Publications by authors named "Yilei Han"

This study selected 27 soil samples from four representative horizontally distributed onshore oilfields in China to explore the diversity of soil microbial communities and their carbon fixation capacity, with a focus on the potential interaction between pollution and carbon fixation under oil pollution stress. The analysis of the soil physicochemical properties and microbial community structures from these oilfield samples confirmed a clear biogeographic isolation effect, indicating spatial heterogeneity in the microbial communities. Additionally, the key factors influencing microbial community composition differed across regions.

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Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a glycosaminoglycan essential for cellular processes and finding increasingly applications in medicine, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. While membrane-integrated Class I hyaluronan synthase (HAS) catalyzes HA synthesis in most organisms, the molecular mechanisms by which HAS-lipid interactions impact HAS catalysis remain unclear. This study employed coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation combined with dimensionality reduction to uncover the interplay between lipids and Streptococcus equisimilis HAS (SeHAS).

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Descriptors play a pivotal role in enzyme design for the greener synthesis of biochemicals, as they could characterize enzymes and chemicals from the physicochemical and evolutionary perspective. This study examined the effects of various descriptors on the performance of Random Forest model used for enzyme-chemical relationships prediction. We curated activity data of seven specific enzyme families from the literature and developed the pipeline for evaluation the machine learning model performance using 10-fold cross-validation.

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Perennial interest in enzyme catalysis has been expanding its applicability from aqueous phases where enzymes are naturally evolved to organic solvents in which the majority of industrial chemical syntheses are carried out. Although conjugating an enzyme with a soluble polymer has been attempted to enhance enzyme activity in organic solvents, the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood in terms of the conformational dynamics and enzyme activity. Herein, we combine LF-NMR measurements and MD simulations to investigate the effects of polymer grafting on the conformational dynamics of CalB in organic solvents and the consequential impacts on the catalytic kinetics, using the lipase-catalyzed transesterification reaction as a model system.

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