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    Chemical constituents of industrial hemp roots and their anti-inflammatory activities

    Although the chemical constituents of the aerial parts of Cannabis have been extensively studied, phytochemicals of Cannabis roots are not well characterized. Herein, we investigated the chemical constituents of ...

    Shijie Huang, Huifang Li, Jun Xu, Huihao Zhou in Journal of Cannabis Research (2023)

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    Identification of a binding site on soluble RANKL that can be targeted to inhibit soluble RANK-RANKL interactions and treat osteoporosis

    One of the major challenges for discovering protein-protein interaction inhibitors is identifying selective and druggable binding sites at the protein surface. Here, we report an approach to identify a small m...

    Dane Huang, Chao Zhao, Ruyue Li, Bingyi Chen, Yuting Zhang in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Author Correction: Inhibitory mechanism of reveromycin A at the tRNA binding site of a class I synthetase

    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22942-2

    Bingyi Chen, Siting Luo, Songxuan Zhang, Yingchen Ju, Qiong Gu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Author Correction: AdipoR1/AdipoR2 dual agonist recovers nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and related fibrosis via endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria axis

    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22414-7

    Hongjiao Xu, Qian Zhao, Nazi Song, Zhibin Yan, Runfeng Lin in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Inhibitory mechanism of reveromycin A at the tRNA binding site of a class I synthetase

    The polyketide natural product reveromycin A (RM-A) exhibits antifungal, anticancer, anti-bone metastasis, anti-periodontitis and anti-osteoporosis activities by selectively inhibiting eukaryotic cytoplasmic i...

    Bingyi Chen, Siting Luo, Songxuan Zhang, Yingchen Ju, Qiong Gu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    AdipoR1/AdipoR2 dual agonist recovers nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and related fibrosis via endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria axis

    Chronic nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a metabolic disorder that often leads to liver fibrosis, a condition with limited therapy options. Adiponectin is an adipocytokine that regulates glucose and lipi...

    Hongjiao Xu, Qian Zhao, Nazi Song, Zhibin Yan, Runfeng Lin in Nature Communications (2020)

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    A multifunctional DNA nano-scorpion for highly efficient targeted delivery of mRNA therapeutics

    The highly efficient cancer cell targeted delivery plays an important role in precise targeted therapies. Herein, a multifunctional DNA nano-scorpion nanostructure (termed AptDzy-DNS) functioned with aptamers ...

    Dandan Li, Fei Mo, Jiangling Wu, Yong Huang, Huihao Zhou, Shijia Ding in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Publisher Correction: Double mimicry evades tRNA synthetase editing by toxic vegetable-sourced non-proteinogenic amino acid

    In the original version of this Article, extraneous text not belonging to the article was accidentally appended to end of the first paragraph of the discussion. This error has now been corrected in both the PD...

    Youngzee Song, Huihao Zhou, My-Nuong Vo, Yi Shi, Mir Hussain Nawaz in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Double mimicry evades tRNA synthetase editing by toxic vegetable-sourced non-proteinogenic amino acid

    Hundreds of non-proteinogenic (np) amino acids (AA) are found in plants and can in principle enter human protein synthesis through foods. While aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS) editing potentially provides a m...

    Youngzee Song, Huihao Zhou, My-Nuong Vo, Yi Shi, Mir Hussain Nawaz in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Membrane binding of the insertion sequence of Proteus vulgaris L-amino acid deaminase stabilizes protein structure and increases catalytic activity

    Proteus vulgaris L-amino acid deaminase (pvLAAD) belongs to a class of bacterial membrane-bound LAADs mainly express in genus Proteus, Providencia and Morganella. These LAADs employ a non...

    Yingchen Ju, Zhihong Liu, Zizhen Zhang, Lijun Duan, Qi Liu, Qiong Gu in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: CMT2D neuropathy is linked to the neomorphic binding activity of glycyl-tRNA synthetase

    Nature 526, 710–714 (2015); doi:10.1038/nature15510. The Acknowledgements of this Letter should have included the following sentence: “This work was also supported in part by the University of Antwerp (TOP BOF...

    Weiwei He, Ge Bai, Huihao Zhou, Na Wei, Nicholas M. White, Janelle Lauer in Nature (2016)

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    CMT2D neuropathy is linked to the neomorphic binding activity of glycyl-tRNA synthetase

    Charcot–Marie–Tooth diseases are hereditary peripheral neuropathies for which there are currently no effective therapies; here the type 2D subtype of these diseases is shown to be caused by mutations impeding ...

    Weiwei He, Ge Bai, Huihao Zhou, Na Wei, Nicholas M. White, Janelle Lauer in Nature (2015)

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    ATP-directed capture of bioactive herbal-based medicine on human tRNA synthetase

    The crystal structure of prolyl tRNA synthetase simultaneously bound to its substrate ATP and its inhibitor halofuginone, a derivative of a compound used to treat malaria, indicates that (through interactions ...

    Huihao Zhou, Litao Sun, **ang-Lei Yang, Paul Schimmel in Nature (2013)