> Publications from the Prather Group

Dueber, J.E., Wu, G.C., Malmirchegini, G.R., Moon, T.S., Petzold, C.J., Ullal, A.V., Prather, K.J., Keasling, J.D. "Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux." Nature Biotechnol. 27(8): 753-759 (2009). doi:10.1038/nbt.1557

Oliveira, P.H., Prather, K.J., Prazeres, D.M., and Monteiro, G. in press. "Structural instabilities of plasmid biopharmaceuticals: challenges and implications."Trends Biotechnol. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.06.004

Moon, T.S., Yoon, S.-H., Tsang Mui Ching, M.-J., Lanza, A.M., and Prather, K.L.J. "Enzymatic assay of D-glucoronate using uronate dehydrogenase." Analytical Biochemistry. 392: 183-185 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.ab.2009.05.032

Nielsen, D.R., Leonard, E., Yoon, S.-H., Tseng, H.-C., Yuan, C. and Prather, K.J. "Engineering alternative butanol production platforms in heterologous bacteria." Metab. Eng.11: 262-273 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2009.05.003

Tseng, H-C, Martin, C, Nielsen, D.R., and Prather, K.L.J. 2009. “Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the enhanced production of (R)- and (S)-3-hydroxybutyrate.”  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75(10):3137-3145. doi:10.1128/AEM.02667-08

Leonard, E., Runguphan, W., O’Connor, S., and Prather, K.J. “Opportunities in metabolic engineering to facilitate scalable alkaloid production.”  Nature Chem. Biol 5(5): 292-300 (2009).doi:10.1038/nchembio.160

Martin, C.H., Nielsen, D.R., Solomon, K.V., and Prather, K.L.J. Synthetic metabolism: Engineering biology at the protein and pathway scales. Chem. Biol.16(3): 277-286 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.01.010

Bower, D.M., and Prather, K.L.J. Engineering of bacterial strains and vectors for the production of plasmid DNA. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 82(5): 805-813 (2009) doi:10.1007/s00253-009-1889-8

Yoon, S.-H., Moon, T.S., Iranpour, P., Lanza, A.M., and Prather, K.J. Cloning and characterization of uronate dehydrogenases from two Pseudomonads and Agrobacterium tumefaciens str. C58 J. Bacteriol. 191(5): 1565-1573 (2009) doi:10.1128/JB.00586-08

Moon, T.S., Yoon, S.-H., Lanza, A.M., Roy-Mayhew, J.D. and Prather, K.L.J. Production of glucaric acid from a synthetic pathway in recombinant Escherichia coli. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 589-595 (2009) doi:10.1128/AEM.00973-08

Martin, C.H. and Prather, K.L.J. High-titer production of monomeric hydroxyvalerates from levulinic acid in Pseudomonas putida. J. Biotechnol. 139(1): 61-67 (2009) doi:10.1016/j/jbiotec.2008.09.002

Nielsen, D.R. and Prather, K.L.J. In situ product recovery of n-butanol using polymeric resins. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 102: 811-821 (2009) doi:10.1002/bit.22109

Leonard, E., Nielsen, D., Solomon, K., and Prather, K.J. Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks. Trends Biotechnol. 26(12): 674-681 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.08.003

Rodrigo, G., Carrera, J., Prather, K.L.J., and Jaramillo, A. DESHARKY: Automated design of metabolic pathways for optimal cell growth. Bioinformatics. 24(21): 2554-2556 (2008). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn471

Prather, K.L.J. and Martin, C.H. De novo biosynthetic pathways: rational design of microbial chemical factories. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 19(5): 468-474 (2008). doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2008.07.009

> Selected Publications by Kristala Jones Prather

Prather, K. L. J., Edmonds, M. C., and Herod, J. W. Identification and characterization of IS1 transposition in plasmid amplification mutants of E. coli clones producing DNA vaccines. Appl. Micrbiol. Biotechnol. 73:815-826 (2006).

Montgomery, D. L., and Prather, K. J. "Design of plasmid DNA constructs for vaccines." in DNA Vaccines: Methods and Protocols (eds. Saltzman, W.M., Shen, H. & Brandsma, J.L.), 2nd Ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2006.

Prather, K. J., Sagar, S., Murphy, J., and Chartrain, M. Industrial scale production of plasmid DNA for vaccine and gene therapy: plasmid design, production, and purification. Enz. Microbiol. Technol. 33: 865-883 (2003).

Aldor, I.S., Kim, S.-W., Prather, K.L.J., and Keasling, J.D. Metabolic engineering of a novel propionate-independent pathway for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) in recombinant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 68: 3848-3854 (2002).

Jones, K.L., Kim, S.-W., and Keasling, J.D. Low-copy plasmids can perform as well as or better than high-copy plasmids for metabolic engineering of bacteria. Metabolic Engineering. 2: 328-338 (2000).

Carrier, T.A., Jones, K.L., and Keasling, J.D. mRNA stability and plasmid copy number effects on gene expression from an inducible promoter system. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 59: 666-672 (1998).

Jones, K.L. and Keasling, J.D. Construction and characterization of F plasmid-based expression vectors. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 59: 659-665 (1998).

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