Franz St. John, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Michael Endres, Lily Pakdaman, Lisa Koch, Loreen Bynum, Nathaniel Kuch, Andrzej Joachimiak, Kemin Tan. 2026. Protein structure of a glycoside hydrolase family 30, subfamily 12 endo-1,4-β-xylanase
• Lisa Koch, Casey Crooks, Franz St. John. 2024. Development of a high-performance gel filtration chromatography polysaccharide sizing method to facilitate glycoside hydrolase functional analysis
• Franz St. John, Loreen Bynum, Dante A. Tauscheck, Casey Crooks. 2024. Use of xylosidase 3C from Segatella baroniae to discriminate xylan non-reducing terminus substitution characteristics
• Virgina Chow, Guang Nong, Franz St. John, Neha Sawhney, John Rice, James F. Preston. 2022. Bacterial xylan utilization regulons: systems for coupling depolymerization of methylglucuronoxylans with assimilation and metabolism
• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Youngchang Kim, Kemin Tan, Andrzej Joachimiak. 2022. The first crystal structure of a xylobiose‐bound xylobiohydrolase with high functional specificity from the bacterial glycoside hydrolase family 30, subfamily 10
• Casey Crooks, Nathan J. Bechle, Franz St. John. 2021. A New Subfamily of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 30 with Strict Xylobiohydrolase Function
• Diane Chauliac, Qingzhao Wang, Franz St. John, Grace Jones, Jason C. Hurlbert, Lonnie O. Ingram, Keelnatham T. Shanmugam. 2020. Kinetic characterization and structure analysis of an altered polyol dehydrogenase with d ‐lactate dehydrogenase activity
• Liangkun Long, Lu Sun, Qunying Lin, Shaojun Ding, Franz St. John. 2020. Characterization and functional analysis of two novel thermotolerant α-l-arabinofuranosidases belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 51 from Thielavia terrestris and family 62 from Eupenicillium parvum
• Casey Crooks, Liangkun Long, Franz St. John. 2020. CaXyn30B from the solventogenic bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum is a glucuronic acid-dependent endoxylanase
• Haifeng Zhou, Franz St. John, Junyong Zhu. 2019. Xylanase pretreatment of wood fibers for producing cellulose nanofibrils: a comparison of different enzyme preparations
• Franz St. John, Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks, Peter Balogun, Vesna de Serrano, Edwin Pozharski, James Kennon Smith, Elizabeth Bales, Jason Hurlbert. 2018. A plasmid borne, functionally novel glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 endoxylanase from solventogenic Clostridium
• Tomoko Maehara, Haruka Yagi, Tomoko Sato, Mayumi Ohnishi-Kameyama, Zui Fujimoto, Kei Kamino, Yoshiaki Kitamura, Franz St. John, Katsuro Yaoi, Satoshi Kaneko. 2017. GH30 glucuronoxylan-specific xylanase from Streptomyces turgidiscabies C56
• Mun Su Rhee, Neha Sawhney, Young Sik Kim, Hyun Jee Rhee, Jason C. Hurlbert, Franz St. John, Guang Nong, John D. Rice, James F. Preston. 2017. GH115 α-glucuronidase and GH11 xylanase from Paenibacillus sp. JDR-2: potential roles in processing glucuronoxylans
• Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Diane Dietrich, Jason Hurlbert. 2017. Xylanase 30 A from Clostridium thermocellum functions as a glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase
• Virginia Chow, Young Sik Kim, Mun Su Rhee, Neha Sawhney, Franz St. John, Guang Nong, John D. Rice, James F. Preston. 2016. A 1,3-1,4-β-glucan utilization regulon in Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2
• Neha Sawhney, Casey Crooks, Virginia Chow, James F. Preston, Franz St. John. 2016. Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of carbohydrate utilization by Paenibacillus sp. JDR-2: systems for bioprocessing plant polysaccharides
• Neha Sawhney, Casey Crooks, Franz St. John, James F. Preston, R. M. Kelly. 2014. Transcriptomic Analysis of Xylan Utilization Systems in Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2
• Franz St. John, Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks, Edwin Pozharski, Javier M. González, Elizabeth Bales, Kennon Smith, Jason C. Hurlbert. 2014. A novel member of glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 with altered substrate specificity
• Chiaki Hori, Takuya Ishida, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Masahiro Samejima, Hitoshi Suzuki, Emma Master, Patricia Ferreira, Francisco J. Ruiz-Duenas, Benjamin Held, Paulo Canessa, Luis F. Larrondo, Monika Schmoll, Irina S. Druzhinina, Christian P. Kubicek, Jill Gaskell, Philip J. Kersten, Franz St. John, Jeremy Glasner, Grzegorz Sabat, Sandra Splinter Bondurant, Khajamohiddin Syed, Jagjit Yadav, Anthony C. Mgbeahuruike, Andriy Kovalchuk, Fred O. Asiegbu, Gerald Lackner, Dirk Hoffmeister, Jorge Recoret, Ana Gutierrez, Hui Sun, Erika Lindquist, Kerrie Barry, Robert Riley, Igor V. Grigoriev, Bernard Henrissat, Ursula Kues, Randy M. Berka, Angel T. Martinez, Sarah F. Covert, Robert A. Blanchette, Daniel Cullen. 2014. Analysis of the Phlebiopsis gigantea Genome, Transcriptome and Secretome Provides Insight into Its Pioneer Colonization Strategies of Wood
• Mun Su Rhee, Lusha Wei, Neha Sawhney, John D. Rice, Franz St. John, Jason C. Hurlbert, James F. Preston. 2014. Engineering the Xylan Utilization System in Bacillus subtilis for Production of Acidic Xylooligosaccharides
• Chao Zhang, Xinshu Zhuang, Zhao Jiang Wang, Frederick Matt, Franz St. John, Junyong Zhu. 2013. Xylanase supplementation on enzymatic saccharification of dilute acid pretreated poplars at different severities
• Franz St. John, James F. Preston, Edwin Pozharski. 2012. Novel structural features of xylanase A1 from Paenibacillus sp. JDR-2
• Virginia Chow, Guang Nong, Franz St. John, John D. Rice, Ellen Dickstein, Olga Chertkov, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Thomas Brettin, James Han, Tanja Woyke, Sam Pitluck, Matt Nolan, Amrita Pati, Joel Martin, Alex Copeland, Miriam L. Land, Lynne Goodwin, Jeffrey B. Jones, Lonnie O. Ingram, Keelnathan T. Shanmugam, James F. Preston. 2012. Complete genome sequence of Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2
• Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Patricia Ferreira, Dimitrios Floudas, David S. Hibbett, Paulo Canessa, Elena Fernandez-Fueyo, Luis F. Larrondo, Tim Y. James, Daniela Seelenfreund, Sergio Lobos, Rubén Polanco, Mario Tello, Yoichi Honda, Takahito Watanabe, Takashi Watanabe, Jae San Ryu, Christian P. Kubicek, Monika Schmoll, Jill Gaskell, Kenneth E. Hammel, Franz St. John, Amber Vanden Wymelenberg, Grzegorz Sabat, Sandra Splinter BonDurant, Khajamohiddin Syed, Jagjit S. Yadav, Harshavardhan Dodapaneni, Venkataramanan Subramanian, José L. Lavin, José A. Oguiza, Gumer Perez, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Lucia Ramirez, Francisco Santoyo, Emma Master, Pedro M. Coutinho, Bernard Henrissat, Vincent Lombard, Jon Karl Magnuson, Ursula Kües, Chiaki Hori, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Masahiro Samejima, Benjamin W. Held, Kerrie W. Barry, Kurt M. LaButti, Alla Lapidus, Erika A. Lindquist, Susan M. Lucas, Robert Riley, Asaf A. Salamov, Dirk Hoffmeister, Daniel Schwenk, Yitzhak Hadar, Oded Yarden, Ronald P. de Vries, Ad Wiebenga, Jan Stenlid, Daniel Eastwood, Igor V. Grigoriev, Randy M. Berka, Robert A. Blanchette, Phil Kersten, Angel T. Martinez, Rafael Vicuna, Daniel Cullen. 2012. Comparative genomics of Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Phanerochaete chrysosporium provide insight into selective ligninolysis
• Dimitrios Floudas, Manfred Binder, Robert Riely, Kerrie Barry, Robert A. Blanchette, Bernard Henrissat, Angel T. Martínez, Robert Otillar, Joseph W. Spatafora, Jagjit S. Yadav, Andrea Aerts, Isabelle Benoit, Alex Boyd, Alexis Carlson, Alex Copeland, Pedro M. Coutinho, Ronald P. deVries, Patricia Ferreira, Keisha Findley, Brian Foster, Jill Gaskell, Dylan Glotzer, Pawe³ Górecki, Joseph Heitman, Cedar Hesse, Chiaki Hori, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Joel A. Jurgens, Nathan Kallen, Philip J. Kersten, Annegret Kohler, Ursula Kües, T. K. ArunKumar, Alan Kuo, Kurt LaButti, Luis F. Larrondo, Erika Lindquist, Albee Ling, Vincent Lombard, Susan Lucas, Taina Lundell, Rachael Martin, David J. McLaughlin, Ingo Morgenstern, Emanuelle Morin, Claude Murat, Laszlo G. Nagy, Matt Nolan, Robin A. Ohm, Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva, Antonis Rokas, Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Grzegorz Sabat, Asaf Salamov, Masahiro Samejima, Jeremy Schmutz, Jason C. Slot, Franz St. John, Jan Stenlid, Hui Sun, Sheng Sun, Khajamohiddin Syed, Adrian Tsang, Ad Wiebenga, Darcy Young, Antonio Pisabarro, Daniel C. Eastwood, Francis Martin, Daniel Cullen, Igor V. Grigoriev, David S. Hibbett. 2012. The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes
• Semarjit Shary, Carl J. Houtman, Ellen A. Panisko, Premsagar Korripally, Jae San Ryu, Franz St. John, Casey Crooks, Matti Siika-aho, Jon K. Magnuson, Kenneth E. Hammel. 2011. Proteomic and functional analysis of the cellulase system expressed by Postia placenta during brown rot of solid wood
• Jason C. Hurlbert, John D. Rice, James F. Preston, Edwin Pozharski, Franz St. John. 2011. Ligand bound structures of a glycosyl hydrolase family 30 glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase
• Franz St. John, Javier M. Gonzalez, Edwin Pozharski. 2010. Consolidation of glycosyl hydrolase family 30 : a dual domain 4/7 hydrolase family consisting of two structurally distinct groups

• University of Maryland, Baltimore, Postdoctoral Fellowship, X-ray Crystallography Core Facility, 2009
• University of Florida, Ph.D., Microbiology and Cell Science, 2006
• University of Florida, Gainesville, B.S., University of Florida, Gainesville, 1999