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Kristala L. J. Prather

Kristala L. J. Prather

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12019
World Ranking
13813
National Ranking
5844

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kristala L. J. Prather is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad area of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, Plant Science, and Materials Chemistry.

Their main research topics cover diverse areas such as Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Biofuel production and bioconversion, Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects, Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kristala L. J. Prather include:

  • Kristina Haslinger
  • Christina V. Dinh
  • C. Ni
  • Gregory Stephanopoulos
  • Kang Zhou

Repeated venues for publications feature:

  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers by Prather include:

  • Development of a Quorum-Sensing Based Circuit for Control of Coculture Population Composition in a Naringenin Production System, 2020, ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Dynamic Control of Metabolism, 2021, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Effective use of biosensors for high-throughput library screening for metabolite production, 2021, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Carbon catabolite repression relaxation in Escherichia coli: global and sugar-specific methods for glucose and secondary sugar co-utilization, 2020, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
  • Metabolic engineering strategies to overcome precursor limitations in isoprenoid biosynthesis, 2020, Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Kristala L. J. Prather has been recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2020

Best Publications

  • Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux

    John E Dueber;Gabriel C Wu;G Reza Malmirchegini;G Reza Malmirchegini;Tae Seok Moon

  • Engineering alternative butanol production platforms in heterologous bacteria

    David R. Nielsen;Effendi Leonard;Sang Hwal Yoon;Hsien Chung Tseng

  • Dynamic regulation of metabolic flux in engineered bacteria using a pathway-independent quorum-sensing circuit

    Apoorv Gupta;Irene M Brockman Reizman;Christopher R Reisch;Kristala L J Prather

  • Combining metabolic and protein engineering of a terpenoid biosynthetic pathway for overproduction and selectivity control

    Effendi Leonard;Parayil Kumaran Ajikumar;Kelly Thayer;Wen-Hai Xiao

  • Use of modular, synthetic scaffolds for improved production of glucaric acid in engineered E. coli

    Tae Seok Moon;John E. Dueber;Eric Chun-Jen Shiue;Kristala L. Jones Prather

  • De novo biosynthetic pathways: rational design of microbial chemical factories

    Kristala L Jones Prather;Collin H Martin

  • Synthesis and accumulation of aromatic aldehydes in an engineered strain of Escherichia coli.

    Aditya M Kunjapur;Yekaterina Tarasova;Kristala L J Prather

  • Production of Glucaric Acid from a Synthetic Pathway in Recombinant Escherichia coli

    Tae Seok Moon;Sang-Hwal Yoon;Amanda M. Lanza;Joseph D. Roy-Mayhew

  • The no-SCAR (Scarless Cas9 Assisted Recombineering) system for genome editing in Escherichia coli.

    Chris R. Reisch;Kristala L. J. Prather

  • From lignocellulosic residues to market: Production and commercial potential of xylooligosaccharides.

    Cláudia Amorim;Sara Isabel Cruz Silvério;Kristala L. J. Prather;L. R. Rodrigues

  • Layered dynamic regulation for improving metabolic pathway productivity in Escherichia coli .

    Stephanie J. Doong;Apoorv Gupta;Kristala L. J. Prather

  • Dynamic metabolic engineering: New strategies for developing responsive cell factories.

    Irene M. Brockman;Kristala L. J. Prather

  • In situ product recovery of n-butanol using polymeric resins.

    David R. Nielsen;Kristala Jones Prather

  • Dynamic knockdown of E. coli central metabolism for redirecting fluxes of primary metabolites.

    Irene M. Brockman;Kristala L.J. Prather

  • Metabolic engineering of a novel propionate-independent pathway for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) in recombinant Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium.

    Ilana S. Aldor;Seon-Won Kim;Kristala L. Jones Prather;Jay D. Keasling

  • Opportunities in metabolic engineering to facilitate scalable alkaloid production.

    Effendi Leonard;Weerawat Runguphan;Sarah E. O'Connor;Kristala Jones Prather

  • Engineering synergy in biotechnology

    Jens Nielsen;Martin Fussenegger;Jay Keasling;Sang Yup Lee

  • Microbial Engineering for Aldehyde Synthesis

    Aditya M. Kunjapur;Kristala L. J. Prather

  • Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Enhanced Production of (R)- and (S)-3-Hydroxybutyrate

    Hsien Chung Tseng;Collin H. Martin;David R. Nielsen;Kristala L.Jones Prather

  • Development of an autonomous and bifunctional quorum-sensing circuit for metabolic flux control in engineered Escherichia coli.

    Christina V. Dinh;Kristala L. Jones Prather

Frequent Co-Authors

Lígia R. Rodrigues
Lígia R. Rodrigues University of Minho
Geoffrey A. Tompsett
Geoffrey A. Tompsett Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Jens Ejbye Schmidt
Jens Ejbye Schmidt University of Southern Denmark
Víctor de Lorenzo
Víctor de Lorenzo Spanish National Research Council
Christopher J. Petzold
Christopher J. Petzold Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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