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Kun Liu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Synthetic Biology· 2 Bioinformatics· 1 Microbiology· 1 Molecular Biology· 1

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:protein design· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:protein structure· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1

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Bolin AniD· 2 shared Chao ZhongiD· 2 shared Qianyi Liang· 2 shared C. Y. Liu· 1 shared Cheng ZengiD· 1 shared Chengsong Zhang· 1 shared Chi WangiD· 1 shared Christopher A. VaianaiD· 1 shared

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AI-driven discovery and engineering of human endogenous nanocage proteins for mRNA delivery

Dongmin Xun, Lanqing Li, Jie Zou, Yi Liu, Ziyue Yang, Qianyi Liang, Ke Li, Zhu Zhu, Jicong Zhang, Lijun Lang, Kun Liu, Xinyu Wang, Meilin Tian, Guangyong Chen, Bolin An, , Chao Zhong

The paper develops DeepDelivery, an AI platform that identifies human proteins for mRNA delivery, validating 80% of top candidates for efficient, non-inflammatory delivery.

Nature Communications · Oct 31, 2026Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology

Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with bark beetles infesting Pinus armandii, with characterizations of seven new species from western China

Minjie Chen, Yutong Ran, C. Y. Liu, Kun Liu, Tong Lin, Mingliang Yin

This study identifies 225 Ophiostomatalean isolates from bark beetles infesting Pinus armandii, revealing seven new species and contributing to understanding beetle-fungus interactions in western China.

MycoKeys · Sep 18, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Structural insights and engineering of deep-sea halophilic PET hydrolytic enzymes

Guoqiang Zhang, Xian Li, Wei Xia, Chengsong Zhang, Shanmin Zheng, Hongchen Yin, Jieke Du, Ning Wang, Xinzhe Chen, Ge Lv, Yushuo Zhao, Tianheng Wang, Yunjun Pan, Mingzhu Zhang, Jian-Wen Huang, , Shengying Li

The paper structures and engineers deep-sea halophilic PET hydrolases to improve their salt tolerance and catalytic efficiency for industrial applications.

中国科学通报：英文版 · Sep 1, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Synthetic ratio computation for programming population composition and multicellular morphology

Bolin An, Tzu‐Chieh Tang, Qian Zhang, Teng Wang, Yanyi Wang, Kesheng Gan, Kun Liu, Daniel L. Zhang, Yuzhu Liu, Yu Kui Pan, Min Yu, W. M. Shaw, Qianyi Liang, Yaomin Wang, Christopher A. Vaiana, , Chao Zhong

This paper introduces genetic devices for precise control of cell-type ratios and multicellular morphology in synthetic biology systems.

Nature · Mar 18, 2026Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology

DIFS: Discriminative Feature Selection for Cell Clustering based on Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data

Kun Liu, Jinpeng Liu, Chi Wang

DIFS improves cell clustering in scRNA-seq by selecting discriminative genes through a two-stage statistical framework.

bioRxiv · Mar 26, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics