Christopher J. Petzold

13.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
175 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Petzold is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Petzold has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 28 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Petzold's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (67 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (33 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (27 papers). Christopher J. Petzold is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (67 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (33 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (27 papers). Christopher J. Petzold collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and China. Christopher J. Petzold's co-authors include Jay D. Keasling, Paul D. Adams, Tanveer S. Batth, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Taek Soon Lee, Leanne Jade G. Chan, G. Reza Malmirchegini, Kristala L. J. Prather and Gabriel C. Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Petzold

168 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux

2009 989 citations Christopher J. Petzold, Jay D. Keasling et al. profile →
Engineering dynamic pathway regulation using stress-response promoters

2013 385 citations Fuzhong Zhang, Jorge Alonso-Gutiérrez et al. profile →

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Jean François France

Karl‐Erich Jaeger Germany

Bo Jiang China

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay United States

Isabel Sá‐Correia Portugal

Michael D. Burkart United States

Peter Macheroux Austria

Michael Bott Germany

Mosé Rossi Italy

David B. Archer United Kingdom

Jean François France

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Countries citing papers authored by Christopher J. Petzold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher J. Petzold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher J. Petzold

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher J. Petzold. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher J. Petzold based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher J. Petzold. Christopher J. Petzold is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carr, Alex V., Kristopher A. Hunt, Yan Chen, et al.. (2025). Emergence and disruption of cooperativity in a denitrifying microbial community. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 1 indexed citations

Dan, Qingyun, Namil Lee, J.H. Pereira, et al.. (2025). A polyketide-based biosynthetic platform for diols, amino alcohols and hydroxy acids. Nature Catalysis. 8(2). 147–161. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yan, Jennifer Gin, Emine Akyüz Turumtay, et al.. (2025). Biosensor-driven strain engineering reveals key cellular processes for maximizing isoprenol production in Pseudomonas putida. Science Advances. 11(43). eady2677–eady2677. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yan, Jennifer Gin, Ian Sofian Yunus, et al.. (2025). Automation and machine learning drive rapid optimization of isoprenol production in Pseudomonas putida. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11489–11489.

Winegar, Peter H., Graham A. Hudson, M. Astolfi, et al.. (2024). Verazine biosynthesis from simple sugars in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering. 85. 145–158. 10 indexed citations

Gupta, Sayan, et al.. (2024). Residue-Specific Epitope Mapping of the PD-1/Nivolumab Interaction Using X-ray Footprinting Mass Spectrometry. Antibodies. 13(3). 77–77.

Turumtay, Emine Akyüz, Chien-Yuan Lin, Yen Ning Chai, et al.. (2024). Expression of dehydroshikimate dehydratase in poplar induces transcriptional and metabolic changes in the phenylpropanoid pathway. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(16). 4960–4977. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yan, et al.. (2023). Expression of blue pigment synthetase a from Streptomyces lavenduale reveals insights on the effects of refactoring biosynthetic megasynthases for heterologous expression in Escherichia coli.. Protein Expression and Purification. 210. 106317–106317. 7 indexed citations

Lee, Namil, Chunjun Zhan, Yan Chen, et al.. (2023). Maximizing Heterologous Expression of Engineered Type I Polyketide Synthases: Investigating Codon Optimization Strategies. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(11). 3366–3380. 16 indexed citations

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Farquhar, Erik R., Rohit Jain, Michael Sullivan, et al.. (2022). An automated liquid jet for fluorescence dosimetry and microsecond radiolytic labeling of proteins. Communications Biology. 5(1). 866–866. 7 indexed citations

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Ha, Noel S., et al.. (2021). Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology. RSC Chemical Biology. 2(5). 1331–1351. 30 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, Mette Kristensen, Konstantin Schneider, et al.. (2020). Systems Analysis of NADH Dehydrogenase Mutants Reveals Flexibility and Limits of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120’s Metabolism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(11). 4 indexed citations

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Jakočiūnas, Tadas, Andreas Klitgaard, Julie B. Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Programmable polyketide biosynthesis platform for production of aromatic compounds in yeast. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 5(1). 11–18. 19 indexed citations

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Parsons, Harriet T., Tim J. Stevens, Heather E. McFarlane, et al.. (2019). Separating Golgi Proteins from Cis to Trans Reveals Underlying Properties of Cisternal Localization. The Plant Cell. 31(9). 2010–2034. 36 indexed citations

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Thompson, Mitchell G., Jacquelyn M. Blake-Hedges, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, et al.. (2019). Massively Parallel Fitness Profiling Reveals Multiple Novel Enzymes in Pseudomonas putida Lysine Metabolism. mBio. 10(3). 47 indexed citations

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Luu, Dee Dee, Anna Joe, Yan Chen, et al.. (2019). Biosynthesis and secretion of the microbial sulfated peptide RaxX and binding to the rice XA21 immune receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(17). 8525–8534. 67 indexed citations

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Budin, Itay, Tristan de Rond, Yan Chen, et al.. (2018). Viscous control of cellular respiration by membrane lipid composition. Science. 362(6419). 1186–1189. 155 indexed citations

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Alonso-Gutiérrez, Jorge, Daisuke Koma, Qijun Hu, et al.. (2017). Toward industrial production of isoprenoids in Escherichia coli: Lessons learned from CRISPR‐Cas9 based optimization of a chromosomally integrated mevalonate pathway. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 115(4). 1000–1013. 34 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fuzhong, Mario Ouellet, Tanveer S. Batth, et al.. (2012). Enhancing fatty acid production by the expression of the regulatory transcription factor FadR. Metabolic Engineering. 14(6). 653–660. 145 indexed citations

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McKee, Adrienne E., Dylan Chivian, Darmawi Juminaga, et al.. (2012). Manipulation of the carbon storage regulator system for metabolite remodeling and biofuel production in Escherichia coli. Microbial Cell Factories. 11(1). 79–79. 50 indexed citations

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