Sarah E. O’Connor

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology — Germany

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology(84), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis(66), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis(59), Plant tissue culture and regeneration(52), Chemical synthesis and alkaloids(42)

Publications305 total

Discovery of a Plant Pictet-Spenglerase with R-Stereoselectivity
2026Open Access
Comparative transcriptomic and co-expression analyses enable the discovery of key enzymes responsible for oleuropein biosynthesis in olive (Olea europaea)
Plant Communications·2026Open Access
Conserved early steps of stemmadenine biosynthesis
2025Open Access
Independent evolution of geraniol-8-hydroxylase activity involved in iridoid formation in the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology·2025Open Access
Single-cell metabolome and RNA-seq multiplexing on single plant cells
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Discovery of iridoid cyclase completes the iridoid pathway in asterids
Nature Plants·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Identification and Stereoselective Total Synthesis of an Insect Homosesquiterpene from the Clonal Raider Ant <i>Ooceraea biroi</i>
Journal of Natural Products·2025Open Access
Author response for "Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae)"
2025
Identification of <scp>BAHD</scp>‐acyltransferase enzymes involved in ingenane diterpenoid biosynthesis
New Phytologist·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Enzymatic epimerization of monoterpene indole alkaloids in kratom
Nature Chemical Biology·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae)"
2025
A pseudoenzyme enables indole biosynthesis in eudicot plants
Nature Chemical Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
A Tight-Knit Family: The Medium-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductases of Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Biosynthesis
Biochemistry·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Discovery of iridoid cyclase completes the iridoid pathway in asterids
2025Open Access
Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants
Nature Chemical Biology·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Single‐cell mass spectrometry reveals heterogeneous triterpenic acid accumulation in apple callus‐derived cells
Plant Biotechnology Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Single-cell metabolome and RNA-seq multiplexing on single plant cells
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Flowers with bad breath
Science·2025
Clade III Synthases Add Cyclic and Linear Terpenoids to the <i>Psilocybe</i> Metabolome
ChemBioChem·2025Open Access
Isotopic Labeling Analysis using Single Cell Mass Spectrometry
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Vincent Courdavault(11), C. Robin Buell(7), Weerawat Runguphan(7), Evangelos C. Tatsis(7), Lorenzo Caputi(6), John P. Hamilton(6), Brieanne Vaillancourt(6), Carlos E. Rodríguez López(6), Jakob Franke(4), Richard Payne(4), Inês Carqueijeiro(4), Fernando Geu‐Flores(4), Franziska Kellner(4), Emilien Foureau(4), David K. Liscombe(4), Mohamed O. Kamileen(4), Justin J. Maresh(3), Marc Clastre(3), Barbara Imperiali(3), Thu‐Thuy T. Dang(3)