32. Q. Pan, X. Ma, H. Liang, Y. Liu, Y. Zhou, G. Stephanopoulos*, & K. Zhou* (2023). Biosynthesis of geranate via isopentenol utilization pathway in Escherichia coli. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 120(1), 230-238. (the DOI link)
31. S. Panda & K. Zhou* (2023). Engineering microbes to overproduce natural products as agrochemicals. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 8(1), 79-85. (the DOI link)
30. V. Fung, D. Tan, & K. Zhou* (2023). Improving glycine utilization in Escherichia coli. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 193, 108834. (the DOI link)
29. Y. Cui, X. Ma, S. Lee, J. He, K. Yang*, & K. Zhou* (2023). Production of butyl butyrate from lignocellulosic biomass through Escherichia coli-Clostridium beijerinckii G117 co-culture. Process Biochemistry, 128, 58-67. (the DOI link)
28. V. Fung, Y. Xiao, D. Tan, X. Ma, J. Zhou, S. Panda, N. Yan*, K. Zhou*. “Producing aromatic amino acid from corn husk by using polyols as intermediates.” Biomaterials (2022): 121661. (the DOI link)
27. N. Yan*, K. Zhou, Y. Tong, D. Leong, M. Dickieson. “Pathways to food from CO2 via ‘green chemical farming’.” Nature Sustainability (2022): 1-3. (the DOI link)
26. C. Liu, X. Cui, W. Chen, X. Ma, K. Prather, K. Zhou*, J. Wu*. “Synthesis of oxygenated sesquiterpenoids enabled by combining metabolic engineering and visible‐light photocatalysis.” Chemistry–A European Journal. 2022 (the DOI link)
25. X. Ma, H. Liang, Q. Pan, K. Prather, A. Sinskey, G. Stephanopoulos*, K. Zhou*. “Optimization of the Isopentenol Utilization Pathway for Isoprenoid Synthesis in Escherichia coli.” J. Agric. Food Chem. 2022 (the DOI link)
24. S. Wu#, X. Ma#, A. Zhou, A. Valenzuela, K. Zhou*, Y. Li*. “Establishment of strigolactone-producing bacterium-yeast consortium.” Sci. Adv. 7, no. 38 (2021): eabh4048 (the DOI link)
23. Y. Liu, X. Ma, H. Liang, G. Stephanopoulos*, K. Zhou*. “Monoterpenoid biosynthesis by engineered microbes” J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 2021 (the DOI link)
22. X. Ma, H. Liang, S. Panda, V. Fung, J. Zhou, K. Zhou*. “C2 feedstock-based biomanufacturing of value-added chemicals” Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 73, 2022, 240-245 (the DOI link)
21. C. Li, C. Swofford, C. Rückert, A. Chatzivasileiou, R. Ou, P. Opdensteinen, T. Luttermann, K. Zhou, G. Stephanopoulos, K. Prather, E. Zhong-Johnson, S. Liang, S. Zheng, Y. Lin, A. Sinskey*, “Heterologous production of α-Carotene in Corynebacterium glutamicum using a multi-copy chromosomal integration method”, Bioresour. Technol., 341 (2021): 125782 (the DOI link)
20. X. Cui, X. Ma, K. Prather, and K. Zhou*, “Controlling protein expression by using intron-aided promoters in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, Biochem. Eng. J., (2021): 108197 (the DOI link)
19. J. Zhou#, Y. Xiao#, V. Fung, G. Gözaydın, X. Ma, S. Panda, T. Pham, N. Yan*, and K. Zhou*, “An Integrated Process for l-Tyrosine Production from Sugarcane Bagasse”, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2021 (the DOI link)
18. S. Panda, V. Fung, J. Zhou, K. Zhou*, “Improving ethylene glycol utilization in Escherichia coli fermentation”, Biochem. Eng. J., 2021, 107957 (the DOI link)
17. H. Lu, S. Yu, F. Qin, W. Ning, X. Ma, K. Tian, Z. Li, K. Zhou*, “A secretion‐based dual fluorescence assay for high‐throughput screening of alcohol dehydrogenases”, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 2021, 118(4), 1605-1616 (the DOI link)
16. Y. Cui, K. Yang*, K. Zhou*, “Using co-culture to functionalize Clostridium fermentation”, Trends Biotechnol., 39, no. 9 (2021): 914-926 (the DOI link)
15. H. Liang, X. Ma, W. Ning, Y. Liu, A. Sinskey, G. Stephanopoulos*, K. Zhou*, “Constructing an ethanol utilization pathway in Escherichia coli to produce acetyl-CoA derived compounds”, Meta. Eng., 65 (2021): 223-231. (the DOI link)
14. K. Zhou*, W. Ng, Y. Cortés-Peña, X. Wang, “Increasing metabolic pathway flux by using machine learning models”, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 66 (2020): 179-185. (the DOI link)
13. S. Song, V. Fung, L. Di, Q. Sun, K. Zhou*, N. Yan*, “Integrating Biomass into Organonitrogen Chemical Supply Chain: Production of Pyrrole and D‐Proline from Furfural”, Angew. Chem. Int., 2020, 132 (45), 20018-20022 (the DOI link)
12. X. Han, W. Ning, X. Ma, X. Wang*, K. Zhou*, “Improving protein solubility and activity by introducing small peptide tags designed with machine learning models”, Meta. Eng. Commun. 2020, Jun 22:e00138 (the DOI link)
11. Y. Cui, J. He, K. Yang*, K. Zhou*, “Aerobic acetone-butanol-isopropanol (ABI) fermentation through a co-culture of Clostridium beijerinckii G117 and recombinant Bacillus subtilis 1A1”, Meta. Eng. Commun. 2020, Jun 11:e00137 (the DOI link)
10. Y. Cui, J. He, K. Yang*, K. Zhou*, “Production of isopropyl and butyl esters by Clostridium mono-culture and co-culture”, J. Ind. Microbiol. & Biotechnol. 2020, In Press (the DOI link)
9. Y. Liu, Z. Low, X. Ma, H. Liang, A. Sinskey, G. Stephanopoulos, K. Zhou* “Using biopolymer bodies for encapsulation of hydrophobic products in bacterium”, Meta. Eng. 61 (2020): 206-214 (the DOI link)
8. Y. Cui, K. Zhou*, K. Yang*, “Copper-tripeptide complexes for rapid inactivation of Bacillus subtilis endospores” Biotechnol. Notes 2020, In Press (the DOI link)
7. X. Ma, G. Gözaydın, H. Yang, W. Ning, X. Han, N. Poon, H. Liang, N. Yan*, K. Zhou*, “Upcycling chitin-containing waste into organonitrogen chemicals via an integrated process” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2020, 117 (14), 7719-7728 (the DOI link)
6. X. Han, L. Zhang, K. Zhou*, X. Wang*, “ProGAN: Protein solubility generative adversarial nets for data augmentation in DNN framework” Comput. & Chem. Eng. 2019, 131, 106533 (the DOI link)
5. X. Ma, H. Liang, X. Cui, Y. Liu, H. Lu, W. Ning, N. Poon, B. Ho, K. Zhou*, “A standard for near-scarless plasmid construction using reusable DNA parts”, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10(1):1-2 (the DOI link)
4. X. Han, X. Wang*, K. Zhou*, “Develop machine learning based regression predictive models for engineering protein solubility”, Bioinformatics 2019, 35(22):4640-6 (the DOI link)
3. O. Anilionyte#, H. Liang#, X. Ma, L. Yang, K. Zhou*, “Short, auto-inducible promoters for well-controlled protein expression in Escherichia coli”, Appl. Microbiol. and Biotechnol. 2018, 102(16):7007-15 (the DOI link)
2. W. Wang, L. Yao, C. Cheng, T. Zhang, H. Atsumi, L. Wang, G. Wang, O. Anilionyte, H. Steiner, J. Ou, K. Zhou, C. Wawrousek, K. Petrecca, A. M. Belcher, R. Karnik, X. Zhao*, D. I. C. Wang*, H. Ishii*, “Harnessing the hygroscopic and biofluorescent behaviors of genetically tractable microbial cells to design biohybrid wearables”. Sci. Adv. 2017, 3: e1601984. (the DOI link)
1. K. Zhou*, S. Edgar, and G. Stephanopoulos*, “Engineering Microbes to Synthesize Plant Isoprenoids”, Method. Enzymol. 2016, 575: 225-245. (the DOI link)