2008
Leonard, E., Nielsen, D., Solomon, K., and Prather, K. L. J. Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks. Trends Biotechnol. 26(12): 674-681 (2008) DOI:10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.08.003
Rodrigo, G., Carrera, J., Prather, K.L.J., and Jaramillo, A. DESHARKY: Automated design of metabolic pathways for optimal cell growth. Bioinformatics. 24(21): 2554-2556 (2008). DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn471
Prather, K.L.J. and Martin, C.H. De novo biosynthetic pathways: rational design of microbial chemical factories. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 19(5): 468-474 (2008). DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2008.07.009
2006
Prather, K. L. J., Edmonds, M. C., and Herod, J. W. Identification and characterization of IS1 transposition in plasmid amplification mutants of E. coli clones producing DNA vaccines. Appl. Micrbiol. Biotechnol. 73:815-826 (2006).
Montgomery, D. L., and Prather, K. J. “Design of plasmid DNA constructs for vaccines.” in DNA Vaccines: Methods and Protocols (eds. Saltzman, W.M., Shen, H. & Brandsma, J.L.), 2nd Ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2006.
2003
Prather, K. J., Sagar, S., Murphy, J., and Chartrain, M. Industrial scale production of plasmid DNA for vaccine and gene therapy: plasmid design, production, and purification. Enz. Microbiol. Technol. 33: 865-883 (2003). DOI:10.1016/S0141-0229(03)00205-9
2002
Aldor, I.S., Kim, S.-W., Prather, K.L.J., and Keasling, J.D. Metabolic engineering of a novel propionate-independent pathway for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) in recombinant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 68: 3848-3854 (2002).
2000
Jones, K.L., Kim, S.-W., and Keasling, J.D. Low-copy plasmids can perform as well as or better than high-copy plasmids for metabolic engineering of bacteria. Metabolic Engineering. 2: 328-338 (2000).DOI: 10.1006/mben.2000.0161
1998
Carrier, T.A., Jones, K.L., and Keasling, J.D. mRNA stability and plasmid copy number effects on gene expression from an inducible promoter system. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 59: 666-672 (1998). DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0290(19980920)59:6<666::aid-bit2>3.0.co;2-d
Jones, K.L. and Keasling, J.D. Construction and characterization of F plasmid-based expression vectors. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 59: 659-665 (1998).