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Yingming Zhao is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States, specializing in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work is primarily focused on molecular biology, cancer research, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and physiology.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Yingming Zhao has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Cell Reports
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The following are some of their recent publications along with the year and venue of publication:

  • Class I histone deacetylases (HDAC1-3) are histone lysine delactylases, 2022, Science Advances
  • Proteogenomic Landscape of Breast Cancer Tumorigenesis and Targeted Therapy, 2020, Cell
  • The regulatory enzymes and protein substrates for the lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation pathway, 2021, Science Advances
  • Lysine catabolism reprograms tumour immunity through histone crotonylation, 2023, Nature
  • Integrated Proteomic and Glycoproteomic Characterization of Human High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma, 2020, Cell Reports

In collaborative efforts, they have frequently worked with several co-authors, including:

  • Xinlei Sheng
  • Jinjun Gao
  • Philip A. Cole
  • M Snyder
  • Leon Boegman

The combination of topics, publication venues, and collaborations reflects an interdisciplinary approach, integrating biochemical pathways, cancer biology, and molecular mechanisms. Their work encompasses investigations of histone modification enzymes, proteogenomics of cancer, tumor immunity, and metabolic pathways related to disease processes.

Best Publications

  • Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation

    Di Zhang;Zhanyun Tang;He Huang;He Huang;Guolin Zhou

  • Identification of 67 Histone Marks and Histone Lysine Crotonylation as a New Type of Histone Modification

    Minjia Tan;Hao Luo;Sangkyu Lee;Fulai Jin

  • Substrate and Functional Diversity of Lysine Acetylation Revealed by a Proteomics Survey

    Sung Chan Kim;Robert Sprung;Yue Chen;Yingda Xu

  • The Yeast Nuclear Pore Complex: Composition, Architecture, and Transport Mechanism

    Michael P. Rout;John D. Aitchison;Adisetyantari Suprapto;Kelly Hjertaas

  • Proteogenomic characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Bing Zhang;Jing Wang;Xiaojing Wang;Jing Zhu

  • Acetylation Is Indispensable for p53 Activation

    Yi Tang;Wenhui Zhao;Yue Chen;Yingming Zhao

  • Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization of Human High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

    Hui Zhang;Tao Liu;Zhen Zhang;Samuel H. Payne

  • Tumor Suppression in the Absence of p53-Mediated Cell-Cycle Arrest, Apoptosis, and Senescence

    Tongyuan Li;Ning Kon;Le Jiang;Minjia Tan

  • SIRT5-mediated lysine desuccinylation impacts diverse metabolic pathways.

    Jeongsoon Park;Yue Chen;Daniel X. Tishkoff;Chao Peng

  • Identification of lysine succinylation as a new post-translational modification

    Zhihong Zhang;Minjia Tan;Zhongyu Xie;Lunzhi Dai

  • Metabolic regulation of gene expression through histone acylations

    Benjamin R. Sabari;Di Zhang;C. David Allis;Yingming Zhao

  • Brown Remodeling of White Adipose Tissue by SirT1-Dependent Deacetylation of Pparγ

    Li Qiang;Liheng Wang;Ning Kon;Wenhui Zhao

  • JMJD6 is a histone arginine demethylase

    Bingsheng Chang;Yue Chen;Yingming Zhao;Richard K. Bruick

  • Lysine propionylation and butyrylation are novel post-translational modifications in histones.

    Yue Chen;Robert Sprung;Yi Tang;Haydn Ball

  • TEAD/TEF transcription factors utilize the activation domain of YAP65, a Src/Yes-associated protein localized in the cytoplasm

    Alex Vassilev;Kotaro J. Kaneko;Hongjun Shu;Yingming Zhao

  • Lysine Glutarylation Is a Protein Posttranslational Modification Regulated by SIRT5

    Minjia Tan;Chao Peng;Kristin A. Anderson;Peter Chhoy

  • Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser

    Yanyong Kang;X. Edward Zhou;Xiang Gao;Yuanzheng He

  • The first identification of lysine malonylation substrates and its regulatory enzyme

    Chao Peng;Zhike Lu;Zhongyu Xie;Zhongyi Cheng

  • CHD7 cooperates with PBAF to control multipotent neural crest formation

    Ruchi Bajpai;Denise A. Chen;Alvaro Rada-Iglesias;Junmei Zhang

  • Chinese hamster ovary K2 cell lipid droplets appear to be metabolic organelles involved in membrane traffic.

    Pingsheng Liu;Yunshu Ying;Yingming Zhao;Dorothy I. Mundy

Frequent Co-Authors

Yue Chen
Yue Chen University of Minnesota
Brian T. Chait
Brian T. Chait Rockefeller University
Wei Gu
Wei Gu Columbia University
Heng Zhu
Heng Zhu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder Rockefeller University
C. David Allis
C. David Allis Rockefeller University
Steven A. Carr
Steven A. Carr Broad Institute
David Fenyö
David Fenyö New York University
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith Structural Genomics Consortium
Ie Ming Shih
Ie Ming Shih Johns Hopkins University

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