Publications of Tobias J. Erb

Mohr, Michael K. F., Satanowski, Ari, Lindner, Steffen N., Erb, Tobias J. and Andexer, Jennifer N.: (2025) Rewiring Escherichia coli to transform formate into methyl groups, Microbial Cell Factories, BioMed Central, 24 (1).

Yilmaz, Suzan, Kanis, Boas, Hogers, Rensco A.H., Benito-Vaquerizo, Sara, Kahnt, Jörg, Glatter, Timo, Dronsella, Beau, Erb, Tobias J., Suarez-Diez, Maria and Claassens, Nico J.: (2025) System-level characterization of engineered and evolved formatotrophic E. coli strains, Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, Beijing, China, KeAi Communications Co. Production, hosting by Elsevier B.V., March.

Orsi, Enrico, Schulz-Mirbach, Helena, Cotton, Charles A. R., Satanowski, Ari, Petri, Henrik M., Arnold, Susanne L., Grabarczyk, Natalia, Verbakel, Rutger, Jensen, Karsten S., Donati, Stefano, Paczia, Nicole, Glatter, Timo, Küffner, Andreas. M., Chotel, Tanguy, Schillmüller, Farah, De Maria, Alberto, He, Hai, Lindner, Steffen N., Noor, Elad, Bar-Even, Arren, Erb, Tobias J. and Nikel, Pablo I.: (2025) Computation-aided designs enable developing auxotrophic metabolic sensors for wide-range glyoxylate and glycolate detection, Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 16 (1).

Dronsella, Beau, Orsi, Enrico, Schulz-Mirbach, Helena, Benito-Vaquerizo, Sara, Yilmaz, Suzan, Glatter, Timo, Bar-Even, Arren, Erb, Tobias J. and Claassens, Nico J.: (2025) One-carbon fixation via the synthetic reductive glycine pathway exceeds yield of the Calvin cycle, Nature Microbiology, London, UK, Nature Publishing Group, February.

Schulz, Luca, Zarzycki, Jan, Steinchen, Wieland, Hochberg, Georg K. A. and Erb, Tobias J.: (2025) Layered entrenchment maintains essentiality in the evolution of Form I Rubisco complexes, The EMBO Journal, Nature Publishing Group, 44, January, pp. 269–280.

Abil, Zhanar, Giaveri, Simone, Erb, Tobias J. and Rothschild, Lynn J.: (2024) Integrating metabolism and evolution towards the realization of synthetic life, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, December.

Schulz-Mirbach, Helena, Wichmann, Philipp, Satanowski, Ari, Meusel, Helen, Wu, Tong, Nattermann, Maren, Burgener, Simon, Paczia, Nicole, Bar-Even, Arren and Erb, Tobias J.: (2024) New-to-nature CO₂-dependent acetyl-CoA assimilation enabled by an engineered B₁₂-dependent acyl-CoA mutase, Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 15 (1).

He, Hai, Gómez-Coronado, Paul A., Zarzycki, Jan, Barthel, Sebastian, Kahnt, Jörg, Claus, Peter, Klein, Moritz, Klose, Melanie, de Crécy-Lagard, Valérie, Schindler, Daniel, Paczia, Nicole, Glatter, Timo and Erb, Tobias J.: (2024) Adaptive laboratory evolution recruits the promiscuity of succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase to repair different metabolic deficiencies, Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 15 (1).

Barthel, Sebastian, Brenker, Luca, Diehl, Christoph, Bohra, Nithin, Giaveri, Simone, Paczia, Nicole and Erb, Tobias J.: (2024) in vitro transcription-based biosensing of glycolate for prototyping of a complex enzyme cascade, Synthetic Biology, September.

Schulz-Mirbach, Helena, Krüsemann, Jan Lukas, Andreadaki, Theofania, Nerlich, Jana Natalie, Mavrothalassiti, Eleni, Boecker, Simon, Schneider, Philipp, Weresow, Moritz, Abdelwahab, Omar, Paczia, Nicole, Dronsella, Beau, Erb, Tobias J., Bar-Even, Arren, Klamt, Steffen and Lindner, Steffen N: (2024) Engineering new-to-nature biochemical conversions by combining fermentative metabolism with respiratory modules., Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 15 (1).

Schann, Karin, Bakker, Jenny, Boinot, Maximilian, Kuschel, Pauline, He, Hai, Nattermann, Maren, Paczia, Nicole, Erb, Tobias J., Bar-Even, Arren and Wenk, Sebastian: (2024) Design, construction and optimization of formaldehyde growth biosensors with broad application in biotechnology., Microbial Biotechnology, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 17 (7).

Kim, Youngchang, Lee, Seung Hwan, Gade, Priyanka, Nattermann, Maren, Maltseva, Natalia, Endres, Michael, Chen, Jing, Wichmann, Philipp, Hu, Yang, Marchal, Daniel G., Yoshikuni, Yasuo, Erb, Tobias J., Gonzalez, Ramon, Michalska, Karolina and Joachimiak, Andrzej: (2024) Revealing reaction intermediates in one-carbon elongation by thiamine diphosphate/CoA-dependent enzyme family, Communications Chemistry, London, Springer Nature, 7 (1).

Giaveri, Simone, Bohra, Nithin, Diehl, Christoph, Yang, Hao Yuan, Ballinger, Martine, Paczia, Nicole, Glatter, Timo and Erb, Tobias J.: (2024) Integrated translation and metabolism in a partially self-synthesizing biochemical network, Science, Washington, D.C., American Association for the Advancement of Science, 385 (6705), pp. 174–178.

Schada v. Borzyskowsi, Lennart, Lucas, Hermann, Kremer, Katharina, Barthel, Sebastian, Pommerenke, Bianca, Glatter, Timo, Paczia, Nicole, Erhard, Bremer and Erb, Tobias J.: (2024) Multiple levels of transcriptional regulation control glycolate metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans, mBio, Washington, DC, American Society for Microbiology, 15 (8).

Sendker, Franziska Luisa, Lo, Yat Kei, Heimerl, Thomas, Bohn, Stefan, Persson, Louise J., Mais, Christopher-Nils, Sadowska, Wiktoria, Paczia, Nicole, Nußbaum, Eva, del Carmen Sánchez Olmos, María, Forchhammer, Karl, Schindler, Daniel, Erb, Tobias J., Benesch, Justin L. P., Marklund, Erik G., Bange, Gert, Schuller, Jan M. and Hochberg, Georg K. A.: (2024) Emergence of fractal geometries in the evolution of a metabolic enzyme, Nature, London, Nature Publishing Group, 628 (8009), pp. 894–900.

Gomez, Aharon, Tinzl, Matthias, Stoffel, Gabriele M. M., Westedt, Hendrik, Grubmüller, Helmut, Erb, Tobias J., Vöhringer-Martinez, Esteban and Stripp, Sven T.: (2024) Infrared spectroscopy reveals metal-independent carbonic anhydrase activity in crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase, Chemical Science, Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry, 15 (13), pp. 4960–4968.

Schmidt, Frederik Vincent, Schulz, Luca, Zarzycki, Jan, Prinz, Simone, Oehlmann, Niels Nathan, Erb, Tobias J. and Rebelein, Johannes G.: (2024) Structural insights into the iron nitrogenase complex, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, New York, NY, Nature Pub. Group, 31 (1), pp. 150–158.

Gomez, Aharon, Erb, Tobias J., Grubmüller, Helmut and Vöhringer-Martinez, Esteban: (2023) Conformational dynamics of the most efficient carboxylase contributes to efficient CO₂ fixation, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society, 63 (24), pp. 7807–7815.

Nattermann, M., Wenk, S., Pfister, Pascal, He, H., Lee, S.H., Szymanski, W., Guntermann, N., Zhu, F., Nickel, L., Wallner, C., Zarzycki, J., Paczia, N., Gaißert, N., Franciò, G., Leitner, W., Gonzalez, R. and Erb, T. J.: (2023) Engineering a new-to-nature cascade for phosphate-dependent formate to formaldehyde conversion in vitro and in vivo, Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 14 (1).

Marchal, Daniel G., Schulz, Luca, Schuster, Ingmar, Ivanovska, Jelena, Paczia, Nicole, Prinz, Simone, Zarzycki, Jan and Erb, Tobias J.: (2023) Machine learning-supported enzyme engineering toward improved CO₂-fixation of Glycolyl-CoA carboxylase, ACS Synthetic Biology, Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society, 12 (12), pp. 3521–3530.