Xuewei Zhai

ORCID: 0000-0002-5645-4373
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  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Capital Medical University
2022-2025

Beijing YouAn Hospital
2025

Fatty acid uptake is essential for cell physiological function, but detailed mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we generated an acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACC1/2) double-knockout line, which lacked fatty biosynthesis and survived on serum acids was used to screen inhibitors. We identified a Food Drug Administration–approved tricyclic antidepressant, nortriptyline, that potently blocked both in vitro vivo. also characterized underlying whereby nortriptyline provoked lysosomes release protons...

10.1084/jem.20221316 article EN cc-by-nc-sa The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2022-11-29
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