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2003
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University of California, Berkeley(Current)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Amyris (United States)
Joint BioEnergy Institute
Douglas J. Pitera is an author at University of California, Berkeley specializing in medicine, microbiology, and synthetic biology.
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MedicineEngineeringMicrobiologySynthetic BiologyBiosynthesisGeneticsBiochemistryBiotechnologyGene ExpressionSystems Biology
Publications per year
2003–2020
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
Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids
Vincent J. J. Martin, Douglas J. Pitera, Sydnor T. Withers et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2003 · 1.7K citations
Biomanufacturing, Biosynthesis, Engineering +13
Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin
Patrick J. Westfall, Douglas J. Pitera, Jacob R. Lenihan et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 711 citations · Full text
Combinatorial engineering of intergenic regions in operons tunes expression of multiple genes
Brian F. Pfleger, Douglas J. Pitera, Christina D. Smolke et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2006 · 537 citations
Combinatorial Engineering, Engineering, Multiple Genes +14
Balancing a heterologous mevalonate pathway for improved isoprenoid production in Escherichia coli
Douglas J. Pitera, Christopher J. Paddon, Jack D. Newman et al. · Metabolic Engineering · 2006 · 443 citations
Biosynthesis, Engineering, Biochemistry +11
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