selected publications

• journal article

  • Challenging a decades- old paradigm: ProB and ProA do not channel the unstable intermediate in proline synthesis after all.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2024
    
  • A method for generating user-defined circular single-stranded DNA from plasmid DNA using Golden Gate intramolecular ligation.  Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 3057-3066. 2023
  • Cell Survival Enabled by Leakage of a Labile Metabolic Intermediate.  Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2023
    
  • How to Recruit a Promiscuous Enzyme to Serve a New Function.  Biochemistry. 2023
    
  • Structure and kinetics of indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Decarboxylation is not essential for indole formation.  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 15948-15956. 2020
    
  In Vitro Selection of Peptides and Proteins-Advantages of mRNA Display.  ACS Synthetic Biology. 181-190. 2020
  
  Foods of the future..  Science. 1306-1307. 2019
  
  Fresh fruit.  Science. 1307-1307. 2019
  Genetic Code Evolution Investigated through the Synthesis and Characterisation of Proteins from Reduced-Alphabet Libraries.  ChemBioChem: a European journal of chemical biology. 846-856. 2019
  
  Enzyme evolution: innovation is easy, optimization is complicated.  Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 110-116. 2018
  
  Structural and functional innovations in the real-time evolution of new (βα)₈ barrel enzymes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 4727-4732. 2017
  
  Two-step Ligand Binding in a (βα)₈ Barrel Enzyme SUBSTRATE-BOUND STRUCTURES SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE CATALYTIC CYCLE OF HisA.  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 24657-24668. 2015
  
  Rapid bursts and slow declines: on the possible evolutionary trajectories of enzymes.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2015
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