Dear Editor,DddA_(tox)-derived cytosine base editors(DdCBEs)can mediate precise,CRISPR-independent editing of mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA),but were recently shown to potentially introduce extensive and non-trivial off-tar...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC-;31900232,31871396,and 31571444);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2020JJ5049);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(2020WK2014,and 2022WK2007);the Key Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province(212102110446);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2018M642972).
Target of rapamycin(TOR)kinase is an evolutionarily conserved major regulator of nutrient metabolism and organismal growth in eukaryotes.In plants,nutrients are remobilized and reallocated between shoots and roots und...
Lysine Lipoylation is a protective and conserved Post Translational Modification(PTM)in proteomics research like prokaryotes and eukaryotes.It is connected with many biological processes and closely linked with many m...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.91856126,42003062,21778042 and 41876072);Scientific Research Grant of Ningbo University (No.215432000282);Ningbo Top Talent Project (No.215-432094250)。
Life on Earth uses a common set of L-amino acids(L-aa)to construct proteins and D-nucleosides(D-Nu)to form nucleic acids,which serve as the carrier of genetic information.Herein,we reveal the in-trinsic mechanism of c...
supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan 18JC1411800;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.31770274 and 31970343).
In modern agriculture,frequent application of herbicides may induce the evolution of resistance in plants,but the mechanisms underlying herbicide resistance remain largely unexplored.Here,we report the char-acterizati...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2017A030310085);the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2018A050506034).
The mechanical stability of tRNAs contributes to their biological activities.The mitochondrial tRNAArg from Romanomermis culicivorax is the shortest tRNA ever known.This tRNA lacks D-and T-arms,represents a stem-bulge...
Ack no wledgements This study was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFD0900200);the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province,China(2016CYJS04A01,2017CXGC0105).
Taurine is a conditionally essential amino acid in fish nutrition.The present study addressed the practical application of examining published data on fish nutrition over the past 20 years,emphasizing the topic of tau...
the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21621004,21961132005,21908160 and 21422605);the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(QNLM2016ORP0407);the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation(18JCYBJC29500);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2019M651041)。
Cryoprotectants play a key role in cell cryopreservation because they can reduce cryoinjuries to cells associated with ice formation.To meet the clinical requirements of cryopreserved cells,cryoprotectants should be b...
the Warshel Institute for Computational Biology,School of Life and Health Sciences,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen,China for financially supporting this research
Protein succinylation is a biochemical reaction in which a succinyl group(-CO-CH2-CH2-CO-)is attached to the lysine residue of a protein molecule.Lysine succinylation plays important regulatory roles in living cells.H...
This work was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0901800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972433);This work was also supported from Yunnan Provincial and Shenzhen Municipal Governments.
Cytochrome P450s(P450s)are the most versatile catalysts and are widely used by plants to synthesize a vast array of structurally diverse specialized metabolites that not only play essential ecological roles but also c...