PUBLICATIONS

  1.  Vitriol EA, Wise AL, Berginski ME, Bamburg JR, and Zheng JQ (2013).  Instantaneous Inactivation of Cofilin Reveals Its Function of F-actin Disassembly in Lamellipodia.    Molecular Biology of the Cell   May 15 - epub ahead of print.
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  2.  Lee CW*, Vitriol EA*, Shim S, Wise AL, Velayutham RP, and Zheng JQ (2013).  Dynamic Localization of G-actin During Membrane Protrusion in Neuronal Motility.    Current Biology   In press.
           
          
          
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  3.  Vitriol EA and Zheng JQ (2012).  Growth Cone Travel in Space and Time: the Cellular Ensemble of Cytoskeleton, Adhesion, and Membrane.    Neuron, the Cell Press  73(6):1068-1081.  
      
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  4.  Han L, Wen Z, Lynn RC, Baudet M-L, Holt CE, Sasaki Y, Bassell GJ, and Zheng JQ (2011).   Regulation of Chemotropic Guidance of Nerve Growth Cones by microRNA.   Molecular Brain  4:40.
      
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  5.  Fan Y, Tang X, Vitriol E, Chen G, and Zheng JQ (2011).   Actin Capping Protein is Required for Dendritic Spine Development and Synapse Formation   Journal of Neuroscience  31(28):10228-10233.
     
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  6.   Sweet ES, Previtera ML, Fernández JR, Charych EI, Tseng C-Y , Kwon M, Starovoytov V, Zheng JQ, and Firestein BL (2011).  PSD-95 Alters Microtubule Dynamics via an Association With EB3.   Journal of Neuroscience  31(3): 1038-1047.
     
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  7.   Gu J*, Lee CW*, Fan Y*, Komlos D, Tang X, Sun C, Yu K, Hartzell1 HC, Chen G, Bamburg JR, and Zheng JQ (2010).   ADF/Cofilin-Mediated Actin Dynamics Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking during Synaptic Plasticity.   Nature Neuroscience  13(10):1208–1215.  
             PMC free access    supplemental data

  8.    Lau A, Irier H, Gu J, Tian D, Ku L, Liu G, Xia M, Fritsch B, Zheng JQ, Dingledine R, Xu B, Lu B, Feng Y (2010).   Distinct 3'UTRs differentially regulate activity-dependent translation of BDNF.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  107(36):15945-15950.  
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  9.    Sasaki Y, Welshhans K, Wen Z, Yao Y, Xu M, Goshima Y, Zheng JQ, and Bassell GJ (2010).   Phosphorylation of zipcode binding protein is required for BDNF signaling of local beta-actin synthesis and growth cone turning   Journal of Neuroscience  30(28):9349-9358.  
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  10.  Rui Y, Gu J, Yu K, Hartzell HC and Zheng JQ (2010).   Inhibition of AMPA Receptor Trafficking at Hippocampal Synapses by ß-amyloid Oligomers: the Mitochondrial Contribution.   Molecular Brain  3:10.  
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  11.  Gu J and Zheng JQ (2009).   Microtubules in Dendritic Spine Development and Plasticity.  The Open Neuroscience Journal  3:128-133 (peer-reviewed minireview article in the special volume: Hot Topic:Exciting Dendritic Spines).  
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  12.  Lee CW, Han J, Bamburg JR, Han L, Lynn R, and Zheng JQ (2009).   Regulation of Acetylcholine Receptor Clustering by ADF/Cofilin-Directed Vesicular Trafficking.  Nature Neuroscience  12:848 - 856.  
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  13.  Gu J, Firestein BL, and Zheng JQ (2008).  Microtubules in Dendritic Spine Development.  Journal of Neuroscience  28(46):12120-12124.  
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  14.  Zheng JQ and Poo MM (2007).  Calcium Signaling in Neuronal Motility.  Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology  Vol.23: 375-404 (Nov).
           

  15.  Wen Z*, Han L*, Bamburg JR, Shim S, Ming GL, and Zheng JQ (2007).  BMP Gradients Steer Nerve Growth Cones by a Balancing Act of LIM Kinase and Slingshot Phosphatase on ADF/Cofilin.  Journal of Cell Biology  178(1):107-119.  
                         
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        SCIENCE STKE Editor's Choice. Science STKE, tw241 (2007).
  16.  Alder J and Zheng JQ (2007).  Surfing on Calcium Waves.  Neuron, the Cell Press 54(4): 502-505.
           

  17.  Han J, Han L, Tiwari P, Wen Z, and Zheng JQ (2007).  Spatial Targeting of Type II Protein Kinase A to Filopodia Mediates the Regulation of Growth Cone Guidance by cAMP.  Journal of Cell Biology  176(1): 101-111.
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            featured on the cover of this JCB issue.

  18.  Rui Y, Tiwari P, Xie ZP, and Zheng JQ (2006).  Acute Impairment of Mitochondrial Trafficking by ß-amyloid Peptides in Hippocampal Neurons.  Journal of Neuroscience  26(41):10480-10487.
           

  19.  Charych EI, Akum BF, Goldberg JS, Jörnsten RJ, Rongo C, Zheng JQ, and Firestein BL (2006).  Activity-Independent Regulation of Dendrite Patterning by Postsynaptic Density Protein PSD-95.  Journal of Neuroscience  26(40): 10164-10176.
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  20.  Yao J, Sasaki Y, Bassell G, and Zheng JQ (2006).  An Essential Role for ß-actin mRNA Localization and Translation in Ca2+-dependent Growth Cone Guidance.  Nature Neuroscience  9(10): 1265-1273. Published online Sept.17, 2006.  
            News & Views    

    SCIENCE STKE Editor's Choice. E.M. Adler, Translating Cues into Action, Science STKE, tw339 (2006).

    Nature Signaling Gateway.  Axon guidance: The asymmetry of attraction.   October featured articles.

  21.  Gomez TM and Zheng JQ (2006).  Molecular Basis for Calcium-Dependent Axon Pathfinding.  Nature Review Neuroscience  7(2):115-125 (featured review article, peer reviewed).
           

  22.  Wen Z and Zheng JQ (2006).  Directional Guidance of Nerve Growth Cones.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology   16(1):52-58.
           

  23.  Guirland C and Zheng JQ (2005). Lipid Rafts and Their Role in Axon Guidance,  in Axon Growth and Guidance (ed. Dominique Bagnard). Landes Bioscience. In Press
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  24.  Wen Z, Guirland C, Ming G-L, and Zheng JQ (2004).    A CaMKII/Calcineurin Switch Controls the Direction of Ca2+-dependent Growth Cone Guidance.  Neuron, the Cell Press 43(6):835-846.  
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  25.  Guirland C, Suzuki S, Kojima M, Lu B, and Zheng JQ (2004).    Lipid Rafts Mediate Chemotropic Guidance of Nerve Growth Cones.  Neuron, the Cell Press 42(1):51-62.  
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  26.  Spikes in color!Liu ZJ*, Geng L*, Li RX, He XP, Zheng JQ, and Xie ZP (2003).   Frequency Modulation of Synchronized Ca2+ Spikes in Cultured Hippocampal Networks Through G Protein-Coupled Receptors.   Journal of Neuroscience  23(10):4156-4163.   This work was performed in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.   JQZ and ZPX are co-corresponding authors.
           

  27.  Guirland C*, Buck KB*, Gibney JA, Dicicco-Bloom E, and Zheng JQ (2003).   Direct cAMP Signaling Through G Protein-Coupled Receptors Mediates Growth Cone Attraction Induced by Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide.   Journal of Neuroscience  23(6):2274-2283.  
           

  28.  Gibney JA and Zheng JQ (2003).   Cytoskeletal Dynamics Underlying Collateral Membrane Protrusions Induced by Neurotrophins in Cultured Xenopus Spinal Neurons.  Journal of Neurobiology  54(2):393-405.
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  29.  Buck KB and Zheng JQ (2002).    Growth Cone Turning Induced by Direct Local Modification of Microtubule Dynamics.  Journal of Neuroscience  22(21):9358-9367.  
           
    Supplementary video clips (Microsoft avi files):
    20 nM Cytochalasin D inhibted growth cone motility
    100 pg/ml Toxin B did not affect growth cone motility
    Both drugs, however, effectively blocked the attractive and repulsive turning of growth cones induced by different cues.   For details, please see the article.

  30.  Zheng JQ (2000).   Turning of Nerve Growth Cones Induced by Localized Increases in Intracellular Calcium Ions. Nature Magzine 403:89-93 (Jan. 6).
           

  31.  DiCicco-Bloom E, Deutsch PJ, Maltzman J, Zhang JW, Pintar JE, Zheng JQ, Friedman WF, and Zaremba T (2000): Autocrine Expression and Ontogenetic Functions of the PACAP Ligand/Receptor System during Sympathetic Development.   Developmental Biology  219:197-213.

  32.  Wang Q. and Zheng JQ (1998).  cAMP-Mediated Regulation of Neurotrophin-Induced Collapse of Nerve Growth Cones.  Journal of Neuroscience  18(13):4973-4984.
           

  33.  Ming GL, Lohof AM,and Zheng JQ (1997):  Acute Morphogenic and Chemotropic Effects of Neurotrophins on Cultured Embryonic Xenopus Spinal Neurons.   Journal of Neuroscience  17(20):7860-7871.
           

  34.  Zheng JQ , Poo MM, and Connor JA (1996). Calcium and chemotropic turning of nerve growth cones.  Perspectives on Developmental Neurobiology  4(2/3):205. Review article, click here to request a reprint with color figures.

  35.   Zheng JQ, Wan, JJ, and Poo MM (1996):  Essential role of filopodia in chemotropic turning of nerve growth cone induced by a glutamate gradient.   Journal of Neuroscience  16, 1140-1149.
    Journal cover of the issue! Read the abstract online or request a reprint from us.   Our color image of growth cone turning in a chemical gradient was featured on the cover of this issue. Click here to view the picture used for the cover.

  36.  Wang XH, Zheng JQ, Poo MM (1996). Effects of cytochalasin treatment on short-term synaptic plasticity at developing neuromuscular junctions in frogs.  Journal of Physiology  491, 187-195.

  37.  Girod R, Popov SV, Alder JE, Zheng JQ, Lohof AM, and Poo MM (1995): Spontaneous quantal transmitter secretion from myocytes and fibroblasts: comparison with neuronal secretion.   Journal of Neuroscience  15(4): 2826-2838.

  38.  Zheng JQ, Felder M, Connor JA, and Poo MM (1994): Turning of nerve growth cones induced by neurotransmitters. Nature Magzine 368, 140-144 (Click here to view a pseudocolor Ca2+ imaging sequence showing the rise of Ca2+ at the growth cone upon transmitter application).  
           

  39.  Zheng JQ, Zheng ZW, and Poo MM (1994): Long-range signaling in growing neurons after local elevation of cAMP activity.   Journal of Cell Biology  127, 1693-1701.  
    Journal cover of the issue! (Click here to view the picture used for the cover of this issue of JCB). You can download the PDF file from the JCB website

 

 

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