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2026

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

John E. Cronan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Food Science, Cell Biology, and Organic Chemistry.

Their work focuses on various topics within these fields, including:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Biotin and Related Studies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by John E. Cronan include:

  • Progress in the Enzymology of the Mitochondrial Diseases of Lipoic Acid Requiring Enzymes, 2020, Frontiers in Genetics
  • The Classical, Yet Controversial, First Enzyme of Lipid Synthesis: Escherichia coli Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase, 2021, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • The Escherichia coli FadR transcription factor: Too much of a good thing?, 2020, Molecular Microbiology
  • Biotin, a universal and essential cofactor: synthesis, ligation and regulation, 2021, FEMS Microbiology Reviews

John E. Cronan has published extensively in several academic venues with the most frequent being:

  • Molecular Microbiology (9 publications)
  • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (3 publications)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry (3 publications)
  • Microbiology (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

  • Huijuan Dong (14 joint publications)
  • Qi Zou (6 joint publications)
  • Haihong Wang (4 joint publications)
  • Lei Zhu (2 joint publications)
  • Yuanyuan Hu (2 joint publications)

John E. Cronan was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Detecting and characterizing N-acyl-homoserine lactone signal molecules by thin-layer chromatography

    Paul D. Shaw;Gao Ping;Sean L. Daly;Chung Cha

  • Regulation of fatty acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.

    K Magnuson;S Jackowski;C O Rock;J E Cronan

  • Acyl homoserine-lactone quorum-sensing signal generation

    Matthew R. Parsek;Dale L. Val;Brian L. Hanzelka;John E. Cronan

  • Cyclopropane ring formation in membrane lipids of bacteria.

    Dennis W. Grogan;John E. Cronan

  • Bacterial Fatty Acid Biosynthesis: Targets for Antibacterial Drug Discovery

    John W. Campbell;John E. Cronan

  • Overproduction of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Activity Increases the Rate of Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

    Mark S. Davis;José Solbiati;John E. Cronan

  • Biotination of proteins in vivo. A post-translational modification to label, purify, and study proteins

    John E. Cronan

  • Physical properties of membrane lipids: biological relevance and regulation.

    J E Cronan;E P Gelmann

  • Multi-subunit acetyl-CoA carboxylases.

    John E Cronan;Grover L Waldrop

  • Generation of cell-to-cell signals in quorum sensing: acyl homoserine lactone synthase activity of a purified Vibrio fischeri LuxI protein.

    Amy L. Schaefer;Dale L. Val;Brian L. Hanzelka;John E. Cronan

  • Membrane cyclopropane fatty acid content is a major factor in acid resistance of Escherichia coli

    Ying Ying Chang;John E Cronan

  • Biosynthesis of Membrane Lipids.

    John E. Cronan;Charles O. Rock

  • Metabolism and function of the membrane phospholipids of Escherichia coli.

    John E. Cronan;John E. Cronan;P.Roy Vagelos;P.Roy Vagelos

  • Bacterial membrane lipids: where do we stand?

    John E. Cronan

  • Escherichia coli as a model for the regulation of dissociable (type II) fatty acid biosynthesis

    Charles O. Rock;John E. Cronan

  • Promiscuous protein biotinylation by Escherichia coli biotin protein ligase.

    Eunjoo Choi-Rhee;Howard Schulman;John E. Cronan

  • Bacterial fatty acid synthesis and its relationships with polyketide synthetic pathways.

    John E. Cronan;Jacob Thomas

  • The gene encoding the biotin carboxylase subunit of Escherichia coli acetyl-CoA carboxylase.

    Shyr-Jiann Li;J. E. Cronan

  • The enzymatic biotinylation of proteins: a post-translational modification of exceptional specificity

    Anne Chapman-Smith;John E Cronan

  • A Bacillus subtilis Gene Induced by Cold Shock Encodes a Membrane Phospholipid Desaturase

    Pablo S. Aguilar;John E. Cronan;Diego de Mendoza

  • Detecting and characterizing N-acyl-homoserine lactone signal molecules by thin-layer chromatography (autoinductionysignaling systemsyquorum sensingygene regulationydetection systems)

    Paul D. Shaw;Gao Ping;Sean L. Daly;C Hung Cha

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles O. Rock
Charles O. Rock St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Youjun Feng
Youjun Feng Zhejiang University
Diego de Mendoza
Diego de Mendoza National University of Rosario
John C. Wallace
John C. Wallace University of Wisconsin–Madison
Suzanne Jackowski
Suzanne Jackowski St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Trisha N. Davis
Trisha N. Davis University of Washington
John A. Gerlt
John A. Gerlt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gregory N. Tew
Gregory N. Tew University of Massachusetts Amherst
Matthew P. Jacobson
Matthew P. Jacobson University of California, San Francisco
E. P. Greenberg
E. P. Greenberg University of Washington

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