A research team led by Professor Sun Bo from SLST has systemically investigated the molecular mechanism governing DNA binding, unwinding and cleavage by SaCas9. They provided a detailed dynamic understanding of SaCas9 in DNA target association and dissociation. In addition, two stable interactions between SaCas9 and DNA governing their interplay have been identified. On August 13, this study ...

In a review article entitled “A Tale of Two Moieties: Rapidly-evolving CRISPR/Cas-based Genome Editing”, Prof. Chen Jia at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech University and Prof. Yang Li at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, summarized recent progress about the development and application of gene editing tools...

Recently, a research article entitled “LUBAC and OTULIN regulate autophagy initiation and maturation by mediating the linear ubiquitination and the stabilization of ATG13” was published online in Autophagy. This work was  done by Professor Liu Yanfen’s group from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University.  Autophagy is a self-eating sys...

On June 18, a research article entitled “Intellectual disability associated gene ftsj1 is responsible for 2'-O-methylation of specific tRNAs” was published online in EMBO Reports. This work was done by Liu Ru-Juan’s group in the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University and Wang En-Duo’s group from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cel...

A team led by Professor Chi Tian from School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University proposed a new therapeutic strategy for IPEX-like disorders in a mouse model. They convert defective regulatory T cells (Treg) into super-activated Tregs (SuperTreg). The paper, entitled In situ conversion of defective Treg into SuperTreg cells to treat advanced IPEX-like disorders in...

On June 3, 2020, a research article entitled “Cas12a Base Editors Induce Efficient and Specific Editing with Low DNA Damage Response” was published online in Cell Reports.  This work was done by a team led by Dr. Chen Jia from School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University, Dr. Yang Li from CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology and Dr. L...

On 29 April 2020, a research work carried out collaboratively by Professors Qi Hai and Zhong Yi from Tsinghua University and Professor Hu Ji from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech University was published in Nature entitled “Brain control of humoral immune responses amenable to behavioural modulation”. The researchers identify a specific brain-spleen neur...

Recently, different research teams led by Professor Sun Bo from SLST and Professor Xi Xu-Guang from French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have collaboratively published a research article entitled “Human RPA activates BLM's bidirectional DNA unwinding from a nick” in the journal eLife, revealing a novel unwinding model of a DNA-repair-i...

Groups of professors Liu Ji-Long，Zhuang Min, and Lu Pengfei from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University have jointly developed a new method CRUIS, or CRISPR-based RNA-United Interacting System, for capturing RNA-protein interactions on specific RNAs. It is a hybrid of two molecular machineries, CRISPR-based RNA-targeting Cas nuclease (dCas13a) and a proximity-...

A team of scientists led by Professor Lu Pengfei from SLST has unexpectedly identified that the traditional tight junction protein Occludin does not act as a barrier in epithelial tissue as expected. Instead, Occludin plays a vital role in the regulation of extremely basic and important protein production and secretion. On February 13th, 2020, the work from Lu's lab was publishe...

iHuman Institute and SLST Professor Shui Wenqing’s group published a review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology in October 2019, “Systematic mapping of protein-metabolite interactions with mass spectrometry-based techniques”. This review presents a comprehensive overview of chemical proteomics techniques developed for probing protein-metabolite interactions in the cell. Shui Wenqing’...

A research group led by iHuman Institute and SLST Assistant Professor Zhao Suwen, working with Professor Wang Ming-Wei from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica/The National Center for Drug Screening/Fudan University and Professor Babu Madan from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, recently discovered a common activation pathway in class A GPCRs. Their study, “Common activation mechanism of clas...

Recently, a collaborative study led by Assistant Professor Zhao Suwen and Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng at iHuman Institute and School of Life Science and Technology, and Research Associate Professor Wu Dong at iHuman Institute reported two crystal structures of human α2A adrenergic receptor (α2AAR) in complex with a partial agonist and an antagonist, and discovered key non-conserved r...

A committee of twelve internationally renowned scientists carried out the first quinquennial review (QQR) on the development and progress of the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) from 15th-18th November 2019.The committee was warmly welcomed by University Council Chairman Li Ruxin. Vice President and Provost Yin Jie introduced the brief history of ShanghaiTech University since its estab...