Zixin Deng

3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase expressed by gut microbes degrades testosterone and is linked to depression in males

Di Li, Ran Liu, Ming Wang et al. · Cell Host & Microbe · 2022 · 152 citations · Full text

Heterologous Biosynthesis of Spinosad: An Omics-Guided Large Polyketide Synthase Gene Cluster Reconstitution in <i>Streptomyces</i>

Gao‐Yi Tan, Kunhua Deng, Xinhua Liu et al. · ACS Synthetic Biology · 2017 · 92 citations

Engineering, Molecular Biology, Metabolic Networks +21

Efficient biosynthesis of heterodimeric C3-aryl pyrroloindoline alkaloids

Wenya Tian, Chenghai Sun, Mei Zheng et al. · Nature Communications · 2018 · 84 citations · Full text

A Dual Role Reductase from Phytosterols Catabolism Enables the Efficient Production of Valuable Steroid Precursors

Haidong Peng, Yaya Wang, Kai Jiang et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2020 · 69 citations

Aldo-keto Reductase, Molecular Biology, Valuable Steroid Precursors +19

Genome mining of astaxanthin biosynthetic genes from <i>Sphingomonas </i> sp. ATCC 55669 for heterologous overproduction in <i>Escherichia coli</i>

Tian Ma, Yuanjie Zhou, Xiaowei Li et al. · Biotechnology Journal · 2015 · 65 citations · Full text