funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61901527,82300051);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF0710803,2022YFF0710800);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2632021ZD02).
DNA methyltransferase(MTase)activity detection has received increasing attention as a promising biomarker and therapeutic target.However,most of these detection methods rely on endonuclease digestion and signal groups...
The Zhiwei Huang lab report on a hypercompact IS607 TnpB protein that naturally co-occurs with the conserved RAGATH-18 RNA,thereby identifying a new family of compact RNAguided DNA endonucleases.Such an IS607 TnpB-bas...
The widely used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease(Cas)system is thought to have evolved from IS200/IS605 transposons.TnpB proteins,encoded by one type of IS20...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology(2020YFA0907700);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770078,32270051);Shanghai Pilot Program for Basic Research-Shanghai Jiao Tong University(21TQ1400204).
Mesophilic Argonautes(Agos)from microbial resources have received significant attention due to their potential applications in genome editing and molecular diagnostics.This study characterizes a novel Ago from Pseudob...
supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project (2018ZX097110003-005-002);the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2022B1111020002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (32170159,and 82174055);supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (81925025);the Innovative Research Group (81621005)of the NSFC;the Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2019-I2M-5-049)of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
Cap-dependent endonuclease(CEN)in the polymerase acidic protein(PA)of influenza A virus(IAV)represents a promising drug target due to its critical role in viral gene transcription.The CEN inhibitor,baloxavir marboxil(...
supported by China Scholarship Council;NIH grant to the University of Pennsylvania(No.K011K01TW011190-01A1);NIH grant to the University of Pennsylvania(No.R21CA228614-01A1);Beijing Hope Run Special Fund from the Cancer Foundation of China(Nos.LC2019L04 and LC2020A36)。
Liquid biopsy is a highly promising method for non-invasive detection of tumor-associated nucleic acid fragments in body fluids but is challenged by the low abundance of nucleic acids of clinical interest and their se...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.:21904045);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HUST:Grant No.:2019kfyXJJS169);Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates of Hubei Province(Grant No.:S202010487225).
Alkaline phosphatase(ALP)is widely expressed in human tissues.ALP plays an important role in the dephosphorylation of proteins and nucleic acids.Therefore,quantitative analysis of ALP plays a vital role in disease dia...
the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.,81871304,32070892);Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program(No.,2016ZT06S252);Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau(No.,202002030064);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.,18ykzd11);Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen(No.,SZSM202011004);Open project of Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control(Sun,Yat-sen,University);Ministry of Education(No.,2020ZX01)。
Programmed DNA double-strand breaks(DSBs)occur during antigen receptor gene recombination,namely V(D)J recombination in developing B lymphocytes and class switch recombination(CSR)in mature B cells.Repair of these DSB...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 82172372 and 21904045);COVID-19 Pneumonia Emergency Scientific Research Special Fund of Wuhan (No. EX20D03);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2019kfy XJJS169 and 2021yjs CXCY127)。
DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles are one of the most versatile bionanomaterials for biomedical and clinical diagnosis. Herein, we discovered that the performance of DNAzyme cleaving the substrate is highly relate...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21705053 and 81871732);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(No.2017CFB117);Hubei Province Health and Family Planning Scientific Research Project(No.J2017Q017);Wuhan Youth Science and Technology Plan(No.2017050304010293)。
Enzyme assisted DNA probes are powerful tools in molecular diagnostics for their simplicity,rapidity,and low detection limit.However,cost of probes,difficulty in optimization and disturbance of secondary structure hin...