Aim: Free fatty acid receptor 4 (FFA4; formerly known as GPR120) is the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) for omega-3 poly- unsaturated fatty acids. FFA4 has been found to express in the small intestines and colo...
scientific research funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21332010,21172010, 21002004)
A facile and efficient protocol for the synthesis of sulfur substituted-cyclopyrophosphate of cIDPRE(P_S^1-cIDPRE) was developed.The key step was the cyclization process which was completed by the sulfur substituted...
Human mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs)are a rare population of non-hematopoietic stem cells with multilineage potential,originally identified in the bone marrow.Due to the lack of a single specific marker,MSCs can be reco...
This work was supported by the grants from the Council of Hong Kong (Nos. 769107, 768408, 769309 and 770610) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China/the Research Grants Council ofHong Kong (No. N_HKU 722/08).
Cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) are Ca2+-mobilizing nucleotides that were discovered in the late 1980s. Two decades of investigations have built up a considerab...
National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (Grant No. 90713005,20910094);the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 200800010078)
New cADPR mimic 5 that integrates the simplified nucleobase and ribose was designed and synthesized by using Cu(I)-catalyzed Huisgen [3+2] cycloaddition to build the simplified triazole nucleobase and microwave-ass...
supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(Grant Nos.769107,768408, 769309 and 770610);the National Natural Science Foundation of China/the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(Grant No.N_HKU 722/08)
The concept advanced by Berridge and colleagues that intracellular Ca2+-stores can be mobilized in an agonist-dependent and messenger(IP3)-mediated manner has put Ca 2+-mobilization at the center stage of signal trans...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.20910094) ;Ministry of Education of China(Grant No.200800010078)
An optimized approach for the synthesis of N^1-ethoxymethyl-substituted cyclic inosine diphosphoribose(cIDPRE),an analogue of cyclic adenosine diphosphoribose(cADPR),has been developed via microwave-assisted intra...