Jeong, J.-Y.,* Kim, N.,* Li, Y., Kim, D.-J., Kim, H. K. and Oh, W.-J. (2025) Elevated plasma levels of alpha-synuclein are dispensable for Parkinson's disease pathology. npj Parkinson's Disease; 11:228. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-01091-z
Kim, K. W., Lee, E., Ko, A., Hwang, J., Park, K., Lee B. C., Kim, K. W., Oh, W.-J., Kim, K. and Lim, H. -H. (2025) Cyro-EM structures of mouse bestrophin 1 channel in closed and partially open conformations. Mol. Cells; doi: 10.1016/j.mocell.2025.100208
Kim, J. H., Jeong, H.-G. Hyeon, S. J., Park, U., Oh, W.-J., Hwang, J. Lim, H.-H., Ko, P.-W., Lee, H.-W., Ryu, H. and Suk, K. (2024) Crosstalk between lipocalin-2 and IL-6 in traumatic brain injury: Closely related biomarkers. Exp. Neurol. DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2024.115092
Kim, N.,* Li, Y.,* Yu, R., Kwon, H.-S., Song, A., Jun, M.-H., Jeong, J.-Y., Lee, J. H., Lim, H.-H., Kim, M.-J., Kim, J.-W. and Oh, W.-J. (2024) Repulsive Sema3E-Plexin-D1 signaling coordinates both axonal extension and steering via activating an autoregulatory factor, Mtss1. eLife, 13:e96891. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.96891
Jeong, J.-Y., Lee, H. J., Kim, N., Li, Y., Rah, J.-C. and Oh, W. -J. (2023) Impaired neuronal activity as a potential factor contributing to the underdeveloped cerebrovasculature in a young Parkinson's disease mouse model. Sci Reports 13:22613. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49900-w
Kim, N., Jun, M.-H., Jeong, J.-Y. and Oh, W.-J. (2022) Optimized protocol for translatome analysis of mouse brain endothelial cells. Plos One 17(9): e0275036. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275036
Yu, R., Kim, N.-S., Li, Y., Jeong, J.-Y., Park, S.-J., Zhou, B. and Oh, W.-J. (2021) Vascular Sema3E-Plexin-D1 signaling reactivation promotes post-stroke recovery through VEGF downregulation in mice. Translational Stroke Research; 13:142-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12975-021-00914-4
Yoo, K.-S., Lee, K., Lee, Y.-S., Oh, W.-J. and Kim, H. K. (2020) Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 4 (Arhgef4) deficiency enhances spatial and object recognition memory. Exp. Neurobiol; 29(5): 334-343
Choi, M.-G., Kim, M.-J., Kim, D.-G., Yu, R., Jang, Y.-N. and Oh, W.-J. (2018) Sequestration of synaptic proteins by alpha-synuclein aggregates leading to neurotoxicity is inhibited by small peptide. PLoS One 13(4); e0195339
Kim J. -H., Ko P. -W., Lee H. -W., Jeong J. -Y., Lee M. -G., Kim J. -H., Lee W. -H., Yu R., Oh W.-J., Suk K. (2017) Astrocyte-derived lipocalin-2 mediated hippocampal damage and cognitive deficits in experimental models of vascular dementia. Glia. 65 (9): 1471-1490
Gelfand M. V., Hagan N., Tata A., Oh W.-J., Lacoste B., Kang K.-T., Bischoff J., Wang J. and Gu C. (2014) Neuropilin-1 functions as a VEGFR2 co-receptor to guide developmental angiogenesis independent of ligand binding. eLife, 3:e03720
Tritsch N. X., Oh W.-J., Gu C. and Sabatini B. L. (2014) Midbrain dopamine neurons sustain inhibitory transmission using plasma membrane of uptake GABA, not synthesis. eLIFE, 3:e01936
Oh W.-J. and Gu C. (2013) Establishment of neurovascular congruency in the mouse whisker system by an independent patterning mechanism. Neuron, 80: 458-469, (Preview in Neuron 2013, 80: 262-265, Selected for Faculty 1000)
Oh W.-J. and Gu C. (2013) The role and mechanism-of-action of Sema3E and Plexin-D1. Semin Cell Dev Biol., 24: 156-162
Kwon H.-B., Kozorovitskiy, Y., Oh W.-J., Peixoto, R., Akhtar N., Saulnier J. L., Gu C., and Sabatini B. L. (2012) Cortical synaptogenesis and excitatory synapse number are determined via a Neuroligin-1-dependent intercellular competition. Nat. Neurosci, 15: 1667-1674
Ding J. B.* Oh W.-J.,* Sabatini B. L., and Gu C. (2012) Semaphorin3E-Plexin-D1 signaling controls pathway-specific synapse formation in the striatum. Nat. Neurosci, 15: 215-223, (*: equally contributed)
Kim J.-H.,* Oh W.-J.,* Gaiano N., Yoshida Y., and Gu C. (2011) Semaphorin3E-Plexin-D1 signaling regulates VEGF function in developmental angiogenesis via a feedback mechanism. Genes & Dev, 25: 1399-1411 (*: equally contributed), Cover picture in Genes Dev. 2011 Jul 1;25 (13):1399-411, Selected for Faculty 1000
Ruiz de Almodovar, C., Fabre P.J., Knevels E., Coulon C., Segura I., Haddick P.C.G., Aerts L., Delattin N., Strasser G., Oh W.-J., Lange C., Vinckier S., Haigh J., Fouquet C., Henderson C., Gu C., Alitalo K., Castellani V., Tessier-Lavigne M., Chedotal A., Charron F., and Carmeliet P. (2011) VEGF mediates commissural axon chemoattraction through its receptor Flk1. Neuron 70: 966-978
Oh, W.-J., Westmoreland J. J., Summers R., Condie, B.G. (2010) Cleft Palate Is Caused by CNS Dysfunction in Gad1 and Viaat Knockout Mice. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9758
Oh, W.-J.,* Noggle, S.A.,* Maddox, D.M., and Condie, B.G. (2005) The mouse vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter gene: Expression during embryogenesis, analysis of its core promoter in neural stem cells and a reconsideration of its alternate splicing. Gene 351: 39-49 (*: equally contributed)
Su, D.-M., Navarre, S., Oh, W.-J., Condie, B.G., and Manley, N.R. (2003) Domain of Foxn1 required for crosstalk-dependent thymic epithelial cell differentiation. Nat. Immunol., 4(11); 1128-1135