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2023
Diehl, C., Gerlinger, P. D., Paczia, N., & Erb, T. J. (2023). Synthetic anaplerotic modules for the direct synthesis of complex molecules from CO2. Nature chemical biology, 19(2), 168–175.
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Bierbaumer, S., Nattermann, M., Schulz, L., Zschoche, R., Erb, T. J., Winkler, C. K., Tinzl, M., & Glueck, S. M. (2023). Enzymatic Conversion of CO2: From Natural to Artificial Utilization. Chemical reviews, 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00581. Advance online publication.
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Pfister, P., Zarzycki, J., & Erb, T. J. (2023). Structural Basis for a Cork-Up Mechanism of the Intra-Molecular Mesaconyl-CoA Transferase. Biochemistry, 62(1), 75–84.
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Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Schulz-Mirbach, H., Troncoso Castellanos, M., Severi, F., Gómez-Coronado, P. A., Paczia, N., Glatter, T., Bar-Even, A., Lindner, S. N., & Erb, T. J. (2023). Implementation of the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle increases growth performance of Pseudomonas putida on the PET monomer ethylene glycol. Metabolic engineering, 76, 97–109. Advance online publication.
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2022
Geyer, K., Hartmann, S., Singh, R. R., & Erb, T. J. (2022). Multiple Functions of the Type II Thioesterase Associated with the Phoslactomycin Polyketide Synthase. Biochemistry, 61(23), 2662–2671.
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Schulz L., Guo Z., Zarzycki J., Steinchen W., Schuller J.M., Heimerl T., Prinz S., Mueller-Cajar O., Erb T.J., Hochberg G.K.A. (2022)
Evolution of increased complexity and specificity at the dawn of form I Rubiscos. Science. 2022 Oct 14;378(6616):155-160.
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Schulz-Mirbach, H., Müller, A., Wu, T., Pfister, P., Aslan, S., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Erb, T. J., Bar-Even, A., & Lindner, S. N. (2022).
On the flexibility of the cellular amination network in E coli. eLife, 11, e77492.
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Pandi, A., Diehl, C., Yazdizadeh Kharrazi, A., Scholz, S. A., Bobkova, E., Faure, L., Nattermann, M., Adam, D., Chapin, N., Foroughijabbari, Y., Moritz, C., Paczia, N., Cortina, N. S., Faulon, J. L., & Erb, T. J. (2022).
A versatile active learning workflow for optimization of genetic and metabolic networks. Nature communications, 13(1), 3876.
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DeMirci H., Rao Y., Stoffel G.M., Vögeli B., Schell K., Gomez A., Batyuk A., Gati C., Sierra R.G., Hunter M.S., Dao E.H., Ciftci H.I., Hayes B., Poitevin F., Li P.N., Kaur M., Tono K., Saez D.A., Deutsch S., Yoshikuni Y., Grubmüller H., Erb T.J., Vöhringer-Martinez E., Wakatsuki S. (2022).
Intersubunit Coupling Enables Fast CO2-Fixation by Reductive Carboxylases. ACS central science, 8(8), 1091–1101.
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Rodríguez-Martínez M., Nielsen J., Dupont S., Vamathevan J., Glover B.J., Crosswell L.C., Rouse B., Luisi B.F., Bowler C., Gasser S.M., Arendt D., Erb T.J., de Lorenzo V., Heard E., Patil K.R. (2022)
Molecular biology for green recovery-A call for action. PLoS Biol. 2022 Apr 22;20(4):e3001623.
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Erb, T.J., Zarzycki, J. and Scheffen, M. (2021)
5 Synthetic enzymes and pathways for improved carbon capture and conversion. In: Photosynthesis, Biotechnological Applications with Microalgae, 129
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
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Bouzon, M., Döring, V., Dubois, I., Berger, A., Stoffel, G.M.M., Calzadiaz, Ramirez L., Meyer, S.N., Fouré, M., Roche, D., Perret, A., Erb, T.J., Bar-Even, A. and Lindner, S.N. (2021)
Change in cofactor specificity of oxidoreductases by adaptive evolution of an Escherichia coli NADPH-auxotrophic strain. Mbio 12, e00329-21
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Otrin, L., Diehl, C., Erb, T., Sundmacher, K., and Vidaković-Koch, T. (2021)
Artificial Mitochondrion, Bottom-up!. Talk presented at SYNCELL 2021: International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles. Virtual. 2021-05-19 - 2021-05-20.
Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Erb, T.J. and Zarzycki, J. (2021)
Method of producing autotrophic organisms with altered photorespiration and improved CO2 fixation. US Patent App. 17/047,974
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Castañeda-Losada, L., Adam, D., Paczia, N., Buesen, D., Steffler, F., Sieber, V., Erb, T., Richter, M. and Plumere, N. (2021)
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Benzylmalonyl-Coa dehydrogenase, an enzyme involved in bacterial auxin degradation. Archives of Microbiology 203, pages 4149–4159
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Roell, M.S., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Westhoff, P., Plett, A., Paczia, N., Claus, P., Urte, S., Erb, T.J. and Weber, A.P.M. (2021)
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Nattermann, M., Burgener, S., Pfister, P., Chou, A., Schulz, L., Lee, S.H., Paczia, N., Zarzycki, J., Gonzalez, R. and Erb, T.J. (2021)
Engineering a highly efficient carboligase for synthetic one-carbon metabolims. ACS Catalysis, Bd. 11, 5396-5404
Greco, F.V., Pandi, A., Erb, T.J., Grierson, C.S. and Gorochowski, T.E. (2021)
Harnessing the central dogma for stringent multi-level control of gene expression. Nat Commun. 12, 1738
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Scheffen, S., Marchal, D.G., Beneyton, T., Schuller, S.K., Klose, M., Diehl, C., Lehmann, J., Pfister, P., Carrillo, C., He, H., Aslan, S., Cortina, N.S., Claus, P., Bollschweiler, D., Baret, J.-C., Schuller, J.M., Zarzycki, J., Bar-Even, A. and Erb, T.J. (2021)
A new-to-nature carboxylation module to improve natural and synthetic CO2 fixation. Nature Catalysis 4, 105-115
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Bouzon, M., Döring, V., Dubois, I., Berger, A., Stoffel, G.M.M., Calzadiaz Ramirez, L., Meyer, S., Fouré, M., Roche, D., Perret, A., Erb, T.J., Bar-Even, A. and Lindner, S.N. (2021)
Emergence of NADP+-reducing enzymes in Escherichia coli central metabolism via adaptive evolution. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.08.430375
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Moog, D., Zarzycki, J., Rexer, K.H., Erb, T.J. and Maier, U.G. (2021)
Engineering microalgae as a whole cell catalyst for PET degradation. Methods Enzymol. 648, 435-455
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Davis, B., Backus, K., Winter, G., Chica, R., Li, D., Lee, S.Y., He, C., Weeks, A., Overall, C., Hagihara, S., Thuronyi, B., Kamat, S., Chen, L.-L., Hurtado Guerrero, R., Yao, S., Mahal, L.K., Voigt, C., Woo, C., Strauss, E., Kikuchi, K., Dore, T., Radford, S., Li, X.D., Heo, W.D., Superti-Furga, G., Deans, T., Belousov, V., Matthews, M., Jackson, C., Malek, S., Waldmann, H., Rising, A., Jewett, M., Stamou, D., Parker, E., Murakami, M., Polizzi, K., Hamachi, I., Erb, T., Joo, C., Uesugi, M., Prinjha, R., Rechavi, G., Solano, R., Schulman, B., David, Y. and Oslund, R. (2021)
Voices of chemical biology. Nature Chem. Biol. 17, 1-4
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Schnitzler, L., Zarzycki, J., Gerhard, M., Konde, S., Rexer, K.H., Erb, T.J., Maier, U.G., Koch, M., Hofmann, M.R. and Moog, D. (2021)
Lensless digital holographic microscopy as an efficient method to monitor enzymatic plastic degradation. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 163,111950
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Bernhardsgrütter, I., Stoffel, G., Miller, T.E. and Erb, T.J. (2021)
CO2-converting enzymes for sustainable biotechnology: from mechanisms to application. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 67, 80-87
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Structural adaptation of oxygen tolerance in 4-hydroxybutyrl-CoA dehydratase, a key enzyme of archaeal carbon fixation.
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.05.935528
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Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Bernhardsgrütter, I. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Biochemical unity revisited: microbial central carbon metabolism holds new discoveries, multi-tasking pathways, and redundancies with a reason. Biological Chemistry
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Cotton, C.A.R., Bernhardsgrütter, I., He,H., Burgener, S., Schulz, L., Paczia, N., Dronsella, B., Erban, A., Toman, S., Dempfle, M., De Maria, A., Kopka, J., Lindner, S.N., Erb, T.J. and Bar-Even, A. (2020)
Underground isoleucine biosynthesis pathways in E. coli. eLife e54207
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Satanowski, A., Dronsella, B., Noor, E., Vögeli, B., He. H., Wichmann, Erb, T.J., Lindner, S.N. and Bar-Even, A. (2020)
Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli. BioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.05.18.102244
Gläser, L, Kuhl, M., Jovanovic, S., Fritz, M., Vögeli, B., Erb, T.J., Becker, J. and Wittmann, C. (2020)
A common approach for absolute quantification of short chain CoA thioesters in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. Microb. Cell Factories 19, 160
Calzadiaz-Ramirez, L. Calvó-Tusell, C., Stoffel, G.M.M., Lindner, S.N., Osuna, S., Erb, T.J., Garcia-Vorràs, M., Bar-Even, A. and Acevedo-Rocho, C.G. (2020)
In vivo selection for formate dehydrogenases with high efficiency and specificity toward NADP+. ACS Catalysis 10, 7512-7525
Burgener, S., Cortina, N.S. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Oxalyl‐CoA decarboxylase enables nucleophilic one‐carbon extension of aldehydes to chiral α‐hydroxy acids. Angew. Chemie 59, 5526-5530
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Burgener, S., Cortina, N.S. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Oxalyl‐CoA Decarboxylase katalysiert die nukleophile ein‐Kohlenstoff‐Verlängerung von Aldehyden zu chiralen α‐Hydroxysäuren. Angew. Chemie 132, 5569-5573
Miller, T.E., Beneyton, T., Schwander, T., Diehl, C., Girault, M., McLean, R., Chotel, T., Claus, P., Socorro Cortina, N., Baret, J.-C. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts. Science 368, 649-654
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Geyer, K., Sundaram, S., Sušnik, P., Koert, U. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Understanding substrate selectivity of phoslactomycin polyketide synthase by using reconstituted in vitro systems. ChemBioChem, 21, 2080-2085
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Burgener, S., Luo, S., McLean, R., Miller, T.E. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
A roadmap towards integrated catalytic systems of the future. Nature Catalysis 3, 186-192
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Otrin, L, Diehl, C., Erb, T.J., Sundmacher, K. and Vidakovic-Koch, T. (2020)
Mitochondrion reimagined - fueling synthetic life. Biophys. J. 118, 450a
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Bernhardsgrütter, I., Stoffel, G. and Erb, T.J. (2020)
Schöne neue Biologie? Synthetisch-biologische Ansätze zur CO2-Umwandlung. Biospektrum 26, 24-27
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Richter, A.A., Kobus, S., Czech, L., Hoeppner, A., Zarzycki, J., Erb, T.J., Lauterbach, L., Dickschat, J.S., Bremer, E. and Smits, S.H.J. (2020)
The architecture of the diaminobutyrate acetyltransferase active site provides mechanistic insight into the biosynthesis of the chemical chaperone ectoine. J Biol Chem. 295, 2822-2838
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North, J.A., Wildenthal, J.A., Erb, T.J., Evans, B.S., Byerly, K.M., Gerlt, J.A. and Tabita, F.R. (2020)
A bifunctional salvage pathway for two distinct S-adenosylmethionine by-products that is widespread in bacteria, including pathogenic Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol. 113, 923-937
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Richter, A.A., Kobus, S., Czech, L., Höppner, A., Zarzycki, J., Erb, T., Lauterbach, L., Dickschat, J.S., Bremer, E. and Smits, S.H.J. (2019)
Making the stress-protectant ectoine: Structural and biochemical insights into the acetyltransferase EctA. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Biologia 64:110-110
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Wurtzel, E.T., Vickers, C.E., Hanson, A.D., Millar, A.H., Cooper, M., Voss-Fels, K.P., Nikel, P.I. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Revolutionizing agriculture with synthetic biology. Nat Plants 5, 1207–1210
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Richter, A,A., Mais, C.N., Czech, L., Geyer, K., Hoeppner, A., Smits, S.H.J., Erb, T.J., Bange, G. and Bremer E. (2019)
Biosynthesis of the stress-protectant and chemical chaperon ectoine: Biochemistry of the transaminase EctB. Front Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02811.
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Erb, T.J., Keller, P. and Vorholt, J.A. (2019)
Escherichia coli in Auto(trophic) Mode. Cell 179, 1244-1245
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Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Severi, F., Krüger, K., Hermann, L., Gilardet, A., Sippel, F., Pommerenke, B., Claus, P., Socorro Cortina, N., Glatter, T., Zauner, S., Zarzycki, J., Fuchs, B.M., Bremer, E., Maier, U.G., Amann, R.I. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Marine Proteobacteria metabolise glycolate via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle. Nature 575, 500-504
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Moog, D., Schmitt, J., Senger, J., Zarzycki, J., Rexer, K.-H., Linne, U., Erb, T.J. and Maier, U.G. (2019)
Using a marine microalga as a chassis for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) degradation. Microbial Cell Factories 18:171
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Carrillo, M., Wagner, M., Petit, F., Dransfeld, A., Becker, A. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
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Erb, T.J. (2019)
Structural organization of biocatalytic systems: the next dimension of synthetic metabolism. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 3, 579–586
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Bernhardsgrütter, I., Schell, K., Peter, D.M., Borjian, F., Saez, D.A., Vöhringer-Martinez, E. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Awakening the sleeping carboxylase function of enzymes: Engineering the natural CO2-binding potential of reductases. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 9778-9782
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Böttcher, T. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Die Zukunft der Synthetischen Biologie gemeinsam gestalten. BIOspektrum 24, 453-454
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Claassens, N. J., Burgener, S., Vögeli, B., Erb, T.J. and Bar-Even, A. (2019)
A critical comparison of cellular and cell-free bioproduction systems. Current Op.Biotechnol. 60, 221-229
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DeMirci, H., Rao, Y., Stoffel, G.M., Vögeli, B., Schell, K., Batyuk, A., Gati, C., Sierra, R.G., Hunter, M. S., Dao, E.H., Ciftci, H.I., Hayes, B., Poitevin, F., Tono, K., Saez, D.A., Vöhringer-Martinez, E., Deutsch, S., Yoshikuni, Y., Erb, T.J. and Wakatsuki, S. (2019)
Coupled inter-subunit dynamics enable the fastest CO2-fixation by reductive carboxylases. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/607101
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Erb, T.J. (2019)
Back to the future: Why we need enzymology to build a synthetic metabolism of the future. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 15, 551-557
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Kremer, K., Van Teeseling, M.C.F., von Borzyskowski, L.S. and Bernhardsgrütter, I.,Van Spanning, R.J.M., Gates, A.J., Remus-Emsermann, M.N.P., Thanbichler, M. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Dynamic Metabolic Rewiring Enables Efficient Acetyl Coenzyme A Assimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans. mBio 10, e00805-19
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Seah, B., Antony, C.P., Huettel, B., Zarzycki, J., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Erb, T., Kouris, A., Kleiner, M., Liebeke, M., Dubilier, N. and Gruber-Vodicka, H. (2019)
Sulfur-oxidizing symbionts without canonical genes for autotrophic CO2 fixation. bioRxiv, 540435
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Stoffel, G. M. M., Saez, D. A., DeMirci, H., Vögeli, B., Rao, Y., Zarzycki, J., Yoshikuni, Y., Wakatsuki, S.,Vöhringer-Martinez, E. and Erb, T.J. (2019)
Four amino acids define the CO2 binding pocket of enoyl-CoA carboxylases/reductases. PNAS 116, 13964-13969
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Vögeli, B., Shima, S., Erb, T. and Wagner, T. (2019)
Crystal structure of archaeal HMG‐CoA reductase: insights into structural changes of the C‐terminal helix of the class‐I enzyme. FEBS letters 593, 543-553
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Becker, A., Erb, T.J., Fritz, G., Kellmann, J.W., Sourjik, V. and Waldminghaus, T. (2017)
Synthetische Biologie. Biologie in unserer Zeit 47, 298-305
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Erb, T.J. (2017)
CETCH me if you can: Bringing inorganic carbon into life with synthetic CO2 fixation . FEBS J. 284, 9
Wong, W., Tan, C., Adamala, K., Xia, X., Erb, T.J. and Chatterjee, A. (2017)
What is the role of circuit design in the advancement of synthetic biology? Part 3. Cell Systems 4, 579-580
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Rosenthal, R.G., Vögeli, B., Wagner, T., Shima, S., and Erb, T.J. (2017)
A conserved threonine prevents self-intoxication of enoyl-thioester reductases. Nature Chemical Biology 13, 745-749.
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Erb, T.J. (2017)
Stoffwechsel 2.0: Retrosynthese des mikrobiellen Metabolismus. BIOspektrum 23, 264-266
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Erb, T.J. and Jones, P.R., and Bar-Even A. (2017)
Synthetic metabolism: Metabolic engineering meets enzyme design. Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. 37, 56-62.
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Döhlemann, J., Wagner, M., Happel, C., Carrillo, M., Sobetzko, P., Erb, T.J., Thanbichler, M., and Becker, A. (2017)
A family of single copy repABC-type shuttle vectors stably maintained in the alpha-proteobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. ACS Synthetic Biology 6, 968-984.
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Zarzycki, J., Sutter, M., Cortina, N.S., Erb, T.J., and Kerfeld C.A. (2017)
In vitro characterization and concerted function of three core enzymes of a glycyl radical enzyme-associated bacterial microcompartment. Scientific Reports 7, 42757.
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Erb, T.J. and Jones, P.R., and Bar-Even A. (2017)
Synthetic metabolism: Metabolic engineering meets enzyme design. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 37, 56-62.
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Schwander, T. and Erb, T.J. (2016)
Do it your (path)way - synthetische Wege zur CO2-Fixierung. BIOspektrum 22, 590-592
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Schwander, T., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Burgener, S., Cortina, N.S., and Erb, T.J. (2016)
A synthetic pathway for the fixation of carbon dioxide in vitro. Science 354:901-904
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Erb, T.J. and Zarzycki J. (2016)
Biochemical and synthetic biological approaches to improve photosynthetic CO2-fixation. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 34:72–79
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Peter, D.M., Vögeli, B., Cortina, N.S., and Erb T.J. (2016)
A chemo-enzymatic road map to the synthesis of CoA esters. Molecules 21:517
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Peter, D., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Kiefer, P., Christen, P., Vorholt, J.A., and Erb, T.J. (2015)
Screening and engineering the synthetic potential of carboxylating reductases from central metabolism and polyketide biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 45:13457-13461
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Rosenthal, R.G., Vögeli, B., Quade, N., Capitani, G., Kiefer, P., Vorholt, J.A., Ebert, M.O., and Erb, T.J. (2015)
The use of ene adducts to study and engineer enoyl-thioester reductases. Nature Chemical Biology 11:398-400
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Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Remus-Emsermann, M., Weishaupt R., Voholt, J.A. and Erb, T.J. (2015)
A set of versatile brick-vectors and promoters for the assembly, expression and integration of synthetic operons in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 and other Alphaproteobacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology, 4:430-443
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Cho, K., Evans, B.S. Wood, B.M., Kumar, R., Erb, T.J., Warlick, B.P., Gerlt, J.A., and Sweedler, J.V. (2014)
Integration of untargeted metabolomics with transcriptomics reveals active metabolic pathways. Metabolomics 11:503-517
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Könneke, M., Schubert, D.M., Brown, P.C., Hügler, M., Standfest, S., Schwander, T., Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Erb, T.J., Stahl, D.A. and Berg, I.A. (2014)
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea use the most energy-efficient aerobic pathway for CO2 fixation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:8239-8244
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Hahnke, S.M., Moosmann, P., Erb, T.J. and Strous, M. (2014)
An improved medium for the anaerobic growth of Paracoccus denitrificans Pd1222. Frontiers in Microbiology 5:18
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Rosenthal, R.G., Ebert, M.O., Kiefer, P., Peter, D.M., Vorholt, J.A. and Erb, T.J. (2014)
Direct evidence for a covalent ene adduct intermediate in NAD(P)H-dependent enzymes. Nature Chemical Biology 10:50-55 (ETH news "Research Highlight")
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Schada von Borzyskowski, L., Rosenthal, R.G., and Erb, T.J. (2013)
Evolutionary history and biotechnological future of carboxylases. Journal of Biotechnology 168:243-251
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Erb, T.J., Evans, B.S., Cho, K., Warlick, B.P., Singh, J., Wood, B.M., Imker, H.J., Sweedler, J.V,. Tabita, F.R. and Gerlt, J.A. (2012)
A RubisCO-like protein links SAM-metabolism with isoprenoid biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology 8:926-32 (Nature Chemical Biology "News and Views Highlight")
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Warlick, B.P., Evans, B.S., Erb, T.J., Ramagopal, U.A., Singh, J., Imker, H.J., Sauder, J.M., Bonanno, J.B., Burley, S.K., Tabita, F.R., Almo, S.C., Sweedler, J.V. and Gerlt, J.A. (2012)
1-Methylthio-D-Xylulose 5-Phosphate Methylsulfurylase: A novel route to 1-Deoxy-D-Xylulose 5-Phosphate in rhodospirillum rubrum. Biochemistry 52:8324-8326
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Elias, M., Wellner, A., Goldin-Azulay, K., Chabriere E., Vorholt, J.A., Erb, T.J. and Tawfik, D.S. (2012)
The molecular basis of phosphate discrimination in arsenate rich environments. Nature 491:134-137
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Erb, T.J., Kiefer, P., Hattendorf, B., Günther, D., and Vorholt, J.A. (2012)
GFAJ-1 is an arsenate-resistant, yet phosphate-dependent organism. Science 337:467-470 (ETH life-magazine "Research Highlight", major media coverage)
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Erb, T.J. (2011)
Carboxylase and carboxylase-like proteins in natural and synthetic pathways. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77:8466-8477 (AEM "most read Article" 12/2011)
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Klimova, M., Bükmez, Ö., Thomas L.K., Erb, T.J. and Berg, I.A. (2011)
A methylaspartate cycle in haloarchaea. Science 331:334-337
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Smejkalová H., Erb T.J. and Fuchs, G. (2010)
Methanol assimilation in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1: Demonstration of all enzymes and their regulation. PLoS One 5:e13001
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Erb, T.J., Frerichs-Revermann, L., Fuchs, G. and Alber, B.E. (2009)
The apparent malate synthase activity of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is due to two paralogous enzymes, (3S)-malyl-coenzyme A (CoA)/?-methylmalyl-CoA lyase and (3S)-malyl-CoA thioesterase. Journal of Bacteriology 192:1249-1258
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Erb, T.J., Fuchs, G. and Alber, B.E. (2009)
(2S)-Methylsuccinyl-CoA dehydrogenase closes the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway for acetyl-CoA assimilation. Molecular Microbiology 73:992-1008
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Erb, T.J., Brecht, V., Müller, M., Fuchs, G. and Alber, B.E. (2009)
Carboxylation mechanism and stereochemistry of crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase, a carboxylating enoyl-thioester reductase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:8871-8876
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Erb, T.J., Rétey, J., Fuchs, G. and Alber, B.E. (2008)
Ethylmalonyl-CoA mutase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides defines a new subclade of coenzyme B12-dependent acyl-CoA mutases. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283:32283-32293
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Erb, T.J., Ismail, W. and Fuchs, G. (2008)
Phenylacetate metabolism in thermophiles: Characterization of phenylacetate-CoA ligase, the initial enzyme of the hybrid pathway in Thermus thermophilus. Current Microbiology 57:27-32
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Erb, T.J., Berg, I.A., Brecht, V., Müller, M., Fuchs, G. and Alber, B.E. (2007)
Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: The ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:10631-10636
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Erb, T.J. (2014)
Worried young scientists / Nachwuchs in Sorge. Laborjournal 7-8:34-37 (Article in German about the perspectives and challenges of young life scientist in Germany, Switzerland and Austria)
[link]
Menke C., Schularick, M., Baumbach, S., Wolf, R., […] Erb, T.J., Runge, E., and Chappell, D. (2013)
Following up the Excellence Initiative in Germany: Personnel structures as key to more attractive and competitive Universities / Nach der Exzellenzinitiative: Personalstruktur als Schlüssel zu leistungsfähigeren Universitäten, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-044145-5 (Assay in German)
[link]
Erb, T.J. (2011)
RuBisCO in the twilight zone - CO2-fixation in bacteria from the deep sea / RuBisCO im Zwielicht - bakterielle CO2-Fixierung in der Tiefsee. BioSpektrum 7, 786 (Article in German)
[link]
Erb T.J. (2010)
Small building blocks go big: A novel pathway for the assimilation of acetyl-CoA / Kleine Bausteine ganz groß: ein neuer Weg zur Assimilierung von Acetyl-CoA. BioSpektrum 6, 482 (Article in German)
[link]
Outreach (Press Releases, Interviews)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Gastkommentar, June 2020
[Film 03:41 min.]
3sat
nano - "Künstliche Photosynthese: Rohstoff CO2?", June 2020
[Film 05:08 min.]
SAT.1
Regionalmagazin - "Forscher verbessern Fotosynthese", July 2019
[Film 03:39 min.]
iBiology
"Realizing Synthetic Carbon Dioxide Fixation", September 2017
[Film 29:05 min.]
3sat
nano - "Besser als die Natur", September 2017
[Film 05:59 min.]
Youtube
Designing a More Efficient System for Harnessing Carbon Dioxide, November 2016
[Film 03:59 min.]
Research focus of our group
Global carbon cycling, July 2014
[International Innovation Article]
Enzyme catalysis
An enzyme reaction in slow motion, November 2013
[ETH News feature]
Physiology of GFAJ-1
Extraterrestrial life remain terrestrial, July 2012
[ETH life article]
BBC Science in action, July 2012
[Radio interview]
Swissinfo, July 2012
[Radio interview]
Laborjournal online, July 2012
[Print interview]
Discovery of novel pathways
The salt in the soup of evolution, January 2011
[U of Freiburg Press release]