Daiki Inada

Escherichia coli allows efficient modular incorporation of newly isolated quinomycin biosynthetic enzyme into echinomycin biosynthetic pathway for rational design and synthesis of potent antibiotic unnatural natural product.

Clay C C Wang, Kenji Watanabe, K. Hotta, 2009, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Enzymatic epoxide-opening cascades catalyzed by a pair of epoxide hydrolases in the ionophore polyether biosynthesis.

A. Minami, Kenji Watanabe, K. Hotta, 2011, Organic letters.