Baofu Xu

University of Florida — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

16h-index745citations40works4.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis(27), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis(25), Natural product bioactivities and synthesis(10), Marine Sponges and Natural Products(7), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(3)

Publications40 total

Biosynthetic formation of the 6/7/5-odyverdiene diterpenes via a 6/10-trans-eunicellanyl intermediate
2026Open Access
Discovery, Mechanism, and Bioproduction Studies of a Moss-Derived Microbial-like Terpene Synthase CrMTPSL3 Generating the Tricyclic Sphaeroane Scaffold
ACS Catalysis·2025
A dirigent protein redirects extracellular terpenoid metabolism for defense against biotic challenges
Nature Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Engineering Protein Scaffold-Assisted C10-C35 Terpene Precursors Overproduction System for Efficient Biosynthesis Studies
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Exploring and expanding the natural chemical space of bacterial diterpenes
Nature Communications·2025· 17 citedOpen Access
Mining coral-derived terpene synthases and mechanistic studies of the coral biflorane synthase
Science Advances·2025· 10 citedOpen Access
Exploring and expanding the natural chemical space of bacterial diterpenes
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Discovery and mechanistic study of coral-derived terpene synthases reveal insights into terpene scaffolds' orthologous evolution
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Discovery of a terpene synthase synthesizing a nearly non-flexible eunicellane reveals the basis of flexibility
Nature Communications·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Chemical and biosynthetic potential of <i>Penicillium shentong</i> XL-F41
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Discovery of a novel eunicellane synthase unveils the relationship between stereochemistry and flexibility among eunicellanes
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Discovery of a novel eunicellane synthase unveils the relationship between stereochemistry and flexibility among eunicellanes
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Chemical and Biosynthetic Potential of <i>Penicillium shentong</i> XL-F41
2023Open Access
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals a hierarchical transcriptional regulatory network of terpenoid biosynthesis in cotton secretory glandular cells
Molecular Plant·2023· 51 citedOpen Access
Cryptic Isomerization in Diterpene Biosynthesis and the Restoration of an Evolutionarily Defunct P450
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Cryptic isomerization in diterpene biosynthesis and the restoration of an evolutionarily defunct P450
2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Recent advances of activation techniques-based discovery of new compounds from marine fungi
Fitoterapia·2023· 16 cited
Dirigent gene editing of gossypol enantiomers for toxicity-depleted cotton seeds
Nature Plants·2023· 55 cited
First trans-eunicellane terpene synthase in bacteria
Chem·2023· 37 citedOpen Access
Bioactive Cembranoids from the Coral <i>Sarcophyton trocheliophorum</i> of Ximao Island
ACS Omega·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jeffrey D. Rudolf(15), Yue‐Wei Guo(11), Zining Li(9), Wenbo Ning(9), Xiuting Wei(9), Tyler A. Alsup(6), Lijun Liu(6), Youli Xiao(5), Jingjing Mao(5), Chengyuan Wang(5), Donovon A. Adpressa(4), Sandra Loesgen(4), Dean J. Tantillo(4), Chang‐Yun Wang(4), Daniel G. Icenhour(4), Xiaochen Chen(4), Bao Chen(4), Jia‐Ling Lin(3), Wen‐Kai Wu(3), Xiao‐Xiang Guo(3)