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2024
Hoffmann, N., and McFarlane, H.E.# (2024) Xyloglucan side chains enable polysaccharide secretion to the plant cell wall. Developmental Cell, 59: 2609-2625.
Mohammad, E. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2024) Two roads diverge for cellulose synthase complex trafficking. Trends in Plant Science, 20: 839-841.
Hoffmann, N., Mohammad, E. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2024) Disrupting cell wall integrity impacts endomembrane trafficking to promote secretion over endocytic trafficking. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75: 3731–3747.
Lathe, R.S.*, McFarlane, H.E.*,#, Kesten, C., Wang, L., Khan, G.A., Ebert, B., Ramírez-Rodríguez, E.A., Zheng, S., Noord, N., Frandsen, K., Bhalerao, R.P., and Persson, S#. (2024) NKS1/ELMO4 is an integral protein of a pectin synthesis protein complex and maintains Golgi morphology and cell adhesion in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121: e2321759121.
Highlighted in Nature Plants.
Tobias, L.M., McFarlane, H.E.#, Bossinger, G. and Spokevicius, A.V.# (2024) Cortical microtubule dynamics during reaction wood formation ensures context-appropriate cellulose microfibril angle in woody trees. Trees, 38: 507-522.
2023
McFarlane, H.E.# (2023) Open questions in plant cell wall synthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 3425-3448.
Monaghan, J.#, Brady, S.M., Haswell, E.S., Roy, S., Schwessinger, B. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2023) Running a research group in the next generation: combining sustainable and reproducible research with values-driven leadership. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 1-6.
Highlighted on Plantae.
2022
Dai, L., Wang, B., Wang, T., Meyer, E.H., Kettel, V., Hoffmann, N., McFarlane, H.E., Li, S., Wu, X., Picard, K.L., Giavalisco, P., Persson, S., and Zhang, Y. (2022) The TOR complex controls ATP levels to regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2122969119.
Highlighted in Nature Plants and on Plantae.
Zhu, Y. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2022) Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 69: 102273.
McKay D.W., McFarlane, H.E. Qu,, Y., Situmorang, A., Gilliham, M., and Wege, S. (2022) Plant Trans-Golgi Network/Early Endosome pH regulation requires Cation Chloride Cotransporter (CCC1). eLife 11: e70701.
2021
Verbančič, J., Huang, J.J. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2021) Analysis of cellulose synthase activity in Arabidopsis using spinning disk microscopy. STAR Protocols 2: 100863.
Larson, R.T. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2021) Small but Mighty: an update on small molecule plant cellulose biosynthesis inhibitors. Plant & Cell Physiology 62: 1828.
McFarlane, H.E.#, Mutwil-Anderwald, D., Verbančič, J., Picard, K.L. Gookin, Froehlich, A., Chakravorty, D., Trindade, L,M., Alonso, J.M., Assmann, S.M., and Persson, S.# (2021) A G protein-coupled receptor-like module regulates cellulose synthase secretion from the endomembrane system in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell 56: 1484.
Hoffmann, N., King, S., Samuels, A.L., and McFarlane, H.E.# (2021) Subcellular coordination of plant cell wall synthesis. Developmental Cell 56: 933.
Ramírez-Rodríguez, E.A., and McFarlane, H.E.# (2021) Insights from the structure of a plant cellulose synthase trimer. Trends in Plant Science 26: 7.
2020
Heinze, L., Freimuth, N., Rößling, A.K., Hahnke, R., Riebschläger, S., Fröhlich, A., Sampathkumar, A., McFarlane, H.E. and Sauer, M. (2020) EPSIN1 and MTV1 define functionally overlapping but molecularly distinct trans-Golgi network subdomains in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 25880.
Tobias, L.M., Spokevicius, A.V., McFarlane, H.E.#, and Bossinger, G. (2020) The cytoskeleton and Its role in determining cellulose microfibril angle in secondary cell walls of woody tree species. Plants 9: 90.
2019
Watkins, J.L., Li, M., McQuinn, R.P., Chan, K.X., McFarlane, H.E., Ermakova, M., Furbank, R.T., Mares, D.J., Dong, C., Chalmers, K.J., Sharp, P., Mather, D., and Pogson, B.J. (2019) A GDSL esterase/lipase catalyzes the esterification of lutein in bread wheat. The Plant Cell 31: 3092.
Parsons, H.T.*, Stevens, T.J.*, McFarlane, H.E., Vidal-Melgosa, S., Griss, J., Lawrence, N., Butler, R., Sousa, M.M.L., Salemi, M., Willats, W.G.T., Petzold, C.J., Heazlewood, J.L., and Lilley, K.S. (2019) Separating Golgi proteins from cis to trans reveals underlying properties of cisternal localization. The Plant Cell 31: 2010.
Kesten, C.*, Wallmann, A.*, Schneider, R., McFarlane, H.E., Diehl, A., Khan, G.A., van Rossum, B.J., Lampugnani, E.R., Szymanski, W.G., Cremer, N., Schmieder, P., Ford, K.L. Seiter, F., Heazlewood, J.L., Sanchez-Rodriguez, C., Oschkinat, H., and Persson, S. (2019) The companion of cellulose synthase 1 confers salt tolerance through a Tau-like mechanism in plants. Nature Communications, 10: 857.
2018
Ebert, B.*, Rautengarten, C.*, McFarlane, H.E., Rupasinghe, T., Zeng, W., Ford, K., Scheller, H.V., Bacic, A., Roessner, U., Persson, S. and Heazlewood, J.L. (2018) A Golgi UDP-GlcNAc transporter delivers substrates for N-linked glycans and sphingolipids. Nature Plants 4: 792.
Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., McFarlane, H.E., Obata, T., Richter, A.S., Lohse, M., Grimm, B., Persson, S., Fernie, A.R., and Giavalisco, P. (2018) Inhibition of TOR represses nutrient consumption, which improves greening after extended periods of etiolation. Plant Physiology 178: 101.
Chen, H.W., Persson, S., Grebe, M. and McFarlane, H.E.# (2018) Cellulose synthesis during cell plate assembly. Physiologia Plantarum 164: 17.
2017
Schneider, R., Tang, L., Lampugnani, E.R., Barkwill, S., Lathe, R., Zhang, Y., McFarlane, H.E., Pesquet, E., Niittyla, T., Mansfield, S.D. and Zhou, Y., and Persson, S. (2017) Two complementary mechanisms underpin cell wall patterning during xylem vessel development. The Plant Cell 29: 2433.
Rautengarten, C., Birdseye, D., Pattathil, S., McFarlane, H.E., Saez-Aguayo, S., Orellana, A., Persson, S., Hahn, M.G., Scheller, H.V., Heazlewood, J.L. and Ebert, B. (2017) The elaborate route for UDP-arabinose delivery into the Golgi of plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 4261.
McFarlane, H.E., Lee, E.K., Van Bezouwen, L.S., Ross, B., Rosado, A. and Samuels, A.L. (2017) Multiscale structural analysis of plant ER–PM contact sites. Plant and Cell Physiology 58: 478.
2016
Steiner, A., Rybak, K., Altmann, M., McFarlane, H.E., Klaeger, S., Nguyen, N., Facher, E., Ivakov, A., Wanner, G., Kuster, B., Persson, S. Braun, P., Hauser, M.T., and Assaad F.F. (2016) Cell cycle‐regulated PLEIADE/At MAP 65‐3 links membrane and microtubule dynamics during plant cytokinesis. The Plant Journal 88: 531.
Zhang, Y., Nikolovski, N., Sorieul, M., Vellosillo, T., McFarlane, H.E., Dupree, R., Kesten, C., Schneider, R., Driemeier, C., Lathe, R., Lampugnani, E., Yu, X., Ivakov, A., Doblin, M.S., Mortimer, J.C., Brown, S.P., Persson, S., and Dupree, P. (2016) Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 7: 11656.
de Michele, R.*, McFarlane, H.E.*, Parsons, H.T.*, Meents, M.J., Lao, J., González Fernández-Niño, S.M., Petzold, C.J., Frommer, W.B., Samuels, A.L. and Heazlewood, J.L. (2016) Free-flow electrophoresis of plasma membrane vesicles enriched by two-phase partitioning enhances the quality of the proteome from Arabidopsis seedlings. Journal of Proteome Research 15: 900.
* RdM, HEM, and HTP contributed equally
2015
Wang, T., McFarlane, H.E.# and Persson, S. (2015) The impact of abiotic factors on cellulose synthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany 67: 543.
Pérez-Sancho, J., Vanneste, S., Lee, E., McFarlane, H.E., del Valle, A.E., Valpuesta, V., Friml, J., Botella, M.A. and Rosado, A. (2015) The Arabidopsis synaptotagmin1 is enriched in endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contact sites and confers cellular resistance to mechanical stresses. Plant Physiology 168: 132.
Chen, L.Q., Lin, I.W., Qu, X.Q., Sosso, D., McFarlane, H.E., Londoño, A., Samuels, A.L. and Frommer, W.B. (2015) A cascade of sequentially expressed sucrose transporters in the seed coat and endosperm provides nutrition for the Arabidopsis embryo. The Plant Cell 27: 607.
2014
McFarlane, H.E., Döring, A. and Persson, S. (2014) The cell biology of cellulose synthesis. Annual Review of Plant Biology 65: 69.
McFarlane, H.E., Gendre, D., and Western, T.L. (2014) Seed coat ruthenium red staining assay. BioProtocol Online 4: 7.
McFarlane, H.E., Watanabe, Y., Yang, W., Huang, Y., Ohlrogge, J. and Samuels, A.L. (2014) Golgi-and trans-Golgi network-mediated vesicle trafficking is required for wax secretion from epidermal cells. Plant Physiology 164: 1250.
2013
Huang, Y., Chen, X., Liu, Y., Roth, C., Copeland, C., McFarlane, H.E., Huang, S., Lipka, V., Wiermer, M. and Li, X. (2013) Mitochondrial AtPAM16 is required for plant survival and the negative regulation of plant immunity. Nature Communications 4: 2558.
Boutté, Y., Jonsson, K., McFarlane, H.E., Johnson, E., Gendre, D., Swarup, R., Friml, J., Samuels, L., Robert, S. and Bhalerao, R.P. (2013) ECHIDNA-mediated post-Golgi trafficking of auxin carriers for differential cell elongation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 16259.
McFarlane, H.E.*, Watanabe, Y.*, Gendre, D., Carruthers, K., Levesque-Tremblay, G., Haughn, G.W., Bhalerao, R.P. and Samuels, L. (2013) Cell wall polysaccharides are mislocalized to the vacuole in echidna mutants. Plant and Cell Physiology 54: 1867.
Gendre, D.*, McFarlane, H.E.*, Johnson, E., Mouille, G., Sjödin, A., Oh, J., Levesque-Tremblay, G., Watanabe, Y., Samuels, L. and Bhalerao, R.P. (2013) Trans-Golgi network localized ECHIDNA/Ypt interacting protein complex is required for the secretion of cell wall polysaccharides in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 25: 2633.
Sampathkumar, A., Gutierrez, R., McFarlane, H.E., Bringmann, M., Lindeboom, J., Emons, A.M., Samuels, L., Ketelaar, T., Ehrhardt, D.W. and Persson, S. (2013) Patterning and lifetime of plasma membrane-localized cellulose synthase is dependent on actin organization in Arabidopsis interphase cells. Plant Physiology 162: 675.
2012
Lam, P., Zhao, L., McFarlane, H.E., Aiga, M., Lam, V., Hooker, T.S. and Kunst, L. (2012) RDR1 and SGS3, components of RNA-mediated gene silencing, are required for the regulation of cuticular wax biosynthesis in developing inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 159: 1385.
Samuels, L. and McFarlane, H.E. (2012) Plant cell wall secretion and lipid traffic at membrane contact sites of the cell cortex. Protoplasma 249: 19.
2011
Harpaz‐Saad, S.*, McFarlane, H. E.*, Xu, S., Divi, U. K., Forward, B., Western, T. L., and Kieber, J. J. (2011) Cellulose synthesis via the FEI2 RLK/SOS5 pathway and cellulose synthase 5 is required for the structure of seed coat mucilage in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal 68: 941.
2010
McFarlane, H.E., Shin, J.J., Bird, D.A. and Samuels, A.L. (2010) Arabidopsis ABCG transporters, which are required for export of diverse cuticular lipids, dimerize in different combinations. The Plant Cell 22: 3066.
2008
Young, R.E., McFarlane, H.E., Hahn, M.G., Western, T.L., Haughn, G.W. and Samuels, A.L. (2008) Analysis of the Golgi apparatus in Arabidopsis seed coat cells during polarized secretion of pectin-rich mucilage. The Plant Cell 20: 1623.
McFarlane, H.E., Young, R.E., Wasteneys, G.O. and Samuels, A.L. (2008) Cortical microtubules mark the mucilage secretion domain of the plasma membrane in Arabidopsis seed coat cells. Planta 227: 1363.