Yit Heng Chooi (Yit-Heng Chooi)

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2017-2024
Publications (10 Years): 51

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Organic & biomolecular chemistry

Journal of natural products

Organic letters

Natural product reports

University of Western Australia

RMIT University (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Western Australia Jan 01 2017

Australia

ARC Future Fellow/Lab Leader :: School of Molecular Sciences

University of Western Australia - Dec 31 2016

Australia

Lecturer/Assistant Professor :: School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Australian National University

Australia

ARC DECRA Fellow :: Research School of Biology

University of California Los Angeles

United States

Postdoctoral Scientist :: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department

Education History

RMIT University

Australia

PHD :: School of Applied Sciences

Publications

Rui Wang, Jia-Jing Liang, Wen-Cong Yang, Daniel Vuong, John A Kalaitzis, Alastair E Lacey, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi, Hang Li
Heterologous Biosynthesis of the Sterol O -Acyltransferase Inhibitor Helvamide Unveils an α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Cross-Linking Oxygenase. Organic letters 26 (9) (2024)
Brodie W Bulcock, Rachel Chen, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Gavin R Flematti
Ether-Diol Ambiguity: An Inconspicuous Issue in the Structure Elucidation of Oxygenated Natural Products. Journal of natural products (2024)
Amr A Arishi, Zhuo Shang, Ernest Lacey, Andrew Crombie, Daniel Vuong, Hang Li, Joe Bracegirdle, Peter Turner, William Lewis, Gavin R Flematti, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Discovery and heterologous biosynthesis of glycosylated polyketide luteodienoside A reveals unprecedented glucinol-mediated product offloading by a fungal carnitine O -acyltransferase domain. Chemical science 15 (9) (2024)
Indra Roux, Clara Woodcraft, Nicolau Sbaraini, Amy Pepper, Emily Wong, Joe Bracegirdle, Yit Heng Chooi
Next-generation AMA1-based plasmids for enhanced heterologous expression in filamentous fungi. Microbial biotechnology 17 (9) (2024)
Brodie W Bulcock, Rachel Chen, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Gavin R Flematti
Ether-Diol Ambiguity: An Inconspicuous Issue in the Structure Elucidation of Oxygenated Natural Products. Journal of natural products 87 (8) (2024)
Andrew Crombie, John A Kalaitzis, Rachel Chen, Daniel Vuong, Alastair E Lacey, Ernest Lacey, Roger G Shivas, Yu Pei Tan, Nicolau Sbaraini, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Geministatins: new depside antibiotics from the fungus Austroacremonium gemini. The Journal of antibiotics (2024)
Brodie W Bulcock, Rachel Chen, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Gavin R Flematti
Ether-Diol Ambiguity: An Inconspicuous Issue in the Structure Elucidation of Oxygenated Natural Products. Journal of natural products (2024)
Rui Wang, Jia-Jing Liang, Wen-Cong Yang, Daniel Vuong, John A Kalaitzis, Alastair E Lacey, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi, Hang Li
Heterologous Biosynthesis of the Sterol O -Acyltransferase Inhibitor Helvamide Unveils an α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Cross-Linking Oxygenase. Organic letters 26 (9) (2024)
Rui Wang, Jia-Jing Liang, Wen-Cong Yang, Daniel Vuong, John A Kalaitzis, Alastair E Lacey, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi, Hang Li
Heterologous Biosynthesis of the Sterol O -Acyltransferase Inhibitor Helvamide Unveils an α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Cross-Linking Oxygenase. Organic letters (2024)
Amr A Arishi, Zhuo Shang, Ernest Lacey, Andrew Crombie, Daniel Vuong, Hang Li, Joe Bracegirdle, Peter Turner, William Lewis, Gavin R Flematti, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Discovery and heterologous biosynthesis of glycosylated polyketide luteodienoside A reveals unprecedented glucinol-mediated product offloading by a fungal carnitine O -acyltransferase domain. Chemical science 15 (9) (2024)
Brodie W Bulcock, Rachel Chen, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Gavin R Flematti
Ether-Diol Ambiguity: An Inconspicuous Issue in the Structure Elucidation of Oxygenated Natural Products. Journal of natural products 87 (8) (2024)
Catherine Rawlinson, Gareth Nealon, Yit Heng Chooi, Richard P Oliver, Caroline S Moffat, Pao Theen See
Discovery of Two Novel Phthalide Phytotoxins from the Wheat Tan Spot Fungal Pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (2024)
Heather J Lacey, Rachel Chen, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Peter J Rutledge, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott, Thomas J Booth
Resorculins: hybrid polyketide macrolides from Streptomyces sp. MST-91080. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 21 (12) (2023)
Heather J Lacey, Rachel Chen, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Peter J Rutledge, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott, Thomas J Booth
Resorculins: hybrid polyketide macrolides from Streptomyces sp. MST-91080. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 21 (12) (2023)
Heather J Lacey, Rachel Chen, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Peter J Rutledge, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott, Thomas J Booth
Resorculins: hybrid polyketide macrolides from Streptomyces sp. MST-91080. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 21 (12) (2023)
Rachel Chen, Scott A Minns, John A Kalaitzis, Mark S Butler, Maira Rosin, Daniel Vuong, Soo Sum Lean, Yit Heng Chooi, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott
Turonicin A, an Antifungal Linear Polyene Polyketide from an Australian Streptomyces sp. Journal of natural products (2023)
Heather J Lacey, Rachel Chen, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Peter J Rutledge, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott, Thomas J Booth
Resorculins: hybrid polyketide macrolides from Streptomyces sp. MST-91080. Organic & biomolecular chemistry (2023)
Michael S Cowled, Hang Li, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Stereodivergent Hydroxylation of Berkeleylactones by Penicillium turbatum . Journal of natural products (2022)
Hang Li, Paul M Mirzayans, Mark S Butler, Alastair E Lacey, Daniel Vuong, Rachel Chen, John A Kalaitzis, Stephen A Moggach, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Discovery of brevijanazines from Aspergillus brevijanus reveals the molecular basis for p -nitrobenzoic acid in fungi. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 58 (43) (2022)
Michael S Cowled, Hang Li, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Stereodivergent Hydroxylation of Berkeleylactones by Penicillium turbatum . Journal of natural products 86 (3) (2022)
Indra Roux, Yit Heng Chooi
Cre/ lox -Mediated Chromosomal Integration of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Heterologous Expression in Aspergillus nidulans . ACS synthetic biology 11 (3) (2022)
Clara Woodcraft, Yit Heng Chooi, Indra Roux
The expanding CRISPR toolbox for natural product discovery and engineering in filamentous fungi. Natural product reports (2022)
Indra Roux, Yit Heng Chooi
Heterologous Expression of Fungal Biosynthetic Pathways in Aspergillus nidulans Using Episomal Vectors. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2489 (2022)
Rui Wang, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi, Hang Li
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines. Natural product reports (2022)
Cameron L M Gilchrist, Thomas J Booth, Bram van Wersch, Liana van Grieken, Marnix H Medema, Yit Heng Chooi
cblaster: a remote search tool for rapid identification and visualization of homologous gene clusters. Bioinformatics advances 1 (1) (2021)
Indra Roux, Simon Bowles, John A Kalaitzis, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Characterisation and heterologous biosynthesis of burnettiene A, a new polyene-decalin polyketide from Aspergillus burnettii. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 19 (43) (2021)
Hang Li, Alastair E Lacey, Si Shu, John A Kalaitzis, Daniel Vuong, Andrew Crombie, Jinyu Hu, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Hancockiamides: phenylpropanoid piperazines from Aspergillus hancockii are biosynthesised by a versatile dual single-module NRPS pathway. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 19 (3) (2021)
Cameron L M Gilchrist, Thomas J Booth, Bram van Wersch, Liana van Grieken, Marnix H Medema, Yit Heng Chooi
cblaster: a remote search tool for rapid identification and visualization of homologous gene clusters. Bioinformatics advances 1 (1) (2021)
Yit Heng Chooi
RiPP-ing through the plant kingdom. Nature chemical biology (2021)
Simon C Kessler, Yit Heng Chooi
Out for a RiPP: challenges and advances in genome mining of ribosomal peptides from fungi. Natural product reports (2021)
Cameron L M Gilchrist, Yit Heng Chooi
Synthaser: a CD-Search enabled Python toolkit for analysing domain architecture of fungal secondary metabolite megasynth(et)ases. Fungal biology and biotechnology 8 (1) (2021)
Mahmud T Morshed, Ernest Lacey, Daniel Vuong, Alastair E Lacey, Soo Sum Lean, Stephen A Moggach, Peter Karuso, Yit Heng Chooi, Thomas J Booth, Andrew M Piggott
Chlorinated metabolites from Streptomyces sp. highlight the role of biosynthetic mosaics and superclusters in the evolution of chemical diversity. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 19 (27) (2021)
Hang Li, Si Shu, John A Kalaitzis, Zhuo Shang, Daniel Vuong, Andrew Crombie, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Genome Mining of Aspergillus hancockii Unearths Cryptic Polyketide Hancockinone A Featuring a Prenylated 6/6/6/5 Carbocyclic Skeleton. Organic letters 23 (22) (2021)
Hang Li, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Chin-Soon Phan, Heather J Lacey, Daniel Vuong, Stephen A Moggach, Ernest Lacey, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Biosynthesis of a New Benzazepine Alkaloid Nanangelenin A from Aspergillus nanangensis Involves an Unusual l-Kynurenine-Incorporating NRPS Catalyzing Regioselective Lactamization. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (15) (2020)
Lingxin Kong, Qing Wang, Weinan Yang, Jufang Shen, Yan Li, Xiaoqing Zheng, Lu Wang, Yiwen Chu, Zixin Deng, Yit Heng Chooi, Delin You
Three Recently Diverging Duplicated Methyltransferases Exhibit Substrate-Dependent Regioselectivity Essential for Xantholipin Biosynthesis. ACS chemical biology 15 (8) (2020)
Indra Roux, Clara Woodcraft, Jinyu Hu, Rebecca Wolters, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Yit Heng Chooi
CRISPR-Mediated Activation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Bioactive Molecule Discovery in Filamentous Fungi. ACS synthetic biology 9 (7) (2020)
Simon C Kessler, Xianghui Zhang, Megan C McDonald, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Zeran Lin, Adriana Rightmyer, Peter S Solomon, B Gillian Turgeon, Yit Heng Chooi
Victorin, the host-selective cyclic peptide toxin from the oat pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae, is ribosomally encoded. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (39) (2020)
Heather J Lacey, Thomas J Booth, Daniel Vuong, Peter J Rutledge, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Conglobatins B-E: cytotoxic analogues of the C2-symmetric macrodiolide conglobatin. The Journal of antibiotics 73 (11) (2020)
Hsiao-Ching Lin, Ranuka T Hewage, Yuan-Chun Lu, Yit Heng Chooi
Biosynthesis of bioactive natural products from Basidiomycota. Organic & biomolecular chemistry 17 (5) (2019)
Heather J Lacey, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Andrew Crombie, John A Kalaitzis, Daniel Vuong, Peter J Rutledge, Peter Turner, John I Pitt, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Nanangenines: drimane sesquiterpenoids as the dominant metabolite cohort of a novel Australian fungus, Aspergillus nanangensis. Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 15 (2019)
Hang Li, Jinyu Hu, Haochen Wei, Peter S Solomon, Keith A Stubbs, Yit Heng Chooi
Biosynthesis of a Tricyclo[6.2.2.02,7 ]dodecane System by a Berberine Bridge Enzyme-Like Aldolase. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 25 (66) (2019)
Jinyu Hu, Hang Li, Yit Heng Chooi
Fungal Dirigent Protein Controls the Stereoselectivity of Multicopper Oxidase-Catalyzed Phenol Coupling in Viriditoxin Biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (20) (2019)
Hang Li, Haochen Wei, Jinyu Hu, Ernest Lacey, Alexandre N Sobolev, Keith A Stubbs, Peter S Solomon, Yit Heng Chooi
Genomics-Driven Discovery of Phytotoxic Cytochalasans Involved in the Virulence of the Wheat Pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. ACS chemical biology 15 (1) (2019)
Hang Li, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Heather J Lacey, Andrew Crombie, Daniel Vuong, John I Pitt, Ernest Lacey, Yit Heng Chooi, Andrew M Piggott
Discovery and Heterologous Biosynthesis of the Burnettramic Acids: Rare PKS-NRPS-Derived Bolaamphiphilic Pyrrolizidinediones from an Australian Fungus, Aspergillus burnettii. Organic letters 21 (5) (2019)
Catherine Rawlinson, Pao Theen See, Paula M Moolhuijzen, Hang Li, Caroline S Moffat, Yit Heng Chooi, Richard P Oliver
The identification and deletion of the polyketide synthase-nonribosomal peptide synthase gene responsible for the production of the phytotoxic triticone A/B in the wheat fungal pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Environmental microbiology 21 (12) (2019)
Chin-Soon Phan, Hang Li, Simon Kessler, Peter S Solomon, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Bipolenins K-N: New sesquiterpenoids from the fungal plant pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana. Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 15 (2019)
Jinyu Hu, Farzaneh Sarrami, Hang Li, Guozhi Zhang, Keith A Stubbs, Ernest Lacey, Scott G Stewart, Amir Karton, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Heterologous biosynthesis of elsinochrome A sheds light on the formation of the photosensitive perylenequinone system. Chemical science 10 (5) (2018)
Hang Li, Jinyu Hu, Haochen Wei, Peter S Solomon, Daniel Vuong, Ernest Lacey, Keith A Stubbs, Andrew M Piggott, Yit Heng Chooi
Chemical Ecogenomics-Guided Discovery of Phytotoxic α-Pyrones from the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Organic letters 20 (19) (2018)
Hui-Yeng Yeannie Yap, Mariano Jordi Muria-Gonzalez, Boon-Hong Kong, Keith A Stubbs, Chon-Seng Tan, Szu-Ting Ng, Nget-Hong Tan, Peter S Solomon, Shin-Yee Fung, Yit Heng Chooi
Heterologous expression of cytotoxic sesquiterpenoids from the medicinal mushroom Lignosus rhinocerotis in yeast. Microbial cell factories 16 (1) (2017)
Yit Heng Chooi, Guozhi Zhang, Jinyu Hu, Mariano Jordi Muria-Gonzalez, Phuong N Tran, Amber Pettitt, Alexander G Maier, Russell A Barrow, Peter S Solomon
Functional genomics-guided discovery of a light-activated phytotoxin in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum via pathway activation. Environmental microbiology 19 (5) (2017)
Xiaoqing Zheng, Qiuxiang Cheng, Fen Yao, Xiaozheng Wang, Lingxin Kong, Bo Cao, Min Xu, Shuangjun Lin, Zixin Deng, Yit Heng Chooi, Delin You
Biosynthesis of the pyrrolidine protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin involves novel gene ensemble and cryptic biosynthetic steps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (16) (2017)

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