Yi Lu

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Recent Publications

• Emerging Sensing, Imaging, and Computational Technologies to Scale Nano- to Macroscale Rhizosphere Dynamics — Review and Research Perspectives
• Reshaping the 2-Pyrone Synthase Active Site for Chemoselective Biosynthesis of Polyketides
• Efficient Delivery of a DNA Aptamer-Based Biosensor into Plant Cells for Glucose Sensing through Thiol-Mediated Uptake
• Engineering Artificial Metalloenzymes
• Advances in Metalloprotein Design and Engineering: Strategies Employed and Insights Gained
• PNA-Assisted DNAzymes to Cleave Double-Stranded DNA for Genetic Engineering with High Sequence Fidelity
• Molecular Understanding of Heteronuclear Active Sites in Heme–Copper Oxidases, Nitric Oxide Reductases, and Sulfite Reductases Through Biomimetic Modeling
• Photocaged Functional Nucleic Acids for Spatiotemporal Imaging in Biology
• A Photo-Regulated Aptamer Sensor for Spatiotemporally Controlled Monitoring of ATP in the Mitochondria of Living Cells
• The Periodic Table’s Impact on Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biology’s Selective Use of Metal Ions
• Understanding and Modulating Metalloenzymes with Unnatural Amino Acids, Non-Native Metal Ions, and Non-Native Metallocofactors
• A Designed Heme-[4Fe-4S] Metalloenzyme Catalyzes Sulfite Reduction Like the Native Enzyme

Recent Datasets

• Reshaping the 2-Pyrone Synthase Active Site for Chemoselective Biosynthesis of Polyketides
• Efficient Delivery of a DNA Aptamer-Based Biosensor into Plant Cells for Glucose Sensing through Thiol-Mediated Uptake
• PNA-Assisted DNAzymes to Cleave Double-Stranded DNA for Genetic Engineering with High Sequence Fidelity
• A Designed Heme-[4Fe-4S] Metalloenzyme Catalyzes Sulfite Reduction Like the Native Enzyme