Education
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1961
Current position
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Sussex, U.K.
Publications
Significant publications of the last twenty years
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Lamport, D. T., Charlotte, S. and Peter, V. (2014). Back to the future with the AGP-Ca2+ flux capacitor Annals of Botany. In preparation
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Lamport, D. T. and Varnai, P. (2013). Periplasmic arabinogalactan glycoproteins act as a calcium capacitor that regulates plant growth and development. New Phytol 197(1): 58-64.
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Lamport, D. T., Kieliszewski, M. J., Chen, Y. and Cannon, M. C. (2011). Role of the extensin superfamily in primary cell wall architecture. Plant Physiol 156(1): 11-19.
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Kieliszewski, M.J., Lamport, D.T., Tan, L., Cannon, M.C. (2011). Hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins: Form and Function. Annual Plant Reviews 41, 321-342. Plant Polysaccharides: Biosynthesis and Bioengineering Pub: Wiley-Blackwell. 540 pages.
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Lamport, D. T., Tan, L. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2011). Structural proteins of the primary cell wall: extraction, purification, and analysis. Methods Mol Biol 715: 209-219.
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Tan, L., Varnai, P., Lamport, D. T., Yuan, C., Xu, J., Qiu, F. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2010). Plant O-hydroxyproline arabinogalactans are composed of repeating trigalactosyl subunits with short bifurcated side chains. J Biol Chem 285(32): 24575-24583.
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Cannon, M. C., Terneus, K., Hall, Q., Tan, L., Wang, Y., Wegenhart, B. L., Chen, L., Lamport, D. T., Chen, Y. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2008). Self-assembly of the plant cell wall requires an extensin scaffold. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(6): 2226-2231.
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Xu, J., Tan, L., Lamport, D. T., Showalter, A. M. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2008). The O-Hyp glycosylation code in tobacco and Arabidopsis and a proposed role of Hyp-glycans in secretion. Phytochemistry 69(8): 1631-1640.
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Tan, L., Xu, J., Lamport, D., Qiu, F., Cottrel, C., Qian, J. and Kieliszewski, M. (2007). The AGP Hyp-arabinogalactan backbone is a folded polysaccharide of reverse-turn hairpins generated by β-(1-6)-linked repeats of β-(1-3) trigalactosyl units. Copenhagen 2007 XIth International Cell Wall Meeting. Abstract. Physiol Plant 130: 68.
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Buglass,S., Lamport,D.T., Xu,J., Tan,L., Kieliszewksi,M.J. (2007). Origin of the Land Plants: Is Coleochaete their closest living relative? The writing is on the wall. XIth International Cell Wall Meeting, Abstract 17.
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Lamport, D. T., Kieliszewski, M. J. and Showalter, A. M. (2006). Salt stress upregulates periplasmic arabinogalactan proteins: using salt stress to analyse AGP function. New Phytol 169(3): 479-492.
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Lamport, D. T. ,and Kieliszewski, M. (2005). Stress upregulates periplasmic arabinogalactan-proteins. Plant Biosystems-An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 139(1): 60-64.
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Tan, L., Qiu, F., Lamport, D. T. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2004). Structure of a hydroxyproline (Hyp)-arabinogalactan polysaccharide from repetitive Ala-Hyp expressed in transgenic Nicotiana tabacum. J Biol Chem 279(13): 13156-13165.
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Zhao, Z. D., Tan, L., Showalter, A. M., Lamport, D. T. and Kieliszewski, M. J. (2002). Tomato LeAGP-1 arabinogalactan-protein purified from transgenic tobacco corroborates the Hyp contiguity hypothesis. Plant J 31(4): 431-444.
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Lamport, D. T. (2001). Life behind cell walls: paradigm lost, paradigm regained. Cell Mol Life Sci 58(10): 1363-1385.
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Lamport,D.T.A. (2000) Showman barely blinked at a dose of nerve gas. Nature, 405, 882
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Gao, M., Kieliszewski, M. J., Lamport, D. T. and Showalter, A. M. (1999). Isolation, characterization and immunolocalization of a novel, modular tomato arabinogalactan-protein corresponding to the LeAGP-1 gene. Plant J 18(1): 43-55.
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Schnabelrauch, L. S., Kieliszewski, M., Upham, B. L., Alizedeh, H. and Lamport, D. T. (1996). Isolation of pl 4.6 extensin peroxidase from tomato cell suspension cultures and identification of Val-Tyr-Lys as putative intermolecular cross-link site. Plant J 9(4): 477-489.
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Kieliszewski, M. J. and Lamport, D. T. (1994). Extensin: repetitive motifs, functional sites, post-translational codes, and phylogeny. Plant J 5(2): 157-172.