supported in part by Award 2121063 from National Science Foundation(to YM);AG66986 from the National Institutes of Health(to MSW).
γ-Secretase,called“the proteasome of the membrane,”is a membrane-embedded protease complex that cleaves 150+peptide substrates with central roles in biology and medicine,including amyloid precursor protein and the ...
supported by“USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative”(YD9990002027 to FY,YD9100002021 to PS);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22207100 to FY,22277114,31971152 to PS,21825703 to CLT,22307113 to SLL);the National Key Research&Development Project,Ministry of Science and Technology the China(2022YFC3400500 to CLT);Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022M713054 to FY);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB37000000 to CLT);Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(2108085J16 to PS);And the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA1200104 to SLL);supported by“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”.
Somatostatin receptor 5(SSTR5)is highly expressed in ACTH-secreting pituitary adenomas and is an important drug target for the treatment of Cushing’s disease.Two cyclic SST analog peptides(pasireotide and octreotide)...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.22137004 and 82430109);Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program Grant No.BJJWZYJH01201910003013(China);Natural Science Foundation of Beijing,China(Grant No.IS23107).
Endosomal TLRs(TLR3/7/8/9)are highly analogous innate immunity sensors for various viral or bacterial RNA/DNA molecular patterns.Among them,TLR7,in particular,has been suggested to be a target for various inflammatory...
funded by the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(XDB37020101);the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA0910800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31930064);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y2022038);the Regional Joint Key Projects of the National Foundation of China(U22A20445);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2023ZD30).
Thousands of nuclear-encoded proteins are transported into chloroplasts through the TOC–TIC translocon that spans the chloroplast envelope membranes.A motor complex pulls the translocated proteins out of the TOC–TIC...
In this issue of Cell,Penzes et al.describe the use of cryo-EM to identify the cause of a mysterious disease affecting farmed superworms across the US.The study illustrates the power of ex vivo cryo-EM,which uses ampl...
supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2022YFC3401800);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070264);Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(ZR2019ZD48);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(XDA26050402);the Science&Technology Specific Project in Agricultural High-tech Industrial Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta(2022SZX12);the Innovation Center for Academicians of Hainan Province;the Specific Research Fund of the Innovation Center for Academicians of Hainan Province(No.YSPTZX202309);supported in part by NASA Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC21M0355。
Halorhodospira(Hlr.)halochloris is a triply extremophilic phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium,as it is thermophilic,alkaliphilic,and extremely halophilic.The light-harvesting-reaction center(LH1–RC)core complex of t...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFF1000200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U21A20276);the Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE and the New Cornerstone Science Foundation to Z.H.,Heilongjiang Touyan Team(HITTY-20190034 to Z.H.);Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China(YQ2023C032 to Y.Z.)。
In the ongoing arms race between bacteria and bacteriophages,bacteriophages have evolved anti-CRISPR proteins to counteract bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems.Recently,AcrⅡA25.1 and AcrⅡA32 have been found to effectively ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC2303401,2021YFA1300803);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32122008);supported by Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(2021QNRC001);fellowships from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022T150688);the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(2021M700161).
Foxes are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 in laboratory settings,and there have also been reports of natural infections of both SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 in foxes.In this study,we assessed the binding capacities of fox ACE2 t...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.32241023 and 92254306);the Fund from the Tsinghua–Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences;Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure。
Reconstituting membrane proteins in liposomes and determining their structure is a common method for determining membrane protein structures using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy(cryo-EM).However,the strong s...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12074409 and 12374021)。
Metal–organic frameworks(MOFs) are crystalline porous materials with tunable properties, exhibiting great potential in gas adsorption, separation and catalysis.[1,2]It is challenging to visualize MOFs with transmissi...