Publications

2024

Wojtaczka, P., Ciarkowska, A., Krawczak, M., Kesy, J., Flores Castellanos, J., Fettke, J., and Ostrowski, M. (2024). Biochemical and proteomic approaches to investigateing effects of IAA-aspartate in pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings during osmotic shock. Phytochemistry, In press.

Fettke, J. and Fernie, A.R. (2024). Do storage reserves contribute to plant phenotypic plasticity? Trends in Plant Science. In press.

Liu, Q., Zhou, Y., Flores Castellanos, J., and Fettke, J. (2024). The maltose-related starch degradation pathway promotes the formation of large and spherical transitory starch granules. Plant J. in press.

Paprocka, J., Khan, A., Rękowska, A., Nowak, P., Zdunek-Zastocka, E., Fettke, J., and Orzechowski, S. (2024). Suppression of Plastidial Glucan Phosphorylase (PHO1) Increases Drought Tolerance in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Agriculture. 14, x.

Compart, J., Apriyanto, A., and Fettke, J. (2024). Starch phosphorylation - A needle in a haystack. Plant Methods. In press.

Odeku, OAA. Ogunniyi, QA.,  Ogbole, OO., and Fettke, J. (2024). Forgotten Gems: Exploring the Untapped Benefits of Underutilized
Legumes in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Environmental Sustainability. Plants. 13: 1208.

Li, X., Ahmad, A., Zhong, Y., Ding, L., Blennow, A., and Fettke, J. (2024). Starch phosphorylation regulates starch homogeneity in Arabidopsis thaliana dpe2sex4 revealing a bimodal distribution. Plant Physiol. 194: 2600-2615.

Oguuniyi, QA., Ogbole, OO., Akin-Ajani, OD.,  Ajala, TO., Liu, Q., Apriyanto, A., Odeku, OAA., Fettke, J., Oyatomi, O.,  and Abberton, M. (2024). Carbohydrate profiling of different accessions of three underutilized legumes: A potential source of valuable nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. Starch/Stärke. 76: 2300184.

2023

Compart, J., Apriyanto, A., and Fettke, J. (2023). Glucan, water dikinase (GWD) penetrates the starch granule surface and introduces C6 phosphate in the vicinity of branching points. Carbohydr. Polym. 321: 121321.

Compart, J., Singh, A., Fettke, J., and Apriyanto, A. (2023). Customizing starch properties: A review of starch modifications and their applications. Polymers. 15: 3491.

Flores Castellanos, J., Khan, A., and Fettke, J. (2023). Gradual analytics of starch interacting proteins revealed involvement of starch phosphorylation by glucan-water dikinase and phosphoglucan-water dikinase during synthesis of storage starch in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers. Molecules. 28: 6219.

Götz, K-P, Ene, KC., Fettke, J., and Chmielewski, F-M. (2023). Role of Threonine Deaminase/Dehydratase During Winter Rest in Sweet
Cherry Buds. Nitrogen. 4: 279-285.

Ogunniyi, QA., Ogbole, OO., Akin-Ajani, OD., Ajala, TO., Olorunsola, B., Fettke, J., and Odeku, OAA. (2023). Medicinal Importance and Phytoconstituents of Underutilized Legumes from the Caesalpinioideae DC Subfamily. Applied Sci.13: 8972.

Zdunek-Zastocka, E., Grabowska, A., Michniewska, B., Orzechowski, S., Compart, J., Fettke, J., and Sagi, M. (2023). Phaseolus vulgaris and Pisum sativum, representing ureide and amide legumes, respectively, exploit ureides differentially to mitigate the deleterious effects of cadmium toxicity. Plant and Soil. 492: 439-456.

Apriyanto, A., Compart, J., and Fettke, J. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis of mesocarp tissue during fruit development of the oil palm revealed specific isozymes related to starch metabolism that control oil yield. Front. Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1220237.

Ogbole, OO., Akin-Ajani, OD., Ajala, TO., Ogunniyi, QA., Fettke, J., and Odeku, OAA. (2023).  Nutritional and Pharmacological Potentials of Orphan Legumes: Family Faboideae. Heliyon. 9: e15493.

Tiozon, RN., Fettke, J., Screenivasulu, N., and Fernie, AR. (2023). More than the main genes: regulation of resistant starch formation in rice endosperm and its potential application. J. Plant Physiol. 285: 153980.

Orzechowski, S., Compart, J., Zdunek-Zastocka, E., and Fettke, J. (2023). Starch parameters and short-term temperature fluctuations - important but not yet in focus? J. Plant Physiol. 280: 153902.

Flores Castellanos, J. and Fettke, J. (2023). The Plastidial Glucan Phosphorylase Affects the Maltooligosaccharide Metabolism in Parenchyma Cells of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Tuber Discs. Plant Cell Physiol. 64: 422-432.

2022

Li, X., Apriyanto, A., Flores Castellanos, J., Compart, J., Muntaha, S.N., and Fettke, J. (2022). Dpe2/phs1 revealed unique starch metabolism with three distinct phases characterized by different starch granule numbers per chloroplast, allowing insight into the control mechanism of granule number regulation by gene co-regulation and metabolic profiling. Front. Plant Sci. 13:1039534. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1039534.

Apriyanto, A., Compart, J., Zimmermann, V., Saleh, A., Fernie, A.R., and Fettke, J. (2022).  Indication that starch and sucrose are biomarkers for oil yield in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Food Chemistry. 393:133361.

Singh, A., Compart, J., AL Rawi, S., Mahto, H., Ahmad, A., and Fettke, J. (2022). LIKE EARLY STARVATION alters the glucan structures at the starch granule surface and thereby influences the action of both starch-synthesizing and -degrading enzymes. Plant J. 111:819-835.

Muntaha, S. N., Li, X., Compart, J., Apriyanto, A., and Fettke, J. (2022). Carbon pathways during transitory starch degradation in Arabidopsis differentially affect the starch granule number and morphology in the dpe2/phs1 mutant background. Plant Physiol Biochem. 180: 35-41.

Apriyanto, A., Compart, J., and Fettke, J. (2022). A review of starch, a unique biopolymer - structure, metabolism and in planta modifications. Plant Science. 318: 111223.

2021

Götz, K-P., Chmielewski, F-M., Alseekh, S., Fernie, A.R., and Fettke, J. (2021). Sweet cherry buds of trees and twigs and the responses of polyamines and amino acids to temperature changes. Agriculture & Food. 9: 34-43.

Liu, Q., Zhou, Y., and Fettke, J. (2021) Starch granule size and morphology of Arabidopsis thaliana starch-related mutants analyzed during diurnal rhythm and development. Molecules. 26(19): 5859.

Orzechowski, S., Sitnicka, D., Grabowska, A., Compart, J., Fettke, J., and Zdunek-Zastocka, E. (2021). Effect of Short-Term Cold Treatment on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Potato Leaves. IJMS. 22(13):7203. 

Liu, Q., Li, X., and Fettke, J. (2021).  Starch granules in Arabidopsis thaliana mesophyll and guard cells show similar morphology but differences in size and number. IJMS. 22(11):5666.

Merida, A. and Fettke, J. (2021). Starch granule initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts. Plant J. 107: 688-697.

Compart, J., Li, X., and Fettke, J. (2021). Starch - A complex and undeciphered biopolymer. J. Plant Physiol. 258-259:153389.

Compart, J. and Fettke, J. (2021). Future Starch Analyses - necessity for higher time and local resolution. Polymer Sci Peer Rev J. 00518.

2020

Brust, H., Orzechowski, S., and Fettke, J. (2020). Starch and glycogen analyses: Methods and techniques. Biomolecules.10(7), 1020; doi.org/10.3390/biom10071020.

Malinova, I., Kössler, S., Orawetz, T., Matthes, U., Orzechowski, S., Koch, A., and Fettke, J. (2020). Identification of two Arabidopsis thaliana plasma membrane transporters able to transport glucose 1-phosphate. Plant Cell Physiol.61(2):381-392.

2019

Qasim, H., Compart, J., Orzechowski, S., Fettke, J., and AL-Rawi, S. (2019). Identify the Specificity of Interaction between the Arabidopsis Starch Synthase 4 and the Plastidial Starch Phosphorylase using a Homologous Protein - Animal Rabbit Muscle Phosphorylase a.Sch Int J Biochem. 2(12): 283-289.

Medini, W., Nejia, F., AL-Rawi, S., Mahto, H., Qasim, H., Ben-Halima, E., Bessrour, M., Chibani, F., Abdelly, C., Fettke, J., and Rabhi, M. (2019). Do carbohydrate metabolism and partitioning contribute to the higher salt tolerance of Hordeum marinum compared to Hordeum vulgare? Acta Physiol. Plant. 41: 190.

Staszek, P., Krasuska, U., Otulak-Koziel, K., Fettke, J., and Gniazdowska, A. (2019). Canavanine-induced decrease in nitric oxide synthesis alters activity of antioxidant system but does not impact S-nitrosoglutathione catabolism in tomato roots. Front. Plant Sci 10:1077. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01077.

2018

Malinova, I., Qasim, H.M., Brust, H., and Fettke, J. (2018). Parameters of starch granule genesis in chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Plant Sci.9:761. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00761.  

Götz, K-P., Naher, J., Fettke, J., and Chmielewski, F-M. (2018). Changes of proteins during dormancy and development of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.). Sci Hortic (Amsterdam) 239: 41-49.

Malinova, I., Mahto, H., Brandt, F., AL-Rawi, S., Qasim, H., Brust, H., Hejazi, M., and Fettke, J. (2018). EARLY STARVATION1 specifically affects the phosphorylation action of starch-related dikinases. Plant J. 95: 126-137.

2017

Malinova, I. and Fettke, J. (2017). Reduced starch granule number per chloroplast in the dpe2/phs1 mutant is dependent on initiation of starch degradation. Plos One 12(11): e0187985.

Malinova, I., Alseekh, S., Feil, R., Fernie, AR., Baumann, O., Schöttler, MA., Lunn, J., and Fettke, J. (2017). Starch synthase 4 and plastidial phosphorylase differentially affect starch granule number and morphology. Plant Physiol. 174: 1-13.

Gietler, M., Nykeil, M., Orzechowski, S., Fettke, J., and Zagdanska, B. (2017). Protein carbonylation linked to wheat seedling tolerance to water deficiency. EnvExpBot. 137: 84-95.

2016

Gietler, M., Nykeil, M., Orzechowski, S., Fettke, J., and Zagdanska, B. (2016). Proteomic analysis of S-nitrosylated and S-glutathionylated proteins in wheat seedlings with different dehydration tolerances. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 108: 507-518.

Krasuska, U., Ciacka, K., Orzechowski, S., Fettke, J., Bogatek, R., and Gniazdowska, A. (2016). Modification of the endogenous NO level influences apple embryo dormancy by alterations of nitrated and biotinylated protein patterns. Planta. 244: 877-891. 

Mahlow, S., Orzechowski, S., and Fettke, J. (2016). Starch Phosphorylation: Insights and Perspectives. CMLS. 73: 2753-2764.

Orawetz, T., Malinova, I., Orzechowski, S., and Fettke, J. (2016). Reduction of the plastidial phosphorylase in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) reveals impact on storage starch structure during growth at low temperature. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 100: 141-149. 

2015

Fettke, J. and Fernie A. R. (2015). Intracellular and cell-to-apoplast compartmentation of carbohydrate metabolism. Trends in Plant Science 20: 490- 497.

2014

Malinova, I., Kunz, H-H., Alseekh, S., Herbst, K., Fernie, A.R., Gierth, M., and Fettke, J. (2014). Reduction of the cytosolic phosphoglucomutase in Arabidopsis reveals impact on plant growth, seed and root development, and carbohydrate partitioning. PLoS One 9(11): e112468.

Zhang, Y., Sun, F., Fettke, J., Schöttler, MA., Ramsden, L., Fernie, A.R., and Lim B.L. (2014). Heterologous expression of AtPAP2 in transgenic potato influences carbon metabolism and tuber development. FEBS Lett. 588: 3726-31.

Kunz, H-H., Zamani-Nour, S., Haeusler, R.E., Ludewig, K., Schroeder, J.I., Malinova, I., Fettke, J., Flügge, U-I., and Gierth, M. (2014). Loss of Cytosolic Phosphoglucose Isomerase (cPGI) affects carbohydrate metabolism in leaves and is essentail for fertility of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 166: 753-65.

Brust, H., Lehmann, T., D´Hulst, C., and Fettke, J. (2014). Analysis of the functional interaction of Arabidopsis starch synthase and branching enzyme isoforms reveals that the cooperative action of SSI and BEs results in glucans with polymodal chain lenght distribution similar to amylopectin. PLoS One 9(7): e102364.

Hejazi, M.,Mahlow, S., and Fettke, J. (2014). The glucan phosphorylation mediated by  α-glucan, water dikinase (GWD) is also essential in the light phase for a functional transitory starch turn-over. Plant Signal. Behav. 9.pii: e28892.

Schopper, S., Muhlenbock, P., Soerensson, C., Helborg, L., Lenman, M., Widell, S. Fettke, J., and Andreasson, E. (2014). Arabidopsis cytosolic alpha-glycan phosphorylase, PHS2, is important during carbohydrate imbalanced conditions. Plant Biol. 17: 74-80.

Mahlow, S., Hejazi, M., Kuhnert, F., Garz, A., Brust, H., Baumann, O., and Fettke, J. (2014). Phosphorylation of transitory starch by α-glucan, water dikinase during starch turnover affects the surface properties and morphology of starch granules. New Phytol. 203: 495-507.

Malinova, I., Mahlow, S., Alseekh, S., Orawetz, T., Fernie, A.R., Baumann, O., Steup, M., and Fettke, J. (2014). Double knock-out mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under normal conditions reveal that the plastidial phosphorylase isozyme (PHS1) participates in transitory starch metabolism. Plant Physiol. 164: 907-921.

2013

Martins, M.C.M., Hejazi, M., Fettke, J., Steup, M., Feil, R., Krause, U., Arrivault, S., Vosloh, D., Figueroa, C.M., Ivakov, A., Yadav, U.P., Piques, M., Metzner, D., Stitt, M., and Lunn, J.E. (2013). Feedback inhibition of starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves medaited by trehalose 6-phosphate. Plant Physiol. 163: 1142-1163.

Malinova, I., Steup, M., and Fettke, J. (2013). Carbon transitions from either Calvin cycle or transitory starch to heteroglycans as revealed by 14C-labelling experiments using protoplasts from Arabidopsis. Physiol Plant. 149: 25-44.

Brust, H., Orzechowski, S., Fettke, J., and Steup, M. (2013). Starch synthesizing reactions and paths: in vitro and in vivo studies. J. Appl. Glycosci. 60: 3-20.

2012

Fettke, J., Fernie, A.R., and Steup, M. (2012). Transitory starch and its degradation in higher plant cells. In Essential Reviews in Experimental Biology: Starch: Origins, Structure and Metabolism, Edited by I. J. Tetlow, SEB, London, Vol. 5: 311-374.

Hejazi, M.,Fettke, J., and Steup, M. (2012). Starch phosphorylation and dephosphorylation: The consecutive action of starch-related dikinases and phosphatases. In Essential Reviews in Experimental Biology: Starch: Origins, Structure and Metabolism, Edited by I. J. Tetlow, SEB, London, Vol. 5: 279-310.

Hejazi, M., Steup, M., and Fettke, J. (2012). The plastidial glucan, water dikinase (GWD) catalyses multiple phosphotransfer reactions. FEBS J. 279: 1953-66.

Fettke, J., Leifels, L.,Brust, H., Herbst, K., and Steup, M. (2012). Two carbon fluxes to reserve starch in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber cells are closely interconnected but differently modulated by temperature. J. Exp. Bot. 63: 3011-3029.

Schenk, J., Fettke, J., Lenz, C., Albers, K., Mallwitz, F., Gajovic-Eichelmann, N., Ehrentreich-Förster, E., Kusch, E., and  Sellrie, F. (2012). Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor (SLPI) might contaminate murine monoclonal antibodies after purification on protein G. Journal of Biotechnolgy 158:34-35.

2011

Steup, M., Fettke, J., and Hejazi, M. (2011). The phosphorylation/Dephosphorylation Cycles in Transitory Starch Metabolism. J. Appl. Glycosci. 58: 162-163.

Malinova, I., Steup, M., and Fettke, J. (2011). Starch-related carbon fluxes in roots and leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Signal. Behav. 6: 1060-1062.

Dortay, H., Schmöckel, S. M., Fettke, J., and Müller-Röber, B. (2011). Expression of human c-reactive protein in different systems and its purification from Leishmania tarentolae. Protein Expr. Purif. 78: 55-60.

Fettke, J., Malinova, I., Albrecht, T., Hejazi, M., and Steup, M. (2011). Glucose 1-phosphate transport into protoplasts and chloroplasts from leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 155: 1723-1734.

Fettke, J., Nunes-Nesi, A., Fernie, A.R., and Steup, M. (2011). Identification of a novel heteroglycan-interacting protein, HIP 1.3, from Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Plant Physiol. 168: 1415-1425.

Malinova, I., Steup, M, and Fettke, J. (2011). Starch-related cytosolic heteroglycans in roots from Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Plant Physiol. 168: 1406-1414.

2010

Kunz, H-H., Häusler, R., Fettke, J., Herbst, K., Niewiedomski, P., Gierth, M., Bell, K., Steup, M., Flügge, U-I., and Schneider, A. (2010). The role of plastidial glucose6-phosphate/phosphate translocators in vegetative tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants impaired in starch biosynthesis. Plant Biol. 12 Suppl 1: 115-128.

Hejazi, M., Fettke, J.*, Kötting, O., Zeeman, S.C., and Steup, M. (2010). The laforin-like dual-specificity phosphatase SEX4 from Arabidopsis thaliana hydrolyses both C6- and C3-phosphate esters introduced by starch-related dikinases and thereby affects phase transition of α-glucans. Plant Physiol. 152: 711-722.            *corresponding author

Fettke, J., Albrecht, T., Hejazi, M., Mahlow, S., Nakamura, Y., and Steup, M. (2010). Glucose 1-phosphate is efficiently taken up by potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber parenchyma cells and converted to reserve starch granules. New Phytol. 185: 663-675.

2009

Hejazi, M., Fettke, J., Paris, O., and Steup, M. (2009). The two plastidial starch-related dikinases sequentially phosphorylate glucosyl residues at the surface of both the A- and B-allomorph of crystallized maltodextrins but the mode of action differs. Plant Physiol. 150: 962-976.

Fettke, J., Malinova, I., Eckermann, N., and Steup, M. (2009). Cytosolic Heteroglycans in Photoautotrophic and in Heterotrophic Plant Cells. Phytochem. 70: 696-702.

Fettke, J., Hejazi, M., Smirnova, J., Höchel, E., Stage, M., and Steup, M. (2009). Eukaryotic starch degradation: Integration of plastidial and cytosolic pathways. J. Exp. Botany 60: 2907-22.

2008

Fettke, J., Nunes-Nesi, A., Alpers, J., Szkop, M., Fernie, A.R., and Steup, M. (2008). Alterations in cytosolic glucose phosphate metabolism affect structural features and biochemical properties of starch-related heteroglycans. Plant Physiol. 148: 1614-1629.

Hejazi, M., Fettke, J., Haebel, S., Edner, C., Paris, O., Frohberg, C., Steup, M., and Ritte, G. (2008). Glucan, water dikinase phosphorylates crystalline maltodextrins and thereby initiates solubilisation. Plant J. 55: 323-334 (inclusive journal cover).

2007

Fettke, J., Eckermann, N., Kötting, O., Ritte, G., and Steup, M. (2007). Novel starch-related enzymes and carbohydrates. Cell. Mol. Biol. OL883-OL904.

2002-2006 

Fettke, J., Chia, T., Eckermann, N., Smith, A. M., and Steup, M. (2006). A transglucosidase necessary for starch degradation and maltose metabolism in leaves at night acts on cytosolic heteroglycans (SHG). Plant J. 46: 668-684.

Fettke, J., Eckermann, N., Tiessen, A., Geigenberger, P., and Steup, M. (2005). Identification, subcellular localization and biochemical characterization of water-soluble heteroglycans (SHG) in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana L.: distinct SHG reside in the cytosol and in the apoplast. Plant J. 43: 568-586.

Fettke, J., Poeste, S., Eckermann, N., Tiessen, A., Pauly, M., Geigenberger, P., and Steup, M. (2005). Analysis of Cytosolic Heteroglycans from Leaves of Transgenic Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Plants that Under- or Overexpress the Pho 2 Phosphorylase Isozyme. Plant Cell Physiol. 46: 1987-2004.

Fettke J., Eckermann, N., Poeste, S., Pauly, M., and Steup, M. (2004). The glycan substrate of the cytosolic (Pho 2) phosphorylase isozyme from Pisum sativum L.: identification, linkage analysis and subcellular localization. Plant J. 39,: 933-946.

Eckermann, N., Fettke, J., Pauly, M., Bazant, E., and Steup, M. (2004). Starch-metabolism related isozymes in higher plants. In Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress on Genes, Gene Families, and Isozymes, Berlin, July 19-24, 2003 (Schnarrenberger, C. und Wittmann-Liebold, B., eds). Bologna: Medimond S.r.l., pp. 241-246.

Eckermann, N., Fettke, J., and Steup, M. (2002). Identification of Polysaccharide Binding Proteins by Affinity Electrophoresis in Inhomogeneous Polyacrylamide Gels and Subsequent SDS-PAGE/Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Analysis. Anal. Biochem. 304: 180-192.