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    UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase as a target for regulating carbon flux distribution and antioxidant capacity in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

    UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGPase) is a key enzyme for polysaccharide synthesis, and its role in plants and bacteria is well established; however, its functions in unicellular microalgae remain ill-defined...

    Ruihao Zhang, Baohua Zhu, Changze Sun, Yun Li, Guanpin Yang in Communications Biology (2023)

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    The combined effect of nitrogen deprivation and overexpression of malic enzyme gene on growth and lipid accumulation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

    Oleaginous microalgae have great application potential in the field of bioenergy. Increasing the biomass and lipid productivity of microalgae is beneficial to realize such potential. In this study, to explore ...

    Ruihao Zhang, Baohua Zhu, Changchao Tu, Yun Li, Yan Zhao in Journal of Applied Phycology (2021)

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    Heterotrophic growth and nutrient productivities of Tetraselmis chuii using glucose as a carbon source under different C/N ratios

    The genus Tetraselmis includes various species that are widely used as food microalgae in aquaculture. However, the mass cultivation of Tetraselmis spp. has been restricted to traditional photoautotrophic culture...

    Lin Lu, Jun Wang, Guanpin Yang, Baohua Zhu, Kehou Pan in Journal of Applied Phycology (2017)

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    Apigenin promotes osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells through JNK and p38 MAPK pathways

    Apigenin is a plant-derived flavonoid and has been reported to prevent bone loss in ovariectomized mice, but the role of apigenin on osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) has not b...

    Xue Zhang, Chenhui Zhou, Xuan Zha, Zhoumei Xu, Li Li in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (2015)

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    De Novo Sequencing and Global Transcriptome Analysis of Nannochloropsis sp. (Eustigmatophyceae) Following Nitrogen Starvation

    Nannochloropsis sp. is an economically and nutritionally important microalga. Recently it has been demonstrated that Nannochloropsis sp. has significant potential for biofuel production. To deter...

    Chengwei Liang, Shaona Cao, **aowen Zhang, Baohua Zhu, Zhongliang Su in BioEnergy Research (2013)

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    Isolation and characterization of a long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase encoding gene from the marine microalga Nannochloropsis oculata

    Acyl-coenzyme A synthetases (ACSs) are associated with the anabolism and catabolism of fatty acids and play fundamental roles in various metabolic pathways. The cDNA of long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase (L...

    Lin Zhang, **aolei Ma, Guanpin Yang, Baohua Zhu in Journal of Applied Phycology (2012)

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    The role of the rat sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase promoter in myocardial ischemia-preconditioning

    Intracellular calcium ion concentration ([Ca2+]i) is a key regulator of ischemia–reperfusion injury (IRI) and ischemic preconditioning (IPC), with myocardial sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA2a) acting as...

    Nengfeng Zhang, Baohua Zhu in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (2010)