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  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Nieng Yan is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrochemistry, and Structural Biology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

The scientist has published extensively in several journals, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • Cell

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters," 2020, FEBS Letters
  • "Structural Basis of Low-pH-Dependent Lysosomal Cholesterol Egress by NPC1 and NPC2," 2020, Cell
  • "Structure of human Cav2.2 channel blocked by the painkiller ziconotide," 2021, Nature
  • "Cryo-EM analysis of a membrane protein embedded in the liposome," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Structure and mechanism of human diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1," 2020, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their research include Xueqin Jin, Shuai Gao, Jian Huang, Zhangqiang Li, and Xiaojing Pan, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their scientific investigations.

Nieng Yan has been recognized with the award of Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, indicating a notable standing within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1

    Dong Deng;Chao Xu;Pengcheng Sun;Jianping Wu

  • Structural Basis for Sequence-Specific Recognition of DNA by TAL Effectors

    Dong Deng;Chuangye Yan;Xiaojing Pan;Magdy M. Mahfouz

  • Structure of the voltage-gated calcium channel Ca v 1.1 at 3.6 Å resolution

    Jianping Wu;Zhen Yan;Zhangqiang Li;Xingyang Qian

  • Crystal structure of an orthologue of the NaChBac voltage-gated sodium channel

    Xu Zhang;Wenlin Ren;Paul DeCaen;Chuangye Yan

  • Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1–4

    Linfeng Sun;Xin Zeng;Chuangye Yan;Xiuyun Sun

  • Structural insights into the mechanism of abscisic acid signaling by PYL proteins

    Ping Yin;He Fan;Qi Hao;Xiaoqiu Yuan

  • Structure of the rabbit ryanodine receptor RyR1 at near-atomic resolution

    Zhen Yan;Xiao Chen Bai;Chuangye Yan;Jianping Wu

  • Structural Biology of the Major Facilitator Superfamily Transporters.

    Nieng Yan

  • A Small-Molecule Screen Identifies l-Kynurenine as a Competitive Inhibitor of TAA1/TAR Activity in Ethylene-Directed Auxin Biosynthesis and Root Growth in Arabidopsis

    Wenrong He;Javier Brumos;Hongjiang Li;Hongjiang Li;Yusi Ji

  • Structure of a eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel at near-atomic resolution

    Huaizong Shen;Qiang Zhou;Xiaojing Pan;Zhangqiang Li

  • Structural advances for the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters

    Nieng Yan

  • Molecular basis of ligand recognition and transport by glucose transporters

    Dong Deng;Pengcheng Sun;Chuangye Yan;Meng Ke

  • Structure of the human voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.4 in complex with beta 1.

    Xiaojing Pan;Zhangqiang Li;Qiang Zhou;Huaizong Shen

  • Structures of human Nav1.7 channel in complex with auxiliary subunits and animal toxins.

    Huaizong Shen;Dongliang Liu;Kun Wu;Jianlin Lei

  • Structural basis for the modular recognition of single-stranded RNA by PPR proteins

    Ping Yin;Quanxiu Li;Chuangye Yan;Ying Liu

  • Structure of the voltage-gated calcium channel Cav1.1 complex

    Jianping Wu;Zhen Yan;Zhangqiang Li;Chuangye Yan

  • Structural Insights into the Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1)-Mediated Cholesterol Transfer and Ebola Infection

    Xin Gong;Hongwu Qian;Xinhui Zhou;Jianping Wu

  • Structure of the Nav1.4-β1 complex from electric Eel

    Zhen Yan;Qiang Zhou;Lin Wang;Jianping Wu

  • Structure of a fucose transporter in an outward-open conformation

    Shangyu Dang;Linfeng Sun;Yongjian Huang;Feiran Lu

  • Structural insights into the mechanism of abscisic acid signaling by PYL proteins. Nat Struct Mol Biol

    Ping Yin;He Fan;Qi Hao;Xiaoqiu Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuangye Yan
Chuangye Yan Tsinghua University
Yigong Shi
Yigong Shi Westlake University
Jianlin Lei
Jianlin Lei Tsinghua University
Xin Jiang
Xin Jiang University of Siegen
Jijie Chai
Jijie Chai Westlake University
Tong Wu
Tong Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David E. Clapham
David E. Clapham Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jian-Kang Zhu
Jian-Kang Zhu Southern University of Science and Technology
Hongyuan Yang
Hongyuan Yang University of New South Wales
Nan Yao
Nan Yao Princeton University

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