Congratulations to Zhewang! His paper, “Dph7 catalyzes a previously unknown demethylation step in diphthamide biosynthesis”, is published in JACS. This paper discovers the molecular function of Dph7 in diphthamide biosynthesis and provides a revised diphthamide biosynthesis pathway.

Congratulations to Jon! His paper, “Revealing CD38 Cellular Localization Using a Cell Permeable, Mechanism-Based Fluorescent Small Molecule Probe”, is published in JACS.

Congratulations to Min and Xiaoyang! Their paper, “Dph3 Is an Electron Donor for Dph1-Dph2 in the First Step of Eukaryotic Diphthamide Biosynthesis”, is published in JACS.

Prof. Hening Lin was awarded the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry 2014, given for outstanding work in enzyme chemistry.

We bid farewell to Bin, who has concluded his successful career in the Lin group. Bin is now moving to a faculty position at Ocean College, Zhejiang University in China.  We wish him continued success in his future career as…

Congratulations to Jing and Bin! Their paper, “A fluorogenic assay for screening Sirt6 modulators”, is published in Org. Biomol. Chem.

Congratulations to Hong and Saba! Their paper, “Sirt6 regulates TNFa secretion via hydrolysis of long chain fatty acyl lysine” is published in Nature. The paper has been highlighted in Nature, “Biochemistry: Sirtuin on a high-fat diet”, 2013, 496, 41-42; Science…