Education
2018-2023 Harvard University and MIT
2012-2018 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2008-2012 Peking University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Recent Publications
Wang, J. X., Vilbert, A. C., Williams, L. H., Mirts, E. N., Cui, C., & Lu, Y. (2025). Unexpected effect of an axial ligand mutation in the type 1 copper center in small laccase: structure-based analyses and engineering to increase reduction potential and activity. Chemical Science, 16(25), 11339-11346. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5sc02177d
Westmoreland, D. E., Feliciano, P. R., Kang, G., Cui, C., Kim, A., Stubbe, J. A., Nocera, D. G., & Drennan, C. L. (2024). 2.6-Å resolution cryo-EM structure of a class Ia ribonucleotide reductase trapped with mechanism-based inhibitor N3CDP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(45), Article e2417157121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417157121
Cui, C., Song, D. Y., Drennan, C. L., Stubbe, J. A., & Nocera, D. G. (2023). Radical Transport Facilitated by a Proton Transfer Network at the Subunit Interface of Ribonucleotide Reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(9), 5145-5154. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c11483
Wang, J. X., Vilbert, A. C., Cui, C., Mirts, E. N., Williams, L. H., Kim, W., Jessie Zhang, Y., & Lu, Y. (2023). Increasing Reduction Potentials of Type 1 Copper Center and Catalytic Efficiency of Small Laccase from Streptomyces coelicolor through Secondary Coordination Sphere Mutations. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62(52), Article e202314019. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202314019
Meyer, A., Kehl, A., Cui, C., Reichardt, F. A. K., Hecker, F., Funk, L. M., Ghosh, M. K., Pan, K. T., Urlaub, H., Tittmann, K., Stubbe, J. A., & Bennati, M. (2022). 19F Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance Reveals Interaction between Redox-Active Tyrosines across the α/β Interface of E. coli Ribonucleotide Reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(25), 11270-11282. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02906
