| Design and construction of acetyl-CoA overproducing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains J Lian, T Si, NU Nair, H Zhao Metabolic engineering 24, 139-149, 2014 | 255 | 2014 |
| Cloning and characterization of a panel of constitutive promoters for applications in pathway engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae J Sun, Z Shao, H Zhao, N Nair, F Wen, JH Xu, H Zhao Biotechnology and bioengineering 109 (8), 2082-2092, 2012 | 221 | 2012 |
| Protein engineering in designing tailored enzymes and microorganisms for biofuels production F Wen, NU Nair, H Zhao Current opinion in biotechnology 20 (4), 412-419, 2009 | 151 | 2009 |
| Synthetic biology approaches to engineer probiotics and members of the human microbiota for biomedical applications JR Bober, CL Beisel, NU Nair Annual review of biomedical engineering 20 (1), 277-300, 2018 | 113 | 2018 |
| Synthetic biology in probiotic lactic acid bacteria: At the frontier of living therapeutics ZJS Mays, NU Nair Current opinion in biotechnology 53, 224-231, 2018 | 99 | 2018 |
| Selective reduction of xylose to xylitol from a mixture of hemicellulosic sugars NU Nair, H Zhao Metabolic engineering 12 (5), 462-468, 2010 | 82 | 2010 |
| Evolution in Reverse: Engineering a D‐Xylose‐Specific Xylose Reductase NU Nair, H Zhao ChemBioChem 9 (8), 1213-1215, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Toward a genetic tool development pipeline for host-associated bacteria MC Waller, JR Bober, NU Nair, CL Beisel Current Opinion in Microbiology 38, 156-164, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Galactose to tagatose isomerization at moderate temperatures with high conversion and productivity JR Bober, NU Nair Nature Communications 10 (1), 4548, 2019 | 49 | 2019 |
| Quantifying and engineering mucus adhesion of probiotics ZJS Mays, TC Chappell, NU Nair ACS synthetic biology 9 (2), 356-367, 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
| Pentose Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Need to Engineer Global Regulatory Systems V Endalur Gopinarayanan, NU Nair Biotechnology journal 14 (1), 1800364, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Mutagenic inverted repeat assisted genome engineering (MIRAGE) NU Nair, H Zhao Nucleic acids research 37 (1), e9-e9, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Crystal structures of phosphite dehydrogenase provide insights into nicotinamide cofactor regeneration Y Zou, H Zhang, JS Brunzelle, TW Johannes, R Woodyer, JE Hung, ... Biochemistry 51 (21), 4263-4270, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| A semi-synthetic regulon enables rapid growth of yeast on xylose V Endalur Gopinarayanan, NU Nair Nature communications 9 (1), 1233, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| The primary σ factor in Escherichia coli can access the transcription elongation complex from solution in vivo SR Goldman, NU Nair, CD Wells, BE Nickels, A Hochschild Elife 4, e10514, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Engineered lactobacilli display anti-biofilm and growth suppressing activities against Pseudomonas aeruginosa TC Chappell, NU Nair npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 6 (1), 48, 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
| Directed evolution of Anabaena variabilis phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) identifies mutants with enhanced activities ZJS Mays, K Mohan, VD Trivedi, TC Chappell, NU Nair Chemical Communications 56 (39), 5255-5258, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| Biochemical Characterization of an l-Xylulose Reductase from Neurospora crassa N Nair, H Zhao Applied and environmental microbiology 73 (6), 2001-2004, 2007 | 27* | 2007 |
| In-Depth Sequence–Function Characterization Reveals Multiple Pathways to Enhance Enzymatic Activity VD Trivedi, TC Chappell, NB Krishna, A Shetty, GG Sigamani, K Mohan, ... ACS catalysis 12 (4), 2381-2396, 2022 | 21* | 2022 |
| Towards creating an extended metabolic model (EMM) for E. coli using enzyme promiscuity prediction and metabolomics data SA Amin, E Chavez, V Porokhin, NU Nair, S Hassoun Microbial cell factories 18, 1-12, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
Huimin ZhaoSteven L. Miller Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignVerified email at uiuc.edu
