Chloroquine (CQ) is widely used in the therapy against malarial, tumor and recently the COVID-19 pandemic, as a lysosomotropic agent to inhibit the endolysosomal trafficking in the autophagy pathway. We previously reported that CQ (20 µM, 36 h) could reprogram transcriptome and impair multiple si...
A growing appreciation of the importance of cellular metabolism and revelations concerning the extent of cell-cell heterogeneity demand metabolic characterization of individual cells. We present SpaceM, an open-source method for in situ single-cell metabolomics that detects >100 metabolites fr...
Zygostelma benthamii has been prized for its medicinal properties and is similar to ginseng. However, the specific chemicals in its various parts and their relationship to its therapeutic effects have not been thoroughly researched. Thus, we used a comprehensive metabolomics approach, LC-MS/MS an...
Several studies indicated anti-cancer effects of metformin in liver cancer. This was attributed to the activation of LKB-AMPK axis, which is associated with anti-hyperglycaemic effect and cytotoxicity. However, glucose- and central carbon-independent effects of metformin ...