Research Interests:

The structure and function of pathogenic microorganism related proteins and the antibacterial mechanism of antimicrobial peptides.

Education Background:

Dr. Hongbin Sun obtained his B.S degree from Zhengzhou University in 2000 and Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2007. He worked in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2009.

Courses Offered: Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Bioinformatics

Publications：

(1) Yong Xin*, Zhao Lin*, Deng Wankun*, Sun Hongbin*, Zhou Xue*, Mao Lejiao, Hu Wenfeng, Shen Xiaofei, Sun Qingxiang, Daniel D. Billadeau, Xue Yu, Jia Da. Mechanism of cargo recognition by retromerlinked SNX-BAR proteins Xin, PLOS BIOLOGY, 2020, 18(3): e3000631. (*co-first author)

(2) Shanhui Liao, Hongbin Sun#, Chao Xu#. YTH Domain: A Family of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) Readers. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. (2018) 16(2):99-107.(#co-corresponding author)

(3)Fazhan Shi*, Qi Zhang*, Pengfei Wang*, Hongbin Sun, Jiarong Wang, Xing Rong, Ming Chen, Chenyong Ju, Friedemann Reinhard, Hongwei Chen, Jörg Wrachtrup, Junfeng Wang, Jiangfeng Du. Single-protein spin resonance spectroscopy under ambient conditions. Science. (2015) 347:1135-8. (*co-first author)

(4)Yue Yuan*,Hongbin Sun*, Shuchao Ge*, Mengjing Wang, Hongxin Zhao, Lin Wang, Linna An,Jia Zhang,Huafeng Zhang, Bing Hu, Junfeng Wang, and Gaolin Liang. Controlled Intracellular Self-Assembly and Disassembly of 19F Nanoparticles for MR Imaging of Caspase 3/7 in Zebrafish. ACS Nano. (2015) 27:761-8. (*co-first author)

(5) Jiarong Wang, Yan Li, Xiaoming Wang, Wei Chen, Hongbin Sun#, Junfeng Wang#. Lipopolysaccharide induces amyloid formation of antimicrobial peptide HAL-2.Biochim Biophys Acta. (2014) 1838(11):2910-8. (#co-corresponding author)

(6)Soonjoung Kim*, Hongbin Sun*, Diana R. Tomchick, Hongtao Yu, and Xuelian Luo. Structure of Human Mad1 C-terminal Domain Reveals Its Involvement in Kinetochore Targeting. PNAS, (2012) 109:6549-54. (*co-first author) (Covered in Research Highlights article, “Mad1 attachment” by M. Montoya, Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19 (2012): 470).

Research projects：

Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province of China (212300410415)