The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Drosha in mesangial cells regulates glomerular capillary tufts formation through drosha/ribosome/Gata3 axis

Abstract Drosha is a critical regulator of kidney development; its loss or mutation, identified in a subsets of Wilms tumor (WT), a pediatric kidney cancer, leads to nephric cap mesenchyme developmental defects. Here, we investigated the role of Drosha in mesangial cells and its...

A Heating-AssistedIntegrated Purification-Enrichment-DerivatizationPaper Chip for Rapid MS/MS Quantification of Serum Steroid Hormones

Abstract Rapid and reliable simultaneous quantification of multiple steroid hormones is important for the diagnosis and monitoring of endocrine disorders such as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), formerly known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Existing methods...

YAP delactylation enhances therapy resistance in renal cell carcinoma

Abstract Lactylation is a novel lysine acylation modification, and its function and exact mechanisms remain unclear. The responsiveness to combined targeted and immunotherapy continues to be a major challenge in cancer treatment. Here, we discovered that lysine lactylation (Kla)...

Discovery ofa Potent APOBEC3B Inhibitor to AugmentAntitumor Immunity and Reduce Inflammatory Toxicity

Abstract APOBEC3B (A3B), a key driver of cancer mutagenesis, has emerged as a promising therapeutic target to be ablated to enhance antitumor immunity while reducing intestinal inflammation. Starting from SMC247 (3, 5-diiodotyrosine), a kelp-derived natural product, we identified...

Interaction-AwareGraph Learning for State-of-HealthEstimation of Sodium-Ion Batteries

Abstract Accurate state-of-health (SOH) estimation is critical to the reliable operation and large-scale deployment of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, the complex and nonstationary degradation behavior of SIBs under different charging protocols pose a major challenge to ach...

Discovery of a peripheral Myh11-expressing nucleus pulposus cell population demontrating therapeutic potential for disc degeneration

Continual turnover of nucleus pulposus (NP) cellularity is critical for maintaining intervertebral disc (IVD) homeostasis; however, the presence and identity of potential progenitor cells within the NP remain unclear. This study identifies NP cells expressing myosin heavy chain 1...

Matrix Stiffness-Encoded Mechanical Memory Maintains Proliferative Dominance in Metastatic Tumors

Primary and metastatic lesions share similar biological properties despite existing in different microenvironments. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of phenotypic homogeneity in heterogeneous microenvironments could help identify strategies for...