sponsored by the National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFD0900101);One Health Interdisciplinary Research Project,Ningbo University,KC Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42106122);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LGC22C190002)。
Marine fauna provides a plentiful repository of peptides and bioactive proteins.Peptides and proteins isolated from marine animals have been studied and applied in the development of food supplements,drugs,and cosmece...
Supported by the DST Nano-mission,Govt of India,Grant No DST No.SR/NM/NS-1067/2016;Facilities were provided by the West Bengal University of Animal&Fishery Sciences and CSIR-IICB for conducting this research。
AIM:To evaluate if topical use of αB-crystallin minipeptides supports corneal healing following flap surgery.METHODS:Cultured corneal cells were treated with fluorescent taggedαB-crystallin mini-peptides to assess i...
Acne vulgaris ranks as the second most prevalent dermatological condition worldwide,and there are still insufficient safe and reliable drugs to treat it.Cryptotanshinone(CTS),a bioactive compound derived from traditio...
supported by Sapienza University of Rome,grants RM120172 B78CFDF2,RM11916B7A142CF1,RM122181424F1F42,and RG12117 A898EABE0;by the European Union“NextGenerationEU”program“Project ECS 0000024 Rome Technopole”-CUP B83C22002820006,PNRR Missione 4 Componente 2 Investimento 1.5;by the Italian Ministry for Education,University and Research(MUR)with the project REACH-XY:CUP B93C22001920001.
The apoplast is one of the first cellular compartments outside the plasma membrane encountered by phytopathogenic microbes in the early stages of plant tissue invasion.Plants have developed sophisticated surveillance ...
funding from the National Science Foundation of China(31930016);the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences;ZW received funding from the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases(2024KF00001);the National Science Foundation of China(82350119);CCW received funding from the Talent Introduction Funds from the Chinese Academy of Medical Science(2022-RC310-10);the National Science Foundation of China(32150005);the Research Funds from Health@InnoHK Program,launched by the Innovation Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Vγ9Vδ2 T cells are specialized effector cells that have gained prominence as immunotherapy agents due to their ability to target and kill cells with altered pyrophosphate metabolites.In our effort to understand how ...
This editorial is stimulated by the article by Alqifari et al published in the World Journal of Diabetes(2024).Alqifari et al focus on practical advice for the clinical use of glucagon-like-peptide-1(GLP-1)receptor ag...
was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(2220708,82341028,82103973);Shanghai Sailing Program(22YF1433500,22YF1457500);Key R&D Projects in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region(2021BFH03001).
Dear Editor,Immune checkpoint therapies manipulating the immune system to eliminate tumor cells have shown remarkable clinical efficacy in treating various cancers.CD47,an emerging efficient immune checkpoint,is cruci...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.81971667,22075078,and 21861162010);the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Innovative Research Groups(no.51621002);the Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province(no.2020C03035);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Zhejiang Provincial Universities,China(no.2021XZZX034).
Host defense peptides(HDPs)are one of the potentially promising agents for infection diseases due to their broad spectrum and low resistance rate,but their clinical applications are limited by proteolytic instability,...
the European Research Council H2020-FETopenRIA grant 764434“PRe-ART”and the EIC Transition grant 10105802“PRe-ART-2T”.
A key functionality of proteins is based on their ability to form interactions with other proteins or peptides.These interactions are neither easily described nor fully understood,which is why the design of specific p...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32101130,21721002,and 31971295);Financial support from Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB36000000)is also gratefully acknowledged.
Cell membrane-engineered nano-delivery systems have evolved as a promising strategy to enhance drug bioavailability,offering an alternative for reversing drug resistance in cancer therapy.Herein,a formulated nano-lipo...