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Wei SP†, Qian ZG†, Hu CF†, Pan F, Chen MT, Lee SY, Xia XX*. Formation and functionalization of membraneless compartments in Escherichia coli. Nat Chem Biol, 2020, 16(10):1143-1148. 

Jin Q†, Pan F†, Hu CF, Lee SY, Xia XX*, Qian ZG*. Secretory production of spider silk proteins in metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum for spinning into tough fibers. Metab Eng, 2022, 70: 102-114.

Qian ZG, Pan F, Xia XX*. Synthetic biology for protein-based materials. Curr Opin Biotechnol, 2020, 65:197-204.

Hu CF†, Qian ZG†, Peng Q, Zhang Y, Xia XX*. Unconventional spidroin assemblies in aqueous dope for spinning into tough synthetic fibers. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2021, 7: 3608–3617.

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