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2024
Torrens-Spence, M. P., Matos, J. O., Li, T., Kastner, D. W., Kim, C. Y., Wang, Z., Glinkerman, C. M., Sherk, J., Kulik, H. J., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2024) Mechanistic basis for the emergence of EPS1 as a catalyst in salicylic acid biosynthesis of Brassicaceae. Nat Commun. 15, 10356
2023
Kim, C. Y., Mitchell, A. J., Kastner, D. W., Albright, C. E., Gutierrez, M. A., Glinkerman, C. M., Kulik, H. J., and Weng, J. - K. (2023) Emergence of a proton exchange-based isomerization and lactonization mechanism in the plant coumarin synthase COSY. Nat Commun. 14, 597
2020
Torrens-Spence, M. P., Chiang, Y. - C., Smith, T., Vicent, M. A., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2020) Structural basis for divergent and convergent evolution of catalytic machineries in plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1920097117
2019
Pluskal, T., Torrens-Spence, M. P., Fallon, T. R., De Abreu, A., Shi, C. H., and Weng, J. - K. (2019) The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava. Nat Plants. 5, 867-878
2018
Pluskal, T., Torrens-Spence, M. P., Fallon, T. R., De Abreu, A., Shi, C. H., and Weng, J. - K. (2018) The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava. bioRxiv
Liou, G., Chiang, Y. - C., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2018) Mechanistic basis for the evolution of chalcone synthase catalytic cysteine reactivity in land plants. J Biol Chem. 10.1074/jbc.RA118.005695
Torrens-Spence, M. Patrick, Liu, C. - T., Pluskal, T., Chung, Y. Kwan, and Weng, J. - K. (2018) Monoamine Biosynthesis via a Noncanonical Calcium-Activatable Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase in Psilocybin Mushroom. ACS Chem Biol. 13, 3343-3353
Chiang, Y. - C., Levsh, O., Lam, C. Kei, Weng, J. - K., and Wang, Y. (2018) Structural and dynamic basis of substrate permissiveness in hydroxycinnamoyltransferase (HCT). PLoS Comput Biol. 14, e1006511
2017
Christ, B., Hochstrasser, R., Guyer, L., Francisco, R., Aubry, S., Hörtensteiner, S., and Weng, J. - K. (2017) Non-specific activities of the major herbicide-resistance gene BAR. Nat Plants. 3, 937-945
2016
Levsh, O., Chiang, Y. - C., Tung, C. Fai, Noel, J. P., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2016) Dynamic Conformational States Dictate Selectivity toward the Native Substrate in a Substrate-Permissive Acyltransferase. Biochemistry. 55, 6314-6326