Recently minted PhD Samantha Meiser Carpenter (now at BASF) describes the substrate promiscuity of a unique trans-acyltransferase from Zwittermicin biosynthesis in ACS Chemical Biology. Her work expands what is known about these ACP-dependent enzymes and suggests new strategies to diversify antibiotics.
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Check out Chapter 11 of “Chemical and Biological Synthesis: Enabling Approaches for Understanding Biology”, for a summary of precursor-directed biosynthesis by Edward Kalkreuter and Samantha Carpenter! In addition, Christian Kasey authored Chapter 8 of the book “Modern Biocatalysis: Advances Towards … Continue reading
Congratulations to Christian Kasey (now at Zymergen) for his publication in ACS Synth Biol! The paper describes developing custom biosensors for detection of macrolides. This is exciting work that enables us to engineer antibiotic-producing microbial factories using high-throughput synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches.
Our collaborative work with Tilmann Weber and Sang Yup Lee on using a promiscuous enzyme and “click” chemistry to make new antibiotics is featured as the journal cover at ACS Synthetic Biology!
Congratulations to Samantha Meiser Carpenter and Edward Kalkreuter for winning 1st and 3rd place poster prizes, respectively, at the Synthetic Biology for Natural Products 2017 meeting in Cancun!
The College of Sciences made a short video explaining how we ThinkAndDo in our research group at NC State, check it out!
