Cheng M#, Chen D#, Parales RE, Jiang J*. Oxygenases as powerful weapons in the microbial degradation of pesticides. Annual Review of Microbiology. 2022, 76:325-348.
Cheng M#, Qian Y#, Xing Z, Zylstra G, Huang X*. The low-nanomolar 4-nitrobenzoate-responsive repressor PnbX negatively regulates the actinomycete-derived 4-nitrobenzoate-degrading pnb locus. Environmental Microbiology. 2021, 23(11):7028-7041.
Cheng M, Pei D, He X, Liu Y, Zhu P, Yan X*. The operon encoding hydrolytic dehalogenation of 4-chlorobenzoate is transcriptionally regulated by the TetR-type repressor FcbR and its ligand 4-chlorobenzoyl coenzyme A. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2021, 87(6):e02652-20.
Cheng M, Meng Q, Yang Y, Chu C, Chen Q, Li Y, Cheng D, Hong Q, Yan X*, He J. The two-component monooxygenase MeaXY initiates the downstream pathway of chloroacetanilide herbicide catabolism in sphingomonads. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2017, 83(7):e03241-16. (Spotlight article)
Cheng M, Chen K, Guo S, Huang X, He J, Li S, Jiang J*. PbaR, an IclR family transcriptional activator for the regulation of the 3-phenoxybenzoate 1’,2’-dioxygenase gene cluster in Sphingobium wenxiniae JZ-1T. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2015, 81(23):8084-8092.
Cheng M, Xing Z, Lu L, Chen F, He J, Huang X*. A plasmid-based genomic screening system for transcriptional regulators of non-adjacent xenobiotic catabolism genes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2020, 104(3):1163-1174.
Cheng M, Yan X, He J, Qiu J*, Chen Q*. Comparative genome analysis reveals the evolution of chloroacetanilide herbicide mineralization in Sphingomonas wittichii DC-6. Archives of Microbiology. 2019, 201(7):907-918.
Cheng M, Li Y, Ma Y, Qiu J*, Yan X, He J. Complete genome sequence of Sphingobium baderi DE-13, an alkyl-substituted aniline-mineralizing bacterium. Current Microbiology. 2017, 75(1):27-31.
Cheng M, Zhang H, Zhang J, Hu G, Zhang J, He J, Huang X*. Lysinibacillus fluoroglycofenilyticus sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from fluoroglycofen contaminated soil. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology. 2015, 107(1):157-164.
Shang N#, Chen L#, Cheng M#, Tian Y, Huang X*. Biodegradation of diphenyl ether herbicide lactofen by Bacillus sp. YS-1 and characterization of two initial degrading esterases. Science of the Total Environment. 2022, 806:151357.
Zhu P#, Cheng M#, Pei D, Liu Y, Yan X*. Methylomonas rhizoryzae sp. nov., a type I methanotroph isolated from the rhizosphere soil of rice. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology. 2020, 113(12):2167-2176.