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Obesity-associated NLRC4 inflammasome activation drives breast cancer progression

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of develo** breast cancer and is also associated with worse clinical prognosis. The mechanistic link between obesity and breast cancer progression remains unclear...

Ryan Kolb, Liem Phan, Nicholas Borcherding, Yinghong Liu… in Nature Communications (2016)

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Vitamin C alleviates aging defects in a stem cell model for Werner syndrome

Werner syndrome (WS) is a premature aging disorder that mainly affects tissues derived from mesoderm. We have recently developed a novel human WS model using WRN-deficient human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). ...

Ying Li, Weizhou Zhang, Liang Chang, Yan Han, Liang Sun, **aojun Gong… in Protein & Cell (2016)

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SIRT6 safeguards human mesenchymal stem cells from oxidative stress by coactivating NRF2

SIRT6 belongs to the mammalian homologs of Sir2 histone NAD⁺-dependent deacylase family. In rodents, SIRT6 deficiency leads to aging-associated degeneration of mesodermal tissues. It remains unknown whether human...

Huize Pan, Di Guan, **aomeng Liu, **gyi Li, Lixia Wang, Jun Wu… in Cell Research (2016)

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PTEN deficiency reprogrammes human neural stem cells towards a glioblastoma stem cell-like phenotype

PTEN is a tumour suppressor frequently mutated in many types of cancers. Here we show that targeted disruption of PTEN leads to neoplastic transformation of human neural stem cells (NSCs), but not mesenchymal ...

Shunlei Duan, Guohong Yuan, **aomeng Liu, Ruotong Ren, **gyi Li… in Nature Communications (2015)

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Characterization of a novel mouse model with genetic deletion of CD177

Neutrophils play an essential role in the innate immune response to infection. Neutrophils migrate from the vasculature into the tissue in response to infection. Recently, a neutrophil cell surface receptor, C...

Qing **e, Julia Klesney-Tait, Kathy Keck, Corey Parlet… in Protein & Cell (2015)

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ROR1, an embryonic protein with an emerging role in cancer biology

Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) is a member of the ROR family consisting of ROR1 and ROR2. RORs contain two distinct extracellular cysteine-rich domains and one transmembrane domain. Wit...

Nicholas Borcherding, David Kusner, Guang-Hui Liu, Weizhou Zhang in Protein & Cell (2014)

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Inflammasomes in cancer: a double-edged sword

Chronic inflammatory responses have long been observed to be associated with various types of cancer and play decisive roles at different stages of cancer development. Inflammasomes, which are potent inducers ...

Ryan Kolb, Guang-Hui Liu, Ann M. Janowski, Fayyaz S. Sutterwala… in Protein & Cell (2014)

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Top Notch cancer stem cells by paracrine NF-κB signaling in breast cancer

Cancer stem cells are likely to play critical roles in metastasis, therapy resistance, and recurrence of hematological and solid malignancies. It is well known that the stem cell niche plays a key role for asy...

Weizhou Zhang, Sergei I Grivennikov in Breast Cancer Research (2013)

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DNA methylome: Unveiling your biological age

Hannum and colleagues performed DNA methylation sequencing to examine the relationship between DNA methylome and aging rate. Notably, they succeeded in building a quantitative and reproducible model based on t...

Ming Li, Wensu Liu, Tingting Yuan, Ruijun Bai, Guang-Hui Liu… in Protein & Cell (2013)

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“TET-on” pluripotency

Recent studies have uncovered a specific role of TET proteins in reprogramming somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells, a process where O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine transferase may play a crucial role.

** Wang, **g Qu, Min-Zu Wu, Weizhou Zhang, Guang-Hui Liu… in Cell Research (2013)

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Reprogramming based gene therapy for inherited red blood cell disorders

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation remains the only curative therapy for certain genetic diseases of the hematopoietic system, including some inheritable deficiencies in red blood cells (RBC). Recent adva...

**uling Xu, **g Qu, Keiichiro Suzuki, Mo Li, Weizhou Zhang, Guang-Hui Liu… in Cell Research (2012)

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Studies on the dam** properties of polyacrylate emulsion/hindered phenol hybrids

Organic hybrids of polyacrylate emulsion (PAE)/hindered phenol (3,5-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-hydroxybenzenepropanoic acid thiodi-2,1-ethanediyl ester, abbreviated as Irganox-1035) have been prepared in this st...

Xu Zhou, Guixin Zhang, Weizhou Zhang, Weihong Guo, Jikui Wang in Polymer Journal (2012)

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Non-viral iPSCs: a safe way for therapy?

Weiqi Zhang, Di Guan, **g Qu, Weizhou Zhang, Guang-Hui Liu in Protein & Cell (2012)

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Converted neural cells: induced to a cure?

Many neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and others often occur as a result of progressive loss of structure or function of neurons. Recently, many...

Weiqi Zhang, Shunlei Duan, Ying Li, **uling Xu, **g Qu, Weizhou Zhang… in Protein & Cell (2012)

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Find and replace: editing human genome in pluripotent stem cells

Genetic manipulation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provides a powerful tool for modeling diseases and develo** future medicine. Recently a number of independent genome-editing techniques were devel...

Huize Pan, Weiqi Zhang, Weizhou Zhang, Guang-Hui Liu in Protein & Cell (2011)