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  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

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James Staunton is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

James Staunton was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Polyketide biosynthesis: a millennium review.

    James Staunton;Kira J. Weissman

  • Disentangling electrospray spectra with maximum entropy

    A. G. Ferrige;M. J. Seddon;B. N. Green;S. A. Jarvis

  • A chain initiation factor common to both modular and aromatic polyketide synthases

    Christian Bisang;Paul F. Long;Jesús Cortés;James Westcott

  • Biosynthesis of Erythromycin and Rapamycin.

    James Staunton;Barrie Wilkinson

  • Repositioning of a domain in a modular polyketide synthase to promote specific chain cleavage

    Jesus Cortes;Kirsten E. H. Wiesmann;Gareth A. Roberts;Murray J. B. Brown

  • Organization of the biosynthetic gene cluster for rapamycin in Streptomyces hygroscopicus: analysis of the enzymatic domains in the modular polyketide synthase

    Jesús F. Aparicio;István Molnár;Torsten Schwecke;Ariane König

  • Engineering Broader Specificity into an Antibiotic-Producing Polyketide Synthase

    Andrew F. A. Marsden;Barrie Wilkinson;Jesús Cortés;Nicholas J. Dunster

  • Divergent sequence motifs correlated with the substrate specificity of (methyl)malonyl-CoA:acyl carrier protein transacylase domains in modular polyketide synthases

    Stephen F. Haydock;Jesús F. Aparicio;István Molnár;Torsten Schwecke

  • A hybrid modular polyketide synthase obtained by domain swapping.

    Markiyan Oliynyk;Murray J.B. Brown;Jesús Cortés;James Staunton

  • Maximum entropy signal processing in practical NMR spectroscopy

    Sibusiso Sibisi;John Skilling;Richard G. Brereton;Ernest D. Laue

  • Role of type II thioesterases: evidence for removal of short acyl chains produced by aberrant decarboxylation of chain extender units.

    Michelle L Heathcote;James Staunton;Peter F Leadlay

  • Stereospecific Acyl Transfers on the Erythromycin-Producing Polyketide Synthase

    Andrew F. A. Marsden;Patrick Caffrey;Jesus F. Aparicio;Mark S. Loughran

  • Increasing the efficiency of heterologous promoters in actinomycetes.

    Christopher J Wilkinson;Zoë A Hughes-Thomas;Christine J Martin;Ines Böhm

  • Analysis of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the polyether antibiotic monensin in Streptomyces cinnamonensis and evidence for the role of monB and monC genes in oxidative cyclization

    Markiyan Oliynyk;Christian B. W. Stark;Apoorva Bhatt;Michelle A. Jones

  • Organisation of the biosynthetic gene cluster for rapamycin in Streptomyces hygroscopicus: analysis of genes flanking the polyketide synthase.

    István Molnár;Jesús F. Aparicio;Stephen F. Haydock;Lake Ee Khaw

  • Identification of DEBS 1, DEBS 2 and DEBS 3, the multienzyme polypeptides of the erythromycin-producing polyketide synthase from Saccharopolyspora erythraea.

    Patrick Caffrey;Debra J. Bevitt;James Staunton;Peter F. Leadlay

  • Maximum entropy method in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    Ernest D. Lade;John Skilling;James Staunton;Sibusiso Sibisi

  • Evidence for a double-helical structure for modular polyketide synthases

    James Staunton;Patrick Caffrey;Jesús F. Aparicio;Gareth A. Roberts

  • Active-site residue, domain and module swaps in modular polyketide synthases

    Francesca Del Vecchio;Hrvoje Petkovic;Steven G. Kendrew;Lindsey Low

  • Mutational biosynthesis of novel rapamycins by a strain of Streptomyces hygroscopicus NRRL 5491 disrupted in rapL, encoding a putative lysine cyclodeaminase.

    Lake Ee Khaw;Günter A. Böhm;Su Metcalfe;James Staunton

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter F. Leadlay
Peter F. Leadlay University of Cambridge
Norberto Peporine Lopes
Norberto Peporine Lopes Universidade de São Paulo
Ernest D. Laue
Ernest D. Laue University of Cambridge
Barrie Wilkinson
Barrie Wilkinson John Innes Centre
Helen C. Hailes
Helen C. Hailes University College London
Steven V. Ley
Steven V. Ley University of Cambridge
Chris Abell
Chris Abell University of Cambridge
John A. Murphy
John A. Murphy University of Strathclyde
Thomas J. Simpson
Thomas J. Simpson University of Bristol
Geert-Jan Boons
Geert-Jan Boons University of Georgia

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