Selected Publications:
Wenwen Li, Jiarui Li, Jing Li, Chen Wei, Tal Laviv, Meiyi Dong, Jingran Lin, Mariah Calubag, Lesley A Colgan, Kai Jin, Bing Zhou, Ying Shen, Haohong Li, Yihui Cui, Zhihua Gao, Tao Li, Hailan Hu, Ryohei Yasuda, Huan Ma*. Boosting neuronal activity-driven mitochondrial DNA transcription improves cognition in aged mice. Science. 2024.
Xingzhi He, Wenwen Li, Huan Ma*. Orchestrating neuronal activity-dependent translation via the integrated stress response protein GADD34. Trends in Neurosciences. 2024.
Huan Ma*, Houda G Khaled, Xiaohan Wang, Nataniel J Mandelberg, Samuel M Cohen, Xingzhi He, Richard W Tsien*. Excitation–transcription coupling, neuronal gene expression and synaptic plasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2023.
Xingzhi He, Yang Wang, Guangjun Zhou, Jing Yang, Jiarui Li, Tao Li, Hailan Hu, Huan Ma*. A Critical Role for gCaMKII in Decoding NMDA Signaling to Regulate AMPA Receptors in Putative Inhibitory Interneurons. Neurosci Bull. 2022.
Kwan Tung Li, Xingzhi He, Guangjun Zhou, Jing Yang, Tao Li, Hailan Hu, Daoyun Ji, Changsong Zhou*, Huan Ma*. Rational designing of oscillatory rhythmicity for memory rescue in plasticity-impaired learning networks. Cell Reports. 2022.
Yue Pan, Guangjun Zhou, Wenwen Li, Xingzhi He, Cuicui Li, Yanjun Li, Tao Li, Hailan Hu, Huan Ma*. Excitation-transcription coupling via synapto-nuclear signaling triggers autophagy for synaptic turnover and long-lasting synaptic depression. Autophagy. 2021.
Yue Pan, Xingzhi He, Cuicui Li, Yanjun Li, Wenwen Li, Hanbin Zhang, Yang Wang, Guangjun Zhou, Jing Yang, Jiarui Li, Jing Qu, Hao Wang, Zhihua Gao, Ying Shen, Tao Li, Hailan Hu, Huan Ma*.Neuronal activity recruits the CRTC1/CREB axis to drive transcription-dependent autophagy for maintaining late-phase LTD. Cell Reports. 2021.
Xingzhi He, Jiarui Li, Guangjun Zhou, Jing Yang, Sam McKenzie, Yanjun Li, Wenwen Li, Jun Yu, Yang Wang, Jing Qu, Zhiying Wu, Hailan Hu, Shumin Duan, Huan Ma*. Gating of hippocampal rhythms and memory by synaptic plasticity in inhibitory interneurons. Neuron. 2021.
Samuel M. Cohen, Benjamin Suutari, Xingzhi He, Yang Wang, Sandrine Sanchez, Natasha N. Tirko, Nataniel J. Mandelberg, Caitlin Mullins, Guangjun Zhou, Shuqi Wang, Ilona Kats, Alejandro Salah, Richard W. Tsien*, Huan Ma*. Calmodulin shuttling mediates cytonuclear signaling to trigger experience-dependent transcription and memory. Nature Communications. 2018.
Huan Ma*, Rachel D. Groth, Samuel Cohen, John Emery, Boxing Li, Esthelle Hoedt, Guoan Zhang, Thomas A. Neubert, Richard W. Tsien*. gCaMKII shuttles CaM to the nucleus to trigger CREB phosphorylation and gene expression. Cell. 2014.
Damian G. Wheeler, Rachel D. Groth, Huan Ma*, Curtis F. Barrett, Scott F. Owen, Parsa Safa, Richard W. Tsien*. Specific calcium channel types engage different modes of Ca2+ signaling to control CREB phosphorylation and gene expression.Cell. 2012.
Samuel Cohen, Boxing Li, Richard W. Tsien, Huan Ma*. Evolutionary and Functional Perspectives on Signaling from Neuronal Surface to Nucleus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2015.
Huan Ma, Qian Cai, Wen-Bo Lu, Zu-Hang Sheng, Sumiko Mochida. KIF5B Motor Adaptor Syntabulin Maintains Synaptic Transmission in Sympathetic Neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2009.