Membership in Graduate Groups:
Plant Biology
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
 
Class Sites: 
PBI 214 - The Higher Plant Cell Wall,
with J. Labavitch and D. Nevins

1. Postharvest biology - developmental change of plastid metabolome and proteome during fruit ripening.
2. Plastid biogenesis - target and assembly of a protein translocation channel and its homologue in the outer envelope membrane of the organelle.

Selected Publications:
Dávila-Aponte, J. A., Inoue, K., Keegstra, K. (2002) Two chloroplastic protein translocation components, Tic110 and Toc75, are conserved in different plastid types from multiple plant species. Plant Mol. Biol. in press.

Inoue, K., Demel, R., de Kruijff, B., Keegstra, K. (2001) The N-terminal portion of the preToc75 transit peptide interacts with membrane lipids and inhibits binding and import of precursor proteins into isolated chloroplasts. Eur. J. Biochem. 268, 4036-4043.

Guo, D., Chen, F., Inoue, K., Blount, J., Dixon, R. A. (2001) Down-regulation of caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeory CoA 3-O-methyltransferase in transgenic alfalfa: impacts on lignin structure and implications for the biosynthesis of G and S lignin. Plant Cell 13, 73-88.

Inoue, K., Parvathi, K., Dixon, R. A. (2000) Substrate preferences of caffeic Acid/ 5-hydroxyferulic acid 3-O-methyltransferases in developing stems of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 375, 175-182.

Kersey, R., Inoue, K., Schubert, K., Dixon, R. A. (1999) Immunolocalization of two lignin O-methyltransferases in stems of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Protoplasma 209, 46-57.

Inoue, K., Sewalt, V. J. H., Ballance, M., Ni, W., Stürzer C, Dixon, R. A. (1998) Developmental expression and substrate specificities of alfalfa caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl coenzyme A 3-O-methyltransferase in relation to lignification. Plant Physiol. 117, 761-770.

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