Jonathan Gershenzon

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Professor Jonathan Gershenzon at a lecture in Jena in March 2015

Jonathan Gershenzon (* 1955 ) is an American biochemist .

Life

After studying biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a doctorate in botany from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Gershenzon was a fellow and from 1991 a scientist at the Institute for Biological Chemistry at Washington State University in Pullman. Since 1997 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (1997) and Head of the Biochemistry Department. In 1999 he was appointed honorary professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Gershenzon studies the biochemistry of plant substances, in particular the functions of secondary plant metabolites and their effect on herbivorous insects as well as the regulation of secondary plant metabolism and the evolution of metabolic pathways. His research focuses primarily on the investigation of two main groups of plant metabolites that serve the plant defense: mustard oil glycosides and terpenes .

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Gershenzon, J. (1994). Metabolic costs of terpenoid accumulation in higher-plants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 20 (6), 1281-1328. doi : 10.1007 / BF02059810
  • Lambrix, V., Reichelt, M., Mitchell-Olds, T., Kliebenstein, DJ, Gershenzon, J. (2001). The Arabidopsis epithiospecifier protein promotes the hydrolysis of glucosinolates to nitriles and influences Trichoplusia ni herbivory. The Plant Cell, 13 (12), 2793-2807. PMC 139489 (free full text)
  • Pichersky, E., Gershenzon, J. (2002). The formation and function of plant volatiles: perfumes for pollinator attraction and defense. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5 (3), 237-243. doi : 10.1016 / S1369-5266 (02) 00251-0
  • Wittstock, U., Agerbirk, N., Stauber, EJ, Olsen, CE, Hippler, M., Mitchell-Olds, T., Gershenzon, J., Vogel, H. (2004). Successful herbivore attack due to metabolic diversion of a plant chemical defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 101 (14), 4859-4864. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0308007101
  • Dudareva, N., Andersson, S., Orlova, I., Gatto, N., Reichelt, M., Rhodes, D., Boland, W., Gershenzon, J. (2005). The nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 102 (3), 933-938. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0407360102
  • Rasmann, S., Köllner, TG, Degenhardt, J., Hiltpold, I., Toepfer, S., Kuhlmann, U., Gershenzon, J., Turlings, TCJ (2005). Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots. Nature , 434, 732-737. doi : 10.1038 / nature03451
  • Halkier, BA, Gershenzon, J. (2006). Biology and biochemistry of glucosinolates. Annual Review of Plant Biology , 57, 303-333. doi : 10.1146 / annurev.arplant.57.032905.105228
  • Gershenzon, J., Dudareva, N. (2007). The function of terpene natural products in the natural world. Nature Chemical Biology , 3 (7), 408-414. doi : 10.1038 / nchembio.2007.5
  • Wouters, FC, Reichelt, M., Glauser, G., Bauer, E., Erb, M., Gershenzon, J., Vassão, DG (2014). Reglucosylation of the benzoxazinoid DIMBOA with inversion of stereochemical configuration is a detoxification strategy in lepidopteran herbivores. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53 (42), 11320-11324. doi : 10.1002 / anie.201406643

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the MPI for Chemical Ecology
  2. ↑ The biochemistry of glucosinolate hydrolysis: How do insects defuse vegetable mustard oil bombs? Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2004
  3. ↑ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows AAAS News and Notes, Science November 30, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gershenzon, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955