Publications from the lab. 2020s Cultivating the future leaders of chemical biology. Anna Rulka, Elizabeth Adams, Akane Kawamura, Stephen Wallace*, RSC Chem. Biol. 2024, Advance Article Redesigning microbial enzymes for sustainable chemical synthesis. J. F. C. Steele, S. Wallace*, Chem. Catal. 2024, 4, 8, 101087- Deciding the Future of Adipic Acid. J. F. C. Steele, S. Wallace*, Nat. Chem. 2024, 16, 838 Microbial Upcycling of Waste PET to Adipic Acid. M. Valenzuela-Ortega, J. T. Suitor, M. F. M. White, T. Hinchcliffe, S. Wallace*, ACS Cent. Sci. 2023, 9, 11, 2057–2063 Biocompatible a-Methylenation of Metabolic Butyraldehyde in Living Bacteria. J. A. Dennis, N. W. Johnson, T. W. Thorpe, S. Wallace*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 135, 38, e202306347 Overproduction of Native and Click-able Colanic Acid Slime from Engineered Escherichia coli. J. C. Sadler, R. C. Brewster, A. Kjeldsen, A. F. González, J. S. Nirkko, S. Varzandeh, S. Wallace*, JACS Au 2023, 3, 2, 378–383 Engineering Biology for Sustainable 1,4-Butanediol Synthesis. C. L. Trotter, G. S. Babu, S. Wallace*, Trends Biotechnol. 2023 A New PETase from the Human Saliva Metagenome and Its Functional Modification via Genetic Code Expansion in Bacteria. M. F. M. White, S. Wallace*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, 12, e202216963 Bread Waste - A Potential Feedstock for Sustainable Circular Biorefineries. V. Kumar*, P. Brancoli, V. Narisetty, S. Wallace, D. Charalampopoulos, B. K. Dubey, G. Kumar, A. Bhatnagar, S. K. Bhatia, M. J. Taherzadeh, Bioresour. Technol. 2022, DOI: org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128449 Palladium Nanoparticles from Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 Catalyze Biocompatible Sonogashira and Biohydrogenation Cascades. Y. Era, J. A. Dennis, L. E. Horsfall*, S. Wallace*, JACS Au 2022, 2, 11, 2446–2452 Tyramine Derivatives Catalyze the Aldol Dimerization of Butyraldehyde in the Presence of Escherichia coli. J. A. Dennis, J. C. Sadler, S. Wallace*, ChemBioChem. 2022, e202200238 Micellar Catalysis of the Suzuki Miyaura Reaction using Biogenic Pd Nanoparticles from Desulfovibrio alaskensis. Y. Era, J. A. Dennis, L. E. Horsfall*, S. Wallace*, Green Chem. 2021, 23, 8886–8890 Microbial Synthesis of Vanillin from Waste poly(ethylene terephthalate). J. C. Sadler, S. Wallace*, Green Chem. 2021, 23, 4665–4672 Interfacing Non-Enzymatic Catalysis with Living Microorganisms. J. C. Sadler, J. A. Dennis, N. W. Johnson, S. Wallace*, RSC Chem. Biol. 2021, 2, 1073–1083 Optimizing the Biosynthesis of Oxygenated and Acylated Taxol Precursors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using Advanced Bioprocessing Strategies. L. E. Walls, K. Malci, B. Nowrouzi, R. A. Li, L. d'Espaux, J. Wong, J. A. Dennis, A. J. C. Semiao, S. Wallace, J. L. Martinez, J. D. Keasling, L. Rios-Solis, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2020, 118, 279–293 One-Pot Synthesis of Adipic Acid from Guaiacol in Escherichia coli. J. T. Suitor, S. Varzandeh, S. Wallace*, ACS Synth. Biol. 2020, 9, 2472–2476 2010s Transition Metal-Free Reduction of Activated Alkenes Using a Living Microorganism. R. C. Brewster, J. T. Suitor, A. W. Bennett, S. Wallace*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12409–12414Synthetic Methodologies in Chemical Biology. In book: Biomolecular and Bioanalytical Techniques: Theory, Methodology and Applications. R. C. Brewster, S. Wallace*. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Editor: V. Ramesh, 2019, ISBN: 9781119483977Computationally Guided Discovery of a Reactive, Hydrophilic trans-5-Oxocene Dienophile for Bioorthogonal Labeling. W. D Lambert, S. L. Scinto, O. Dmittrenko, S. J. Boyd, R. A. Mehl, J. W. Chin*, J. M. Fox*, S. Wallace*, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2017, 15, 6640–6644 Protein Modification via Alkyne Hydrosilylation Using a Substoichiometric Amount of Ruthenium(II) Catalyst. T. T. L. Kwan, O. Boutureira, E. C. Frye, S. J. Walsh, M. K. Gupta, S. Wallace, Y. Wu, F. Zhang, H. F. Sore, W. R. J. D. Galloway, J. W. Chin, M. Welch, G. J. L. Bernardes, D. R. Spring, Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 3871–3878 Interfacing Biocompatible Reactions with Engineered Escherichia coli. S. Wallace, E. P. Balskus, Methods Mol. Biol. 2017, 1586, 409–421Designer Micelles Accelerate Flux Through Engineered Metabolism and Support Biocompatible Chemistry. S. Wallace, E. P. Balskus, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6023–6027 Interfacing Microbial Styrene Production with a Biocompatible Cyclopropanation Reaction. S. Wallace, E. P. Balskus, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7106–7109Using Non-Enzymatic Chemistry to Influence Microbial Metabolism. S. Wallace, E. E. Shultz, E. P. Balskus, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2015, 25, 71–79 Opportunities for Merging Chemical and Biological Synthesis. S. Wallace, E. P. Balskus, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 2014, 30, 1–8 Strain-Promoted Sydnone Bicyclo-[6.1.0]-nonyne Cycloaddition. S. Wallace, J. W. Chin, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 1742–1744Conformationally Strained trans-Cyclooctene with Improved Stability and Excellent Reactivity in Tetrazine Ligation. A. Darko, S. Wallace, O. Dmitrenko, M. M. Machovina, R. A. Mehl, J. W. Chin, J. M. Fox, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 3770–3776Optimized Orthogonal Translation of Unnatural Amino Acids Enables Spontaneous Protein Double-Labeling and FRET. K. Wang, A. Sachdeva, D. J. Cox, N. W. Wilf, S. Wallace, R. A. Mehl, J. W. Chin, Nat. Chem. 2014, 6, 393–403 A Cascade Strategy Enables a Total Synthesis of (–)-Gephyrotoxin. S. Chu, S. Wallace, M. D. Smith, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13826–13829 Genetic Encoding of Bicyclononynes and trans-Cyclooctenes for Site-Specific Protein Labeling in vitro and in Live Mammalian Cells. K. Lang, L. Davis, S. Wallace, M. Mahesh, D. J. Cox, M. L. Blackman, J. M. Fox, J. W. Chin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10317–10320Rapid Synthesis and Zebrafish Evaluation of a Phenanthridine-Based Small Molecule Library. L. R. Donaldson, S. Wallace, D. Haigh, E. E. Paton, A. N. Hulme, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 2233–2239 This article was published on 2025-05-19
