Associate research professor

Research interests: Microbial physiology and metabolism, Biocatalysis and enzyme engineering

2020-present Associate professor, QIBEBT CAS

2019-2020 Associate professor, Hubei University

2014-2019 Associate professor, QIBEBT CAS

2009-2014 Dr. rer. nat. (2014), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

“Studies on rubber and gutta-percha degradation by Nocardia nova SH22a”

2004-2007 Master study at Institute of Hydrobiology CAS

2000-2004 Bachelor study in Hubei University

1. Lin Cheng, Zhichao Zhang, Daling Zhu*, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu, 2024, Glucosylglycerol phosphorylase, a potential novel pathway of microbial glucosylglycerol catabolism, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(1):214.

2. Quan Luo#, Guan Zhou#, Zhongxia Li, Jiangpeng Dong, Hang Zhao, Huifang Xu*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2024, ω-Transaminase-catalyzed synthesis of (R)-2-(1-aminoethyl)-4-fluorophenol, a chiral intermediate of novel anti-tumor drugs, Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 175:110406.

3. Quan Luo, Yangkai Duan, Xuefeng Lu*, 2022, Biological sources, metabolism, and production of glucosylglycerols, a group of natural glucosides of biotechnological interest, Biotechnology Advances, 59: 107964.

4. Mingyi Zhang, Quan Luo, Huili Sun, Jacques Fritze, Guodong Luan*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2022, Engineering a controllable targeted protein degradation system and a derived OR-GATE-type inducible gene expression system in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, ACS Synthetic Biology, 11(1):125-134.

5. Mingyi Zhang, Cuncun Qiao, Guodong Luan*, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu, 2020, Systematic identification of target genes for cellular morphology engineering in Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11:1608.

6. Yajing Liang#, Mingyi Zhang#, Min Wang, Wei Zhang, Cuncun Qiao, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2020, Freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 adapts to an environment with salt stress via ion-induced enzymatic balance of compatible solutes, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(7):e02904-19.

7. Jacques Fritze, Mingyi Zhang, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2020, An overview of the bacterial SsrA system modulating intracellular protein levels and activities, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 104:5229-5241.

8. Cuncun Qiao, Mingyi Zhang, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2019, Identification of two two‐component signal transduction mutants with enhanced sucrose biosynthesis in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, Journal of Basic Microbiology, 59(5):465-476.

9. Friedrich Kirsch, Quan Luo, Xuefeng Lu, Martin Hagemann*, 2018, Inactivation of invertase enhances sucrose production in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Microbiology-SGM, 164(10):1220-1228.

10. Cuncun Qiao#, Yangkai Duan#, Mingyi Zhang, Martin Hagemann, Quan Luo*, Xuefeng Lu*, 2018, Effects of reduced and enhanced glycogen pools on salt-induced sucrose production in a sucrose-secreting strain of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84(2):e02023-17.

11. Xiaoming Tan, Quan Luo, Xuefeng Lu*, 2016, Biosynthesis, biotechnological production, and applications of glucosylglycerols, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100(14):6131-6139.

12. Yangkai Duan, Quan Luo, Feiyan Liang, Xuefeng Lu*, 2016, Sucrose secreted by the engineered cyanobacterium and its fermentability, Journal of Ocean University of China, 15(5):890-896.

13. Quan Luo, Sebastian Hiessl, Anja Poehlein, Rolf Daniel, Alexander Steinbüchel*, 2014, Insights into the microbial degradation of rubber and gutta-percha by analysis of the complete genome of Nocardia nova SH22a, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80:3895-3907.

14. Quan Luo, Sebastial Hiessl, Alexander Steinbüchel*, 2014, Functional diversity of Nocardia in metabolism, Environmental Microbiology, 16:29-48.

15. Quan Luo, Sebastian Hiessl, Anja Poehlein, Alexander Steinbüchel*, 2013, Microbial gutta-percha degradation shares common steps with rubber degradation by Nocardia nova SH22a, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79:1140-1149.

luoquan@qibebt.ac.cn