Shelby R. Anderson

Air-driven aldehyde synthesis in engineered bacteria via gene deletion and aryl-alcohol oxidase profiling

This paper engineers Escherichia coli to oxidize non-native alcohols using high-expression aryl-alcohol oxidases, enabling air-driven aldehyde synthesis.

A One-Pot Biocatalytic Cascade to Access Diverse L-Phenylalanine Derivatives from Aldehydes or Carboxylic Acids

This paper describes a one-pot biocatalytic cascade using PLP-dependent enzymes to synthesize diverse L-phenylalanine derivatives from aldehydes and carboxylic acids under mild conditions.

Combined biosynthesis and site-specific incorporation of phenylalanine derivatives from aryl aldehydes or carboxylic acids in engineered bacteria

This paper presents a modular bacterial system for biosynthesizing and incorporating phenylalanine derivatives into proteins using achiral building blocks, reducing reliance on complex chemical synthesis.

Combinatorial gene inactivation of aldehyde dehydrogenases mitigates aldehyde oxidation catalyzed by resting cells of E. coli RARE strains

The paper demonstrates that combinatorial gene inactivation of aldehyde dehydrogenases in E. coli reduces aldehyde oxidation in resting cells, improving aldehyde bioconversion.