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Eric W. Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial work also in Medicine.

The scientist's research encompasses several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Materials Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Biochemical and Structural Characterization

Schmidt has published extensively in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Natural Products
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Among recent key publications, the following papers illustrate the range and focus of their research contributions:

  • "New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering," 2020, Natural Product Reports
  • "Ancient defensive terpene biosynthetic gene clusters in the soft corals," 2022, Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Animal biosynthesis of complex polyketides in a photosynthetic partnership," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "An Obligate Peptidyl Brominase Underlies the Discovery of Highly Distributed Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Marine Sponge Microbiomes," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Genetic and Biochemical Reconstitution of Bromoform Biosynthesis in Asparagopsis Lends Insights into Seaweed Reactive Oxygen Species Enzymology," 2020, ACS Chemical Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schmidt include:

  • Zhenjian Lin
  • Paul D. Scesa
  • Bailey W. Miller
  • Margo G. Haygood
  • Baldomero M. Olivera

This body of work reflects an ongoing engagement with microbial natural products and marine natural product biosynthesis, integrating molecular and biochemical methodologies along with advances in chemical analysis and genomics.

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

  • New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

    Manuel Montalbán-López;Thomas A Scott;Sangeetha Ramesh;Imran R Rahman

  • Patellamide A and C biosynthesis by a microcin-like pathway in Prochloron didemni, the cyanobacterial symbiont of Lissoclinum patella.

    Eric W. Schmidt;James T. Nelson;David A. Rasko;Sebastian Sudek

  • Making health care safer II: an updated critical analysis of the evidence for patient safety practices.

    P G Shekelle;R M Wachter;P J Pronovost;K Schoelles

  • Identification of the antifungal peptide-containing symbiont of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei as a novel δ-proteobacterium, "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis"

    E. W. Schmidt;A. Y. Obraztsova;S. K. Davidson;D. J. Faulkner

  • A global assembly line for cyanobactins

    Mohamed S Donia;Jacques Ravel;Eric W Schmidt

  • Natural combinatorial peptide libraries in cyanobacterial symbionts of marine ascidians.

    Mohamed S. Abou Donia;Brian J. Hathaway;Sebastian Sudek;Margo G. Haygood

  • Ribosomal Peptide Natural Products: Bridging the Ribosomal and Nonribosomal Worlds

    John A. McIntosh;Mohamed S. Abou Donia;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Microbial symbionts of marine invertebrates: opportunities for microbial biotechnology.

    Margo G. Haygood;Eric W. Schmidt;Seana K. Davidson;D. John Faulkner

  • Simulation Exercises as a Patient Safety Strategy: A Systematic Review

    Eric Schmidt;Sara N. Goldhaber-Fiebert;Lawrence A. Ho;Kathryn M. McDonald

  • Patient Safety Strategies Targeted at Diagnostic Errors: A Systematic Review

    Kathryn M. McDonald;Brian Matesic;Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis;Julia Lonhart

  • Complex microbiome underlying secondary and primary metabolism in the tunicate-Prochloron symbiosis

    Mohamed S. Abou Donia;W. Florian Fricke;Frédéric Partensky;James Cox

  • Genome streamlining and chemical defense in a coral reef symbiosis

    Jason C. Kwan;Mohamed S. Donia;Andrew W. Han;Euichi Hirose

  • Metagenomic approaches to natural products from free-living and symbiotic organisms.

    Sean F. Brady;Luke Simmons;Jeffrey H. Kim;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Metagenomic discovery of polybrominated diphenyl ether biosynthesis by marine sponges

    Vinayak Agarwal;Jessica M Blanton;Sheila Podell;Arnaud Taton

  • Using marine natural products to discover a protease that catalyzes peptide macrocyclization of diverse substrates.

    Jaeheon Lee;John McIntosh;Brian J. Hathaway;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Structure of Trichamide, a Cyclic Peptide from the Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum, Predicted from the Genome Sequence

    Sebastian Sudek;Margo G. Haygood;Margo G. Haygood;Diaa T. A. Youssef;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Equisetin biosynthesis in Fusarium heterosporum.

    James W. Sims;John P. Fillmore;Douglas D. Warner;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Theopalauamide, a Bicyclic Glycopeptide from Filamentous Bacterial Symbionts of the Lithistid Sponge Theonella swinhoei from Palau and Mozambique

    Eric W. Schmidt;Carole A. Bewley;D. John Faulkner

  • Linking chemistry and genetics in the growing cyanobactin natural products family.

    Mohamed S. Abou Donia;Eric W. Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Margo G. Haygood
Margo G. Haygood University of Utah
Baldomero M. Olivera
Baldomero M. Olivera University of Utah
Satish K. Nair
Satish K. Nair University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
D. John Faulkner
D. John Faulkner University of California, San Diego
Jacques Ravel
Jacques Ravel University of Maryland, Baltimore
James C. Cox
James C. Cox Georgia State University
Grzegorz Bulaj
Grzegorz Bulaj University of Utah
Colin Hill
Colin Hill University College Cork
Joseph O. Falkinham
Joseph O. Falkinham Virginia Tech
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University

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