Education
Current Position
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Publications
Meng X, Claussin C, Regan-Mochrie G, Whitehouse I, Zhao X (2023). Balancing act of a leading strand DNA polymerase-specific domain and its exonuclease domain promotes genome-wide sister replication fork symmetry. Genes Dev. Epub ahead of print.
Meng X, Wei L, Devbhandari S, Zhang T, Xiang J, Remus D, Zhao X. DNA polymerase ε relies on a unique domain for efficient replisome assembly and strand synthesis. Nat Commun. 11(1):2437.
Meng X, Wei L, Peng XP, Zhao X. Sumoylation of the DNA polymerase ε by the Smc5/6 complex contributes to DNA replication. PLoS Genet. 15(11):e1008426.
Meng X, Zhao X. Replication fork regression and its regulation. FEMS Yeast Res. 17.
Sandoval, P.Y., Lee, P.H., Meng, X., and Kapler, G.M. (2015). Checkpoint Activation of an Unconventional DNA Replication Program in Tetrahymena. PLoS Genetics 11, e1005405.
Lee, P.H., Meng, X., and Kapler, G.M. (2015). Developmental regulation of the Tetrahymena thermophila origin recognition complex. PLoS Genetics 11, e1004875.
Tang, H., Yao, Y., Zhang, D., Meng, X., Wang, L., Yu, H., Ma, L., and Xu, P. (2011). A novel NADH-dependent and FAD-containing hydroxylase is crucial for nicotine degradation by Pseudomonas putida. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 286, 39179-39187.
Tang, H., Wang, L., Meng, X., Ma, L., Wang, S., He, X., Wu, G., and Xu, P. (2009). Novel nicotine oxidoreductase-encoding gene involved in nicotine degradation by Pseudomonas putida strain S16. Applies and Environmental Microbiology 75, 772-778.
Tang, H., Wang, S., Ma, L., Meng, X., Deng, Z., Zhang, D., Ma, C., and Xu, P. (2008). A novel gene, encoding 6-hydroxy-3-succinoylpyridine hydroxylase, involved in nicotine degradation by Pseudomonas putida strain S16. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74, 1567-1574.