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Pluskal, T., Torrens-Spence, M. P., Fallon, T. R., De Abreu, A., Shi, C. H., and Weng, J. - K. (2019) The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava. Nat Plants. 5, 867-878
Pluskal, T., Torrens-Spence, M. P., Fallon, T. R., De Abreu, A., Shi, C. H., and Weng, J. - K. (2018) The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava. bioRxiv
Levsh, O., Chiang, Y. - C., Tung, C. Fai, Noel, J. P., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2016) Dynamic Conformational States Dictate Selectivity toward the Native Substrate in a Substrate-Permissive Acyltransferase. Biochemistry. 55, 6314-6326
Kim, C. Y., Mitchell, A. J., Kastner, D. W., Albright, C. E., Gutierrez, M. A., Glinkerman, C. M., Kulik, H. J., and Weng, J. - K. (2023) Emergence of a proton exchange-based isomerization and lactonization mechanism in the plant coumarin synthase COSY. Nat Commun. 14, 597
Liou, G., Chiang, Y. - C., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2018) Mechanistic basis for the evolution of chalcone synthase catalytic cysteine reactivity in land plants. J Biol Chem. 10.1074/jbc.RA118.005695
Torrens-Spence, M. Patrick, Liu, C. - T., Pluskal, T., Chung, Y. Kwan, and Weng, J. - K. (2018) Monoamine Biosynthesis via a Noncanonical Calcium-Activatable Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase in Psilocybin Mushroom. ACS Chem Biol. 13, 3343-3353
Christ, B., Hochstrasser, R., Guyer, L., Francisco, R., Aubry, S., Hörtensteiner, S., and Weng, J. - K. (2017) Non-specific activities of the major herbicide-resistance gene BAR. Nat Plants. 3, 937-945
Chiang, Y. - C., Levsh, O., Lam, C. Kei, Weng, J. - K., and Wang, Y. (2018) Structural and dynamic basis of substrate permissiveness in hydroxycinnamoyltransferase (HCT). PLoS Comput Biol. 14, e1006511
Torrens-Spence, M. P., Chiang, Y. - C., Smith, T., Vicent, M. A., Wang, Y., and Weng, J. - K. (2020) Structural basis for divergent and convergent evolution of catalytic machineries in plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1920097117