Professor/Tenured Associate Professor
He YW, Cao XQ, Poplawsky AR. Chemical structure, biological roles, biosynthesis and regulation of the yellow xanthomonadin pigments in the phytopathogen Xanthomonas. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2020 Feb 6. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-11-19-0326-CR
Diab AA, Cao XQ, Chen H, Song K, Zhou L, Chen B, He Ya-Wen. BDSF Is the Predominant In-Planta Quorum-Sensing Signal Used During Xanthomonas campestris Infection and Pathogenesis in Chinese Cabbage. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2019, 32(2):240-254.
Cao, XQ, Zhou L, Chen B, He Ya-Wen. Biosynthesis of Xanthomonas yellow pigment xanthomonadins involves an ATP-dependent 3- HBA:ACP ligase and an unusual type II polyketide synthesis pathway. Molecular Microbiology. 2018, Oct; 110(1):16-32.
Fang Y L, Chen B, Zhou L, He Ya-Wen. The mechanism underlying the regulatory roles of anti-activator QslA on the biosynthesis of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1201. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2018, Jul 25; 9:1584.
Sun S, Chen B, Jin ZJ, Zhou L, Fang YL, Thawai C, Rampioni G, He Ya-Wen. Characterization of the multiple molecular mechanisms underlying RsaL control of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid biosynthesis in the rhizosphere bacteriumPseudomonas aeruginosa PA1201. Molecular Microbiology. 2017, 104(6):931-947.
Zhou L, Zhang LH, Cámara M, He Ya-Wen. The DSF Family of Quorum Sensing Signals: Diversity, Biosynthesis, and Turnover in Xanthomonas. Trends in Microbiology. 2017, 25(4):293-303.
Sun S, Zhou L, Jin K, Jiang H, He Ya-Wen. Quorum sensing systems differentially regulate the production of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid in the rhizobacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1201. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6:30352.
Wang Xing-Yu, Zhou Lian, Yang J, Ji Guang-Hai, He Ya-Wen. The RpfB-Dependent Quorum Sensing Signal Turnover System Is Required for Adaptation and Virulence in the Pathogen Xanthomonas. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 2016, 29(3):220-30.
Zhou Lian*, Wang Xing-Yu*, Sun Shuang, Yang Li-Chao, Jiang Bo-Le, He Ya-Wen. Identification and Characterization of Naturally Occurring DSF-Family Quorum Sensing Signal Turnover System in the Phytopathogen Xanthomonas. Environmental Microbiology, 2015, 17(11):4646–4658.
Jin Kaiming*, Zhou Lian*, Jiang Haixia, Sun Shuang, Fang Yunling, Liu Jianhua, Zhang Xuehong, He Ya-Wen. Engineering the central biosynthetic and secondary metabolic pathways of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA1201 to improve phenazine-1-carboxylic acid production. Metabolic Engineering, 2015, 32:30-38.