Research Progress--Shanghai Institut of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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2025-01

PNAS | Bacterial small RNA promotes gut colonization by regulating sialic acid metabolism

In a study published in PNAS, Dr. CHAO Yanjie at the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. WANG Chuan from Fudan University revealed how a bacterial pathogen coordinates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) metabolism at the post-transcriptional level...

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2024-10

Nature | Meat Without Vegetables: How Bacteria in Our Stomachs Today Can Tell Us What Was on the Menu for the First Humans

In a study published in Nature on October 16th, entitled “An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori”, Prof. Daniel Falush of the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection (SIII) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Yoshio Yamaoka of Oita University, Japan, and Prof. Kaisa Thorell of ...

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2024-09

Nature | Researchers determine the archaeal FttA-dependent transcription termination

In the study published in Journal Nature on September 26, entitled “Structural basis of archaeal FttA-dependent transcription termination”, Prof. WANG Chengyuan’s group at the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. Richard Ebright...

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2024-08

Researchers discover small RNA controls hypervirulent superbug infection

On 13 August, Dr. Yanjie Chao, Principal Investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research paper entitled "RNA interactome of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals a small RNA inhibitor of capsular mucoviscosity and vir...