卢德芬 研究员
ludefen1@yeah.net
卢德芬,女,博士,研究员,博士生导师。讲授《动物生理学》课程。课题组立足于天然免疫,神经系统信号转导和致病微生物与宿主互作等人类大健康方面,综合利用生物物理学,细胞生物学,生物化学等手段,为病毒和病原菌感染中新靶点的发现,抗病原感染和肿瘤免疫治疗提供重要的理论基础。 研究成果以第一作者或通讯作者发表在Nature, Nature communication, Molecular cell, EMBO reports, Structure等杂志上。实验室研究方向,以天然免疫为主线,包括但不限于:
p 固有免疫cGAS-STING信号通路分子机制研究;
p STING蛋白激动剂与抑制剂筛选;
p 天然免疫激动剂和新型疫苗佐剂的研发;
p 植物免疫受体与配体相互作用机制研究;
p 致病微生物与宿主互作机制研究。
教育背景
2010.09-2013.06 山东大学 微生物技术国家重点实验室 博士
2007.09-2010.06 山东大学 医学院 硕士
2003.09-2007.06 安徽农业大学 生命科学学院 学士
科研工作经历
2022.12至今 山西农业大学 生命科学学院 研究员
2021.09-2022.10 山西高等创新研究院 研究员
2015.03-2021.08 美国德克萨斯大学西南医学中心 博士后
2014.08-2014.12 山东大学 微生物技术国家重点实验室 研究助理
2013.07-2014.08 福州市传染病医学 副研究员
主持的科研项目:
1. 国家自然科学青年科学基金,《铜绿假单胞菌T6SS效应蛋白Tle4及其免疫抑制蛋白Tli4结构与功能研究》,2015-2017,已结题。
2. 山西农业大学高层次人才科研启动工程,《天然免疫cGAS-STING信号通路激活机制及STING激动剂与抑制剂筛选》,2023-2028。
3. 山西省杰出青年基金,《天然免疫STING激动剂筛选及作用机制研究》, 2024-2026。
发表的主要论文:
1. Jinrui Xun, Zhichao Zhang, Bo Lv, Defen Lu, Haoxiang Yang, Guijun Shang, Jay Xiaojun Tan. A conserved ion channel function of STING mediates noncanonical autophagy and cell death, EMBO Reports, 2024. (co-first author)
2. Sheng Liu, Bo Yang, Yingxiang Hou, Kaige Cui, Xiaozhu Yang, Xiaoxiong Li, Lianwan Chen, Shichao Liu, Zhichao Zhang, Yuanyuan Jia, Yufeng Xie, Ying Xue, Xiaomei Li, Bingxue Yan, Changxin Wu, Wen Deng, Jianxun Qi, Defen Lu, George F Gao, Peiyi Wang, Guijun Shang.The mechanism of STING autoinhibition and activation. Molecular Cell, 2023.
(co-corresponding author )
3. Zhichao Zhang, Xiaoxiong Li, Ying Xue, Bo Yang, Yuanyuan Jia, Shichao Liu, Defen Lu. The structure of the RBD–E77 Fab complex reveals neutralization and immune escape of SARS-CoV-2. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, 2023.
4. Yufeng Xie, Xiaoxiong Li, Jianxun Qi, Guijun Shang, Defen Lu, George Fu Gao. Structural plasticity of human leptin binding to its receptor LepR. hLife, 2023. (co-corresponding author )
5. Defen Lu, Guijun Shang, Jie Li, Yong Lu, Xiao-chen Bai, Xuewu Zhang. Activation of STING by targeting a binding site in the transmembrane region. Nature, 2022.
6. Defen Lu, Guijun Shang, Xiaojing He, Xiao-chen Bai, Xuewu Zhang. Architecture of the Sema3A/PlexinA4/Neuropilin tripartite complex. Nature Communications, 2021.
7. Hua Chen, Defen Lu, Guijun Shang, Guoming Gao, Xuewu Zhang. Structural and Functional Analyses of the FAM46C/Plk4 Complex. Structure, 2020.(co-first author)
8. Defen Lu, Youshi Zheng, Naishun Liao, Ling Wei, Bo Xu, Xiaolong Liu 1 Jingfeng Liu. The structural basis of the Tle4-Tli4 complex reveals the self-protection mechanism of H2-T6SS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr, 2014.
9. Defen Lu, Guijun Shang, Heqiao Zhang, Qian Yu, Xiaoyan Cong, Jupeng Yuan, Fengjuan He, Chunyuan Zhu, Yanyu Zhao, Kun Yin, Yuanyuan Chen, Junqiang Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Zenglin Yuan, Sujuan Xu, Wei Hu, Huaixing Cang, Lichuan Gu. Structural insights into the T6SS effector protein Tse3 and the Tse3-Tsi3 complex from Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveal a calcium-dependent membrane-binding mechanism. Mol Microbiol, 2014.
10. Fengjuan He, Defen Lu, Baichun Jiang, Yan Wang, Qiao Liu, Qiji Liu, Changshun Shao, Xi Li, Yaoqin Gong. X-linked intellectual disability gene CUL4B targets Jab1/CSN5 for degradation and regulates bone morphogenetic protein signaling. Biochim Biophys Acta, 2013. (co-first author)
11. Defen Lu, Guijun Shang, Qian Yu, Heqiao Zhang, Yanyu Zhao, Huaixing Cang, Lichuan Gu, Sujuan Xu, Yan Huang. Expression, purification and preliminary crystallographic analysis of T6SS effector protein Tse3 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Acta Crystallographica Section F, 2013.
12. Shang G, Liu X, Lu D, Zhang J, Li N, Zhu C, Liu S, Yu Q, Zhao Y, Zhang H, Hu J, Cang H, Xu S, Gu L. Structural insight into functioning of Pseudomonas aeruginosa peptidoglycan-hydolase Tse1 and its immunity protein Tsi1. Biochem. J. 2012. (co-first author)