Hi, I am a postdoc from China. I got my Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. After a temporary short-time staying in Shanghai, I joined the Hunter Lab in 2011. Now I am studying the spindle assembly during mitosis and protein post-translational modification by using Xenopus egg extracts and tissue cultured cells. Outside the lab, I like cooking, running, singing, dancing and traveling.

Li Ma
Research Associate
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Identification of small ubiquitin-like modifier substrates with diverse functions using the Xenopus egg extract system.
Published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
Post-translational modification by SUMO is a highly conserved pathway in eukaryotes that plays very important regulatory roles in many cellular processes. Deregulation of the SUMO pathway contributes to the development and progression of many diseases including cancer. Therefore, identifying additional SUMO substrates and studying how their cellula...
Monoclonal 1- and 3-Phosphohistidine Antibodies: New Tools to Study Histidine Phosphorylation.
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Published in Cell
Histidine phosphorylation (pHis) is well studied in bacteria; however, its role in mammalian signaling remains largely unexplored due to the lack of pHis-specific antibodies and the lability of the phosphoramidate (P-N) bond. Both imidazole nitrogens can be phosphorylated, forming 1-phosphohistidine (1-pHis) or 3-phosphohistidine (3-pHis). We have ...