by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB964402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81670171,81601369);the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS,2016-I2M-1-003 and 2018-I2M-HL-013);the Tianjin Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars(17JCJQJC45800);the Nonprofit Central Research Institute Fund of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(2018PT32034 and 2019-RC-HL-013).
Accumulating evidence suggests that a reduction in the number of Foxp3^(+) regulatory T cells(Tregs)contributes to the pathogenesis of acute graft-versus-host disease(aGVHD),which is a major adverse complication that ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2014CB541703); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30871436, 30973297, 31171194, and 81670943); the Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Key Program (No. 2009GG10002039); and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (No. ZR2013CQ041).
The tumor suppressor gene liver kinase B1 (LKB1), also called STKll, encodes a serine/threonine kinase. LKB1 plays crucial roles in cell differentiation, proliferation, and polarity. In this study, LKB1 conditional ...
the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2010CB912102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30871284,30971461 and 30971495);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.09JC1416300)。
Lung cancer is featured with high mortality,with a 15%five-year survival rate worldwide.Genetic alterations,such as loss of function of tumor suppressor genes,frequently contribute to lung cancer initiation,progressio...
Acknowledgments We thank X Wu (Fudan University) for LckCre mouse and K Wong (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) for LKB1 mouse, R Bosselut (National Institutes of Health) and D Li (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences) for instructive comments on the manuscript; We are grateful to our colleagues F Liu for animal husbandry, W Bian for cell sorting and X Wang for real-time PCR analysis. This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30872290, 30925031), the Ministry of Science and Technology (2006CB504303, 2007CB815802, 2009ZX 10004-105), the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2007AA02Z167), the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB914504) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX 1-YW-R-43, KSCX2-YW-R-10).
LKB1 is a serine/threonine kinase that directly activates the energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in response to bioenergetic stress, and mainly acts as a tumor suppressor that controls cell polarity a...