Kenji Watanabe

Chromatin-level regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters

Jin Woo Bok, Yi‐Ming Chiang, Edyta Szewczyk et al. · Nature Chemical Biology · 2009 · 375 citations · Full text

Histone Modifications, Chromatin, Chromatin Remodeling +7

Total biosynthesis of antitumor nonribosomal peptides in Escherichia coli

Kenji Watanabe, Kinya Hotta, Alex P. Praseuth et al. · Nature Chemical Biology · 2006 · 221 citations

Total Biosynthesis, Biosynthesis, Engineering +6

Molecular Genetic Mining of the Aspergillus Secondary Metabolome: Discovery of the Emericellamide Biosynthetic Pathway

Yi‐Ming Chiang, Edyta Szewczyk, Tania Nayak et al. · Chemistry & Biology · 2008 · 204 citations · Full text

Molecular Genetic Mining, Biosynthesis, Aspergillus Secondary Metabolome +10

Insight into a natural Diels–Alder reaction from the structure of macrophomate synthase

Toyoyuki Ose, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Mie et al. · Nature · 2003 · 195 citations

Biosynthesis, Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry +10

SAM-dependent enzyme-catalysed pericyclic reactions in natural product biosynthesis

Masao Ōhashi, Fang Liu, Yang Hai et al. · Nature · 2017 · 193 citations · Full text

Biosynthesis, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +3