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
- The mechanism of efficient lignocellulose degradation by microorganisms and its application in bioconversion of biomass resources.
- Catalytic mechanism and protein engineering of important enzymes and regulating proteins in industrial microorganisms.
Education
1999 Sep. – 2004 Jun. Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Experience
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.