The team of Professor Kang Zhen from the School of Bioengineering of Jiangnan University published the research results of the structure and cutting mode of leech hyaluronidase

The team of Professor Kang Zhen from the School of Bioengineering of Jiangnan University published the research results on the structure and cutting mode of leech hyaluronidase in Carbohydrate Polymers

Recently, the team of Professor Kang Zhen from the School of Bioengineering of Jiangnan University has made important progress in the analysis of the structure and cleavage pattern mechanism of leech hyaluronidase.

Figure 1 Comparison of the crystal structure of LHyal and the'exo-pocket' loop of GH79 family proteins

Project funding

The above-mentioned research has been supported by the National R&D Program (2021YFC2100800), the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Science Foundation (BK20200025), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000058), the Jiangsu Science and Technology Support Project (BE2019630), and the National First-Class Disciplinary Project of Light Industry Technology and Engineering (LITE2018) -16) funding

Corresponding author Jane

School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University

Chen Jian is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, and an expert in fermentation and light industry biotechnology

In response to the three key engineering technical problems of high yield, high conversion rate and high production intensity in the fermentation industry, a series of engineering technologies have been innovatively developed and applied to the industrial production of typical fermentation products

Elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017

Professor Kang Zhen

School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University

Kang Zhen, professor/doctoral supervisor, engaged in microbial synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering research, winner of the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Fund, deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Glycochemistry and Biotechnology of the Ministry of Education

School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University

Rao Yijian, professor and doctoral supervisor

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