Ben Shen

Research.com Recognitions

• 2015 - Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
• 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: Overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

  Paul G. Arnison;Mervyn J. Bibb;Gabriele Bierbaum;Albert Alexander Bowers

  2194
  Citations

• Inhibition of eukaryotic translation elongation by cycloheximide and lactimidomycin

  Tilman Schneider-Poetsch;Jianhua Ju;Daniel E Eyler;Yongjun Dang

  1194
  Citations

• Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

  Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  925
  Citations

• Polyketide biosynthesis beyond the type I, II and III polyketide synthase paradigms.

  Ben Shen

  782
  Citations

• Decoding Human Cytomegalovirus

  Noam Stern-Ginossar;Ben Weisburd;Annette Michalski;Vu Thuy Khanh Le

  717
  Citations

• A New Golden Age of Natural Products Drug Discovery

  Ben Shen

  677
  Citations

• Antitumor antibiotics: bleomycin, enediynes, and mitomycin.

  Ute Galm;Martin H. Hager;Steven G. Van Lanen;Jianhua Ju

  671
  Citations

• Global mapping of translation initiation sites in mammalian cells at single-nucleotide resolution.

  Sooncheol Lee;Botao Liu;Soohyun Lee;Sheng-Xiong Huang

  662
  Citations

• Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity.

  Michael J. Smanski;Hui Zhou;Jan Claesen;Ben Shen

  499
  Citations

• A genomics-guided approach for discovering and expressing cryptic metabolic pathways.

  Emmanuel Zazopoulos;Kexue Huang;Alfredo Staffa;Wen Liu

  415
  Citations

• The biosynthetic gene cluster for the antitumor drug bleomycin from Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 supporting functional interactions between nonribosomal peptide synthetases and a polyketide synthase

  Liangcheng Du;César Sánchez;Mei Chen;Daniel J Edwards

  411
  Citations

• Biosynthesis of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027.

  Wen Liu;Steven D. Christenson;Scott Standage;Ben Shen

  359
  Citations

• Type I polyketide synthase requiring a discrete acyltransferase for polyketide biosynthesis

  Yi Qiang Cheng;Gong Li Tang;Ben Shen

  340
  Citations

• Hybrid peptide-polyketide natural products: biosynthesis and prospects toward engineering novel molecules.

  Liangcheng Du;César Sánchez;Ben Shen

  300
  Citations

• Intrinsic fluorescence from DNA can be enhanced by metallic particles.

  Joseph R. Lakowicz;Ben Shen;Zygmunt Gryczynski;Sabato D'Auria

  278
  Citations

• Quantitative profiling of initiating ribosomes in vivo

  Xiangwei Gao;Ji Wan;Botao Liu;Ming Ma

  243
  Citations

• Thiopeptide Biosynthesis Featuring Ribosomally Synthesized Precursor Peptides and Conserved Posttranslational Modifications

  Rijing Liao;Lian Duan;Chun Lei;Haixue Pan

  227
  Citations

• Cloning and characterization of a phosphopantetheinyl transferase from Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003, the producer of the hybrid peptide–polyketide antitumor drug bleomycin

  César Sánchez;Liangcheng Du;Daniel J Edwards;Michael D Toney

  220
  Citations

• Microbial genomics for the improvement of natural product discovery.

  Steven G Van Lanen;Ben Shen

  210
  Citations

• Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

  Jan Claesen;Ben Shen;Michael A. Fischbach;Hui Zhou

  0
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