{"content":[{"text":"Recent Publications","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.071076,"width":0.166062,"height":0.016266000000000003}},{"text":"• Rudrangi, S. R. R. and T. P. West. 2020. Effect of Effect of pH on xylitol production by Candida species \n from a prairie cordgrass hydrolysate. Z. Naturforsch. C 75:489-493. doi: 10.1515/znc-2020-0140. \n • Domaconda, A. and T. P. West. 2020. Control of pyrimidine nucleotide formation in Pseudomonas \n aurantiaca. Arch. Microbiol. 202:1551-1557. doi: 10.1007/s00203-020-01842-x. \n • West, T. P. 2020. Production of the polysaccharide curdlan by Agrobacterium species on processing \n coproducts and plant lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Fermentation 6:16 (11 pages). doi: \n 10.3390/fermentation6010016. \n • West, T. P. 2019. Plant biomass-based production of the biopolymer pullulan. Chapter 5 in J. C. Taylor, \n (ed.). Advances in Chemistry Research 57:191-208. Nova Press Inc., Hauppauge, NY. \n • Murahari, E. C, and T. P. West. 2019. The pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway and its regulation in \n Pseudomonas jessenii. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 112:461-469. doi: 10.1007/s10482-018-1168-8 \n • West, T. P. 2018. Cytidine 5’-triphosphate synthetase: A pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme critical to \n cellular synthesis and cancer chemotherapy. Biochem. Physiol. 7:1000e160 (2 pages). doi: \n 10.4172/2168-9652.1000e160 \n • Kennedy, D. E. II and T. P. West. 2018. Effect of yeast extract addition to a mineral salts medium \n containing hydrolyzed plant xylan on fungal pullulan production. Z. Naturforsch. C 73:319-323. doi: \n 10.1515/znc-2018-0018 \n • West, T. P. 2018. Cytosine Deaminase: A pyrimidine base salvage enzyme vital to the effectiveness of a \n substrate mediated enzyme prodrug chemotherapy. Biochem. Physiol. 7:1000e159 (2 pages). doi: \n 10.4172/2168-9652.1000e159 \n • Chunduru, J., and T. P. West. 2018. Pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis in the emerging pathogen \n Pseudomonas monteilii. Can. J. Microbiol. 64:432-438. doi: 10.1139/cjm-2018-0015. \n • West, T. P. 2017. Fungal production of the polysaccharide pullulan from a plant hydrolysate. Z. \n Naturforsch. C 72:491-496. doi: 10.1515/znc-2017-0032. \n • West, T. P., J. Chunduru and E. C. Murahari. 2017. Orotic acid: Why it is important to understand its role \n in metabolism. Biochem. Physiol. 6:1000e157. doi: 10.4172/2168-9652.1000e157 \n • West, T. P. 2017. Microbial Production of malic acid from biofuel-related coproducts and biomass. \n Fermentation 3:14 (10 pages). doi: 10.3390-fermentation/3020014. \n • West, T. P. 2016. Microbial malic acid production: Exploring new avenues of synthesizing a \n commercially-valuable chemical. J. Microb. Biochem. Technol. 8:321. \n • West, T. P. 2016. A Candida guilliermondii lysine hyperproducer capable of elevated citric acid \n production. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 32: 73 (5 pages). \n • West, T. P. 2016. Effect of nitrogen source concentration on curdlan production by Agrobacterium sp. \n ATCC 31749 grown on prairie cordgrass hydrolysates. Prep. Biochem. Biotechnol. 46:85-90. \n • West, T. P. 2015. Fungal biotransformation of crude glycerol into malic acid. Z. Naturforsch. C \n 70:165-167. \n • West, T. P. 2015. The biochemistry of pyrimidine base catabolism: Why understanding the cellular \n recycling of pyrimidine bases is important. Biochem. Physiol. 4: 1000e135.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.103916,"width":0.835566,"height":0.664096}},{"text":"Recent Professional Meeting Abstracts","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.78788,"width":0.323707,"height":0.016266000000000003}},{"text":"• Bani Ahmad, A., Z. L. Solis and T. P. West. 2019. Characterization of a Pseudomonas chlororaphis \n mutant strain deficient for the pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme orotidine 5’-monophosphate \n decarboxylase. Abstracts of the 54th American Chemical Society Midwest Regional Meeting, page 11, \n Abstract 107, October 16-19, Wichita, KS.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.82072,"width":0.83537,"height":0.06876700000000002}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.529608,"top":0.9227,"width":0.011471000000000009,"height":0.01903200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}