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2025

263. Yu Dai,# Daniel Ostendorff,# and Shu-Ming Li (2025) Divergent metabolism of cyclo-L-Trp-L-Leu in Streptomyces albofaciens by hydroxylation and nucleobase transfer with two cytochrome P450 enzymes. Journal of Natural Products. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c00837 (# equal contribution) 
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262. Mitja M. Zdouc, Kai Blin ..., Shu-Ming Li ….,Tilmann Weber and Marnix H. Medema (2025). MIBiG 4.0: Advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration. Nucleic Acids Research, gkae1115, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1115n
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261. Dong-Sheng Zhao, Yu-Ting Chen, Jia-Min Xu, Xiao-Li Liu, Yi-Cheng Xu, Peng Cao, Junliang Li, Shengqin Wang, Nan Li, Yong Li, Shu-Ming Li, Xiufeng Yan, Qiuying Pang, Hui-Xi Zou (2025) Overexpression of PtNRPS1 enhances diatom-mediated bioremediation of salicylate pollution. Bioresource Technology, 416, 131782, DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131782
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2024

260. Wen Li,# Yu Dai,# Huiling Wei, Jenny Zhou, Jie Fan, Zhanghai Li, Xiulan Xie, and Shu-Ming Li (2024) Biosynthesis of tetramate derivatives in Penicillium crustosum reveals the involvement of ortho-quinone methide in crosstalk of multiple pathways. Organic Letters, 26, 10464–10469, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c03698 (# equal contribution) 
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259. Dan Li, Yi Wang, Yuanyuan Xu, Hongping Long, Wenqing Min, Shangfeng Gao, Shu-Ming Li, and Xia Yu (2024) Geranylation of cyclic dipeptides and naphthols by the fungal prenyltransferase CdpC3PT_F253G, ChemBioChem, e202400787, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202400787
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258. Marlies Peter and Shu-Ming Li (2024) Cupin-domain containing protein is not essential for the alkyl salicylaldehyde formation in Aspergillus ustus. Chemical Communications, 60, 11556–11559, DOI: 10.1039/d4cc04227a
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257.  Marlies Peter,# Zheng-Xi Zhang,#  Yiling Yang, and Shu-Ming Li (2024) Biosynthesis of the sesquiterpenoid malfilanol D in Aspergillus ustus implies alkyl and hydride migrations during the bicy-clo[5.4.0]undecane skeleton formation. Organic Letters, 26, 6670–6674, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c0235.  (# equal contribution) 
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256.  Jenny Zhou, Xiaoling Chen, and Shu-Ming Li (2024) Construction of an expression platform for fungal secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Penicillium crustosum. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108, 427, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-024-13259-3. 
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255.  Ying Wu,# Shiyunhua Qian,# Xiang Zhou, Shu-Ming Li, Chun-Mao Yuan, Song Yang, and Kang Zhou (2024) Increasing structure diversity of farnesylated chalcones by a fungal aromatic prenyltransferase, Phytochemistry, 224, 114149, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2024.114149 (# equal contribution) 
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254.  Jia‑Min Xu, #· Yi‑Cheng Xu,# · Chen‑Xi Cheng, · Dong‑Sheng Zhao, · Zhi‑Wei Hu, · Shu‑Ming Li, Salah Fatouh Abou‑Elwafa, · Xiufeng Yan, · Hui‑Xi Zou, · Nan Li, (2024) SfuPKS2, a novel type III polyketide synthase from Sargassum fusiforme, shows high substrate specificity. Journal of Applied Phycology, 36, 2359–2368, DOI: 10.1007/s10811-024-03262-6 (# equal contribution)
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253.   Yanzhi Yang, Linlan Tao, Yunyun Li, Ying Wu, Qianqian Ran, Dan Li, Shu-Ming Li, Xia Yu, Chun-Mao Yuan, and Kang Zhou (2024) Fungal prenyltransferase AnaPT and its F265 mutants catalyze the dimethylallylation at the nonaromatic carbon of phloretin. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72, 8018–8026, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c00928
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252.  Meiting Wu,# Daniel J. Janzen,# Zhenhua Guan, Ying Ye, Yonghui Zhang, and Shu-Ming Li (2024) The promiscuous flavin-dependent monooxygenase PboD from Aspergillus ustus enables an extension of the structural diversity of hydroxylated pyrroloindoline diketopiperazines. Journal of Natural Products, 87, 1171–1178, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c00127 (#equal contribution)
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251. Jin-Ling Chang,# Yu-Tian Gan,# Yin-Hui Zhou, Xiao-Gang Peng, Zuo-Ye Xie, Xiang-Gao Meng, Shu-Ming Li and Han-Li Ruan (2024) Asperustins A−J, Austocystins with immunosuppressive and cytotoxic activities from Aspergillus ustus NRRL 5856. Journal of Natural Products, 87, 966–975, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c01243(#  equal contribution)
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250. Jasmin Freytag,# Andreas Martin,# Joshua C. Müller, Tjark Kelm, Thilo Stehle, Shu-Ming Li and Georg Zocher (2024) Intramolecular coupling and nucleobase transfer – how cytochrome P450 enzymes GymBx establish their chemoselectivity. ChemCatChem, 16, e202400105, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202400105. (# equal contribution)
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249. Aili Fan,# Boyuan Zhong,# Dong Liu,# Yubo Lu,# Mengyue Wu, Hongwei Jin, Xiao-Meng Shi, Jinwei Ren, Bo Zhang, Xiao-dong Su, Ming Ma, Shu-Ming Li, and Wenhan Lin (2024) Biosynthesis of epipyrone A reveals a highly specific membrane-bound fungal C-glycosyltransferase for pyrone galactosylation. Organic Letters, 26, 1160–1165, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c04259 (#  equal contribution)
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2023

248. Sina A. Stierle, Lauritz Harken and Shu-Ming Li (2023) P450 in C–C coupling of cyclodipeptides with nucleobases. In Hans Renata (ed.) Methods in Enzymology, vol 693, pp 231–262, DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2023.09.012 (book capital)
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247. Wen Li, Xiulan Xie, Jing Liu, Huili Yu and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Prenylation of dimeric cyclo-L-Trp-L-Trp by the promiscuous cyclo-L-Trp-L-Ala prenyltransferase EchPT1. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 107, 6887–6895, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12773-0
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246. Daniel J. Janzen, # Jing Zhou,# and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Biosynthesis of p-terphenyls in Aspergillus ustus implies enzymatic reductive dehydration and spontaneous dibenzofuran formation. Organic Letters, 25, 6311–6316, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c02234 (# equal contribution)
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245. Jing Zhou, Huiling Wei, and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Colletotriauxins A–D, New plant growth inhibitors from the phytopathogenic Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 71, 1104–1109, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c03143
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244. Daniel J. Janzen,# Haowen Wang,# and Shu-Ming Li (2023) A flavin-dependent oxygenase catalyzes hydroxylation and simultaneous pyrrolidine ring formation in the protubonine biosynthesis in Aspergillus ustus. Journal of Natural Products, 86, 1779–1785, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00274 (# equal contribution)
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243. Andreas Martin, Nele Dierlamm, Georg Zocher and Shu-Ming Li (2023) A basidomycetous hydroxynaphthalene-prenylating enzyme exhibits promiscuity towards prenyl donors. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 107, 4845–4852, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12621-1
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242. Yu Dai, Xiu-Lan Xie, Hao-Fu Dai, and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Formation of fungal 2,18-dioxo-2,18-seco indole diterpenes by nonenzymatic flavin-catalyzed oxidative ring expansion and oxygen incorporation from solvent water, Organic Letters, 25, 4092–4097, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01320
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241. Jie Fan,# Huomiao Ran,# Peng-Lin Wei, Yuanyuan Li, Huan Liu, Shu-Ming Li, and Wen-Bing Yin (2023) An ortho-quinone methide mediates disulfide migration in the biosynthesis of epidithiodiketopiperazines, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, e202304252, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202304252, DOI: 10.1002/ange.202304252 (# equal contribution)
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240. Sina A. Stierle,# Lauritz Harken,# and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Production of diketopiperazine derivatives by pathway engineering with different cyclodipeptide synthases from various Streptomyces strains, ACS Synthetic Biology, 12, 1804–181, DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.3c00115. (# equal contribution)
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239. Zheng-Xi Zhang,# Zhang-Hai Li,# and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Formation of the fungal indole alkaloid speradine F implies multiple nonenzymatic oxidation steps. Journal of Natural Products, 86, 1053–1060, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00155. (# equal contribution)
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238. Qianqian Ran, Linlan Tao, Xiang Zhou, Shu-Ming Li, Chun-Mao Yuan, Song Yang, and Kang Zhou (2023) Geranylation of chalcones by a fungal aromatic prenyltransferases. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 71, 4675–4682, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c08743 
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237. Jie Fan,# Huomiao Ran,# Peng-Lin Wei, Yuanyuan Li, Huan Liu, Shu-Ming Li, Youcai Hu, and Wen-Bing Yin (2023) Pretrichodermamide A biosynthesis reveals the hidden diversity of epidithiodiketopiperazines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, e202217212, DOI:10.1002/anie.202217212, DOI: 10.1002/ange.202217212. (# equal contribution)
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236. Jing Liu,# Yiling Yang#, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2023) A new Streptomyces cytochrome P450 enzyme catalyzes regiospecific C2-guaninylation for the synthesis of diverse guanitrypmycin analogs. Journal of Natural Products, 86, 94–102, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00787. (# equal contribution)
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235. Wen Li, Lindsay Coby, Jing Zhou and Shu-Ming Li (2023) Diprenylated cyclodipeptide production by changing the prenylation sequence of the nature´s synthetic machinery. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 107, 261–271, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12303-4.
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234. Jing Liu and Shu-Ming Li  (2023) Genomics-guided efficient identification of 2,5-diketopiperazine derivatives from actinobacteria. ChemBioChem,  24, e202200502, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202200502.
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2022

233. Jie Liu, Xiang Guo, Xingchen Guo, Boyuan Zhong, Tao Wang, Dong Liu, Hongwei Jin, Jinwei Ren, Zihe Liu, Jiangtao Gao, Shu-Ming Li, Aili Fan and Wenhan Lin (2022) Concise biosynthesis of tropone-containing spiromaterpenes by a sesquiterpene cyclase and a multi-functional P450 from a deep-sea derived Spiromastix sp. fungus. Journal of Natural Products, 85, 2723−2730, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00614.
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232. Hongjiao Zhang,# Zixin Li,# Shuang Zhou, Shu-Ming Li, Huomiao Ran, Zili Song, Tao Yu and Wen-Bing Yin (2022) A fungal NRPS-PKS enzyme catalyses the formation of the flavonoid naringenin. Nature Communications, 13, 6361, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34150-7. (# equal contribution)
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231. Marlies Peter, Yiling Yang and Shu-Ming Li (2022) A terpene cyclase from Aspergillus ustus is involved in the biosynthesis of geosmin precursor germacradienol. RSC Advances, 12, 28171-28177, DOI: 10.1039/D2RA05033A.
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230. Yuanyuan Xu, Dan Li, Wenxuan Wang, Kangping Xu, Guishan Tan, Jing Li, Shu-Ming Li and Xia Yu (2022) Dearomative gem-diprenylation of hydroxynaphthalenes by an engineered fungal prenyltransferase. RSC Advances, 12, 27550-27554, DOI: 10.1039/D2RA04837J.
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229. Pan Xiang,# Bastian Kemmerich,# Li Yang and Shu-Ming Li  (2022) Biosynthesis of annullatin D in Penicillium roqueforti implies oxidative lactonization between two hydroxyl groups catalyzed by a BBE-like enzyme. Organic Letters, 24, 6072–6077, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02438. (# equal contribution)
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228. Sina A. Stierle and Shu-Ming Li (2022) Biosynthesis of xylariolide D in Penicillium crustosum implies a chain branching reaction catalyzed by a highly reducing polyketide synthase. Journal of Fungi, 8, 493, DOI:10.3390/jof8050493.
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227. Jing Liu,# Lauritz Harken,# Yiling Yang, Xiulan Xie, and Shu-Ming Li (2022) Widely distributed bifunctional bacterial cytochrome P450 enzymes catalyze both intramolecular C-C bond formation in cyclo-L-Tyr-L-Tyr and its coupling with nucleobases. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61, e202200377, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202200377, DOI: 10.1002/ange.202200377 (# equal contribution).
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226. Abraham M. Abraham, Sabrina Wiemann, Ghazala Ambreen, Jenny Zhou, Konrad Engelhardt, Jana Brüßler, Udo Bakowsky, Shu-Ming Li, Robert Mandic, Gabriella Pocsfalvi, Cornelia M. Keck (2022) Cucumber derived exosome-like vesicles and PlantCrystals for improved dermal drug delivery. Pharmaceutics 14, 476, DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14030476.
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225. Yunyun Li, Xiang Zhou, Shu-Ming Li, Yuping Zhang, Chun-Mao Yuan, Shuzhong He, Zaichang Yang, Song Yang and Kang Zhou (2022) Increasing structural diversity of prenylated chalcones by two fungal prenyltransferases. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 70, 1610–1617, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c07786.
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224. Pan Xiang and Shu-Ming Li (2022) Formation of 3-orsellinoxypropanoic acid in Penicillium crustosum is catalyzed by a bifunctional nonreducing polyketide synthase. Organic Letters, 24, 462–466, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c04189
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223. Lauritz Harken, Jing Liu, Oliver Kreuz, Robert Berger and Shu-Ming Li (2022) Biosynthesis of guatrypmethine C implies two different oxidases for exo-double bond installation at the diketopiperazine ring. ACS Catalysis, 12, 648–654, DOI:10.1021/acscatal.1c04609
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222. Zheng-Xi Zhang,# Zhang-Hai Li,# Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2022) Biosynthesis of viridicatol in Penicillium palitans implies a cytochrome P450-mediated meta hydroxylation at a monoalkylated benzene ring. Organic Letters, 24, 262–267, DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03932 (# equal contribution).
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2021

221. Jing Liu,# Yiling Yang,# Lauritz Harken and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Elucidation of the streptoazine biosynthetic pathway in Streptomyces aurantiacus reveals the presence of a promiscuous prenyltransferases. Journal of Natural Products, 84, 3100–3109, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00844 (# equal contribution).
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220. Dong-Sheng Zhao, Zhi-Wei Hu, Ling-Li Dong, Xiao-Jie Wan, Shengqin Wang, Nan Li, Yao Wang, Shu-Ming Li, Hui-Xi Zou, Xiufeng Yan (2021) A type III polyketide synthase (SfuPKS1) isolated from the edible seaweed Sargassum fusiforme exhibits broad substrate and catalysis specificity. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 69, 14643-14649, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05868
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219. Jenny Zhou and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Conversion of viridicatic acid to crustosic acid by cytochrome P450 enzyme-catalysed hydroxylation and spontaneous cyclisation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 105, 9181-9189, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11674-4
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218. Hai-Ning Lyu, Jinyu Zhang, Shuang Zhou, Hong-Wei Liu, Wen-Ying Zhuang, Shu-Ming Li, Wen-Bing Yin (2021) Heterologous expression of a single fungal HR-PKS leads to the formation of diverse 2-alkenyl-tetrahydropyrans in model fungi. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 19, 8377-8383, DOI: 10.1039/D1OB01501J
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217. Wen Li, Jie Fan, Ge Liao, Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Precursor supply increases the accumulation of 4-hydroxy-6-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-α-pyrone after NRPS-PKS gene expression. Journal of Natural Products, 84, 2380-2384, DOI: acs.jnatprod.1c00120.
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216. Kang Zhou, Song Yang and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Naturally occurring prenylated chalcones from plants: Structural diversity, distribution, activities and biosynthesis. Natural Product Reports, 38, 2236-2260, DOI: 10.1039/ D0NP00083C.
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215. Zhiguo Liu,# Wei Li,# Peng Zhang, Jie Fan, Fangbo Zhang, Caixia Wang, Shuming Li, Yi Sun, Shilin Chen, Wenbing Yin (2021) Tricarbocyclic core formation of tyrosine-decahydrofluorenes implies a three-enzyme cascade with XenF-mediated sigmatropic rearrangement as a prerequisite. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 11, 3655-3664, Doi: 10.1016/j.apsb.2021.03.034 (# equal contribution).
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214. Shumin Bao, Ling Luo, Ying Wan, Kangping Xu, Guishan Tan, Jie Fan, Shu-Ming Li and Xia Yu (2021) Regiospecific 7-O-prenylation of anthocyanins by a fungal prenyltransferase. Bioorganic Chemistry, 110, 104787, DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2021.104787 .
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213. Liujuan Zheng,# Haowen Wang,# Lena Ludwig-Radtke and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Oxepin formation in fungi implies specific and stereoselective ring expansion. Organic Letters, 23, 2024-2028, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c00166 (# equal contribution).
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212. Lauritz Harken and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Modifications of diketopiperazines assembled by cyclodipeptide synthases with cytochrome P450 enzymes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 105, 2277–2285, DOI 10.1007/s00253-021-11178-1.
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211. Huan Liu,# Jie Fan,# Peng Zhang, Youcai Hu, Xingzhong Liu, Shu-Ming Li and Wen-Bing Yin (2021) New insights into the disulfide bond formation enzymes in epidithiodiketopiperazine alkaloids. Chemical Science, 12, 4132-4138, DOI: 10.1039/d0sc06647h (# equal contribution).
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210. Liujuan Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Benzoyl ester formation in Aspergillus ustus by hijacking the polyketide acyl intermediates with alcohols. Archives of Microbiology, 203, 1795-1800, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02182-0.
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209. Jonas Nies and Shu-Ming Li (2021) Prenylation and dehydrogenation of a C2-reversely prenylated diketopiperazine as a branching point in the biosynthesis of echinulin family alkaloids in Aspergillus ruber. ACS Chemical Biology, 16, 185-192, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00874.
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208. Yuanyuan Xu, Dan Li, Guishan Tan, Yan Zhang, Zhansheng Li, Kangping Xu, Shu-Ming Li and Xia Yu (2021). A single amino acid switch alters the prenyl donor specificity of a fungal aromatic prenyltransferase toward bioflavonoids. Organic Letters, 23, 497-502, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c04015.
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207. Elena Ostertag, Liujuan Zheng, Karina Broger, Thilo Stehle, Shu-Ming Li, and Georg Zocher (2021). Reprogramming substrate and catalytic promiscuity of tryptophan prenyltransferases, Journal of Molecular Biology, 433, 166726, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.11.025.
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206. Huomiao Ran and Shu-Ming Li (2021). Fungal benzene carbaldehydes: occurrence, structural diversity, activities and biosynthesis. Natural Product Reports, 38, 240-263, DOI: 10.1039/d0np0026d.
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2020

205. Liujuan Zheng,# Yiling Yang,# Haowen Wang, Aili Fan, and Shu-Ming Li (2020). Ustethylin biosynthesis implies phenethyl derivative formation in Aspergillus ustus. Organic Letters, 22, 7837–7841, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02719 (# equal contribution).
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204. Liujuan Zheng,# Haowen Wang,# Aili Fan, and Shu-Ming Li (2020). Oxepinamide F biosynthesis involves enzymatic D-aminoacyl epimerization, 3H-oxepin formation, and hydroxylation induced double bond migration. Nature Communications, 11, 4914, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18713-0 (# equal contribution).
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203. Jing Liu, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2020). Increasing cytochrome P450 enzyme diversity by identification of two distinct cyclodipeptide dimerases. Chemical Communications,  56, 11042–11045, DOI: 10.1039/D0CC04772D.
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202. Xu-Liang Bu, Bei-Bei He, Jing-Yi Weng, Chu-Chu Jiang, Yi-Lei Zhao, Shu-Ming Li, Jun Xu, and Min-Juan Xu (2020). Constructing microbial hosts for the production of benzoheterocyclic derivatives. ACS Synthetic Biology, 9, 2282-2290, DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00405.
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201. Pan Xiang, Lena Ludwig-Radtke, Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2020). Isocoumarin formation by heterologous gene expression and modification by host enzymes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, 4946-4948, DOI: 10.1039/D0OB00989J.
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200. Keyan Yang, Shu-Ming Li, Xiao-Qing Liu and Aili Fan (2020). Reinvestigation of the substrate specificity of a reverse prenyltransferase NotF from Aspergillus sp. MF297-2. Archives of Microbiology, 202, 1419–1424, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-020-01854-7.
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199. Jinglin Wang,# Huomiao Ran,# Xiulan Xie,  Kaiping Wang, and Shu-Ming Li. (2020). Spontaneous oxidative rearrangement of 1,3-dihydroxyl 4-dimethylallylnaphthalene leading to the formation of tricyclic derivatives. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, 2646-2649, DOI: 10.1039/D0OB00354A (# equal contribution).
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198. Jonas Nies,# Huomiao Ran,# Viola Wohlgemuth, Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2020) Biosynthesis of the prenylated salicylaldehyde flavoglaucin requires temporary reduction to salicyl alcohol for decoration before reoxidation to final product. Organic Letters, 22, 2256-2260, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00440 (# equal contribution).
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197. Lena Mikulski,# Johanna Schäfer,# Kirsten Brockmeyer, Rixa Kraut and Shu-Ming Li (2020) Comparative studies on similarities and differences of cyclodipeptide oxidases for installation of C–C double bonds at the diketopiperazine ring. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 104, 2523-2536, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10392-7 (# equal contribution).
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196.   Ge Liao,# Jie Fan,# Lena Ludwig-Radtke, Katja Backhaus, and Shu-Ming Li (2020) Increasing structural diversity of natural products by Michael addition with ortho-quinone methide as the acceptor. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 85, 1298-1307, DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.9b02971 (# equal contribution).
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195.   Jie Fan,# Ge Liao,# Lena Ludwig-Radtke, Wen-Bing Yin, and Shu-Ming Li (2020) Formation of terrestric acid in Penicillium crustosum requires redox-assisted decarboxylation and stereoisomerization. Organic Letters, 22, 88-92, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b04002 (# equal contribution).
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194.    Kangping Xu, Can Yang, Yuanyuan Xu, Dan Li, Shumin Bao, Zhenxing Zou, Fenghua Kang, Guishan Tan, Shu-Ming Li and  Xia Yu (2020) Selective geranylation of biflavonoids by Aspergillus terreus aromatic prenyltransferase (AtaPT). Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, 28-31, DOI: 10.1039/C9OB02296A.
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2019

193.    Huili Yu, Xiulan Xie, and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Coupling of cyclo-L-Trp-L-Trp with hypoxanthine increases structure diversity of guanitrypmycins. Organic Letters, 21, 9104-9108, DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03491.
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192.    Huili Yu and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Two cytochrome P450 enzymes from Streptomyces sp. NRRL S-1868 catalyze distinct dimerization of tryptophan-containing cyclodipeptides. Organic Letters, 21, 7094-7098, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02666.
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191.    Jing Liu, Xiulan Xie, and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Guanitrypmycin biosynthetic pathways imply cytochrome P450-mediated regio- and stereospecific guaninyl transfer reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 11534-11540, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201906891.
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190.    Florian Kindinger, Jonas Nies, Anke Becker, Tianjiao Zhu, and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Genomic locus of a Penicillium crustosum pigment as integration site for secondary metabolite gene expression. ACS Chemical Biology, 14, 1227-1234, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00164.
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189.    Peter Mai,# Lindsay Coby# and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Different behaviors of cyclic dipeptide prenyltransferases toward the tripeptide derivative ardeemin fumiquinazoline and its enantiomer. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103, 3773–3781, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09723-0. (# equal contribution).
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188.    Jie Fan,# Ge Liao,# Florian Kindinger, Lena Ludwig-Radtke, Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Peniphenone and penilactone formation in Penicillium crustosum via 1,4-Michael additions of ortho-quinone methide from hydroxyclavatol to γ-butyrolactones from crustosic acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 4225–4229, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b00110 (PHOENIX Pharmaceutics Science Award 2020). (# equal contribution)
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187.    Elisabeth Hühner, Kristin Öqvist and Shu-Ming Li (2019) Design of α-keto carboxylic acid dimers by domain recombination of nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-like enzymes. Organic Letters, 21, 498-502, Doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03793.
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186.    Shuang Zhou, Peng Zhang, Haichuan Zhou, Xingzhong Liu, Shu-Ming Li, Liangdong Guo, Kuan Li and Wen-Bing Yin (2019) A new regulator RsdA mediating fungal secondary metabolism has a detrimental impact on asexual development in Pestalotiopsis fici. Environmental Microbiology, 21, 416–426, DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14473.
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2018

185.    Ge Liao,#Peter Mai,# Jie Fan, Georg Zocher, Thilo Stehle and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Complete decoration of the indolyl residue of tryptophan-containing cyclic dipeptides with geranyl moieties via protein engineering. Organic Letters, 20, 7201–7205, Doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03124. (# equal contribution)
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184.    Huomiao Ran, Viola Wohlgemuth, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2018) A non-heme FeII/2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenase catalyzes a double bond migration within a dimethylallyl moiety accompanied by hydroxylation. ACS Chemical Biology, 13, 2949 – 2955, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00588.
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183.    Peter Mai, Georg Zocher, Thilo Stehle and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Structure-based protein engineering enables prenyl donor switching of a fungal aromatic prenyltransferase. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, 7461–7469, DOI: 10.1039/C8OB02037J. 10.1039/C8OB02037J.
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182.    Bei-Bei He, Xu-Liang Bu, Ting Zhou, Shu-Ming Li, Minjuan Xu and Jun Xu. (2018) Combinatory biosynthesis of prenylated 4-hydroxybenzoate derivatives by overexpression of the substrate-promiscuous prenyltransferase XimB in engineered E. coli. ACS Synthetic Biology, 7, 2094-2104, DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00070.
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181.    Liujuan Zheng,# Peter Mai,# Aili Fan and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Switching a regular tryptophan C4-prenyltransferase to a reverse tryptophan-containing cyclic dipeptide C3-prenyltransferase by sequential site-directed mutagenesis. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, 6688–6694, DOI: 10.1039/C8OB01735B. (# equal contribution)
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180.    Huili Yu, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Coupling of guanine with cyclo-L-Trp-L-Trp Mediated by a cytochrome P450 homologue from Streptomyces purpureus. Organic Letters, 20: 4921-4925, Doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02051.
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179.    Jing Liu,# Huili Yu# and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Expanding tryptophan-containing cyclodipeptide synthase spectrum by identification of nine members from Streptomyces strains. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 102: 4435–4444, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8908-6; 102: 5787-5789, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-9074-6. (# equal contribution)
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178.    Viola Wohlgemuth,# Florian Kindinger# and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Convenient synthetic approach for tri- and tetraprenylated cyclodipeptides by consecutive enzymatic prenylations. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 102: 2671-2681, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8761-7. (# equal contribution)
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177.    Elisabeth Hühner, Katja Backhaus, Rixa Kraut and Shu-Ming Li (2018) Production of α-keto carboxylic acid dimers in yeast by overexpression of NRPS-like genes from Aspergillus terreus. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 102: 1663-1672, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8719-1.
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2017

176.    Kirsten Brockmeyer and Shu-Ming Li (2017) Mutations of residues in pocket P1 of a cyclodipeptide synthase strongly increase product formation. Journal of natural products, 80: 2917-2922, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00430.
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175.    Viola Wohlgemuth, Florian Kindinger, Xiulan Xie, Bin-Gui Wang, and Shu-Ming Li (2017) Two Prenyltransferases govern a consecutive prenylation cascade in the biosynthesis of echinulin and neoechinulin. Organic Letters, 19: 5928-5931, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02926.
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174.    Nina Gerhards and Shu-Ming Li (2017) A bifunctional old yellow enzyme from Penicillium roqueforti is involved in the ergot alkaloid biosynthesis. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15: 8069-8071, DOI: 10.1039/C7OB02095C.
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173.    Qingbo Zhang, Huixian Li, Lu Yu, Yu Sun, Yiguang Zhu, Hanning Zhu, Liping Zhang, Shu-Ming Li, Yuemao Shen, Changlin Tian, Ang Li, Hung-wen Liu and Changsheng Zhang (2017) Characterization of the flavoenzyme XiaK as an N-hydroxylase and implications in indolosesquiterpene diversification.Chemical Science, 8:5067-5077, DOI: 10.1039/C7SC01182B.
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172.    Katja Backhaus, Lena Ludwig-Radtke, Xiulan Xie, Shu-Ming Li (2017) Manipulation of the precursor supply in yeast significantly enhances the accumulation of prenylated β-carbolines. ACS Synthetic Biology, 6: 1056-1064, DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00387.
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171.    Jin Feng, Peng Zhang, Yinglu Cui, Kai Li, Xue Qiao, Ying-Tao Zhang, Shu-Ming Li, Russell J. Cox, Bian Wu, Min Ye and Wen-Bing Yin (2017) Regio- and stereospecific O-glycosylation of phenolic compounds catalysed by a fungal glycosyltransferase from Mucor hiemalis. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 359: 995-1006, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201601317.
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170.    Jakub Gunera,# Florian Kindinger,# Shu-Ming Li and Peter Kolb (2017) PrenDB: A substrate prediction database to enable biocatalytic use of prenyltransferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292: 4003-4021, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.759118. (# equal contribution)
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169.    Anja Greule, Marija Marolt, Denise Deubel, Iris Peintner, Songya Zhang, Claudia Jessen-Trefzer, Christian De Ford, Sabrina Burschel, Shuming Li, Thorsten Friedrich, Irmgard Merfort, Steffen Lüdeke, Philippe Bisel, Michael Müller, Thomas Paululat, Andreas Bechthold (2017) Wide distribution of foxicin biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces strains – an unusual secondary metabolite with various properties. Frontiers in Microbiology, section Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology, 8: 221, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00221.
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168.    Wei Zhao, Aili Fan, Sylwia Tarcz, Kang Zhou, Wen-Bing Yin, Xiao-Qing Liu and Shu-Ming Li (2017). Mutation on Gly115 and Tyr205 of the cyclic dipeptide C2-prenyltransferase FtmPT1 increases its catalytic activity toward hydroxynaphthalenes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 101: 1989–1998, DOI: 10.1021/ja106817c.
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167.    Kang Zhou, Carsten Wunsch, Jungui Dai and Shu-Ming Li (2017) Gem-diprenylation of acylphloroglucinols by a fungal prenyltransferase of the dimethylallyltryptophan synthase superfamily. Organic Letters, 19: 388-391, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b03594.
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166.    Ridao Chen, Bingquan Gao, Xiao Liu, Feiying Ruan, Yong Zhang, Jizhong Lou, Keping Feng, Carsten Wunsch, Shu-Ming Li, Jungui Dai, Fei Sun (2017). Molecular insights into the promiscuity of the aromatic prenyltransferase AtaPT. Nature Chemical Biology, 13: 226-234, DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2263.
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2016

165.    Kang Zhou, Wei Zhao, Xiao-Qing Liu and Shu-Ming Li (2016) Saturation mutagenesis on Tyr205 of the cyclic dipeptide C2-prenyltransferase FtmPT1 results in mutants with strongly increased C3-prenylating activity. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100: 9943–9953, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7663-9.
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164.    Julia Winkelblech, Xiulan Xie, Shu-Ming Li (2016) Characterisation of 6-DMATSMo from Micromonospora olivasterospora leading to identification of divergence in enantioselectivity, regioselectivity and multiple prenylation of tryptophan prenyltransferases. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14: 9883 – 9895, DOI: 10.1039/C6OB01803C.
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163.    Aili Fan and Shu-Ming Li (2016) Saturation mutagenesis on Arg244 of the tryptophan C4-prenyltransferase FgaPT2 leads to enhanced catalytic ability and different preferences for tryptophan containing-cyclic dipeptides. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100: 5389 - 5399, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7365-3.
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162.    Peter Mai, Georg Zocher, Lena Ludwig, Thilo Stehle, and Shu-Ming Li (2016) Actions of tryptophan prenyltransferases toward fumiquinazolines and their potential application for the generation of prenylated derivatives by combining chemical and chemoenzymatic syntheses. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 358: 1639-1653, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201600064.
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161.    Mike Liebhold and Shu-Ming Li (2016). Regiospecific benzylation of tryptophan and derivatives catalyzed by a fungal dimethylallyl transferase. In: Practical Methods for Biocatalysis and Biotransformations 3 (Eds. John Whittall, Peter Sutton and Wolfgang Kroutil), John Wiley &Sons, Ltd.,West Sussex, Volume 3, pp 102-105 (Book Article).

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2015

160.    Kang Zhou, Xia Yu, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Complementary flavonoid prenylations by fungal indole prenyltransferases. Journal of natural products, 78: 2229 – 2235, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00422.
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159.    Julia Winkelblech, Aili Fan and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Prenyltransferases as key enzymes in primary and secondary metabolism. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99: 7379 - 7397, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6811-y.
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158.    Aili Fan, Julia Winkelblech and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Impacts and perspectives of prenyltransferases of the DMATS superfamily for use in biotechnology. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99: 7399 - 7415, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6813-9.
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157.    Huili Yu, Mike Liebhold, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Tyrosine O-prenyltransferases TyrPT and SirD displaying similar behavior toward unnatural alkyl or benzyl diphosphate as their natural prenyl donor dimethylallyl diphosphate. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99: 7115–7124, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6452-1
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156.    Aili Fan, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Tryptophan prenyltransferases showing higher catalytic activities for Friedel-Crafts alkylation of o- and m-tyrosine than tyrosine prenyltransferases. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 13: 7551- 7557, DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01040C.
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155.    Nina Gerhards, Marco Matuschek, Christiane Wallwey and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Genome mining of ascomycetous fungi reveals their genetic potential for ergot alkaloid production. Archives of Microbiology, 197:701-713, DOI:10.1007/s00203-015-1105-4.
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154.    Carsten Wunsch, Kathrin Mundt and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Targeted production of secondary metabolites by coexpression of non-ribosomal peptide synthetase and prenyltransferase genes in Aspergillus. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99: 4213 - 4233, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6490-8.
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153.    Kang Zhou, Lena Ludwig and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Friedel-Crafts alkylation of acylphloroglucinols catalyzed by a fungal indole prenyltransferase. Journal of Natural Products, 78: 929 - 933, DOI: 10.1021/np5009784.
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152.    Ulrike Steiner, Sabine Hellwig, Mahalia Ahimsa-Müller, Nicola Grundmann, Shu-Ming Li, Christel Drewke, Eckhard Leistner (2015) The key role of peltate glandular trichomes in symbiota comprising clavicipitaceous fungi of the genus Periglandula and their host plants. Toxins, 7: 1355-1373, DOI: 10.3390/toxins7041355.
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151.    Julia Winkelblech*, Mike Liebhold*, Jakub Gunera, Xiulan Xie, Peter Kolb and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Tryptophan C5-, C6- and C7-prenylating enzymes displaying a preference for C-6 of the indole ring in the presence of unnatural dimethylallyl diphosphate analogues. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 357: 975-986, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201400958. (* equal contribution)
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150.    Carsten Wunsch, Hui-Xi Zou, Uwe Linne and Shu-Ming Li (2015) C7-prenylation of tryptophanyl and O-prenylation of tyrosyl residues in dipeptides by an Aspergillus terreus prenyltransferase. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99: 1719-1730, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5999-6.
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149.    Huixian Li, Yu Sun, Qingbo Zhang, Yiguang Zhu, Shu-Ming Li, Ang Li and Changsheng Zhang (2015) Elucidating the cyclization cascades in xiamycin biosynthesis by substrate synthesis and enzyme characterizations. Organic Letters, 17: 306–309, DOI: 10.1021/ol503399b.
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148.    Aili Fan, Georg Zocher, Edyta Stec, Thilo Stehle and Shu-Ming Li (2015) Site-directed mutagenesis switching a dimethylallyl tryptophan synthase to a specific tyrosine C3-prenylating enzyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290: 1364–1373, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.623413
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2014

147.    Nina Gerhards, Lisa Neubauer, Paul Tudzynski and Shu-Ming Li (2014) Biosynthetic pathways of ergot alkaloids. Toxins, 6: 3281 – 3295 (review article), DOI: 10.3390/toxins6123281.
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146.    Aili Fan, Huizhi Chen, Rui Wu, Hui Xu and Shu-Ming Li (2014) A new member of the DMATS superfamily from Aspergillus niger catalyzes prenylations of both tyrosine and tryptophan derivatives. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 98: 10119–10129, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5872-7.
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145.    Aili Fan and Shu-Ming Li (2014) Prenylation of tyrosine and derivatives by a tryptophan C7-prenyltransferase. Tetrahedron Letters, 55: 5199 – 5202, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.07.080.
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144.    Daniel Pockrandt, Christopher Sack, Tatjana Kosiol and Shu-Ming Li (2014) A Promiscuous Prenyltransferase from Aspergillus oryzae catalyses C-prenylations of hydroxynaphthalenes in the presence of different prenyl donors. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 98: 4987 - 4994, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5509-x.
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143.    Julia Winkelblech and Shu-Ming Li (2014) Biochemical investigations of two 6-DMATS enzymes from Streptomyces revealing novel features of L-tryptophan prenyltransferases. ChemBioChem, 15: 1030 - 1039, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201400046.
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142.    Sylwia Tarcz, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2014). Substrate and catalytic promiscuity of secondary metabolite enzymes: O-prenylation of hydroxyxanthones with different prenyl donors by a bisindolyl benzoquinone C- and N-prenyltransferase. RSC Advances, 4: 17986 – 17992, DOI: 10.1039/C4RA00337C.
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141.    Sylwia Tarcz, Lena Ludwig and Shu-Ming Li (2014). AstPT catalyses both reverse N1- and regular C2-prenylation of a methylated bisindolyl benzoquinone. ChemBioChem, 15: 108-116, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300610.
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2013

140.    Xia Yu, Georg Zocher, Xiulan Xie, Mike Liebhold, Stefan Schütz, Thilo Stehle, and Shu-Ming Li (2013). Catalytic mechanism of stereospecific formation of cis-configured prenylated pyrroloindoline diketopiperazines by indole prenyltransferases. Chemistry and Biology, 20: 1492-1501, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.10.007.
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139.    Mike Liebhold and Shu-Ming Li (2013) Regiospecific benzylation of tryptophan and derivatives catalyzed by a fungal dimethylallyl transferase. Organic Letters, 15: 5834-5837, DOI: 10.1021/ol4029012.
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138.    Daniel Pockrandt and Shu-Ming Li (2013). Geranylation of cyclic dipeptides by the dimethylallyl transferase AnaPT resulting in a shift of prenylation position on the indole ring. ChemBioChem, 14: 2023-2028, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300372.
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137.    Kathrin Mundt and Shu-Ming Li (2013). CdpC2PT, a reverse prenyltransferase from Neosartorya fischeri with distinct substrate preference from known C2-prenyltransferases. Microbiology, 159: 2169-2179, DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.069542-0 .
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136.    Aili Fan and Shu-Ming Li (2013). One substrate – seven products with different prenylation positions in one-step reactions: Prenyltransferases make it possible. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 355: 2659-2666, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300386.
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135.    Peter Mai and Shu-Ming Li (2013) Alkaloids derived from tryptophan: a focus on ergot alkaloids. In Handbook of Natural products, Vol. I (Eds K.G. Ramawat and J.M. Merillon) pp 683-714, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_24
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134.    Mike Liebhold, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2013). Breaking cyclic dipeptide prenyltransferase regioselectivity by unnatural alkyl donors. Organic Letters, 15: 3062-3065, DOI: 10.1021/ol401247s.
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133.    Suqin Yin, Xia Yu, Qing Wang, Xiao-Qing Liu and Shu-Ming Li (2013). Identification of a brevianamide F reverse prenyltransferase BrePT from Aspergillus versicolor with a broad substrate specificity towards tryptophan-containing cyclic dipeptides. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 97: 1649-1660, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4130-0
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132.    Marco Matuschek and Shu-Ming Li (2013). Tryptophanyl aminopeptidase 7-DMATS-type peptidase In: Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, 3rd Edition (Eds Neil D. Rawlings and Guy Salvesen), Elsevier Ltd, Chapter 394, pp1691-1697 (book article).

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2012

131.    Daniel Pockrandt, Lena Ludwig, Aili Fan, Gabriele M. König and Shu-Ming Li (2012). New insights into the biosynthesis of prenylated xanthones: XptB from Aspergillus nidulans catalyses an O-prenylation of xanthones. ChemBioChem, 13: 2764-2771, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200545.
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130.    Kathrin Mundt, Beate Wollinsky, Han-Li Ruan, Tianjiao Zhu and Shu-Ming Li (2012). Identification of the verruculogen prenyltransferase FtmPT3 by a combination of chemical, bioinformatic and biochemical approaches. ChemBioChem, 13: 2583-2592, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200523.

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129.    Beate Wollinsky, Lena Ludwig, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2012). Breaking the regioselectivity of indole prenyltransferases: identification of regular C3-prenylated hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indoles as side products of the regular C2-prenyltransferase FtmPT1. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 10:9262-9270, DOI: 10.1039/C2OB26149A.
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128.    Xia Yu, Aigang Yang, Wenhan Lin and Shu-Ming Li (2012). Friedel-Crafts alkylation on indolocarbazoles catalyzed by two dimethylallyltryptophan synthases from Aspergillus. Tetrahedron Letters, 53: 6861-6864, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.10.039.
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127.    Mike Liebhold, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Expansion of enzymatic Friedel-Crafts alkylation on indoles: Acceptance of unnatural β-unsaturated allyl diphospates by DMAT Synthases. Organic Letters, 14: 4882-4885, DOI: 10.1021/ol302207r
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126.    Jan Michael Schuller, Georg Zocher, Mike Liebhold, Xiulan Xie, Mark Stahl, Shu-Ming Li and Thilo Stehle (2012) Structure and catalytic mechanism of a cyclic dipeptide prenyltransferase with broad substrate promiscuity. Journal of Molecular Biology, 422:87–99, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.05.033.
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125.    Edyta Stec and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Mutagenesis and biochemical studies on AuaA confirmed the importance of the two conserved aspartate-rich motifs and suggested difference in the amino acids for substrate binding in membrane-bound prenyltransferases. Archives of Microbiology, 194:589–595, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-012-0795-0.
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124.    Jia-Xiang Sun, Xiao-Ya Zhao, Xiao-Fang Fu, Heng-Yi Yu, Xue Li, Shu-Ming Li, Han-Li Ruan (2012) Three new naphthalenyl glycosides from the root bark of Juglans cathayensis. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 60: 785-789, DOI: 10.1248/cpb.60.785.
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123.    Beate Wollinsky, Lena Ludwig, Alexandra Hamacher, Xia Yu, Matthias Kassack and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Prenylation at the indole ring leads to a significant increase of cytotoxicity of tryptophan-containing cyclic dipeptides. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 22: 3866–3869, DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.04.119.
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122.    Christiane Wallwey, Christoph Heddergott, Xiulan Xie, Axel A. Brakhage and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Genome mining reveals the presence of a conserved gene cluster for the biosynthesis of ergot alkaloid precursors in the fungal family Arthrodermataceae. Microbiology, 158: 1634 - 1644, DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.056796-0.
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121.    Marco Matuschek, Christiane Wallwey, Beate Wollinsky, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2012) In vitro conversion of chanoclavine-I aldehyde to the stereoisomers festuclavine and pyroclavine was controlled by the second reduction step. RSC Advances, 2: 3662-3669, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20104F.
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120.    Xia Yu, Yan Liu, Xiulan Xie, Xiao-Dong Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Biochemical characterization of indole prenyltransferases: Filling the last gap of prenylation positions by a 5-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus clavatus. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287: 1371-1380, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.317982.
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119.    Viola Wohlgemuth und Shu-Ming Li (2012) Monoklonale Antikörper, die magischen Kugeln Paul Ehrlichs. Apotheken Magazin, 30(3): 7-14 (review article).
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118.    Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Stereospecific synthesis of aszonalenins by using two recombinant prenyltransferases. Practical Methods for Biocatalysis and Biotransformations (Eds. John Whittall and Peter Sutton) Volume 2, pp 254-258 (book capital).

117.    Xia Yu and Shu-Ming Li (2012) Prenyltransferases of the dimethylallyltryptophan synthase superfamily. Methods in Enzymology, Vol 516 (Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants, Part B), Ed.: D. A. Hopwood, pp 259-278 (book capital).

116.    Christiane Wallwey and Shu-Ming Li (2012). Production, detection and purification of clavine-type ergot alkaloids. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol.944 (Fungal Secondary Metabolism: Methods and Protocols) Eds.: Nancy Keller and Geoffrey Turner, pp 121-131 (book capital).

115.    Beate Wollinsky and Shu-Ming Li (2012). Detection and purification of non-ribosomal peptide synthetase products in Neosartorya fischeri. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 944 (Fungal Secondary Metabolism: Methods and Protocols), Eds.: N. Keller and G. Turner, pp 111-119 (book capital).

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2011

114.    Xia Yu, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2011) Substrate promiscuity of secondary metabolite enzymes: Prenylation of hydroxynaphthalenes by fungal indole prenyltransferases. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 92: 237-248, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3351-y.
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113.    Xia Yu and Shu-Ming Li (2011) Prenylation of flavonoids by using a dimethylallyltryptophan synthase 7-DMATS from Aspergillus fumigatus. ChemBioChem, 12: 2280-2283, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201100413.
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112.    Xiulan
Xie, Christiane Wallwey, Marco Matuschek, Klaus Steinbach, Shu-Ming Li (2011) Formyl migration product of chanoclavine-I aldehyde in the presence of the old yellow enzyme FgaOx3 from Aspergillus fumigatus: a NMR structure elucidation. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 49: 678-681, DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2796.
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111.    Chuan-Ling Si, Shu-Ming Li, Zhong Liu, Jin-Kyu Kim and Young-Soo Bae (2011) Antioxidant phenolic glycosides from the bark of Populus ussuriensis Kom. Natural Product Research, 25: 1396-1401, DOI: 10.1080/14786410802267700.
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110.    Edyta Stec, Dominik Pistorius, Rolf Müller and Shu-Ming Li (2011) AuaA, a membrane-bound farnesyltransferase from Stigmatella aurantiaca, catalyzes the prenylation of 2-methyl-4-hydroxyquinoline in the biosynthesis of aurachins. ChemBioChem, 11: 1724-1730, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201100188. 
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109.    Eva Kranen, Nicola Steffan, Ruth Maas, Shu-Ming Li and Joachim Jose (2011) Development of a whole cell biocatalyst for the efficient prenylation of indole derivatives by Autodisplay of the aromatic prenyltransferase FgaPT2. ChemCatChem, 3, 1200-1207, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201000429.
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108.    Marco Matuschek, Christiane Wallwey, Xiulan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2011) New insights into ergot alkaloid biosynthesis in Claviceps purpurea: An agroclavine synthase EasG catalyses, via a non-enzymatic adduct with reduced glutathione, the conversion of chanoclavine-I aldehyde to agroclavine. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 9: 4328-4335, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB01215G.
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107.    Fan-Yu Meng, Jia-Xiang Sun,  Xue Li, Heng-Yi Yu, Shu-Ming Li and Han-Li Ruan (2011) Schiglautone A, a new tricyclic triterpenoid with a unique 6/7/9-fused skeleton from the stems of Schisandra glaucescens. Organic Letters, 13:1502–1505, DOI: 10.1021/ol200188n.
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106.    Christiane Wallwey and Shu-Ming Li (2011) Ergot alkaloids: structure diversity, biosynthetic gene clusters and functional proof of biosynthetic genes. Natural product reports, 28: 496-510, DOI: 10.1039/C0NP00060D.
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105.    Hui-Xi Zou, Xiulan Xie, Xiao-Dong Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2011) The tyrosine O-prenyltransferase SirD catalyzes O-, N- and C prenylations. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 89:1443-1451, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2956-x.
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104.    Shu-Ming Li (2011) Genome mining and biosynthesis of fumitremorgin-type alkaloids in ascomycetes. Journal of Antibiotics, 64:45-49 (review article), DOI: 10.1038/ja.2010.128.
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2010

103.    Marco Jost, Georg Zocher, Sylwia Tarcz, Marco Matuschek, Xiulan Xie, Shu-Ming Li and Thilo Stehle (2010) Structure-function analysis of an enzymatic prenyl transfer reaction identifies a reaction chamber with modifiable specificity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132: 17849-17858, DOI: 10.1021/ja106817c.
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102.    Christiane Wallwey, Marco Matuschek, Xiu-Lan Xie and Shu-Ming Li (2010) Ergot alkaloid biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus: Conversion of chanoclavine-I aldehyde to festuclavine by the festuclavine synthase FgaFS in the presence of the old yellow enzyme FgaOx3. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 8: 3500-3508, DOI: 10.1039/C003823G.
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101.    Hui-Xi Zou, Xiu-Lan Xie, Uwe Linne, Xiao-Dong Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2010) Simultaneous C7- and N1-prenylation of cyclo-L-Trp-L-Trp catalyzed by a prenyltransferase from Aspergillus oryzae. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 8: 3037-3044, DOI: 10.1039/C002850A.
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100.    Wen-Bing Yin, Xia Yu, Xiu-Lan Xie, and Shu-Ming Li (2010) Preparation of pyrrolo[2,3-b]indoles carrying a ß-configured reverse C3 dimethylallyl moiety by using a recombinant prenyltransferase CdpC3PT. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 8, 2430-2438, DOI: 10.1039/C000587H.
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99.    Anika Kremer and Shu-Ming Li (2010). A tyrosine O-prenyltransferase catalyses the first pathway-specific step in the biosynthesis of sirodesmin PL. Microbiology, 156: 278-286, DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.033886-0
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98.    Christiane Wallwey, Marco Matuschek and Shu-Ming Li (2010) Ergot alkaloid biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus: Conversion of chanoclavine-I to chanoclavine-I aldehyde catalyzed by a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenaseFgaDH. Archives of Microbiology, 192: 127-134, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-009-0536-1.
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97.    Wen-Bing Yin, Xiu-Lan Xie, Marco Matuschek and Shu-Ming Li  (2010). Reconstruction of pyrrolo[2,3-b]indoles carrying an alpha-configured reverse C3-dimethylallyl moiety by using recombinant enzymes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 8: 1133-1141, DOI: 10.1039/B922440H.
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96.    Shu-Ming Li (2010) Prenylated indole derivatives from fungi: structure diversity, biological activities, biosynthesis and chemoenzymatic synthesis. Natural Product Reports, 27: 57-78 (Review article), DOI: 10.1039/B909987P.
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2009

95.    Han-Li Ruan, Edyta Stec and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Production of diprenylated indole derivatives by tandem incubation of two recombinant dimethylallyltryptophan synthases. Archives of Microbiology, 191:791-795, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-009-0504-9.
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94.    Chuan-Ling Si, Jin-Kyu Kim, Young-Soo Bae and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Phenolic compounds in the leaves of Populus ussuriensis and their anti-oxidantactivities. Planta Medica, 75: 1165-1167, DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1185476.
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93.    Nicola Steffan, Alexander Grundmann, Shamil Afiyatullov, Hanli Ruan and Shu-Ming Li (2009). FtmOx1, a non heme Fe(II) and alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase, catalyses the endoperoxide formation of verruculogen in Aspergillus fumigatus. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 7: 4082 – 4087, DOI: 10.1039/B908392H.
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92.    Xiaoqing Liu, Lu Wang, Nicola Steffan, Wen-Bing Yin and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Ergot alkaloid biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus: FgaAT catalyses theacetylation of fumigaclavine B. ChemBioChem, 10: 2325-2328, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900395.
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91.    Ute Metzger, Christoph Schall, Georg Zocher, Inge Unsöld, Edyta Stec, Shu-Ming Li, Lutz Heide, Thilo Stehle (2009). The structure of dimethylallyl tryptophan synthase reveals a common architecture of aromatic prenyltransferases in fungi and bacteria. Proceedings of the National Acaddemy of Sciences USA, 106: 14309-14314, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904897106.
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90.    Lu Wang, Wen-Bing Yin, Shu-Ming Li and Xiao-Qing Liu (2009) Chemoenzymatic synthesis of prenylated indole alkaloids. Chinese Journal of Biochemistryand Molecular Biology, 25: 580-584.
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89.    Wen-Bing Yin, Jun Cheng and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Stereospecific synthesis of aszonalenins by using two recombinant prenyltransferases. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 7: 2202-2207, DOI: 10.1039/B902413A.
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88.    Nicola Steffan and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Increasing structure diversity of prenylated diketopiperazine derivatives by using a 4-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase. Archives of Microbiology, 191: 461-466, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-009-0467-x.
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87.    Shubha Maiya, Alexander Grundmann, Shu-Ming Li and Geoffrey Turner (2009). Improved tryprostatin B production by heterologous gene expression in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 46: 436-440, DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2009.01.003.
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86.    Huixi Zou, Xiaodong Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Substrate promiscuity of the cyclic dipeptide prenyltransferases from Aspergillus fumigatus. Journal of Natural Products, 72: 44-52, DOI: 10.1021/np800501m.
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85.    Wen-Bing Yin, Alexander Grundmann, Jun Cheng and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Acetylaszonalenin biosynthesis in Neosartorya fischeri. Identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster by genomic mining and functional proof of the genes by biochemical investigation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284, 100-109, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M807606200.
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84.    Shu-Ming Li (2009). Evolution of aromatic prenyltransferases in the biosynthesis of indole derivatives. Phytochemistry, 70: 1746-1757 (Review article), DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.03.019.
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83.    Nicola Steffan and Shu-Ming Li (2009) Gewinnung biologisch aktiver Substanzen aus Mikroorganismen durch Genomforschung. Apotheken Magazin, 27(9): 8-13 (Review article).
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82.    Shu-Ming Li (2009). Applications of dimethylallyltryptophan synthases and other indole prenyltransferases for structural modification of natural products. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 84: 631-639 (Review article), DOI:10.1007/s00253-009-2128-z.
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81.    Nicola Steffan, Alexander Grundmann, Wenbing Yin, Anika Kremer and Shu-Ming Li (2009). Indole prenyltransferases from Aspergillus, a new enzyme group with high potential for the production of prenylated indole derivatives. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 16: 218-231 (Review article), DOI : 10.2174/092986709787002772.
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2008

80.    Ole Rigbers and Shu-Ming Li (2008) Ergot alkaloid biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus: overproduction and biochemical characterisation of a 4-dimethylallyltryptophan N-methyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283: 26859-26868, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M804979200 (PHOENIX Pharmaceutics Science Award 2009).
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79.    Alexander Grundmann, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Shamil Sh. Afiyatullov and Shu-Ming Li (2008) FtmPT2, an N-prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus, catalyses the last step in the biosynthesis of fumitremorgin B. ChemBioChem, 9: 2059-2063, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800240.
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78.    Edyta Stec, Nicola Steffan, Anika Kremer, Huixi Zou, Xiaodong Zheng and Shu-Ming Li (2008) Two lysine residues are responsible for the enzymatic activities of indole prenyltransferases from fungi. ChemBioChem, 9: 2055-2058, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800237.
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77.    Anika Kremer and Shu-Ming Li (2008). Tryptophan aminopeptidase activity of the indole prenyltransferases from Aspergillus fumigatus. Chemistry and Biology, 15: 729-738, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.05.019.
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76.    Anika Kremer and Shu-Ming Li (2008). Potential of a 7-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase as a tool for production of prenylated indole derivatives. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 79: 951-961, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1505-3.
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75.    Anne Markert, Nicola Steffan, Kerstin Ploss, Sabine Hellwig, Ulrike Steiner, Christel Drewke, Shu-Ming Li, Wilhelm Boland, and Eckhard Leistner (2008). Biosynthesis and accumulation of ergoline alkaloids in a mutualistic association between Ipomoea asarifolia (Convolvulaceae) and a Clavicipitalean fungus. Plant Physiology, 147: 296-305, DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.116699.
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74.    Han-Li Ruan, Wen-Bing Yin, Ji-Zhou Wu and Shu-Ming Li (2008). Reinvestigation on a cyclic dipeptide N-prenyltransferase reveals rearrangement of N1-prenylated indole derivatives. ChemBioChem, 9: 1044-1047, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700723.
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73.    L. Heide, B. Gust, C. Anderle and S.-M. Li (2008). Combinatorial biosynthesis, metabolic engineering and mutasynthesis for the generation of new aminocoumarin antibiotics. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 8: 667-679 (Review article), DOI: 10.2174/156802608784221505.
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2007

72.    Christine Anderle, Shu-Ming Li, Bernd Kammerer, Bertolt Gust and Lutz Heide (2007). New aminocoumarin antibiotics derived from 4-hydroxycinnamic acid are formed after heterologous expression of a modified clorobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster. Journal of Antibiotics, 60: 504 - 10, DOI: 10.1038/ja.2007.64.
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71.    Christine Anderle, Susanne Hennig, Bernd Kammerer, Shu-Ming Li, Ludger Wessjohann, Bertolt Gust and Lutz Heide (2007). Improved mutasynthetic approaches for the production of modified aminocoumarin antibiotics. Chemistry and Biology, 14: 955-967, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.07.014.
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70.    Shubha Maiya, Alexander Grundmann, Xiang Li, Shu-Ming Li and Geoffrey Turner (2007). Identification of a hybrid PKS/NRPS required for pseurotin A biosynthesis in the human pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. ChemBioChem, 8: 1736-1743, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700202.
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69.    Anika Kremer, Lucia Westrich and Shu-Ming Li (2007). A 7-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus. Overproduction, purification and biochemical characterization. Microbiology, 153: 3409-3416, DOI:10.1099/mic.0.2007/009019-0.
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68.    Nicola Steffan, Inge A. Unsöld and Shu-Ming Li (2007). Chemoenzymatic synthesis of indole derivatives using a dimethylallyltryptophan synthases from Aspergillus fumigatus. ChemBioChem, 8: 1298-1307, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700107.
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67.    Wen-Bing Yin, Han-Li Ruan, Lucia Westrich, Alexander Grundmann and Shu-Ming Li (2007). CdpNPT, an N-prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus: Overproduction, purification and biochemical characterization. ChemBioChem, 8: 1154-1161, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700079.
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2006

66.    Anja Freitag , Carmen Méndez, José A. Salas, Bernd Kammerer, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2006). Metabolic engineering of the heterologous production of clorobiocin derivatives and elloramycin in Streptomyces coelicolor M512. Metabolic Engineering, 8:653-661, DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2006.07.003.
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65.    Anja Freitag, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2006). Biosynthesis of the unusual 5,5-gem-dimethyl-deoxysugar noviose: investigation of the C-methyltransferase gene cloU. Microbiology, 152:2433-2442, DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28931-0.
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64.    Shubha Maiya, Alexander Grundmann, Shu-Ming Li and Geoffrey Turner (2006). The fumitremorgin gene cluster of Aspergillus fumigatus: Identification of a gene encoding brevianamide F synthetase. ChemBioChem, 7: 1062-1069, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600003.
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63.    Ruth H. Flatman, Alessandra Eustaquio, Shu-Ming Li, Lutz Heide and Anthony Maxwell (2006). Structure-activity relationships of aminocoumarin-type gyrase and topoisomerase IV inhibitors obtained by combinatorial biosynthesis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 50:1136-1142, DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.4.1136-1142.2006.
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62.    Inge A. Unsöld and Shu-Ming Li (2006). Reverse prenyltransferase in the biosynthesis of fumigaclavine C in Aspergillus fumigatus. gene expression, purification and characterization of fumigaclavine C synthase FgaPT1. ChemBioChem, 7:158-164, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500318.
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61.    Shu-Ming Li and Inge A. Unsöld (2006). Post genome research in the biosynthesis of ergot alkaloids. Planta Medica, 72:1117-1120 (Review article), DOI:10.1055/s-2006-947195.
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60.    Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2006). The biosynthetic gene clusters of aminocoumarin antibiotics. Planta Medica, 72:1093-1099 (Review article), DOI:10.1055/s-2006-946699.
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2005

59.    Anja Freitag, Emmanuel Wemakor, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2005) Acyl transfer in clorobiocin biosynthesis: Involvement of several proteins in the transfer of the pyrrole-2-carboxyl moiety to the deoxysugar. ChemBioChem, 6: 2316-2325, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500252
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58.    Alexander Grundmann and Shu-Ming Li (2005). Overproduction, purification and characterization of FtmPT1, a brevianamide F prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus. Microbiology, 151: 2199-2207, DOI:10.1099/mic.0.27962-0.
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57.    Anja Freitag, Heike Rapp, Lutz Heide and Shu-Ming Li (2005). Metabolic engineering of aminocoumarins: Inactivation of the methyltransferase gene cloP and generation of new clorobiocin derivatives in a heterologous host. ChemBioChem, 6: 1411-1418, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500019.
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56.    Inge A. Unsöld und Shu-Ming Li (2005). Overproduction, purification and characterization of FgaPT2, a dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus. Microbiology, 151: 1499-1505, DOI:10.1099/mic.0.27759-0
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55.    Thomas Luft, Shu-Ming Li, Holger Scheible, Bernd Kammerer, Lutz Heide (2005). Overexpression, purification and characterization of SimL, an amide synthetase involved in simocyclinone biosynthesis. Archives of Microbiology, 183:277-285, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0770-0.
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54.    Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2005). NovG, a DNA-binding protein acting as a positive regulator of novobiocin biosynthesis. Microbiology, 151:1949-1961, DOI:
10.1099/mic.0.27669-0.
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53.    Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Bertolt Gust, Ute Galm, Shu-Ming Li, Keith F. Chater and Lutz Heide (2005). Heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 2452-2459.
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52.    Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2005). New aminocoumarin antibiotics from genetically engineered Streptomyces strains. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 12 (3): 763-771 (review article).
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2004

51.    Hui Xu, Lutz Heide and Shu-Ming Li (2004). New aminocoumarin antibiotics formed by a combined mutational and chemoenzymatic approach, utilizing the carbamoyltransferase NovN. Chemistry and Biology, 11: 655-662, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2004.02.028.
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50.    Elisabeth Schmutz, Susanne Hennig, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2004). Identification of a topoisomerase IV in actinobacteria: Purification and characterization of ParYR and GyrBR from the coumermycin A1 producer Streptomyces rishiriensis DSM 40489. Microbiology, 150: 641-647, DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26867-0.
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49.    Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Bertolt Gust, Shu-Ming Li, Stefan Pelzer, Wolfgang Wohlleben, Keith F. Chater, and Lutz Heide (2004). Production of 8´-halogenated and 8´-unsubstituted novobiocin derivatives in genetically engineered Streptomyces coelicolor strains. Chemistry and Biology, 11: 1561-1572, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2004.09.009.
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48.    Bernd Kammerer, Rainer Kahlich, Stefan Laufer, Shu-Ming Li, Lutz Heide and Christoph H. Gleiter (2004). Mass spectrometric pathway monitoring of secondary metabolites: Systematic analysis of culture extracts of Streptomyces species. Analytical Biochemistry, 335: 17-29, DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.08.018.
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47.    Ute Galm, Stefanie Heller, Stuart Shapiro, Malcolm Page, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2004). Antimicrobial and DNA gyrase-inhibitory activities of novel clorobiocin derivatives produced by mutasynthesis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 48: 1307-1312, DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1307-1312.2004.
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46.    Anja Freitag, Ute Galm, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2004). New aminocoumarin antibiotics from a cloQ-defective mutant of the clorobiocin producer Streptomyces roseochromogenes DS12.976. Journal of Antibiotics, 57: 205-209, DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.57.205.
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45.    Karin Räth, Katja Taxis, Gitta Walz, Christoph H. Gleiter, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2004). Pharmacokinetic study of artemisinin after oral intake of a traditional preparation of Artemisia annua L. (Annual Wormwood). American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 70: 128-132, DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.128.
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44.    Shu-Ming Li (2004). Abenteuer Genomsequenz und Naturstoffforschung. Pharmazeutische Zeitung, 149 (43): 3760-3766 (review article).
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43.    Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2004). Functional analysis of biosynthetic genes of aminocoumarins and production of hybrid antibiotics. Current Medicinal Chemistry Anti-infective Agents, 3 (4): 279-295 (review article), DOI: 10.2174/1568012043353801.
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42.    Shu-Ming Li (2004). Molekulares Farming: Produktion rekombinanter Proteine in Pflanzen. Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung, 144 (26): 2969-2973 (review article).
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2003

41.    Elisabeth Schmutz, Marion Steffensky, Jürgen Schmidt, Andera Porzel, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2003). An unusual amide synthetase (CouL) from the coumermycin A1 biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces rishiriensis DSM 40489. European Journal of Biochemistry, 270: 4413-4419, DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03830.x.
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40.    Lucia Westrich, Lutz Heide and Shu-Ming Li (2003). CloN6, a novel methyltransferase catalysing the methylation of the pyrrole-2-carboxyl moiety of clorobiocin. ChemBioChem, 4: 268-773, DOI:10.1002/cbic.200300609.
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39.    Hui Xu, Rainer Kahlich, Bernd Kammerer, Lutz Heide and Shu-Ming Li (2003). CloN2, a novel acyltransferase involved in the attachment of the pyrrole-2-carboxyl moiety to the deoxysugar of clorobiocin. Microbiology, 149: 2183-2191, DOI 10.1099/mic.0.26314-0.
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38.    Florence Pojer, Rainer Kahlich, Bernd Kammerer, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2003). CloR, a bifunctional non-heme iron oxygenase involved in clorobiocin biosynthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278: 30661-30668, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M303190200.
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37.    Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Thomas Luft, Zhao-Xin Wang, Bertolt Gust, Keith F. Chater, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2003). Novobiocin biosynthesis: Inactivation of the putative regulatory gene novE and heterologous expression of genes involved in aminocoumarin ring formation. Archives of Microbiology, 180: 25-32, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-003-0555-2.
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36.    Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Bertolt Gust, Thomas Luft, Shu-Ming Li, Keith F. Chater, and Lutz Heide (2003). Clorobiocin biosynthesis in Streptomyces. Identification of the halogenase and generation of structural analogs. Chemistry and Biology, 10: 279-288, DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(03)00051-6.
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35.    Florence Pojer, Emmanuel Wemakor, Bernd Kammerer, Huawei Chen, Christopher T. Walsh, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2003). CloQ, a novel prenyltransferase involved in clorobiocin biosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100: 2316-2321, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0337708100 (PHOENIX Pharmaceutics Science Award 2004).
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34.    Elisabeth Schmutz, Agnes Mühlenweg, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2003). Resistance genes of aminocoumarin producers: Two type II topoisomerase genes confer resistance against coumermycin A1 and clorobiocin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 47: 869-877, DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.869-877.2003.
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33.    Annegret Köhle, Susanne Sommer, Shu-Ming Li, Lieselotte Schilde-Rentschler, Helga Ninnemann and Lutz Heide (2003). Secondary metabolites in transgenic tobacco and potato: High accumulation of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid glucosides results from high expression of the bacterial gene ubiC. Molecular Breeding, 11: 15-24, DOI: 10.1023/A:1022211521390.
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2002

32.    Florence Pojer, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2002). Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the clorobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster: New insights into the biosynthesis of aminocoumarin antibiotics. Microbiology, 148: 3901-3911, DOI:10.1099/00221287-148-12-3901.
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31.    H. Xu, Z.-X.Wang, J. Schmidt, L. Heide and S.-M. Li (2002). Genetic analysis of the biosynthesis of the pyrrole and carbamoyl moieties of coumermycin A1 and novobiocin. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 268: 387-396, DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0759-1.
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30.    Shu-Ming Li, Lucia Westrich, Jürgen Schmidt, Christine Kuhnt and Lutz Heide (2002). Methyltransferase genes in Streptomyces rishiriensis: New coumermycin derivatives from gene-inactivation experiments. Microbiology, 148: 3317-3326, DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-10-3317.
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29.    Annegret Köhle, Susanne Sommer, Kazufumi Yazaki, Albert Ferrer, Albert Boronat, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2002). High level expression of chorismate pyruvate-lyase (UbiC) and HMG-CoA reductase in hairy root cultures of Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Plant and Cell Physiology, 43: 894-902, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf106.
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28.    Ute Galm, Judith Schimana, Hans-Peter Fiedler, Jürgen Schmidt, Shu-Ming Li, and Lutz Heide (2002). Cloning and analysis of the simocyclinone biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces antibioticus Tü 6040. Archives of Microbiology, 178: 102-114, DOI: 10.1007/s00203-002-0429-z.
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27.    Lutz Heide and Shu-Ming Li (2002). Aminocoumarin antibiotics. Microbial Secondary Metabolites: Biosynthesis, Genetics and Regulation (Eds: J.F. Martin and F. Fierro), pp 63-83 (book article).

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2001

26.    Shu-Ming Li, Emmanuel Wemakor and Lutz Heide (2001). PCR amplification of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (dxs) genes from different Streptomyces species: Evidence for the existence of two dxs gene families. Molecular Biology Today, 2: 61-66.

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2000

25.    Robert Boehm, Susanne Sommer, Klaus Severin, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2000). Active expression of the ubiA gene from E. coli in tobacco: Influence of plant ER-specific signal peptides on the expression of a membrane-bound prenyltransferase in plant cells. Transgenic Research, 9: 477-486, DOI: 10.1023/A:1026507803067.
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24.    Zhao-Xin Wang, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2000). Identification of the coumermycin A1 biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces rishiriensis DSM 40489. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 44: 3040-3048, DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.11.3040-3048.2000.
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23.    Robert Boehm, Susanne Sommer, Shu-Ming Li, Lutz Heide (2000). Genetic engineering on shikonin biosynthesis: Expression of the bacterial ubiA gene in Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Plant and Cell Physiology, 41: 911-919, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcd013.
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22.    Marion Steffensky, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2000). Cloning, overexpression, and purification of novobiocic acid synthetase from Streptomyces spheroides NCIMB 11891. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275: 21754-21760, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M003066200.
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21.    Marion Steffensky, Agnes Mühlenweg, Zhao-Xin Wang, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2000). Identification of the novobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces spheroides NCIB 11891. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 44: 1214-1222, DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.5.1214-1222.2000.
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20.    Hirobumi Yamamoto, Kenichiro Inoue, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (2000). Geranylhydroquinone 3”-hydroxylase, a cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase from Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell suspension cultures. Planta, 210: 312-317, DOI: 10.1007/PL00008139.
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1998

19.    Shu-Ming Li, Andreas Bechthold and Lutz Heide (1998). Putative retrotransposon polyprotein. Plant Molecular Biology, 38: 505.

18.    Agnes Mühlenweg, Martin Melzer, Shu-Ming Li and Lutz Heide (1998). 4-Hydroxybenzoate 3-geranyltransferase from Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Purification of a plant membrane-bound prenyltransferase. Planta, 205: 407-413, DOI: 10.1007/s004250050337.
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17.    Shu-Ming Li, Susanne Hennig and Lutz Heide (1998) Shikonin: A geranyl diphosphate-derived plant hemiterpenoid formed via the mevalonate pathway. Tetrahedron Letters, 39: 2121-2124.
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16.    Shu-Ming Li, Susanne Hennig and Lutz Heide (1998) Biosynthesis of the dimethylallyl moiety of novobiocin via a non-mevalonate pathway. Tetrahedron Letters, 39: 2717-2720, DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)00386-4
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15.    Marion Steffensky, Shu-Ming Li, Bernhard Vogler and Lutz Heide (1998). Novobiocin biosynthesis in Streptomyces spheroides. Identification of a dimethylallyl diphosphate: 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dimethylallyl transferase. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 161: 69-74, DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb12930.x
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1997

14.    Zhao-Xin Wang, Shu-Ming Li, Ralf Löscher and Lutz Heide (1997). 4-Coumaroyl coenzyme A 3-hydroxylase activity from cell cultures of Lithospermum erythrorhizon and its relationship to polyphenol oxidase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 347: 249-255, DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0337
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13.    Shu-Ming Li, Zhao-Xin Wang and Lutz Heide (1997). Purification of UDP-glucose: 4-hydroxybenzoate glucosyltransferase from cell cultures of Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Phytochemistry, 46: 27-32, DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(97)00212-4
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12.    Shu-Ming Li, Zhao-Xin Wang, Emmanuel Wemakor and Lutz Heide (1997). Metabolization of the artificial secondary metabolite 4-hydroxybenzoate in ubiC-transformed tobacco. Plant and Cell Physiology, 38: 844-850, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029243
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11.    Robert Boehm, Shu-Ming Li, Martin Melzer and Lutz Heide (1997). 4-Hydroxybenzoate prenyltransferases in cell-free extracts of Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell cultures. Phytochemistry, 44: 419-424, DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(96)00458-X
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1996

10.    Marion Siebert, Susanne Sommer, Shu-Ming Li, Zhao-Xin Wang, Klaus Severin and Lutz Heide (1996). Genetic engineering of plant secondary metabolism: Accumulation of 4-hydroxybenzoate glucosides as a result of the expression of the bacterial ubiC gene in tobacco. Plant Physiology, 112: 811-819 (PHOENIX Pharmaceutics Science Award 1997).
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9.    Shu-Ming Li, Zhao-Xin Wang and Lutz Heide (1996). Purification and characterization of an alcohol dehydrogenase from Lithosperrmum erythrohrizon cell cultures. Plant Cell Reports, 15: 786-790.
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1991

8.    S.-M. Li and K-W. Glombitza (1991). Phlorotannins from the brown alga Landsburgia quercifolia (Hook. fil. et Harv.) Harv. Botanica Marina, 34: 455-457, DOI: 10.1515/botm.1991.34.5.455.
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7.    Karl-Werner Glombitza and Shu-Ming Li (1991). Fucophlorethols from the brown alga Carpophyllum maschalocarpum. Phytochemistry, 30: 3423-3427, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(91)83221-6.
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6.    Shu-Ming Li and Karl-Werner Glombitza (1991). Carmalols and phlorethofuhalols from the brown alga Carpophyllum maschalocarpum. Phytochemistry, 30: 3417-3421, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(91)83220-F.
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5.    Karl-Werner Glombitza and Shu-Ming Li (1991). Hydroxyphlorethols from the brown alga Carpophyllum maschalocarpum. Phytochemistry, 30: 2741-2745, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(91)85135-M.
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1987

4.    Chang-Ling Li, Jian Ma, Yin-Ye Wang, Gui-Qiu Han and Shu-Ming Li (1987). Preliminary investigation of activity of the ethanolic extract from Piper hancei against platelet-activating factor. Physiological Sciences, 7: 316-317.

3.    Shu-Ming Li and Gui-Qiu Han (1987). Studies on the chemical constituents of Piper hancei Maxim (III). Acta Botanica Sinica, 29: 293-296.
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2.    Shu-Ming Li, Gui-Qiu Han, B.H. Arison and M.N. Chang (1987). Studies on chemical constituents of Piper hancei Maxim (II). Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica, 22: 196-202.
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1986

1.    Gui-Qiu Han, Shu-Ming Li, Chang-Ling Li, J.P. Springer, S.B. Hwang and M.N. Chang (1986). Neolignans from Piper hancei Maxim. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica, 21: 361-365.
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