Faculty

HONG Jiong

Contact Information

Address: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Huangshan Road 443#, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China

Tel: 86-551-63600705

Email: hjiong@ustc.edu.cn

Homepage:  https://faculty.ustc.edu.cn/hongjiong/en/zdylm/5760/list/index.htm

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Education and Research Experience

2008.4 – Present       Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, USTC

2006.8 - 2008.2        Postdoc, Virginia Tech

2003.11 - 2006.8.       Postdoc, Kyoto University 

1999.10 - 2003.3.       Ph.D., Kyoto University

1996.7 – 2003.10       Lecturer, Beijing Normal University

1993.9 – 1996.7         M.S., Beijing Normal University

1989.9 -  1993.7         B.S., Anhui Normal University


Research Interests

1. Construction of microbial cell factories with thermo-tolerant yeast using lignocellulosic biomass as feedstocks.

2. Large scale DNA synthesis, especially the error correction in DNA synthesis.


Selected Publications

1. Zhang Kehui, Jiang Ziyun, Li Xingjiang, Wang Dongmei, Hong Jiong*  (2024). Enhancing simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation of corncob by Kluyveromyces marxianus through overexpression of putative transcription regulator. Bioresource Technology, 399, 130627

2. Hu Shenglin, Xu Li*, Xie Canglin, Hong Jiong*, (2024). Structural Insights into the Catalytic Activity of Cyclobacterium marinum N-Acetylglucosamine Deacetylase. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 72, 783–793.

3. Zhang Nini, Wang Feier, Nwamba, Marknoah Chinenye, Wang Dongmei*, Hong Jiong*, (2023). Enhancing tolerance of Kluyveromyces marxianus to lignocellulose-derived inhibitors and its ethanol production from corn cob via overexpression of a nitroreductase gene. Industrial Crops & Products, 203, 117136

4.Yang Xiaoxue,Wang Dongmei, Hong Jiong*. (2022). Carotenoid production from nondetoxified xylose mother liquid or corncob hydrolysate with engineered Kluyveromyces marxianus. Bioresource Technology, 364, 12808

5. Hua Yan, Wang Jichao, Zhu Yelin, Zhang Biao, Kong Xin, Li Wenjie, Wang Dongmei, Hong Jiong*, (2019). Release of glucose repression on xylose utilization in Kluyveromyces marxianus to enhance glucose-xylose co-utilization and xylitol production from corncob hydrolysate. Microbial Cell Factories. 18:24.

6. Kong Xin, Zhang Biao, Hua Yan, Zhu Yelin, Li Wenjie, Wang Dongmei, HongJiong*, (2019). Efficient L-lactic acid production from corncob residue using metabolically engineered thermo-tolerant yeast. Bioresource Technology. 273, p220-230

7. Zhang Biao, Zhu Yelin, Zhang Jia, Wang Dongmei, Sun Lianhong, Hong Jiong* , (2017). Engineered Kluyveromyces marxianus for pyruvate production at elevated temperature with simultaneous consumption of xylose and glucose. Bioresoure Technology, 224, 553-562.

8. Zhang Biao, Zhang Jia, Wang Dongmei, Han Ruixiang., Ding Rui, Gao Xiaolian., Sun Lianhong, Hong Jiong*, (2016). Simultaneous fermentation of glucose and xylose at elevated temperatures co-produces ethanol and xylitol through overexpression of a xylose-specific transporter in engineered Kluyveromyces marxianus. Bioresource Technology, 216, 227-237. (Best article in this issue)

9. Zhang Jia, Zhang Biao, Wang Dongmei, Gao Xiaolian, Sun Lianhong and Hong Jiong*, (2015). Rapid ethanol production at elevated temperatures by engineered thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus via the NADP(H)-preferring xylose reductase-xylitol dehydrogenase pathway. Metabolic Engineering, 31, 140-152.

10. Zhang Jia, Zhang Biao, Wang Dongmei, Gao Xiaolian and Hong Jiong*, (2015). Improving xylitol production at elevated temperature with engineered Kluyveromyces marxianus through over-expressing transporters. Bioresource Technology 175: 642-645.

11. Wan, Wen; Li, Lulu; Xu, Qianqian; Wang, Zhefan; Yao, Yuan; Wang, Rongliang; Zhang, Jia; Liu, Haiyan; Gao, Xiaolian*; Hong, Jiong* (2014). Error removal in microchip-synthesized DNA using immobilized MutS. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(12), e102

12. Zhang Jia, Zhang Biao, Wang Dongmei, Gao Xiaolian, Hong Jiong* (2014). Xylitol production at high temperature by engineered Kluyveromyces marxianus. Bioresource Technology152:192-201.

(More publication)

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