CURRICULUM VITAE

Yuh-Shyong Yang (·¨¸Î¶¯)

 

Education:

1983-1987    Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1981-1983        M.S., Wood Science&Technology, University of California-Berkely.

1975-1979    B.S., Forestry, National Taiwan University.

 

Research interest:

1.      Mechanisms of enzyme action and protein engineering

2.      Bioelectronics and enzyme chip

3.      Biochemical ecology

4.      Industrial application of enzymes

 

Experience:

2003-               Director, Institute of Biochemical Engineering, College of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University

2001-2002       Science and technical consultant, ECHEM Hightech Co. LTD, Hsinchu, Taiwan

1999-2001       Chair, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC.

1994-               Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Science and Technology,

                        National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC.

1996                Research consultant, Research Lab., Taiwan Salt Works, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC.

1992-1994       Visiting Associate, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Metabolism,

                        National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,

                        National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

1989-1992       Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Metabolism,

                        National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,

                        National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

1988-1989       Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Enzyme Research,

                        University of Wisconsin¡VMadison, Wisconsin, USA.

1987-1988       Guest Jr. Research Associate, Department of Biology, Brookhaven

                        National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA.

1985-1986       Teaching Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University of

                        Wisconsin¡V Madison, Wisconsin, USA.      

1983-1987       Research Assistant, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin¡VMadison, Wisconsin, USA.

1981-1983       Research Assistant, Forest Product Laboratory, University of

                        California¡VBerkeley, California, USA.

1979-1981       Project Assistant, Natural Area Reserve, Hen-chun Tropical Botanical

                        Garden, Henchun, Taiwan.

 

Publications:

1.  ®}°ê¤h,¼B°öºi,±i´f¯],§f³Ó¥Ñ,·¨»·ªi,·¨¸Î¶¯,³¯¾Ç¤¯,¼B¥É¤ô, ¡§»OÆWµ}¦³¤Î¦³µ´·À¦M¾÷¤§´Óª«¡¨, ¬ì¾Ç±Ð¨|¸ê®ÆÂO®Ñ, »OÆW¬Ù¬F©²±Ð¨|ÆU, 1980

2.  Yang, Y.-S. and Frey, P.A. (1986) Dihydrolipoyl Transacetylase of Escherichia coli. The Formation of 8-S-Acetyldihydrolipoamide, Biochemistry 25, 8173-8178.

3.  Yang, Y.-S. and Frey, P.A. (1989) 2-Keto acid Dehydrogenase Complexes of Escherichia coli.  Stereospecifity of the three components for (R)-lipoic acid, Ach. Biochem. Biophys. 286, 465-474.

4.   Frey, P.A., Flournoy, D., Gruys, K. and Yang, Y.-S. (1989) Intermediates in Reductive Transacetylation Catalyzed by Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex, Annals of  the New York Academy of Sciences, 573, 21-359.

5.   Kim, D.-H., Yang, Y.-S. and Jakoby, W.B. (1990) Aspirin Hydrolyzing Esterases from at Liver Cytosol, Biochemical Phamarcology 40, 481-487.

6.   Kim, D.-H., Yang, Y.-S. and Jakoby, W.B. (1990) Non-Serine Esterases from Rat Liver Cytosol, Protein Expression and Purification 1, 19-27.

7.  Yang, Y.-S. and Frey, P.A. (1990) Solvent Effects on the Solvolysis of ADPƒÒS, Bioorganic Chemistry 18, 373-380.

8.   Chen, X., Yang, Y.-S., Zheng, Y., Martin, B., Duffel, M., and Jakoby, W.B. (1992) Tyrosine-Ester Sulfotransferase from Rat Liver: Bacterial Expression and Identification,  Protein Expression and Purification 3, 421-426.

9.   Yang, Y.-S., Ramaswamy, S., and Jakoby, W.B. (1993) Rat Liver Imidase, The Journal of Biological Chemistry 268, 10870-10875.

10.      Guo, W.-X., Yang, Y.-S., Chen, X., McPhie, P., and Jakoby, W.B. (1994) Changes In Substrate Specificity in the Recombinant Form of Phenol Sulfotransferase IV. Chemico-Biological Interactions 92, 25-31.

11.      Yang, Y.-S., Datta, A. Funiya, F.R., Hainfeld, J.F. Hainfeld, Wall, J.S., and  Frey, P.A. (1994) Mapping the Lipoyl Groups of the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex by the Use of Undecagold Clusters and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Biochemistry 33, 9428-9437.

12.      ·¨¸Î¶¯, §d­YÁ¨, ¡§¬Ì­]¹A³õ - ½Í¥i­¹¬Ì­]¤Î¨ä¥¦¡¨, ¹A°T¤ë¥Z, ²Ä12¨÷, ²Ä7´Á, 93-94­¶, 1995.

13.    Yang, Y.-S., Marshall, A.D., McPhie, P., Guo, W.-X., Xie, X., Chen, X., and W.B. Jakoby (1996) Two Phenol Sulfotransferase Species from One cDNA: Nature of the Differences Protein Expression and Purification, 8, 423-429.

14.    §d­YÁ¨, ·¨¸Î¶¯, ¡§°ò¦]¹A²£«~¶i¾n¬ü°ê¶W¥«¡¨,¹A°T¤ë¥Z,²Ä13¨÷, ²Ä1´Á, 93-94­¶, 1996.

15.    ·¨¸Î¶¯, §d­YÁ¨, ¡§·Å«Ç®ÄÀ³¥~£¸³¹¡G¤j®ð¤¤¤G®ñ¤Æ¬´¿@«×¤É°ª¹ï¹A§@ª«¬O§_¦³¼vÅT¡H¡¨, ¹A°T¤ë¥Z, ²Ä13¨÷, ²Ä9´Á, 73-74­¶, 1996.

16.    Yang, Y.-S., Pan, J.-J. and Hwang, J.-K. (1997) Probing Phenol Binding Environment of Sulfotransferase, Protein Engineering  10, 70 Suppl. S.

17.    §d­YÁ¨, ·¨¸Î¶¯, ¡§³Ì¥j¦Ñ»P³Ì¦yºÝªº¦æ·~ - ¹A·~¥Íª«§Þ³N¡¨, ¹A°T¤ë¥Z¹A°T¤ë¥Z, ²Ä14¨÷, ²Ä5´Á, 10-15­¶, 1997.

18.    ·¨¸Î¶¯, ¡§¥Íª«¬ì§Þ¡G½Í°ò¦]¤uµ{»P³J¥Õ½è¤uµ{¡¨, ¥æ¤j¥@¬ö¤§¼y¾Ç³N¬ã°Q·|¤å¶°, 195-207­¶, 1997.

19.    Yang, Y.-S., Tsai, S.-W. and Lin, E.-S. (1998) Effect of 3¡¦-Phospho Adenosine 5¡¦-Phosphate on the Activity of Sulfotransferase. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 109, 129-135.

20.    Lin, E.-S. and Yang, Y.-S. (1998) Colormetric Determination of the Purity of 3¡¦-Phospho Adenosine 5¡¦-Phosphosulfate and Natural Abundance of 3¡¦Phosspho Adenosine 5¡¦-Phosphate at picomole Quantities. Analytical Biochemistry, 262, 111-117.

21.    °K«T³Ç, ·¨¸Î¶¯, ¡§»Ã¯À´¹¤ù¡¨, ¬ì¾Ç¤ë¥Z, ²Ä33¨÷, ²Ä9´Á, 733-738­¶, 1999.

22.    Su, T.-M. and Yang, Y.-S. (2000) Identification and Purification of a Thermophilic Imidase from Pig Liver, Protein Expression and Purification, 19, 289-297.

23.    Lin, E.-S. and Yang, Y.-S. (2000) Nucleotide Binding and Sulfation Catalyzed by Phenol Sulfotransferase, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm., 271, 818-822.

24.    Yang, Y.-S., Lu, U. and. Hu, B.C.P (2002) Prescription Chips: Toward the Development of Enzyme and Biochemical CMOS Chips, IEEE Circuits & Devices, 18, 8-16.

25.     Huang, C.-Y. and Yang, Y.-S. (2002) The Role of Metal on Imide Hydrolysis: Metal Content and pH Profiles of Metal Ion Replaced Mammalian Imidase, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm., 297, 1027-1032.

26.    Hsiao, Y.-S. and Yang, Y.-S. (2002) A Single Mutation Converts the Nucleotide Specificity of Phenol Sulfotransfrese from PAP to AMP, Biochemistry, 41, 12959-12966.

27.    Yang, Y.-S. (2002) The Development of Enzyme and Biochemical Chip:From Bioelectronics to Nanobioelectronics, Proceedings of APAM 2002 International Conference on International Collaboration and Networking:Creating a Global Nanotechnology Network, 32-33.

28.    ·¨¸Î¶¯, §õ©_¿«, ¡§¥Í©R¬ì¾Ç¸ó»â°ì¾ã¦X©Êºô¸ô±Ð§÷³]­p»P»s§@¡¨, ELTA 2002, Workshop on E-Learning Theory & Applications, 125-130­¶, 2002.

29.     Lee, C., Lin, Y.-T., *Tang, C.-Y. and *Yang, Y.-S. (2003) Identify Amino Acid Candidates Critical for Structure/Function of Rat Imidase by Cross-Reference Voting in Imidase Super Family, 18th ACM SAC track on Bioinformatics, SAC 2003: 127-134.

30.     ·¨¸Î¶¯, ¡§©`¦Ì¥Íª«¹q¤l¨t²Î: ±q¥Íª«·L¹q¤l¨ì©`¦Ì¥Íª«¹q¤l¡¨, ©`¦Ì¥@¬É-½á¤©¤j¾Ç·s¾÷·|, §d­««B ½sµÛ, °ª¤O¹Ï®Ñ¥Xª©¤½¥q, 146-170­¶, 2003.

31.     Lu, U, Hu, B.C.P, Shih, Y.-C., *Yang, Y.-S., Wu, C.-Y., Yuan, C.-J., Ker, M.-D., Wu, T.-K., Li, Y.-K., Hsieh, Y.-Z., Hsu, W., and Lin, C.-T. (2003) CMOS Chip As Luminescent Sensor For Biochemical Reactions, IEEE Sensors Journal, 3, 310-316.

32.     Huang, C.-Y., Chiang, S.-K., *Sun, Y.-J., and *Yang, Y.-S. (2003) Crystallization and Preliminary X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Thermophilic Imidase from Pig Liver. Acta Cryst. D., 59, 943-945.

33.     Huang, C.-Y., Chao, Y.-P. and *Yang, Y.-S. (2003), Purification of Industtrial Hydantoinase in One Chromatographic Step without Affinity Tag, Protein Expression and Purificaiton, 30, 134-139.

34.     Su, T.-M. and *Yang, Y.-S. (2003) Mechanism of Post Translational Regulation of Phenol Sulfotransferase: Expression of Two Enzyme Forms through Redox Modification and Nucleotide Binding, Biochemistry, 42, 6863-6870.

35.     Lin, E.-S., Yang, J.-M. and *Yang, Y.-S. (2003) Modeling the Binding and Inhibition Mechanism of Nucleotide and Sulfotransferase Using Molecular Docking, J Chinese Chemical Soc, 50, 655-663.

36.     Sugahara, T.,Yang, Y.-S., Liu, C.-C. Pai, G. T. Liu, M.-C. (2003) Sulphonation of Dehydroepiandrosterone and Neurosteroids: Molecular cloning, expression, and functional characterization of a novel Zebrafish SULT 2Cytosolic Sulphotransferase Biochem. J., in press

37.     Lu, U., Hu, B. C.-P., Shih, Y.-C., Wu, C.-Y., Yang, Y.-S. (2003) The Design of a Novel CMOS Detection System for Biochemical Luminescence, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, accepted