Recent Publications

Yanagisawa, S., Yoo, S.-D., and Sheen, J. 2003. Differential regulation of EIN3 stability by glucose and ethylene signaling in plants. Nature, in press.

Moore, B., L., Zhou, L., Rolland, F., Hall, Q., Cheng, W.-H., Liu, Y.-X., Jones, T. L., and Sheen, J. 2003. Role of the Arabidopsis glucose sensor HXK1 in nutrient, light and hormonal signaling. Science, 300: 332-336.

Leon, P. and Sheen, J. 2003. Sugar and hormone connections. Trends in Plant Science, 8: 110-116.

Kazuya Ichimura, Kazuo Shinozaki, Guillaume Tena, Jen Sheen, Yves Henry, Anthony Champion, Martin Kreis, Shuqun Zhang, Heribert Hirt, Cathal Wilson, Erwin Heberle-Bors, Brian E. Ellis, Peter C. Morris, Roger W. Innes, Joseph R. Ecker, Dierk Scheel, Daniel F. Klessig, Yasunori Machida, John Mundy, Yuko Ohashi and John C. Walker. 2002. Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in plants: a new nomenclature. Trends in Plant Science, 7: 301-308.

Sheen, J. 2002. Phosphorelay and transcription control in cytokinin signal transduction. Science, 296: 1650-1652.

Wan-Hsing Cheng, Akira Endo, Mitsunori Seo, Li Zhou, Jessica
Penney, Huei-Chi Chen, Patricia Leon, Eiji Nambara, Tomokazu Koshiba, Sheen, J. 2002. A Unique Short-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductase in Arabidopsis ABA Biosynthesis and Glucose Signaling. Plant Cell, 14: 2723-2743.

Asai, T., Tena, G., Plonikova, J., Willmann, M., Chiu, W.-L., Gomez-Gomez, L., Boller, T., Ausubel, F.M., and Sheen, J. 2002. MAP kinase signaling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity. Nature 415: 977-983.

Hwang, I. and Sheen, J. 2002. Two-component signal transduction
pathways in Arabidopsis. A Special Issue on Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 129: 500-515.

Cheng, S.-H., Willmann, M. R., Chen, H.-C., and Sheen, J. 2002.
Calcium Signaling through Protein Kinases: The Arabidopsis
Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase Gene Family. A Special Issue on Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 129, 469-485.

Rolland, F., Moore, B., and Sheen, J. 2002. Sugar sensing and signaling in plants. A Special Issue on Signal Transduction. Plant Cell: S185-S205.

Sheen, J. 2001. Signal transduction in maize and Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts. Plant Physiol. A special issue on plant systems. 127:1466-1475.

Hwang, I. and Sheen, J. 2001. Two-component circuitry in Arabidopsis cytokinin signal transduction. Nature 413: 383-389.

Tena G, Asai T, Chiu W-L, Sheen J. Plant MAP kinase signaling cascades. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2001; 4:392-400.

Cheng S-H, Sheen J, Gerrish C, Bolwell GP Molecular identification of phenylalanine ammonia-lyaseasa substrate of a specific constitutively active Arabidopsis CDPK expressed in maize protoplasts. FEBS Lett 2001; 503:185-188.

Kausch AP, Owen TP Jr, Zachwieja SJ, Flynn AR, Sheen J. Mesophyll-specific, light and metabolic regulation of the C4 PPCZm1 promoter in transgenic maize. Plant Mol Biol 2001; 45:1-15.

Xiao W, Sheen J, Jang J-C. Multiple sugar signal transduction pathways in plants. Plant Mol Biol 2000; 44: 451-461.

Asai T, Stone JM, Head JE, Kovtun Y, Yorgey P, Sheen J, Ausubel FM. Fumonisin B1-Induced cell eath in Arabidopsis protoplasts requires jasmonate-, ethylene-, and salicylate-dependent signaling pathways. Plant Cell 2000; 12:1823-1835.

Arenas-Huertero F, Arroyo-Becerra A, Zhou L, Sheen J, León Leon. Analysis of Arabidopsis glucose insensitive mutants, gin5 and gin6, reveals a central role of the plant hormone ABA in the regulation of plant vegetative development by sugar. Gene Dev 2000; 14:2085-2096.

Jang J, Fujioka S, Tasaka M, Seto H, Takatsuto S, Ishii A, Aida M, Yoshida S, Sheen J. A critical role of sterols in embryonic patterning and meristem programming revealed by the fackel mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Gene Dev 2000; 14:1485-1497.

Kovtun Y, Chiu W-L, Tena G, Sheen J. Functional analysis of oxidative stress-activated MAPK cascade in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000; 97:2940-2945.

Sheen J. C4 gene expression. Annu Rev Plant Phys 1999; 50:187-217.

Sheen J, Zhou L, Jang J-C. Sugars as signaling molecules. Curr Opin Plant Biol 1999; 2:410-418.

Moore B, Sheen J. Plant sugar sensing and signaling- a complex reality. Trends Plant Sci 1999; 4:250.

Chang C-C, Sheen J, Bligny M, Niwa Y, Lerbs-Mache S, Stern DB. Functional analysis of two maize cDNAs encoding T7-like RNA polymerases. Plant Cell 1999; 11:911-926.

Kovtun Y, Chiu W-L, Zeng W, Sheen J. Suppression of auxin signal transduction by a MAPK cascade in higher plants. Nature 1998; 395:716-720.

Zhou L, Jang J.-C, Jones T, Sheen J. Glucose and ethylene signal transduction cross-talk revealed by an Arabidopsis glucose-insensitive mutant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998; 95:10294-10299.

Sheen J. Mutational analysis of protein phosphatase 2C involved in abscisic acid signal transduction in higher plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998; 98:975-980.

Yanagisawa S, Sheen J. Involvement of maize Dof zinc fingerproteins in tissue-specific and light-regulated gene expression. Plant Cell 1998; 10:75-89.

Jang J-C, Sheen J. Sugar sensing in higher plants. Trends Plant Sci 1997; 2:208-214.

Jang J-C, Leon P, Zhou L, Sheen J. Hexokinase as a sugar sensor in higher plants. Plant Cell 1997; 9: 5-19.

Sheen J. Specific Ca2+-dependent protein kinase in stress signal transduction. Science 1996; 274:1900-1902.

Chiu W-L, Niwa Y, Zeng W, Hirano T, Kobayashi H, Sheen J. Engineered GFP as a vital reporter in plants. Curr Biol 1996; 6:325-330.