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Chengcai Zhang
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hubei
Language: Chinese, French, English
Cyanobacteria
Molecular Biology
Genetics
Cell Division
Peptidoglycan Metabolism
Cell Morphogenesis
Synthetic Biology
Microbial Ecology
Photosynthesis
Biotechnology
Areas of Focus
- Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria
- Synthetic Biology
Work Experience
- 2015-06 to Present - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Professor
- 2012-01 to 2015-05 - Faculty of Science, Aix-Marseille University - Vice Dean
- 2010-06 to 2011-12 - Faculty of Science, Aix-Marseille II University - Dean
- 2008-05 to 2010-05 - Faculty of Science, Aix-Marseille II University - Vice Dean
- 1999-07 to 2015-05 - Aix-Marseille University - Professor
- 1990-08 to 1999-06 - Louis Pasteur University - Lecturer
- 1989-07 to 1990-07 - University of Zurich - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1986-08 to 1989-06 PhD: Aix-Marseille University
- 1985-08 to 1986-07 Master's: Aix-Marseille University
- 1980-09 to 1984-06 Bachelor's: Shandong Normal University
Publications
- Global translational control by the transcriptional repressor TrcR in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- A c-di-GMP binding effector controls cell size in a cyanobacterium, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- Control of Cell Size by c-di-GMP Requires a Two-Component Signaling System in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- Global translational control by the transcriptional repressor TrcR in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- Global translational control by the transcriptional repressor TrcR in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- Iron stress on the expression of microcystin synthetase McyC and McyI, Chengcai Zhang, 2023
- Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- The Making of a Heterocyst in Cyanobacteria Annual Review of Microbiology, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- A tRNA t6A modification system contributes to the sensitivity towards the toxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- Life is short, and art is long: RNA degradation in cyanobacteria and model bacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- Three-dimensional coordination of cell-division site positioning in a filamentous cyanobacterium, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- A proteolytic pathway coordinates cell division and heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
- HetF Protein Is a New Divisome Component in a Filamentous and Developmental Cyanobacterium, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- The developmental regulator PatD modulates assembly of the cell-division protein FtsZ in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- c-di-GMP Homeostasis Is Critical for Heterocyst Development in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- Functions of the Essential Gene mraY in Cellular Morphogenesis and Development of the Filamentous Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- RNA Interference by Cyanobacterial Feeding Demonstrates the SCSG1 Gene Is Essential for Ciliogenesis during Oral Apparatus Regeneration in Stentor, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- Functions of the Essential Gene mraY in Cellular Morphogenesis and Development of the Filamentous Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2021
- The Proposed Neurotoxin β-N-Methylamino-l-Alanine (BMAA) Is Taken up through Amino-Acid Transport Systems in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2020
- Functional Dissection of Genes Encoding DNA Polymerases Based on Conditional Mutants in the Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2020
- The Proposed Neurotoxin beta-N-Methylamino-l-Alanine (BMAA) Is Taken up through Amino-Acid Transport Systems in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2020
- Expanding the potential of crispr-cpf1-based genome editing technology in the cyanobacterium anabaena pcc 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2019
- patD, a Gene Regulated by NtcA, Is Involved in the Optimization of Heterocyst Frequency in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2019
- Preventing Accidental Heterocyst Development in Cyanobacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2019
- Coordinating carbon and nitrogen metabolic signaling through the cyanobacterial global repressor NdhR, Chengcai Zhang, 2018
- Carbon/Nitrogen Metabolic Balance: Lessons from Cyanobacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2018
- Three Substrains of the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp Strain PCC 7120 Display Divergence in Genomic Sequences and hetC Function, Chengcai Zhang, 2018
- Diversity of Growth Patterns Probed in Live Cyanobacterial Cells Using a Fluorescent Analog of a Peptidoglycan Precursor, Chengcai Zhang, 2018
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors as Potential Antimicrobial Drugs Against Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV, Chengcai Zhang, 2017
- Structural insights into HetR-PatS interaction involved in cyanobacterial pattern formation, Chengcai Zhang, 2015
- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Based on Interaction of PII and PipX Proteins Provides a Robust and Specific Biosensor for 2-Oxoglutarate, a Central Metabolite and a Signaling Molecule., Chengcai Zhang, 2014
- ATPase as a switch in P II signal transduction, Chengcai Zhang, 2013
- Exploring the size limit of protein diffusion through the periplasm in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 using the 13 kDa iLOV fluorescent protein, Chengcai Zhang, 2013
- The inositol monophosphatase All2917 (IMPA1) is involved in osmotic adaptation in Anabaena sp PCC7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2012
- Characterization of Two Critical Residues in the Effector-Binding Domain of NtcA in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp Strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2011
- Identification of the oriC region and its influence on heterocyst development in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2011
- NtcA Regulates patA Expression in Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2010
- Structural basis for the allosteric control of the global nitrogen-regulating transcription factor NtcA by the nitrogen starvation signal 2-oxoglutarate., Chengcai Zhang, 2010
- hetR and patS, two genes necessary for heterocyst pattern formation, are widespread in filamentous non heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2009
- Mutual Regulation of ntcA and hetR during Heterocyst Differentiation Requires Two Similar PP2C-Type Protein Phosphatases, PrpJ1 and PrpJ2, in Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2009
- Cloning and characterization of the fecC gene necessary for optimal growth under iron-deficiency conditions in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Chengcai Zhang, 2004
- Research progress on signal transduction system of cyanobacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2003
- Life is short, and art is long: RNA degradation in cyanobacteria and model bacteria, Chengcai Zhang, 2022
