Wenjun Zhang

Also affiliated with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shantou University, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Shantou University Medical College, Sichuan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, University of California, Berkeley

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 23 papers. Top paper: “Engineered probiotic overcomes pathogen defences using signal interference and antibiotic production to treat infection in mice”.

Engineered probiotic overcomes pathogen defences using signal interference and antibiotic production to treat infection in mice

Nature Microbiology(2024)10.1038/s41564-023-01583-9

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0.959DataRank · unranked

47 citations

Zhongrui Li, Praveen Tripathi, Sonali Mitra, Stephanie Guerra, Ananya Dash +12 more

Harnessing Rare Actinomycete Interactions and Intrinsic Antimicrobial Resistance Enables Discovery of an Unusual Metabolic Inhibitor

mBio(2022)10.1128/mbio.00393-22

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0.600DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Yongle Du, Dominic J. Antonich, Bailey Bonet, Wenjun Zhang, Matthew F. Traxler +1 more

Microfluidic automated plasmid library enrichment for biosynthetic gene cluster discovery

Nucleic Acids Research(2020)10.1093/nar/gkaa131

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16 citations

Cyrus Modavi, Benjamin Demaree, Frederick F. Twigg, Benjamin Liang, Chen Sun +3 more

Biochemical and crystallographic investigations into isonitrile formation by a nonheme iron-dependent oxidase/decarboxylase

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2020)10.1074/jbc.ra120.015932

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26 citations

Antonio Del Rio Flores, Wenlong Cai, Rimsha Mehmood, Maanasa Narayanamoorthy, Chaoxiang Ren +5 more

Discovery and biosynthesis of clostyrylpyrones from the obligate anaerobe Clostridium roseum

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.10.245514

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1 citations

Yongle Du, Di Gu, Wenlong Cai, Allison Green, Samuel Ng +4 more

Mutanofactin promotes bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation of cariogenic Streptococcus mutans

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.22.262196

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1 citations

Yongle Du, Jin Sun, Aifei Pan, Lin Zeng, Roya Maboudian +4 more

Faculty Opinions recommendation of A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature(2020)10.3410/f.738065756.793578084

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Zhijuan Hu, Wenjun Zhang

Faculty Opinions recommendation of Off-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature(2020)10.3410/f.736585207.793569236

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William Porterfield, Wenjun Zhang

Small molecule natural products in human nasal/oral microbiota

Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology(2021)10.1093/jimb/kuab010

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22 citations

Wenjun Zhang, Colin Barber

Engineered biosynthesis of alkyne-tagged polyketides

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology(2022)10.1016/bs.mie.2021.11.013

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1 citations

Wenjun Zhang, Di Gu

Elucidating the molecular programming of a nonlinear nonribosomal peptide synthetase responsible for fungal siderophore biosynthesis

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.10.10.511241

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2 citations

Yang Hai, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Munro Passmore, Will Skyrud, Junyong Kim +5 more

Elucidating the molecular programming of a nonlinear non-ribosomal peptide synthetase responsible for fungal siderophore biosynthesis

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-38484-8

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21 citations

Yang Hai, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Munro Passmore, Will Skyrud, Junyong Kim +5 more

Biosynthesis of Isonitrile Lipopeptide Metallophores from Pathogenic Mycobacteria

Biochemistry(2023)10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00611

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11 citations

Maanasa Narayanamoorthy, Wenlong Cai, Rui Zhai, Siyue Yang, Yuanbo Shen +5 more

Surface-active antibiotic production is a multifunctional adaptation for postfire microbes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.08.17.553728

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1 citations

Yongle Du, Sara K. Koupaei, N. Kim, Wenjun Zhang, Matthew F. Traxler +1 more

Tag and Snag: A New Platform for Bioactive Natural Product Screening from Mixtures

Molecules(2023)10.3390/molecules28155726

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Yongle Du, Rohin Devanathan, Richard Law, Zhijuan Hu, Nicholas A. Zill +3 more

Enzymatic synthesis of azide by a promiscuous N-nitrosylase

Nature Chemistry(2024)10.1038/s41557-024-01646-2

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19 citations

Rui Zhai, David W. Kastner, Kaushik Seshadri, Siyue Yang, Kyle De Matias +9 more

Surface-active antibiotic production as a multifunctional adaptation for postfire microorganisms

The ISME Journal(2024)10.1093/ismejo/wrae022

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3 citations

Yongle Du, Sara K. Koupaei, N. Kim, Monika Fischer, Wenjun Zhang +2 more

Engineering Escherichia coli for the Production of the PK/NRP Hybrid Antibiotic Salivabactin

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering(2025)10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c03104

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6 citations

Di Gu, Amy Lee, Dunya Al Marzooqi, Wenjun Zhang, Yoo‐Sung Ko

Synergistic action of specialized metabolites from divergent biosynthesis in the human oral microbiome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2025)10.1073/pnas.2504492122

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5 citations

Nicholas A. Zill, Colin Barber, Yongle Du, Peijun Lin, Rui Zhai +4 more

Discovery of Isonitrile Lipopeptide Chalkophores from Pathogenic Mycobacteria

Journal of Natural Products(2025)10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5c00904

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1 citations

Helen H. Sun, Quang Kim Huynh, Dunya Al Marzooqi, Yongle Du, Yiyan Zhou +2 more

Engineered Biosynthesis of Alkyne-Tagged Polyketides by Type I PKSs

iScience(2020)10.1016/j.isci.2020.100938

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19 citations

Nannalin Poenateetai, Wenjun Zhang, William Porterfield

The biosynthetic gene cluster landscape of the oral microbiome across health and dental caries

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.09.04.674288

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0 citations

Peijun Lin, Kailey Hua, Wenjun Zhang, McKenna Loop Yao

Investigation of secondary metabolism in the industrial butanol hyper-producer Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4

Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology(2020)10.1007/s10295-020-02266-8

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19 citations

Colin Barber, Nicolaus A. Herman, Wenlong Cai, Ella Zafrir, Yongle Du +4 more