TANG Yajun  

  • Graduate Supervisor, Associate Professor
  • Department: Translational Medicine Center
  • Research Area: Internal Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism)
  • Research Interests: The relationship between gut microbiota and metabolic diseases
  • Contact: 1524243680@qq.com
  • Fellowship, East China University of Science and Technology, Biochemistry, 1998
  • MD from East China University of Science and Technology, 2001
  • PhD from University of Science and Technology of China, 2014
  1. Mengci Li, Shouli Wang, Yitao Li, Mingliang Zhao, Junliang Kuang, Dandan Liang, Jieyi Wang, Meilin Wei, Cynthia Rajani, Xinran Ma, Yajun Tang, Zhenxing Ren, Tianlu Chen, Aihua Zhao, Cheng Hu, Chengxing Shen, Weiping Jia, Ping Liu, Xiaojiao Zheng, Wei Jia.Gut microbiota-bile acid crosstalk contributes to the rebound weight gain after calorie restriction in mice, Nature Communicaton, 2022, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29589-7.
  2. Mengqi Lv, Yunyu Shi, Yujie Fan*, Yajun Tang*. Structural insights reveal the specific recognition of roX RNA by the dsRNA-binding domains of the RNA helicase MLE and its indispensable role in dosage compensation in Drosophila, Nucleic Acids Research, 2019, doi:10.1093/nar/gky1308.
  3. Sayed Ala Moududee, Yiyang Jiang, Nshogoza Gilbert, Guodong Xie, Zheng Xu, Jihui Wu, Qingguo Gong, Yajun Tang*, Yunyu Shi*. Structural and functional characterization of hMEX-3C Ring finger domain as an E3 ubiquitin ligase, Protein Science, 2018, doi:10.1002/pro.3473.
  4. Chang-Biao Chi, YaJun Tang*, Jiahai Zhang, Ya-Nan Dai, Mohnad Abdalla, Yuxing Chen, CongZhao Zhou*. Structural and biochemical insights into the multiple functions of yeast Grx3, Journal of Molecular Biology, 2018, doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2018.02.024.
  5. Mengqi Lv, Chongyuan Wang, Fudong Li, Junhui Peng, Bin Wen, Qingguo Gong, Yunyu Shi, Yajun Tang*. Structural insights into the recognition of phosphorylated FUNDC1 by LC3B inmitophagy, Protein & Cell, 2017, doi:10.1007/s13238-016-0328-8.
  6. Ling Xu, Lijun Wang, Junhui Peng, Fudong Li, Lijie Wu, Beibei Zhang, Mengqi Lv, Jiahai Zhang, Qingguo Gong, Rongguang Zhang, Xiaobing Zuo, Zhiyong Zhang, Jihui Wu, Yajun Tang*, Yunyu Shi*. Insights into the Structure of Dimeric RNA Helicase CsdA and Indispensable Role of Its CTerminal Regions, Structure, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.str.2017.09.013.
  7. Yajun Tang#, Jiahai Zhang, Jiang Yu, Ling Xu, Jihui Wu, Cong-Zhao Zhou, Yunyu Shi. Structure-Guided Activity Enhancement and Catalytic Mechanism of Yeast Grx8, Biochemistry, 2014,  doi:10.1021/bi401293s.