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2023
28. Butler, N.D.; Anderson, S.; Dickey, R.M; Nain, P.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Combinatorial gene inactivation of aldehyde dehydrogenases mitigates the oxidation catalyzed by resting cells of the E. coli RARE strain.” Under revision at Metabolic Engineering.
BioRxiv pre-print. DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.16.524286

27. Gopal, M.R.; Dickey, R.M.; Butler, N.D.; Talley, M.; Watson, M.P.; Chen, W.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Reductive enzyme cascades for valorization of PET deconstruction products.” Accepted at ACS Catalysis.
BioRxiv pre-print. DOI: 
10.1101/2022.12.16.520786​

26. Butler, N.D.; Sen, S.; Brown, L.B.; Lin, M.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “A platform for distributed production of synthetic nitrated proteins in live bacteria.” 
[An earlier version available on BioRxiv: "De novo biosynthesis of para-nitro-L-phenylalanine in Escherichia coli." DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.29.462267]

25. Butler, N.D.; Kunjapur, A.M.* "Selective and site-specific incorporation of non-standard amino acids within proteins for therapeutic applications." Invited contribution to Methods in Molecular Biology, Therapeutic Proteins: Methods and Protocols Edition. Accepted.

Sen, S.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Coordinated microbial lysis bursts into the drug delivery scene.” Invited Spotlight article from Trends in Biotechnology. Accepted. (Not peer-reviewed)

2022

24. Terlouw, B.R.; Blin, K.; (total of 80 co-authors including Kunjapur, A.M.); Weber, T.; Medema, M.H. "MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters." Accepted at Nucleic Acids Research.

23. Stork, D.A.; Jones, M.A.; Garner, E.C.*; Kunjapur, A.M.* "Incorporation of a Chemically Diverse Set of Non-Standard Amino Acids into a Gram-Positive Organism." Bio-protocol. 2022 12 (17), e4507-e4507. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4507

22. Hinton, Z.R.; Talley, M.R.; Kots, P.A.; Le, A.V.; Zhang, T.; Mackay, M.E.; Kunjapur, A.M.; Bai, P.; Vlachos, D.G.; Watson, M.P.; Berg, M.C.; Epps, T.H.; Korley, L.T.J. “Innovations toward the valorization of waste plastics.” Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 2022 52, 249-280. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-matsci-081320-032344 
2021
21. Dickey, R.M.†; Forti, A.M.†; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Advances in engineering microbial biosynthesis of aromatic compounds and related compounds.” Bioresour. Bioprocess. 2021 8, 91. (Invited review) DOI: 10.1186/s40643-021-00434-x

20. Stork, D.A.; Squyres, G.R.; Kuru, E.; Gromek, K.A.; Rittichier, J.; Jog, A.; Burton, B.M.; Church, G.M.; Garner, E.C.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Designing efficient genetic code expansion in Bacillus subtilis to gain biological insights.” Nat. Commun. 2021 12, 5429. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25691-4

​19. Kunjapur, A.M.†*; Napolitano, M.G.†; Hysolli, E.†; Noguera, K.; Appleton, E.M.; Schubert, M.G.; Jones, M.A.; Iyer, S.; Mandell, D.J.; Church, G.M.* "Synthetic auxotrophy remains stable after continuous evolution and in co-culture with mammalian cells." Sci. Adv. 2021 7 (27), eabf5851. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf5851 

18. Wannier, T.M.; Ciaccia, P.; Ellington, A.; Filsinger, G.; Isaacs, F.; Javanmardi, K.; Jones, M.A.; Kunjapur, A.M.; Nyerges, A.; Pal, C.; Church, G.M. "Recombineering and MAGE." Nat. Rev. Methods Primers. 2021 1 (7). DOI: 10.1038/s43586-020-00006-x
2020
17. Parker, M.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Deployment of engineered microbes: Contributions to the bioeconomy and considerations for biosecurity.” Health Secur. 2020 18 (4), 278-296. DOI: 10.1089/hs.2020.0010

16. Sulzbach, M.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “The pathway less traveled: Engineering biosynthesis of nonstandard functional groups.” Trends Biotechnol. 2020 38 (5), 532-545. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2019.12.014

​15. Butler, N.D.; Kunjapur, A.M.* “Carboxylic acid reductases in metabolic engineering.” J. Biotechnol. 2020 307 (1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.10.002
2019
14. Kunjapur, A.M.*; Prather, K.L.J.* "Development of a vanillate biosensor for the vanillin biosynthesis pathway in E. coli.” ACS Synth. Biol. 2019 8 (9), 1958-1967. DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00071

13. Strauss, S.K.; Schirman, D.; Jona, G.; Brooks, A.N.; Kunjapur, A.M.; et al. "EVOLTHON: A community endeavor to evolve lab evolution." PLoS Biol. 17 (3): e3000182. ​DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000182
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​2018
​12. Kunjapur, A.M.†*; Pfingstag, P.†; Thompson, N.C.* “Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes from farther away in the tree of life.” Nat. Commun. 2018 9, 4425. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06798-7

11. Wannier, T.M.†*; Kunjapur, A.M.†*; Rice, D.P.; McDonald, M.J.; Desai, M.M.; Church, G.M.* “Adaptive evolution of genomically recoded Escherichia coli.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018 115 (12), 3090-3095. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715530115 (Highlighted by Harvard Medicine News and by PNAS)

10. Kohman, R.†; Kunjapur, A.M.†; Hysolli, E.†; Wang, Y.†; Church, G.M. “From designing the molecules of life to designing life: future applications derived from advances in DNA technologies.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018 57 (16), 4313-4328. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201707976

9. Kunjapur, A.M.*; Stork, D.A.; Kuru, E.; Vargas-Rodriguez, O.; Landon, M.M.; Söll, D.*; Church, G.M.* “Engineering post-translational proofreading to discriminate non-standard amino acids.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018 115 (3), 619-624. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715137115 (Highlighted by Harvard Medicine News)
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2017

8. Khlystov, N.A.†; Chan, W.Y.†; Kunjapur, A.M.; Shi, W.; Prather, K.L.J.; Olsen, B.D. " Material properties of the cyanobacterial reserve polymer multi-L-arginyl-poly-L-aspartate (cyanophycin)." Polymer. 2017 109 (1), 238-245. †Contributed equally. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.11.058.
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2016

7. Kunjapur, A.M.; Hyun, J.C.; Prather, K.L.J. “Deregulation of S-adenosylmethionine biosynthesis and regeneration improves methylation in E. coli de novo vanillin biosynthesis pathway.” Microb. Cell Fact. 2016 15 (1), 1. DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0459-x.

6. Kunjapur, A.M.; Cervantes, B.; Prather, K.L.J. “Coupling carboxylic acid reductase to inorganic pyrophosphatase enhances cell-free in vitro aldehyde biosynthesis.” Biochem. Eng. J. 2016 109 (5), 19-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2015.12.018.
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5. Sheppard, M.J.†; Kunjapur, A.M.†; Prather, K.L.J. “Modular and selective biosynthesis of gasoline-range alkanes.” Metab. Eng. 2016 33, 28-40. †Contributed equally. DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2015.10.010.
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2015

4. Kunjapur, A.M.; Prather, K.L.J. “Microbial engineering for aldehyde synthesis.” Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2015 81 (6), 1892-1901. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03319-14.
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2014

3. Sheppard, M.J.; Kunjapur, A.M.; Wenck, S.J.; Prather, K.L.J. “Retrobiosynthetic modular approach to pathway design achieves selective pathway for microbial synthesis of the gasoline substitute 4-methyl-pentanol.” Nat. Commun. 2014 5, 5031. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6031.
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2. Kunjapur, A.M.; Tarasova, Y.; Prather, K.L.J. “Synthesis and accumulation of aromatic aldehydes in an engineered strain of E. coli.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014 136 (33), 11644-11654. DOI: 10.1021/ja506664a. (Highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News)
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2010

1. Kunjapur, A.M.*; Eldridge, R.B. “Photobioreactor design for commercial biofuel production from microalgae.” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2010​ 49 (8), 3516-3526. DOI: 10.1021/ie901459u.
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