Yiming Zhang

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Brian J. DeBosch, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2015

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary

Graduate publications
Higgins CB, Adams JA, Ward MH, Greenberg ZJ, Milewska M, Sun J, Zhang Y, Chiquetto Paracatu L, Dong Q, Ballentine S, Li W, Wandzik I, Schuettpelz LG, DeBosch BJ. 2023 The tetraspanin transmembrane protein CD53 mediates dyslipidemia and integrates inflammatory and metabolic signaling in hepatocytes. J Biol Chem, 299(2):102835. PMCID: PMC9900517

Higgins CB, Mayer AL, Zhang Y, Franczyk M, Ballentine S, Yoshino J, DeBosch BJ. 2022 SIRT1 selectively exerts the metabolic protective effects of hepatocyte nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase. Nat Commun, 13(1):1074. PMCID: PMC8885655

Zhang Y, Higgins CB, Van Tine BA, Bomalaski JS, DeBosch BJ. 2022 Pegylated arginine deiminase drives arginine turnover and systemic autophagy to dictate energy metabolism. Cell Rep Med, 3(1):100498. PMCID: PMC8784773

Zhang Y, DeBosch B. 2022 A protocol to induce systemic autophagy and increase energy metabolism in mice using PEGylated arginine deiminase. STAR Protocols, 3(3):101489. PMCID: PMC9249829