Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Publications

Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code.
WE Robertson, FBH Rehm, M Spinck, RL Schumann, R Tian, W Liu, Y Gu, AA Kleefeldt, CF Day, KC Liu, Y Christova, JF Zürcher, FL Böge, J Birnbaum, L van Bijsterveldt, JW Chin
Science (New York, N.Y.)
(2025)
390
Genetic Code-Locking Confers Stable Virus Resistance to a Recoded Organism.
JF Zürcher, A Dickson, T Kappes, AA Kleefeldt, KC Liu, GPC Salmond, JW Chin
Biochemistry
(2025)
64
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code
WE Robertson, FBH Rehm, M Spinck, RL Schumann, R Tian, W Liu, Y Gu, AA Kleefeldt, CF Day, KC Liu, Y Christova, JF Zürcher, FL Böge, J Birnbaum, L van Bijsterveldt, JW Chin
(2025)
Automated orthogonal tRNA generation
M Spinck, A Guppy, JW Chin
Nature Chemical Biology
(2024)
21
Author Correction: Creating custom synthetic genomes in Escherichia coli with REXER and GENESIS
WE Robertson, LFH Funke, D de la Torre, J Fredens, K Wang, JW Chin
Nature protocols
(2024)
Engineering Pyrrolysine Systems for Genetic Code Expansion and Reprogramming.
DL Dunkelmann, JW Chin
Chem Rev
(2024)
124
Capturing acyl–enzyme intermediates with genetically encoded 2,3-diaminopropionic acid for hydrolase substrate identification
J Luo, Y Yu, K Wang, S He, L Wang, F Liang, JW Chin, S Tang
Nature protocols
(2024)
19
Establishing a synthetic orthogonal replication system enables accelerated evolution in E. coli
R Tian, FBH Rehm, D Czernecki, Y Gu, JF Zürcher, KC Liu, JW Chin
Science
(2024)
383
Adding α,α-disubstituted and β-linked monomers to the genetic code of an organism
DL Dunkelmann, C Piedrafita, A Dickson, KC Liu, TS Elliott, M Fiedler, D Bellini, A Zhou, D Cervettini, JW Chin
Nature
(2024)
625
Continuous synthesis of E. coli genome sections and Mb-scale human DNA assembly.
JF Zürcher, AA Kleefeldt, LFH Funke, J Birnbaum, J Fredens, S Grazioli, KC Liu, M Spinck, G Petris, P Murat, FBH Rehm, JE Sale, JW Chin
Nature
(2023)
619

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