1. Wang S#, Liang M#, Chen W#, Wan H, Meng X, Zhu X, Lu Y, Shen Q, Jiang C, Xie N, Chen S?, Jia M?, Sun W?, Completing the biosynthesis of the clinically important diterpenoid andrographolide in Andrographis paniculata. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2025: e202425303(IF = 16.1)
2. Li Y#, Mei Y, Schmidt-Dannert M, Lv Y, Peters R?, Jia M?, The pursuit of a hydroxylation switch uncovers a key residue for various product outcomes in the ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Org Lett. 2025, 27, 3942?3946(IF = 4.9).
3. Sun X#, Zhang H, Jia Y, Li J?, Jia M?, CRISPR-Cas9-based genome-editing technologies in engineering bacteria for the production of plant-derived terpenoids. Eng Microbiol. 2024,100154.
4. Mei Y#, Liang M, Li J?, Jia M?. Transcriptome-based mining and functional characterization of class II diterpene synthases from Isodon eriocalyx. Chin Med Biotech. 2024, 19(3):206-213.
5. Muchlinski A#, Jia M#, Tiedge K#, Fell J, Pelot K, Chew L, Davisson D, Chen Y, Siegel J, Lovell J, and Zerbe P*. Cytochrome P450-catalyzed biosynthesis of furanoditerpenoids in the bioenergy crop switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). Plant J. 2021, 108: 1053–68 (IF = 6.417).
6. Jia M#, Zhang Y#, Siegel JB*, Tantillo DJ*, and Peters RJ*. Switching on a nontraditional enzymatic base–deprotonation by serine in the ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum. ACS Catal. 2019, 9:8867-71 (IF = 11.406).
7. Jia M#, Mishra S, Tufts S, Jernigan R, and Peters RJ*. Combinatorial biosynthesis and the basis for substrate promiscuity in class I diterpene synthases. Metab Eng. 2019, 55:44-58 (IF = 7.875).
8. Jia M#, O’Brien TE, Zhang Y, Siegel JB, Tantillo DJ, and Peters RJ*. Changing face: A key residue for the addition of water by sclareol synthase. ACS Catal. 2018, 8:3133-7 (IF = 10.435).
9. Jia M#, Zhou K, Tufts S, Schulte S, and Peters RJ*. A pair of residues that interactively affect diterpene synthase product outcome. ACS Chem. Biol. 2017, 12(3):862-7 (IF = 5.139).
10. Jia M#, Potter KC, and Peters RJ*. Extreme promiscuity of a bacterial and a plant diterpene synthase enables combinatorial biosynthesis. Metab Eng. 2016, 37:24-34 (IF = 7.742).