Jesus F Barajas
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Thompson M, Blake-Hedges J, Pereira J, Hangasky J, Belcher M, Moore W, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2020 Jun;
11(1):2931.
PMID: 32523014
Despite intensive study, plant lysine catabolism beyond the 2-oxoadipate (2OA) intermediate remains unvalidated. Recently we described a missing step in the D-lysine catabolism of Pseudomonas putida in which 2OA is...
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Zargar A, Lal R, Valencia L, Wang J, Backman T, Cruz-Morales P, et al.
J Am Chem Soc
. 2020 May;
142(22):9896-9901.
PMID: 32412752
Polyketide synthase (PKS) engineering is an attractive method to generate new molecules such as commodity, fine and specialty chemicals. A significant challenge is re-engineering a partially reductive PKS module to...
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Thompson M, Pearson A, Barajas J, Cruz-Morales P, Sedaghatian N, Costello Z, et al.
ACS Synth Biol
. 2019 Dec;
9(1):53-62.
PMID: 31841635
Caprolactam is an important polymer precursor to nylon traditionally derived from petroleum and produced on a scale of 5 million tons per year. Current biological pathways for the production of...
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Blake-Hedges J, Pereira J, Cruz-Morales P, Thompson M, Barajas J, Chen J, et al.
J Am Chem Soc
. 2019 Dec;
142(2):835-846.
PMID: 31793780
Terminal alkenes are easily derivatized, making them desirable functional group targets for polyketide synthase (PKS) engineering. However, they are rarely encountered in natural PKS systems. One mechanism for terminal alkene...
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Snoek T, Chaberski E, Ambri F, Kol S, Bjorn S, Pang B, et al.
Nucleic Acids Res
. 2019 Nov;
48(1):e3.
PMID: 31777933
Allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) have proven widely applicable for biotechnology and synthetic biology as ligand-specific biosensors enabling real-time monitoring, selection and regulation of cellular metabolism. However, both the biosensor specificity...
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Barajas J, Wehrs M, To M, Cruickshanks L, Urban R, McKee A, et al.
J Microbiol Biol Educ
. 2019 Aug;
20(2).
PMID: 31388393
The conversion of biomass to biofuels presents a solution to one of the largest global challenges of our era, climate change. A critical part of this pipeline is the process...
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Milligan J, Lee D, Jackson D, Schaub A, Beld J, Barajas J, et al.
Nat Chem Biol
. 2019 Jun;
15(7):669-671.
PMID: 31209348
Fatty acid synthases are dynamic ensembles of enzymes that can biosynthesize long hydrocarbon chains efficiently. Here we visualize the interaction between the Escherichia coli acyl carrier protein (AcpP) and β-ketoacyl-ACP-synthase...
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Barajas J, McAndrew R, Thompson M, Backman T, Pang B, de Rond T, et al.
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol
. 2019 May;
46(8):1225-1235.
PMID: 31115703
Engineered polyketide synthases (PKSs) are promising synthetic biology platforms for the production of chemicals with diverse applications. The dehydratase (DH) domain within modular type I PKSs generates an α,β-unsaturated bond...
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Thompson M, Blake-Hedges J, Cruz-Morales P, Barajas J, Curran S, Eiben C, et al.
mBio
. 2019 May;
10(3).
PMID: 31064836
Despite intensive study for 50 years, the biochemical and genetic links between lysine metabolism and central metabolism in remain unresolved. To establish these biochemical links, we leveraged andom arcode rasposon...
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Barajas J, Zargar A, Pang B, Benites V, Gin J, Baidoo E, et al.
Chembiochem
. 2018 Apr;
19(13):1391-1395.
PMID: 29603548
Naturally occurring lactams, such as the polyketide-derived macrolactams, provide a diverse class of natural products that could enhance existing chemically produced lactams. Although β-amino acid loading in the fluvirucin B...