Supported by NIH/National Cancer Institute Grant,No.R01CA138441 and No.R01CA269452;UW Madison Centene Pancreas Cancer Collaborative Award,No.21-8568.
BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.Increased activity of the epidermal growth factor receptor(EGFR)is often observed in pancreatic cancer,and the small molecule EGFR inhibitor erl...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81971943,No.81772196,No.31470264,No.81271820,No.30870789,and No.30300117;the Stanley Foundation of United States,No.06R-1366(for Zhu F);the Medical Science Advancement Program(Basic Medical Sciences)of Wuhan University,No.TFJC 2018002.
BACKGROUND Schizophrenia afflicts 1%of the world population.Clinical studies suggest that schizophrenia patients may have an imbalance of mitochondrial energy metabolism via inhibition of mitochondrial complex I activ...
This study was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFC1800502);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.42021005 and 22025603);the FJIRSM&IUE Joint Research Fund(RHZX-2018-006).
A large number of reaction systems are composed of hydrophobic interfaces and microorganisms in natural environment.However,it is not clear how microorganisms adjust their breathing patterns and respond to hydrophobic...
Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and their regulation are important fields of study in modem clinical research.Exogenous CoQ is an efficient therapeutic agent, yet its application has leads to continued su...
3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl Coenzyme A reductase, the rate limiting enzyme of mevalonate pathway, generates, in addition to cholesterol, a range of products involved in several biological functions: oligoprenyl groups, ...
supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(Nos.2011CB910301,2011CB910900,and 2006CB806506);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31021062).
The mitochondrial respiratory complex Ⅱ or succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase(SQR)is a key membrane complex in both the tricarboxylic acid cycle and aerobic respiration.Five disinfectant compounds were investigated ...
the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases(CHEMAL);the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand (Career Development Award);the Thailand Research Fund(Basic Research)
Upon infection into human red cell,Plasmodium falciparum differentiates into asexual and sexual(gametocyte) stages.The mitochondrion is a tubular-cristate organelle,functionally and structurally different between the ...
Ubiquinone is an essential electron carrier in prokaryotes. Ubiquinone biosynthesis involves at least nine reactions in Escherichia coli. 3-octaprenyl-4-hydroxybenzoate decarboxylase (UbiD) is an important enzyme on...
The mechanism of the proton_transfer_coupled electron transfer (PT_ET) reactions between the menaquinone Q A (MQ 1) and ubiquinone Q B (UQ 1) in the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodopseudomona vi...
This work was co-supported by Grants NIH GM-16767 of USA and the National Natural Science Foundation of China
It is proved by using the Dixon plot and the Lineweaver-Burk plot that thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTFA) has two inhibitive sites affecting the reduction of ubiquinone catalyzed by succinate-ubiquinone reductase. The hig...