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Wei Yang

Professor in Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
Box 3094 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
132 Sands Bldg, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Linking proteostasis, aging, and brain ischemia

Book section · January 1, 2021 Cardiac arrest and ischemic stroke can lead to severe brain dysfunction, due to metabolic stress and loss of protein homeostasis (proteostasis). Further, both metabolic resilience and proteostasis deteriorate with aging, which renders cells inefficient in ... Full text Cite

Proteomic analysis of SUMOylation in the post-ischemic brain

Book section · January 1, 2017 Post-translational protein modification by small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is increasingly recognized as a key modulator in many cellular processes including DNA repair, cell-cycle regulation, gene transcription, RNA processing, and protein quality co ... Full text Cite