This research was financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31100534, 31021062 and 31170703), the Ministry of Science and Technology (973 Programs, Grant No. 2011CBA00902), and the Strategic Priority Research program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB08020302).ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Alberta Pinnola for technical assistance on the maize cultivation and PSII-BBY extraction, We thank Zhenfeng Liu, Minrui Fan, and Jiping Zhang for helpful discussion. We are grateful to Yi Han and Shengquan Liu at the Institute of Biophysics, CAS. the staff of beamline BL17U at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. and the staff of beamlines BL1A, BL17A, and NW12A at the Photon Factory, KEK (Tsukuba, Japan) for technical support, No conflict of interest declared.
The Mn cluster (Mn4CaO5) on the thylakoid luminal side of photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving reaction, an essential process for life on Earth. In higher plants and green algae, the ...
We thank the staff of beamline 17U at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility for technical support during data collection and Y. Y. Chen for help with the ITC assay. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30900230 and 31021062) and the National Basic Research Pro- gram (973 Program) (No. 2011CBA00902). Hongmei Zhang, Mei Li, Yu Gao, Chenjun Jia, Xiaowei Pan, Peng Cao, Xuelin Zhao, Jiping Zhang, and Wenrui Chang declare that they have no conflict of interest. This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by the any of the authors.
Dear Editor, The methylation modifications of histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4) have essential effects on biological processes including gene expression and transcription, cell cycle progression, and DNA repair. From yeast ...
the Ministry of Health of China(grant 2013ZX10004-602);the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(Nos.2013CB911103,2009DFB30310,2009CB918803 and 2011CB911103);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31270795,31200559,31070660 and 31021062).
TRAF4 is a unique member of TRAF family,which is es-sential for innate immune response,nervous system and other systems.In addition to being an adaptor protein,TRAF4 was identifi ed as a regulator protein in recent st...
We thank the staffs at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)as well as Yi Han and Shengquan Liu at the X-ray core facility at the Institute of Biophysics(IBP),Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)for their technical support during crystal screening and data collection.We also thank Hongmei Zhang for the as sistance with molecular biology and biochemistry,Zhensheng Xie and Fuquan Yang at the Proteomic Core Facility Center of IBP,CAS and Jieyuan Liu at the Center of Biomedical Analysis of Tsinghua University for their technical assistance at the Mass Spectrometry analysis.This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(Nos.2011CBA00902 and 2011CBA00903)awarded to W.R.C.and Z.F.L.,respectively;the National Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.31021062).
Under natural environments,plants and algae have evolved various photosynthetic acclimation mechanisms in response to the constantly changing light conditions.The state transition and long-term response processes in p...
supported financially by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(No.2011CB910302);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31025009,31021062 and 31200558).
In addition to DNA repair pathways,cells utilize translesion DNA synthesis(TLS)to bypass DNA lesions during replication.During TLS,Y-family DNA polymerase(Polη,Polκ,Polιand Rev1)inserts specific nucleotide opposite...
We thank our colleagues Drs Hongfei Wang and Lijie Wu for crystal data collection. We thank Yuanyuan Chert and Xiaoxia Yu in core facility center (Institute of Biophysics, CAS) for technical assistance with the ITC, SPR and ultra-centrifugation experiments. We thank colleagues at the Photon factory, KEK (Japan) and SSRF (China) for assistance in the use of the synchrotron resource. We also thank Drs Xiufan Liu and Shunlin Hu (Yangzhou University) for providing the cDNA of ZJ1-NDV. This work was supported by grants to YL from the Ministry of Science and Technology (863 Project 2006AAO2A314; 973 Programs 2007CB914303, 2011CB910304 and 2012CB9 10204) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30925011, 31030024 and 31021062).
Interferon-stimulated gene 56 (ISG56) family members play important roles in blocking viral replication and regulating cellular functions, however, their underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unclear. Here, we...
supported by grants from the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(973 Program)(Grant Nos.2011CB910304 and 2012CB910204)to YL;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30925011,31030024 and 31021062).
TANK-binding kinase 1(TBK1)is an important enzyme in the regulation of cellular antiviral effects.TBK1 regulates the activity of the interferon regulatory factors IRF3 and IRF7,thereby playing a key role in type I int...