[29] Avilan, L., Lichtenstein, B.R., Koenig, G., Zahn, M., Allen, M.D., Oliveira, L., Clark, M., Bemmer, V., Graham, R., Austin, H.P., Dominick, G., Johnson, C.W., Beckham, G.T., McGeehan, J., Pickford, A.R. (2023). Concentration-dependent inhibition of mesophilic PETases on poly(ethylene terephthalate) can be eliminated by enzyme engineering. ChemSusChem., 16(8).

[28] McNaught, K.J., Kuatsjah, E., Zahn, M., Prates, É.T., Shao, H., Bentley, G.J., Pickford, A.R., Gruber, J.N., Hestmark, K.V., Jacobson, D.A., Poirier, B.C., Ling, C., San Marchi, M., Michener, W.E., Nicora, C.D., Sanders, J.N., Szostkiewicz, C.J., Veličković, D., Zhou, M., Munoz, N., Kim, Y.M., Magnuson, J.K., Burnum-Johnson, K.E., Houk, K.N., McGeehan, J.E., Johnson, C.W., Beckham, G.T. (2023). Initiation of fatty acid biosynthesis in Pseudomonas putida KT2440.  Metab Eng., 76:193-203.

[27] Kuatsjah, E., Zahn, M., Chen, X., Kato, R., Hinchen, D.J., Konev, M.O., Katahira, R., Orr, C., Wagner, A., Zou, Y., Haugen, S.J., Ramirez, K.J., Michener, J.K., Pickford, A.R., Kamimura, N., Masai, E., Houk, K.N., McGeehan, J.E., Beckham, G.T. (2023). Biochemical and structural characterization of a sphingomonad diarylpropane lyase for cofactorless deformylation. PNAS, 120(4).

[26] Erickson, E., Gado, J.E., Avilán, L., Bratti, F., Brizendine, R.K., Cox, P.A., Gill, R., Graham, R., Kim, D.J., König, G., Michener, W.E., Poudel, S., Ramirez, K.J., Shakespeare, T.J., Zahn, M., Boyd, E.S., Payne, C.M., DuBois, J.L., Pickford, A.R., Beckham, G.T., McGeehan, J.E.. (2022). Sourcing thermotolerant poly(ethylene terephthalate) hydrolase scaffolds from natural diversity. Nat Commun. 13(1):7850.

[25] Bleem, A., Kuatsjah, E., Presley, G. N., Hinchen, D. J., Zahn, M., Garcia, D. C., Michener, W. E., Koenig, G., Tornesakis, K., Allemann, M. N., Giannone, R. J., McGeehan, J., Beckham, G. T. & Michener, J. K. (2022). Discovery, characterization, and metabolic engineering of Rieske non-heme iron monooxygenases for guaiacol O-demethylation. Chem Catalysis.

[24] Navas, L.E., Zahn, M., Bajwa, H., Grigg, J.C., Wolf, M.E., Chan, A., Murphy, M.E.P., McGeehan, J.E., Eltis, L.D. (2022). Characterization of a phylogenetically distinct extradiol dioxygenase involved in the bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived aromatic compounds.  J Biol Chem., 298(5):101871.

[23] Kincannon, W.M.*, Zahn, M.*, Clare, R., Romberg, A., Larson, J., Lusty-Beech, J., Bothner, B., Beckham, G.T., McGeehan, J.E., DuBois, J.L. (2022). Biochemical and structural characterization of an aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase for terephthalic acid catabolism. PNAS. 119(13).
(*Authors share first authorship)

[22] Zahn, M., König, G., Pham, H. V. C., Seroka, B., Lazny, R., Yang, G., Ouerfelli, O., Lotowski, Z. & Rohwerder, T. (2022). Mechanistic details of the actinobacterial lyase-catalyzed degradation reaction of 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA. J Biol Chem., 298 (1).

[21] Erickson, E., Shakespeare, T. J., Bratti, F., Buss, B., Graham, R., Hawkins, M., Koenig, G., Michener, W. E., Miscall, J., Ramirez, K., Rorrer, N. A., Zahn, M., Pickford, A., McGeehan, J. & Beckham, G.T. (2022). Comparative performance of PETase as a function of reaction conditions, substrate properties, and product accumulation. ChemSusChem, 15 (1).

[20] Kuatsjah, E., Johnson, C. W., Salvachúa, D., Werner, A., Zahn, M., Szostkiewicz, C. J., Singer, C. A., Dominick, G., Okekeogbu, I., Haugen, S. J., Woodworth, S. P., Ramirez, K. J., Giannone, R. J., Hettich, R. L., McGeehan, J. & Beckham, G.T. (2022). Debottlenecking 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylation in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 improves muconate productivity from p-coumarate. Metab Eng., 70:31-42.

[19] Ryan, M. D., Parkes, A. L., Corbett, D., Dickie, A. P., Southey, M., Andersen, O. A., Stein, D. B., Barbeau, O. R., Sanzone, A., Thommes, P., Barker, J., Cain, R., Compper, C., Dejob, M., Dorali, A., Etheridge, D., Evans, S., Faulkner, A., Gadouleau, E., Gorman, T., Haase, D., Holbrow-wilshaw, M., Krulle, T., Li, X., Lumley, C., Mertins, B., Napier, S., Odedra, R., Papadopoulos, K., Roumpelakis, V., Spear, K., Trimby, E., Williams, J., Zahn, M., Keefe, A. D., Zhang, Y., Soutter, H. T., Centrella, P. A., Clark, M. A., Cuozzo, J. W., Dumelin, C. E., Deng, B., Hunt, A., Sigel, E. A., Troast, D. M. & Dejonge, B. L. (2021). Discovery of novel UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine Acyltransferase (LpxA) inhibitors with activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Med Chem., 64(19):14377-14425.

[18] Gray, D.A., White, J.B., Oluwole, A.O., Rath, P., Glenwright, A.J., Mazur, A., Zahn, M., Baslé, A., Morland, C., Evans, S.L., Cartmell, A., Robinson, C.V., Hiller, S., Ranson, N.A., Bolam, D.N., van den Berg, B. (2021). Insights into SusCD-mediated glycan import by a prominent gut symbiont.  Nat Commun., 12(1):44.

[17] Luther, A., Urfer, M., Zahn, M., Müller, M., Wang, S.Y., Mondal, M., Vitale, A., Hartmann, J.B., Sharpe, T., Monte, F.L., Kocherla, H., Cline, E., Pessi, G., Rath, P., Modaresi, S.M., Chiquet, P., Stiegeler, S., Verbree, C., Remus, T., Schmitt, M., Kolopp, C., Westwood, M.A., Desjonquères, N., Brabet, E., Hell, S., LePoupon, K., Vermeulen, A., Jaisson, R., Rithié, V., Upert, G., Lederer, A., Zbinden, P., Wach, A., Moehle, K., Zerbe, K., Locher, H.H., Bernardini, F., Dale, G.E., Eberl, L., Wollscheid, B., Hiller, S., Robinson, J.A., Obrecht, D. (2019). Chimeric peptidomimetic antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria. Nature, 576(7787):452-458.

[16] Zahn, M., Kurteva-Yaneva, N., Schuster, J., Krug, U., Georgi, T., Müller, R.H., Rohwerder, T., Sträter, N. (2019). Structures of 2-Hydroxyisobutyric Acid-CoA Ligase Reveal Determinants of Substrate Specificity and Describe a Multi-Conformational Catalytic Cycle. J Mol Biol, 431(15):2747-2761.

[15] Kaur, H. *, Hartmann, J.-B. *, Jakob, R.P. *, Zahn, M. *, Zimmermann, I., Maier, T., Seeger, M.A., Hiller, S. (2019). Identification of conformation-selective nanobodies against the membrane protein insertase BamA by an integrated structural biology approach. J Biomol NMR, 73(6-7):375-384.
(*Authors share first authorship)

[14] Bhamidimarri, S.P., Zahn, M., Prajapati, J.D., Schleberger, C., Söderholm, S., Hoover, J., West, J., Kleinekathöfer, U., Bumann, D., Winterhalter, M., van den Berg, B. (2019). A Multidisciplinary Approach toward Identification of Antibiotic Scaffolds for Acinetobacter baumannii. Structure. 27(2): 268-280.

[13] Abellón-Ruiz, J., Zahn, M., Baslé, A., van den Berg, B. (2018). Crystal structure of the Acinetobacter baumannii outer membrane protein Omp33. Acta Cryst. D74, 852-860.

[12] Hartmann, J.-B.*, Zahn, M.*, Burmann, I.M., Bibow, S., Hiller, S. (2018). Sequence-specific solution NMR assignments of the β-barrel insertase BamA to monitor its conformational ensemble at the atomic level. J Am Chem Soc., 140 (36):11252-11260.
(*Both authors share first authorship)

[11] Acosta, S., Ferrara, L., Pathania, M., Masi, M., Wang, J., Bodrenko, I., Zahn, M., Winterhalter, M., Stavenger, R.A., Pages, J.M., Naismith, J.H., van den Berg, B., Page, M., Ceccarelli, M. (2018). Getting drugs into Gram-negative bacteria: Rational rules for permeation through general porins. ACS Infect Dis., 4 (10):1487-1498.

[10] Aunkham, A.*, Zahn, M.*, Kesireddy, A., Pothula, K.R., Schulte, A., Baslé, A., Kleinekathöfer, U., Suginta, W., van den Berg, B. (2018). Structural basis for chitin acquisition by marine Vibrio species. Nat Commun., 9 (1):220.
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[9] Zahn, M., Bhamidimarri, S.P., Baslé, A., Winterhalter, M., van den Berg, B. (2016). Structural Insights into Outer Membrane permeability of Acinetobacter baumannii. Structure, 24 (2), 221-31.

[8] Zahn, M., D'Agostino, T., Eren, E., Baslé, A., Ceccarelli, M., van den Berg, B. (2015). Small-Molecule Transport by CarO, an Abundant Eight-Stranded β-Barrel Outer Membrane Protein from Acinetobacter baumannii. J. Mol. Biol., 427 (14), 2329-39.

[7] Kurteva-Yaneva, N.*, Zahn, M.*, Weichler, M.T., Starke, R., Harms, H., Müller, R.H., Sträter, N., Rohwerder, T. (2015). Structural Basis of the Stereospecificity of Bacterial B12-dependent 2-Hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA Mutase. J. Biol. Chem., 290 (15), 9727-37.
(*Both authors share first authorship)

[6] Schwan, G., Barbar Asskar, G., Höfgen, N., Kubicova, L., Funke, U., Egerland, U., Zahn, M., Nieber, K., Scheunemann, M., Sträter, N., Brust, P., Briel, D. (2014). Fluorine-containing 6,7-dialkoxybiaryl-based inhibitors for phosphodiesterase 10 A: synthesis and in vitro evaluation of inhibitory potency, selectivity, and metabolism. ChemMedChem., 9, 1476-1487.

[5] Zahn, M., Kieslich, B., Berthold, N., Knappe, D., Hoffmann, R., Strater N. (2014). Structural identification of DnaK binding sites within bovine and sheep bactenecin Bac7. Protein Pept Lett., 21, 407-412.

[4] Zahn, M., Berthold, N., Kieslich, B., Knappe, D., Hoffmann, R., Sträter, N. (2013). Structural studies on the forward and reverse binding modes of proline rich antimicrobial peptides to the chaperone DnaK. J. Mol. Biol., 425, 2463-2479.

[3] Simeonov, P., Zahn, M., Sträter, N. & Zuchner, T. (2012). Crystal structure of a supercharged variant of the human enteropeptidase light chain. Proteins, 80, 1907-1910.

[2] Czihal, P., Knappe, D., Fritsche, S., Zahn, M., Berthold, N., Piantavigna, S., Müller, U., Van Dorpe, S., Herth, N., Binas, A., Kohler, G., De Spiegeleer, B., Martin, L. L., Nolte, O., Sträter, N., Alber, G. & Hoffmann, R. (2012). Api88 is a novel antibacterial designer peptide to treat systemic infections with multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens. ACS Chem. Biol., 7, 1281-1291.

[1] Knappe, D., Zahn, M., Sauer, U., Schiffer, G., Sträter, N. & Hoffmann, R. (2011). Rational design of oncocin derivatives with superior protease stabilities and antibacterial activities based on the high-resolution structure of the oncocin-DnaK complex. Chembiochem., 12, 874-876.