Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology

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CHENG Jinke

Ph.D., Professor

Email: jkcheng@shsmu.edu.cn

Tel: 86-021-63846590-778026

Laboratory of Cell Signal Transduction

Research Field

The research in Dr. Cheng’s laboratory mainly focuses on understanding the protein de-SUMOylation process mediated by SUMO-specific proteases (SENPs). They are particularly interested in determining the role of SENPs in regulation of inflammation and metabolism, and the mechanism underlying SENP regulation of these processes.

Personal Introduction

Cheng Jinke, Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Doctoral Supervisor, Dean of College of Basic Medical Sciences, Director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Vice chairman of CSBMB, Chairman of SSBMB. His research interests include protein SUMOylation-engaged physiology and pathogenesis. Professor Cheng has published more than 50 articles on Cell, Nature Communications, Molecular Cell, Cancer research, Cell Report, Oncogene etc. His research has been supported by NSFC, National Key R&D Program (Chief Scientist), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality etc.

Education

  • 1983    Hunan Agricultural University, China   B.S.

  • 1989    Beijing Agricultural. University ,China   M.S.

  • 1997    Peking Union Medical College, China    Ph.D.

Positions and Employment

  • 2004-2006      Instructor     Department of Cardiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

  • 2006-2009      Research Assistant Professor  Department of Cardiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

  • 2007-present   Professor   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

  • 2009-2016     Chairman    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

  • 2016-present    Dean     College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Publications

  1. Cheng J, Yang J, Xia Y, Karin M, Su B. Syndergistic interaction of MEK kinase 2, c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) kinase 2, and JNK1 results in efficient and specific JNK1 activation. Molecular and Cellular Biology , 20:2334-2342, 2000.

  2. Yang J, Lin Y, Guo Z, Cheng J, Huang H, Liao W, Chen J, Liu ZG, Su B. Essential role of MEKK3 in TNFa induced NF-kB activation. Nature Immunology , 2:620-624, 2001.

  3. Su B, Cheng J, Yang J, Guo Z. MEKK2 mediates T cell receptor signals in JNK activation and IL-2 gene expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276:14784-14790, 2001.

  4. Guo Z, Clydesdale G, Cheng J, Kim K, Gan L, McConkey DJ, Ullrich SE, Zhuang Y, Su B.  Disruption of MEKK2 in mice reveals an unexpected role for MEKK2 in modulating T-cell receptor signal transduction. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 22:5761-5768, 2002.

  5. Huang Q, Yang J, Lin Y, Walker C, Cheng J, Liu ZG, Su B.  Differential regulation of interleukin 1 receptor and Toll-like receptor signaling by MEKK3. Nature Immunology, 5:98-103, 2004.

  6. Cheng J, Wang D, Wang Z, Yeh ETH. SENP1 Enhances Androgen Receptor-Dependent Transcription through Desumoylation of Histone Deacetylase 1. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 24:6021-6028, 2004.

  7. Kho Y, Kim SC, Jiang C, Barma D, Kwon SW, Cheng J, Jaunbergs J, Weinbaum C, Tamanoi F, Falck J, Zhao Y. A tagging-via-substrate technology for detection and proteomics of farnesylated proteins. PNAS, 101:12479-12484, 2004.

  8. Cheng J, Zhang D, Kim K, Zhao Y, Su B. Mip1, an MEKK2-interacting protein, controls MEKK2 dimerization and activation. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 25:5955-5964, 2005.

  9. Veltman IM, Vreede LA, Cheng J, Looijenga LH, Janssen B, Schoenmakers EF, Yeh ETH, van Kessel AG. Fusion of the SUMO/Sentrin-specific protease 1 gene SENP1 and the embryonic polarity-related mesoderm development gene MESDC2 in a patient with an infantile teratoma and a constitutional t(12;15)(q13;q25). Human Molecular Genetics, 14:1955-1963, 2005.

  10. Cheng J, Pekins ND, Yeh ETH. Differential regulation of c-Jun-dependent transcription by SUMO-specific proteases. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280:14492-14498, 2005.

  11. Cheng J, Yu L, Zhang D, Huang Q, Spencer D, Su B. Dimerization through the catalytic domain is essential for MEKK2 activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280: 13477-13482, 2005.

  12. Cheng J, Bawa T, Lee P, Gong L, Yeh ET. Role of desumoylation in the development of prostate cancer. Neoplasia, 8:667-676, 2006.

  13. Gao F, Cheng J, Shi T, and Yeh ET. NEDDylation of a Breast Cancer–asociated Protein Recruits a Class III Histone Deacetylase that Represses NF-B-dependent Transcription. Nature Cell Biology, 8:1171-1177, 2006.

  14. Cheng J, Kang X, Zhang S and Yeh ET. SUMO-specific protease 1 is essential for stabilization of HIF1 during hypoxia. Cell, 131:584-595, 2007.

  15. 1Bawa-Khalfe T, Cheng J, Wang Z and Yeh ET. Induction of the sumo-specific protease 1 transcription by the androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282:37341-37349, 2007.

  16. Huang C, Han Y, Wang Y, Sun X, Yan S, Yeh ET, Chen Y, Cang H, Li H, Shi G, Cheng J, Tang X, Yi J. SENP3 is responsible for HIF-1 transactivation under mild oxidative stress via p300 de-SUMOylation. EMBO J, 28:2748-62, 2009.

  17. Lu H, Liu B, You S, Xue Q, Zhang F, Cheng J, Yu B. The activity-dependent stimuli increase SUMO modification in SHSY5Y cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 18;390:872-876. 2009.

  18. Kang X, Qi Y, Zuo Y, Wang Q, Zou Y, Schwartz RJ, Cheng J *, and Yeh ET*. SUMO-specific protease 2 is essential for suppression of polycomb group proteins mediated gene silencing during embryonic development, Molecular Cell,，38：191-201. 2010 (* correspondence author).

  19. Bawa-Khalfe T, Cheng J, Lin SH, Ittmann MM, Yeh ET. SENP1 induces prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia through multiple mechanisms. J Biol Chem， 285(33):25859-66. 2010.

  20. Kang X, Li J, Zou Y, Yi J, Zhang H, Cao M, Yeh ET, Cheng J. PIASy stimulates HIF1α SUMOylation and negatively regulates HIF1α activity in response to hypoxia. Oncogene, 29:5568-5578. 2010

  21. Xu Y, Zuo Y, Zhang H, Kang X, Yue F, Yi Z, Liu M, Yeh ET, Chen G, Cheng J. Induction of SENP1 in endothelial cells contributes to hypoxia-driven VEGF expression and angiogenesis. J Biol Chem. 285：36682-36688. 2010.

  22. Xu K, Klenk C, Liu B, Keiner B, Cheng J, Zheng BJ, Li L, Han Q, Wang C, Li T, Chen Z, Shu Y, Liu J, Klenk HD, Sun B. Modification of nonstructural protein 1 of influenza A virus by SUMO1. J Virol. 85:1086-1098. 2010.

  23. Ran Y, Liu TT, Zhou Q, Li S, Mao AP, Li Y, Liu LJ, Cheng JK, Shu HB. SENP2 negatively regulates cellular antiviral response by deSUMOylating IRF3 and conditioning it for ubiquitination and degradation. J Mol Cell Biol. 3:283-92. 2011.

  24. Nguyen TV, Angkasekwinai P,Dou H, Lin FM,Lu LS, Cheng J, Chin YE, Dong C, Yeh ET. SUMO-Specific Protease 1 Is Critical for Early Lymphoid Development through Regulation of STAT5 Activation. Molecular Cell. 45:210-221. 2012.

  25. Zhou J, Fan Q, Zhang Z, Zou Y, Cai R, Wang Q, Zuo Y, and Cheng J. SENP1 Deficiency Promotes ER Stress-Induced Apoptosis by Increasing XBP1 SUMOylation. Cell Cycle. 11：1118-1122 . 2012.

  26. Huang J, Yan J, Zhang J, Zhu S, Wang Y, Shi T, Zhu C, Chen C, Liu X, Cheng J, Mustelin T, Feng GS, Chen G, Yu J. SUMO1 modification of PTEN regulates tumorigenesis by controlling its association with the plasma membrane. Nature Commun. 3: 911. 2012.

  27. Cai R, Yu T, Huang C, Xia X, Liu X, Gu J, Xue S, Yeh ET, Cheng J. SUMO-specific protease 1 regulates mitochondrial biogenesis through PGC-1α. J Biol Chem. 287:44464-44470. 2012.

  28. Wang Q, Xia N, Li T, Xu Y, Zou Y, Zuo Y, Fan Q, Bawa-Khalfe T, Yeh ET, Cheng J. SUMO-specific protease 1 promotes prostate cancer progression and metastasis. Oncogene. 32:2493-2498. 2013.

  29. Tang S, Huang G, Tong X, Xu L, Cai R, Li J, Zhou X, Song S, Huang C, Cheng J. Role of SUMO-specific protease 2 in reprogramming cellular glucose metabolism. PLoS One. May 14;8(5):e63965. 2013.

  30. Qi Y, Zuo Y, Yeh ET, Cheng J. An essential role of SUMO-specific protease 2 in myostatin expression and myogenesis. J Biol Chem. 289:3288-3293. 2014.

  31. Wang J, Liu X, Dou Z, Chen L, Jiang H, Fu C, Fu G, Liu D, Zhang J, Zhu T, Fang J, Zang J, Cheng J, Teng M, Ding X, Yao X. Mitotic regulator Mis18β interacts with and specifies the centromeric assembly of molecular chaperone holliday junction recognition protein (HJURP). J Biol Chem. 289:8326-36, 2014.

  32. Han Q, Chang C, Li L, Klenk C, Cheng J, Chen Y, Xia N, Shu Y, Chen Z, Gabriel G, Sun B, Xu K. Sumoylation of influenza A virus nucleoprotein is essential for intracellular trafficking and virus growth. J Virol. 88:9379-9390. 2014

  33. Liu B, Wang T, Mei W, Li D, Cai R, Zuo Y, Cheng J. SUMO-Specific Protease 1 De-SUMOylates Sharp-1 and Controls Adipocyte Differentiation. J Biol Chem. 289:22358-22364. 2014.

  34. Qi Y, Wang J, Bomben VC, Li DP, Chen SR, Sun H, Xi Y, Reed JG, Cheng J, Pan HL, Noebels JL, Yeh ET. Hyper-SUMOylation of the Kv7 potassium channel diminishes the M-current leading to seizures and sudden death. Neuron. 83:1159-1171. 2014.

  35. Gu J, Fan Y, Liu X, Zhou L, Cheng J, Cai R, Xue S. SENP1 protects against myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury via a HIF1α-dependent pathway. Cardiovasc Res. 104:83-92. 2014

  36. Xiao N, Li H, Mei W, Cheng J. SUMOylation Attenuates Human β-arrestin 2 Inhibition of IL-1R-TRAF6 Signaling. J Biol Chem. 290:1927-35. 2015.

  37. Sun H, Lu L, Zuo Y, Wang Y, Jiao Y, Zeng WZ, Huang C, Zhu MX, Zamponi GW, Zhou T, Xu TL, Cheng J, Li Y. Kainate receptor activation induces glycine receptor endocytosis through PKC deSUMOylation. Nat Commun. 2014 Sep 19;5:4980. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5980.

  38. Cai R, Gu J, Sun H, Liu X, Mei W, Qi Y, Xue S, Ren S, Rabinowitz JE, Wang Y, Yeh ET, Cheng J. Induction of SENP1 in myocardium contributes to abnormities of mitochondria and cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 79:115-122. 2015.

  39. Cai J, Zuo Y, Wang T, Cao Y, Cai R, Chen FL, Cheng J*, Mu J*. A crucial role of SUMOylation in modulating Sirt6 deacetylation of H3 at lysine 56 and its tumor suppressive activity. Oncogene. 2016， 35：4949-4956.(* correspondence author)

  40. Huang C, Cheng J, Bawa-Khalfe T, Yao X, Chin YE, Yeh ET. SUMOylated ORC2 Recruits a Histone Demethylase to Regulate Centromeric Histone Modification and Genomic Stability. Cell Rep. 15(1):147-57, 2016.

  41. Xia N, Cai J, Wang F, Dong B, Liu S, Chen F, Cheng J, Zuo Y. SENP1 Is a Crucial Regulator for Cell Senescence through DeSUMOylation of Bmi1. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 23; 6:34099. doi: 10.1038/srep34099

  42. Dong B, Gao Y, Kang X, Gao H, Zhang J, Guo H, You MJ, Xue W, Cheng J, Huang Y. SENP1 promotes proliferation of clear cell renal cell carcinoma through activation of glycolysis. Oncotarget. 2016 7：80435-80449.

  43. Bawa-Khalfe T, Yang FM, Ritho J, Lin HK, Cheng J, Yeh ET. SENP1 regulates PTEN stability to dictate prostate cancer development. Oncotarget. 2016 Nov 10. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.13283. [Epub ahead of print]

  44. Wang YP*, Zhou W, Wang J, Huang X, Zuo Y, Wang TS, Gao X, Xu YY, Zou SW, Liu YB, Cheng JK*, Lei QY*. Arginine Methylation of MDH1 by CARM1 Inhibits Glutamine Metabolism and Suppresses Pancreatic Cancer. Mol Cell. 2016 64:673-687 (* correspondence author).

  45. Zhang H, Wang Y, Zhu A, Huang D, Deng S, Cheng J, Zhu MX, Li Y. SUMO-specific protease 1 protects neurons from apoptotic death during transient brain ischemia/reperfusion. Cell Death Dis. 2016 Nov 24;7(11):e2484.

  46. Yu T, Zuo Y, Cai R, Huang X, Wu S, Zhang C, Chin YE, Li D, Zhang Z, Xia N, Wang Q, Shen H, Yao X, Zhang ZY, Xue S, Shen L, Cheng JK*. SENP1 regulates IFN-γ-STAT1 signaling through STAT3-SOCS3 negative feedback loop. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology , 2017, 9(2), 144–153.

  47. Bo Wei, Chao Huang, Bin Liu, Yang Wang, Nansong Xia, Qiuju Fan, Guo-Qiang Chen, and Jinke Cheng*. Mitotic Phosphorylation of SENP3 Regulates DeSUMOylation of Chromosome-Associated Proteins and Chromosome Stability. Cancer Research.2018, 78(9):2171-2178.

  48. Quan Zheng, Ying Cao, Yalan Chen, Jiqiu Wang, Qiuju Fan, Xian Huang, Yiping Wang, Tianshi Wang, Xiuzhi Wang, Jiao Ma, and Jinke Cheng*, Senp2 regulates adipose lipid storage by de-SUMOylation of Setdb1. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 2018, 10 (3):258-266.

  49. Huang X, Zuo Y*, Wang, XZ, Wu, XF, Tan HS, Fan QJ, Dong BJ, Xue W, Chen GQ, Cheng JK*. SUMO-Specific Protease 1 Is Critical for Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Development and Function. Cancer Research, 2019,79(15): 3891-3902.

  50. Wang T, Cao Y, Zheng Q, Tu J, Zhou W, He J, Zhong J, Chen Y, Wang J, Cai R, Zuo Y, Wei B, Fan Q, Yang J, Wu Y, Yi J, Li D, Liu M, Wang C, Zhou A, Li Y, Wu X, Yang W, Chin YE, Chen G, Cheng JK*. SENP1-Sirt3 Signaling Controls Mitochondrial Protein Acetylation and Metabolism. Molecular Cell. 2019,75(4):823-834.

  51. Liang QL; Zheng  Q, Zuo Y,Chen YL, Ma J ,Ni PH*, Cheng JK*. SENP2 Suppresses Necdin Expression to Promote Brown Adipocyte Differentiation. Cell Reports, 2019, 28(8): 2004-2011.

  52. Yang Wang ，Jing Tian, Chao Huang , Jiao Ma, Gaolei Hu， Yalan Chen, Tianshi Wang, Rong Cai,Yong Zuo, Hongsheng Tan, Qiuju Fan, Baijun Dong, Wei Xue, Jing Yi, Guoqiang Chen, Jun Tu and Jinke Cheng.P53 suppresses SENP3 phosphorylation to mediate G2 checkpoint.Cell Discovery ；( 2020) 6:21

  53. Yun Yu , Yalan Chen , Kexin Liu, Jinke Cheng*, Jun Tu*. SUMOylation enhances the activity of IDH2 under oxidative stress. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 532 (2020)591-597.

  54. Jianli He , Jinke Cheng and Tianshi Wang.SUMOylation-Mediated Response to Mitochondrial Stress.Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 5657; doi:10.3390/ijms21165657

  55. Xun Shangguan , Jianli He, Zehua Ma, Weiwei zhang , Yiyi Ji, Kai Shen, Zhiying Yue, Wenyu Li ,Zhixiang Xin, Quan Zheng, Ying Cao, Jiahua Pan, Baijun Dong, Jinke Cheng*, Qi Wang* &Wei Xue*，SUMOylation Controls the Binding of Hexokinase 2 to Mitochondria and Protects against Prostate Cancer Tumorigenesis.Nature Communications. 2021 Mar 22;12(1):1812.

  56. Jianli He#, Xun Shangguan# , Wei Zhou, Ying Cao, Quan Zheng, Jun Tu, Gaolei Hu, Zi Liang,Cen Jiang, Liufu Deng , Shengdian Wang, Wen Yang, Yong Zuo, Jiao Ma, Rong Cai, Yalan Chen,Qiuju Fan, Baijun Dong , Wei Xue, Hongsheng Tan, Yitao Qi, Jianmin Gu, Bing Su, Y. Eugene Chin,Guoqiang Chen , Qi Wang*, Tianshi Wang* & Jinke Cheng*. Glucose limitation activates AMPK coupled SENP1-Sirt3 signalling in mitochondria for T cell memory development. Nature Communications , (2021) 12:4371.

  57. Yang Liu,# Xin Dou,# Wei-yu Zhou, Meng Ding, Ling Liu, Ruo-qi Du, Liang Guo, Shu-wen Qian,Yan Tang, Qi-qi Yang,Dong-ning Pan,Xiao-ying Li, Yan Lu, Jin-ke Cheng, and Qi-qun Tang*. Hepatic Small Ubiquitin-Related Modifier (SUMO)–Specific Protease 2 Controls Systemic Metabolism Through SUMOylation-Dependent Regulation of Liver–Adipose Tissue Crosstalk. Hepatology, Vol. 74, No. 4, 2021.

  58. Kan Yang* Yuhan Shi, Xiujuan Du, Jincheng Wang, Yuefang Zhang, Shifang Shan, Yiting Yuan,Ruoqing Wang, Chenhuan Zhou, Yuting Liu, Zilin Cai, Yanzhi Wang,Liu Fan, Huatai Xu, Juehua Yu,Jinke Cheng,* Fei Li,* and Zilong Qiu*.SENP1 in the retrosplenial agranular cortex regulates core autistic-like symptoms in mice. Cell Reports .37, 109939, November 2, 2021.

  59. Xiaoyu Song , Fengrui Yang, Xu Liu, Peng Xia , Wu Yin, Zhikai Wang, Yong Wang,Xiao Yuan, Zhen Dou, Kai Jiang, Mingming Ma, Bing Hu, Rui Zhang , Chao Xu ,Zhiyong Zhang , Ke Ruan, Ruijun Tian , Lin Li , Tao Liu, Donald L. Hill, Jianye Zang ,*Xing Liu* , Jinsong Li*, Jinke Cheng * and Xuebiao Yao *. Dynamic crotonylation of EB1 by TIP60 ensures accurate spindle positioning in mitosis. Nat Chem Biol. 2021 Dec;17(12):1314-1323.

  60. Hailong Zhang, Xian Zhao, Yanmin Guo, Ran Chen, Jianfeng He, Lian Li, Zhe Qiang, Qianqian Yang,Xiaojia Liu, Caihu Huang, Runhui Lu, Jiayu Fang, Yingting Cao1, Jiayi Huang, Yanli Wang, Jian Huang,Guo-Qiang Chen*, Jinke Cheng *& Jianxiu Yu*. Hypoxia regulates overall mRNA homeostasis by inducing Met1-linked linear ubiquitination of AGO2 in cancer cells. Nature Communications.(2021) 12:5416.

  61. Yajie Shen，Jingqi Zhou，KuiNie，Shuhua Cheng，Zhengming Chen，Wenhan Wang，Weiqing Wei，Daiji Jiang，Zijing Peng，Yizhuo Ren，Yirong Zhang，Qiuju Fan，Kristy L.Richards，Yitao Qi，Jinke Cheng*，Wayne Tam，Jiao Ma*. (2021).Oncogenic role of SOX9-DHCR24-cholesterol biosynthesis axis in IGH-BCL2 positive diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.BLOOD. 2022;139(1):73-88.

  62. Wei Zhou，Gaolei Hu，Jianli He，Tianshi Wang，Yong Zuo，Ying Cao，Quan Zheng，Jun Tu，Jiao Ma，Rong Cai，Yalan Chen，Qiuju Fan，Baijun Dong，Hongsheng Tan，Qi Wang,Wei Xue*，Jinke Cheng*. SENP1-Sirt3 signaling promotes α-ketoglutarate production during M2 macrophage polarization. Cell Report.2022 Apr 12;39(2):110660.doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110660.

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