Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Zhang S^#, Zou S^#, Yin D, Zhao L, Finley D, Wu Z, Mao Y*. USP14-regulated allostery of the human proteasome by time-resolved cryo-EM. Nature 2022; 605: 567-574. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04671-8

Zhang S^#, Wang K^#, Wang WL^#, Nguyen HT, Chen S, Lu M, Go EP, Ding H, Steinbock RT, Desaire H, Kappes JC, Sodroski J*, Mao Y*. Asymmetric structures and conformational plasticity of the uncleaved full-length human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein trimer. J. Virol. 2021; 95: e00529-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00529-21

Dong Y, Zhang S, Wu Z, Li X, Wang WL, Zhu Y, Stoilova-McPhie S, Lu Y, Finley D, Mao Y*. Cryo-EM structures and dynamics of substrate-engaged human 26S proteasome. Nature 565, 49-55 (2019). doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0736-4.

2018_Nature-s41586-018-0736-4.pdf

Sharif H, Wang L, Wang WL, Magupalli VG, Andreeva L, Qiao Q, Hauenstein AV, Wu Z, Nunez G, Mao Y*, Wu H*. Structural mechanism for NEK7-licensed NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Nature 570, 338–343 (2019). doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1295-z.

2019_Nature-s41586-019-1295-z.pdf

Zhu Y, Wang WL, Yu D, Ouyang Q, Lu Y*, Mao Y*. Structural mechanism for nucleotide-driven remodeling of the AAA-ATPase unfoldase in the activated human 26S proteasome. Nat. Commun. 9, 1360 (2018). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03785-w.

Dong Y, Chen S, Zhang S, Sodroski J, Yang Z, Liu D, Mao Y*. Folding DNA into a lipid-conjugated nanobarrel for controlled reconstitution of membrane proteins. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 2072-2076 (2018). doi:10.1002/anie.201710147.

2018_Angewandte_Chemie_International_Edition-Dong.pdf

Lu Y, Wu J, Dong Y, Chen S, Sun S, Ma YB, Ouyang Q, Finley D, Kirschner MW*, Mao Y*. Conformational landscape of the p28-bound human proteasome regulatory particle. Mol. Cell 67, 322-333.e6 (2017). doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.06.007.

2017_Mol_Cell_Lu_Wu.pdf

Zhu Y, Ouyang Q, Mao Y*. A deep convolutional neural network approach to single-particle recognition in cryo-electron microscopy. BMC Bioinformatics 18, 348 (2017). doi: 10.1186/s12859-017-1757-y.

Wu J, Ma Y, Congdon C, Brett B, Chen S, Ouyang Q, Mao Y*. Massively parallel unsupervised single-particle cryo-EM data clustering via statistical manifold learning. PLoS ONE 12, e0182130 (2017). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182130.

Chen S, Wu J, Lu Y, Ma YB, Lee BH, Yu Z, Ouyang Q, Finley D, Kirschner MW*, Mao Y*. Structural basis for dynamic regulation of the human 26S proteasome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 12991-12996 (2016). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614614113.

2016_PNAS_Chen.pdf

Zhang L, Chen S, Ruan J, Wu J, Tong AB, Yin Q, Li Y, David L, Lu A, Wang WL, Marks C, Ouyang Q, Zhang X, Mao Y*, Wu H*. Cryo-EM structure of the activated NAIP2-NLRC4 inflammasome reveals nucleated polymerization. Science 350, 404-409 (2015). doi: 10.1126/science.aac5789.

2015_Science_Zhang.pdf

Mao Y*, Wang L, Gu C, Herschhorn A, Xiang SH, Haim H, Yang X, Sodroski J*. Subunit organization of the membrane-bound HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein trimer. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19, 893-899 (2012). doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2351.

2012_NSMB_Mao.pdf

Mao Y*, Zhang J. Understanding thermodynamic competitivity between biopolymer folding and misfolding under large-scale intermolecular interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 631-639 (2012). doi: 10.1021/ja209534c.

2012_JACS_Mao.pdf

Mao Y, Chang S, Yang S, Ouyang Q*, Jiang L*. Tunable non-equilibrium gating of flexible DNA nanochannels in response to transport flux. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2, 366-371 (2007). doi: 10.1038/nnano.2007.

2007_Nature_Nano_Mao.pdf