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← Genetically Encoded Biosensor for Detection of Polyketide Synthase Extender Units in Escherichia coli

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By gjwillia | Published June 18, 2019 | Full size is 982 × 390 pixels

Accessing non-natural small molecules via synthetic biology

The Williams Lab uses a combination of enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering, microbiology, synthetic biology, and organic chemistry, to access various non-natural small molecules and natural products for drug discovery and chemical biology.

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Prof. Williams is a member of the Comparative Medicine Institute at NC State, the BIT Program Training Faculty, the Microbiology Training Faculty, and the Genomic Sciences Initiative Training Faculty.

 

 

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RSS Recent Publications

  • Current State-of-the-Art Toward Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Polyketide Natural Products
  • Development of Genetically Encoded Biosensors for Reporting the Methyltransferase-Dependent Biosynthesis of Semisynthetic Macrolide Antibiotics
  • Protein engineering for natural product biosynthesis and synthetic biology applications
  • Computationally-guided exchange of substrate selectivity motifs in a modular polyketide synthase acyltransferase
  • Transcription factor-based biosensors: a molecular-guided approach for natural product engineering
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