Clay J. Carter, Assistant Professor
B.S., Biotechnology, 1997, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Ph.D. Biochemistry, 2002, Iowa State University

cjcarter@d.umn.edu
253D SSB, 726-7347

Research:

PLANT MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY. I am primarily interested in the biochemistry of plant nectars and the molecular basis of nectar secretion. Other areas of interest include plant defense against pathogens and membrane trafficking in plants.

Selected Recent Publications:

Kram, B.W., Bainbridge, E.A., Perera, A., Carter, C. (in press) Identification, cloning and characterization of a GDSL lipase secreted into the nectar of Jacaranda mimosifolia. Plant Mol. Biol.

Sohn EJ, Rojas-Pierce M, Pan S, Carter C, Serrano-Mislata A, Madueño F, Rojo E, Surpin M, Raikhel NV (2007) The shoot meristem identity gene TFL1 is involved in flower development and trafficking to the protein storage vacuole. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA104: 18801-18806.

Robert S, Zouhar J, Carter C, Raikhel N (2007) Isolation of intact vacuoles from Arabidopsis rosette leaf-derived protoplasts. Nature Protocols2: 259-262.

Carter C, Healy R, O’Tool NM, Naqvi SM, Ren G, Park S, Beattie GA, Horner HT, Thornburg RW (2007) Tobacco nectaries express a novel NADPH oxidase that is implicated in the defense of floral reproductive tissues against microorganisms. Plant Physiol143: 389-399.

Carter C, Shafir S, Vaknin L, Palmer RG, Thornburg R (2006) A novel role for proline in plant floral nectars. Naturwissenschaften93:72-79.

Surpin M*, Rojas-Pierce M*, Carter C*, Hicks GR*,Vasquez J, Raikhel NV (2005) The power of chemical genomics to study the link between endomembrane system components and gravitropic response. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 4902-4907.

Carter C, Thornburg RW (2004) Is the nectar redox cycle a floral defense against microbial attack? Trends Plant Sci 9: 320-324.

Carter CJ*, Bednarek SY*, Raikhel NV (2004) Membrane trafficking in plants: new discoveries and approaches. Curr Opin Plant Biol 7: 701-707.

Carter CJ*, Pan S*, Zouhar J*, Avila EL, Girke T, Raikhel NV (2004) The vegetative vacuole proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals predicted and unexpected proteins. Plant Cell 16: 3285-3303.

Carter CJ and Thornburg, RW (2004)  Nectarin V is a flavin-containing berberine bridge enzyme-like protein with glucose oxidase activity. Plant Physiol.134: 460-469.

Carter C and Thornburg RW (2004) Nectarin III is a bifunctional enzyme with monodehydroascorbate reductase and carbonic anhydrase activities. Plant Mol. Biol.54: 415–425.

* indicates equal contribution towards manuscript

 

Carter Lab

Graduate Students:

Brian Kram

Jeff Ruhlmann

Undergraduates:

Robert Duerst

Adam Olson

Anne Rice

 

Teaches:

BIOL 2101 Cell Biology
BIOL 5232 Molecular Biology Lab