<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> Mark Johnston Lab - Washington University Department of Genetics

Yanfang Jiang. Postdoctoral fellow

Email:

yjiang@genetics.wustl.edu

Education:

2005 Ph.D., Microbiology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Thesis: Studies of Lipoic Acid Related Enzymes
Mentor: John E. Cronan, Jr.

1998 M.Sc., Etiology
Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
Thesis: Construction, Expression and Antigenicity Assessment of Two Plasmodium falciparum Multi-Epitope DNA Vaccines

1995 M. D.
Capital Medical University, Beijing, P. R. China

Awards/Honors:

1995 Graduated with honors, Capital Medical University, Beijing, P. R. China
1991 Outstanding college student scholarship from Beijing city
1990 University scholarship (first class), Capital Medical University, Beijing, P. R. China

Current Project:

Publications:

Jiang Y., R. M. Morgan-Kiss, C. H. Chan and J. E. Cronan. Physiological applications of the soluble Vibrio harveyi acyl-ACP synthetase in Escherichia coli fatty acid metabolism (manuscript in preparation).
Jiang Y., C. H. Chan and J. E. Cronan. The soluble acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase of Vibrio harveyi B392 is a member of the medium chain acyl-CoA synthetase family (submitted).
Cronan J. E., X. Zhao and Y. Jiang. 2005. Function, attachment and synthesis of lipoic acid in Escherichia coli. Adv Microb Physiol 50: 103-46.
Jiang Y. and J. E. Cronan. 2005. Expression cloning and demonstration of Enterococcus faecalis lipoamidase (pyruvate dehydrogenase inactivase) as a Ser-Ser-Lys triad amidohydrolase. J Biol Chem 280 (3): 2244-56.
Jiang, Y. and J. E. Cronan. 2003. Substrate Speicificity of E. coli Lipoate-Protein Ligase, LplA. American Society of Microbiology. 2003 General Meeting. Abstract Database: http://www.asm.org/memonly/abstracts.
6.Zhao, X., J. R. Miller, Y. Jiang, M. A. Marletta and J. E. Cronan. 2003. Assembly of the covalent linkage between lipoic acid and its cognate enzymes. Chem Biol 10:1293-302.
Jiang, Y. and J. E. Cronan. 2001. Isolation and Characterization of Escherichia coli Mutants with Increased Lipoic Acid Biosynthesis. American Society of Microbiology. 2001 General Meeting. Abstract Database: http://www.asm.org/memonly/abstracts.
Jiang, Y., C. Lin, B. Yin and H. Wang. 1999. Effects of the configuration of a multi-epitope chimeric malaria DNA vaccine on its antigenicity to mice. Chinese Medical Journal 112 (8): 686-690.
Lin. C., Y. Jiang and H. Wang. 1999. Application of restriction enzymes with compatible cohesive ends in the construction of multi-epitope recombinant malaria DNA vaccine. Chinese Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Journal 15: 973-977.