Zachary L. Reitz, Ph.D.

Bioinformatician with expertise in bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis

Research Expertise

Metallophores
Secondary Metabolism
Biosynthesis
Bioinformatics
Bacterial Evolution
Genetics
Metals and Alloys
Biomaterials
Biophysics
Biochemistry
Ceramics and Composites
Catalysis
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Materials Chemistry
Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology
Bioengineering
Inorganic Chemistry
Drug Discovery
Molecular Medicine
Pharmacology
Complementary and alternative medicine
Organic Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Science
Analytical Chemistry
Automotive Engineering
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology

Publications

antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation
Nucleic Acids Research
2023
MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters
Nucleic Acids Research
2022
Biosynthetic considerations of triscatechol siderophores framed on serine and threonine macrolactone scaffolds
Metallomics
2017
Genomic analysis of siderophore β-hydroxylases reveals divergent stereocontrol and expands the condensation domain family
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019
Precursor-directed biosynthesis of catechol compounds in Acinetobacter bouvetii DSM 14964
Chemical Communications
2020
Genome mining strategies for metallophore discovery
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
2022
Genomics-driven discovery of chiral triscatechol siderophores with enantiomeric Fe(iii) coordination
Chemical Science
2021
Amphi-enterobactin commonly produced among Vibrio campbellii and Vibrio harveyi strains can be taken up by a novel outer membrane protein FapA that also can transport canonical Fe(III)-enterobactin
JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2018
Ruckerbactin Produced by Yersinia ruckeri YRB Is a Diastereomer of the Siderophore Trivanchrobactin Produced by Vibrio campbellii DS40M4
Journal of Natural Products
2021
Discovery and characterization of the first known biological lanthanide chelator
Unknown Venue
2022
Automated genome mining predicts combinatorial diversity and taxonomic distribution of peptide metallophore structures
Unknown Venue
2022
Gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis
ISME Communications
2023
Mining elements of siderophore chirality encoded in microbial genomes
FEBS Letters
2022
Specialized metabolic convergence in the gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA)
Unknown Venue
2022

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D., Chemistry / December, 2020

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Experience

Wageningen University

Postdoctoral Researcher / March, 2021September, 2023

University of California, Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Researcher / October, 2023Present

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