Publications
“Biochemical characterization of the castor bean ent-kaurene synthase(-like) family supports quantum chemical view of diterpene cyclization”, Phytochemistry, vol. 103, pp. 13-21, 2014.
, “Characterization and Inhibition of a Class II Diterpene Cyclase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis IMPLICATIONS FOR TUBERCULOSIS”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 284, no. 35, pp. 23574-23579, 2009.
, “Characterization of an Orphan Diterpenoid Biosynthetic Operon from Salinispora arenicola”, Journal of natural products, vol. 77, no. 9, pp. 2144-2147, 2014.
, “Domain loss has independently occurred multiple times in plant terpene synthase evolution”, The Plant Journal, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 1051-1060, 2011.
, “Edaxadiene: a new bioactive diterpene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, no. 48, pp. 17526-17527, 2009.
, “Effect of isotopically sensitive branching on product distribution for pentalenene synthase: support for a mechanism predicted by quantum chemistry”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 134, no. 28, pp. 11369-11371, 2012.
, “Following evolution's lead to a single residue switch for diterpene synthase product outcome”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 18, pp. 7397-7401, 2007.
, “Functional characterization and evolution of the isotuberculosinol operon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Mycobacteria”, Frontiers in microbiology, vol. 3, 2012.
, “Functional characterization of the rice kaurene synthase-like gene family”, Phytochemistry, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 312-326, 2007.
, “Functional characterization of wheat ent-kaurene(-like) synthases indicates continuing evolution of labdane-related diterpenoid metabolism in the cereals”, Phytochemistry, vol. 84, pp. 47-55, 2012.
, “Functional identification of rice syn‐copalyl diphosphate synthase and its role in initiating biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexin/allelopathic natural products”, The Plant Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 309-318, 2004.
, “Genetic evidence for natural product‐mediated plant–plant allelopathy in rice (Oryza sativa)”, New Phytologist, vol. 193, no. 3, pp. 570-575, 2012.
, “Identification of syn-pimara-7,15-diene synthase reveals functional clustering of terpene synthases involved in rice phytoalexin/allelochemical biosynthesis”, Plant physiology, vol. 135, no. 4, pp. 2098-2105, 2004.
, “Increasing complexity of a diterpene synthase reaction with a single residue switch”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, no. 16, pp. 5400-5401, 2008.
, “Increasing diterpene yield with a modular metabolic engineering system in E. coli: comparison of MEV and MEP isoprenoid precursor pathway engineering”, Applied microbiology and biotechnology, vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 1893-1906, 2010.
, “Rice contains two disparate ent-copalyl diphosphate synthases with distinct metabolic functions”, Plant physiology, vol. 136, no. 4, pp. 4228-4236, 2004.
, “An unexpected diterpene cyclase from rice: functional identification of a stemodene synthase”, Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, vol. 448, no. 1, pp. 133-140, 2006.
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