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Overview

Clay C. C. Wang is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, focusing particularly on microbial natural products, fungal biology, and applications related to microbial metabolism and ecology.

The scientist's recent contributions include several publications across prominent journals. Notable papers by Clay C. C. Wang include:

  • Advances in space microbiology, 2021, published in iScience
  • Methylobacterium ajmalii sp. nov., Isolated From the International Space Station, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Polystyrene Upcycling into Fungal Natural Products and a Biocontrol Agent, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Contributions of Spore Secondary Metabolites to UV-C Protection and Virulence Vary in Different Aspergillus fumigatus Strains, 2020, mBio
  • An Aspergillus nidulans Platform for the Complete Cluster Refactoring and Total Biosynthesis of Fungal Natural Products, 2020, ACS Synthetic Biology

Clay C. C. Wang collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Swati Bijlani
  • Kasthuri Venkateswaran
  • Yi-Ming Chiang
  • Berl R. Oakley
  • C. Elizabeth Oakley

The main publication venues for this scientist's work are:

  • Journal of Natural Products
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • ACS Chemical Biology

Their research encompasses several subfields of study such as pharmacology, molecular biology, ecology, physiology, and biotechnology. The primary topics addressed in their work include microbial natural products and biosynthesis, fungal biology and applications, microbial metabolism and applications, microbial community ecology and physiology, spaceflight effects on biology, bioeconomy and sustainability development, and issues related to microplastics and plastic pollution.

Best Publications

  • Chromatin-level regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters

    Jin Woo Bok;Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Edyta Szewczyk;Edyta Szewczyk;Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez

  • A Gene Cluster Containing Two Fungal Polyketide Synthases Encodes the Biosynthetic Pathway for a Polyketide, Asperfuranone, in Aspergillus nidulans

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Edyta Szewczyk;Ashley D. Davidson;Nancy Keller

  • Advances in Aspergillus secondary metabolite research in the post-genomic era.

    James F. Sanchez;Amber D. Somoza;Nancy P. Keller;Clay C. C. Wang

  • Total biosynthesis of antitumor nonribosomal peptides in Escherichia coli.

    Kenji Watanabe;Kinya Hotta;Alex P Praseuth;Kento Koketsu

  • Two separate gene clusters encode the biosynthetic pathway for the meroterpenoids, austinol and dehydroaustinol in Aspergillus nidulans

    Hsien-Chun Lo;Ruth A. Entwistle;Chun-Jun Guo;Manmeet Ahuja

  • Plumbagin induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis through reactive oxygen species/c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathways in human melanoma A375.S2 cells

    Clay C.C. Wang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Shu-Chiao Sung;Ya-Ling Hsu

  • Recent advances in awakening silent biosynthetic gene clusters and linking orphan clusters to natural products in microorganisms.

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Shu-Lin Chang;Shu-Lin Chang;Berl R Oakley;Clay C C Wang

  • An Efficient System for Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Genes in Aspergillus nidulans

    Yi-Ming Chiang;C. Elizabeth Oakley;Manmeet Ahuja;Ruth Entwistle

  • Molecular Genetic Mining of the Aspergillus Secondary Metabolome: Discovery of the Emericellamide Biosynthetic Pathway

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Edyta Szewczyk;Tania Nayak;Ashley D. Davidson

  • Identification and characterization of the asperthecin gene cluster of Aspergillus nidulans.

    Edyta Szewczyk;Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;C. Elizabeth Oakley;Ashley D. Davidson

  • Characterization of the Aspergillus nidulans Monodictyphenone Gene Cluster

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Edyta Szewczyk;Ashley D. Davidson;Ruth Entwistle

  • Genome-Based Deletion Analysis Reveals the Prenyl Xanthone Biosynthesis Pathway in Aspergillus nidulans

    James F. Sanchez;Ruth A. Entwistle;Jui-Hsiang Hung;Junko Yaegashi

  • Illuminating the diversity of aromatic polyketide synthases in Aspergillus nidulans.

    Manmeet Ahuja;Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Shu-Lin Chang;Shu-Lin Chang;Mike B. Praseuth

  • Biosynthesis of Lovastatin Analogs with a Broadly Specific Acyltransferase

    Xinkai Xie;Kenji Watanabe;Wladyslaw A. Wojcicki;Clay C.C. Wang

  • Development of Genetic Dereplication Strains in Aspergillus nidulans Results in the Discovery of Aspercryptin.

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Manmeet Ahuja;Manmeet Ahuja;C. Elizabeth Oakley;Ruth Entwistle

  • Toward Awakening Cryptic Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters in Filamentous Fungi

    Fang Yun Lim;James F. Sanchez;Clay C.C. Wang;Nancy P. Keller

  • Molecular genetic analysis of the orsellinic acid/F9775 gene cluster of Aspergillus nidulans

    James F. Sanchez;Yi-Ming Chiang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Edyta Szewczyk;Ashley D. Davidson

  • Biosynthesis of Yersiniabactin, a Complex Polyketide-Nonribosomal Peptide, Using Escherichia coli as a Heterologous Host

    Blaine A. Pfeifer;Clay C. C. Wang;Christopher T. Walsh;Chaitan Khosla

  • Recent advances in genome mining of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters and the development of heterologous expression systems in Aspergillus nidulans

    Junko Yaegashi;Berl R Oakley;Clay C C Wang

  • Rosmarinic acid and baicalin epigenetically derepress peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor γ in hepatic stellate cells for their antifibrotic effect.

    Melissa D. Yang;Yi-Ming Chiang;Reiichi Higashiyama;Kinji Asahina

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi-Ming Chiang
Yi-Ming Chiang University of Southern California
Berl R. Oakley
Berl R. Oakley University of Kansas
Nancy P. Keller
Nancy P. Keller University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kasthuri Venkateswaran
Kasthuri Venkateswaran Jet Propulsion Lab
Hideaki Oikawa
Hideaki Oikawa Hokkaido University
Hidekazu Tsukamoto
Hidekazu Tsukamoto University of Southern California
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology
Yi Tang
Yi Tang University of California, Los Angeles
David K. Ann
David K. Ann City Of Hope National Medical Center
Joseph Strauss
Joseph Strauss BOKU University

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