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Damao Wang

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About me

Undergraduate and Master, Northwest A&F University, Department of Food Science and Engineering, Yangling, China, 2010

PhD, Korea University, School of Biotechnology, Seoul, South Korea, 2016

Researcher of Division of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, KTH.

Interests of research: (1) Biorefinery of marine biomass (2) Enzyme screening of polysaccharides degradation (3) Chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex polysaccharides derived from plants, fungi and bacteria  (4) Develop the application of enzymes for polysaccharide surface modification and to generate new biomaterials with novel properties (5) Enzymatic assemble therapeutic glycopeptides and glycoproteins.  

Publications

A colorimetric assay to rapidly determine the activities of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases. D Wang, J Li, ACY Wong, FL Aachmann, YSY Hsieh. Biotechnology for biofuels 11 (1), 215

Damao Wang, Jing Li, German Salazar-Alvarez, Lauren S McKee, Vaibhav Srivastava, Jonas Sellberg, Vincent Bulone, Yves SY Hsieh. Production of Functionalised Chitins Assisted by Fungal Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase. Green Chem. DOI:10.1039/C8GC00422F

Damao Wang, Olav A Aarstad, Jing Li, Lauren S McKee, Gerd Inger Sætrom, Anisha Vyas, Vaibhav Srivastava, Finn L Aachmann, Vincent Bulone, Yves SY Hsieh. Preparation of 4-Deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose Uronic Acid (DEH) and Guluronic Acid Rich Alginate Using a Unique exo-Alginate Lyase from Thalassotalea crassostreae. J. Agric. Food Chem.  66, 6, 1435-1443

D Wang, DH Kim, JJ Yoon, KH Kim. Production of high-value β-1, 3-glucooligosaccharides by microwave-assisted hydrothermal hydrolysis of curdlan. Process Biochemistry. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2016.11.005

D Wang, DH Kim, KH Kim. Effective production of fermentable sugars from brown macroalgae biomass. Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2016. 100 (22), 9439-9450

D Wang, DH Kim, EJ Yun, YC Park, JH Seo, KH Kim. The first bacterial β-1, 6-endoglucanase from Saccharophagus degradans 2-40T for the hydrolysis of pustulan and laminarin. 2016. doi:10.1007/s00253-016-7753-8

DH Kim, D Wang, EJ Yun, S Kim, SR Kim, KH Kim. Validation of the metabolic pathway of the alginate-derived monomer in Saccharophagus degradans 2-40 T by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. 2016. Process Biochemistry 51 (10), 1374-1379

D Wang, DH Kim, N Seo, EJ Yun, HJ An, JH Kim, KH Kim. A Novel Glycoside Hydrolase Family 5 β-1, 3-1, 6-Endoglucanase from Saccharophagus degradans 2-40T and its Transglycosylase Activity. 2016. Applied and environmental microbiology, AEM. 00635-16

D Wang, EJ Yun, S Kim, DH Kim, N Seo, HJ An, JH Kim, NY Cheong, KH Kim. Efficacy of acidic pretreatment for the saccharification and fermentation of alginate from brown macroalgae. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng (2016) 39: 959. doi:10.1007/s00449-016-1575-z

DM Wang, HT Kim, EJ Yun, DH Kim, Y Park, HC Woo, KH Kim. Optimal production of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid from alginate for brown macro algae saccharification by combining endo-and exo-type alginate lyases. Bioprocess and biosystems engineering. 2014. 37 (10), 2105-2111

HT Kim, EJ Yun, D Wang, JH Chung, IG Choi, KH Kim. High temperature and low acid pretreatment and agarase treatment of agarose for the production of sugar and ethanol from red seaweed biomass. Bioresource technology. 2013. 136, 582-587

HT Kim, JH Chung, D Wang, J Lee, HC Woo, IG Choi, KH Kim. Depolymerization of alginate into a monomeric sugar acid using Alg17C, an exo-oligoalginate lyase cloned from Saccharophagus degradans 2-40. Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2012. 93 (5), 2233-2239

PHONE   +46 08-790 9652

MOBILE  +46 076-933 1780

E-MAIL    damao@kth.se

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