the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0903000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81672001);China MoST Emergency Project on COVID-19(2020YFC0840800);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2021A1515110619);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(KG16052901).
The Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has posed a serious threat to global health and the world economy.Antiviral therapies targeting coronavirus are urgently required.The Cepharanthine(CEP)is a traditional Chinese he...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31571425;82004009);the grant from the“Hundred”Level of High-level Innovative Talents in Guizhou Province(QKHRCPT20165684);the Science and Technology Plan Program of Guizhou Province(2018,5772-071).We thank James Bamburg(University of Wisconsin)for providing Cofilin-WT and site mutant plasmids of cofilin(Cofilin-S3A and Cofilin-S3E).
Inhibition of autophagy has been accepted as a promising therapeutic strategy in cancer,but its clinical application is hindered by lack of effective and specific autophagy inhibitors.We previously identified cepharan...
This work was supported by an Erasmus+Mobility Studentship(ref DK KOBENHA 57)awarded to DJ.The funder was not involved in the interpretation of results or writing of the article.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an increasing threat to global healthcare systems.We therefore sought compounds with potential to reverse antibiotic resistance in a clinically relevant multi-drug resistant isol...
This work was supported by a project from Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2020YFC0840805);Key Project of Beijing University of Chemical Technology(No.X K 1803-06),Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities(No.BUCTRC201917),and a.start-up funding for Dr.Yi-Gang Tong from Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering.
Background:Medicines for the treatment of 2019-novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)infections are urgently needed.However,drug screening using live 2019-nCoV requires high-level biosafety facilities,which imposes an obstacle ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30660203);the National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2013ZX10002009);the Key laboratory of High- Incidence Tumor Prevention (Guangxi Medical University),Ministry of Education(No. GK2015-ZZ06)
Objective: Recent reports suggest that Cepharanthine(CEP),a natural alkaloid extracted from the roots of Stephania Cepharanthine Hayata,can inhibit the proliferation of various cancer cells,but few studies focus on it...
supported by Science and Technology Development Fund,Macao S.A.R(FDCT)(024/2016/A1);Research Fund of University of Macao(MYRG2015-00091-ICMS-QRCM and MYRG2015-00101-ICMS-QRCM)
OBJECTIVE Identification of novel autophagy inhibitors for the combinational treatment of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).METHODS MTT assay and annexin V/PI staining assay were used to evaluate the cell proliferatio...
Aim: To investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the antitumor activity of cepharanthine (CEP), an alkaloid extracted from Stephania cepharantha Hayata. Methods: Human osteosarcoma cell line SaOS2 was used....
Severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) is the first severe viral epidemic we encountered his century,which once spread in more than thirty countriesin2003.1 The etiological agent of SARS has beenc onfirmed to be a n...