Solving the conundrum: Widespread proteins annotated for urea metabolism in bacteria are carboxyguanidine deiminases mediating nitrogen assimilation from guanidine NO Schneider, LJ Tassoulas, D Zeng, AJ Laseke, NJ Reiter, LP Wackett, ... Biochemistry 59 (35), 3258-3270, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
Filling in the gaps in metformin biodegradation: A new enzyme and a metabolic pathway for guanylurea LJ Tassoulas, A Robinson, B Martinez-Vaz, KG Aukema, LP Wackett Applied and environmental microbiology 87 (11), e03003-20, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
Cyanuric acid biodegradation via biuret: Physiology, taxonomy, and geospatial distribution KG Aukema, LJ Tassoulas, SL Robinson, JF Konopatski, MD Bygd, ... Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86 (2), e01964-19, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
Wastewater bacteria remediating the pharmaceutical metformin: Genomes, plasmids and products BM Martinez-Vaz, AG Dodge, RM Lucero, RB Stockbridge, AA Robinson, ... Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 10, 1086261, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
Microbial biodegradation of biuret: defining biuret hydrolases within the isochorismatase superfamily SL Robinson, JP Badalamenti, AG Dodge, LJ Tassoulas, LP Wackett Environmental microbiology 20 (6), 2099-2111, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
Discovery of an ultraspecific triuret hydrolase (TrtA) establishes the triuret biodegradation pathway LJ Tassoulas, MH Elias, LP Wackett Journal of Biological Chemistry 296, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
Dinickel enzyme evolved to metabolize the pharmaceutical metformin and its implications for wastewater and human microbiomes LJ Tassoulas, JA Rankin, MH Elias, LP Wackett Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (10), e2312652121, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
Novel discrimination of biuret and triuret degradation by enzymatic deamination, Regulation and significance for slow-release nitrogen fertilizers LJ Tassoulas University of Minnesota, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
Insights into the action of the pharmaceutical metformin: Targeted inhibition of the gut microbial enzyme agmatinase LJ Tassoulas, LP Wackett Iscience 27 (2), 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
Fluoro‐recognition: New in vivo fluorescent assay for toluene dioxygenase probing induction by and metabolism of polyfluorinated compounds KG Aukema, MD Bygd, LJ Tassoulas, JE Richman, LP Wackett Environmental microbiology 24 (11), 5202-5216, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
p-Nitrophenyl esters provide new insights and applications for the thiolase enzyme OleA MD Smith, LJ Tassoulas, TA Biernath, JE Richman, KG Aukema, ... Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19, 3087-3096, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
Elucidating the biodegradation pathway for the pharmaceutical metformin in wastewater: Implications in human and wastewater microbiomes LJ Tassoulas University of Minnesota, 2023 | | 2023 |
Methods of reducing biuret in urea compositions LP Wackett, LJ Tassoulas, AG Dodge US Patent App. 17/779,642, 2022 | | 2022 |
A newly discovered carboxyguanidine deiminase enables guanidine degradation in bacteria N Schneider, L Tassoulas, D Zeng, A Laseke, N Reiter, L Wackett, ... FASEB JOURNAL 35, 2021 | | 2021 |
Metformin (Glucophage) Biodegradation: Insights from Microbiome and Biochemical Analyses A Robinson, L Tassoulas, B Martinez Vaz, K Aukema, L Wackett The FASEB Journal 35, 2021 | | 2021 |