Cuncun Qiao#, Yangkai Duan#, Mingyi Zhang, Martin Hagemann, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu*. Effects of Reduced and Enhanced Glycogen Pools on Salt-Induced Sucrose Production in a Sucrose-Secreting Strain of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2018. 84(2):e02023-17. doi:10.1128/AEM.02023-17
Bo Liang, Xuenian Huang, Yun Teng, Yajing Liang, Yong Yang, Linghui Zheng, Xuefeng Lu*. Enhanced single-step bioproduction of the simvastatin precursor monacolin J in an industrial strain of Aspergillus terreus by employing the evolved lovastatin hydrolase. Biotechnology Journal. 2018.13(6): 1800094. doi: 10.1002/biot.201800094
Tao Zhu, Thibault Scalvenzi, Nathalie Sassoon, Xuefeng Lu*, Muriel Gugger*. Terminal olefin profiles and phylogenetic analyses of olefin synthases of diversified cyanobacterial species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2018. 84(13):e00425-18. doi:10.1128/AEM.00425-18
Wenjing Lou#, Xiaoming Tan#, Kuo Song, Shanshan Zhang, Guodong Luan, Cheng Li, Xuefeng Lu*. A specific single nucleotide polymorphism in the ATP synthase gene significantly improves environmental stress tolerance of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2018. 84(18):e01222-18. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01222-18
Xiaoming Tan#, Shengwei Hou#, Kuo Song, Jens Georg, Stephan Kl?hn, Xuefeng Lu*, Wolfgang R. Hess*. The primary transcriptome of the fast-growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 2018. 11:218. doi: 10.1186/s13068-018-1215-8
Friedrich Kirsch, Quan Luo, Xuefeng Lu, Martin Hagemann*. Inactivation of invertase enhances sucrose production in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Microbiology-SGM.2018. 164(10):1220-1228. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000708
Zhi Zhu, Guodong Luan*, Xiaoming Tan, Haocui Zhang, Xuefeng Lu*. Rescuing ethanol photosynthetic production of cyanobacteria in non-sterilized outdoor cultivations with a bicarbonate-based pH-rising strategy. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 2017. 10:93. doi: 10.1186/s13068-017-0765-5
Qing Wang#, Luyao Bao#, Chenjun Jia, Mei Li, JianJun Li*, Xuefeng Lu*. Identification of residues important for the activity of aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase through investigation into the structure-activity relationship. BMC Biotechnology. 2017. 17(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12896-017-0351-8
Tao Zhu#, Shengwei Hou#, Xuefeng Lu*, Wolfgang R Hess*. Draft genome sequences of nine cyanobacterial strains from diverse habitats. Genome Announcements. 2017. 5(9):e01676-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01676-16