Shanghai Institute of Material Medical Chinese Academy of Sciences

Biography

HUANG He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Tongji University (Shanghai, China) in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree in drug design from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China) in 2010. He then joined Professor Richard B. Silverman’s group at Northwestern University (Evanston, USA) as a postdoctoral associate, and his study was involved in discovering novel selective inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase as potential therapeutic agents for a variety of neurodegenerative problems. Since 2012, he joined Professor Yingming Zhao’s group at The University of Chicago (Chicago, USA) as a postdoctoral associate and research professional, where his research focused on the proteomics studies of lysine modifications and identification of substrates for acetylation-regulatory enzymes.

He is a professor now in chemical biology and his major research interests focus on identifying specific chromatin readers of novel histone marks and developing highly selective molecular probes of specific chromatin readers as potential medicinal agents for targeted therapy.

EDUCATION

2004.9-2010.7 Ph.D in Drug Design Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2000.9-2004.7 B.S in Chemistry Department of Chemistry, Tongji University

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019.1-Present Professor Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015.9-2019.1 Research Professional The University of Chicago

2012.11-2015.8 Postdoctoral Associate The University of Chicago

2010.8-2012.10 Postdoctoral Associate Northwestern University

Research Directions

1.Identify specific chromatin readers of novel histone marks, reveal their binding and signal transduction mechanisms in diseases, and provide guidance in developing inhibitors of these reader proteins for targeted therapy

2.Discover highly selective molecular probes of specific chromatin readers as potential medicinal agents for diseases

3.Identify specific targets for nature products or molecules discovered from phenotype-based screening

Grants & Research Projects

Achievements

1. Reveal a new type of histone marks, lysine benzoylation, with potential physiological relevance and identifies possible non-canonical functions of a widely used chemical food preservative

2. Reveal a p300-catalyzed, lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation-specific molecular mechanism that regulates cellular glucose metabolism and further indicate that p300 has an intrinsic ability to select short-chain acyl-CoA-dependent protein substrates

3. Report the first global identification of lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation substrates in human cells, and reveal key building blocks of the lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation pathway, offering a rich source for studying the role of lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation in diverse cellular process and disease development

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Awards & Honors

1. President’s Award, 2010, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2. Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award, The 1st Place, 2010, Shanghai

3. Outstanding graduate of Shanghai, 2010, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission

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Pubilcations

Full Publication List

Selected Publications

1.Di Zhang#, Zhanyun Tang#, He Huang, Guolin Zhou, Chang Cui, Yejing Weng, Wenchao Liu, Sunjoo Kim, Sangkyu Lee, Mathew Perez-Neut, Jun Ding, Daniel Czyz, Rong Hu, Zhen Ye, Maomao He, Y George Zheng, Howard A Shuman, Lunzhi Dai, Bing Ren, Robert G Roeder, Lev Becker*, Yingming Zhao*. Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation. Nature 2019, 574, 575.

2.He Huang#, Di Zhang, Yi Wang, Mathew Perez-Neut, Zhen Han, Y. George Zheng, Quan Hao, Yingming Zhao*. Lysine benzoylation is a histone mark regulated by SIRT2. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 3374.

3.He Huang#, Shuang Tang#, Ming Ji#, Zhanyun Tang, Miho Shimada, Xiaojing Liu, Shankang Qi, Jason W Locasale, Robert G Roeder, Yingming Zhao*, Xiaoling Li*. EP300-Mediated Lysine 2-Hydroxyisobutyrylation Regulates Glycolysis. Mol. Cell 2018, 70, 663-678.

4.He Huang#, Zhouqing Luo#, Shankang Qi#, Jing Huang#, Peng Xu, Xiuxuan Wang, Li Gao, Fangyi Li, Jian Wang, Wenhui Zhao, Wei Gu, Zhucheng Chen, Lunzhi Dai*, Junbiao Dai*, Yingming Zhao*. Landscape of the regulatory elements for lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation pathway. Cell Res. 2018, 28, 111-125.

5.Jing Huang#, Zhouqing Luo#, Wantao Ying#, Qichen Cao, He Huang, Junkai Dong, Qingyu Wu, Yingming Zhao, Xiaohong Qian*, Junbiao Dai*. 2-Hydroxyisobutyrylation on histone H4K8 is regulated by glucose homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2017, 114, 8782-8787.

6.Zuzanna Kaczmarska#, Esther Ortega, Afsaneh Goudarzi, He Huang, Sunjoo Kim, José A Márquez, Yingming Zhao, Saadi Khochbin, Daniel Panne*. Structure of p300 in complex with acyl-CoA variants. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2017, 13, 21-25.

7.Zhongyu Xie#, Di Zhang#, Dongjun Chung#, Zhanyun Tang, He Huang, Lunzhi Dai, Shankang Qi, Jingya Li, Gozde Colak, Yue Chen, Chunmei Xia, Chao Peng, Haibin Ruan, Matt Kirkey, Danli Wang, Lindy M. Jensen, Oh Kwang Kwon, Sangkyu Lee, Scott D Pletcher, Minjia Tan, David B Lombard, Kevin P White, Hongyu Zhao, Jia Li, Robert G Roeder, Xiaoyong Yang*, Yingming Zhao*. Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation. Mol. Cell 2016, 62, 194-206.

8.Yuanyuan Li#, Benjamin R Sabari#, Tatyana Panchenko#, Hong Wen, Dan Zhao, Haipeng Guan, Liling Wan, He Huang, Zhanyun Tang, Yingming Zhao, Robert G Roeder, Xiaobing Shi, C. David Allis*, Haitao Li*. Molecular coupling of histone crotonylation and active transcription by AF9 YEATS domain. Mol. Cell 2016, 62, 181-193.

9.Afsaneh Goudarzi#, Di Zhang#, He Huang, Sophie Barral, Oh Kwang Kwon, Shankang Qi, Zhanyun Tang, Thierry Buchou, Anne-Laure Vitte, Tieming He, Zhongyi Cheng, Emilie Montellier, Jonathan Gaucher, Sandrine Curtet, Alexandra Debernardi, Guillaume Charbonnier, Denis Puthier, Carlo Petosa, Daniel Panne, Sophie Rousseaux, Robert G Roeder, Yingming Zhao*, Saadi Khochbin*. Dynamic competing histone H4 K5K8 acetylation and butyrylation are hallmarks of highly active gene promoters. Mol. Cell 2016, 62, 169-180.

10.Inmaculada Martínez-Reyes#, Lauren P Diebold, Hyewon Kong, Michael Schieber, He Huang, Christopher T Hensley, Manan M Mehta, Tianyuan Wang, Janine H Santos, Richard Woychik, Eric Dufour, Johannes N Spelbrink, Samuel E Weinberg, Yingming Zhao, Ralph J De Berardinis, Navdeep S Chandel*. TCA cycle and mitochondrial membrane potential are necessary for diverse biological functions. Mol. Cell 2016, 61, 199-209.

11.Benjamin R Sabari#, Zhanyun Tang, He Huang, Vladimir Yong-Gonzalez, Henrik Molina, Ha Eun Kong, Lunzhi Dai, Miho Shimada, Justin R Cross, Yingming Zhao, Robert G. Roeder, C. David Allis*. Intracellular crotonyl-CoA stimulates transcription through p300-catalyzed histone crotonylation. Mol. Cell 2015, 58, 203-215.

12.He Huang#, Shu Lin, Benjamin A Garcia, Yingming Zhao*. Quantitative proteomic analysis of histone modifications. Chem. Rev. 2015, 115, 2376-2418.

13.Jeffrey K Holden#, Soosung Kang, Scott A Hollingsworth, Huiying Li, Nathan Lim, Steven Chen, He Huang, Fengtian Xue, Wei Tang, Richard B Silverman, Thomas L. Poulos*. Structure-based design of bacterial nitric oxide synthase inhibitors. J. Med. Chem. 2015, 58, 994-1004.

14.He Huang#, Benjamin R Sabari, Benjamin A Garcia, C David Allis, Yingming Zhao*. SnapShot: histone modifications. Cell 2014, 159, 458-458.

15.Minjia Tan#, Chao Peng#, Kristin A Anderson#, Peter Chhoy, Zhongyu Xie, Lunzhi Dai, Jeongsoon Park, Yue Chen, He Huang, Yi Zhang, Jennifer Ro, Gregory R. Wagner, Michelle F. Green, Andreas S. Madsen, Jessica Schmiesing, Brett S. Peterson, Guofeng Xu, Olga R. Ilkayeva, Michael J. Muehlbauer, Thomas Braulke, Chris Mühlhausen, Donald S. Backos, Christian A. Olsen, Peter J. McGuire, Scott D. Pletcher, David B. Lombard, Matthew D. Hirschey*, Yingming Zhao*. Lysine glutarylation is a protein posttranslational modification regulated by SIRT5. Cell Metab. 2014, 19, 605-617.

16.He Huang#, Huiying Li, Sun Yang, Georges Chreifi, Pavel Marta?sek, Linda J Roman, Frank L Meyskens, Thomas L Poulos*, Richard B Silverman*. Potent and selective double-headed thiophene-2-carboximidamide inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase for the treatment of melanoma. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 57, 686-700.

17.He Huang#, Huiying Li, Pavel Martásek, Linda J Roman, Thomas L Poulos*, Richard B Silverman*. Structure-guided design of selective inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. J. Med. Chem. 2013, 56, 3024-3032.

18.He Huang#, Haitao Ji, Huiying Li, Qing Jing, Kristin Jansen Labby, Pavel Martásek, Linda J Roman, Thomas L Poulos*, Richard B Silverman*. Selective monocationic inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Binding mode insights from molecular dynamics simulations. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 11559-11572.

19.Qian Ba#, Miao Hao#, He Huang#, Junmei Hou, Shichao Ge, Zhuzhen Zhang, Jun Yin, Ruiai Chu, Hualiang Jiang, Fudi Wang, Kaixian Chen, Hong Liu*, Hui Wang*. Iron deprivation suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma growth in experimental studies. Clin. Cancer Res. 2011, 17, 7625-7633.

20.He Huang#, Qin Chen#, Xin Ku, Linghua Meng*, Liping Lin, Xiang Wang, Caihua Zhu, Yi Wang, Zhi Chen, Ming Li, Hualiang Jiang, Kaixian Chen, Jian Ding, Hong Liu*. A series of α-heterocyclic carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazones inhibit topoisomerase IIα catalytic activity. J. Med. Chem. 2010, 53, 3048-3064.

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