Wang, Kung-Tsung
B.S. National Taiwan University
1952
D.S. Tohoku University, Japan
1962

K.-T. Wang's Group Homepage
Bio-organic Chemistry
Born 1929.  B.S., 1952, National Taiwan University; D.S., 1962, Tohoku University, Japan.  Associate Professor, 1964-68; Professor, 1968-, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scientist, 1969-71, University of California at San Francisco.  Research Fellow, 1972-; Director, 1980-86; Distinguished Research Fellow, 1994-, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica; Member, 1994, Academia Sinica. 
 

Research Interests 

1. Research of biocatalysts. 
2. Enhancement of chemical reaction by microwave irradiation. 
3. Synthesis of peptides and proteins. 
4. Computer aided molecular graphics on structure of peptides. 

Selected Publications

  • Chen, S. T.; Duh, S. C.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Facile Synthesis of L-Malic Acid by a Consecutive Enzymatic Reaction¡¨ Biotech. Lett. 1994, 16(4), 355-358.
  • Chen, S. T.; Chen, S. Y.; Chen, S. J.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Vinyl Carboxylate, An Acylating Reagent for Selective Acylation of Amines and Diols¡¨ Tetrahedron Lett. 1994, 39, 3583-3584.
  • Chen, S. T.; Tu, C. C.; Chen, S. Y.; Huang, H. C.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Investigating the s-2 Subsite Selectivity of Alkaline Proteases in Hydrolysis of Diastereo-Peptide Esters and Molecular-Modeling Interpretation¡¨ Bioorg. Med. Chem. 1993, 1(5), 361-367.
  • Wu, C. Y.; Chen, S. T.; Chiou, S. H.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Kinetic Analysis of Duck e-Crystallin with L-Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity: Determination of Kinetic Constants and Comparison of Substrate Specificity¡¨ Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 1992, 186(2), 874-880.
  • Yu, H. M.; Chen, S. T.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Enhanced Coupling Efficiency in Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis by Microwave Irradiation¡¨ J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 4780-4784.
  • Chen, S. T.; Chen, S. Y.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Kinetically Controlled Peptide Bond Formation in Anhydrous Alcohol Catalyzed by an Industrial Protease 'Alcalase' ¡§ J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 6960-6965.
  • Wu, C. Y.; Chen, S. T.; Chiou, S. H.; Wang, K. T. ¡§Fasile Synthesis of Chiral¡¨ FEBS Lett. 1992, 301(2), 219-222.
  • Wong, C. H.; Wang, K. T. ¡§New Developments in Enzymatic Petptide Synthesis¡¨ Experientia, 1991, 47, 1123-1129.
Bio-organic Chemistry

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