High expression of ACE2 receptor of 2019-nCoV on the epithelial cells of oral mucosa

…, L Zhong, J Deng, J Peng, H Dan, X Zeng… - International journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been reported that ACE2 is the main host cell receptor of 2019-nCoV and plays a
crucial role in the entry of virus into the cell to cause the final infection. To investigate the …

A dual-kinase mechanism for Wnt co-receptor phosphorylation and activation

X Zeng, K Tamai, B Doble, S Li, H Huang, R Habas… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Signalling by the Wnt family of secreted lipoproteins has essential functions in development
and disease 1 . The canonical Wnt/β-catenin pathway requires a single-span …

Initiation of Wnt signaling: control of Wnt coreceptor Lrp6 phosphorylation/activation via frizzled, dishevelled and axin functions

X Zeng, H Huang, K Tamai, X Zhang, Y Harada… - 2008 - journals.biologists.com
Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling has central roles in development and diseases, and is
initiated by the action of the frizzled (Fz) receptor, its coreceptor LDL receptor-related protein 6 (…

A freely diffusible form of Sonic hedgehog mediates long-range signalling

X Zeng, JA Goetz, LM Suber, WJ Scott Jr, CM Schreiner… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The secreted protein Sonic hedgehog (Shh) exerts many of its patterning effects through a
combination of short- and long-range signalling 1 , 2 , 3 . Three distinct mechanisms, which …

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

L Sun, X Zeng, C Yan, X Sun, X Gong, Y Rao, N Yan - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Glucose transporters are essential for metabolism of glucose in cells of diverse organisms
from microbes to humans, exemplified by the disease-related human proteins GLUT1, 2, 3 …

LDL receptor-related proteins 5 and 6 in Wnt/β-catenin signaling: arrows point the way

X He, M Semenov, K Tamai, X Zeng - 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Wnt signaling through the canonical β-catenin pathway plays essential roles in development
and disease. Low-density-lipoprotein receptor-related proteins 5 and 6 (Lrp5 and Lrp6) in …

BMP signaling inhibits intestinal stem cell self-renewal through suppression of Wnt–β-catenin signaling

…, O Tawfik, J Ross, DH Scoville, Q Tian, X Zeng… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
In humans, mutations in BMPR1A, SMAD4 and PTEN are responsible for juvenile polyposis
syndrome 1 , juvenile intestinal polyposis 2 and Cowden disease 3 , respectively. The …

Injectable hydrogels for cartilage and bone tissue engineering

M Liu, X Zeng, C Ma, H Yi, Z Ali, X Mou, S Li, Y Deng… - Bone research, 2017 - nature.com
Tissue engineering has become a promising strategy for repairing damaged cartilage and
bone tissue. Among the scaffolds for tissue-engineering applications, injectable hydrogels …

Large-scale foundation model on single-cell transcriptomics

M Hao, J Gong, X Zeng, C Liu, Y Guo, X Cheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large pretrained models have become foundation models leading to breakthroughs in natural
language processing and related fields. Developing foundation models for deciphering …

A mechanism for Wnt coreceptor activation

K Tamai, X Zeng, C Liu, X Zhang, Y Harada, Z Chang… - Molecular cell, 2004 - cell.com
LDL receptor related proteins 5 and 6 (LRP5/6) and their Drosophila homolog Arrow are
single-span transmembrane proteins essential for Wnt/β-catenin signaling, likely via acting as …