Hengkai Meng

Discovery of a super-strong promoter enables efficient production of heterologous proteins in cyanobacteria

Jie Zhou, Haifeng Zhang, Hengkai Meng et al. · Scientific Reports · 2014 · 168 citations · Full text

Transcriptional Regulation, Biosynthesis, Protein Expression +14

Introducing extra NADPH consumption ability significantly increases the photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production of cyanobacteria

Jie Zhou, Fuliang Zhang, Hengkai Meng et al. · Metabolic Engineering · 2016 · 83 citations

Biological Carbon Fixation, Bioenergy, Bioenergetics +8

Development of a longevous two-species biophotovoltaics with constrained electron flow

Huawei Zhu, Hengkai Meng, Wei Zhang et al. · Nature Communications · 2019 · 74 citations · Full text

Engineering a d-lactate dehydrogenase that can super-efficiently utilize NADPH and NADH as cofactors

Hengkai Meng, Pi Liu, Hongbing Sun et al. · Scientific Reports · 2016 · 36 citations · Full text

Production of optically pure d-lactate from CO2 by blocking the PHB and acetate pathways and expressing d-lactate dehydrogenase in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Jie Zhou, Haifeng Zhang, Hengkai Meng et al. · Process Biochemistry · 2014 · 35 citations

Biosynthesis, Biotransformation, Biochemistry +5