1. Wenlong Zha#, Fan Zhang#, Jiaqi Shao, Xingmei Ma, Jianxun Zhu, Pinghua Sun, Ruibo Wu*., Jiachen Zi*. Rationally engineering santalene synthase to readjust the component ratio of sandalwood oil. Nat. Commun. 13: 2508. (IF=16.6)
2. Ke Gao#, Kangwei Xu#, Pengcheng Lin, Jianxun Zhu,* Ruibo Wu,* and Jiachen Zi*. Unexpected Main-Chain-Mediated and Neutral-Intermediate-Involved Catalytic Reaction in a High-Fidelity ent-Neoabietadiene Synthase. ACS Catal., 14: 14233?14241. (IF=11.3)
3. Jianxun Zhu#, Tianyue An#, Wenlong Zha#, Ke Gao, Ting Li, Jiachen Zi*. Manipulation of IME4 expression, a global regulation strategy for metabolic engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Acta Pharm. Sin. B 13(6): 2795-2806. (IF=14.5)
4. Jiazeng Yang#, Jincai Liang#, Lei Shao, Lihong Liu, Ke Gao, Junliang Zhang, Zhenjiao Sun, Wendong Xu, Pengcheng, Lin, Rongmin Yu, Jiachen Zi*. Green production of silybin and isosilybin by merging metabolic engineering approaches and enzymatic catalysis. Metab. Eng. 59: 44-52. (IF=9.8)
5. Fan Zhang#, Tianyue An#, Xiaowen Tang, Jiachen Zi*, Hai-Bin Luo*, and Ruibo Wu*. Enzyme Promiscuity versus Fidelity in two Sesquiterpene Cyclases (TEAS versus ATAS). ACS Catal. 10: 1470–1484. (IF=13.1)
6. Wenlong Zha#, Tianyue An#, Ting Li, Jianxun Zhu, Ke Gao, Zhenjiao Sun, Wendong Xu, Pengcheng Lin, Jiachen Zi*. Reconstruction of the Biosynthetic Pathway of Santalols under Control of the GAL Regulatory System in Yeast. ACS Synth. Biol. 9(2): 449-456. (IF=5.1)
7. Jianxun Zhu#, Lihong Liu#, Maobo Wu, Guiyang Xia, Pengcheng Lin, and Jiachen Zi*. Characterization of a Sesquiterpene Synthase Catalyzing Formation of Cedrol and Two Diastereoisomers of Tricho-Acorenol from Euphorbia fischeriana. J. Nat. Prod. 84, 1780?1786. (IF=4.1)
8. Jincai Liang, Tianyue An, Jian-Xun Zhu, Shan Chen, Jian-Hua Zhu, Reuben J. Peters, Rongmin Yu, Jiachen Zi*. Mining of the Catharanthus roseus Genome Leads to Identification of a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for Fungicidal Sesquiterpenes. J. Nat. Prod. 2021, 84, 2709?2716. (IF=4.1)
9. Ke Gao#, Ying Lin#, Linsheng Li, Wenlong Zha, Jianxun Zhu, and Jiachen Zi*. Characterization of SchTPSs Enables Construction of Yeast for the Bioproduction of α?Cadinol and the Related Sesquiterpenes. J. Agric. Food Chem. 71, 18424?18430. (IF=6.1)
10. Tianyue An#, Linsheng Li#, Ying Lin, Fanqi Zeng, Pengcheng Lin, Jiachen Zi*. Characterization of guaiene synthases from Stellera chamaejasme L. flowers and their application in de novo production of (-)-rotundone in yeast. J. Agric. Food Chem. 68(10): 3214-3219. (IF=4.2)