Costas Maranas

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Donald B. Broughton Professor, Chemical Engineering

Costas D. Maranas is the Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1995. Dr. Maranas specializes in biotechnology, synthetic biology, and systems engineering, focusing on the reconstruction, analysis, and redesign of metabolic networks, computational protein and enzyme design, and optimization theory.

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minChemBio: Expanding Chemical Synthesis with Chemo-Enzymatic Pathways Using Minimal Transitions

Anand, M., Upadhyay, V. & Maranas, C. D., Mar 21 2025, In: ACS Synthetic Biology. 14, 3, p. 756-770 15 p.

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CatPred: a comprehensive framework for deep learning in vitro enzyme kinetic parameters

Boorla, V. S. & Maranas, C. D., Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 2072.

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A multi-tissue genome-scale model of Populus trichocarpa elucidates overexpression targets for improving drought tolerance

Barbosa, J. S. C., Schroeder, W. L., Suthers, P. F., Jawdy, S. S., Chen, J. G., Muchero, W. & Maranas, C. D., 2024, In: In Silico Plants. 6, 1, diae007.

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Data-driven and physics informed modeling of Chinese Hamster Ovary cell bioreactors

Cui, T., Bertalan, T., Ndahiro, N., Khare, P., Betenbaugh, M., Maranas, C. & Kevrekidis, I. G., Apr 2024, In: Computers and Chemical Engineering. 183, 108594.

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KETCHUP: Parameterizing of large-scale kinetic models using multiple datasets with different reference states

Hu, M., Suthers, P. F. & Maranas, C. D., Mar 2024, In: Metabolic engineering. 82, p. 123-133 11 p.

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Dehydrated Biomimetic Membranes with Skinlike Structure and Function

Oh, H., Tu, Y. M., Samineni, L., De Respino, S., Mehrafrooz, B., Joshi, H., Massenburg, L., Lopez-Marques, H., Elessawy, N., Song, W., Behera, H., Dhiman, R., Boorla, V. S., Kher, K., Lin, Y. C., Maranas, C., Aksimentiev, A., D. Freeman, B. & Kumar, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

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Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities in Genome-Scale Resource Allocation Models: A Mathematical Perspective

Schroeder, W. L., Suthers, P. F., Willis, T. C., Mooney, E. J. & Maranas, C. D., Jul 2024, In: Metabolites. 14, 7, 365.

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Genome streamlining to improve performance of a fast-growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973

Sengupta, A., Bandyopadhyay, A., Sarkar, D., Hendry, J. I., Schubert, M. G., Liu, D., Church, G. M., Maranas, C. D. & Pakrasi, H. B., Mar 2024, In: mBio. 15, 3

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Mitochondrial ATP generation is more proteome efficient than glycolysis

Shen, Y., Dinh, H. V., Cruz, E. R., Chen, Z., Bartman, C. R., Xiao, T., Call, C. M., Ryseck, R. P., Pratas, J., Weilandt, D., Baron, H., Subramanian, A., Fatma, Z., Wu, Z. Y., Dwaraknath, S., Hendry, J. I., Tran, V. G., Yang, L., Yoshikuni, Y. & Zhao, H. & 3 others, Maranas, C. D., Wühr, M. & Rabinowitz, J. D., Sep 2024, In: Nature Chemical Biology. 20, 9, p. 1123-1132 10 p.

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De novo design and Rosetta-based assessment of high-affinity antibody variable regions (Fv) against the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain (RBD)

Boorla, V. S., Chowdhury, R., Ramasubramanian, R., Ameglio, B., Frick, R., Gray, J. J. & Maranas, C. D., Feb 2023, In: Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics. 91, 2, p. 196-208 13 p.

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Deuterated water as a substrate-agnostic isotope tracer for investigating reversibility and thermodynamics of reactions in central carbon metabolism

Callaghan, M. M., Thusoo, E., Sharma, B. D., Getahun, F., Stevenson, D. M., Maranas, C., Olson, D. G., Lynd, L. R. & Amador-Noguez, D., Nov 2023, In: Metabolic engineering. 80, p. 254-266 13 p.

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A single amino acid change led to structural and functional differentiation of PvHd1 to control flowering in switchgrass

Choi, S., Prabhakar, P. K., Chowdhury, R., Pendergast, T. H., Urbanowicz, B. R., Maranas, C. & Devos, K. M., Sep 29 2023, In: Journal of experimental botany. 74, 18, p. 5532-5546 15 p.

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Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) Support the Binding of SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Are Likely Susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Chothe, S. K., Jakka, P., Boorla, V. S., Ramasamy, S., Gontu, A., Nissly, R. H., Brown, J., Turner, G., Sewall, B. J., Reeder, D. A. M., Field, K. A., Engiles, J. B., Amirthalingam, S., Ravichandran, A., LaBella, L., Nair, M. S., Maranas, C. D. & Kuchipudi, S. V., May 2023, In: Viruses. 15, 5, 1103.

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A multi-organ maize metabolic model connects temperature stress with energy production and reducing power generation

Chowdhury, N. B., Simons-Senftle, M., Decouard, B., Quillere, I., Rigault, M., Sajeevan, K. A., Acharya, B., Chowdhury, R., Hirel, B., Dellagi, A., Maranas, C. & Saha, R., Dec 15 2023, In: iScience. 26, 12, 108400.

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Evaluating proteome allocation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae phenotypes with resource balance analysis

Dinh, H. V. & Maranas, C. D., May 2023, In: Metabolic engineering. 77, p. 242-255 14 p.

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