Jay M Shockey
Commodity Utilization Research
Research Geneticist (Plants)
Phone: (504) 286-4296
Fax: (504) 286-4419
1100 ROBERT E. LEE BLVD
BLDG 001 SRRC NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70124
Cahoon, E.B., Shockey, J.M., Dietrich, C.R., Dyer, J.M. 2007. Engineering oilseeds for sustainable production of industrial and nutritional feedstocks: solving bottlenecks in fatty acid flux. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 10:236-244.
Shockey, J.M., Gidda, S., Chapital, D.C., Kuan, J.-C.W., Rothstein, S.J., Mullen, R.T., and Dyer, J.M. 2005. Type 1 and type 2 diacylglycerol acyltransferases from developing seeds of tung (Vernicia fordii) display different affinities for eleostearic acid-containing substrates (abstract). 2005 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Fatty Acids and Glycerolipids Symposium, Abstract C3, page 11, June 10-14, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA. 2005:22
Dyer, J.M., Bryan, J., Bourassa, L., Shockey, J.M., and Mullen, R.T. 2005. ER-localized omega-3 fatty acid desaturases are short-lived proteins that contain degradation signals in their N termini (abstract). 2005 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Fatty Acids and Glycerolipids Symposium, Abstract A3, page 6, June 10-14, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA. 2005:17
Dyer, J.M., Shockey, J.M., Mullen, R.T., Chapital, D.C., Kuan, J.-C., and Stewart, G. (2004). Biotransformation of lipids in yeast cells: enzymatic conversion of fatty acids into omega-3 and conjugated fatty acids for potential usage as nutraceuticals. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources Annual Meeting, December 11, 2004, Tokyo, JA. p. 210-214.
Shockey, J.M., Dyer, J.M., Chapital, D.C., Kuan, J.W., Mullen, R.T., Cary, J.W. 2004. Cloning and characterization of a lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase from tung (aleurities fordii)(abstract). American Society of Microbiology.
Shockey, J.M., Chapital, D.C., Kuan, J.W., Mullen, R.T., Dupuy, T., Dyer, J.M. 2004. Biosyntheses of triacylglycerols containing eleostearic acid. cloning and characterization of the quantitative and qualitative roles of diacylglycerol acyltransferase and phospholipid-diacylglycerol acyltransferase from tung (abstract). American Society of Microbiology.
Shockey, J.M., Chapital, D.C., Kuan, J.W., Mullen, R.T., Dyer, J.M. 2004. Engineering high levels of eleostearic acid content in oilseeds - cloning and functional characterization of triacylglycerol biosynthetic acyltransferase genes from tung (aleurites fordii) (abstract). American Society of Plant Biology.
Schnurr, J., Shockey, J.M., Browse, J. 2004. The acyl-coenzyme a synthetase encoded by lacs2 is essential for normal cuticle development in arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 16:629-642.
Tilton, G.B., Shockey, J.M., Browse, J. 2003. Biochemical and molecular characterization of ach2, an acyl-coa thioesterase from arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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