Publications

Yang, X., Ma Y., Geng, B., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Sun, J., Liao, H., Gu, Y., and Tang, Y.# (2025). NUP50c defines a conserved nuclear basket module with NUP82 and NUP136 to mediate mRNA export and gene regulation in plants. The Plant Cell  37: koaf260.

Tang, Y.#, Liu, X., Fang, Y., Calvanese, E., Hong, Y., and Gu, Y.# (2025). Nuclear lamina phase separation orchestrates stress-induced transcriptional responses in plants. Developmental Cell  60: 3156.

Calvanese, E. Jia, M., Xie, O., and Gu, Y.# (2025). ECLIPSE mediates selective degradation of inner nuclear membrane protein in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany  76: 4326.

Fang, Y., Tang, Y., Xie, P., Hsieh, K., Nam, H., Jia, M., Reyes, A.V., Liu, Y., Xu, S., Xu, X. and Gu, Y.# (2025). Nucleoporin PNET1 coordinates mitotic nuclear pore complex dynamics for rapid cell division. Nature Plants 11: 295. (Featured by Nature Plants News and Views: PNET1 is a key regulator of NPC dynamics and cell division)

Jia, M. and Gu, Y.# (2024). Nuclear Transport Receptors Underpin Plastidial Retrograde Signaling. Molecular Plant 17: 993.

Tang, Y., Yang, X., Huang, A., Seong, K., Ye, M., Li,. M., Zhao, Q., Krasileva, K., and Gu, Y.# (2024). Proxiome assembly of the plant nuclear pore complex reveals an essential hub for gene expression regulation. Nature Plants 10: 1005. (Featured by Nature Plants News and Views: Nuclear pores beyond macromolecule channels)

Tang, Y. and Gu, Y.# (2024). Unraveling plant nuclear envelope composition using proximity labeling proteomics. Methods for Plant Nucleus and Chromatin Studies (Book Chapter, Springer eBook ISBN 978-1-0716-4228-3).

Jia, M., Chen, X., Shi, X., Fang, Y. and Gu, Y.# (2023). Nuclear transport receptor KA120 regulates molecular condensation of MAC3 to coordinate plant immune activation. Cell Host & Microbe 31: 1685.

Fang, Y. and Gu, Y.# (2023). Dynamic nucleoskeleton in stress. Nature Plants 9: 1010.

Kenneally, R. and Gu, Y.# (2022). The Loyal “G”uard. Cell Host & Microbe 30: 1505.

Tang, Y., Ho, M., Kang, B., and Gu, Y.# (2022). GBPL3 localizes to the nuclear pore complex and functionally connects the nuclear basket with the nucleoskeleton in plants. PLOS Biology 20 (10): e3001831.

Innes, R., Gu, Y., Kliebenstein, D., and Tholl, D. (2022). Editorial: Exciting times in plant biotic interactions. The Plant Cell  34: 1421.

Calvanese, E. and Gu, Y.# (2022). Towards understanding inner nuclear membrane protein degradation in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany  73: 2266.

Wei, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, S., Gu, T., Steinmetz, G., Yu, H., Guo, G., Liu, X., Fan, S., Wang, F., Gu, Y. and Xin, F.# (2022). Structural analysis of receptor-like kinase SOBIR1 revealed mechanisms that regulate its phosphorylation-dependent activation. Plant Communications  3: 100301.

Wang, W., and Gu, Y.# (2022). The emerging role of biomolecular condensates in plant immunity. The Plant Cell  34: 1568.

Tang, Y., Dong, Q., Wang, T., Gong, L., and Gu, Y.# (2022). PNET2 is a component of the plant nuclear lamina and is required for proper genome organization and activity. Developmental Cell  57: 19. (Featured article with Preview – The edge of the nucleus: Variations on a theme)

Kang, B.#, Anderson, C.T., Arimura, S., Bayer, E., Bezanilla, M., Botella, M.A., Brandizzi, F., Burch-Smith, T.M., Chapman, K.D., Dunser, K., Gu, Y., Jaillais, Y., Kirchhoff, H., Otegui, M.S., Rosado, A., Tang, Y., Kleine-Vehn, J., Wang, P., and Zolman, B.K. (2022). A glossary of plant cell structures: Current insights and future questions. The Plant Cell  34: 10.

Fang, Y. and Gu, Y.# (2021). Regulation of plant immunity by nuclear membrane-associated mechanisms. Frontiers in Immunology  12: 771065.

Yu, X., Martin, P.G., Zhang, Y., Trinidad, J.C., Xu, F., Huang, J., Thum, K.E., Li, K., Zhao, S., Gu, Y., Wang, X., and Michaels, S.# (2021). The BORDER family of negative transcription elongation factors regulates flowering time in Arabidopsis. Current Biology  31: 5377.

Jia, M., Shen, X., Tang, Y., Shi, X., and Gu, Y.# (2021). A karyopherin constrains nuclear activity of the NLR protein SNC1 and is essential to prevent autoimmunity in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant  14: 1733. (Featured by Molecular Plant Spotlight: Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking during immunity)

Xu, F., Jia, M., Li, X., Tang, Y., Jiang, K., Bao, J., and Gu, Y.# (2021). Exportin-4 coordinates nuclear shuttling of TOPLESS family transcription corepressors to regulate plant immunity. The Plant Cell  33: 697.

Li, X., and Gu, Y.# (2020). Structural and functional insight into the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport receptors in plant stress signaling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 58: 60-68.

Huang, A., Tang, Y., Shi, X., Jia, M., Zhu, J., Yan, X., Chen, H., and Gu, Y.# (2020). Proximity labeling proteomics reveals critical regulators for inner nuclear membrane protein degradation in plants. Nature Communications 11: 3284.

Tang, Y., Huang, A., and Gu, Y.# (2020). Global profiling of plant nuclear membrane proteome in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 6: 838-847. (Featured by Nature Plants News and Views: Growing the nuclear envelope proteome)

Gu, Y.# (2018). The nuclear pore complex: a strategic platform for regulating cell signaling. New Phytologist 219: 25-30. (Tansley Insight by Tansley Medal Finalist 2017)

Sopeña-Torres, S., Jordá, L., Sánchez-Rodríguez, C., Miedes, E., Escudero, V., Swami, S., López, G., Piślewska-Bednarek, M., Lassowskat, I., Lee, J., Gu, Y., Haigis, S., Alexander, D., Pattathil, S., Muñoz-Barrios, A., Bednarek, P., Somerville, S., Schulze-Lefert, P,, Hahn, M.G., Scheel, D., Molina, A.# (2018). YODA MAP3K kinase regulates plant immune responses conferring broad-spectrum disease resistance. New Phytologist 218: 661-680. 

Gu, Y.#, Zavaliev R. and Dong X.# (2017). Membrane trafficking in plant immunity. Molecular Plant 10: 1026-1034.

Gu, Y., Zebell, S., Liang, Z., Wang, S., Kang, B. and Dong, X.# (2016). Nuclear pore permeabilization is a convergent signaling event in effector-triggered immunity. Cell 166: 1526-1538.

Liu, L., Sonbol, FM., Huot, B., Gu, Y., Withers, J., Mwimba, M., Yao, J., He, S.Y. and Dong, X.# (2016). Salicylic acid receptors activate jasmonic acid signaling through a noncanonical pathway to promote effector-triggered immunity. Nature Communications 7: 13099.

Gu, Y. and Dong X.# (2015). Stromules: signal conduits for plant immunity. Developmental Cell 34: 3-4.

Pauwels, L., Ritter, A., Goossens, J., Durand, A.N., Liu, H., Gu, Y., Geerinck, J., Boter, M., Vanden Bossche R., De Clercq, R,, Van Leene, J., Gevaert, K., De Jaeger, G., Solano, R., Stone, S., Innes, R.W., Callis, J., Goossens, A.# (2015). The RING E3 Ligase KEEP ON GOING Modulates JASMONATE ZIM-DOMAIN12 Stability. Plant Physiology 169 :1405-1417.

Saleh, A., Withers, J., Mohan, R., Marqués, J., Gu, Y., Yan, S., Zavaliev, R., Nomoto, M., Tada, Y., Dong, X.# (2015). Posttranslational Modifications of the Master Transcriptional Regulator NPR1 Enable Dynamic but Tight Control of Plant Immune Responses. Cell Host & Microbe 18: 169-182.

Wang, S.*, Gu, Y.*, Zebell, S.*, Anderson, L.K., Wang, W., Mohan, R., and Dong, X.# (2014). A noncanonical role for the CKI-RB-E2F cell-cycle signaling pathway in plant effector-triggered immunity. Cell Host & Microbe 16: 787-794. (*equal contribution)

Serrano, I.*, Gu, Y.*, Qi, D., Dubiella, U. and Innes, R.W.# (2014). The Arabidopsis EDR1 protein kinase negatively regulates the ATL1 E3 ubiquitin ligase to suppress cell death. The Plant Cell 26: 4532-4546. (*equal contribution)

Gu, Y. and Innes, R.W.# (2012). The Keep On Going (KEG) protein of Arabidopsis regulates intracellular protein trafficking and is degraded during fungal infection. The Plant Cell 24: 4717-4730.

Gu, Y. and Innes, R.W.# (2011). The Keep On Going (KEG) protein of Arabidopsis physically interacts with the Enhanced Disease Resistance 1 (EDR1) protein and recruits it to early endosomes. Plant Physiology 115: 1827-1838.