High Impact Highlight
Gene essentiality is a quantitative property linked to cellular evolvability
Liu G, Yong M, Yurieva M, K. G. Srinivasan, Liu J, Lim J, Poidinger M, Wright G, Zolezzi F, Choi H, Pavelka N, Rancati G.
Preprint- Evolutionary biology
Genomic and Epigenetic Interplay Drives Adaptive Fusion via Reproduction Trade-Off
Yang Chen, Lin Bi, Xiaoli Fan, Shuang Liang, Chengyuan Li, Yihong Wang, Sophie G Martin, Gaowen Liu.
Synthetic Biology- PHA
Engineering chimeric polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases for enhanced copolymerization: A promising biotechnological approach
HT Tan, Y Lei, MF Chek, M He, KC Pow, S Gong, Q Hao, T Hakoshima, K Sudesh, Gaowen Liu.
Bioresource Technology, Vol 439, 133307 (2026)
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Synthetic Biology- PHA
Dual polyhydroxyalkanoate metabolism in Priestia sp. USM5: Genomic insight into production and extracellular degradation
Yiming Lei, Min Fey Chek, Hui Jia Tang, Jia Hui Wan, Sani Nur Shahira, Kumar Sudesh, Gaowen Liu, Hua Tiang Tan.
Polymer Degradation and Stability, Vol 247, 112015 (2026)
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Cell Biology-Pombe
Cell cycle-dependent and independent mating blocks ensure fungal zygote survival and ploidy maintenance
Vjestica A, Bérard M, Liu G, Merlini L, N’kosi P, Martin SG.
Toolbox-Pombe
A toolbox of Stable Integration Vectors (SIV) in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Vjestica A, Marek M, N’kosi P, Merlini L, Liu G, Berard M, Billault-Chaumartin I, Martin SG.
Journal of Cell Science. 2020 133: jcs240754
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Comments-Evolution
Adaptive Evolution: Don’t Fix What’s Broken
Liu G, Rancati G.
Current Biology. 2016 26(4): R169-R171
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Impairing Cohesin Smc1/3 Head Engagement Compensates for the Lack of Eco1 Function
Huber RG, Kulemzina I, Ang K, Chavda AP, Suranthran S, Teh JT, Kenanov D, Liu G, Rancati G, Szmyd R, Kaldis P, Bond PJ, Ivanov D.
Structure. 2016 24(11):1991-1999
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Characterization of a panARS-based episomal vector in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris
Camattari A, Goh A, Yip LY, Tan AH, Ng SW, Tran A, Liu G, Liachko I, Dunham MJ, Rancati G.
Microb Cell Fact 15, 139 (2016)
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