2019
Structure elucidation of colibactin and its DNA cross-links
Xue M, Kim CS, Healy AR, Wernke KM, Wang Z, Frischling MC, Shine EE, Wang W, Herzon SB, Crawford JM. Structure elucidation of colibactin and its DNA cross-links. Science 2019, 365 PMID: 31395743, PMCID: PMC6820679, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2685.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsColibactin-producing bacteriaCell biology dataColibactin gene clusterCombination of geneticsComplex secondary metabolitesGene clusterIsotope labelingSecondary metabolitesBiology dataColibactinHuman gutTandem mass spectrometryBacteriaPhysiological effectsMass spectrometryStructure elucidationGutGeneticsDNAEnzymeChemical synthesisEscherichiaElucidationMetabolitesLabelingCharacterization of a Hybrid Nonribosomal Peptide–Carbohydrate Biosynthetic Pathway in Photorhabdus luminescens
Perez CE, Crawford JM. Characterization of a Hybrid Nonribosomal Peptide–Carbohydrate Biosynthetic Pathway in Photorhabdus luminescens. Biochemistry 2019, 58: 1131-1140. PMID: 30694662, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHypothetical proteinsBiosynthetic pathwayNRPS machineryHybrid nonribosomal peptide synthetaseBacterial biosynthetic pathwaysStable isotope labelingNonribosomal peptide synthetaseProtein mass spectrometryEntomopathogen PhotorhabdusFascinating chemistryOrphan pathwaysCharacterization of oligosaccharidesAcetyl-glucosamine moietyProduction of metabolitesGenomic islandsGlycoamino acidsNovel chemistryGene clusterHeterologous expressionProtein biochemistryPeptide synthetaseBiological functionsGenome sequencingMass spectrometryIsotope labeling
2018
Luciferin production and luciferase transcription in the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens
Tessler M, Gaffney JP, Crawford JM, Trautman E, Gujarati NA, Alatalo P, Pieribone VA, Gruber DF. Luciferin production and luciferase transcription in the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens. PeerJ 2018, 6: e5506. PMID: 30233994, PMCID: PMC6140675, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5506.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOceanic food websParalog genesFood websUncharacterized speciesLuciferase transcriptionMolecular basisCommon speciesCopepod speciesMarine zooplanktonBright bioluminescenceLuciferase sequencesSpeciesCopepodsCopepod MetridiaCritical roleLight productionSouthern latitudesBioluminescenceMetridiaMass spectrometryL-phenylalanineTranscriptionL-tyrosineGenesZooplankton
2016
Secondary Metabolic Pathway-Targeted Metabolomics
Vizcaino MI, Crawford JM. Secondary Metabolic Pathway-Targeted Metabolomics. Methods In Molecular Biology 2016, 1401: 175-195. PMID: 26831709, PMCID: PMC5049693, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3375-4_12.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHigh-resolution mass spectrometryNovel natural product discoveryIsotopic labelingNatural product discovery effortsMicrobial natural product biosynthesisOrphan biosynthetic pathwaysComplex organic mixturesGlobal Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) platformNatural product discoveryMS/MS acquisitionNatural product biosynthesisAnalytes of interestMS data acquisitionMS/MS data acquisitionNatural product extractionOrganic mixturesMolecular networkingNatural productsChemometric platformProduct discoveryMass spectrometryProduct biosynthesisMS acquisitionLiquid chromatographyMethod development