Pyruvate is a three-carbon ketoacid that occurs naturally in cells.It is produced through enzymatic reactions in the glycolytic pathway and plays a crucial role in energy metabolism.Despite promising early results,lat...
supported by National Institutes of Health(NIH)research grants R01AR062207,R01AR061484,R01AR076900,R01AR078035 and R01NS070328.
Obesity has a multifactorial etiology and is known to be a state of chronic low-grade inflammation,known as meta-inflammation.This state is associated with the development of metabolic disorders such as glucose intole...
Metabolism is mobilized to meet the biosynthetic,bioenergetic,and regulatory demands of immune cell activation.Almost nothing is known about the metabolic basis of antibody class switch in B cells.A recent study publi...
supported by Grants from the C1 Gas Refinery Program,funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT(NRF-2018M3D3A1A01056181);the Enzyme engineering for next generation biorefinery(NRF-2022M3J5A1056169 and NRF-2022M3J5A1085239)from National Research Foundation(NRF);the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and the Biotechnology(KRIBB)Research Initiative Program.
The bioconversion of 4-hydroxy-2-keto acid derivatives via aldol condensation of formaldehyde and pyruvate has received substantial attention as potential source of chemicals for production of amino acids,hydroxy carb...
This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFA0806503);grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81972625,No.21907093);Dalian Science and Technology Innovation Funding(2019J12SN52);Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program(XLYC2002035).
Pyruvate is an essential fuel for maintaining the tricarboxylic acid(TCA)cycle in the mitochondria.However,the precise mole-cular mechanism of pyruvate uptake by mitochondrial pyruvate carrier(MPC)is largely unknown.H...
supported by the National Key R&D Program(No.2021YFD1700100);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21837001,21273089);the Open Project Fund of the Key Laboratory of the Pesticides and Chemical Biology of Central China Normal University(No.2018-A01);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Fundamental Research Funds for the South-Central University for Nationalities(No.CZW20020)。
The dioxygen activation catalyzed by 4-hydorxylphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase(HPPD)were reinvestigated by using hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics(QM/MM)approaches at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p):AMBER level.These s...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2018YFA0900200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.NSFC-21621004).
Acetoin is an important platform chemical,which has a wide range of applications in many industries.Halomonas bluephagenesis,a chassis for next generation of industrial biotechnology,has advantages of fast growth and ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant No.81902616 to F.W.);Science and Technology Support Project in the field of biomedicine of Shanghai Science and Technology Action Plan(Grant No.19441909200,F.W.);Clinical Research Project of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning(Grant No.20184Y0130,F.W.);Precision Medicine Program of Second Military Medical University(Grant No.2017JZ35,F.W.);Youth Startup Program of the Second Military Medical University(Grant No.2016QN12,F.W.);Jiangsu Provincial Medical Youth Talent(Grant No.QNRC2016739,X.W.);Shanghai Sailing Program(Grant No.21YF1423300,H.X.);Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(Grant No.21ZR1437800,H.X.);Cross-disciplinary Research Fund of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital,Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine(Grant No.YG2021QN75,H.X.).
Objective:This study aimed to evaluate the effects of mitochondrial pyruvate carrier(MPC)blockade on the sensitivity of detection and radiotherapy of prostate cancer(PCa).Methods:We investigated glycolysis reprogrammi...
This work was supported by the Major International(Regional)Joint Research Programof theNationalNatural ScienceFoundationof China(No.81920108027);ChongqingOutstandingYouth ScienceFoundation(No.cstc2020jcyj-jqx0030);Chongqing Talent Innovation Leader Project(No.CQYC20200301111);Funding for Chongqing University Innovation Research Group.
In a recent study published in Cell Metabolism,Wenes et al.1identifed that the inhibition of mitochondrial pyruvate carrier(MPC)led to CD8^(+) memory T cell(T_(mem))differentiation and facilitated superior and long-la...
Proinflammatory microglia rely predominantly on glycolysis to maintain cytokine production during ischemia,accompanied with the increases of inducible nitric oxide synthase(iNOS)and monocarboxylate transporter 1(MCT1)...