Mr Duan Ni
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Mr Duan Ni

Publications

Journals

  • Taitz, J., Tan, J., Ni, D., Potier, C., Grau, G., Nanan, R., Macia, L. (2025). Antibiotic-mediated dysbiosis leads to activation of inflammatory pathways. Frontiers in Immunology, 15, 1493991. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Senior, A., Raubenheimer, D., Simpson, S., Nanan, R. (2025). High-Fat and Low-Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Nanan, R. (2025). Multi-organ transcriptomic atlas reveals hallmarks of labour. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 15(2), e70208. [More Information]

2025

  • Taitz, J., Tan, J., Ni, D., Potier, C., Grau, G., Nanan, R., Macia, L. (2025). Antibiotic-mediated dysbiosis leads to activation of inflammatory pathways. Frontiers in Immunology, 15, 1493991. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Senior, A., Raubenheimer, D., Simpson, S., Nanan, R. (2025). High-Fat and Low-Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Nanan, R. (2025). Multi-organ transcriptomic atlas reveals hallmarks of labour. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 15(2), e70208. [More Information]

2024

  • Reyes, J., Ni, D., Santner-Nanan, B., Pinget, G., Kraftova, L., Ashhurst, T., Marsh-Wakefield, F., Wishart, C., Tan, J., Hsu, P., King, N., Macia, L., Nanan, R. (2024). A unique human cord blood CD8+CD45RA+CD27+CD161+ T-cell subset identified by flow cytometric data analysis using Seurat. Immunology, 173(1), 106-124. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Reyes, J., Nanan, B., Pinget, G., Kraftova, L., Ashhurst, T., Marshwakefield, F., Wishart, C., Tan, J., Hsu, P., King, N., Macia, L., Nanan, R. (2024). A unique human cord blood CD8+CD45RA+CD27+CD161+T cell subset identified by flow cytometric data analysis using Seurat. European Journal of Immunology, 54(Suppl 1), 714-714. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Tan, J., Macia, L., Nanan, R. (2024). Breastfeeding is associated with enhanced intestinal gluconeogenesis in infants. BMC Medicine, 22(1), 106. [More Information]

2023

  • Zha, J., Li, Q., Liu, X., Lin, W., Wang, T., Wei, J., Zhang, Z., Lu, X., Wu, J., Ni, D., et al (2023). AlloReverse: Multiscale understanding among hierarchical allosteric regulations. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(W1), W33-W38. [More Information]
  • Wali, J., Ni, D., Facey, H., Dodgson, T., Pulpitel, T., Senior, A., Raubenheimer, D., Macia, L., Simpson, S. (2023). Determining the metabolic effects of dietary fat, sugars and fat-sugar interaction using nutritional geometry in a dietary challenge study with male mice. Nature Communications, 14(1). [More Information]
  • Spiteri, A., Wishart, C., Ni, D., Viengkhou, B., Macia, L., Hofer, M., King, N. (2023). Temporal tracking of microglial and monocyte single-cell transcriptomics in lethal favivirus infection. Springer Nature, 11(60). [More Information]

2022

  • Ni, D., Chai, Z., Wang, Y., Li, M., Yu, Z., Liu, Y., Lu, S., Zhang, J. (2022). Along the allostery stream: Recent advances in computational methods for allosteric drug discovery. Computational Molecular Science, 12(4). [More Information]
  • He, X., Du, K., Wang, Y., Fan, J., Li, M., Ni, D., Lu, S., Bian, X., Liu, Y. (2022). Autopromotion of K-Ras4B Feedback Activation Through an SOS-Mediated Long-Range Allosteric Effect. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 9. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Liu, Y., Kong, R., Yu, Z., Lu, S., Zhang, J. (2022). Computational elucidation of allosteric communication in proteins for allosteric drug design. Drug Discovery Today, 27(8), 2226-2234. [More Information]

2021

  • Zhang, H., Zhao, B., Han, W., Sun, Y., Yang, P., Chen, Y., Ni, D., Zhang, J., Yin, D. (2021). Acetylation of calmodulin regulates synaptic plasticity and fear learning. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297(3). [More Information]
  • Lu, S., He, X., Yang, Z., Chai, Z., Zhou, S., Wang, J., Rehman, A., Ni, D., Pu, J., Sun, J., et al (2021). Activation pathway of a G protein-coupled receptor uncovers conformational intermediates as targets for allosteric drug design. Nature Communications, 12(1). [More Information]
  • Li, X., Wang, C., Peng, T., Chai, Z., Ni, D., Liu, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, T., Lu, S. (2021). Atomic-scale insights into allosteric inhibition and evolutional rescue mechanism of Streptococcus thermophilus Cas9 by the anti-CRISPR protein AcrIIA6. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 19, 6108-6124. [More Information]

2020

  • Ni, D., Li, Y., Qiu, Y., Pu, J., Lu, S., Zhang, J. (2020). Combining Allosteric and Orthosteric Drugs to Overcome Drug Resistance. Trends In Pharmacological Sciences, 41(5), 336-348. [More Information]
  • Lu, S., Qiu, Y., Ni, D., He, X., Pu, J., Zhang, J. (2020). Emergence of allosteric drug-resistance mutations: new challenges for allosteric drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today, 25(1), 177-184. [More Information]
  • Zhang, H., He, X., Ni, D., Mou, L., Chen, X., Lu, S. (2020). How does the novel T315L mutation of breakpoint cluster region-abelson (BCR-ABL) kinase confer resistance to ponatinib: a comparative molecular dynamics simulation study. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 38(1), 89-100. [More Information]

2019

  • Lu, S., He, X., Ni, D., Zhang, J. (2019). Allosteric Modulator Discovery: From Serendipity to Structure-Based Design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 62(14), 6405-6421. [More Information]
  • Lu, S., Ni, D., Wang, C., He, X., Lin, H., Wang, Z., Zhang, J. (2019). Deactivation Pathway of Ras GTPase Underlies Conformational Substates as Targets for Drug Design. ACS Catalysis, 9(8), 7188-7196. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Li, X., He, X., Zhang, H., Zhang, J., Lu, S. (2019). Drugging K-RasG12C through covalent inhibitors: Mission possible? Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 202, 1-17. [More Information]

2018

  • Huang, M., Song, K., Liu, X., Lu, S., Shen, Q., Wang, R., Gao, J., Hong, Y., Li, Q., Ni, D., et al (2018). AlloFinder: A strategy for allosteric modulator discovery and allosterome analyses. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W451-W458. [More Information]
  • Ni, D., Liu, D., Zhang, J., Lu, S. (2018). Computational insights into the interactions between calmodulin and the c/nSH2 domains of p85α regulatory subunit of PI3Kα: Implication for PI3Kα activation by calmodulin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(1). [More Information]
  • Lu, S., Ji, M., Ni, D., Zhang, J. (2018). Discovery of hidden allosteric sites as novel targets for allosteric drug design. Drug Discovery Today, 23(2), 359-365. [More Information]

2017

  • Ni, D., Song, K., Zhang, J., Lu, S. (2017). Molecular dynamics simulations and dynamic network analysis reveal the allosteric unbinding of monobody to H-Ras triggered by R135K mutation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18(11). [More Information]