Prof. Dr. Kai-Hong Zhao

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsBiophysical Chemistry
KeywordsBiochemistry, Biliproteins, Photoreceptors, Photosynthesis, Cyanobacterium

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityWuhan
InstitutionHuazhong University of Science and Technology
InstituteCollege of Life Science and Technology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hugo ScheerDepartment Biologie I - Botanik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1991

Program(s)

1990Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Stephan Böhm, Stefanie Endres, Hugo Scheer and Kai-Hong Zhao, Biliprotein chromophore attachment: chaperone-like function of PecE-subunit of alpha-phycoerythrocyanin lyase. In: J. Biol. Chem., 2007, 25357-25366
2007Kai-Hong Zhao, Juan Zhang, Jun-Ming Tu, Stephan Böhm, Matthias Plöscher, Lutz Eichacker, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer, Xing Wang, Ming Zhou Lyase activities of CpcS and CpcT-like proteins from Nostoc PCC7120, and sequential reconstitution of binding sites of phycoerythrocyanin and phycocyanin beta-subunits. In: J. Biol. Chem., 2007, 34093-34103
2007Kai-Hong Zhao, Ping Su, Jun-Ming Tu, Xing Wang, Hui Liu, Matthias Plöscher, Lutz Eichacker, Bei Yang, Ming Zhou, Hugo Scheer Phycobilin:cystein-84 biliprotein lyase, a near-universal lyase for cysteine-84 binding sites in cyanobacterial biliproteins. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007, 14300-14305
2006Kai-Hong Zhao, Dong Wu, Ling Zhang, Ming Zhou, Stephan Böhm, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer, Chromophore attachment in phycocyanin: functional amino acids of phycocyanobilin: alpha-phycocyanin lyase and evidence for chromophore binding. In: FEBS Journal, 2006, 1262-1274
2006Kai-Hong Zhao, Ping Su, Jian Li, Jun-Ming Tu, Ming Zhou, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer: Chromophore attachment to Phycobiliprotein ß-subunits: Phycocyanobilin: Cysteine-ß84 phycobiliprotein lyase activity of CpeS-like protein from Anabaena sp. PCC7120. In: J. Biol. Chem., 2006, 8573-8581
2005Kai-Hong Zhao, Dong Wu, Ming Zhou, Ling Zhang, Stefan Boehm, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer, Amino acid residues associated with enzymatic activities of the isomerizing phycoviolobilin-lyase PecE/F. In: Biochemistry, 2005, 8126-8137
2005Kai-Hong Zhao, Ping Su, Stephan Boehm, Bo Song, Ming Zhou, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer: Reconstitution of phycobilisome core-membrane linker, LCM, by autocatalytic chromophore binding to ApcE. In: Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Bioenergetics, 2005, 81-87
2004Kai-Hong Zhao, Jing-Ping Zhu, Bo Song, Ming Zhou, Max Storf, Stephan Bo¨hm, Claudia Bubenzer, Hugo Scheer: Nonenzymatic chromophore attachment in biliproteins: conformational control by the detergent Triton X-100. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2004, 131-145
2002Kai-Hong Zhao, Dong Wu, Lu Wang, Ming Zhou, Max Storf, Claudia Bubenzer, Brigitte Strohmann, Hugo Scheer: Characterization of phycoviolobilin phycoerythrocyanin-alpha-84-cystein-lyase-(isomerizing) from Mastigocladus laminosus. In: Eur.J. Biochem., 2002, 4542-4550
2001Kai-Hong Zhao, Max Storf, Axel Parbel, Michaela Meyer, Brigitte Strohmann, Hugo Scheer, Ming-Gang Deng, Min Zheng, Ming Zhou: Chromophore Attachment to Biliproteins: Specificity of PecE/PecF, a Lyase-Isomerase for the Photoactive 31-Cys-alpha84-phycoviolobilin Chromophore of Phycoerythrocyanin. In: Biochemistry, 2001, 12444-12456
2000Kai-Hong Zhao, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Ming Zhou, Ji-ping Zhang, Wen-rui Chang, Dong-cai Liang: Purification and crystallization of phycoerythrocyanin alpha-subunit from mastigocladus laminosus (chinesisch). In: Acta Biophysica Sinica, 2000, 667-672