Kenneth W. Ellens

High-level semi-synthetic production of the potent antimalarial artemisinin

Christopher J. Paddon, Patrick J. Westfall, Douglas J. Pitera et al. · Nature · 2013 · 2K citations · Full text

Medicinal Chemistry, Antiparasitic Agent, Medicine +5

Confronting the catalytic dark matter encoded by sequenced genomes

Kenneth W. Ellens, Nils Christian, Charandeep Singh et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2017 · 97 citations · Full text

Elusive Catalysts, Unknown Enzyme Problem, Molecular Biology +19

Nit1 is a metabolite repair enzyme that hydrolyzes deaminated glutathione

Alessio Peracchi, Maria Veiga‐da‐Cunha, Tomiko Kuhara et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 53 citations · Full text

Reductive Stress, Aldo-keto Reductase, Cellular Enzymology +15

Evidence that glutamine transaminase and omega-amidase potentially act in tandem to close the methionine salvage cycle in bacteria and plants

Kenneth W. Ellens, Lynn G.L. Richardson, Océane Frelin et al. · Phytochemistry · 2014 · 40 citations

Biotransformation, Biochemistry, Microbiology +3

Mitochondrial and plastidial COG0354 proteins have folate-dependent functions in iron–sulphur cluster metabolism

Jeffrey C. Waller, Kenneth W. Ellens, Sophie Alvarez et al. · Journal of Experimental Botany · 2011 · 33 citations · Full text

Engineering, Iron Metabolism, Arabidopsis Proteins +20