A single molecule theory for protein dynamics has been developed since 2012. It consists of the concepts of conformational Gibbs free energy function (CGF) and single molecule thermodynamic hypothesis (STH) that claim...
Background:Computer simulation studies complement in vitro experiments and provide avenue to understand allosteric regulation in the absence of other molecular viewing techniques.Molecular dynamics captures internal m...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20202002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81603409,31900808,81902480,21977021,31570832,31971146,and 31971042);Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Program of Jiangsu Province;State Key Laboratory of Utilization of Woody Oil Resource(2019XK2002);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2018JJ1012);Hunan“Huxiang”High-level Talent Program(2021);“Xing Yao”Leading Scholars of China Pharmaceutical University(2021)。
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1(TRPV1)channel plays an important role in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes,and a comprehensive understanding of TRPV1 gating will create opportunities fo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81925034,81903458,22077082,82003605,81901423);the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(2019-01-07-00-01-E00036,China);Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fundation(19431901600,China);the Shanghai Health and Family Planning System Excellent Subject Leader and Excellent Young Medical Talents Training Program(2018BR12,China);Special Financial Grant of Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China(2019M660090);。
SIRT6 belongs to the conserved NAD^(+)-dependent deacetylase superfamily and mediates multiple biological and pathological processes.Targeting SIRT6 by allosteric modulators represents a novel direction for therapeuti...
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RAS,a member of the small GTPase family,functions as a binary switch by shifting between inactive GDP-loaded and active GTP-loaded state.RAS gain-of-function mutations are one of the leading causes in human oncogenesi...
The identification and development of biased modulators of proximal G protein-coupled receptor(GPCR)signaling to prevent pathological disease progression has been at the forefront of recent drug discovery efforts.Rece...
supported by DOD PCRP award W81XWH-16-1-0404(HVH);NIH NCI grant CA166440(HVH).
Prostate cancer(PCa)progression relies on androgen receptor(AR)action.Preventing AR’s ligand-activation is the frontline treatment for metastatic PCa.Androgen deprivation therapy(ADT)that inhibits AR ligand-binding i...
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Major light-harvesting complex of photosystemⅡ(LHCⅡ)plays a dual role in light-harvesting and excited energy dissipation to protect photodamage from excess energy.The regulatory switch is induced by increased acidit...
the National Institutes of Health (ROIGM072804,R21AR063255,R21NS106968, ROIGM080139,P41GM103832,American Heart Association (16GRNT2972000);Muscular Dystrophy Association (295138);National Science Foundation (DBI-1356306).
Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (InsP3Rs) are cation channels that mobilize Ca2+ from intracellular stores in response to a wide range of cellular stimuli.The paradigm of InsP3R activation is the coupled interp...
Acknowledgments We thank Dr Anthony Lai (Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK) for advice and suggestions during the course of this research and critically reading this manuscript. This research was supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB08030202 to FS), the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), the Ministry of Science & Technology of China (Programs 2012CB917200 to CCY and 2014CB910700 to FS), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270768 to CCY) and the Ministry of Education of China (111 Program China to CCY). All the cryo-EM work and all the intensive computations were performed at Centre for Biological Imaging, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CBI, http://cbi.ibp.ac.cn), with the help from Drs Xiaojun Huang and Lunjiang Lin.
Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are a class of giant ion channels with molecular mass over 2.2 mega-Daltons. These channels mediate calcium signaling in a variety of cells. Since more than 80% of the RyR protein is folde...