Moore Publication List

Most of our recent publications are available to download as pdf files. If this is not convenient for you or if you want a reprint of an article that is not available electronically, then please contact Dr. Moore and he will gladly mail you the requested reprints.

• "Expression and Characterization of 1,3,6,8-Tetrahydroxynaphthalene Synthase from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)", M. Izumikawa, P. R. Shipley, J. N. Hopke, T. O’Hare, L. Xiang, J. P. Noel, and B. S. Moore, J. Indust. Microbiol. Biotechnol., accepted for publication.

• "Characterization of Benzoyl-CoA Biosynthesis Genes in the Enterocin Producing Bacterium Streptomyces maritimus" , L. Xiang and B. S. Moore, J. Bacteriol., 185, 399-404 (2003). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Mutasynthesis of Enterocin and Wailupemycin Analogues", J. A. Kalaitzis, M. Izumikawa, L. Xiang, C. Hertweck, and B. S. Moore, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 9290-9291 (2003).[Full text - PDF]

• "Sequence Analysis and Biochemical Characterization of the Nostopeptolide A Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from Nostoc sp. GSV224", D. Hoffmann, J. M. Hevel, R. E. Moore, and B. S. Moore, Gene, 311, 169-178 (2003).[Full text - PDF]

• "Inactivation, Complementation and Heterologous Expression of encP, a Novel Bacterial Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase Encoding Gene", L. Xiang and B. S. Moore, J. Biol. Chem., 277, 32505-32509 (2002).[Full text - PDF]

• "Molecular Evidence for a Uniform Microbial Community in Sponges from Different Oceans", U. Hentschel, J. Hopke, M. Horn, A. B. Friedrich, M. Wagner, J. Hacker, and B. S. Moore, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 68, 4431-4440 (2002).[Full text - PDF]

• "Plant-Like Biosynthetic Pathways in Bacteria: from Benzoic Acid to Chalcone", B. S. Moore, C. Hertweck, J. N. Hopke, M. Izumikawa, J. A. Kalaitzis, G. Nilsen, T. O’Hare, J. Piel, P. R. Shipley, L. Xiang, M. B. Austin, and J. P. Noel, J. Nat. Prod., 65, 1956-1962 (2002).[Full text - PDF]

• "Biosynthesis and Attachment of Novel Bacterial Polyketide Synthase Starter Units", B. S. Moore and C. Hertweck, Nat. Prod. Rep., 19, 70-99 (2002). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Mutational Analysis of the Enterocin Favorskii Biosynthetic Rearrangement", L. Xiang, J. Kalaitzis, G. Nilsen, L. Chen, B.S. Moore, Org. Lett., 4, 957-960 (2002). [Full Text - PDF]

• "A Mechanism of Benzoic Acid Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria that Mirrors Fatty Acid beta-Oxidation",C. Hertweck, A. P. Jarvis, L. Xiang, B. S. Moore, N. J. Oldham, ChemBioChem, 2, 784-786 (2001). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Discovery of a New Bacterial Polyketide Biosynthetic Pathway", B. S. Moore and J. N. Hopke, ChemBioChem, 2, 35-38 (2001). [Full Text - PDF]

• "A Plant-like Biosynthesis of Benzoyl-CoA in the Marine Bacterium Streptomyces maritimus", C. Hertweck and B. S. Moore, Tetrahedron, 56, 9115-9120 (2000). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Cloning, Sequencing and Analysis of the Enterocin Biosynthesis Gene Cluster from the Marine Isolate "Streptomyces maritimus": Evidence for the Derailment of an Aromatic Polyketide Synthase", J. Piel, C. Hertweck, P.R. Shipley, D.M. Hunt, M.S. Newman, and B. S. Moore, Chem. Biol., 7, 943-955 (2000). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Natural Metabolic Diversity Encoded by the Enterocin Biosynthesis Gene Cluster", J. Piel, K. Hoang, and B. S. Moore, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 5415-5416 (2000). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Engineering Biodiversity with Type II Polyketide Synthase Genes", B. S. Moore and J. Piel, Anton. Leeuw. J. Microbiol., 78, 391-398 (2000). [Full Text - PDF]

• "Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products: Microorganisms and Macroalgae", B. S. Moore, Nat. Prod. Rep, 16, 653-674 (1999). [Full text - PDF]

• "Direct Evidence that the Rifamycin Polyketide Synthase Assembles Polyketide Chains Processively", T.-W. Yu, Y. Shen, Y. Doi-Katayama, L. Tang, C. Park, B. S. Moore, C. R. Hutchinson, and H. G. Floss, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 9051-9056 (1999). [Full text - PDF]

• "Ectopic Expression of the Minimal whiE Polyketide Synthase Generates a Library of Aromatic Polyketides of Diverse Sizes and Shapes", Y. Shen, P. Yoon, T.-W. Yu, H. G. Floss, D. A. Hopwood, and B. S. Moore, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 3622-3627 (1999). [Full text - PDF]

• "Salinamides, Antiinflammatory Depsipeptides from a Marine Streptomycete", B. S. Moore, J. A. Trischman, D. Seng, D. Kho, P. R. Jensen and W. Fenical, J. Org. Chem, 64, 1145-1150 (1999). [Full text - PDF]

• "Biosynthesis of Cyclic Fatty Acids Containing Cyclopropyl-, Cyclopentyl-, Cyclohexyl-, and Cycloheptyl-Rings", B. S. Moore and H. G. Floss, Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 1: Polyketides and Other Secondary Metabolites Including Fatty Acids and Their Derivatives, D. Barton, K. Nakanishi and O. Meth-Cohn, Eds., Elsevier, New York, 61-82 (1999).

• "Engineered Biosynthesis of Novel Polyketides from Streptomyces Spore Pigment Polyketide Synthases", T.-W. Yu, Y. Shen, R. McDaniel, H. G. Floss, C. Khosla, D. A. Hopwood and B. S. Moore, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 7749-7759 (1998). [Full text - PDF]

• "Biosynthesis of the Bicyclic Depsipeptide Salinamide A in Streptomyces sp. CNB-091: Origin of the Carbons", B. S. Moore and D. Seng, Tetrahedron Lett., 39, 3915-3918 (1998). [Full text - PDF]

• "Biosynthetic Studies on the Salinamides, Depsipeptides from a Marine Streptomyces", B. S. Moore, New Developments in Marine Biotechnologies, Y. Le Gal and H. Halvorson, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 49-53 (1998).

• "Biosynthesis of [omega]-Cycloheptyl Fatty Acids in Alicyclobacillus cycloheptanicus. Formation of Cycloheptanecarboxylic Acid from Phenylacetic Acid", B. S. Moore, K. Walker, I. Tornus, S. Handa, K. Poralla and H. G. Floss, J. Org. Chem., 62, 2173-2185 (1997). [Full text - PDF]

• "On the Stereospecificity of the Coenzyme B12-Dependent Isobutyryl-CoA Mutase Reaction", B. S. Moore, R. Eisenberg, C. Weber, A. Bridges, D. Nanz and J. A. Robinson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 11285-11291 (1995).

• "New Variants of the Shikimate Pathway in the Biosynthesis of Antibiotics and Other Microbial Metabolites", H. G. Floss, C. G. Kim and B. S. Moore, Secondary Metabolism of Micro-organisms, W. Kuhn and H. P. Fiedler, Eds., Attempto Verlag, Tubingen, Germany, 91-97 (1995).

• "Three New [omega]-Cycloheptyl Fatty Acids from Alicyclobacillus cycloheptanicus and Their Biosynthetic Interrelationships", B. S. Moore, K. Poralla and H. G. Floss, J. Nat. Prod., 58, 590-593 (1995).

• "Oleic Acid and its Positional Isomer, cis-Vaccinic Acid, in the Appendix of Sauromatum gattutum During Anthesis", H. Skubatz, E. Svee, B. S. Moore, W. N. Howald, W. Tang and B. J. D. Meeuse, Plant Physiol., 107, 1433-1438 (1995).

• "Biosynthetic Studies of Immunomycin (FK520): Formation of the (1R,3R,4R)-3,4-Dihydroxy-cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid-Derived Moiety", K. K. Wallace, K. A. Reynolds, K. Koch, H. A. I. McArthur, M. S. Brown, R. G. Wax and B. S. Moore, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 11600-11601 (1994).

• "Biosynthetic Studies on the Origin of the Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid Moiety of Ansatrienin A and [omega]-Cyclohexyl Fatty Acids", B. S. Moore and H. G. Floss, J. Nat. Prod., 57, 382-386 (1994).

• "Inverse Detection of Multiple Quantum Coherences for Biosynthetic Studies", T. Pratum and B. S. Moore, J. Mag. Res., Series B, 102, 91-97 (1993).

• "Biosynthesis of the Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid Starter Unit of [omega]-Cyclohexyl Fatty Acids in Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius", B. S. Moore, K. Poralla and H. G. Floss, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 5267-5274 (1993).

• "Biosynthetic Studies on Ansatrienin. Formation of the Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid Moiety", B. S. Moore, H. Cho, R. Casati, E. Kennedy, K. A. Reynolds, J. M. Beale, U. Mocek and H. G. Floss, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 5254-5266 (1993).

• "Cyanobacterial Toxins", R. E. Moore, I. Ohtani, B. S. Moore, C. B. de Koning, W. Y. Yoshida, M. T. Runnegar and W. W. Carmichael, Gazz. Chim. Ital., 123, 329-336 (1993).

• "Diversions of the Shikimate Pathway - The Biosynthesis of Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid", H. G. Floss, H. Cho, K. A. Reynolds, E. Kennedy, B. S. Moore, J. M. Beale, U. Mocek and K. Poralla, Secondary-Metabolite Biosynthesis and Metabolism in Environmental Science Research, Vol. 44, R. J. Petroski and S. P. McCormick, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 77-90 (1992).

• "Biosynthesis of Anatoxin-a(s). Origin of the Carbons", B. S. Moore, I. Ohtani, C. B. de Koning, W. W. Carmichael and R. E. Moore, Tetrahedron Lett., 6595-6598 (1992).

• "Structures of Cylindrocyclophanes A-F", B. S. Moore, J. L. Chen, G. M. L. Patterson and R. E. Moore, Tetrahedron, 48, 3001-3006 (1992).

• "Biosynthesis of Microcystin-L.R. Origin of the Carbons in the Adda and Masp Units", R. E. Moore, J. L. Chen, B. S. Moore, G. M. L. Patterson and W. W. Carmichael, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 5083-5084 (1991).

• "[7.7]Paracyclophanes from Blue-Green Algae", B. S. Moore, J. L. Chen, G. M. L. Patterson, R. E. Moore, L. S. Brinen, Y. Kato and J. Clardy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 4061-4063 (1990).

• "Novel Cytotoxins and Fungicides from Blue-Green Algae and Marine Animals Possessing Algal Symbionts", R. E. Moore, S. Banarjee, V. Bornemann, F. R. Caplan, J. L. Chen, D. G. Corley, L. K. Larsen, B. S. Moore, G. M. L. Patterson, V. J. Paul, J. B. Stewart and D. E. Williams, Pure & Appl. Chem., 61, 521-524 (1989).