Vinayak Agarwal

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Vinayak Agarwal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vinayak Agarwal has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Pharmacology and 25 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Vinayak Agarwal's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (36 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (21 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (13 papers). Vinayak Agarwal is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (36 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (21 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (13 papers). Vinayak Agarwal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Guam and Russia. Vinayak Agarwal's co-authors include Bradley S. Moore, Satish K. Nair, Eric E. Allen, Michelle Schorn, Eric W. Schmidt, Jaclyn M. Winter, Zachary D. Miles, Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Valerie J. Paul and Jason S. Biggs and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Vinayak Agarwal

73 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Enzymatic Halogenation and Dehalogenation Reactions: Pervasive and Mechanistically Diverse

2017 320 citations Vinayak Agarwal, Bradley S. Moore et al. profile →

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Alessandra S. Eustáquio United States

José J. Fernández Spain

Tatsufumi Okino Japan

Jaclyn M. Winter United States

Robin Teufel Germany

Maria Letizia Ciavatta Italy

Nobuya Itoh Japan

Manuel Norte Spain

Keishi Ishida Germany

Antonio Hernández Daranas Spain

Alessandra S. Eustáquio United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vinayak Agarwal

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Hongwei, et al.. (2025). Large protein-like leader peptides engage differently with RiPP halogenases and lanthionine synthetases. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9273–9273. 1 indexed citations

Zhong, Weimao, Zhenjian Lin, Eric W. Schmidt, & Vinayak Agarwal. (2025). Discovery, biosynthesis, and bioactivities of peptidic natural products from marine sponges and sponge-associated bacteria. Natural Product Reports. 42(12). 2034–2074.

Zhong, Weimao, Ipsita Mohanty, Samuel G. Moore, et al.. (2024). Discovery and Folding Dynamics of a Fused Bicyclic Cysteine Knot Undecapeptide from the Marine Sponge Halichondria bowerbanki. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 89(17). 12748–12752. 3 indexed citations

Agarwal, Vinayak, et al.. (2024). Gatekeeping Activity of Collinear Ketosynthase Domains Limits Product Diversity for Engineered Type I Polyketide Synthases. Biochemistry. 63(18). 2240–2244. 3 indexed citations

Dishon, Gal, et al.. (2024). The effects of temperature and CO₂ enrichment on the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis from Southern California with implications for aquaculture. Journal of Phycology. 60(6). 1567–1584. 5 indexed citations

Zhong, Weimao, et al.. (2024). Activity and Biocatalytic Potential of an Indolylamide Generating Thioesterase. Organic Letters. 26(43). 9378–9382. 5 indexed citations

Zhong, Weimao, Ipsita Mohanty, Samuel G. Moore, et al.. (2023). Discovery and Biosynthesis of Ureidopeptide Natural Products Macrocyclized via Indole N‐acylation in Marine Microbulbifer spp. Bacteria. ChemBioChem. 24(12). e202300190–e202300190. 11 indexed citations

Agarwal, Vinayak, et al.. (2023). Biosynthesis-Guided Discovery and Engineering of α-Pyrone Natural Products from Type I Polyketide Synthases. ACS Chemical Biology. 18(5). 1060–1065. 5 indexed citations

Gutekunst, Will R., et al.. (2022). A Nonfunctional Halogenase Masquerades as an Aromatizing Dehydratase in Biosynthesis of Pyrrolic Polyketides by Type I Polyketide Synthases. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(6). 1351–1356. 7 indexed citations

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Acharya, Atanu, et al.. (2022). Resolving the Hydride Transfer Pathway in Oxidative Conversion of Proline to Pyrrole. Biochemistry. 61(3). 206–215. 5 indexed citations

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Garg, Neha, et al.. (2022). A Silent Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from a Methanotrophic Bacterium Potentiates Discovery of a Substrate Promiscuous Proteusin Cyclodehydratase. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(6). 1577–1585. 21 indexed citations

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Mohanty, Ipsita, Subhasish Tapadar, Samuel G. Moore, et al.. (2021). Presence of Bromotyrosine Alkaloids in Marine Sponges Is Independent of Metabolomic and Microbiome Architectures. mSystems. 6(2). 22 indexed citations

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Thapa, Hem R. & Vinayak Agarwal. (2021). Obligate Brominating Enzymes Underlie Bromoform Production by Marine Cyanobacteria. Journal of Phycology. 57(4). 1131–1139. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhenjian, et al.. (2021). An Obligate Peptidyl Brominase Underlies the Discovery of Highly Distributed Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Marine Sponge Microbiomes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(27). 10221–10231. 31 indexed citations

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Acharya, Atanu, et al.. (2021). Gatekeeping Ketosynthases Dictate Initiation of Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Pyrrolic Polyketides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(20). 7617–7622. 14 indexed citations

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Thapa, Hem R., et al.. (2020). Genetic and Biochemical Reconstitution of Bromoform Biosynthesis in Asparagopsis Lends Insights into Seaweed Reactive Oxygen Species Enzymology. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(6). 1662–1670. 35 indexed citations

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Mohanty, Ipsita, Sheila Podell, Jason S. Biggs, et al.. (2020). Multi-Omic Profiling of Melophlus Sponges Reveals Diverse Metabolomic and Microbiome Architectures that Are Non-overlapping with Ecological Neighbors. Marine Drugs. 18(2). 124–124. 24 indexed citations

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Thapa, Hem R., John M. Robbins, Bradley S. Moore, & Vinayak Agarwal. (2019). Insights into Thiotemplated Pyrrole Biosynthesis Gained from the Crystal Structure of Flavin-Dependent Oxidase in Complex with Carrier Protein. Biochemistry. 58(7). 918–929. 12 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Vinayak, et al.. (2019). Sulfonation and glucuronidation of hydroxylated bromodiphenyl ethers in human liver. Chemosphere. 226. 132–139. 7 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Vinayak, Stefan Diethelm, Imran R. Rahman, et al.. (2016). Biosynthesis of coral settlement cue tetrabromopyrrole in marine bacteria by a uniquely adapted brominase–thioesterase enzyme pair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(14). 3797–3802. 81 indexed citations

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