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Richard H. Baltz is affiliated with CognoGen Biotechnology Consulting in the United States. Their research activity spans various topics within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on microbial natural products and biosynthesis.

The main fields of study for Richard H. Baltz include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Their work dives into multiple subfields, such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Pharmacology
  • Biotechnology
  • Cancer Research
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key research topics covered by Baltz involve:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Synthesis and Biological Activity

Richard H. Baltz has contributed several papers to the scientific community, with notable recent publications including:

  • Genome mining for drug discovery: progress at the front end, 2021, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Genome mining for drug discovery: cyclic lipopeptides related to daptomycin, 2021, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Regulation of daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: new insights from genomic analysis and synthetic biology to accelerate lipopeptide discovery and commercial production, 2024, Natural Product Reports
  • Introduction to Special Issue on "Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 2020", 2020, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Introduction and commentaries for the special issue: "Arnold L. Demain-A life lived", 2021, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Their frequent co-authors include Ramón González, Erick Vandamme, Katy C. Kao, A. James Link, and Enrico Marsili.

Publications are predominantly found in these venues:

  • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Natural Product Reports

Best Publications

  • Natural product discovery: past, present, and future

    Leonard Katz;Richard H Baltz

  • Genome of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6.

    JoAnn Hoskins;William E. Alborn;Jeffrey Arnold;Larry C. Blaszczak

  • Renaissance in antibacterial discovery from actinomycetes.

    Richard H Baltz

  • Daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: cloning and analysis of the gene cluster and revision of peptide stereochemistry.

    Vivian Miao;Marie-Françoise Coëffet-LeGal;Paul Brian;Renee Brost

  • Natural products to drugs : daptomycin and related lipopeptide antibiotics

    Richard H. Baltz;Vivian Miao;Stephen K. Wrigley

  • Combinatorial biosynthesis of novel antibiotics related to daptomycin

    Kien T. Nguyen;Daniel Ritz;Jian-Qiao Gu;Dylan Alexander

  • Daptomycin: mechanisms of action and resistance, and biosynthetic engineering.

    Richard H Baltz

  • Microbial genome mining for accelerated natural products discovery: is a renaissance in the making?

    Brian O. Bachmann;Steven G. Van Lanen;Richard H. Baltz

  • Marcel Faber Roundtable: Is our antibiotic pipeline unproductive because of starvation, constipation or lack of inspiration?

    Richard H. Baltz

  • Gifted microbes for genome mining and natural product discovery

    Richard H. Baltz

  • Streptomyces and Saccharopolyspora hosts for heterologous expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters.

    Richard H. Baltz

  • Genetic Recombination in Streptomyces fradiae by Protoplast Fusion and Cell Regeneration

    Richard H. Baltz

  • Molecular engineering approaches to peptide, polyketide and other antibiotics.

    Richard H Baltz

  • Genetic manipulation of secondary metabolite biosynthesis for improved production in Streptomyces and other actinomycetes

    Richard H Baltz

  • Cloning and Expression in Streptomyces lividans of Clustered Erythromycin Biosynthesis Genes from Streptomyces erythreus

    R. Stanzak;P. Matsushima;R. H. Baltz;R. N. Rao

  • Daptomycin: From the Mountain to the Clinic, with Essential Help from Francis Tally, MD

    Barry I. Eisenstein;Frederick B. Oleson;Richard H. Baltz

  • Natural product drug discovery in the genomic era: realities, conjectures, misconceptions, and opportunities

    Richard H Baltz

  • Genetically Engineered Lipopeptide Antibiotics Related to A54145 and Daptomycin with Improved Properties

    Kien T. Nguyen;Xiaowei He;Dylan C. Alexander;Chen Li

  • Genetic Engineering in Streptomyces roseosporus to Produce Hybrid Lipopeptide Antibiotics

    Vivian Miao;Marie-Francois Coëffet-Le Gal;Kien Nguyen;Paul Brian

  • Strain improvement in actinomycetes in the postgenomic era.

    Richard H. Baltz

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Whiting
Andrew Whiting Durham University
Julian Davies
Julian Davies University of British Columbia
Erick Vandamme
Erick Vandamme Ghent University
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joan W. Bennett
Joan W. Bennett Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert E. Schwartz
Robert E. Schwartz Cornell University
Thomas W. Jeffries
Thomas W. Jeffries University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lee R. Lynd
Lee R. Lynd Dartmouth College
Gilles P. van Wezel
Gilles P. van Wezel Leiden University
Lixin Zhang
Lixin Zhang East China University of Science and Technology

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