2025
25. Anna-Kay R. West, Tawakalitu A. Afolabi-Balogun, Christian C. Martin, Lizbeth Cambron, Mujeeb A. Wakeel, Joshua A. Baccile,# Constance B. Bailey. # "Photoreactive panthetheinyl mimics reveal design limitations for crypto-acyl carrier proteins." Chemrxiv, 2025. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-p9hbx
#co-corresponding
24. Shailaja Khanal Pokharel, Nawal Shehata, Andrew Ahearne, Thomas Knehans, Constance B. Bailey, Paul D. Boudreau, D. Cole Stevens. "Establishing conserved biosynthetic gene clusters of the phylum Myxococcata." Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2025, Epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1128/aem.02151-25.
23. Andrew J. Rice, Tien T. Sword, Kameshwari Chengan, Douglas A. Mitchell, Nigel J. Mouncey, Simon J. Moore,# Constance B. Bailey.# "Cell-free synthetic biology for natural product biosynthesis and discovery." Chemical Society Reviews. 2025, 54, 4314.
#co-corresponding
22. Mitja M. Zdouc,* Kai Blin,* Nico L.L. Louwen, Jorge Navarro, Catarina Loureiro, Chantal D. Bader, Constance B. Bailey, Lena Barra, Thomas J. Booth, Kenan A. J. Bozhüyük, José D. D. Cediel-Becerra, Zachary Charlop-Powers, Marc G. Chevrette, Yit Heng Chooi, Paul M. D'Agostino, Tristan de Rond, Elena Del Pup, Katherine R. Duncan, Wenjia Gu, Novriyandi Hanif, Eric J. N. Helfrich, Matthew Jenner, Yohei Katsuyama, Aleksandra Korenskaia, Daniel Krug, Vincent Libis, George A. Lund, Shrikant Mantri, Kalindi D. Morgan, Charlotte Owen, Chin-Soon Phan, Benjamin Philmus, Zachary L. Reitz, Serina L. Robinson, Kumar Saurabh Singh, Robin Teufel, Yaojun Tong, Fidele Tugizimana, Dana Ulanova, Jaclyn M. Winter, César Aguilar, Daniel Y. Akiyama, Suhad A. A. Al-Salihi, Mohammad Alanjary, Fabrizio Alberti, Gajender Aleti, Shumukh A. Alharthi, Mariela Y. Arias Rojo, Amr A. Arishi, Hannah E. Augustijn, Nicole E. Avalon, J. Abraham Avelar-Rivas, Kyle K. Axt, Hellen B. Barbieri, Julio Cesar J. Barbosa, Lucas Gabriel Barboza Segato, Susanna E. Barrett, Martin Baunach, Christine Beemelmanns, Dardan Beqaj, Tim Berger, Jordan Bernaldo-Agüero, Sandra M. Bettenbühl, Vincent A. Bielinski, Friederike Biermann, Ricardo M. Borges, Rainer Borriss, Milena Breitenbach, Kevin M. Bretscher, Michael Brigham, Larissa Buedenbender, Brodie W. Bulcock, Carolina CP. Cano-Prieto, João Capela, Victor J. Carrion, Riley S. Carter, Raquel Castelo-Branco, Gabriel Castro-Falcón, Fernanda O. Chagas, Esteban Charria-Girón, Ayesha Ahmed Chaudhri, Vasvi Chaudhry, Hyukjae Choi, Yukyung Choi, Roya Choupannejad, Jakub Chromy, Melinda S. Chue Donahey, Jerome Collemare, Jack A. Connolly, Kaitlin E. Creamer, Max Crüsemann, Andres Arredondo Cruz, Andres Cumsille, Jean-Felix Dallery, Luis Caleb Damas-Ramos, Tito Damiani, Martinus de Kruijff, Belén Delgado Martín, Gerardo Della Sala, Jelle Dillen, Drew T. Doering, Shravan R. Dommaraju, Suhan Durusu, Susan Egbert, Mark Ellerhorst, Baptiste Faussurier, Artem Fetter, Marc Feuermann, David P. Fewer, Jonathan F. Foldi, Andri Frediansyah, Erin A. Garza, Athina Gavriilidou, Andrea Gentile, Jennifer Gerke, Hans Gerstmans, Juan Pablo Gomez-Escribano, Luz A. Gonzalez, Natalie E. Grayson, Claudio Greco, Juan E. Gris Gomez, Sebastian Guerra, Shaday Guerrero Flores, Alexey Gurevich, Karina Gutiéerrez-Garcíia, Lauren Hart,, Kristina Haslinger, Beibei He, Teo Hebra, Jethro L. Hemmann, Hindra Hindra, Lars Höing, Darren C. Holland, Jonathan E. Holme, Therese Horch, Pavlo Hrab, Jie Hu, Thanh-Hau Huynh, Ji-Yeon Hwang, Riccardo Iacovelli,, Dumitrita Iftime, Marianna Iorio, Sidharth Jayachandran, Eunah Jeon, Jiayi J. Jing, Jung J. Jung, Yuya Kakumu, Edward Kalkreuter, Kyo Bin Kang, Sangwook Kang, Wonyong Kim, Geum Jin Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, Hyun Uk Kim, Martin Klapper, Robert A. Koetsier, Cassandra Kollten, Ákos T. Kovács, Yelyzaveta Kriukova, Noel Kubach, Aditya M. Kunjapur, Aleksandra K. Kushnareva, Andreja Kust, Jessica Lamber, Martin Larralde, Niels J. Larsen, Adrien P. Launay, Ngoc-Thao-Hien Le, Sarah Lebeer, Byung Tae Lee,, Kyungha Lee, Katherine L. Lev, Shu-Ming Li, Yong-Xin Li, Cuauhtémoc Licona-Cassani, Annette Lien, Jing Liu, Julius Adam V. Lopez, Nataliia V. Machushynets, Marla I. Macias, Taifo Mahmud, Matiss Maleckis, Maharai Martinez, Yvonne Mast, Marina F. Maximo, Christina M. McBride, Rose M. McLellan, Khyati Mehta Bhatt, Chrats Melkonian, Aske Merrild, Mikko Metsä-Ketelä, Douglas A. Mitchell, Alison V. Müller, Giang-Son Nguyen, Hera T. Nguyen, Timo H. J. Niedermeyer, Julia H. O'Hare, Adam Ossowicki, Bohdan O. Ostash, Hiroshi Otani, Leo Padva, Sunaina Paliyal, Xinya Pan, Mohit Panghal, Dana S. Parade, Jiyoon Park, Jonathan Parra, Marcos Pedraza Rubio, Huong Thi Pham, Sacha J. Pidot, Jörn Piel, Bita Pourmohsenin, Malik Rakhmanov, Sangeetha Ramesh, Michelle H. Rasmussen, Adriana Rego, Raphael Reher, Andrew J. Rice, Augustin Rigolet, Adriana Romero-Otero, Luis Rodrigo Rosas-Becerra, Pablo Y. Rosiles, Adriano Rutz, Byeol Ryu, Libby Ann Sahadeo, Murrel Saldanha, Luca Salvi, Eduardo Sánchez-Carvajal, Christian Santos-Medellin, Nicolau Sbaraini, Sydney M. Schoellhorn, Clemens Schumm, Ludek Sehna, Nelly Selem, Anjali D. Shah, Tania K. Shishido, Simon Sieber, Velina Silviani, Garima Singh, Hemant Singh, Nika Sokolova, Eva C. Sonnenschein, Margherita Sosio, Sven T. Sowa, Karin Steffen, Evi Stegmann, Alena B. Streiff, Alena Strüder, Frank Surup, Tiziana Svenningsen, Douglas A. Sweeney, Judit Szenei, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Bin Tan, Matthew J. Tarnowski, Barbara R. Terlouw, Rey Thomas, Nicola U. Thome, Laura Rosina Torres Ortega, Thomas Tørring, Marla Trindade, Andrew Truman, Marie Tvilum, Daniel W. Udwary, Christoph Ulbricht, Lisa Vader, Gilles P. van Wezel, Max Walmsley, Randika Warnasinghe, Heiner G. Weddeling, Angus N. M. Weir, Katherine Williams, Sam E. Williams, Thomas E. Witte, Steffaney M. Wood, Keith Yamad, Dong Yang, Dongsoo Yang, Jingwei Yu, Zhenyi Zhou, Nadine Ziemert, Lukas Zimmer, Alina Zimmermann, Christian Zimmermann, Justin J.J. van der Hooft, Roger G. Linington, Tilmann Weber, Marnix H. Medema. "MiBiG 4.0: Advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration." Nucleic Acids Research. 2025, 53, D678.
*equal contribution
2024
21. Yutong Zou, Constance B. Bailey. "Cofactor recycling strategies for secondary metabolite production in cell free protein expression systems." Biophysical Reviews, 2024, 16, 591.
--Special issue commemorating the 2024 21st International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics Congress in Kyoto
20. Tien T. Sword,* Jaime Lorenzo N. Dinglasan,* Ghaeath S.K. Abbas, J. William Barker, Madeline E. Spradley, Elijah R. Greene, Damian S. Gooden, Scott J. Emrich, Michael A. Gilchrist, Mitchel J. Doktycz,# Constance B. Bailey.# "Profiling expression strategies for a type III polyketide synthase in a lysate-based cell free system." Scientific Reports, 2024, 12983.
*equal contribution
#co-corresponding
19. Tien T. Sword, Ghaeath S.K. Abbas, Constance B. Bailey. "Cell-free protein synthesis for nonribosomal peptide synthetic biology." Frontiers in Natural Products, 2024, 3, 2813.
2023
18. Anna-Kay R. West, Constance B. Bailey. "Crosstalk between primary and secondary metabolism: Interconnected fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis in prokaryotes." Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2023, 91, 129377.
17. Tien T. Sword, J. William Barker, Madeline Spradley, Yan Chen, Christopher J. Petzold, Constance B. Bailey. "Expression of blue pigment synthetase A from Streptomyces lavenduale reveals insights on the effects of refactoring biosynthetic megasynthases for heterologous expression in Escherichia coli." Protein Expression and Purification, 2023, 210, 106317.
16. Jaime Lorenzo N. Dinglasan,* Tien T. Sword,* J. William Barker, Mitchel J. Doktycz,# Constance B. Bailey.# "Investigating and optimizing the lysate-based expression of nonribosomal peptide synthetases using a reporter system." ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023, 12, 1447.
*equal contribution
#co-corresponding
2022
15. Erin E. Drufva, Tien T. Sword, Constance B Bailey. "Metabolic engineering of actinomycetes for natural product discovery." Natural Products from Actinomycetes: Diversity, Ecology and Drug Discovery (pp. 267-307). 2022, Springer: Nature.
2021
14. Erin E. Drufva, Nolan R. Spengler, Elijah G. Hix, Constance B. Bailey. "Site-directed mutagenesis of modular polyketide synthase ketoreductase domains for altered stereochemical control." ChemBioChem, 2021, 22, 1122.
2020
13. Erin E. Drufva, Elijah G. Hix, Constance B. Bailey. "Site directed mutagenesis as a precision tool to enable synthetic biology with engineered modular polyketide synthases." Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 2020, 5, 62-80.
12. Amin Zargar, Ravi Lal, Luis Valencia, Jessica Wang, Tyler William H. Backman, Pablo Cruz-Morales, Ankita Kothari, Miranda Werts, Andrew R. Wong, Constance B. Bailey, Arthur Loubat, Tuzhong Liu, Yan Chen, Samantha Chang, Vernonica T. Benites, Amanda C. Hernandez, Jesus F. Barajas, Mitchell G. Thompson, Carolina Barcelos, Rasha Anayah, Hector Garcia Martin, Aindrila Mukhopadhayay, Christopher J. Petzold, Edward E.K. Baidoo, Leonard Katz, Jay D. Keasling. "Chemoinformatic-guided engineering of polyketide synthases." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020, 142, 9896.
2019
11. Jesus F. Barajas, Maren Wehrs, Milton To, Lauchlin Cruickshanks, Rochelle Urban, Adrienne McKee, John Gladden, Ee-Been Goh, Margaret E. Brown, Diane Pierotti, James M. Carothes, Aindrilla Mukhopadhyay, Jay D. Keasling, Jeffrey L. Fortman, Steven W. Singer, Constance B. Bailey. "Isolation and characterization of bacterial cellulase producers for biomass deconstruction: a microbiology laboratory course." Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 2019,20 (2).
2018
10. Clara H. Eng,* Tyler W. H. Backman,* Constance B. Bailey, Christophe Magnan, Hector Garcia Martin, Leonard Katz, Pierre Baldi, Jay D. Keasling. "Cluster CAD: A computational platform for type I modular polyketide synthase design." Nucleic Acids Research. 2018, 46, D509.
*equal contribution
9. Mitchell G. Thompson, Nida Sedghatian, Jesus F. Barajas, Maren Wehrs, Constance B. Bailey, Nurgul Kaplan, Nathan J. Hillson, Aindrilla Mukhopadhyay, Jay D. Keasling. "Isolation and characterization of novel mutations in the pSC101 origin that increase copy number." Scientific Reports. 2018, 8, 1590.
2017
8. Jesus F. Barajas,* Jacquelyn M. Blake-Hedges,* Constance B. Bailey,* Samuel Curran, Jay D. Keasling. "Engineered polyketides: Synergy between protein and host level engineering." Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 2017, 2, 147.
*equal contribution
7. Satoshi Yuzawa, Constance B. Bailey, Tatsuya Fuji, Renee Jocic, Jesus F. Barajas, Veronica T. Benites, Edward E.K. Baidoo, Yan Chen, Christopher J. Petzold, Leonard Katz, Jay D. Keasling. "Heterologous gene expression of N-terminally truncated variants of LipPks1 suggests a functionally critical structural motif in the N-terminus of modular polyketide synthase." ACS Chemical Biology. 2017, 12, 2725.
6. Amin Zargar, Constance B. Bailey, Robert W. Haushalter, Christopher B. Eiben, Leonard Katz, Jay D. Keasling. "Leveraging microbial biosynthetic pathways for the generation of 'drop in' biofuels." Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2017, 45, 156.
5. Drew T. Wagner,* Jia Zeng,* Constance B. Bailey,* Fang Yuan, Hannah R. Manion, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay. "Structural and functional trends in dehydrating bimodules from trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases." Structure, 2017, 25, 1055.
*equal contribution
2016
4. Constance B. Bailey, Marjolein E. Pasman, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay. "Substrate structure-activity relationships guide rational engineering of stereocontrol in modular polyketide synthase ketoreductases." Chemical Communications. 2016, 52, 792.
2014
3. Johnathan N. Brantley, Constance B. Bailey, Joe R. Cannon, Katie A. Clark, David A. Vanden Bout, Jennifer S. Brodbelt, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay, Christopher W. Bielawski. "Mechanically modulating the photophysical properties of flourescent protein biocomposities for ratio- and intensiometric sensors." Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2014, 53, 5088.
2013
2. Johnathan N. Brantley, Constance B. Bailey, Kelly M. Wiggins, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay, Christopher W. Bielawski. "Mechanobiochemistry: harnessing biomacromolecules for force-responsive materials." Polymer Chemistry, 2013, 4, 3916.
2012
1. Andrew D. Harper, Constance B. Bailey, Angela D. Edwards, Joshua F. Detelich, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay. "Preparative, in vitro biocatalysis of triketide lactone chiral building blocks." ChemBioChem. 13, 2200.