Dou Z, Chen XZ, Zhu LD, Zheng XY, Chen XY, Xue JY, Niwayama S, Ni Y, Xu GC. Enhanced stereodivergent evolution of carboxylesterase for efficient kinetic resolution of near-symmetric esters through machine learning. Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 9057.
Zhu JQ, Dou Z*, Tang HN, Yan HX, Wang YJ*. Rigid-flexible layered immobilization enables precise confinement and dynamic activation of small enzymes. Small, 2026, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202512609.
Xu CL, ... Dou Z*, Wang YJ. Structure-Guided Engineering of Alcohol Dehydrogenase for the Stereodivergent Synthesis of Amino Alcohols via Desymmetrization of Cyclic Diketones. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 2026, https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.70183.
Dou Z, Xu GC, Ni Y. A novel carboxylesterase from Acinetobacter sp. JNU9335 for efficient biosynthesis of Edoxaban precursor with high substrate to catalyst ratio. Bioresource Technol., 2020, 317, 123984.
Dou Z, Hu PR, Song LL, Wang YC, Tang HN, Weng ZQ, Wang YJ, Cai YQ. Extensive gene mining and facile engineering of a novel carbonyl reductase for asymmetric synthesis of anti-aging (S)-Pro-Xylane from d-xylose. Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 2025, 305, 140976.
Dou Z, Chen XZ, Niwayama S, Xu GC, Ni Y. Kinetic resolution of nearly symmetric 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate esters using a bacterial carboxylesterase identified by genome mining. Org. Lett., 2021, 23, 3043–3047.
Dou Z, Jia P, Chen XY, Wu Z, Xu GC, Ni Y. Structural and mechanistic insights into enantioselectivity toward near-symmetric esters of a novel carboxylesterase RoCE. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12,7448–7456.
Dou Z, Xu GC, Ni Y. Efficient microbial resolution of racemic methyl 3-cyclohexene-carboxylate as chiral precursor of Edoxaban by newly identified Acinetobacter sp. JNU9335. Enzyme. Microb. Technol., 2020, 139, 109580.
Zhu JQ, Xu JN, Bian XR, Cheng P, Dou Z, Dai WT, Ju SY, Wang YJ. Enhancing the stability and activity of enzymes through layer-by-layer immobilization with nanocomposite hydrogel. Biochem. Eng. J., 2025, 215, 109604.
Xue JY, Dou Z, Sun ZW, Luo TW, Chen XY, Ni Y, Xu GC. Biocatalytic stereoselective synthesis of chiral precursors for liposoluble β1 receptor blocker nebivolol. J. Org. Chem., 2024, 89, 11043–11047.
Zheng XY, Dou Z, Xiang WQ, Zhang W, Ni Y, Xu GC. Engineering the enantioselectivity of a novel imine reductase from Streptomyces viridochromogenes for the dynamic kinetic reductive amination of cyclic β-ketoester. Mol. Catal., 2024, 559, 114039.
Chen XY, Dou Z, Luo TW, Sun ZW, Ma HM, Xu GC, Ni Y. Directed reconstruction of a novel ancestral alcohol dehydrogenase featuring shifted pH-profile, enhanced thermostability andexpanded substrate spectrum. Bioresource Technol., 2022, 363, 127886.
Luo TW, Dou Z, Sun ZW, Chen XY, Ni Y, Xu GC. A novel and robust 3-quinuclidinone reductase from Kaistia algarum for efficient synthesis of (R)-3-quinuclidinol without external cofactor. Mol. Catal., 2021, 514, 111861.