Cell Article by ETOX Alumna Shuo Liu

ETOX alumna Shuo Liu (photo above) who graduated in 2015 from Yinsheng Wang's lab, has a new 1st author publication in the prestigious journal Cell.  Her research shows that cancers with Ras mutations increase protein synthesis by increasing the GTPase activity of a translation elongation factor through a mechanism involving eEF1A demethylation.  A graphic illustration of her research is below.  The article can be accessed here.  Our congratulations to Shuo for this nice recognition of her research. 

Ras-driven cancers ramp up protein

synthesis by increasing the GTPase

activity of a translation elongation factor

through a mechanism that involves

METTL13-catalyzed eEF1A dimethylation