Recently, the team of Professor Wei Zhao made progress in the NLRP3 inflammatory small body study with the results of UAF1 deubiquitinase complexes help NLRP3 inflammasome activation by promoting NLRP3 expression was published at Nature Communications. Shandong University is an independent first unit and a communication author unit. Doctoral student Hui Song and assistant researcher Chunxuan Zhao are co-first authors and Professor Wei Zhao is the corresponding author.

Professor Wei Zhao's team has long been engaged in research on viral infection and natural immunity, revealing the activation and regulation mechanisms of natural immunity during viral infection; Relevant research results were published at Immunol. (2020), Nat. Commun. (2020, 2016, 2014), J.Exp.Med. (2017), PNAS. (2016), Cell.Rep. (2017) and other magazines. The above-mentioned research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the British Academy of Medical Sciences Newton senior scholars, and other projects.

The paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19939-8