Publications

  1. Awan, A. R.; et al. Under Review. 
  2. Bring Horvath, E. R. et al. Under Review.
  3. Bring Horvath, E. R. et al. Under Review.
  4. Krull, N. K. et al. In Revision.
  5. Scott, A. F.; Jin, T.; Bring Horvath, E. R.; Krull, N. K.; Bouthillette, L. M.; Iizumi, R.; Bender, A.; Murphy, B. T.; Fenical, W.; Winter, J. M. (2026) An Extremophilic Nocardiposis Strain from Great Salt Lake Expands the Taxonomic Range of Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis. bioRxiv, 12:2025.10.11.681818.
  6. Bring Horvath, E. R.; Stein, M. G.; Mulvey, M. A.; Hernandez, E. J.;+ Winter, J. M.+ (2026) Resistance Gene Association and Inference Network (ReGAIN): A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Assessing Probabilistic Co-Occurrence Between Resistance Genes in Bacterial Pathogens. Bioinformatics, btag505. Link
  7. Zhang, M.; Li, S.; Huang, H.; Zhou, L.; Ye, Y.; Lin, W.; He, S.; Zhang, W.; Li, D.; Ma, K.; Winter, J. M.; Wu, G. (2026) Genome Mining and Characterization of an Uncharacterized Monofunctional Class I Diterpene Synthase from a Marine-Derived Fungus. ChemBioChem, 27, e70396. Link
  8. Bring Horvath, E. R. and Winter, J. M. (2025) SeqForge: A Scalable Platform for Alignment-Based Searches, Motif Detection, and Sequence Curation Across Meta/Genomic Datasets. BMC Bioinform, 26, 280. Link
  9. Li, S.; Ma, K.; Zhao, Y.; Zhang, P.; Liu, H.-W.; Ye, Y.; Lin, W.; Winter, J. M.; Wu, G. (2025) Genome Mining and Characterization of a Bifunctional Clerodane Diterpene Synthase from a Fungal Myrothecium sp. Bioorganic Chem. 161, 108548. Link
  10. Zdouc, M. M.; et al.  (2025) MIBiG 4.0: Advancing Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Curation through Global Collaboration. Nuc Acids Res, 53, D678-D690. Link
  11. Cui, G.; Zhou, L.; Liu, H.; Qian, X.; Yang, P.; Cui, L.; Wang, P.; Li, D.; Winter, J. M.;+ Wu, G.+ (2024) The Discovery of Acremochlorins O-R from an Acremonium sp. through Integrated Genomic and Molecular Networking. J Fungi, 10, 365. Link
  12. Caro-Diaz, E. J.;+ Balunas, M. J.;+ Giddings, L.-A.; Loesgen, S.; Murphy, B. T.; Naman, C. B.; Salomon, C. E.; Tidgewell, K. J.; Winter, J. M. (2024) Outlining the Hidden Curriculum: Perspectives on Successfully Navigating Scientific Conferences. J Nat Prod, 87, 1487-1492. Link
  13. Heard, S. C.+ & Winter, J. M.+ (2024) Structural, Biochemical and Bioinformatic Analyses of Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Adenylation Domains. Nat Prod Rep, 41, 1180-1205. Link
  14. Bring Horvath, E. R.; Brazelton, W. J.; Kim, M. C.; Cullum, R.; Mulvey, M. A.; Fenical, W.; Winter, J. M. (2024) Bacterial Diversity and Chemical Ecology of Natural Product-Producing Bacteria from Great Salt Lake Sediment. ISME Commun, 4, ycae029. Link
  15. Li, F.; Lai, S.; Yuan, W.; Chen, Z.; Guan, Z.; Chen, C.; Zhu, H.; Zhou, Y.; Winter, J. M.; Xiang, Z.; Liu, J. (2024) Conformational Control in Diterpene Synthase TlnA: Elucidating the Mechanism of 5-8-6 Skeleton Formation through Ring Expansion. Org Lett, 26, 1734-1738. Link
  16. Heard, S. C. & Winter, J. M. (2023) Structure-Guided Investigation of Fungal Adenylation Domain Substrate Selectivity. ChemRxiv. Link
  17. Heard, S.; Diehl, K. L.; Winter, J. M. (2023) Biosynthesis of the Fungal Nonribosomal Peptide Penilumamide A and Biochemical Characterization of a Pterin-Specific Adenylation Domain. RSC Chem Biol, 4, 748-753. Link
    • Contributor to the RSC Chemical Biology Emerging Investigators Collection Link
  18. Kim, M-C.; Winter, J. M.;+ Cullum, R.; Smith, A.; Fenical, W.+  (2023) Expanding the Utility of Bioinformatic Data for the Full Stereostructural Assignments of Marinolides A and B, 24- and 26-Membered Macrolactones Produced by a Chemically Exceptional Marine-Derived Bacterium. Marine Drugs, 21, 367. Link
  19. Terlouw, B. R.;* Blin, K.;* Navarro-Munoz, J. C.; Avalon, N.; Chevrette, M. G.; Egbert, S.; Lee, S.; Meijer, D.; Recchia, M. J. J.; Reitz, Z. L.; van Santen, J. A.; Selem-Mojica, N.; Torring, T.; Zaroubi, L.; Alanjary, M.; Aleti, G.; Aquilar, C.; Al-Salihi, S. A. A.; Augustijn, H. E.; Avelar-Rivas, J. A.; Avitia-Dominguez, L. A.; Barona-Gomez, F.; Bernaldo-Aguero, J.; Bielinski, V. A.; Biermann, F.; Booth, T. J.; Carrion Bravo, V. J.; Castelo-Branco, R.; Chagas, F. O.; Cruz-Morales, P.; Du, C.; Duncan, K. R.; Gavriilidou, A.; Gayrard, D.; Gutierrez-Garcia, K.; Haslinger, K.; Helfrich, E. J. N.; van der Hooft, J. J. J.; Jati, A. P.; Kalkreuter, E.; Kalyvas, N.; Bin Kang, K.; Kautsar, S.; Kim, W.; Kunjapur, A.; Li, Y.-X.; Lin, G.-M.; Loureiro, C.; Louwen, J. J. R.; Louwen, N. L. L.; Lund, G.; Parra, J.; Philmus, B.; Pourmohsenin, B.; Pronk, L. J. U.; Rego, A.; Arokia Balaya Rex, D.; Robinson, S.; Rosas-Becerra, L. R.; Roxborough, E. T.; Schorn, M. A.; Scobie, D. J.; Saurabh Singh, K.; Sokolova, N.; Tang, X.; Udwary, D.; Vigneshwari, A.; Vind, K.; Vromans, S. P. J. M.; Waschulin, V.; Williams, S. E.; Winter, J. M.; Witte, T. E.; Xie, H.; Yang, D.; Yu, J.; Zdouc, M.; Zhong, Z.; Collemare, J.; Linington, R. G.; Weber, T.; Medema M. H. (2023) MIBiG 3.0: A Community-Driven Effort to Annotate Experimentally Validated Biosynthetic Gene Clusters. Nuc Acids Res, 51, D603-D610. Link
  20. Bradshaw, A. J.; Dentinger, B.; Backman, T.; Ramírez-Cruz, V.; Forrister, D.; Winter, J. M.; Furci, G.; Stamets, P.; Guzmán-Dávalos, L. (2022) DNA Authentication and Chemical Analysis of Psilocybe Mushrooms Reveal Widespread Taxonomic Misdeterminations and Inconsistencies in Metabolites. Appl Environ Microbiol, 88, e0149822. Link
    • Spotlight article and cover of the issue
  21. Zhang, P.;* Wu, G.;* Heard, S. C.; Niu, C.; Bell, S. A.; Li, F.; Ye, L.; Zhang, Y.; Winter, J. M. (2022) Identification and Characterization of a Cryptic Bifunctional Type I Diterpene Synthase Involved in Talaronoid Biosynthesis from a Marine-Derived Fungus. Org Lett, 24, 7037-7041. Link
  22. Chen, P. Y-T.; Adak, S.; Chekan, J. R.; Liscombe, D. K.; Miyanaga, A.; Bernhardt, P.; Diethelm, S.; Fielding, E. N.; George, J. H.; Miles, Z. D.; Murray, L. A. M.; Steele, S. S.; Winter, J. M.; Noel, J. P.; Moore, B. S. (2022) Structural Basis of Stereospecific Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidase Family Enzymes in Napyradiomycin Biosynthesis. Biochem, 61, 1844-1852. Link
  23. Winter, J. M. (2021) A Community Effort: Combining Functional Amplicon Sequencing and Metagenomics Reveals Potential Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Associated with Protective Phenotypes in Rhizosphere Microbiomes. mSystems, 6, e0058721.  Link
  24. Shin, Y-H.; Ban, Y. H.; Shin, J.; Park, I. W.; Yoon, S.; Ko, K.; Shin, J.; Nam, S-J.; Winter, J. M.; Kim, Y.; Yoon, Y. J.; Oh, D-C. (2021) Azetidine-Bearing Non-Ribosomal Peptides, Bonnevillamides D and E, Isolated from a Carrion Beetle-Associated Actinomycete. J Org Chem, 86, 11149-11159.  Link
  25. Kim, M-C.; Winter, J. M.;+ Asolkar, R. N.; Boonlarppradab, C.; Cullum, R.; Fenical, W.+ (2021) Marinoterpins A-C: Rare Linear Merosesterterpenoids from Marine-Derived Actinomycete Bacteria of the Family Streptomycetaceae. J Org Chem, 86, 11140-11148.  Link
  26. Wu, G.; Dentinger, B. T. M.; Nielson, J. R.; Peterson, R. T.; Winter, J. M. (2021). Emerimicins V-X, 15 Residue Peptaibols Discovered from an Acremonium sp. through Integrated Genomic and Chemical Approaches. J Nat Prod, 84, 1113-1126.  Link
  27. Heard, S. C.; Wu, G.;+ Winter, J. M.+ (2021). Antifungal Natural Products. Curr Opin Biotechnol, 69, 232-241.  Link
  28. Heard, S. C.; Wu, G.; Winter, J. M. (2020). Discovery and Characterization of a Cytochalasan Biosynthetic Cluster from the Marine-Derived Fungus Aspergillus flavipes CNL-338. J Antibiot (Tokyo), 73(11), 803-807.  Link
  29. Kim, M-C.;* Winter, J. M.;* Machado, H. Cullum, R.; Zhifei, L.; Fenical, W. (2020). Complementary Genomic, Bioinformatics and Chemical Approaches Facilitate the Absolute Structure Assignment of Ionostatin, a Linear Polyketide from a Rare Marine-Derived Actinomycete. ACS Chem Biol, 15(9), 2507.  Link
  30. Torres, J. P.; Lin, Z.; Winter, J. M.; Krug, P. J.; Schmidt, E. W. (2020). Animal Biosynthesis of Complex Polyketides in a Photosynthetic Partnership. Nat Commun, 11(1), 2882.  Link
  31. Shang, Z.; Winter, J. M.;+ Kauffman, C. A.; Yang, I.; Fenical, W.+ (2019) Salinipeptins: Integrated Genomic and Chemical Approaches Reveal D-Amino Acid-Containing Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-Translationally Modified Peptides from a Great Salt Lake Streptomyces sp. ACS Chem Biol, 14(3), 415-425.  Link
    Highlighted in Chemistry World  Link
  32. Awan, A.R.; Winter, J. M.; Turner, D.; Shaw, W. M.; Suz, L. M.; Bradshaw, A. J.; Ellis, T.; Dentinger, B. T. M. (2018). Convergent Evolution of Psilocybin Biosynthesis by Psychedelic Mushrooms. bioRxiv, 374199  Link
  33. Wu, G.; Nielson, J. R.; Peterson, R. T.; Winter, J. M. (2017). Bonnevillamides, Linear Heptapeptides Isolated from a Great Salt Lake-Derived Streptomyces sp. Mar Drugs, 15(7), 195.  Link
  34. Agarwal, V.; Miles, Z. D.; Winter, J. M.; Eustaquio, A.S.; El Gamal, A. A.; Moore, B.S. (2017). Enzymatic Halogenation and Dehalogenation: Pervasive and Mechanistically Diverse. Chem Rev, 117, (8), 5619-5674.  Link
  35. Sato, M.; Dander, J. E.; Sato, C.; Hung, Y.; Gao, S-S.; Tang, M-C.; Hang, L.; Winter, J. M.; Garg, N. K.; Watanabe, K.; Tang, Y. (2017). Collaborative Biosynthesis of Maleimide- and Succinimide-Containing Natural Products by Fungal Polyketide Megasynthases. J Am Chem Soc, 139, 5317-5320.  Link
  36. Sato, M.; Winter, J. M.; Noguchi, H.; Tang, Y.; Watanabe, K. (2016). Combinatorial Generation of Chemical Diversity by Redox Enzymes in Chaetoviridin Biosynthesis. Org Lett, 18(6), 1446-1449.  Link
  37. Cochrane, R. V. K.; Gao, Z.; Lambkin, G. R.; Xu, W.; Winter, J. M.; Marcus, S. L.; Tang, Y.;  Vederas, J. C. (2015). Comparison of 10,11-Dehydrocurvularin Polyketide Synthases from Alternaria cinerariae and Aspergillus terreus Highlights Key Structural Motifs. Chembiochem, 16 (17), 2479-2483.  Link
  38. Winter, J. M.; Cascio, D.; Dietrich, D.; Sato, M.; Watanabe, K.; Sawaya, M. R.; Vederas, J. C.; Tang, Y. (2015). Biochemical and Structural Basis for Controlling Chemical Modularity in Fungal Polyketide Biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc, 137(31), 9885-9893.  Link
  39. Winter, J. M. & Tang, Y. (2014). Natural Products: Getting a Handle on Peptides. Nat Chem, 6(12), 1037-1038.  Link
  40. Winter, J. M.; Chiou, G.; Bothwell, I.; Xu, W.; Garg, N. K.; Luo, M. K.; Tang, Y. (2013). Expanding the Structural Diversity of Polyketides by Exploring the Cofactor Tolerance of an Inline Methyltransferase Domain. Org Lett, 15(14), 3774-3777.   Link
  41. Winter, J. M.; Sato, M.; Sugimoto, S.; Chiou, G.; Garg, N. K.; Tang, Y.; Watanabe, K. (2012). Identification and Characterization of the Chaetoviridin and Chaetomugilin Gene Cluster in Chaetomium globosum Reveals Dual Functions of an Iterative Highly-Reducing Polyketide Synthase. J Am Chem Soc, 134(43), 17900-17903.  Link
  42. Winter, J. M., & Tang, Y. (2012). Synthetic Biological Approaches to Natural Product Biosynthesis. Curr Opin Biotechnol, 23, (5), 736-743.  Link
  43. Winter, J. M.; Behnken, S.; Hertweck, C. (2011). Genomics-Inspired Discovery of Natural Products. Curr Opin Chem Biol, 15, (1), 22-31.  Link
  44. Udwary, D. W.; Gontang, E. A.; Jones, A. C.; Schultz, A. W.; Sorrels, C. M.; Winter, J. M.; Yang, J. Y.; Beauchemin, N.; Capson, T. L.; Clark, B. R.; Esquenazi, E.; Eustaquio, A. S.; Freel, K.; Gonzalez, D. J;, Gerwick, L.; Gerwick, W. H.; Liu, W.; Malloy, K. L.; Maloney, K. N.; Nett, M.; Nunnery, J. K.; Penn, K.; Prieto-Davo, A.; Simmons, T. L.; Weitz, S.; Wilson, M. C.; Tisa, L. S.; Dorrestein P. C.; Moore, B. S. (2011). Significant Natural Product Biosynthetic Potential of Actinorhizal Symbionts of the Genus Frankia, as Revealed by Comparative Genomic and Proteomic Analyses. Appl Environ Microbiol, 77(11), 3617-3625.  Link
  45. Bernhardt, P.; Okino, T.; Winter, J. M.; Miyanaga, A.; Moore, B. S. (2011). A Stereoselective Vanadium-Dependent Chloroperoxidase in Bacterial Antibiotic Biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc, 133 (12), 4268-4270.  Link
  46. Winter, J. M., & Moore, B. S. (2009). Exploring the Chemistry and Biology of Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidases. J Biol Chem, 284, (28), 18577-18581.  Link
  47. Winter, J. M.; Jansma, A. L.; Handel, T. M.;  Moore, B. S. (2009). Formation of the Pyridazine Natural Product Azamerone by Biosynthetic Rearrangement of an Aryl Diazoketone. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 48(4), 767-770.  Link
  48. Winter, J. M.; Moffitt, M. C.; Zazopoulos, E.; McAlpine, J. B.; Dorrestein, P. C.; Moore, B. S. (2007). Molecular Basis for Chloronium-Mediated Meroterpene Cyclization: Cloning, Sequencing, and Heterologous Expression of the Napyradiomycin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster. J Biol Chem, 282 (22), 16362-16368.  Link
  49. Cifuentes, M.; Schilling, B.; Ravindra, R.; Winter, J. M.; Janik, M. E. (2006). Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of B-ring Modified Colchicine and Isocolchicine Analogs. Bioorg Med Chem Lett, 16(10), 2761-2764.  Link

Editorials

  1. Naman, C. B.; Winter, J. M.; VanderMolen, K. (2020). #ASPYM2020- Younger Member Events and Research Symposium Go Virtual. American Society of Pharmacognosy Newsletter (56, pp. 21-23).
  2. Winter, J. M. (2007). Mentoring in ASP: A Mentee’s Perspective. American Society of Pharmacognosy Newsletter (43, pp. 10-11).