Recently, Nucleic Acids Research, an internationally renowned academic journal of biochemistry and molecular biology, published an in-depth study on the molecular mechanism of highly flexible activation or inhibition of the expression of many target genes by marine vibrio LuxR by Professor Wang Qiyao of the School of Bioengineering, ECUST. The article clarified the important and basic scientific problem of how pathogenic vibrio can perceive the density of flora or other physical and chemical signals to cooperatively regulate group behavior and lead to disease outbreaks.

The article is co-first authored by Dr. Zhang Jun, School of Bioengineering, ECUST, Dr. Liu Bing, Free University of Barcelona and Dr. Gu Dan of Yangzhou University and it is co-corresponding authored by Professor Wang Qiyao, ECUST and Professor David Reverter of Free University of Barcelona. The research work has also received academic support from Professor Zhang Yuanxing and Professor Liu Qin of the School of Bioengineering and financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Modern Agricultural Industrial Technology System and the Nnational Key Research and Development Plan.