nakamura, Y., Köllner, T. G., Gershenzon, J., Overy, D. P., & Constabel, C. P. (2022). CRISPR/Cas9 disruption of UGT71L1 in poplar connects salicinoid and salicylic acid metabolism and alters growth and morphology. The Plant Cell, 34(8), 2925-2947. doi:10.1093/plcell/koac135. [PubMan] : Zhang, W., Jiang, Y., Chen, F., Guan, Z., Wei, G., Chen, X., Zhang, C., Köllner, T. G., Chen, S., Chen, F., & Chen, F. (2022). Dynamic regulation of volatile terpenoid production and emission from Chrysanthemum morifolium capitula. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 182, 11-21. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.03.039. [PubMan] : Niemiec, M. J., Kapitan, M., Himmel, M., Döll, K., Krüger, T., Köllner, T. G., Auge, I., Kage, F., Alteri, C. J., Mobley, H. L. T., Monsen, T., Linde, S., Nietzsche, S., Kniemeyer, O., Brakhage, A. A., & Jacobsen, I. D. (2022). Augmented enterocyte damage during Candida albicans and Proteus mirabilis coinfection. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 12: 866416. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2022.866416. [PubMan]