!!Youming Zhang - Publications
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1. Xue Wang, Haibo Zhoua, Hanna Chena, Xiaoshu Jing, Wentao Zheng, Ruijuan Li, Tao Sun, Jiaqi Liu, Jun Fu, Liujie Huo, Yue-zhong Li, Yuemao Shen, Xiaoming Ding, Rolf Müller, Xiaoying Bian,* and Youming Zhang*. Discovery of recombinases enables genome mining of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters in Burkholderiales species, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, 115(18): E4255-E4263\\
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2. Hailong Wang, Zhen Li, Ruonan Jia, Jia Yin, Aiying Li, Liqiu Xia, Yulong Yin, Rolf Müller, Jun Fu, A. Francis Stewart,* and Youming Zhang*. ExoCET: exonuclease in vitro assembly combined with RecET recombination for highly efficient direct DNA cloning from complex genomes, Nucleic Acids Res., 2018, 46(5): 2697.\\
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3. Fu Yan, David Auerbach, Yi Chai, Lena Keller, Qiang Tu, Stephan Httel, Amelie Glemser, Hanusch A. Grab, Thorsten Bach, Youming Zhang,* and Rolf Müller*, Biosynthesis and Heterologous Production of Vioprolides: Rational Biosynthetic Engineering and Unprecedented 4-Methylazetidinecarboxylic Acid Formation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 2018, 9;57(28): 8754-8759.\\
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4. Hailong Wang, Zhen Li, Ruonan Jia, Yu Hou, Jia Yin, Xiaoying Bian, Aiying Li, Rolf Müller, A. Stewart, Jun Fu, Youming Zhang*. RecET direct cloning and Red αβ recombineering of biosynthetic gene clusters, large operons or single genes for heterologous expression. Nature Protocols, 2016, 11(7): 1175-1190.\\
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5. Isabel Kolinko, Anna Lohße, Sarah Borg, Oliver Raschdorf, Christian Jogler, Qiang Tu, Mihály Pósfai, Éva Tompa, Jürgen M Plitzko, Andreas Brachmann, Gerhard Wanner, Rolf Müller, Youming Zhang*, Dirk Schüler*. Biosynthesis of magnetic nanostructures in a foreign organism by transfer of bacterial magnetosome gene clusters. Nature Nanotechnology, 2014, 9(3): 193-197.\\
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6. Jun Fu, Xiaoying Bian, Shengbaio Hu, Hailong Wang, Fan Huang, Philipp M Seibert, Alberto Plaza, Liqiu Xia, Rolf Müller*, A Francis Stewart*, Youming Zhang*. Full-length RecE enhances linear-linear homologous recombination and facilitates direct cloning for bioprospecting. Nature Biotechnology, 2012, 30(5): 440-446.\\
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7. Giuseppe Testa, Youming Zhang, Kristina Vintersten, Vladimir Benes, WWM Pim Pijnappel, Ian Chambers, Andrew JH Smith, Austin G Smith, A Francis Stewart. Engineering the mouse genome with bacterial artificial chromosomes to create multipurpose alleles. Nature Biotechnology, 2003, 21(4): 443-447.\\
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8. Youming Zhang, Joep PP Muyrers, Giuseppe Testa, A Francis Stewart. DNA cloning by homologous recombination in Escherichia coli. Nature Biotechnology, 2000, 18(12): 1314.\\
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9. Youming Zhang, Frank Buchholz, Joep PP Muyrers, A Francis Stewart. A new logic for DNA engineering using recombination in Escherichia coli. Nature Genetics, 1998, 20: 123-128.\\
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10. Theodore Fotsis, Youming Zhang, Pepper MS, Adlercreutz H, Montesano R, Nawroth PP. The endogenous oestrogen metabolite 2-methoxyoestradiol inhibits angiogenesis and suppresses tumour growth. Nature, 1994, 368(6468): 237-239.\\
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H-factor = 47, total citations > 10400\\
Selected Elsevier "Chinese Most Cited Researchers", 2018\\
Reviewed by genome technology to describe the discovery of Red/ET recombination technology. Page 43, July, 2002\\
EMBL press release to report the application of Red/ET recombination after Nature Biotechnology paper published, 2003\\
Reviewed by Saechsische Zeitung to describe the application of Red/ET recombination in mouse genomics. Front Page 9, April, 2003\\
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