Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology

Prof John Christie

  • Professor (Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology)

telephone: 01413302392
email: John.Christie@glasgow.ac.uk


'Molecular basis of plant photoreceptor signalling'

Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001
Number of items: 34.

2013

Christie, J.M., and Murphy, A.S. (2013) Shoot phototropism in higher plants: new light through old concepts. American Journal of Botany, 100 (1). pp. 35-46. ISSN 0002-9122 (doi:10.3732/ajb.1200340)

2012

Christie, J.M., Hitomi, K., Arvai, A.S., Hartfield, K.A., Mettlen, M., Pratt, A.J., Tainer, J.A., and Getzoff, E.D. (2012) Structural tuning of the fluorescent protein iLOV for improved photostability. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287 (26). pp. 22295-22304. ISSN 0021-9258 (doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.318881)

Christie, J.M. et al. (2012) Plant UVR8 photoreceptor senses UV-B by tryptophan-mediated disruption of cross-dimer salt bridges. Science, 335 (6075). pp. 1492-1496. ISSN 0036-8075 (doi:10.1126/science.1218091)

Christie, J.M., Gawthorne, J., Young, G., Fraser, N.J., and Roe, A.J. (2012) LOV to BLUF: flavoprotein contributions to the optogenetic toolkit. Molecular Plant . ISSN 1674-2052 (doi:10.1093/mp/sss020)

Cloix, C., Kaiserli, E., Heilmann, M., Baxter, K.J., Brown, B.A., O'Hara, A., Smith, B.O., Christie, J.M., and Jenkins, G.I. (2012) C-terminal region of the UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 initiates signaling through interaction with the COP1 protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (40). pp. 16366-16370. ISSN 0027-8424 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1210898109)

Demarsy, E., Schepens, I., Okajima, K., Hersch, M., Bergmann, S., Christie, J., Shimazaki, K., Tokutomi, S., and Fankhauser, C. (2012) Phytochrome kinase substrate 4 is phosphorylated by the phototropin 1 photoreceptor. EMBO Journal, 31 (16). pp. 3457-3467. ISSN 0261-4189 (doi:10.1038/emboj.2012.186)

Gawthorne, J.A., Reddick, L.E., Akpunarlieva, S.N., Beckham, K.S.H., Christie, J.M., Alto, N.M., Gabrielsen, M., and Roe, A.J. (2012) Express your LOV: an engineered flavoprotein as a reporter for protein expression and purification. PLoS ONE, 7 (12). e52962. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052962)

2011

Christie, J.M., Kaiserli, E., and Sullivan, S. (2011) Light sensing at the plasma membrane. In: Murphy, A.S. (ed.) The Plant Plasma Membrane. Series: Plant cell monographs . Springer, pp. 423-426. ISBN 9783642134319

Christie, J.M. et al. (2011) phot1 inhibition of ABCB19 primes lateral auxin fluxes in the shoot apex required for phototropism. PLoS Biology, 9 (6). e1001076. ISSN 1544-9173 (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001076)

Djouani-Tahri, E.-B., Christie, J.M., Sanchez-Ferandin, S., Sanchez, F., Bouget, F.-Y., and Corellou, F. (2011) A eukaryotic LOV-histidine kinase with circadian clock function in the picoalga Ostreococcus. Plant Journal, 65 (4). pp. 578-588. ISSN 0960-7412 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04444.x)

2010

Sullivan, S., Kaiserli, E., Tseng, T.-S., and Christie, J.M. (2010) Subcellular localization and turnover of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 5 (2). pp. 184-186. ISSN 1559-2316 (doi:10.4161/psb.5.2.11082)

2009

Kaiserli, E., Sullivan, S., Jones, A., Feeney, K.A., and Christie, J.M. (2009) Domain swapping to assess the mechanistic basis of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 receptor kinase activation and endocytosis by blue light. Plant Cell, 21 (10). pp. 3226-3244. ISSN 1040-4651 (doi:10.1105/tpc.109.067876)

Sullivan, S., Thompson, C.E., Kaiserli, E., and Christie, J.M. (2009) Interaction specificity of Arabidopsis 14-3-3 proteins with phototropin receptor kinases. Febs Letters, 583 (13). pp. 2187-2193. ISSN 0014-5793 (doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2009.06.011)

Sanz, C., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Idnurm, A., Christie, J.M., Heitman, J., Corrochano, L.M., and Eslava, A.P. (2009) Phycomyces MADB interacts with MADA to form the primary photoreceptor complex for fungal phototropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (17). pp. 7095-7100. ISSN 0027-8424 (doi:10.1073/pnas.0900879106)

2008

Chapman, S., Faulkner, C., Kaiserli, E., Garcia-Mata, C., Savenkov, E.I., Roberts, A.G., Oparka, K.J., and Christie, J.M. (2008) The photoreversible fluorescent protein iLOV outperforms GFP as a reporter of plant virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (50). pp. 20038-20043. ISSN 0027-8424 (doi:10.1073/pnas.0807551105)

Jones, M.A., and Christie, J.M. (2008) Phototropin receptor kinase activation by blue light. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3 (1). pp. 44-46. ISSN 1559-2316 (doi:10.4161/psb.3.1.4848)

Sullivan, S., Thomson, C.E., Lamont, D.J., Jones, M.A., and Christie, J.M. (2008) In Vivo phosphorylation site mapping and functional characterization of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Molecular Plant, 1 (1). pp. 178-194. ISSN 1674-2052 (doi:10.1093/mp/ssm017)

2007

Devlin, P.F., Christie, J.M., and Terry, M.J. (2007) Many hands make light work. Journal of Experimental Botany, 58 (12). pp. 3071-3077. ISSN 0022-0957 (doi:10.1093/jxb/erm251 )

Christie, J.M., Corchnoy, S.B., Swartz, T.E., Hokenson, M., Han, I.S., Briggs, W.R., and Bogomolni, R.A. (2007) Steric interactions stabilize the signaling state of the LOV2 domain of phototropin 1. Biochemistry, 46 (32). pp. 9310-9319. ISSN 0006-2960 (doi:10.1021/bi700852w)

Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropin blue-light receptors. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 58 . pp. 21-45. ISSN 1543-5008 (doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103951)

Jones, M.A., Feeney, K.A., Kelly, S., and Christie, J.M. (2007) Mutational analysis of phototropin 1 provides insights into the mechanism underlying LOV2 signal transmission. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 . pp. 6405-6414. ISSN 0021-9258 (doi:10.1074/jbc.M605969200)

Briggs, W.R., Tseng, T.S., Cho, H.Y., Swartz, T.E., Sullivan, S., Bogomolni, R.O., Kaiserli, E., and Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropins and their LOV domains: Versatile plant blue-light receptors. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49 (1). pp. 4-10. ISSN 1672-9072 (doi:10.1111/j.1672-9072.2007.00406.x)

Cho, H-Y., Tseng, T-S., Kaiserli, E., Sullivan, S., Christie, J.M., and Briggs, W,R, (2007) Physiological roles of the light, oxygen, or voltage domains of phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 143 (1). pp. 517-529. ISSN 0032-0889 (doi:10.1104/pp.106.089839)

Cho, H.-Y., Tseng, T.S., Kaiserli, E., Sullivan, S., Christie, J.M., and Briggs, W.R. (2007) Physiological roles of the light, oxygen, or voltage domains of phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 in Arabidopsis1. Plant Physiology, 143 (1). pp. 517-529. ISSN 0032-0889 (doi:10.1104/pp.106.089839 )

2005

Onodera, A., Kong, S.G., Doi, M., Shimazaki, K.., Christie, J.M., Mochizuki, N., and Nagatani, A. (2005) Phototropin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is functional in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology, 46 (2). pp. 367-374. ISSN 0032-0781 (doi:10.1093/pcp/pci037)

2004

Harper, S.M., Christie, J.M., and Gardner, K.H. (2004) Disruption of the LOV-J alpha helix interaction activates phototropin kinase activity. Biochemistry, 43 (51). pp. 16184-16192. ISSN 0006-2960 (doi:10.1021/bi048092i)

2002

Christie, J.M., Swartz, T.E., Bogomolni, R.A., and Briggs, W.R. (2002) Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function. Plant Journal, 32 (2). pp. 205-219. ISSN 0960-7412 (doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01415.x)

Kashara, M. et al. (2002) Photochemical properties of the flavin mononucleotide-binding domains of the phototropins from Arabidopsis, rice, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiology, 129 (2). pp. 762-773. ISSN 0032-0889 (doi:10.1104/pp.002410)

Briggs, W.R., and Christie, J.M. (2002) Phototropins 1 and 2: versatile plant blue-light receptors. Trends in Plant Science, 7 (5). pp. 204-210. ISSN 1360-1385 (doi:10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02245-8)

2001

Briggs, W.R., Christie, J.M., and Salomon, M. (2001) Phototropins: a new family of flavin-binding blue light receptors in plants. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 3 (5). pp. 775-788. ISSN 1523-0864 (doi:10.1089/15230860152664975)

Swartz, T.E., Corchnoy, S.B., Christie, J.M., Lewis, J.W., Szundi, I., Briggs, W.R., and Bogomolni, R.A. (2001) The phocycle of a flavin-binding domain of the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276 (39). pp. 36493-36500. ISSN 0021-9258 (doi:10.1074/jbc.M103114200)

Sakai, T., Kagawa, T., Kashahara, M., Swartz, T.E., Christie, J.M., Briggs, W.R., Wada, M., and Okada, K. (2001) Arabidopsis nph1 and npl1: Blue light receptors that mediate both phototropism and chloroplast relocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (12). pp. 6969-6974. ISSN 0027-8424 (doi:10.1073/pnas.101137598 )

Briggs, W.R. et al. (2001) The phototropin family of photoreceptors. Plant Cell, 13 (5). pp. 993-997. ISSN 1040-4651 (doi:10.1105/tpc.13.5.993)

Christie, J.M., and Briggs, W.R. (2001) Blue light sensing in higher plants. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276 (15). pp. 11457-11460. ISSN 0021-9258 (doi:10.1074/jbc.R100004200)

This list was generated on Thu May 23 21:52:01 2013 BST.

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Modulation of Phytochrome B Signalling by Phosphorylation
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2013 - 2016
     
  • How does the plant UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 initiate signalling?
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2013 - 2016
     
  • Regulation of Auxin Fluxes Required For Phototropic Growth
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2012 - 2015
     
  • Plant UV-B photoreceptor signalling
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2012 - 2015
     
  • Utility of LOV-based Fluorescent Reporters To Monitor the Real-Time Secretion and Localisation of Bacterial Effector Proteins
    BBSRC
    2011 - 2012
     
  • Quest for the Holy Grail of plant photobiology: a UV-B photoreceptor
    Leverhulme Trust
    2010 - 2014
     
  • Phosphoproteomic approaches to understand photoreceptor kinase function and signalling in plants
    BBSRC
    2008 - 2009
     
  • The UVR8 UV-B-specific signalling pathway
    BBSRC
    2008 - 2011
     
  • LOV [Light-Oxygen-Voltage] domains as novel fluorescent markers
    Gatsby Charitable Foundation
    2007 - 2008
     
  • Characterisation of the phot1-interacting protein AtMRD1 and its role in regulating phototropism
    BBSRC
    2005 - 2008
     
  • Structure-function analyses of the phototropin blue light receptors
    BBSRC
    2002 - 2005
     
  • Biochemical/Molecular characterisation of phototropin signalling in Arabidopsis
    Royal Society
    2002 - 2010
     

Editorial Board

  • 2012 - ongoing: Plant Physiology - Monitoring Editor
  • 2012 - ongoing: New Phytologist - Editor
  • 2006 - ongoing: Plant Signalling and Behaviour - Editor

Invited International Presentations

  • 2012: Nara, Japan - Invited speaker, The 1st International Symposium on Plant Environmental Sensing
  • 2012: Tuebingen, Germany - Invited speaker, University of Tuebingen
  • 2012: Kyoto, Japan - Invited seminar speaker, Kyoto University
  • 2012: Osaka, Japan - Invited seminar speaker, Osaka Prefecture University
  • 2012: Galveston, Texas, USA - Invited speaker and session chair, Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
  • 2012: Hamamastu, Japan - Invited speaker, 4th International Symposium on Emergence of Highly Elaborated pi-Space and its Function
  • 2011: Jena, Germany - Invited speaker, Meeting of DFG Research Group: Specific Light Driven Reactions in Unicellular Model Algae
  • 2011: Beijing, China - Invited speaker, International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
  • 2010: Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
  • 2010: Columbia, Missouri, USA - Invited seminar speaker, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • 2009: California, USA - Invited seminar speaker, Plant Gene Expression Centre, Berkeley
  • 2009: Kyoto, Japan - Invited speaker, Memorial Symposium for the 25th International Prize for Biology
  • 2009: West Lafayette, Indiana, USA - Invited seminar speaker, Purdue University
  • 2009: California, USA - Invited seminar speaker, UC Davis
  • 2009: Dusseldorf, Germany - Invited speaker and session organiser, International Congress on Photobiology
  • 2009: Glasgow, UK - Invited speaker and session chair, Phoenix 2009 'Protein Complexes in Signalling and Development'
  • 2009: Stanford, California, USA - Invited seminar speaker, Carnegie Institution for Science
  • 2008: Freiburg, Germany - Invited speaker, GRK1305 International Graduate School Symposium, Plant Signalling Systems
  • 2008: University of Cambridge, UK - Invited seminar speaker
  • 2008: Ventura, California, USA - Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
  • 2007: University of Marburg, Germany - Invited seminar speaker
  • 2007: University of Birmingham, UK - Invited seminar speaker
  • 2007: Society for Experimental Biology Meeting, Glasgow, UK - Session organizer and speaker
  • 2006: University of York, UK - Invited Departmental Seminar
  • 2006: Cologne, Germany - Cologne Spring Meeting, International Symposium of the SFB635, The Control of Protein Function
  • 2006: Il Ciocco, Italy - Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
  • 2006: University of Oxford, UK - Invited seminar speaker
  • 2006: Paris, France - International Plant Photobiology Meeting
  • 2006: University of Durham, UK - Invited seminar speaker
  • 2005: Okazaki, Japan - International Phototropin Symposium
  • 2005: Edinburgh, UK - UK Arabidopsis Meeting
  • 2004: Neuchatel, Switzerland - International Workshop on Environmental Control of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Function
  • 2004: Glasgow, UK - Biochemical Society Meeting: Plant signalling from genes to biochemistry incorporating the 2nd Glasgow Phoenix Meeting
  • 2004: Braunschweig, Germany - German Botanical Society

Prizes, Awards and Distinctions

  • 2009: International Union of Photobiology, Finsen Lecture Award
  • 2003: American Society for Photobiology, New Investigator of the Year Award

Professional Learned Society

  • 2005 - ongoing: American Society of Plant Biologists - Member
  • 2003 - ongoing: American Society for Photobiology - Member

Research Fellowship

  • 2012 - 2012: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - Fellowship for Research in Japan
  • 2001 - 2011: Royal Society Fellowship