Xinxiang Lei, Ph. D
Professor
NMR, Organic Chemistry, Natural products, Chemical Biology.
E-mail: xxlei@mail.scuec.edu.cn
School of Pharmaceutical Science
South-Central University for Nationalities
182 Minzu Road
Wuhan 430074, CHINA
Education
2007.09-2012.01 Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry, Chengdu institute of biology, Chinese academy of sciences，Chengdu, China
2010.03-2011.02 Postgraduate Fellow, College of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
2005.09-2007.06 M.S., Organic Chemistry, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
1997.09-2001.06 B.S., Chemistry, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China
Research Experience
l2016-present Professor, South-Central University for Nationalities
l2009.10-2015 Associate Professor, Wenzhou University, China
l2005.10-2009.09 Assistant Professor, Wenzhou University, China
l2001.08-2005.09Research Assistant, Wenzhou Normal University, China
Research Interests
Project 1: Developing new NMR methodologies for analyzing the structure of organic molecules oriented in weak alignment media. We develop new alignment media including graphene oxide-based liquid crystal and protein like helical polymer liquid crystal for various organic solvents to meet the diversity organic molecules. Furthermore, we expand developed alignment media to the application to anisotropic parameters including residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), residual chemical shift anisotropy (RSCA), nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) analysis. We also carry out structural analyses of natural and synthetic small organic molecule and analysis of chiral organic molecules.
Project 2: Our research interests focus on understanding protein-protein interactions (PPIs) of the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) and its relevant biological events. Furthermore, we will screening the natural products or small molecules to fix the interfaces of these proteins using differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) ,NMR STD, WaterLOGYS, ITC technology, and to exploit their selectivity and ligandability toward small molecule control of intracellular protein levels Those small molecules are potential to be developed into lead compounds for treating disease.
Awards and Honors
lAward for Science and Technology of China Association for Instrumental Analysis , 2014
Academic Positions
lSet-up the Sino-German Symposium on Novel NMR method for Organic Chemistry, 2014
Selected Publications
1, Xinxiang Lei*, Feng Qiu, Han Sun, Liwen Bai, Wen-Xuan Wang, Wensheng Xiang and Hongping Xiao. Self-assembled Oligopeptide as a Versatile NMR Alignment Medium for the Measurements of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Methanol Angewandte Chemie International Edition2017, 56, 12857-12861.
2,Gao-Wei Li, Jiang-Ming Cao, Wen Zong, Li Hu, Mao-Lin Hu, Xinxiang Lei,*Han Sun,* Ren Xiang Tan*. Helical Polyisocyanopeptides as Lyotropic Liquid Crystals for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings. Chemistry European Journal A 2017, 23, 7653-7656.
3, José A. A. França, Armando Navarro-Vázquez, Xinxiang Lei, Han Sun, Christian Griesingere and Fernando Hallwassb.Complete NMR assignment and conformational analysis of 17-α-ethinylestradiol by using RDCs obtained in grafted graphene oxide Magn. Reson. Chem. 2017, 55, 297- 303.
4. Gao Wei, Li Xinxiang Lei*.Structural elucidation of organic molecule from residual dipolar
Couplings. SCIENTIA SINICA Chimica,2017, 47, 1401-1423.
5, Gaowei Li, Jiangming Cao, Wen Zong, Xinxiang Lei*, Renxiang Tan* Enantiodiscrimination of carboxylic acids using the diphenylprolinol NMR chiral solvating agents, Org. Chem. Front.2016, 3, 96-102.
6, Wen Zong, Gao-Wei Li, Jiang-Ming Cao, Xinxiang Lei,* Mao-Lin Hu, Han Sun,*
Christian Griesinger, Ren Xiang Tan*. Liquid Crystals from Polymer Grafted Graphene Oxide as Alignment Medium for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings in Pure DMSO”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition,2016, 55, 3690-3693.
7, Jun-Jun Ge, Ling-Tian Wang, Pian Chen, Yan Zhang, Xin-Xiang Lei*, Xiao-Xia Ye*.
Two new tetracyclic triterpenoids from the barks of Melia azedarach , J. Asian Nat. Prod.Res. 2015, 18, 20-25.
8. Xinxiang Lei,* Zhen Xu, Han Sun, Shun Wang, Christian Griesinger, Li Peng, Chao Gao,*
Ren X. Tan*. Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals as a Versatile and Tunable Alignment Medium for the Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Organic Solvents”, J. Am. Chem. Soc.2014, 136, 11280−112832.
9, Qingzhu Ma, Minshan Ma, Hongying Tian, Xiaoxia Ye, Hongping Xiao, Lian-hui Chen,*, Xinxiang Lei*. A Novel Amine Receptor Based on the Binol Scaff old Functions as a Highly Effective Chiral Shift Reagent for Carboxylic Acids”, Organic Letters, 2012, 14: 5813-5815.
10, Xin-Xiang Lei, Jie Xu, Wei Ma, Chong Qiao, Martin A. Newman,Scott M. Hammond, Yingqun Huang,* Determinants of mRNA recognition and translation regulation by Lin28,Nucl. Acids Res.2012, 40, 5174-5184.
