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6 Sep 2024
Out now in @Chem_CP , we collaborate with @piel_lab to discover a prenyltransferase terpene cyclase fusion enzyme that modifies Trp residues in RiPPs to yield complex steroid-like scaffolds! Congrats to @HubrichFlorian, @sanathrajkk0 for leading this!🎉authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdi…
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4 Nov 2024
The #BJOC thematic issue on Young investigators in natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and enzymology is now complete! 31 contributions from young investigators around the world! Check it out! @BeilsteinInst beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/…
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27 Oct 2024
Thrilled to share our work on the new plant Cu enzymes, BpCs! We offer mechanistic insights and structural recommendations for advancing BpC research. Thanks to @jess_panch for inviting us to publish in @TrendsChemistry ! 🌿🧬🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzvn…
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24 Oct 2024
When the standard approaches didn't work, @Chad46971777 came up with a new one to solve a synthetic challenge that @YeWangum was having. Mix in @AzamHussai70792 and the following @J_A_C_S paper was the result.
@NarayanLab @MichiganChem @UMLifeSciences #biocatalysis
24 Oct 2024
Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Enable Biocatalytic Synthesis of Azaphilones | Journal of the American Chemical Society @AlisonNarayanUM
@UMichResearch @UMich @NarayanLab #Ancestral #Sequence #Reconstruction #Biocatalysis #Azaphilones
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23 Oct 2024
We studied rSAM, HtkB catalyze a His-to-Lys crosslink, and revealed conserved active site residues that influence substrate specificity. Brandon Morinaka Lab | RSC Chem Biol
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23 Oct 2024
Come join our awesome team @uncg_chem @UNCG. We are seeking a new colleague to teach organic chemistry to our absolutely amazing students!
Please rt 🙏🧪⚗️🌞
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24 Sep 2024
Our dept of Chem&Biochem is hiring an Asst Prof in the areas of Inorganic/Bioinorganic Chem. We are an R2 that combines exceptional research with mentorship and teaching of a diverse student population. Come join our fantastic community!
#chemjobs
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23 Sep 2024
Calling all Inorganic Chemists. Join our amazing department with a tenure track Assistant Professor position.
I love @uncg_chem. Great colleagues, remarkable students, low cost of living. Check us out!
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20 Sep 2024
My amazing department, @bio_uncg, is hiring an Assistant Professor in Genetics/Cell Biology! Since starting @UNCG, I've felt incredibly supported and can't speak highly enough of this department! Please retweet and share with colleagues!
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17 Sep 2024
Delighted that a collaboration with @Nairlab_UIUC is now online @nchembio Nucleobases are common in biology but not in peptides. In this work, a nucleobase-peptide hybrid is generated from a ribosomal precursor peptide via YcaO domain protein catalysis. nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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16 Sep 2024
Never underestimate a diiron enzyme. Congrats @sanjoyadak90 for bringing the nitrile synthase AetD to life with @Drennan_lab, Maria-Eirini Pandelia, and Ken Houk labs. Published today @NatureChemistry nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
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Congrats to @HubrichFlorian & @sanathrajkk0 for this exciting story finally being published. Thanks for the fruitful collaboration with @chekanlab. If you are interested in the chemical space of #RiPP #biosynthetic #enyzmes and #isoprenoids, click here:
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6 Sep 2024
It was great working with you on this exciting project!
6 Sep 2024
Very excited to share that one of the major projects from my postdoc in the wonderful @piel_lab is out now @Chem_CP. An amazing collaboration with the @ChekanLab and @sanathrajkk0 where we characterized RiPPs with polycyclic isoprene moieties🎉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdi…
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5 Sep 2024
So excited that @uncg_chem has been awarded the 2024 @UNCG_CAS Diversity Award.
Join us in person or virtually, September 10th at 3:30 EDT, to share ideas about inclusiveness in science.
DM me for a link
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30 Aug 2024
Thrilled to have accomplished a major career goal nearly 15 years in the making today! I showed my biochem class the 1971 stanford protein synthesis video. youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iC…
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13 Aug 2024
Out now in @ACSCatalysis, we develop a chimeric fusion N-glycosyltransferase for targeted and selective peptide modification, especially in vivo. We use it to make a new glycocin derivative (RiPP NP). Congrats to @smith_ayoola for leading this work!🎉
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8 Aug 2024
🔓Take a look in our latest issue at this #OpenAccess article by Jonathan Chekan, Roland Kersten & co @ChekanLab @kersten_lab highlighting the chemistry, biosynthesis & function of plant RiPPs
📍@uncg_chem @UMichPharmacy
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3 Aug 2024
Excited to share our latest work on a new subfamily of VHPOs that modify external AQ molecules and rescue bacterial growth! @JacksonBaumga10 drove this interdisciplinary effort with amazing MS imaging support from @nerdcitycat and @DrLauraSanchez!
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Out now: We reassemble 700 public plant transcriptomes to mine potential for side chain crosslinked peptides in plants (burpitides). We found multiple phylogenetic hot spots supported by metabolomics. Congrats to Draco, @mikepasquale77, and Brigitte!
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