C. J. Petzold

This paper refactors the Agrobacterium tumor-inducing plasmid into a minimal set of genes for plant and fungal transformation, demonstrating a bottom-up engineering approach.

This study investigates carbon catabolite repression in Pseudomonas putida M2 during simultaneous sugar and aromatic co-utilization, revealing simultaneous repression by sugars and aromatics and the role of crc and small RNAs.

The paper identifies three Pseudomonas putida isolates with diverse pentose catabolism capabilities and characterizes their genes and pathways for xylose and arabinose oxidation.

The paper investigates the combined effects of eight heavy metals on Bacillus cereus, revealing global iron starvation responses not observed with individual metals.

This study uses molecular dynamics and experimental methods to show that phosphorylation of CheY increases its affinity for FliMN by altering conformational dynamics and sidechain burial.

This study identifies bottlenecks in T3PKS product production in Pseudomonas putida and shows that deleting a catabolic enzyme increases bisdemethoxycurcumin yield.

This study uses chemoinformatics to engineer polyketide synthases for producing saturated β-carbon compounds, finding a correlation between chemical similarity and product titers.

This study engineers Pseudomonas putida to produce indigoidine with high titer, rate, and yield by coupling product formation with growth through metabolic rewiring and CRISPRi knockdowns.

This paper investigates the structural mechanism of regioselectivity in a bacterial acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, identifying key residues and structural features responsible for its unique substrate specificity.

This study identifies physiological stages in Aspergillus niger's transcriptomic response to lignocellulose substrates, showing conserved metabolic patterns and substrate-specific adaptations.

This paper shows that Pseudomonas putida can grow on lignolysate from sorghum, using aromatic monomers and other unknown factors like amino acids and ionic liquid.

This paper investigates the metabolic response of Pseudomonas taiwanensis to NADH dehydrogenase deficiencies, finding high metabolic flexibility that enables phenotypic stability but complicates metabolic engineering.

This paper uses RB-TnSeq to identify novel enzymes in Pseudomonas putida lysine metabolism, revealing new biochemical pathways and functions for DUF1338 proteins.

This study systematically measures mutant phenotypes for genes in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to uncover gene functions and improve understanding of gut microbiota physiology.

The paper identifies RaxX as a sulfated RiPP that binds the rice immune receptor XA21, revealing its role in bacterial immune activation.