John E. Dueber

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
44 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

John E. Dueber is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Dueber has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in John E. Dueber's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). John E. Dueber is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). John E. Dueber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Denmark. John E. Dueber's co-authors include William C. DeLoache, Michael E. Lee, Wendell A. Lim, Kristala L. J. Prather, Gabriel C. Wu, Tae Seok Moon, Jay D. Keasling, Bernardo Cervantes, Zachary N. Russ and G. Reza Malmirchegini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John E. Dueber

44 papers receiving 6.3k 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 John E. Dueber, Gabriel C. Wu et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds

2014 734 citations Jesse G. Zalatan, Michael E. Lee et al. Cell profile →
A Highly Characterized Yeast Toolkit for Modular, Multipart Assembly

2015 599 citations Michael E. Lee, William C. DeLoache et al. profile →
De novo design of bioactive protein switches

2019 185 citations Robert A. Langan, Scott E. Boyken et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Dueber United States	32	5.6k	965	707	545	538	44	6.4k
Christina D. Smolke United States	49	7.0k 1.2×	957 1.0×	798 1.1×	525 1.0×	1.2k 2.3×	97	7.8k
Kristala L. J. Prather United States	43	6.0k 1.1×	2.2k 2.3×	852 1.2×	734 1.3×	449 0.8×	122	7.1k
Herman van Tilbeurgh France	48	4.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	594 0.8×	977 1.8×	347 0.6×	148	6.5k
Anton Glieder Austria	48	6.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	392 0.6×	860 1.6×	389 0.7×	161	7.4k
Blaine A. Pfeifer United States	33	4.9k 0.9×	942 1.0×	592 0.8×	706 1.3×	2.2k 4.1×	115	6.2k
Tom Ellis United Kingdom	37	3.7k 0.7×	910 0.9×	860 1.2×	411 0.8×	163 0.3×	91	4.8k
Keith E. J. Tyo United States	29	4.3k 0.8×	844 0.9×	380 0.5×	522 1.0×	929 1.7×	70	4.9k
Xueqin Lv China	36	2.7k 0.5×	718 0.7×	589 0.8×	496 0.9×	139 0.3×	187	4.0k
Michael C. Jewett United States	61	10.3k 1.8×	1.7k 1.8×	1.6k 2.3×	928 1.7×	532 1.0×	214	11.5k
Amir Aharoni Israel	25	2.6k 0.5×	348 0.4×	354 0.5×	211 0.4×	272 0.5×	75	4.0k

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Siu, Ka‐Hei, Victoria Lee, & John E. Dueber. (2025). Functional targeting of membrane transporters and enzymes to peroxisomes. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(10). 1544–1553. 2 indexed citations

Guan, Jianguo, et al.. (2025). Nickase fidelity drives EvolvR-mediated diversification in mammalian cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3723–3723. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Jie, et al.. (2024). ML-enhanced peroxisome capacity enables compartmentalization of multienzyme pathway. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(5). 727–735. 14 indexed citations

Pyne, Michael E., Kaspar Kevvai, Parbir S. Grewal, et al.. (2020). A yeast platform for high-level synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3337–3337. 117 indexed citations

Grewal, Parbir S., et al.. (2020). Peroxisome compartmentalization of a toxic enzyme improves alkaloid production. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(1). 96–103. 106 indexed citations

Protzko, Ryan J., Samuel T. Coradetti, Nils Thieme, et al.. (2019). Genomewide and Enzymatic Analysis Reveals Efficient d -Galacturonic Acid Metabolism in the Basidiomycete Yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides. mSystems. 4(6). 23 indexed citations

Langan, Robert A., Scott E. Boyken, Andrew H. Ng, et al.. (2019). De novo design of bioactive protein switches. Nature. 572(7768). 205–210. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

Protzko, Ryan J., et al.. (2019). Iterative screening methodology enables isolation of strains with improved properties for a FACS-based screen and increased L-DOPA production. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5815–5815. 26 indexed citations

Ng, Andrew H., Taylor H. Nguyen, Mariana Gómez-Schiavon, et al.. (2019). Modular and tunable biological feedback control using a de novo protein switch. Nature. 572(7768). 265–269. 87 indexed citations

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Grewal, Parbir S., Cyrus Modavi, Zachary N. Russ, Nicholas C. Harris, & John E. Dueber. (2017). Bioproduction of a betalain color palette in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering. 45. 180–188. 76 indexed citations

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Narcross, Lauren, et al.. (2016). Microbial Factories for the Production of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids. Trends in biotechnology. 34(3). 228–241. 63 indexed citations

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DeLoache, William C., Zachary N. Russ, & John E. Dueber. (2016). Towards repurposing the yeast peroxisome for compartmentalizing heterologous metabolic pathways. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11152–11152. 157 indexed citations

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DeLoache, William C., et al.. (2015). An enzyme-coupled biosensor enables (S)-reticuline production in yeast from glucose. Nature Chemical Biology. 11(7). 465–471. 280 indexed citations

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Benz, J. Philipp, et al.. (2014). Identification and characterization of a galacturonic acid transporter from Neurospora crassa and its application for Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation processes. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 20–20. 52 indexed citations

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Zalatan, Jesse G., Michael E. Lee, Ricardo Almeida, et al.. (2014). Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds. Cell. 160(1-2). 339–350. 734 indexed citations breakdown →

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Conrado, Robert, Gabriel C. Wu, Jason T. Boock, et al.. (2011). DNA-guided assembly of biosynthetic pathways promotes improved catalytic efficiency. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(4). 1879–1889. 221 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R. & John E. Dueber. (2011). Metabolic Pathway Flux Enhancement by Synthetic Protein Scaffolding. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 497. 447–468. 32 indexed citations

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Anderson, J. Christopher, John E. Dueber, Mariana Leguía, et al.. (2010). BglBricks: A flexible standard for biological part assembly. Journal of Biological Engineering. 4(1). 1–1. 335 indexed citations

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Moon, Tae Seok, John E. Dueber, Eric Shiue, & Kristala L. J. Prather. (2010). Use of modular, synthetic scaffolds for improved production of glucaric acid in engineered E. coli. Metabolic Engineering. 12(3). 298–305. 236 indexed citations

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Dueber, John E., Ethan A. Mirsky, & Wendell A. Lim. (2007). Engineering synthetic signaling proteins with ultrasensitive input/output control. Nature Biotechnology. 25(6). 660–662. 105 indexed citations

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