funded in part by the National Science Foundation(NSF)grant(IOS-1456973);the Netherlands organization for Scientific Research,the Netherlands(NWO-ALW,822.01.012 and ALWOP 2015.075);the China Scholarship Council(CSC)scholarship(no.201506300162);the University of Amsterdam.
Given the limited availability of resources in nature,sexual attractiveness may trade off with immunocompetence,as the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis(ICHH)posits.In invertebrates,a direct link between trade-offs...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,No.ZR2020QH185;Scientific Research Nurturing Fund of the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University&Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital,No.QYPY2020NSFC0803;Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health Commission Scientific Research Project,No.Z20210442.
BACKGROUND The stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase(SCD)gene influences colorectal cancer(CRC)pathogenesis,with its expression linked to tumor cell survival and resistance,necessitating further investigation into its role i...
supported by the National Cancer Institute Intramural Research Program,CCR,CIL,the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20241592,China)to Tingting Yan;National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82404732 to Tingting Yan,No.81930109 and 82321005 to Haiping Hao,No.82370848 and HY2022-7 to Lulu Sun,No.62173005 to Zhipeng Zhang);the Project of State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines,China Pharmaceutical University(SKLNMZZ202402 to Haiping Hao,China);National Institutes of Health,National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases(DK118093 to James N.Ntambi,USA);supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD,USA).
Stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase 1(SCD1)catalyzes the rate-limiting step of de novo lipogenesis and modulates lipid homeostasis.Although numerous SCD1 inhibitors were tested for treating metabolic disorders both in prec...
Background and objective Metabolic associated fatty liver disease(MAFLD)is associated with abnormal lipid metabolism.Mitochondrial dysfunction is considered an important factor in the onset of MAFLD,whereas altered fa...
the National Key Re-search and Development Program of China(No.2019YF D0900400);the Zhejiang Major Science Project,China(No.2019C02057);the Ningbo Science and Technology Re-search Projects,China(Nos.202003N4124,2019B10006);the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA,and the Open Project Funding of‘National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Engi-neering,Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biotechnology,Collaborative Innovation Center for Zhejiang Marine High-efficiency and Healthy Aquaculture,and Key Laboratory of Marine Biological Engineering,Zhejiang,China’.
Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors(PPAR)are kinds of key transcriptional factors in regulating LC-PUFA biosynthesis.Until now,little is known about PPAR in marine molluscs as well as in other invertebrates.Si...
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0500400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372424 and 31672544).We greatly appreciate Prof. William J.Sullivan,Jr.(Indiana University,USA) for providing TgIF2a antibodies, whose research was funded by National Institutes of Health grant AI105786.
Few information of the function of stearoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) desaturase (SCD) in apicomplaxan parasite has been obtained. In this study, we retrieved a putative fatty acyl-CoA desaturase (TGGT1_238950) by a protein al...
The Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China under contract No.2017Q09;the Aoshan Science and Technology Innovation Project of Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)under contract No.2016ASKJ02;the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Shandong Joint Funded Project under contract No.U1606404;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41776176 and 41806201;the 973 Project from Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology under contract No.2015CB755904;the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation under contract No.ZR2015PD003
The cDNA of the delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene, IgFAD2, was cloned from the marine microalgae Isochrysis galbana, a species capable of producing docosahexaenoic acid. Sequence analysis indicated that the open rea...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31172389);the Special Project of Marine Renewable Energy from the State Oceanic Administration(No.SHME2011SW02);the Shanghai Universities Peak Discipline Project of Aquaculture
It is suggested that Δ6 fatty acid desaturase(FAD) plays a critical role in the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in plants and microalgae. But why does it adapt to the changed environments such as nitrogen...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31500247);Key Project of Department of Education of Sichuan Province(14ZA0016);Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LZ15C150001)
ζ-Carotene desaturase(ZDS)is an important enzyme in carotenoid biosynthesis.Here,the Brassica oleracea var.alboglabra ZDS(Boa ZDS)gene was cloned from Chinese kale via reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(...
Supported by National Key R&D Program of China No.2017YFC0908900;National Key Basic Research Project,No.2012CB517501;National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81470840 and No.81600464
AIM To evaluate the levels of mi R-192-5 p in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD) models and demonstrate the role of mi R-192-5 p in lipid accumulation. METHODS Thirty Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided in...