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Veronica Teixeira Benites

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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A bimodular PKS platform that expands the biological design space

Amin Zargar, Luis E. Valencia, Jessica C Wang, Ravi Lal, Samantha Chang, Miranda Werts, Andrew R. Wong, Amanda C. Hernández, Veronica Teixeira Benites, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Leonard Katz, Jay D. Keasling

The paper engineers bimodular PKS systems to produce unnatural polyketides as bio-based chemicals, demonstrating both successes and challenges in product fidelity.

Metabolic Engineering · Sep 1, 2020Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology

An iron (II) dependent oxygenase performs the last missing step of plant lysine catabolism

Mitchell G. Thompson, Jacquelyn M. Blake-Hedges, Jose Henrique Pereira, John A. Hangasky, Michael S. Belcher, William M. Moore, Jesus F. Barajas, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Lorenzo J. Washington, Robert W. Haushalter, Christopher B. Eiben, Yuzhong Liu, Will Skyrud, Veronica Teixeira Benites, Tyler P. Barnum, , Jay D. Keasling

The paper identifies an iron-dependent enzyme in plants that completes the lysine catabolism pathway, showing structural and functional conservation across species.

Nature Communications · Jun 10, 2020Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Host engineering for improved valerolactam production in Pseudomonas putida

Mitchell G. Thompson, Luis E. Valencia, Jacquelyn M. Blake-Hedges, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Alexandria E. Velasquez, Allison N. Pearson, Lauren N. Sermeno, William A. Sharpless, Veronica Teixeira Benites, Yan Chen, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Christopher J. Petzold, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Jay D. Keasling

This study identifies and disrupts genes in Pseudomonas putida that cause unwanted metabolism of valerolactam, increasing its production titer.

bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2019 · PreprintSynthetic Biology