supported by the Science & Technology Innovation Project of Laoshan Laboratory(LSKJ202203203);the National Science Foundation of China (32270558);the National Institutes of Health Grant (R35-GM122566-01);the National Science Foundation (DEB-1927159, DBI-2119963);the Moore and Simons Foundations (735927);the Young Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province;the Project of Outstanding Young Innovative Team in Higher Education Institutions of Shandong Province (2023KJ038).
Whole-genome duplication(WGD)events are widespread across eukaryotes and have played a significant role in moulding the genetic architectures of diverse organisms.In the present study,the newly sequenced genome of a g...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFA0913700);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023 M732591);the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province,China(2022SFGC0102).
With the rapid advance in synthetic biology and the expanding field of synthetic genomics,the realization of a redesigned yeast genome has become an achievable milestone.Multiple eukaryotic chromosomes,meticulously de...
supported by the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition Program(2021xjkk0204,2021xjkk0604);Science&Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program(2022FY100400);Background Resources Survey in Shennongjia National Park(SNJNP2022008);Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation Biology of Shennongjia Snub-nosed Monkeys(SNJGKL2022008);Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Biodiversity Conservation,Beibu Gulf University(2020KA05).
Ciliated microeukaryotes(ciliates)are distinguished by their cilia,which are rich in tubulin.We developed a method for tubulin staining in ciliate cells that involves using live-cell tubulin-staining dyes instead of a...
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2019YFA0904200 and 2019YFA0906100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32171464);Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program(JCYJ20180504165501371).
Unnatural amino acids(UAAs)have gained significant attention in protein engineering and drug development owing to their ability to introduce new chemical functionalities to proteins.In eukaryotes,genetic code expansio...
RNA-guided DNA endonucleases are broadly associated with and play critical roles in prokaryotic adaptive immunity-based CRISPR-Cas systems and IS200/605 family transposons.The Feng Zhang lab recently elucidated the ph...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82002172);Key Scientific Research Project Plan of Henan Province(No.20A180001);Innovation program of Henan university students(No.202110475033,20217003003).
Lysine succinylation(Ksuc)is a novel protein post-translational modification(PTM)wherein a succinyl group modifies a lysine residue.Ksuc leads to significant chemical and struc-tural changes to the modified protein.Re...
This work was financially supported by the China Agriculture Research System(CARS-48);China-ASEAN Maritime Cooperation Fund,China-ASEAN Center for Joint Research and Promotion of Marine Aquaculture Technology;Guangdong MEPP Fund(NO.GDOE(2019)A21);Key Research and Development Projects in Guangdong Province(2020B0202010009);Guangzhou Science Technology and Innovation Commission Project(201510010071);Guangdong Ocean and Fishery Bureau Project(20164200042090023).
Sedimentary bacterial and eukaryotic communities are major components of the aquatic ecosystem.Revealing the linkages between their community structure and interactions is crucial to understand the diversity and funct...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91751205, 41921006, 41902313, 92051116);the China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association (COMRA) project (DY135-B2-12);the National Key Research and Development Project of China (2018YFC0310803);the Senior User Project of RV KEXUE (KEXUE2019GZ06)
The hypothesis that eukaryotes originated from within the domain Archaea has been strongly supported by recent phylogenomic analyses placing Heimdallarchaeota-Wukongarchaeota branch from the Asgard superphylum as the ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21732002,22077043,31672558,31871305,21907036);Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology,China(2020FB08);the Fundamental Research Funds for the(2662018PY021,2662019PY003,2662020PY001);Huazhong Agricultural University Scientific&Technological Self-innovation Foundation(2016RC011);HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund(SZYJY2021010)。
G-quadruplexes in viral genomes can be applied as the targets of antiviral therapies, which has attracted wide interest. However, it is still not clear whether the pervasive number of such elements in the viral world ...
The need for co-ordinate,high-level,and stable expression of multiple genes is essential for the engineering of biosynthetic circuits and metabolic pathways.This work outlines the functionality and design of IRES-and ...