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List of works by Tobias J. Erb

'Negative' and 'positive catalysis': complementary principles that shape the catalytic landscape of enzymes

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

(2S)-Methylsuccinyl-CoA dehydrogenase closes the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway for acetyl-CoA assimilation

scientific article published on 23 August 2009

1-methylthio-D-xylulose 5-phosphate methylsulfurylase: a novel route to 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate in Rhodospirillum rubrum

scientific article published on 8 October 2012

A Chemo-Enzymatic Road Map to the Synthesis of CoA Esters.

scientific article

A Family of Single Copy repABC-Type Shuttle Vectors Stably Maintained in the Alpha-Proteobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti.

scientific article

A RubisCO-like protein links SAM metabolism with isoprenoid biosynthesis

scientific article

A bifunctional salvage pathway for two distinct S-adenosylmethionine by-products that is widespread in bacteria, including pathogenic Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

A common approach for absolute quantification of short chain CoA thioesters in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

A conserved threonine prevents self-intoxication of enoyl-thioester reductases.

scientific article

A critical comparison of cellular and cell-free bioproduction systems

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

A methylaspartate cycle in haloarchaea

scientific article

A set of versatile brick vectors and promoters for the assembly, expression, and integration of synthetic operons in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 and other alphaproteobacteria.

scientific article

A short history of RubisCO: the rise and fall (?) of Nature's predominant CO2 fixing enzyme.

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

A synthetic C4 shuttle via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle in C3 plants

scholarly article

A synthetic pathway for the fixation of carbon dioxide in vitro

scientific article published on November 2016

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea use the most energy-efficient aerobic pathway for CO2 fixation

scientific article

An engineered Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle for carbon dioxide fixation in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

An improved medium for the anaerobic growth of Paracoccus denitrificans Pd1222.

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Archaeal acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase/HMG-CoA synthase complex channels the intermediate via a fused CoA-binding site.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Awakening the Sleeping Carboxylase Function of Enzymes: Engineering the Natural CO2-Binding Potential of Reductases

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Back to the future: Why we need enzymology to build a synthetic metabolism of the future

Biochemical and synthetic biology approaches to improve photosynthetic CO2-fixation

scientific article

Biochemical unity revisited: microbial central carbon metabolism holds new discoveries, multi-tasking pathways, and redundancies with a reason

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Biosynthesis of the Stress-Protectant and Chemical Chaperon Ectoine: Biochemistry of the Transaminase EctB

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Carboxylases in natural and synthetic microbial pathways

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Carboxylation mechanism and stereochemistry of crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase, a carboxylating enoyl-thioester reductase

scientific article

Change in Cofactor Specificity of Oxidoreductases by Adaptive Evolution of an Escherichia coli NADPH-Auxotrophic Strain

scientific article published in 2021

Combining Promiscuous Acyl-CoA Oxidase and Enoyl-CoA Carboxylase/Reductases for Atypical Polyketide Extender Unit Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 03 May 2018

Correction to: Using a marine microalga as a chassis for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) degradation

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Crystal structure of archaeal HMG-CoA reductase: insights into structural changes of the C-terminal helix of the class-I enzyme

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Design and Control of Extrachromosomal Elements in Methylorubrum extorquens AM1

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Design and in vitro realization of carbon-conserving photorespiration

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Direct evidence for a covalent ene adduct intermediate in NAD(P)H-dependent enzymes.

scientific article

Dynamic Metabolic Rewiring Enables Efficient Acetyl Coenzyme A Assimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Editorial overview: Novel enzymes, coenzymes, and metabolic pathways

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Engineered Production of Short-Chain Acyl-Coenzyme A Esters in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Escherichia coli in Auto(trophic) Mode

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Ethylmalonyl-CoA mutase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides defines a new subclade of coenzyme B12-dependent acyl-CoA mutases

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Evolution of increased complexity and specificity at the dawn of form I Rubiscos

scientific article published on 14 October 2022

Evolutionary history and biotechnological future of carboxylases.

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Four amino acids define the CO2 binding pocket of enoyl-CoA carboxylases/reductases

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

GFAJ-1 is an arsenate-resistant, phosphate-dependent organism

scientific article

In Vitro Characterization and Concerted Function of Three Core Enzymes of a Glycyl Radical Enzyme - Associated Bacterial Microcompartment.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

In Vivo Selection for Formate Dehydrogenases with High Efficiency and Specificity toward NADP

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

InhA, the enoyl-thioester reductase from forms a covalent adduct during catalysis

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Integration of untargeted metabolomics with transcriptomics reveals active metabolic pathways

scientific article

Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Marine Proteobacteria metabolize glycolate via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

MaxSynBio: Avenues Towards Creating Cells from the Bottom Up

MaxSynBio: Wege zur Synthese einer Zelle aus nicht lebenden Komponenten

Methanol assimilation in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1: demonstration of all enzymes and their regulation

scientific article

Molecular Basis for Converting (2S)-Methylsuccinyl-CoA Dehydrogenase into an Oxidase.

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase Enables Nucleophilic One-Carbon Extension of Aldehydes to Chiral α-Hydroxy Acids

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Phenylacetate metabolism in thermophiles: characterization of phenylacetate-CoA ligase, the initial enzyme of the hybrid pathway in Thermus thermophilus

scientific article published on 15 April 2008

Replacing the Ethylmalonyl-CoA Pathway with the Glyoxylate Shunt Provides Metabolic Flexibility in the Central Carbon Metabolism of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Revolutionizing agriculture with synthetic biology

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Screening and Engineering the Synthetic Potential of Carboxylating Reductases from Central Metabolism and Polyketide Biosynthesis.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Structural basis for substrate specificity of methylsuccinyl-CoA dehydrogenase: an unusual member of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase family.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Sulfur-Oxidizing Symbionts without Canonical Genes for Autotrophic CO2 Fixation

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway

scientific article

Synthetic metabolism: metabolic engineering meets enzyme design.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

The apparent malate synthase activity of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is due to two paralogous enzymes, (3S)-Malyl-coenzyme A (CoA)/{beta}-methylmalyl-CoA lyase and (3S)- Malyl-CoA thioesterase

scientific journal article

The architecture of the diaminobutyrate acetyltransferase active site provides mechanistic insight into the biosynthesis of the chemical chaperone ectoine

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

The molecular basis of phosphate discrimination in arsenate-rich environments

scientific article

The multicatalytic compartment of propionyl-CoA synthase sequesters a toxic metabolite

article

The use of ene adducts to study and engineer enoyl-thioester reductases

scientific article

Underground isoleucine biosynthesis pathways in E. coli

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Understanding Substrate Selectivity of Phoslactomycin Polyketide Synthase by Using Reconstituted in Vitro Systems

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Using a marine microalga as a chassis for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) degradation

scientific article published on 10 October 2019