Publications: complete list
2026
Arafa, A., Gerke, J., Cox, R., & Franke, J. (2026). Chemoenzymatic Synthesis with Plant Oxidases and Metabolic Engineering Enable Rapid Access to Rare Gibberellins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 148(18), 19436-19446. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c06067
Bielková, Z., Kendrová, D., Titiš, J., Samoľová, E., Malina, O., Dräger, G., Moncoľ, J., Boča, R., & Rajnák, C. (2026). Synthesis and characterization of dinuclear {Ce(III)-Zn(II)} and {Ce(III)-Cu(II)} complexes stabilized by μ2-phenolato bridges. Journal of molecular structure, 1352, Article 144535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2025.144535
Budde, J. L., Kirschning, A., & Dräger, G. (2026). Cyclisations and hydrolysis of geranyl and farnesyl halides in water facilitated by ultrasound-induced emulsification. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 24(14), 2893-2898. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ob01695a
Budde, J. L., Davari, M. D., Hassanin, A., Karacam, M., Kirschning, A., Struwe, H., & Taser, D. (2026). Terpene synthases are highly substrate tolerant – among them BcBOT2 is a “jack of all trades”. Natural product reports. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6np00040a
Coca-Ruiz, V., Hausmann, K., Dräger, G., Struwe, H., Zahid, M., Aleu, J., Solle, D., Kirschning, A., Collado, I. G., & Beutel, S. (2026). Resolution of the ABA Biosynthesis Controversy: Discovery of a Dihydroxylating Terpene Synthase and Its Convergent Evolution. ACS chemical biology, 21(6), 1362-1372. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.6c00103
Cox, R., Köhler, A. M., & Gerke, J. (2026). MITE: the Minimum Information about a Tailoring Enzyme database for capturing specialized metabolite biosynthesis. Nucleic acids research, 54(D1), D635-D642. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf969
Fricke, F. (2026). New terpene derived odorants: from boronic ester homologation under flow conditions to novel spirocyclic terpenoids. [Doctoral thesis, Leibniz University Hannover]. Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover. https://doi.org/10.15488/20746
Hauser, M., Pang, J., Lai, D., Sun, Y., Yao, H., & Cox, R. J. (2026). Stereochemical Dissection of the Strobilurin PKS Reveals the Complex Biosynthetic Logic of Iterative EZE Triene Construction. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 65(4), Article e19062. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202519062
Heinemann, H., Gerlach, N., Kuhnert, E., Gerke, J., Verwaaijen, B., Kalinowski, J., Stadler, M., & Cox, R. J. (2026). Total and engineered biosynthesis of cinatrins: inhibitors of phospholipase A2 and squalene synthase. Chemical science, 17(25), 12416-12421. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6sc00660d
Kagho, M. D., Schmidt, K., Chakrabarti, A., Karger, M., Lambert, C., Hauser, M., Cox, R. J., Rottner, K., Stadler, M., Stradal, T. E., & Klahn, P. (2026). Exploring the Substitution of the C21-OAc Moiety in [11]Cytochalasans: Synthesis and Evaluation of Fluorophore Conjugates. CHEMBIOCHEM, 27(1), Article e202500794. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500794
