Huijie Liu: The Plant Cell First Author

Huijie Liu, co-first author of “N4-acetylation of cytidine in (m)RNA plays essential roles in plants” 

Current position: Ph.D. candidate, Nanjing Agricultural University

Education: Master, Hangzhou Normal University

Non-scientific Interests: traveling and watching movies

Brief bio:

In 2022, I obtained my master’s degree from Hangzhou Normal University, and then join to Prof. Dr. Mingjia Chen’s lab at Nanjing Agricultural University where I pursue my Ph.D. study focusing on the identification and characterization of RNA modification in plants. In this project, we demonstrate the wide occurrence of cytidine N4-acetylation (ac⁴C) on mRNAs from various vascular plants. Using acRIP-seq, we mapped the distribution of ac⁴C modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana. Several lines of evidences showed that N-ACETYLTRANSFERASEs FOR CYTIDINE IN RNA 1 (ACYR1) and ACYR2 are partially redundant and together responsible for RNA acetylation in Arabidopsis. In the future, I will continue my work on the functional analysis of RNA modification in plant and strive to make some new progress in this field.

姓名：刘慧婕

发表论文：N4-acetylation of cytidine in (m)RNA plays an essential role in plants

目前职位：南京农业大学，博士生

教育经历：杭州师范大学，硕士学位

兴趣爱好：旅游，看电影

个人简历：

我于2022年在杭州师范大学获得硕士学位，同年进入南京农业大学生命科学学院陈铭佳课题组攻读博士学位，主要从事RNA新型化学修饰功能解析工作。

我们的研究证实了高等植物mRNA中广泛存在胞嘧啶乙酰化（ac⁴C）修饰。利用acRIP-seq，我们绘制了拟南芥叶片ac⁴C修饰图谱。生化和生理实验结果证明植物RNA乙酰化酶ACYR1和ACYR2部分功能冗余，共同介导全局ac⁴C修饰。未来，我将继续从事RNA修饰功能解析工作，努力在这一领域取得新进展。