Associate Professor
Plant Natural Products (Terpenoid) Biosynthesis
Enzyme Mechanisms and Engineering
Biochemical Pathway Identification (Functional Genomics)
Metabolic Engineering
Selected Publications
Cyr, A., Wilderman, P.R., Determan, M., Peters, R.J. (2007) “A modular approach for facile biosynthesis of labdane-related diterpenes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129(21):6684-6685.
Prisic, S., Xu, J., Coates, R.M., Peters, R.J. (2007) “Probing the role of the DXDD motif in class II diterpene cyclases”, ChemBioChem, 8(8):869-874.
Prisic, S., Peters, R.J. (2007) “Synergistic substrate inhibition of ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase: A feed-forward inhibition mechanism that may limit gibberellin metabolism”, Plant Physiol., 144(1):445-454.
Xu, M., Wilderman, P.R., Peters, R.J. (2007) “Following evolution's lead to a single residue switch for diterpene synthase product outcome”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104(18):7397-7401.
Xu, M., Wilderman, P.R., Morrone, D., Xu, J., Roy, A., Margis-Pinheiro, M., Upadhyaya, N.M., Coates, R.M., Peters, R.J. (2007) “Functional characterization of the rice kaurene synthase-like gene family”, Phytochemistry, 68(3):312-326.
Peters, R.J. (2006) “Uncovering the complex metabolic network underlying diterpenoid phytoalexin biosynthesis in rice and other cereal crop plants”, Phytochemistry, 67(21):2307-2317.
Morrone, D., Jin, Y., Xu,M., Choi, S.-Y., Coates, R.M., Peters, R.J. (2006) “An unexpected diterpene cyclase from rice: functional identification of a stemodene synthase”, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 448(1-2):133-140.
Harris, L.J., Saparno, A., Johnston, A., Prisic, S., Xu, M., Allard, S., Kathiresan, A., Ouellet, T., Peters, R.J. (2005) “The maize An2 gene is induced by Fusarium attack and encodes an ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase”, Plant Mol. Biol., 59(6):881-895.
Prisic, S., Xu, M., Wilderman, P.R. and Peters, R.J. (2004) Rice contains
two disparate ent-copalyl diphosphate synthases with distinct metabolic
functions. Plant Physiol. 136, 4228-4236.
Xu, M., Hillwig, M.L., Prisic, S., Coates, R.M. and Peters, R.J. (2004)
Functional identification of rice syn-copalyl diphosphate synthase and
its role in initiating biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexin/allelopathic
natural products. Plant J. 39, 309-318.
Wilderman, P.R., Xu, M., Jin, Y., Coates, R.M. and Peters, R.J. (2004)
Identification of syn-pimara-7,15-diene synthase reveals functional
clustering of terpene snthases involved in rice phytoalexin/allelochemical
biosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 135, 2098-2105.
