{"id":1782,"date":"2025-07-09T03:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2025-07-09T04:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:06:35","slug":"an-executioner-of-cell-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/an-executioner-of-cell-death\/","title":{"rendered":"An executioner of cell death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with Jie Xu&#8217;s lab, Yiling studied how a protein called &#8220;NINJ1&#8221; regulates the rupture of cell plasma membranes.<\/p>\n<p>We found that having more NINJ1 drastically reduces the lysis tension of the plasma membrane, making cells more fragile under mechanical perturbations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09222-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper on <em><strong>Nature!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with Jie Xu&#8217;s lab, Yiling studied how a protein called &#8220;NINJ1&#8221; regulates the rupture of cell plasma membranes. We found that having more NINJ1 drastically reduces the lysis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/an-executioner-of-cell-death\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-papers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shi-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}