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  1. Starter Unit Promiscuity of Dictyostelid Type III Polyketide Synthases Generates Diverse Acylphloroglucinols with Antimicrobial Activity

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, August 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  2. Ketoreductase domain mutagenesis reprogrammes chain-length control in alternapyrone biosynthesis

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  3. Mutations in Aristolochene Synthase Promote Hydroxylation of Aristolochene in Aspergillus oryzae

    Article • Chemistry & Biodiversity, January 2025, Wiley

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  4. Distinct roles of tandem acyl carrier protein domains in the assembly of a macrocyclic polylactone

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  5. Disruption of a DUF247 Containing Protein Alters Cell Wall Polysaccharides and Reduces Growth in Arabidopsis

    Article • Plants, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  6. Crystal structure and identification of amino acid residues for catalysis and binding of GH3 AnBX β-xylosidase from Aspergillus niger

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  7. Anthranilic Acid Accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Induced by Expression of a Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene from Paecilomyces cinnamomeus BCC 9616

    Article • ChemBioChem, November 2022, Wiley

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  8. Maillard reaction products-based encapsulant system formed between chitosan and corn syrup solids: Influence of solution pH on formation kinetic and antioxidant activity

    Article • Food Chemistry, November 2022, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  9. Sattahipmycin, a Hexacyclic Xanthone Produced by a Marine-Derived Streptomyces

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, May 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  10. Absolute configuration of azaphilones from Monascus kaoliang KB9 and solvent effects on their keto and enol forms

    Article • Natural Product Research, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  11. C-Methylation controls the biosynthetic programming of alternapyrone

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  12. Combination of 1H and 13C NMR for quantitative analysis of the orange pigments produced by Monascus kaoliang KB9

    Article • Natural Product Research, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  13. Solution Structure and Conformational Dynamics of a Doublet Acyl Carrier Protein from Prodigiosin Biosynthesis

    Article • Biochemistry, January 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  14. SAXS reveals highly flexible interdomain linkers of tandem acyl carrier protein–thioesterase domains from a fungal nonreducing polyketide synthase

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 2020, Wiley

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  15. Synthesis of long-chain alkyl glucosides via reverse hydrolysis reactions catalyzed by an engineered β-glucosidase

    Article • Enzyme and Microbial Technology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  16. Improved synthesis of long-chain alkyl glucosides catalyzed by an engineered β-glucosidase in organic solvents and ionic liquids

    Article • Biotechnology Letters, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  17. The Potency Study of Organotin(IV) 3-Nitrobenzoate Compounds as Antimalarial Agents

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, October 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  18. Sarpeptins A and B, Lipopeptides Produced by Streptomyces sp. KO-7888 Overexpressing a Specific SARP Regulator

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  19. Heterologous biosynthesis of a fungal macrocyclic polylactone requires only two iterative polyketide synthases

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  20. Molecular Characterization and Potential Synthetic Applications of GH1 β-Glucosidase from Higher Termite Microcerotermes annandalei

    Article • Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  21. Structural and Functional Studies of the Daunorubicin Priming Ketosynthase DpsC

    Article • ACS Chemical Biology, December 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  22. Biochemical characterization of plasmepsin V from Plasmodium vivax Thailand isolates: Substrate specificity and enzyme inhibition

    Article • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  23. Cloning, expression and characterization of β-xylosidase from Aspergillus niger ASKU28

    Article • Protein Expression and Purification, November 2015, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  24. Antibacterial activity of cyclo(L-Pro-L-Tyr) and cyclo(D-Pro-L-Tyr) from Streptomyces sp. strain 22-4 against phytopathogenic bacteria

    Article • Natural Product Research, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  25. A conserved motif flags acyl carrier proteins for β-branching in polyketide synthesis

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Miss Joleen Masschelein, Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  26. Biosynthetic Origins of Menisporopsin A

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  27. Overproduction of the N-terminal anticodon-binding domain of the non-discriminating aspartyl-tRNA synthetase from Helicobacter pylori for crystallization and NMR measurements

    Article • Protein Expression and Purification, May 2013, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  28. An Exon Splice Enhancer Primes IGF2:IGF2R Binding Site Structure and Function Evolution

    Article • Science, November 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  29. Recognition of Intermediate Functionality by Acyl Carrier Protein over a Complete Cycle of Fatty Acid Biosynthesis

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, July 2010, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  30. Solution Structure of an Acyl Carrier Protein Domain from a Fungal Type I Polyketide Synthase,

    Article • Biochemistry, February 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  31. Probing the Interactions of Early Polyketide Intermediates with the Actinorhodin ACP from S. coelicolor A3(2)

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn

  32. Proposed Arrangement of Proteins Forming a Bacterial Type II Polyketide Synthase

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Pakorn Wattana-Amorn