Michael Patrick Torrens-Spence

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7CO-AUTHORS
Catalysis and mechanisms of reactionsProteins and peptidesNanofabrication, growth and self assemblyCharacterisation of biological macromolecules
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Publications (4)

|Feb 26, 2026
Calcium activation mechanism of a noncanonical aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase from psilocybin mushroom Psilocybe cubensis.

Tianjie Li, Erin E Reynolds, Ziqi Wang

|May 07, 2020
Structural basis for divergent and convergent evolution of catalytic machineries in plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase proteins.

Michael P Torrens-Spence, Ying-Chih Chiang, Tyler Smith

|Nov 13, 2019
Engineering New Branches of the Kynurenine Pathway To Produce Oxo-(2-aminophenyl) and Quinoline Scaffolds in Yeast.

Michael Patrick Torrens-Spence, Chun-Ting Liu, Jing-Ke Weng

|Nov 29, 2018
Monoamine Biosynthesis via a Noncanonical Calcium-Activatable Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase in Psilocybin Mushroom.

Michael Patrick Torrens-Spence, Chun-Ting Liu, Tomáš Pluskal

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Jing-Ke Weng

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Chun-Ting Liu

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Ying-Chih Chiang

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Tyler Smith