With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research team directed by Prof.Zhang LingQiang (张令强) at the State Key Laboratory of Proteomics,National Center of Protei Sciences (Beijing),Beijing Institute of Lifeomics,recently reported that CKIP-1 limits foam cell formation and inhibits atherosclerosis by promoting degradation of Oct-1 by REGγ,which was published in Nature Communications (2019,10:425).