Publications

  1. Gao B, Feng M, Sun Q, Modular Platform for Efficient Assembly of Multifunctional Antibodies Using Orthogonal Protein–Protein Interactions, ACS Applied Material & Interfaces. 2025; 17(14), 1021/acsami.4c21958.
  2. Kotnis S, Gulati S, Sun Q, High-efficiency PET Degradation with a Duo-enzyme System Immobilized on Magnetic Nanoparticles, Biotechnology and Bioengienering. 2025, 10.1002/bit.28963.
  3. Gulati S, Sun Q, Complete enzymatic depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic using Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based whole-cell biocatalyst, EST Letters, 2025; 12 (4). 10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00190.
  4. Gao B, Sun Q, Post-translational assembly of multi-functional antibody, Biotechnology Advances. 2025; 80:108533. 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2025.108533.
  5. Feng M, Gao B, Garcia R, Sun Q*, Bacterial purine metabolism modulates elegans development and stress tolerance via DAF-16 translocation, The FEBS Journal. 2024, 10.1111/febs.17363.
  6. Feng M, Gao B, Ruiz D, Garcia R, Sun Q*, Bacterial vitamin B6 is required for post-embryonic development in elegans, Communications Biology. 2024, 10.1038/s42003-024-05992-2.
  7. Harraq A, Feng M, Gauri H, Devireddy R, Gupta A, Sun Q*, Bharti B*. Magnetic control of nonmagnetic living organisms, ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024, 10.1021/acsami.4c02325.
  8. Gao B, Ruiz D, Sun Q*, Engineering Bacterial Warriors: Harnessing Microbes to Modulate Host Physiology in multicellular organisms, Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2024, 10.1016/j.copbio.2024.103113.
  9. Feng M, Gao B, Garcia R, Sun Q*, Microbiota-derived metabolites in regulating the development and physiology of Caenorhabditis elegans. Front Microbiol. 2023;14. doi: 3389/fmicb.2023.1035582
  10. He S, Gao B, Sabnis R, Sun Q, Nucleic Transformer: Classifying DNA sequences with Self-attention and Convolutions. ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023. doi:10.1021/acssynbio.3c00154
  11. He S, Gao B, Sabnis R, Sun Q. RNAdegformer: accurate prediction of mRNA degradation at nucleotide resolution with deep learning. Brief Bioinform. 2023;24(1). doi:10.1093/bib/bbac581
  12. Bulten W, Kartasalo K, Chen PHC, et al. Artificial intelligence for diagnosis and Gleason grading of prostate cancer: the PANDA challenge. Nat Med. 2022;28(1):154-163. doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01620-2
  13. Sun Q, Vega NM, Cervantes B, et al. Enhancing nutritional niche and host defenses by modifying the gut microbiome. Mol Syst Biol. 2022;18(11). doi:10.15252/msb.20209933
  14. Tsai SL, Sun Q, Chen W. Advances in consolidated bioprocessing using synthetic cellulosomes. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2022;78. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102840
  15. Gao B, Sun Q. Programming gene expression in multicellular organisms for physiology modulation through engineered bacteria. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):1-8. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22894-7
  16. Sun Q, Raeeszadeh-Sarmazdeh M, Tsai SL, Chen W. Strategies for Multienzyme Assemblies. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol 2487. ; 2022. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-2269-8_7

Before Joining Texas A&M University

  1. Sun Q, Chen Q, Blackstock D, Chen W. Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly. ACS Nano. 2015;9(8). doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b03688
  2. Sun Q, Chen W. HaloTag mediated artificial cellulosome assembly on a rolling circle amplification DNA template for efficient cellulose hydrolysis. Chemical Communications. 2016;52(40):6701-6704. doi:10.1039/c6cc02035f
  3. Sun Q, Madan B, Tsai SL, DeLisa MP, Chen W. Creation of artificial cellulosomes on DNA scaffolds by zinc finger protein-guided assembly for efficient cellulose hydrolysis. Chem Commun (Camb). 2014;50(12):1423-1425. doi:10.1039/c3cc47215a
  4. Blackstock D, Sun Q, Chen W. Fluorescent protein-based molecular beacons by zinc finger protein-guided assembly. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2015;112(2):236-241. doi:10.1002/bit.25441
  5. Park M, Sun Q, Liu F, DeLisa MP, Chen W. Positional assembly of enzymes on bacterial outer membrane vesicles for cascade reactions. PLoS One. Published online 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097103
  6. Chen Q, Sun Q, Molino NM, Wang SW, Boder ET, Chen W. Sortase A-mediated multi-functionalization of protein nanoparticles. Chemical Communications. 2015;51(60). doi:10.1039/c5cc03769g
  7. Gao B, Sabnis R, Costantini T, Jinkerson R, Sun Q. A peek in the micro-sized world: A review of design principles, engineering tools, and applications of engineered microbial community. Biochem Soc Trans. 2020;48(2). doi:10.1042/BST20190172
  8. Sun Q, Tsai SL, Chen W. Artificial scaffolds for enhanced biocatalysis. In: Methods in Enzymology. Vol 617. ; 2019. doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2018.12.007
  9. Chen RP, Blackstock D, Sun Q, Chen W. Dynamic protein assembly by programmable DNA strand displacement. Nat Chem. 2018;10(4):474-481. doi:10.1038/s41557-018-0016-9
  10. Swartz AR, Sun Q, Chen W. Ligand-Induced Cross-Linking of Z-Elastin-like Polypeptide-Functionalized E2 Protein Nanoparticles for Enhanced Affinity Precipitation of Antibodies. Biomacromolecules. 2017;18(5). doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00275
  11. Siu KH, Chen RP, Sun Q, Chen L, Tsai SL, Chen W. Synthetic scaffolds for pathway enhancement. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2015;36:98-106. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2015.08.009
  12. Kim H, Siu KH, Raeeszadeh-Sarmazdeh M, Sun Q, Chen Q, Chen W. Bioengineering strategies to generate artificial protein complexes. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2015;112(8):1495-1505. doi:10.1002/bit.25637
  13. Kim H, Sun Q, Liu F, Tsai SL, Chen W. Biologically assembled nanobiocatalysts. Top Catal. 2012;55(16-18):1138-1145. doi:10.1007/s11244-012-9897-9
  14. Blackstock D, Park M, Sun Q, Tsai SL, Chen W. Engineering protein modules for diagnostic applications. Curr Opin Chem Eng. 2013;2(4). doi:10.1016/j.coche.2013.08.001
  15. Chen R, Chen Q, Kim H, et al. Biomolecular scaffolds for enhanced signaling and catalytic efficiency. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2014;28:59-68. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2013.11.007