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  • When Anne Osbourn left her post as a plant biologist to take up a Dream Time Fellowship in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, she was charged with the task of bringing science into daily lives and language through creative writing. Surprisingly, Anne turned not to prose, but to poetry. In this essay, she describes her sabbatical from science, which saw her establish the Science, Art and Writing (SAW) concept — an initiative that draws children to science using scientific images as inspiration for creative writing and art.

    • Anne Osbourn
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 4, P: 77-80

  • Vaccine immunoadjuvants are central to vaccine efficiency. Now, the complete characterization of the biosynthetic pathway of QS-21, a potent immunoadjuvant produced by the Chilean soapbark tree, has been reported. These findings open the door to heterologous production of QS-21 and new-to-nature adjuvants.

    • Laetitia B. B. Martin
    • Shingo Kikuchi
    • Anne Osbourn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 20, P: 493-502

  • How plant biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) form and evolve remains unclear. Here, via examining available genomes within and between Arabidopsis species, the authors show that the thalianol BGC has evolved recently and is still dynamically evolving through involvement of auxiliary genes and chromosomal inversions.

    • Zhenhua Liu
    • Jitender Cheema
    • Anne Osbourn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-11

  • The genomic organization and origin of the avenacin biosynthetic gene cluster remain unknown. Here, the authors assemble the genome of diploid oat Avena strigosa, reveal the structure and organization of the consecutive genes, characterize the last two missing pathway steps, and investigate the origin of the pathway in cereals.

    • Yan Li
    • Aymeric Leveau
    • Anne Osbourn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-13

  • Sea stars and sea cucumbers biosynthesize protective glycosylated steroids and triterpenes via divergent oxidosqualene cyclases (OSCs) that produce these distinct saponins in different species as well as in different tissues of a single species.

    • Ramesha Thimmappa
    • Shi Wang
    • Anne Osbourn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 18, P: 774-781

  • Investigations of plant metabolism reveal how an enzyme variant with reduced feedback sensitivity may allow plants to switch their pigment palettes.

    • Anne Osbourn
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 3, P: 852-853