Tenure-track Associate Professor
Tianlv Mo, Dhanaraju Mandalapu, Hong Yuan, Wei Ding* and Qi Zhang*.Convergent evolution of the Cys decarboxylases involved in aminovinyl-cysteine (AviCys) biosynthesis. FEBS Letters. 2019, 593(6):573-580.
Wei Ding#, Ning Yuan#, Dhanaraju Mandalapu, Tianlu Mo, Suwei Dong* and Qi Zhang*. Cypemycin Decarboxylase CypD Is Not Responsible for Aminovinyl–Cysteine (AviCys) Ring Formation. Org. Lett., 2018, 20 (23):7670–7673.
Wei Ding, Tianlu Mo, Dhanaraju Mandalapu, Qi Zhang*. Substrate specificity of the cypemycin decarboxylase CypD. Synth Syst Biotechnol. 2018, 3(3):159-162
Yujie Wu, Runze Wu, Dhanaraju Mandalapu, Xinjian Ji, Tuo Chen, Wei Ding and Qi Zhang. Radical SAM-dependent adenosylation catalyzed by L-tyrosine lyases. Org Biomol Chem. 2018, 17(7):1809-1812.
Dhanaraju Mandalapu, Xinjian Ji, Jinfeng Chen, Chuchu Guo, Wan-Qiu Liu, Wei Ding, Jiahai Zhou, and Qi Zhang. Thioesterase-Mediated Synthesis of Teixobactin Analogues: Mechanism and Substrate Specificity.J Org Chem. 2018, 83(13):7271-7275.
Thongkongkaew Tawatchai, Ding Wei, Bratovanov Evgeni, Oueis Emilia, Garcia Altares Maria, Zaburannyi Nestor, Harmrolfs Kirsten, Zhang Youming, Scherlach Kirstin, Mueller Rolf* and Hertweck Christian*. Two Types of Threonine-Tagged Lipopeptides Synergize in Host Colonization by Pathogenic Burkholderia Species. ACS Chemical Biology. 2018, 13(5): 1370-1379.
Wei Ding, Wenjuan Ji, Yujie Wu, Runze Wu, Wan-Qiu Liu, Tianlu Mo, Junfeng Zhao, Xiaoyan Ma, Ping Xu, Boping Tang*, Yi Yu* and Qi Zhang*. Biosynthesis of the Nosiheptide Indole Side Ring Centers on a Cryptic Carrier Protein NosJ. Nature Communications. 2017, 8(1):437.
Wei Ding, Yongzhen Li, Junfeng Zhao, Xinjian Ji, Tianlu Mo, Haocheng Qianzhu, Zixin Deng, Yi Yu, and Qi Zhang*. Catalytic Mechanism of the Class C radical S-Adenosylmethionine Methyltransferase. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3857 -3861.