PUBLICATIONS
After joining TAMU (2019- )
Li, J., Barber, C., Herman, N., Cai, W., Zafrir, E., Du, Y., Zhu, X., Skyrud, W., Zhang, W. "Investigation of secondary metabolism in the industrial butanol hyper-producer Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4." J. Ind. Microbiol. & Biot. 2020
Zhang, B., Rajakovich, L., Cura, D., Blaesi, E., Mitchell, A., Tysoe, C., Zhu, X., Streit, B., Rui, Z., Zhang, W., Boal, A., Krebs, C., Bollinger, J. M. “Substrate-triggered formation of a peroxo-Fe2(III/III) intermediate during fatty acid decarboxylation by UndA” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019,141(37), 14510-14514.
Before joining TAMU (2013-2019)
Seidel, J., Miao, P., Porterfield, W., Cai, W., Zhu, X., Kim, S., Hu, F., Bhattarai-Kline, S., Min, W., Zhang, W. “Structure–activity–distribution relationship study of anti-cancer antimycin-type depsipeptides” Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 9379-9382.
Su, M., Zhu, X., Zhang, W. "Probing the acyl carrier protein-enzyme interactions within terminal alkyne biosynthetic machinery" AIChE J. 2018, 64, 4255-4261. (tribute to founders: Jay Bailey)
Harris, N. C., Sato, M., Herman, N. A., Twigg, F., Cai, W., Liu, J., Zhu, X., Downey, J., Khalaf, R., Martin, J., Koshino, H., Zhang, W. "Biosynthesis of isonitrile lipopeptides by conserved non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene clusters in Actinobacteria" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2017, 114, 7025-7030.
Zhu, X., Shieh, P., Su, M., Bertozzi, C. R., Zhang, W. “A fluorogenic screening platform enables directed evolution of an alkyne biosynthetic tool.” Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 11239-11242.
Liu, J., Zhu, X., Kim, S., Zhang, W. "Antimycin-type depsipeptides: discovery, biosynthesis, chemical synthesis, and bioactivities." Nat. Prod. Rep. 2016, 33, 1146-1165.
Rui, Z., Harris, N. C., Zhu, X., Huang, W., Zhang, W. "Discovery of a family of desaturase-like enzymes for 1-alkene biosynthesis." ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 7091-7094.
Zhu, X., Zhang, W. "Tagging polyketides/non-ribosomal peptides with a clickable functionality and applications." Front. Chem. 2015, 3: 11.
Liu, J., Zhu, X., Seipke, R. F., Zhang, W. “Biosynthesis of antimycins with a reconstituted 3-formamidosalicylate pharmacophore in Escherichia coli.” ACS Synth. Biol. 2015, 4, 559-565.
Sandy, M., Zhu, X., Rui, Z., Zhang, W. “Characterization of AntB, a promiscuous acyltransferase involved in antimycin biosynthesis.” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3396-3399.