1) Santos, P.A., Biraku, X., Nielsen, E., Ozketen, A.C., Ozketen, A.A., and Hakki, E.E. (2024) Agricultural Nanotechnology for Safe and Sustainable Future: Current Status, Challenges and Beyond. The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, (In press).
2) Nielsen, E. (2022) Plant exocytosis: Weaving distinct pathways to the plant plasma membrane. Mol. Plant, 15, 382-384.
3) Zhao, X., Hu, X., OuYang, X., Yang, J., Que, Q., Long, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, T., Wang, X., Gao, J., Hu, X., Yang, S., Zhang, L. Li, S., Gao, W., Li, B., Jiang, W., Nielsen, E., Chen, X., Peng, C. (2022) Chromosome-level assembly of Neolamarckia cadamba genome provides insights into the evolution of cadambine biosynthesis. Plant J., 109, 891-908.
4) Kim, D-W., Adams, A., Combs, J., Gu, F., Park, S., Mayes, H. B., Bahk, J.D., and Nielsen, E. (2021) Functional Characterization of ltl2, a Novel Temperature-Sensitive FERONIA Mutant Allele That Alters Root Hair Growth. Plant Physiol., 185, 405-423.
5) Yang J., Bak G., Burgin T., Mayes H. B., Pena M.J., Urbanowicz B., Barnes W. J., Nielsen E. (2020) Biochemical and Genetic Analysis Identify CSLD3 as a beta-1,4-glucan Synthase that Functions during Plant Cell Wall Synthesis. Plant Cell, 32, 1749-67.
6) Gu, F., Bringmann, M., Combs, J., Yang, J., Bergmann, D.C., and Nielsen, E. (2016) The Arabidopsis CSLD5 functions in cell plate formation in a cell cycle dependent manner. Plant Cell, 28, 1722-1737.
7) Antignani, V., *Klocko, A.L., Bak, G., Chandrasekaran, S.,D., Dunivin, T., Nielsen, E. (2015) Recruitment of PLANT U-BOX13 and the PI4Kβ1/β2 Phosphatidylinositol-4 Kinases by the Small GTPase RabA4B Plays Important Roles during Salicylic Acid-Mediated Plant Defense Signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 27, 243-61. (* co-first authors)
8) Gu, F., and Nielsen, E. (2013) Targeting and Regulation of Cell Wall Synthesis during Tip Growth in Plants. J. Integr. Plant Biol., 55, 835-46.
9) Marella H., Nielsen, E., Schachtman, D.P., and Taylor, C.G. (2013) The amino acid permeases, AAP3 and AAP6, are involved in root-knot nematode parasitism of Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 26, 44-54.
10) Benjamin Péret, B., Swarup, K., Ferguson, A., Seth, M., Yang, Y., Dhondt, S., James, N., Casimiro, I., Perry, P., Syed, A., Yang, H., Reemmer, J., Venison, E., Howells, C.,Perez-Amador, M.A., Yun, J., Alonso, J., Beemster, G.T.S., Laplaze, L., Murphy, A., Bennett, M.J., Nielsen, E., and Swarup, R. (2012) AUX/LAX Genes Encode a Family of Auxin Influx Transporters That Perform Distinct Functions during Arabidopsis Development. Plant Cell, 24, 2874-85.
11) Park, S., Szumlanski, A.L., Gu, F., Guo, F., and Nielsen, E. (2011) A role for CSLD3 during cell wall synthesis in apical plasma membranes of tip-growing root hair cells. Nature Cell Biol., 13, 973-80.
12) Munnik, T., and Nielsen, E. Green light for polyphosphoinositide signals in plants. (2011) Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 14, 489-97.
13) Kang, B-Y†, Nielsen, E.†, Preuss, M., Mastronarde, D., and Staehelin, L.A. (2011) Electron tomography of RabA4b and PI-4Kb1 labeled trans-Golgi network compartments in Arabidopsis. Traffic, 12, 313-29. (†co-first and co-corresponding author)
14) Szumlanski, A., and Nielsen, E. (2009) The Arabidopsis thaliana Rab GTPase, RabA4d, is required for the regulation of pollen tube tip growth. Plant Cell, 21, 526-544.
15) Vermeer, J.E.M., Thole, J.M., Goedhart, J., Nielsen, E., Munnik, T., and Gadella Jr., T.W.J. (2009) Imaging phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate dynamics in living plant cells. Plant J., 57, 356-372.
16) Thole, J.M., Vermeer, J.E.M, Zhang, Y., Gadella Jr., T.W.J., and Nielsen, E. (2008) RHD4 encodes a Sac1p-like PI(4)P phosphatase involved in root hair development. Plant Cell, 20, 381-395.
17) Lee, Y-J., Szumlanski, A., Nielsen, E., and Yang, Z. (2008) Rho-GTPase-dependent F-actin dynamics coordinate vesicle targeting and exocytosis during tip growth. J. Cell Biol., 181, 1155-68.
18) Hwang, J-U., Vernoud, V., Szumlanski, A., Nielsen, E., and Yang, Z. (2008) A tip-localized Rho GTPase activating protein controls cell polarity by globally inhibiting Rho GTPase at the cell apex. Curr. Biol., 18, 1907-1916.
19) Thole, J.M., and Nielsen, E. (2008) The emerging roles of phosphoinositides in plant membrane trafficking. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 11, 620-631.
20) Nielsen E., A.Y. Cheung, and Ueda, T. (2008) The Regulatory RAB and ARF GTPases for Vesicular Trafficking. Plant Physiol., 147, 1516-26.
21) Nielsen, E. (2008) Investigating lipid signaling: It’s all about finding the right PI. Biochem. J., 413, 5-6.
22) Swarup, K., Swarup, R., Benkova, E., Casimiro, I., Péret. B., Yang, Y., Carrier, D., Nielsen, E., De Smet, I., Vaneste, S., Parry, G., James, N., Calvo, V., Ljung, K., Kramer, E.M., Graham, N., Marillonnet, S., Patel, K., Jones, J.D.G., Taylor, C.G., Schachtman, D.P., May, S.T., Sandberg, G., Friml, J., Kerr, I., Beeckman, T., Laplaze, L. and Bennett, M.J. (2008) The auxin influx carrier LAX3 facilitates lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis. Nature Cell Biol., 10, 946-954.
23) Allen, A., Snyder, A.K., Preuss, M., Nielsen, E.E., Shah, D.M., and Smith, T.J. (2008) Plant defensins and virally encoded fungal toxin KP4 inhibit plant root growth. Planta, 227, 331-339.
24) Einset, J., Nielsen, E., Conolly, E.L., Bones, A., Sparstad, T., Winge, P., and Zhu, J-K. (2007) Membrane-trafficking of RabA4c involved in the effect of glycine betaine on recovery from chilling stress in Arabidopsis. Physiol. Plant., 130, 511-518.
25) Jez, J.M., Schachtman, D.P., Berg, R.H., Taylor, C.G., Chen, S., Hicks, L.M., Jaworski J.G., Smith, T.J. Nielsen, E., and Pikaard, C.S. (2007) Developing a New Interdisciplinary Lab Course for Undergraduate and Graduate Students: Plant Cells and Proteins. Biochem Mol. Biol. Education, 35, 410-415.
26) Haas, T.J., Sliwinski, M.K., Martinez, D.E., Preuss, M., Ebine, K., Ueda, T., Nielsen, E., Odorizzi, G., and Otegui, M.S. (2007) The Arabidopsis AAA ATPase SKD1 is involved in multivesicular endosome function and interacts with its positive regulator LIP5. Plant Cell, 19, 1295-1312.
27) Yang, Y., Hammes, U.Z., Taylor, C.G., Schachtman, D.P., and Nielsen, E. (2006) High-Affinity Auxin Transport by the AUX1 Influx Carrier Protein. Curr. Biol., 16, 1123-1127.
28) Preuss, M., Schmitz, A., Thole, J., Bonner, H., Otegui, M., and Nielsen, E. (2006) The PI-4K, PI-4Kβ1 is an effector of AtRabA4b and is involved in polarized tip-growth of root hair epidermal cells in Arabidopsis. J. Cell Biol., 172, 991-998.
29) Hammes, U.Z., Nielsen, E., Honaas, L., Taylor, C.G., and Schachtman, D.P. (2006) AtCAT6, a sink tissue localized amino acid transporter for essential amino acids in Arabidopsis. Plant J., 48, 414-426.
30) Hammes, U., Schachtman, D., Berg, R.H., Nielsen, E., Koch, W., McIntyre, L., and Taylor, C. (2005) Altered expression of Arabidopsis transporter genes in developing nematode-induced giant cells. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 18, 1247-1257.
31) Voigt, B., Timmers, A., Šamaj, J., Hlavacka, A., Ueda, T., Preuss, M., Nielsen, E., Mathur, J., Emans, M., Stenmark, H., Nakano, A., Baluška, F., and Menzel, D. (2005) Actin-propelled endosomes accumulate at sites of actin-driven polar growth of root hairs. Eur. J. Cell Biol., 84, 609-621.
32) Preuss, M., Santos-Serna, J., Falbel, T.G., Bednarek, S.Y., and Nielsen, E. (2004) The Arabidopsis Rab GTPase, AtRabA4b, Localizes to the Tips of Growing Root Hair Cells. Plant Cell, 16, 1589-1603.
33) Vernoud, V., Horton, A.C., Yang, Z., and Nielsen, E. (2003) Analysis of the Small GTPase Gene Family of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol., 131, 1191-1208.
34) Nielsen, E., Severin, F., Hyman, A.A., and Zerial, M. (2001) In vitro reconstitution of endosome motility on microtubules. Methods in Molecular Biology, Ed. I. Vernos, Humana Press, Inc., Totowa, NJ, 135-146.
35) Nielsen, E., Christoforidis, S., Uttenweiler-Joseph, S., M. Miaczynska, F. Dewitte, M. Wilm, B. Hoflack, and Zerial, M. (2000) Rabenosyn-5, a novel Rab5 Effector is Complexed with hVPS45, and is Recruited to Endosomes through a FYVE-finger Domain J. Cell Biol., 151, 601-612.
36) Sönnichsen, B., De Renzis, S., Nielsen, E., Rietdorf, J., and Zerial, M. (2000) Distinct membrane domains in the endosomal recycling pathway visualized by multi-color imaging of Rab4, 5, and 11. J. Cell Biol., 149, 901-913.
37) Nielsen, E., Severin, F., Backer, J.M., Hyman, A.A., and Zerial, M. (1999) Rab5 regulates motility of early endosomes on microtubules. Nature Cell Biol., 1, 376-382.
38) Turner, G., Gershenzon, J., Nielsen, E.E., Froehlich, J.E., Croteau, R. (1999) Limonene synthase, the enzyme responsible for monoterpene biosynthesis in peppermint, is localized to leucoplasts of oil gland secretory cells. Plant Physiol., 120, 879-886.
39) Keegstra, K., Akita, M., Davila-Aponte, J., Froehlich, J., Nielsen, E., and Reumann, S. (1998) Transport of cytoplasmically synthesized proteins into chloroplasts. In: NATO-ASI Series, Vol. H 104. Cellular integration of signalling pathways in plant development. Eds. F.L. Schiavo, R.L. Last, G. Morelli, and N.V. Raikhel, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 23-33.
40) Nielsen, E., Akita, M., Davila-Aponte, J., and Keegstra, K. (1997) Stable association of chloroplastic precursors with protein-translocation complexes that contain proteins from both envelope membranes and a stromal Hsp100 molecular chaperone. EMBO J., 16, 935-946.
41) Akita, M., Nielsen, E., and Keegstra, K. (1997) Identification of protein transport complexes in the chloroplastic envelope membranes via chemical crosslinking. J. Cell Biol., 136, 983-994.
42) Lübeck, J., Soll, J., Akita, M., Nielsen, E., and Keegstra, K. (1996) Topology of IEP110, a component of the chloroplastic protein import machinery present in the inner envelope membrane. EMBO J., 15, 4230-4238.
43) Schneider, J.C., Nielsen, E., and Somerville, C. (1995) A chilling-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis is deficient in chloroplast protein accumulation at low temperature. Plant Cell and Environ., 18, 23-32.
44) Nielsen, E., You, Y., and Forney, J. (1991) Cysteine residue periodicity is a conserved structural feature of variable surface proteins from Paramecium tetraurelia. J. Mol. Biol., 222, 835-841.
*These manuscripts were featured on the covers of Traffic 12(3)March 2011, The Plant Cell 21(2)February 2009, and The Plant Cell 16(6)June 2004 issues, respectively.
** This manuscript was published with an accompanying “In Brief” article, The Plant Cell 32(2), 1359-60 (2020)
***This manuscript was published with an accompanying News and Views article, Nature Cell Biol., 1, E145-E147 (1999), and was cited in the “Headlines” section of Trends in Cell Biology , TICB, 10, 52 (2000), and the “Paper Alert” section of Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Curr. Op. Cell Biol., 12, 1-11 (2000).
BOOK CHAPTERS:
1) Nielsen, E. (2020) Plant Small GTPases. In Merchant, S. (ed.) Annual Review of Plant Biology, Palo Alto, CA. 71, pp. 247-272.
2) Claire Grierson, C., Nielsen, E., Ketelaar, T., and Schiefelbein, J. (2014) Root Hairs. In Torii, K. (ed.) The Arabidopsis Book, The American Society for Plant Biology, 12, e0172.
3) Szumlanski, A., and Nielsen, E. (2009) Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate is required for tip growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. In Munnik, T., (ed.) Lipid Signaling in Plants, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 65-77.
4) Preuss, M.L., Wiedman, P., and Nielsen, E. (2009) In Nava Segev (ed.), Protein Trafficking: Mechanisms and Regulation, Austin, Texas, USA: Landes Bioscience, 15-41.
5) Nielsen, E. (2008) Plant cell wall biogenesis during tip-growth in root hair cells. In Emons, A.M., Ketelaar, T., (eds.) Root Hair Book, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 85-102.
6) E. Nielsen (2005) Rab GTPases in Plant Endocytosis. In Šamaj, J., Baluška, F., and Menzel, D., (eds.) Plant Endocytosis, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 177-196.