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Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
North Carolina State University,
112 Derieux Place
Raleigh, NC 27695-7614
E-mail: atstepan@ncsu.edu
https://alonsostepanova.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
Area of expertise: plant hormones, translation regulation, synthetic biology, molecular and classical genetics
Selected Publications:
Fernandez-Moreno, J. P., Yaschenko, A. E., Neubauer, M., Marchi, A. J., Zhao, C., Ascencio-Ibanez, J. T., Alonso, J. M., and Stepanova, A. N. (2024). A rapid and scalable approach to build synthetic repetitive hormone-responsive promoters. Plant Biotechnol. J. 22: 1942–1956.
Brumos, J., Bobay, B. G., Clark, C. A., Alonso, J. M., and Stepanova, A. N. (2020). Structure-function analysis of interallelic complementation in ROOTY transheterozygotes. Plant Physiol. 183: 1110–1125.
Brumos, J., Zhao, C., Gong, Y., Soriano, D., Patel, A. P., Perez-Amador, M. A., Stepanova, A. N., and Alonso, J. M. (2019). An improved recombineering toolset for plants. Plant Cell 32: 100–122.
Brumos, J., Robles, L. M., Yun, J., Vu, T. C., Jackson, S., Alonso, J. M., and Stepanova, A. N. (2018). Local auxin biosynthesis is a key regulator of plant development. Dev. Cell 47: 306–318.
Merchante, C., Brumos, J., Yun, J., Hu, Q., Spencer, K. R., Enriquez, P., Binder, B. M., Heber, S., Stepanova, A. N.*, and Alonso, J. M.* (2015). Gene-specific translation regulation mediated by the hormone-signaling molecule EIN2. Cell 163: 684–697. (*co-corresponding authors)
Stepanova, A. N., Yun, J., Robles, L. M., Novak, O., He, W., Guo, H., Ljung, K., and Alonso, J. M. (2011). The Arabidopsis YUCCA1 flavin monooxygenase functions in the indole-3-pyruvic acid branch of auxin biosynthesis. Plant Cell 23: 3961–3973.
Stepanova, A. N.*, Robertson-Hoyt, J.*, Yun, J., Benavente, L. M., Xie, D., Dolezal, K., Schlereth, A., Jurgens, G., and Alonso, J.M. (2008). TAA1-mediated auxin biosynthesis is essential for hormone crosstalk and plant development. Cell 133: 177–191. (*co-first author)
Stepanova, A. N., Yun, J., Likhacheva, A. V., and Alonso, J. M. (2007). Multilevel interactions between ethylene and auxin in Arabidopsis roots. Plant Cell 19: 2169–2185.
Stepanova, A. N., Hoyt, J. M., Hamilton, A. A., and Alonso, J. M. (2005). A Link between ethylene and auxin uncovered by the characterization of two root-specific ethylene-insensitive mutants in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17: 2230–2242.
Alonso, J. M., Stepanova, A. N., Leisse, T. J., Kim, C. J., Chen, H., Shinn, P., Stevenson, D. K., Zimmerman, J., Barajas, P., Cheuk, R., Gadrinab, C., Heller, C., Jeske, A., Koesema, E., Meyers, C. C., Parker, H., Prednis, L., Ansari, Y., Choy, N., Deen, H., Geralt, M., Hazari, N., Hom, E., Karnes, M., Mulholland, C., Ndubaku, R., Schmidt, I., Guzman, P., Aguilar-Henonin, L., Schmid, M., Weigel, D., Carter, D. E., Marchand, T., Risseeuw, E., Brogden, D., Zeko, A., Crosby, W. L., Berry , C. C., and Ecker, J. R. (2003). Genome-wide insertional mutagenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 301: 653–657.
Alonso, J. M.*, Stepanova, A. N.*, Solano, R., Wisman, E., Ferrari, S., Ausubel, F. M., and Ecker, J. R. (2003). Five components of the ethylene-response pathway identified in a screen for weak ethylene-insensitive mutants in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100: 2992–2997. (*co-first author)
Solano, R., Stepanova, A., Chao, Q., and Ecker, J. R. (1998). Nuclear events in ethylene signaling: A transcriptional cascade mediated by ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE3 and ETHYLENE-RESPONSE-FACTOR1. Genes Dev. 12: 3703–3714.
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