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Overview

Howard C. Hang is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, immunology, ecology, oncology, and infectious diseases.

Their academic output reveals a focus on multiple main topics, notably bacteriophages and microbial interactions, gut microbiota and health, receptor mechanisms and signaling, interferon and immune responses, adenosine and purinergic signaling, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and immune response and inflammation.

Several recurring publication venues highlight the areas and impact of their research. Key venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Cell Chemical Biology
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • Chemical Communications

Frequent collaborators working alongside Howard C. Hang include Xinglin Yang, Matthew E. Griffin, Tandrila Das, Juliel Espinosa, and Kyong Tkhe Fam.

Recent published papers by Howard C. Hang feature a range of topics and journals:

  • "Lytic Bacteriophages Facilitate Antibiotic Sensitization of Enterococcus faecium" (2021) in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • "Anti-infective bile acids bind and inactivate a Salmonella virulence regulator" (2022) in Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Melanoma and microbiota: Current understanding and future directions" (2023) in Cancer Cell
  • "Protein S-palmitoylation in immunity" (2021) in Open Biology
  • "Antimicrobial overproduction sustains intestinal inflammation by inhibiting Enterococcus colonization" (2023) in Cell Host & Microbe

Best Publications

  • SIRT6 regulates TNF-α secretion through hydrolysis of long-chain fatty acyl lysine

    Hong Jiang;Saba Khan;Yi Wang;Guillaume Charron

  • A chemical approach for identifying O-GlcNAc-modified proteins in cells

    David J. Vocadlo;Howard C. Hang;Eun Ju Kim;John A. Hanover

  • A metabolic labeling approach toward proteomic analysis of mucin-type O-linked glycosylation

    Howard C. Hang;Chong Yu;Darryl L. Kato;Carolyn R. Bertozzi

  • Chemical reporters for biological discovery

    Markus Grammel;Howard C Hang

  • Palmitoylome profiling reveals S-palmitoylation–dependent antiviral activity of IFITM3

    Jacob S. Yount;Bruno Moltedo;Yu Ying Yang;Guillaume Charron

  • Investigating cellular metabolism of synthetic azidosugars with the Staudinger ligation.

    Eliana Saxon;Sarah J Luchansky;Howard C Hang;Chong Qi Yu

  • The chemistry and biology of mucin-type O-linked glycosylation.

    Howard C. Hang;Carolyn R. Bertozzi;Carolyn R. Bertozzi

  • Robust fluorescent detection of protein fatty-acylation with chemical reporters.

    Guillaume Charron;Mingzi M. Zhang;Jacob S. Yount;John Wilson

  • Chemical probes for the rapid detection of Fatty-acylated proteins in Mammalian cells.

    Howard C Hang;Ernst-Jan Geutjes;Gijsbert Grotenbreg;Annette M Pollington

  • Sirt6 Regulates Tnf-Alpha Secretion Through Hydrolysis of Long-Chain Fatty Acyl Lysine

    H Jiang;S Khan;Y Wang;G Charron

  • Chemoselective approaches to glycoprotein assembly.

    Howard C. Hang;Carolyn R. Bertozzi

  • Chemical reporters for fluorescent detection and identification of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins reveal glycosylation of the ubiquitin ligase NEDD4-1

    Balyn W. Zaro;Yu-Ying Yang;Howard C. Hang;Matthew R. Pratt

  • Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters for Monitoring Protein Acetylation

    Yu-Ying Yang;Janice M. Ascano;Howard C. Hang

  • Enterococcus peptidoglycan remodeling promotes checkpoint inhibitor cancer immunotherapy.

    Matthew E. Griffin;Matthew E. Griffin;Juliel Espinosa;Juliel Espinosa;Jessica L. Becker;Jessica L. Becker;Ji-Dung Luo

  • S-Palmitoylation and Ubiquitination Differentially Regulate Interferon-induced Transmembrane Protein 3 (IFITM3)-mediated Resistance to Influenza Virus

    Jacob S. Yount;Roos A. Karssemeijer;Howard C. Hang

  • Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters for Analyzing Protein Lipidation and Lipid Trafficking

    Howard C. Hang;John P. Wilson;Guillaume Charron

  • IFITM3 directly engages and shuttles incoming virus particles to lysosomes.

    Jennifer S. Spence;Ruina He;Hans Heinrich Hoffmann;Tandrila Das

  • Proteomic analysis of fatty-acylated proteins in mammalian cells with chemical reporters reveals S-acylation of histone H3 variants

    John P. Wilson;Anuradha S. Raghavan;Yu-Ying Yang;Guillaume Charron

  • Ketone isosteres of 2-N-acetamidosugars as substrates for metabolic cell surface engineering

    Howard C. Hang;Carolyn R. Bertozzi

  • Substrate specificity of the sialic acid biosynthetic pathway

    Christina L. Jacobs;Scarlett Goon;Kevin J. Yarema;Stephan Hinderlich

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Stanford University
Hidde L. Ploegh
Hidde L. Ploegh Boston Children's Hospital
Henrik Molina
Henrik Molina Rockefeller University
Lawrence A. Tabak
Lawrence A. Tabak National Institutes of Health
Daniel Mucida
Daniel Mucida Rockefeller University
Hening Lin
Hening Lin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Raul Mostoslavsky
Raul Mostoslavsky Harvard University
Quan Hao
Quan Hao University of Hong Kong
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jorge E. Galán
Jorge E. Galán Yale University

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