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    Second messenger Ap4A polymerizes target protein HINT1 to transduce signals in FcεRI-activated mast cells

    Signal transduction systems enable organisms to monitor their external environments and accordingly adjust the cellular processes. In mast cells, the second messenger Ap4A binds to the histidine triad nucleotide-...

    **g Yu, Zaizhou Liu, Yuanyuan Liang, Feng Luo, Jie Zhang in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Breast cancer metastasis suppressor OTUD1 deubiquitinates SMAD7

    Metastasis is the main cause of death in cancer patients. TGF-β is pro-metastatic for malignant cancer cells. Here we report a loss-of-function screen in mice with metastasis as readout and identify OTUD1 as a...

    Zhengkui Zhang, Yao Fan, Feng **e, Hang Zhou, Ke **, Li Shao in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase dependent angiogenesis revealed by a bioengineered macrolide inhibitor

    Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARSs) catalyze an early step in protein synthesis, but also regulate diverse physiological processes in animal cells. These include angiogenesis and human threonyl-tRNA synthetase ...

    Adam C. Mirando, Pengfei Fang, Tamara F. Williams, Linda C. Baldor in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Structural basis for full-spectrum inhibition of translational functions on a tRNA synthetase

    The polyketide natural product borrelidin displays antibacterial, antifungal, antimalarial, anticancer, insecticidal and herbicidal activities through the selective inhibition of threonyl-tRNA synthetase (ThrR...

    Pengfei Fang, Xue Yu, Seung Jae Jeong, Adam Mirando, Kaige Chen in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Quick and Facile Preparation of Visible light-Driven TiO2 Photocatalyst with High Absorption and Photocatalytic Activity

    Self-do** TiO2 has recently attracted considerable attention for its high photocatalytic activity under visible-light irradiation. However, the literature reported synthetic methods until now were very time-con...

    Yucheng Yang, Ting Zhang, Ling Le, Xuefeng Ruan, Pengfei Fang in Scientific Reports (2014)