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94
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2009
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1096

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Paul R. Jensen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Ecology, Biotechnology, and Organic Chemistry. Their research topics focus on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Fungal Biology and Applications.

They have published frequently in several venues, with notable numbers of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Natural Products, mSystems, Marine Drugs, and Nature Microbiology.

Recent papers by Paul R. Jensen include:

  • Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining, 2021, Nature Chemical Biology
  • The Natural Product Domain Seeker version 2 (NaPDoS2) webtool relates ketosynthase phylogeny to biosynthetic function, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Six novel species of the obligate marine actinobacterium Salinispora, Salinispora cortesiana sp. nov., Salinispora fenicalii sp. nov., Salinispora goodfellowii sp. nov., Salinispora mooreana sp. nov., Salinispora oceanensis sp. nov. and Salinispora vitiensis sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Salinispora, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation, 2024, mSystems

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Alexander B. Chase
  • Kaitlin E. Creamer
  • Douglas Sweeney
  • Bradley S. Moore
  • Alexander Bogdanov

The body of work by Paul R. Jensen demonstrates multidisciplinary engagement in biochemistry, molecular biology, and ecology, with a particular focus on microbial natural products and community dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

    Mingxun Wang;Jeremy J Carver;Vanessa V Phelan;Laura M Sanchez

  • Salinosporamide A: a highly cytotoxic proteasome inhibitor from a novel microbial source, a marine bacterium of the new genus salinospora.

    Robert H. Feling;Greg O. Buchanan;Tracy J. Mincer;Christopher A. Kauffman

  • Developing a new resource for drug discovery: marine actinomycete bacteria

    William Fenical;Paul R Jensen

  • Widespread and persistent populations of a major new marine actinomycete taxon in ocean sediments.

    Tracy J. Mincer;Paul R. Jensen;Christopher A. Kauffman;William Fenical

  • Genome sequencing reveals complex secondary metabolome in the marine actinomycete Salinispora tropica

    Daniel W. Udwary;Lisa Zeigler;Ratnakar Asolkar;Vasanth Singan

  • Pestalone, a new antibiotic produced by a marine fungus in response to bacterial challenge

    Mercedes Cueto;Paul R. Jensen;Chris Kauffman;William Fenical

  • The Natural Product Domain Seeker NaPDoS: A Phylogeny Based Bioinformatic Tool to Classify Secondary Metabolite Gene Diversity

    Nadine Ziemert;Sheila Podell;Kevin Penn;Jonathan H. Badger

  • Marine actinomycete diversity and natural product discovery

    Paul R. Jensen;Tracy J. Mincer;Philip G. Williams;William Fenical

  • Strategies for the Discovery of Secondary Metabolites from Marine Bacteria: Ecological Perspectives

    Paul R. Jensen;William Fenical

  • Eleutherobin, a New Cytotoxin that Mimics Paclitaxel (Taxol) by Stabilizing Microtubules

    Thomas Lindel;Paul R. Jensen;William Fenical;Byron H. Long

  • Colorimetric “Naked Eye” Sensing of Anions in Aqueous Solution

    Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson;Paul E. Kruger;Paul Jensen;Juliann Tierney

  • Phylogenetic diversity of gram-positive bacteria cultured from marine sediments.

    Erin A. Gontang;William Fenical;Paul R. Jensen

  • Distribution of actinomycetes in near-shore tropical marine sediments.

    P R Jensen;R Dwight;W Fenical

  • Species-Specific Secondary Metabolite Production in Marine Actinomycetes of the Genus Salinispora

    Paul R. Jensen;Philip G. Williams;Dong-Chan Oh;Lisa Zeigler

  • The Marinopyrroles, Antibiotics of an Unprecedented Structure Class from a Marine Streptomyces sp.

    Chambers C. Hughes;Alejandra Prieto-Davo;Paul R. Jensen;William Fenical

  • Culturable marine actinomycete diversity from tropical Pacific Ocean sediments

    Paul R. Jensen;Erin Gontang;Chrisy Mafnas;Tracy J. Mincer

  • Salinispora arenicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salinispora tropica sp. nov., obligate marine actinomycetes belonging to the family Micromonosporaceae.

    Luis A. Maldonado;William Fenical;Paul R. Jensen;Christopher A. Kauffman

  • Induced production of emericellamides A and B from the marine-derived fungus Emericella sp. in competing co-culture.

    Dong-Chan Oh;Christopher A Kauffman;Paul R Jensen;William Fenical

  • Discovery and development of the anticancer agent salinosporamide A (NPI-0052).

    William Fenical;Paul R. Jensen;Michael A. Palladino;Kin S. Lam

  • Marinomycins A−D, Antitumor-Antibiotics of a New Structure Class from a Marine Actinomycete of the Recently Discovered Genus “Marinispora”

    Hak Cheol Kwon;Christopher A. Kauffman;Paul R. Jensen;William Fenical

Frequent Co-Authors

William Fenical
William Fenical University of California, San Diego
Bradley S. Moore
Bradley S. Moore University of California, San Diego
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Nuno Bandeira
Nuno Bandeira University of California, San Diego
William H. Gerwick
William H. Gerwick University of California, San Diego
Roger G. Linington
Roger G. Linington Simon Fraser University

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