Jiao-Nai SHI, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jinjiang, Fujian Province. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1944. Shi made significant progress in the research on structural function and regulating properties of photosynthetic carbon metabolizing key enzyme. He also made outstanding contributions to the research of regulating mechanisms of botanic enzymes. Among his accomplishments, Shi pointed out the buildup of HMP channel in oil plants' seeds, the growth and decline between tricarboxylic-acud (T.C.A.) and glyoxysome cycle which play important significance in the synthesis of fatty acid. For the first time, he reported that in rapeseed, one endogenesis inhibitor plays the regulating role towards HMP channel. With respect to the structure and function research on PEP carboxylase of C4 plants, Shi proved there exists multiconformational status in carboxylase. He conducted extensive studies about secondary structural characteristics, space arrangement of sub-group, dissociation and aggregation of sub-group of carboxylase and multi-regulating locus of carboxylase. He successfully screened out two bacterial strains with high yield of cellulase.
He passed away on November 24, 2018.
