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19982022

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The main focus of my research is to discover and develop bioactive natural products from microorganisms as drugs or drug leads for the treatment of cancer, infectious diseases, or other human medical conditions. In addition, I recently initiated a collaborative project for the engineering of novel oncolytic virus for cancer chemoimmunotherapy.
Key words: anti-aging, anti-cancer, anti-infective, crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding, drug discovery, drug development, natural product, synthetic biology, chemoimmunotherapy, contract service

 

Education/Academic qualification

BS in Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University

MS in Phytochemistry, Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

PhD in Botany & Microbiology, Michigan State University

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  • New insights into the genetic organization of the FK228 biosynthetic gene cluster in chromobacterium violaceum No. 968

    Potharla, V. Y., Wesener, S. R. & Cheng, Y. Q., Feb 2011, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77, 4, p. 1508-1511 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Thailandepsin A

    Wang, C. & Cheng, Y. Q., Nov 2011, In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 67, 11, p. o2948-o2949

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster

    Medema, M. H., Kottmann, R., Yilmaz, P., Cummings, M., Biggins, J. B., Blin, K., De Bruijn, I., Chooi, Y. H., Claesen, J., Coates, R. C., Cruz-Morales, P., Duddela, S., Düsterhus, S., Edwards, D. J., Fewer, D. P., Garg, N., Geiger, C., Gomez-Escribano, J. P., Greule, A. & Hadjithomas, M. & 134 others, Haines, A. S., Helfrich, E. J. N., Hillwig, M. L., Ishida, K., Jones, A. C., Jones, C. S., Jungmann, K., Kegler, C., Kim, H. U., Kötter, P., Krug, D., Masschelein, J., Melnik, A. V., Mantovani, S. M., Monroe, E. A., Moore, M., Moss, N., Nützmann, H. W., Pan, G., Pati, A., Petras, D., Reen, F. J., Rosconi, F., Rui, Z., Tian, Z., Tobias, N. J., Tsunematsu, Y., Wiemann, P., Wyckoff, E., Yan, X., Yim, G., Yu, F., Xie, Y., Aigle, B., Apel, A. K., Balibar, C. J., Balskus, E. P., Barona-Gómez, F., Bechthold, A., Bode, H. B., Borriss, R., Brady, S. F., Brakhage, A. A., Caffrey, P., Cheng, Y. Q., Clardy, J., Cox, R. J., De Mot, R., Donadio, S., Donia, M. S., Van Der Donk, W. A., Dorrestein, P. C., Doyle, S., Driessen, A. J. M., Ehling-Schulz, M., Entian, K. D., Fischbach, M. A., Gerwick, L., Gerwick, W. H., Gross, H., Gust, B., Hertweck, C., Höfte, M., Jensen, S. E., Ju, J., Katz, L., Kaysser, L., Klassen, J. L., Keller, N. P., Kormanec, J., Kuipers, O. P., Kuzuyama, T., Kyrpides, N. C., Kwon, H. J., Lautru, S., Lavigne, R., Lee, C. Y., Linquan, B., Liu, X., Liu, W., Luzhetskyy, A., Mahmud, T., Mast, Y., Méndez, C., Metsä-Ketelä, M., Micklefield, J., Mitchell, D. A., Moore, B. S., Moreira, L. M., Müller, R., Neilan, B. A., Nett, M., Nielsen, J., O'Gara, F., Oikawa, H., Osbourn, A., Osburne, M. S., Ostash, B., Payne, S. M., Pernodet, J. L., Petricek, M., Piel, J., Ploux, O., Raaijmakers, J. M., Salas, J. A., Schmitt, E. K., Scott, B., Seipke, R. F., Shen, B., Sherman, D. H., Sivonen, K., Smanski, M. J., Sosio, M., Stegmann, E., Süssmuth, R. D., Tahlan, K., Thomas, C. M., Tang, Y., Truman, A. W., Viaud, M., Walton, J. D., Walsh, C. T., Weber, T., Van Wezel, G. P., Wilkinson, B., Willey, J. M., Wohlleben, W., Wright, G. D., Ziemert, N., Zhang, C., Zotchev, S. B., Breitling, R., Takano, E. & Glöckner, F. O., 18 Aug 2015, In: Nature Chemical Biology. 11, 9, p. 625-631 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  • KDELR2 promotes breast cancer proliferation via HDAC3-mediated cell cycle progression

    Wei, H., Ma, W., Lu, X., Liu, H., Lin, K., Wang, Y., Ye, Z., Sun, L., Huang, Z., Pan, T., Zhou, Z., Cheng, E. Y., Zhang, H., Gao, P. & Zhong, X., Sep 2021, In: Cancer Communications. 41, 9, p. 904-920 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • A eukaryotic alanine racemase gene involved in cyclic peptide biosynthesis

    Cheng, Y. Q. & Walton, J. D., 18 Feb 2000, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275, 7, p. 4906-4911 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review