Lawrence P. Wackett

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• A call to expand the dimensions of halide-philicity

  mBio · 2026-06-17

• Molecular biotechnology for the biodegradation of organofluorine compounds

  Current Opinion in Biotechnology · 2026-02-03

• New chemicals fuel the evolution of microbial biodegradation

  Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · 2025-11-06 · 2 citations

• Matrix-independent screening of defluorination <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>

  mBio · 2025-08-18 · 4 citations

• Continuous Spectrophotometric Assay for Defluorinase and Dechlorinase Activities With α‐Halocarboxylic Acids

  Microbial Biotechnology · 2025-08-01 · 2 citations

• <scp>PFAS</scp> Biodegradation and the Constraints of Thermodynamics

  Microbial Biotechnology · 2025-06-01 · 5 citations

• Confronting PFAS persistence: enzymes catalyzing C–F bond cleavage

  Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 2024-12-05 · 27 citations

• Phenotypic Plasticity During Organofluorine Degradation Revealed by Adaptive Evolution

  Microbial Biotechnology · 2024-12-01 · 4 citations

• A prescription for engineering PFAS biodegradation

  Biochemical Journal · 2024-11-25 · 27 citations

• Mechanisms of Reductive Dehalogenation by Transition Metal Cofactors Found in Anaerobic Bacteria

  Metal ions in biological systems · 2024-10-23 · 2 citations

• Dual feedback inhibition of ATP-dependent caffeate activation economizes ATP in caffeate-dependent electron bifurcation

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2024-08-23 · 1 citations

• A Model for Mechanical Stress Limited Bacterial Growth and Resporulation in Confinement

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2024-08-01 · 1 citations

• Electron bifurcation and fluoride efflux systems implicated in defluorination of perfluorinated unsaturated carboxylic acids by <i>Acetobacterium</i> spp

  Science Advances · 2024-07-17 · 46 citations