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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
97
Citations
30378
World Ranking
485
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Lixin Zhang is affiliated with East China University of Science and Technology in China. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, Zhang focuses notably on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering as key subfields of study.

The scientist has contributed to topics including:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Circular RNAs in diseases
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments

Zhang's publication record includes papers with notable citation impacts. Recent papers are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection of the liver directly contributes to hepatic impairment in patients with COVID-19 (2020), Journal of Hepatology
  • Clinical and pathological investigation of patients with severe COVID-19 (2020), JCI Insight
  • AMF inoculation and phosphorus supplementation alleviates drought induced growth and photosynthetic decline in Nicotiana tabacum by up-regulating antioxidant metabolism and osmolyte accumulation (2020), Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Application of Antibiotics/Antimicrobial Agents on Dental Caries (2020), BioMed Research International
  • Candida albicans promotes tooth decay by inducing oral microbial dysbiosis (2020), The ISME Journal

Frequent coauthors in Zhang's work include:

  • Xueting Liu
  • Guoliang Zhu
  • Xuekui Xia
  • Huanqin Dai
  • Gao-Yi Tan

Zhang has published extensively in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Research Square
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

    Mingxun Wang;Jeremy J Carver;Vanessa V Phelan;Laura M Sanchez

  • Molecular Networking as a Dereplication Strategy

    Jane Y. Yang;Laura M. Sanchez;Christopher M. Rath;Xueting Liu

  • Nitric Oxide Functions as a Signal in Salt Resistance in the Calluses from Two Ecotypes of Reed

    Liqun Zhao;Feng Zhang;Jinkui Guo;Yingli Yang

  • Increased sensitivity to salt stress in an ascorbate-deficient Arabidopsis mutant

    Chenghong Huang;Wenliang He;Jinkui Guo;Xuexiang Chang

  • Suppression of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1-induced cell death by 14-3-3 proteins.

    Lixin Zhang;Jing Chen;Haian Fu

  • Effects of actinobacteria on plant disease suppression and growth promotion.

    Sasikumar Arunachalam Palaniyandi;Seung Hwan Yang;Lixin Zhang;Joo-Won Suh

  • Crispr/cas9 based engineering of actinomycetal genomes

    Tilmann Weber;Yaojun Tong;Sang Yup Lee

  • Hybrid cache architecture with disparate memory technologies

    Xiaoxia Wu;Jian Li;Lixin Zhang;Evan Speight

  • Raf-1 promotes cell survival by antagonizing apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 through a MEK-ERK independent mechanism.

    Jing Chen;Katsunori Fujii;Lixin Zhang;Thomas Roberts

  • Isolation of high-affinity peptide antagonists of 14-3-3 proteins by phage display.

    Bingcheng Wang;Hongzhu Yang;Yun Cai Liu;Tomas Jelinek

  • Visualizing RNA dynamics in live cells with bright and stable fluorescent RNAs.

    Xianjun Chen;Xianjun Chen;Dasheng Zhang;Ni Su;Bingkun Bao

  • Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

    Jun Lin;Kunihiko Nishino;Marilyn C. Roberts;Marcelo Tolmasky

  • A CRISPR-Cas12a-derived biosensing platform for the highly sensitive detection of diverse small molecules.

    Mindong Liang;Mindong Liang;Zilong Li;Weishan Wang;Jiakun Liu;Jiakun Liu

  • Boundary activated hydrogen evolution reaction on monolayer MoS 2 .

    Jianqi Zhu;Zhi-Chang Wang;Huijia Dai;Qinqin Wang

  • Exploring novel bioactive compounds from marine microbes.

    Lixin Zhang;Rong An;Rong An;Jinping Wang;Nuo Sun;Nuo Sun

  • Escherichia coli mediated urinary tract infections: Are there distinct uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) pathotypes?

    Carl F. Marrs;Lixin Zhang;Betsy Foxman

  • Identification of Novel Inhibitors of M. tuberculosis Growth Using Whole Cell Based High-Throughput Screening

    Sarah A. Stanley;Sarah Schmidt Grant;Sarah Schmidt Grant;Tomohiko Kawate;Tomohiko Kawate;Noriaki Iwase

  • Nitric oxide protects against oxidative stress under heat stress in the calluses from two ecotypes of reed.

    Lili Song;Wei Ding;Mingui Zhao;Baoteng Sun

  • Site-specific Nitrosoproteomic Identification of Endogenously S-Nitrosylated Proteins in Arabidopsis

    Jiliang Hu;Xiahe Huang;Lichao Chen;Xuwu Sun

  • High-throughput synergy screening identifies microbial metabolites as combination agents for the treatment of fungal infections.

    Lixin Zhang;Kezhi Yan;Yu Zhang;Ren Huang

  • Diversifying microbial natural products for drug discovery

    V. Knight;J.-J. Sanglier;D. DiTullio;S. Braccili

  • A chloroplast envelope-bound PHD transcription factor mediates chloroplast signals to the nucleus

    Xuwu Sun;Peiqiang Feng;Xiumei Xu;Hailong Guo

  • NLLSS: Predicting Synergistic Drug Combinations Based on Semi-supervised Learning.

    Xing Chen;Biao Ren;Ming Chen;Quanxin Wang

  • Formation of DEG5 and DEG8 Complexes and Their Involvement in the Degradation of Photodamaged Photosystem II Reaction Center D1 Protein in Arabidopsis

    Xuwu Sun;Xuwu Sun;Lianwei Peng;Jinkui Guo;Wei Chi

  • LOW PSII ACCUMULATION1 Is Involved in Efficient Assembly of Photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Lianwei Peng;Lianwei Peng;Jinfang Ma;Jinfang Ma;Wei Chi;Jinkui Guo

  • Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea: Sequencing a Myriad of Type Strains

    Nikos C. Kyrpides;Philip Hugenholtz;Jonathan A. Eisen;Tanja Woyke

Frequent Co-Authors

Congming Lu
Congming Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
John B. Carter
John B. Carter IBM (United States)
Ramakrishnan Rajamony
Ramakrishnan Rajamony Goldman Sachs (United States)
Sally A. McKee
Sally A. McKee Chalmers University of Technology
Wen-Jun Li
Wen-Jun Li Sun Yat-sen University
Balaram Sinharoy
Balaram Sinharoy IBM (United States)
Ravi Kumar Arimilli
Ravi Kumar Arimilli IBM (United States)
Qingtao Lu
Qingtao Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haian Fu
Haian Fu Emory University
Enge Wang
Enge Wang Peking University

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