Recent Publications
Young E, Sakkos JK, Huang J, Wright JK, Kachel B, Fuentes-Cabrera M, Kerfeld CA, Ducat DC. “Visualizing in vivo dynamics of designer nanoscaffolds.” Nano Lett. (2019) Nov 20. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03651
Santos-Merino M, Singh AK, Ducat DC. “New Applications of Synthetic Biology Tools for Cyanobacterial Metabolic Engineering.” Front Bioeng Biotechnol. (2019) Feb 27;7:33. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00033
MacCready JS, Hakim P, Young EJ, Hu L, Liu J, Osteryoung KW, Vecchiarelli AG, Ducat DC. “Protein gradients on the nucleoid position the carbon-fixing organelles of cyanobacteria.” Elife. (2018) Dec 6;. doi: 10.7554/eLife.39723
Chen C, MacCready JS, Ducat DC, Osteryoung KW. “The Molecular Machinery of Chloroplast Division.” Plant Physiol. (2017) Oct 27. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.01272
Weiss TL, Young EJ, Ducat DC. “A synthetic, light-driven consortium of cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria enables stable polyhydroxybutyrate production.” Metab Eng. (2017) Oct 20. doi: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.10.009
Young EJ, Burton R, Mahalik JP, Sumpter BG, Fuentes-Cabrera M, Kerfeld CA, Ducat DC. “Engineering the Bacterial Microcompartment Domain for Molecular Scaffolding Applications.” Front Microbiol. (2017) Jul 31;8:1441. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01441
Terbush AD, MacCready JS, Chen C, Ducat DC, Osteryoung KW. “Conserved Dynamics of Chloroplast Cytoskeletal FtsZ Proteins Across Photosynthetic Lineages.” Plant Physiol. (2017) Aug 16;. doi:10.1104/pp.17.00558
Jordan A, Chandler J, MacCready JS, Huang J, Osteryoung KW, Ducat DC. “Engineering Cyanobacterial Cell Morphology for Enhanced Recovery and Processing of Biomass.” Appl Environ Microbiol. (2017) Feb 24. pii: AEM.00053-17. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00053-17
MacCready JS, Schossau J, Osteryoung KW, Ducat DC. “Robust Min-system oscillation in the presence of internal photosynthetic membranes in cyanobacteria.” Mol Microbiol. (2016) Nov 5. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13571
Fedeson DT, Ducat DC. “Cyanobacterial surface display system mediates engineered interspecies and abiotic binding.” ACS Synth Biol. (2016) Oct 30;. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00254
Abramson BW, Kachel B, Kramer DM, Ducat DC. “Increased Photochemical Efficiency in Cyanobacteria via an Engineered Sucrose Sink.” Plant Cell Physiol. (2016) Oct 13. pii: pcw169. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcw169
Aussignargues C, Pandelia ME, Sutter M, Plegaria JS, Zarzycki J, Turmo A, Huang J, Ducat DC, Hegg EL, Gibney BR, Kerfeld CA. “Structure and Function of a Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Protein Engineered to Bind a [4Fe-4S] Cluster.” J Am Chem Soc. (2016) Apr 27;138(16):5262-70. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b11734
Hays SG, Ducat DC. “Engineering cyanobacteria as photosynthetic feedstock factories.” Photosynthesis Research. (2015). doi: 10.1007/s11120-014-9980-0.
Xuan YH, Hu YB, Chen L-Q, Sosso D, Ducat DC, Hou B-H, Frommer WB. “Functional role of oligomerization for bacterial and plant SWEET sugar transporter family.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. (2013) Sep 24;110(39):E3685-E3694. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1311244110.
Ducat DC, Silver PA. “Improving carbon fixation pathways.” Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. (2012) Aug;16(3-4):337-44. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.002.
Ducat DC, Avelar-Rivas JA, Way JC, Silver PA. “Rerouting Carbon Flux To Enhance Photosynthetic Productivity.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology. (2012) Apr;78(8):2660-68. doi: 10.1128/AEM.07901-11.
Ducat DC, Sachdeva G, Silver PA. “Rewiring hydrogenase-dependent redox circuits in cyanobacteria.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2011) Mar 8;108(10):3941-46. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016026108.
Ducat DC, Way JC, Silver PA. “Engineering cyanobacteria to generate high-value products.” Trends in Biotechnology. (2011) Feb;29(2):95-103. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2010.12.003.
Agapakis CM, Ducat DC, Boyle PM, Wintermute EH, Way JC, Silver PA. “Insulation of a synthetic hydrogen metabolism circuit in bacteria.” Journal of Biological Engineering. (2010) Feb 25;4:3. doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-4-3.
Ducat DC, Kawaguchi SI, Liu H, Yates JR, Zheng Y. “Regulation of Microtubule Assembly and Organization in Mitosis by the AAA+ ATPase Pontin.” Mol Biol Cell. (2008) May 7.
Ducat DC, Zheng Y. “Aurora kinases in spindle assembly and chromosome segregation.” Exp Cell Res. (2004) Nov 15;301(1):60-7.
Ducat DC, Herrera FJ, Triezenberg SJ. “Overcoming obstacles in DNA sequencing of expression plasmids for short interfering RNAs.” Biotechniques. (2003) Jun;34(6):1140-2.