Dr Colin Lazarus

Research summary

• Plant and fungal molecular biology
• Auxin-binding protein and the perception of auxin
• Fatty acid synthesis in filamentous fungi and plants
• Polyketide synthesis in filamentous fungi

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Plant and Pathogen Biology

Labs

• Plant and Fungal Biotechnology

Selected publications

• Fisch, K, Bakeer, W, Yakasai, A, Song, Z, Pedrick, J, Wasil, Z, Bailey, A, Lazarus, C, Simpson, T & Cox, R 2011, ‘Rational Domain Swaps Decipher Programming in Fungal Highly Reducing Polyketide Synthases and Resurrect an Extinct Metabolite’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 133., pp. 16635 - 16641
• Heneghan, M, Yakasai, A, Williams, K, Kadir, K, Wasil, Z, Bakeer, W, Fisch, K, Bailey, A, Simpson, T, Cox, R & Lazarus, C 2011, ‘The Programming Role of Trans-Acting Enoyl Reductases During the Biosynthesis of Highly Reduced Fungal Polyketides’. Chemical Sciences, vol 2., pp. 972 - 979

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Latest publications

• Munawar, A, Marshall, JW, Cox, RJ, Bailey, AM & Lazarus, CM 2013, ‘Isolation and Characterisation of a Ferrirhodin Synthetase Gene from the Sugarcane Pathogen Fusarium sacchari’. Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, vol 14., pp. 388-94
• Davison, J, Fahad, AA, Cai, M, Song, Z, Yehia, SY, Lazarus, CM, Bailey, AM, Simpson, TJ & Cox, RJ 2012, ‘Genetic, molecular, and biochemical basis of fungal tropolone biosynthesis’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol 109., pp. 7642-7647

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