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尹航,清华大学药学院教授,中药研究院院长。1999年获得北京大学应用化学学士学位;2004年获得美国耶鲁大学化学专业博士学位;2004至2007年在美国宾夕法尼亚大学医学院从事博士后研究;加入清华大学之前于美国科罗拉多大学化学和生物化学系任终身教授。尹航教授2018年起任清华大学药学院教授、副院长,中药研究院院长,药学技术中心主任,清华大学校学术委员会委员,校学位评定委员会生物学分委会委员,生命科学联合中心高级研究员, 结构生物学高精尖创新中心研究员。尹航教授团队在本领域一流期刊发表研究论文超过130篇,引用超过一万次;科研成果已申请专利11项(授予美国、欧盟、日本等专利4项),并有多项成果已经商业化。尹航教授先后获得国家自然基金委杰出青年科学基金、北京市卓越青年科学家项目、美国化学学会大卫•W•罗伯特森杰出药物化学家奖、 OKeanos-CAPA资深科学家奖、中美化学及化学生物学教授联合会杰出青年教授奖、美国国家科学基金会杰出青年教授奖、美国癌症研究学会格特魯德•B•埃利恩奖、美国癌症研究学会的SU2C创新研究奖、悉德尼•金梅尔学者奖、霍华德•休斯医学研究院合作创新奖、以及美国国家卫生研究院的 NIDA 青年化学家奖等多个奖项。尹航教授曾任国际细胞外囊泡协会执行理事,现任中国研究型医院协会细胞外囊泡分委会副主任委员、中国药学会药物化学专委会委员、《Journal of Extracellular Vesicle》(2019影响因子=14.976)责任主编、多家国际刊物编委。本小组的成果在新华社、美国广播公司ABC、《自然》、《科学》、《美国国家科学院院刊》、 美国化学会会刊《C&EN》等杂志作为“科研亮点”重点报道。培养的研究生和博士后已有多名在国内外的著名大学和科研机构独立领导研究组,前博士生Christina Boville入选MIT Technology Review 35 under 35全球榜单,前博士后Jones Saludes现任菲律宾San Agustin大学副校长。

研究领域

Drug Discovery: Potential Therapeutics that Inhibit Toll-like Receptors. Pain remains a significant public health issue with two-thirds of patients achieving little to no pain relief from the myriad of currently available pharmacotherapies and dosing regimens. The use of opioid pharmacotherapies produces several rewarding and reinforcing side effects, which result in their diversion to abuse settings. Glial cells have been found to play a critical role in initiating and maintaining increased nociception in response to peripheral nerve injury. The opioids-induced glial cell activation attenuates opioid-induced pain suppression and enhances the development of opioid tolerance and dependence, the drug reward, and other negative side effects such as respiratory depression. We are interested in employing structure-based drug design and high-throughput screening techniques to identify novel small-molecule inhibitors of TLR4 that regulates glial cell activation. The identified agents will potentially serve as therapeutics that can suppress opioid-dependence and tolerance. Using these methods, we also successfully identified small molecule inhibitors that disrupt the TLR3-dsRNA interaction. This is significant because the protein-RNA complex is a challenging target for small molecule probes. Our goal is to develop a generally applicable method to provide small molecule probes for the protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions of these clinically relevant TLRs. Protein Engineering: Peptides Targeting Transmembrane Domains of Proteins. Protein transmembrane domains (TMDs) regulate many pivotal biological processes, including cell signal transduction, cancer development, ion transmission, and membrane protein folding. However, the nature of molecular recognition in membranes is little understood due to the lack of available probes with high affinity and specificity. Conventional tools such as antibodies are unable to bind to the transmembrane regions of membrane proteins. A goal in our lab is to develop exogenous peptide and small-molecule agents that target transmembrane helices. Using these agents, we can study these important membrane protein-protein interactions, thereby further our understanding of molecular recognition in membranes. As a proof-of-principle, we developed novel peptide/peptidomimetic reagents to recognize the TMDs of latent membrane proteins 1 (LMP-1) found in the human Epstein-Barr herpesvirus lymphomas and syndromes. These designed peptides will be used to study TMD-mediated LMP-1 activation. The findings from these studies will lay the groundwork for the discovery of new pharmaceutical agents with which we can prevent, diagnose, and treat herpesvirus-dependent cancers. Biotechnology Development: Non-invasive Cancer Biomarkers. Elevated microvesicle (MV) shedding is an indication of cancer metastasis. Selectively sensing the highly curved membrane of MVs may provide a novel strategy for their detection, which renders the potential of developing diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic agents. We employed a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing our expertise in computational modeling, membrane biophysics, and cellular assay development to rationally design novel tools that sense and regulate membrane curvature and lipid components. These rationally designed agents not only help us to understand the critical protein-lipid interactions but also provide prototypes that may eventually lead to novel cancer biomarkers. Fig: Schematic of using fluorescently labeled peptide to detect shed MVs. (A) Cancerous cells shed MVs into body fluid; (B) Collection body fluid from a patient suspected to have metastatic cancers; (C) Unstructured peptide labeled with a fluorophore via a flexible linker was added into the collected body fluid specimen; (D) Curvature/lipid-sensing detects MVs by selectively binding to their highly curved surfaces or a specific lipid component, resulting in (E) the fluorescence enhancement due to the elevated hydrophobic environment of the fluorophore; (F) MV detection by fluorescently labeled curvature/lipid-sensing peptides

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Cancer Biol 2021, 74, 92-104 "SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein Undergoes Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation into Stress Granules through Its N-Terminal Intrinsically Disordered Region", Wang, J.; Shi, C.; Xu, Q.; *Yin, H. ; Cell Discov 2021, 7, 5 "Design, Synthesis, and Structure–Activity Relationship of N-Aryl-N′-(thiophen-2-yl)thiourea Derivatives as Novel and Specific Human TLR1/2 Agonists for Potential Cancer Immunotherapy", Chen, Z.; Zhang, L.; Yang, J.; Zheng, L.; Hu, F.; Duan, S.; Nandakumar, K. S.; Liu, S.; *Yin, H.; *Cheng, K. ; J. Med. Chem 2021, 64, 7371-7389 "TLR4 Biased Small Molecule Modulators", Lin, C.; Wang, H.; Zhang, M.; Mustafa, S.; Wang, Y.; Li, H.; Yin, H.; Hutchinson, M.; Wang, X. ; Pharmacol. Ther 2021, 228, 107918 "Orthosteric-Allosteric Dual Inhibitors of PfHT1 as Selective Anti-Malarial Agents", Huang, J.; Yuan, Y.; Zhao, N.; Pu, D.; Tang, Q.; Zhang, S.; Luo, S.; Yang, X.; Wang, N.; Xiao, Y.; Zhang, T.; Liu. 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