Male (left) and female (right) moths of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. The caterpillars of this pest mainly attack the stems of maize plants.

Publications of Sarah Heinicke

Journal Article (9)

2025
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Colinas, M.; Morweiser, C.; Dittberner, O.; Chioca, B.; Alam, R. M.; Leucke, H.; Nakamura, Y.; Serna Guerrero, D. A.; Heinicke, S.; Kunert, M. et al.; Wurlitzer, J.; Ploss, K.; Hong, B.; Grabe, V.; Lopes, A. A.; O’Connor, S. E.: Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants. Nature Chemical Biology (2025)
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Grzech, D.; Smit, S. J.; Alam, R. M.; Boccia, M.; Nakamura, Y.; Hong, B.; Barbole, R.; Heinicke, S.; Kunert, M.; Seibt, W. et al.; Grabe, V.; Caputi, L.; Lichman, B. R.; O’Connor, S. E.; Aharoni, A.; Sonawane, P. D.: Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology 21, pp. 131 - 142 (2025)
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Laezza, C.; Heinicke, S.; Wurlitzer, J.; D'Amelia, V.; Caputi, L.; Rigano, M. M.; O’Connor, S. E.: Single-cell mass spectrometry reveals heterogeneous triterpenic acid accumulation in apple callus-derived cells. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2025)
2024
Journal Article
Boccia, M.; Kessler, D.; Seibt, W.; Grabe, V.; Rodriguez Lopez, C. E.; Grzech, D.; Heinicke, S.; O’Connor, S. E.; Sonawane, P. D.: A scaffold protein manages the biosynthesis of steroidal defense metabolites in plants. Science 386 (6728), pp. 1366 - 1372 (2024)
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Kamileen, M. O.; Nakamura, Y.; Luck, K.; Heinicke, S.; Hong, B.; Colinas, M.; Lichman, B. R.; O’Connor, S. E.: Streamlined screening platforms lead to the discovery of pachysiphine synthase from Tabernanthe iboga. New Phytologist 244 (4), pp. 1437 - 1449 (2024)
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Lucier, R.; Kamileen, M. O.; Nakamura, Y.; Serediuk, S.; Barbole, R.; Wurlitzer, J.; Kunert, M.; Heinicke, S.; O’Connor, S. E.; Sonawane, P. D.: Steroidal scaffold decorations in Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis. Molecular Plant 17 (8), pp. 1236 - 1254 (2024)
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Vu, A. H.; Kang, M.; Wurlitzer, J.; Heinicke, S.; Li, C.; Wood, J. C.; Grabe, V.; Buell, C. R.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Quantitative single-cell mass spectrometry provides a highly resolved analysis of natural product biosynthesis partitioning in plants. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (34), pp. 23891 - 23900 (2024)
2023
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Lorensen, M. D. B. B.; Bjarnholt, N.; St-Pierre, B.; Heinicke, S.; Courdavault, V.; O’Connor, S. E.; Janfelt, C.: Spatial localization of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids in Rauvolfia tetraphylla by high resolution mass spectrometry imaging. Phytochemistry 209, 113620 (2023)
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Sonawane, P. D.; Gharat, S. A.; Jozwiak, A.; Barbole, R.; Heinicke, S.; Almekias-Siegl, E.; Meir, S.; Rogachev, I.; O’Connor, S. E.; Giri, A. P. et al.; Aharoni, A.: A BAHD-type acyltransferase concludes the biosynthetic pathway of non-bitter glycoalkaloids in ripe tomato fruit. Nature Communications 14, 4540 (2023)

Preprint (3)

2025
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Calderini, O.; Kamileen, M. O.; Nakamura, Y.; Heinicke, S.; Alam, R. M.; Hong, B.; Jiang, Y.; Gutierrez, A.; Alagna, F.; Paolocci, F. et al.; Valeri, M. C.; Franco, E.; Mousavi, S.; Mariotti, R.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.; Rodriguez-Lopez, C. E.: It runs in the family: Discovery of enzymes in the oleuropein pathway in Olive (Olea europaea) by comparative transcriptomics. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
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Colinas, M.; Tymen, C.; Wood, J. C.; David, A.; Wurlitzer, J.; Morweiser, C.; Gase, K.; Alam, R. M.; Titchiner, G. R.; Hamilton, J. P. et al.; Heinicke, S.; Dirks, R. P.; Lopes, A. A.; Caputi, L.; Buell, C. R.; O’Connor, S. E.: Discovery of iridoid cyclase completes the iridoid pathway in asterids. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
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Kang, M.; Vu, H. A.; Casper, A. L.; Kim, R.; Wurlitzer, J.; Heinicke, S.; Yeroslaviz, A.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Single-cell metabolome and RNA-seq multiplexing on single plant cells. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
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