Publications
“Functional characterization and evolution of the isotuberculosinol operon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Mycobacteria”, Frontiers in microbiology, vol. 3, 2012.
, “Insights into diterpene cyclization from structure of bifunctional abietadiene synthase from Abies grandis”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 287, no. 9, pp. 6840-6850, 2012.
, “Isotuberculosinol: the unusual case of an immunomodulatory diterpenoid from Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, Med. Chem. Commun., vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 899-904, 2012.
, “Diterpenoid biopolymers: new directions for renewable materials engineering”, Biopolymers, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 71-76, 2011.
, “Magnesium depletion triggers production of an immune modulating diterpenoid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, Molecular microbiology, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 1594-1601, 2011.
, “Rv0989c encodes a novel (E)-geranyl diphosphate synthase facilitating decaprenyl diphosphate biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, FEBS letters, vol. 585, no. 3, pp. 549-554, 2011.
, “Diterpene cyclases and the nature of the isoprene fold”, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, vol. 78, no. 11, pp. 2417-2432, 2010.
, “A single residue switch for Mg2+-dependent inhibition characterizes plant class II diterpene cyclases from primary and secondary metabolism”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 285, no. 27, pp. 20558-20563, 2010.
, “Synthesis of (±)-Nosyberkol (Isotuberculosinol, Revised Structure of Edaxadiene) and (±)-Tuberculosinol”, Organic letters, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 2626-2629, 2010.
, “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.
, “Edaxadiene: a new bioactive diterpene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, no. 48, pp. 17526-17527, 2009.
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