Lei Zhu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., leizhu@sdau.edu.cn, 15064171210

Research Interests:

Microbiology, Molecular Biology

Education:

2002-2006 South China Agricultural University, BSc of Biotechnology

2006-2009 South China Agricultural University, MSc of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2009-2013 South China Agricultural University, PhD of Chemical Biology

2013-2017 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Post-Doc in Department of Microbiology

2017-now Associate Professor, Collage of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University

Teaching Courses:

Selected Publications:

Cao X, Hong Y, Zhu L, Hu Y, Cronan JE: Development and retention of a primordial moonlighting pathway of protein modification in the absence of selection presents a puzzle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018, 115(4):647-655.

Cao X, Zhu L, Hu Z, Cronan JE: Expression and Activity of the BioH Esterase of Biotin Synthesis is Independent of Genome Context. Sci Rep 2017, 7(1):2141.

Bi H, Zhu L, Jia J, Zeng L, Cronan JE: Unsaturated Fatty Acid Synthesis in the Gastric Pathogen Helicobacter pylori Proceeds via a Backtracking Mechanism. Cell Chem Biol 2016, 23(12):1480-1489.

Bi H, Zhu L, Jia J, Cronan JE: A Biotin Biosynthesis Gene Restricted to Helicobacter. Sci Rep 2016, 6:21162.

Zhu L, Cronan JE: The Conserved Modular Elements of the Acyl Carrier Proteins of Lipid Synthesis are Only Partially Interchangeable. J Biol Chem 2015.

Ma J, Deng L, Tong W, Zhu L, Wang H: Identification and Function Reasearch of Five 3-Ketoacyl-ACP Synthase Homologues 2014, 41(09):887-895.

Bi H, Zhu L, Wang H, Cronan JE: Inefficient Translation Renders the Enterococcus faecalis fabK Enoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase Phenotypically Cryptic. J Bacteriol 2014, 196(1):170-179.

Zhu L, Bi H, Ma J, Hu Z, Zhang W, Cronan JE, Wang H: The Two Functional Enoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Reductases of Enterococcus faecalis Do Not Mediate Triclosan Resistance. MBio 2013, 4(5).

Zhu L, Lin J, Ma J, Cronan JE, Wang H: Triclosan resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 is due to FabV, a triclosan-resistant enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010, 54(2):689-698.

Zhu L, Cheng J, Luo B, Feng S, Lin J, Wang S, Cronan JE, Wang H: Functions of the Clostridium acetobutylicium FabF and FabZ proteins in unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis. BMC Microbiol 2009, 9:119.

Feng S, Zhu L, Luo B, Sun Y, Wang H: Reconstitution of Escherichia coli Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Reaction In vitro. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics 2008, 35(8):10.

Wang Y, Wang L, Sun Y, Chen Y, Zhu L, Guo L, Luo B, Wang H: Disrupted ompC Causes Osmosis Sensitivity of Escherichia coli in Alkaline Medium. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2007, 34(12):8.

Zhang D, Chu Z, Huang Z, He Y, Zhu L: Optical density and enzyme activity in reverse micelles. Journal of South China Agricultural University 2005, 26(4):4.