Education 2008.09-2012.06 Bachelor, College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China. Major: Jin Shanbao Experimental Class (Plant Production). 2012.08-2015.06 M.S., School of Pharmaceutical Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. Major: Pharmaceutical Science. 2013.03-2015.05 Joint M.S., Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Research field: Metabolic Engineering. 2015.08-2021.06 Ph.D., School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. Major: Fermentation Engineering. 2018.12-2019.11 Joint Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, USA. Research field: Metabolic Engineering.
Professional Experience 2021.08-now Lecture, School of Food & Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. 2021.10-now Postdoctor, School of Food & Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Scientific Research Field Metabolic Engineering Fermentation Engineering Biocatalysis and enzyme engineering
Social academic post and honor Teaching Courses Microbiology Genetics Metabolic Engineering
Published papers [1] Sheng-Wang Zhao, Lei Sun, Yan-Zheng Zhou, Zhen Peng, Feng-Jie Cui, Qiang Zhou, Wen-Jing Sun*. Migration law of cadmium during 2-ketogluconic acid production using hydrolysate of cadmium-contaminated rice as raw material. Journal of Food Safety and Quality, 2022, 13(19): 6369-6376. (In Chinese) [2] Lei Sun#, Daming Wang#, Wenjing Sun*, Xiaofei Zhang, Fengjie Cui, Chang Su, Xiaomei Zhang, Guoqiang Xu, Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong Xu*. Characterization of a transcriptional regulator PtxS from Pseudomonas plecoglossicida for regulating 2-ketogluconic acid metabolism. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2021, 174: 330-338. [3] Angela Zhang, Lei Sun, Yuanyuan Bai, Hai Yu, John B. McArthur, Xi Chen, Shota Atsumi*. Microbial production of human milk oligosaccharide lactodifucotetraose. Metabolic Engineering, 2021, 66: 12-20. [4] Lei Sun#, Daming Wang#, Wenjing Sun*, Xiaoyong He, Fengjie Cui, Xiaomei Zhang, Jinsong Gong, Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong Xu*. A 2-ketogluconate kinase KguK in Pseudomonas plecoglossicida JUIM01: Enzymatic characterization and its role in 2-keto-D-gluconic acid metabolism. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2020, 165(Part B): 2640-2648. [5] Lei Sun#, Daming Wang#, Wenjing Sun*, Fengjie Cui, Jinsong Gong, Xiaomei Zhang, Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong Xu*. Two-stage semi-continuous 2-keto-gluconic acid (2KGA) production by Pseudomonas plecoglossicida JUIM01 from rice starch hydrolysate. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020, 8: 120. [6] Daming Wang#, Lei Sun#, Wenjing Sun*, Fengjie Cui, Jinsong Gong, Xiaomei Zhang, Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong Xu*. A membrane-bound gluconate dehydrogenase from 2-keto-D-gluconic acid industrial producing strain Pseudomonas plecoglossicida JUIM01: Purification, characterization, and gene identification. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2019, 188: 897-913. [7] Lei Sun, Wenjing Sun*, Daming Wang, Fengjie Cui, Xianghui Qi, Zhenghong Xu*. A novel 2-keto-D-gluconic acid high-producing strain Arthrobacter globiformis JUIM02. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2018, 185: 947-957. [8] Daming Wang#, Lei Sun#, Wenjing Sun*, Fengjie Cui, Jinsong Gong, Xiaomei Zhang, Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong Xu*. Purification, characterization and gene identification of a membrane-bound glucose dehydrogenase from 2-keto-D-gluconic acid industrial producing strain Pseudomonas plecoglossicida JUIM01. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2018, 118(Part A): 534-541. [9] Lei Sun#, Fan Yang#, Hongbing Sun, Taicheng Zhu, Xinghua Li, Yin Li, Zhenghong Xu*, Yanping Zhang*. Synthetic pathway optimization for improved 1,2,4-butanetriol production, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2016, 43: 67-78. [10] Lei Sun#, Fan Yang#, Taicheng Zhu, Xinghua Li, Hongbing Sun, Yin Li, Zhenghong Xu*, Yanping Zhang*. Optimization of 1,2,4-butanetriol synthetic pathway in Escherichia coli. Chinese Journal of Biotechnology, 2016, 32(1): 51-63. (In Chinese)
Main Scientific Research Projects National Natural Science Foundation of China (32201995) Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20220526)
Patents Applied for 6 invention patents, 4 of them have been authorized.
Number of supervised undergraduates 6 The above information updated
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