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SUN Linfeng

Release time :2017-02-10


 

SUN Linfeng , Ph.D.
Professor, School of Life Sciences
University of Science & Technology of China
443 Huangshan Street, Hefei City, Anhui 230027, P.R.China
Email: sunlf09(at)mail.tsinghua.edu.cn. (at 换成@)

Education and Appointment:
2017–present:  Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2014-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow (with Dr. Yigong Shi), School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
2009-2014: Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
2005-2009: B.S., Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University

Honors & Awards:
2010 Longrich, Jiangsu-Tsinghua University Scholarship in Biology
2012 National Scholarship for graduate students
2014 Second-rank Scholarship for PhD Thesis of Tsinghua University
2014 Third-rank Research Scholarship of Center for Life Sciences
2014 Top-rank Postdoctoral Fellowship of Center for Life Sciences
2016  Advanced Innovation Fellow of the Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University

Research Field of Interest:
Mechanistic studies of important membrane proteins using structural biology techniques such as Cryo-EM 3D reconstruction and X-ray crystallography.

Representative Publications:
1.Sun L*, Zhou R*, Yang G*, Shi Y. (2017). Analysis of 138 pathogenic mutations in presenilin-1 on the in vitro production of Aβ42 and Aβ40 peptides by γ-secretase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(4), E476-E485. (*, co-first author)
2.
Sun L, Li X, Shi Y. (2016). Structural biology of intramembrane proteases: mechanistic insights from rhomboid and S2P to γ-secretase. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 37, 97–107.
3.
Sun L*, Zhao L*, Yang G*, Yan C*, Zhou R*, Zhou X, Xie T, Zhao Y, Wu S, Li X, Shi Y. (2015). Structural basis of human γ-secretase assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 6003-6008. (*, co-first author)
4.Madej MG*,
 Sun L*, Yan N, Kaback HR. (2014). Functional architecture of MFS D-glucose transporters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(7), E719-727. (*, co-first author)
5.
Sun L*, Zeng X*, Yan C, Sun X, Gong X, Rao Y, Yan N. (2012). Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1-4. Nature, 490(7420), 361-366. (*, co-first author)
6.Bai XC*, Yan C*, Yang G*, Lu P, Ma D,
 Sun L, Zhou R, Scheres SH, Shi Y. (2015). An atomic structure of human γ-secretase. Nature, 525(7568), 212-217. (*, co-first author)
7.Xie T*, Yan C*, Zhou R, Zhao Y,
Sun L, Yang G, Lu P, Ma D, Shi Y. (2014).  Crystal structure of the γ-secretase component nicastrin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(37), 13349-13354. (*, co-first author)
8.Lu P*, Bai XC*, Ma D*, Xie T, Yan C,
Sun L, Yang G, Zhao Y, Zhou R, Scheres SH, Shi Y. (2014). Three-dimensional structure of human γ-secretase. Nature, 512(7513),166-170. (*, co-first author)
9.Sugihara J,
Sun L, Yan N, Kaback HR. (2012). Dynamics of the L-fucose/H+ symporter revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(37), 14847-14851.
10.Dang S,
Sun L, Huang Y, Lu F, Liu Y, Gong H, Wang J, Yan N. (2010). Structure of a fucose transporter in an outward-open conformation. Nature, 467(7316), 734-738.
11.Gao X*, Lu F*, Zhou L*, Dang S,
Sun L, Li X, Wang J, Shi Y. (2009). Structure and mechanism of an amino acid antiporter. Science, 324(5934):1565-1568. (*, co-first author)

 


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