recent publications

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  • Tebbets, B., Yu, Z. G., Stewart, D., Zhao, L. X., Jiang, Y., Xu, L. H., Andes, D., Shen, B., Klein, B. Identification of antifungal natural products via Saccharomyces cerevisiae bioassay: Insights into macrotetrolide drug spectrum, potency and mode of action Medical Mycology  2013 51:280-289  DOI:10.3109/13693786.2012.710917  PMID:22928922  PMCID:PMC3594352
  • Yu, Z. G., Vodanovic-Jankovic, S., Kron, M., Shen, B. New ws9326a congeners from streptomyces sp 9078 inhibiting brugia malayi asparaginyl-trna synthetase Organic Letters  2012 14:4946-4949  DOI:10.1021/ol302298k  PMID:22967068  PMCID:PMC3460372
  • Smanski, M. J., Yu, Z. G., Casper, J., Lin, S. J., Peterson, R. M., Chen, Y. H., Wendt-Pienkowski, E., Rajski, S. R., Shen, B. Dedicated ent-kaurene and ent-atiserene synthases for platensimycin and platencin biosynthesis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  2011 108:13498-13503  DOI:10.1073/pnas.1106919108  PMID:21825154  PMCID:PMC3158216
  • Yu, Z. G., Zhao, L. X., Jiang, C. L., Duan, Y. W., Wong, L., Carver, K. C., Schuler, L. A., Shen, B. Bafilomycins produced by an endophytic actinomycete streptomyces sp yim56209 Journal of Antibiotics  2011 64:159-162  DOI:10.1038/ja.2010.147  PMID:21102599
  • Huang, S. X., Yu, Z. G., Robert, F., Zhao, L. X., Jiang, Y., Duan, Y. W., Pelletier, J., Shen, B. Cycloheximide and congeners as inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis from endophytic actinomycetes streptomyces sps. Yim56132 and yim56141 Journal of Antibiotics  2011 64:163-166  DOI:10.1038/ja.2010.150  PMID:21139626
  • Yu, Z. G., Smanski, M. J., Peterson, R. M., Marchillo, K., Andes, D., Rajski, S. R., Shen, B. Engineering of streptomyces platensis ma7339 for overproduction of platencin and congeners Organic Letters  2010 12:1744-1747  DOI:10.1021/ol100342m  PMID:20232845  PMCID:PMC2855538