主要开展酶蛋白质工程改造策略、氧化还原酶不对称催化机制及其反应体系等研究
主持国家和省部级项目12项;在ACS Catalysis等发表论文160多篇;申请发明专利27项,授权发明专利20项;获得教育部技术发明奖一等奖、江苏省科学技术奖二等奖、中石化联合会技术发明奖一等奖、中石化联合会青年科技突出贡献奖等科研奖励。
*仅举例其中5篇
1、Lunjie Wu, Jianhong An, Xiaoran Jing, Chun-Chi Chen, Longhai Dai, Yan Xu, Weidong Liu,* Rey-Ting Guo,* and Yao Nie*. Molecular insights into the regioselectivity of the Fe(II)/2-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase-catalyzed C−H hydroxylation of amino acids. ACS Catalysis,
2022
, 12: 11586-11596.
2、Lunjie Wu, Lei Qin, Yao Nie, Yan Xu, Yi-Lei Zhao. Computer-aided understanding and engineering of enzymatic selectivity. Biotechnology Advances,
2022
, 54: 107793
3、Jie Gu, Byu Ri Sim, Jiarui Li, Yangqing Yu, Lei Qin, Lunjie Wu, Yu Shen, Yao Nie, Yi-Lei Zhao, Yan Xu. Evolutionary coupling-inspired engineering of alcohol dehydrogenase reveals the influence of distant sites on its catalytic efficiency for stereospecific synthesis of chiral alcohols. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
2021
, 19: 5864-5873.
4、Jiahua Bi, Xiaoran Jing, Lunjie Wu, Xia Zhou, Jie Gu, Yao Nie, Yan Xu. Computational design of noncanonical amino acid-based thioether staples at N/C-terminal domains of multi-modular pullulanase for thermostabilization in enzyme catalysis. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
2021
, 19: 577-585.
5、Lei Qin, Lunjie Wu, Yao Nie, Yan Xu. Biosynthesis of chiral cyclic and heterocyclic alcohols via C=O/C-H/C-O asymmetric reactions. Catalysis Science & Technology,
2021
, 11:2637-2651.