List of Publications Prof. Dr. Claus-Peter Witte
2026
Dörfer E, Sadeghi Z, Frick V, Ebel K, Heide A, Niehoff T et al. Inosine monophosphate dehydrogenases are key players for functional development in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal. 2026 Aug 4;127(3):e71072. doi: 10.1111/tpj.71072
2025
Firdoos N, Krumwiede L, Medina-Escobar N, Treichel L, Fischer L, Herde M et al. The vacuolar phosphatases purple acid phosphatase 26 and haloacid dehalogenase IIA2.1 hydrolyze 5'-, 3'-, and 2'-nucleotides derived from RNA degradation. Plant physiology. 2025 Jan;197(1):kiaf025. Epub 2025 Jan 17. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf025
Hakim SE, Choudhary N, Malhotra K, Peng J, Bültemeier A, Arafa A et al. Phylogenomics and metabolic engineering reveal a conserved gene cluster in Solanaceae plants for withanolide biosynthesis. Nature Communications. 2025 Jul 10;16(1):6367. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61686-1
Voß L, Keller I, Schröder R, Mehner-Breitfeld D, Specht A, Dräger G et al. A plastid carbohydrate carrier mediates ribose recycling from nucleotide catabolism and glucose export from starch degradation. Nature Communications. 2025 Nov 5;16(1):9747. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65510-8
2024
Byun S, Park C, Suh JY, Witte CP, Rhee S. Structure, cooperativity and inhibition of the inosine 5′-monophosphate-specific phosphatase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Journal. 2024 May 3;291(9):1992-2008. doi: 10.1111/febs.17093
Dunken N, Widmer H, Balcke GU, Straube H, Langen G, Charura NM et al. A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization. Cell Host and Microbe. 2024 Dec 11;32(12):2161-2177.e7. Epub 2024 Nov 26. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.10.020
Leite Dias S, Chuang L, Liu S, Seligmann B, Brendel FL, Gabriel Chavez B et al. Biosynthesis of the allelopathic alkaloid gramine in barley by a cryptic oxidative rearrangement. SCIENCE. 2024 Mar 29;383(6690):1448-1454. doi: 10.1126/science.adk6112
Rinne J, Niehaus M, Medina-Escobar N, Straube H, Schaarschmidt F, Rugen N et al. Three Arabidopsis UMP kinases have different roles in pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis and (deoxy)CMP salvage. The plant cell. 2024 Sept;36(9):3611-3630. Epub 2024 Jun 12. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae170
Scherer V, Bellin L, Schwenkert S, Lehmann M, Rinne J, Witte CP et al. Uracil phosphoribosyltransferase is required to establish a functional cytochrome b6f complex. Plant Journal. 2024 Oct 30;120(30):1064-1078. doi: 10.1111/tpj.17036
Witte CP, Herde M. Nucleotides and nucleotide derivatives as signal molecules in plants. Journal of experimental botany. 2024 Dec 4;75(22):6918-6938. Epub 2024 Sept 10. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae377
