B cells have an essential immunoregulatory function,which is mediated by the secretion of IL-10 and TGFβand interaction with activated CD4^(+)T cells.This antibody-independent function of B cells contributes to ameli...
supported by National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0903200);General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(32370083);Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing CSTB(CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0995);Graduate Innovation Program(GZLCX20232114)。
About two-thirds of small molecule drugs contain methyl group and it plays a very important role in the drug development.So,methyltransferases catalyzing the methylation have always attracted great attention.Hangtaimy...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0901800);National Natural Science Foundation of China(21978015);Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project(TSBICIP-KJGG-009).
Vanillyl alcohol is a precursor of vanillin,which is one of the most widely used flavor compounds.Currently,vanillyl alcohol biosynthesis still encounters the problem of low efficiency.In this study,coculture engineer...
supported by the Excellent Youth Fund of Zhejiang Province,China(No.LR17C140002)。
Streptomyces are famous for their ability to synthesize a large number of bioactive compounds as secondary metabolites containing antibiotics,enzyme inhibi-tors,and other small molecules with potential physiological a...
Therapeutic targeting of metastatic breast cancer still remains a challenge as the tumor cells are highly heterogenous and exploit multiple pathways for their growth and metastatic spread that cannot always be targete...
BACKGROUND S-adenosylmethionine(AdoMet)is a metabolically pleiotropic molecule used to treat intrahepatic cholestasis(IHC)and chronic liver diseases.While the efficacy of AdoMet has been demonstrated previously,it has...
National Institutes of Health,NIAAA,No.R01AA026759(Lu);National Institutes of Health,NIDDK,No.R01DK107288(Lu);National Institutes of Health,NCCIH,No.R01AT001576;National Institutes of Health,NCI,No.R01CA172086(Lu and Mato);Agencia Estatal de Investigación MINECO,No.SAF 2017-88041-R;ISCiii PIE14/00031,No.CIBERehdISCiii;Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation,No.SEV-2016-0644)(Mato)
Methionine adenosyltransferases(MATs)are essential enzymes for life as they produce S-adenosylmethionine(SAMe),the biological methyl donor required for a plethora of reactions within the cell.Mammalian systems express...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a heterogeneous and complex disease that is imprecisely diagnosed by liver biopsy.NAFLD covers a spectrum that ranges from simple steatosis,nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH)w...
support by the Ministerio Educación y Ciencia;Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain(until June 2013)
PDRG1 is a small oncogenic protein of 133 residues. In normal human tissues, the p53 and DNA damageregulated gene 1(PDRG1) gene exhibits maximal expression in the testis and minimal levels in the liver. Increased expr...
This work was supported by USA National Institutes of Health(NIH)grants R01DK51719(SC Lu)and R01DK107288(SC Lu and K Ramani).
Methionine adenosyltransferases(MATs)are essential for cell survival because they catalyze the biosynthesis of the biological methyl donor S-adenosylmethionine(SAMe)from methionine and adenosine triphosphate(ATP).Mamm...