General

Yingang Feng, Ph.D., Professor
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: fengyg@qibebt.ac.cn
Telephone: 0532-80662706
Address: No. 189 Songling Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao, Shandong Province
Postcode: 266101 
http://mt.qibebt.ac.cn/info/1066/1197.htm

Research Areas

  1. The mechanism of efficient lignocellulose degradation by microorganisms and its application in bioconversion of biomass resources.
  2. Catalytic mechanism and protein engineering of important enzymes and regulating proteins in industrial microorganisms.

Education

1995 Sep. - 1999 Jun. Bachelor, Department of Physics, Nanjing University
1999 Sep. – 2004 Jun. Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Experience

2004 Jul. – 2006 Jun. Postdoctoral Researcher, Beijing NMR Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2006 Jul. – 2011 May Associate Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2011 Jun. – now Professor, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications

Representative publications

(Full list with >100 publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yingang_Feng/publications)

1.       Ya-Jun Liu*, Bin Li, Yingang Feng*, Qiu Cui* (2020) Consolidated bio-saccharification: Leading lignocellulose bioconversion into the real world. Biotechnol. Adv. 40:107535.

2.       Zhen Wei, Chao Chen, Ya-Jun Liu, Sheng Dong, Jie Li, Kuan Qi, Shiyue Liu, Xiaoke Ding, Lizett Ortiz de Ora, Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Yifei Li, Hongwei Yao, Raphael Lamed, Edward A. Bayer, Qiu Cui, Yingang Feng* (2019) Alternative σI/anti-σI factors represent a unique form of bacterial σ/anti-σ complex. Nucleic Acids Res. 47(11):5988-5997.

3.       Ya-Jun Liu, Kuan Qi, Jie Zhang, Chao Chen, Qiu Cui*, Yingang Feng* (2018) Firmicutes-enriched IS1447 represents a group of IS3-family insertion sequences exhibiting unique +1 transcriptional slippage. Biotechnol. Biofuels 11:300.

4.       Sheng Dong, Xi Liu, Gu-Zhen Cui, Qiu Cui*, Xinquan Wang*, Yingang Feng* (2018) Structural insight into the catalytic mechanism of a cis-epoxysuccinate hydrolase producing enantiomerically pure D(-)-tartaric acid. Chem. Commun. 54(61):8482-8485.

5.       Ya-Jun Liu*, Shiyue Liu, Sheng Dong, Renmin Li, Yingang Feng*, Qiu Cui* (2018) Determination of the native features of the exoglucanase Cel48S from Clostridium thermocellum. Biotechnol. Biofuels 11:6.

6.       Lei Du, Sheng Dong, Xingwang Zhang, Chengying Jiang, Jingfei Chen, Lishan Yao, Xiao Wang, Xiaobo Wan, Xi Liu, Xinquan Wang, Shaohua Huang, Qiu Cui, Yingang Feng*, Shuang-Jiang Liu*, and Shengying Li* (2017) Selective oxidation of aliphatic C-H bonds in alkylphenols by a chemomimetic biocatalytic system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114(26), E5129-E5137.

7.       Chao Chen, Zhenling Cui, Xiangfei Song, Ya-Jun Liu, Qiu Cui*, and Yingang Feng* (2015) Integration of bacterial expansin-like proteins into cellulosome promotes the cellulose degradation. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 100(5), 2203-2212.

8.       Huiwen Wu, Weibin Gong, Xingzhe Yao, Jinfeng Wang, Sarah Perrett* and Yingang Feng* (2015) Evolutionarily conserved binding of translationally-controlled tumor protein to eukaryotic elongation factor 1B. J. Biol. Chem. 290(14), 8694-8710.

9.       Weibin Gong, Jinfeng Wang, Sarah Perrett* and Yingang Feng* (2014) Retinoblastoma-binding protein 1 has an interdigitated double Tudor domain with DNA-binding activity. J. Biol. Chem. 289(8), 4882-4895.

10.   Xi Liu, Shian Liu, Yingang Feng*, Jian-Zhong Liu, Yuling Chen, Khanh Pham, Haiteng Deng, Kendal D. Hirschi, Xinquan Wang*, and Ninghui Cheng* (2013) Structural insights into the N-terminal GIY-YIG endonuclease activity of Arabidopsis glutaredoxin AtGRXS16 in chloroplasts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110(23), 9565-9570.