Ahearne A, Phillips KE, Knehans T, Hoing M, Dowd SE, Stevens DC. Chromosomal organization of
specialized metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology (in press).
bioRxiv. 2023; https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.08.531766
Phillips KE, Akbar S, Stevens DC. Concepts and conjectures concerning predatory performance of
myxobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022; 13:1031346. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1031346.
Akbar S, Phillips KE, Misra SK, Sharp JS, Stevens DC. Differential response to prey quorum signals indicates
predatory specialization of myxobacteria and ability to predate Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Environmental
Microbiology. 2022; 24(3); 1263-1278. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15812
Akbar S & Stevens DC. Functional genomics study of Pseudomonas putida to determine traits associated
with avoidance of a myxobacterial predator. Scientific Reports. 2021; 11:16445.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96046-8.
Ahearne A, Albataineh H, Dowd SE, Stevens DC. Assessment of Evolutionary Relationships for Prioritization of
Myxobacteria for Natural Product Discovery. Microorganisms. 2021; 9(7):1376.
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071376
Adaikpoh BI, Dowd SE, Stevens DC. Draft Genome Sequence of Aneurinibacillus sp. strain BA2021 isolated as
a contaminant of a laboratory cultivated predatory myxobacterium. Microbiology Resource
Announcements. 2021; 10(17):e00243-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00243-21.
Albataineh H, Duke M, Misra SK, Sharp JS, Stevens DC. Identification of a solo acylhomoserine lactone
synthase from the myxobacterium Archangium gephyra. Scientific Reports. 2021; 11, 3018.
Adaikpoh BI, Akbar S, Albataineh H, Misra SK, Sharp JS, Stevens DC. Myxobacterial Response to
Methyljasmonate Exposure Indicates Contribution to Plant Recruitment of Micropredators. Frontiers in
Microbiology 2020, 11; 34. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00034
Gregory K, Salvador LA, Akbar S, Adaikpoh BI, Stevens DC. Survey of Biosynthetic
Gene Clusters from Sequenced Myxobacteria Reveals Unexplored Biosynthetic Potential.
Microorganisms 2019, 7, 181.
Granatosky EA, DiPrimio N, Pickering JRE, Stevens DC, Perlstein EO, Taylor RE.
GEX1A, a Polyketide from Streptomyces chromofuscus, Corrects the Cellular Defects
Associated with Niemann-Pick Type C1 in Human Fibroblasts. Journal of Natural
Products. 2018; 81(9):2018-2025.
Albataineh H & Stevens DC. Marine Myxobacteria: A Few Good Halophiles. Marine
Drugs. 2018; 16(6).
Adaikpoh BI, Dowd SE, Stevens DC. Draft Genome Sequence of Archangium sp.
Strain Cb G35. Genome Announcements. 2017; 5(8).
Akbar S, Dowd SE, Stevens DC. Draft Genome Sequence of Cystobacter
ferrugineus Strain Cbfe23. Genome Announcements. 2017; 5(6).
Wagner DT, Stevens DC, Mehaffey MR, Manion HR, Taylor RE, Brodbelt JS,
Keatinge-Clay AT. α-Methylation follows condensation in the gephyronic acid
modular polyketide synthase. Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England). 2016;
52(57):8822-5.
Stevens DC, Wagner DT, Manion HR, Alexander BK, Keatinge-Clay AT.
Methyltransferases excised from trans-AT polyketide synthases operate on
N-acetylcysteamine-bound substrates. The Journal of Antibiotics. 2016;
69(7):567-570.
Stevens DC, Young J, Carmichael R, Tan J, Taylor RE. Draft Genome Sequence of
Gephyronic Acid Producer Cystobacter violaceus Strain Cb vi76. Genome
Announcements. 2014; 2(6).
Young J, Stevens DC, Carmichael R, Tan J, Rachid S, Boddy CN, Müller R, Taylor
RE. Elucidation of gephyronic acid biosynthetic pathway revealed unexpected
SAM-dependent methylations. Journal of Natural Products. 2013; 76(12):2269-76.
Stevens DC, Hari TP, Boddy CN. The role of transcription in heterologous
expression of polyketides in bacterial hosts. Natural Product Reports. 2013;
30(11):1391-411.
Stevens DC, Conway KR, Pearce N, Villegas-Peñaranda LR, Garza AG, Boddy CN.
Alternative sigma factor over-expression enables heterologous expression of a
type II polyketide biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli. PloS One. 2013;
8(5):e64858.
Stevens DC, Henry MR, Murphy KA, Boddy CN. Heterologous expression of the
oxytetracycline biosynthetic pathway in Myxococcus xanthus. Applied and
Environmental Microbiology. 2010; 76(8):2681-3.