研究方向:据世界卫生组织统计,每年因侵袭性真菌感染直接导致127万人死亡。当前,治疗侵袭性真菌感染的手段非常有限,仅有四类药物用于治疗真菌感染,主要包含多烯类药物,唑类化合物,棘白菌素类药物和嘧啶类似物。近年来,由于多重耐药性真菌的出现,开发新型的抗真菌药物已迫在眉睫。目前课题组主要从事抗真菌感染药物靶点膜蛋白结构生物学研究,专注于真菌细胞壁合成和GPI生物合成信号通路。
学术成果:
1.Ma, L.*, Wang, X.*, Guan, Z.*, Wang, L., Wang, Y., Zheng, L., Gong, Z., Shen, C., Wang, J., Zhang, D., et al. (2020). Structural insights into BIC-mediated inactivation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 27:472-479. (*共同第一作者)
2.Wang, X.*, Feng, J.*, Xue, Y.*, Guan, Z., Zhang, D., Liu, Z., Gong, Z., Wang, Q., Huang, J., Tang, C., et al. (2016). Structural basis of N(6)-adenosine methylation by the METTL3-METTL14 complex. Nature 534:575-578.(*共同第一作者)
3.Wang, X., Gao, Y., Guan, Z., Xie, Z., Zhang, D., Yin, P., Yang, G., Hong, D., and Xin, Q. (2020). Structural analysis of the meiosis-related protein MS5 reveals non-canonical papain enhancement by cystatin-like folds. FEBS Lett.