Prof. Zhang, Li-xin becomes our Director

Prof. Zhang, Li-xin becomes our Director.

Representative Publications

1.  Wupeng Yan, Heng Song, Fuhang Song, Yisong Guo, Cheng-Hsuan Wu, Ampon Sae Her, Yi Pu, Shu Wang, Nathchar Naowarojna, Andrew Weitz, Michael P. Hendrich, Catherine E. Costello, Zhang L*, Pinghua Liu*, and Yan Jessie Zhang*. 2015. Endoperoxide Formation Catalyzed by FtmOx1, an α-Ketoglutarate-dependent Mononuclear Non-heme Iron Enzyme. Nature, 527, 539–543. 

2.  Bai C, Zhang Y, Zhao X, Hu Y, Xiang S, Miao J, Lou C*, Zhang L*. 2015. Exploiting a precise design of universal synthetic modular regulatory elements to unlock the microbial natural products in Streptomyces. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112 (39), 12181-6. 

3.  Wang Qian, Song Fuhang, Xiao Xue, Huang Pei, Li Li, Aaron Monte, Wael M. Abdel-Mageed, Wang Jian, Guo Hui, He Wenni, Xie Feng, Dai Huanqin, Liu Miaomiao, Chen Caixia, Xu Hao, Liu Mei, Andrew M. Piggott, Liu Xueting*, Robert J. Capon*, Zhang Lixin*. Abyssomicins from the South China Sea deep-sea sediment Verrucosispora sp.: Natural thioether Michael addition adducts as antitubercular prodrugs. Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit. 2013, 52, 1231-1234. 

4.  Zhuo Ying, Zhang Wenquan, Chen Difei, Gao Hong, Tao Jun, Liu Mei, Gou Zhongxuan, Zhou Xianlong, Ye Bangce, Zhang Qing, Zhang Siliang, Zhang Lixin*. Reversebiological engineering of hrdB to enhance the production of avermectins in an industrial strain of Streptomyces avermitilis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 2010,107(25), 11250-11254. 

5.  Ashforth Elizabeth Jane, Fu Chengzhang, Liu Xiangyang, Dai Huanqin, Song Fuhang, Guo Hui, Zhang Lixin*.  Bioprospecting for antituberculosis leads from microbial metabolites. Nat Prod Rep. 2010, 27, 1709-1719. 

6.  Zhang Lixin*, Yan Kezhi, Zhang Yu et al. High-throughput synergy screening identifies microbial metabolites as combination agents for the treatment of fungal infections. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2007, 104(11), 4606-4611.