Phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase(PHGDH)has emerged as a crucial factor in macromolecule synthesis,neutralizing oxidative stress,and regulating methylation reactions in cancer cells,lymphocytes,and endothelial cells.Howe...
financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2021YFA0910500,2021YFA0910503);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22277035,32000045 and 81973205);the Program for Changjiang Scholars of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(No.T2016088);the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars(No.81725021);the National Science and Technology Project of China(No.2018ZX09201001-001-003);Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81721005);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2020kfyXJJS043).
We reported the characterization of a novel brassicicene diterpene biosynthetic gene cluster,which contains a uniqueα-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase(αKGD)enzyme,AbnI.Our findings revealed that AbnI demonstrates...
supported by funds from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFA0806501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81972342 to J.Y.,82173120 to Y.G.,and 82070298 to L.Z.);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in ShaanxiProvince(2020JZ-29 to J.Y.).
Isocitrate dehydrogenase(IDH)mutations frequently occur in lower-grade gliomas and secondary glioblastomas.Mutant IDHs exhibit a gain-of-function activity,leading to the production of D-2-hydroxyglutarate(D-2HG)by red...
supported in part by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC2303100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22207117).
Cell-free expression systems have emerged as a versatile and powerful platform for metabolic engineering,biosynthesis and synthetic biology studies.Nevertheless,successful examples of the synthesis of complex natural ...
Sessile plants can adjust their growth and development in response to environmental stimuli.Sunlight(light),is the primary source of energy for all life on the earth,in the long course of phylogenetic evolution,plants...
supported by the National Key R&D Program(No.2021YFD1700100);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21837001,21273089);the Open Project Fund of the Key Laboratory of the Pesticides and Chemical Biology of Central China Normal University(No.2018-A01);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Fundamental Research Funds for the South-Central University for Nationalities(No.CZW20020)。
The dioxygen activation catalyzed by 4-hydorxylphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase(HPPD)were reinvestigated by using hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics(QM/MM)approaches at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p):AMBER level.These s...
supported in part by the China Natural Sciences Foundation projects (No. 81772947)。
Objective: α-ketoglutarate(α-KG) is the substrate to hydroxylate collagen and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α(HIF-1α), which are important for cancer metastasis. Previous studies have shown that the upregulation of co...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31871445 and No.31501211);the National Key R&D program of China(No.2017YFC1001302 and No.2016YFA0503300)。
There is growing evidence that cellular metabolism can directly participate in epigenetic dynamics and consequently modulate gene expression.However,the role of metabolites in activating the key gene regulatory networ...
Science and Technology Program of Gansu Province Grant,No.18JR3RA339 and No.18JR3RA363;Fund of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University Grant,No.ldyyyn2018-63;Teaching and Research Project of the First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University in 2018 Grant,No.2018007;NIH awards,No.R21NS106430 and No.R01OD026594;Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant,No.ZHAO19G0;an American Cancer Society-IRG Junior Faculty Development Grant,a UAB CCC Neuro-oncology Research Acceleration Grant,and a UAB Faculty Development Grant Program Award.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs)are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.At the molecular level,GISTs can be categorized into two groups based on the causative oncogenic mutations.App...
α-Ketoglutarate (α-KG), a pivotal metabolite in energy metabolism, has been implicated in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and several cancers. It is recently proposed that plasma α-KG is a surrogate bi...