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Publications

Since joining UTRGV:

1.  Alanis E, Aguilar F, Banaei N, Dean EB, Villarreal A, Alanis M, Lozano K, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. A Rationally Designed Antimicrobial Peptide from Structural and Functional Insight of Clostridioides difficile Translation Initiation Factor 1. Microbiol. Spectr. 2024 Jan 12 https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02773-23.

2. De Los Reyes D, Karkoutly D, Zhang Y. Synapse-Associated Protein 102- a Highly Mobile MAGUK Predominate in Early Synaptogenesis. Front. Mol. Neurosci. 2023 Oct 7. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1286134.

3. Alanis E, Aguilar F, Banaei N, Dean EB, Alanis M, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. A Rationally Designed Antimicrobial Peptide from Structural and Functional Insight of Clostridium difficile Translation Initiation Factor 1. bioRxiv, 2023.06. 30.547268. 

4. Valdez N, Hughes C, Palmer SO, Sepulveda A, Dean FB, Escamilla Y, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. Rational Design of an Antimicrobial Peptide Based on Structural Insight into the Interaction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Initiation Factor 1 with Its Cognate 30S Ribosomal Subunit. ACS Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 10;7(12):3161-3167. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00256. (Cover Article)

5. Abdurrahman L, Fang X, Zhang Y. Molecular Insights of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Molecular Treatments. Curr Mol Med. 2021 Oct 13. doi: 10.2174/1566524021666211013121831. 

6. Zhang Y, Fang X, Acosta L, Li L, Guerra L, Vega A, Salinas A, Gonzalez A, Garza C, Tsin A, Hell JW, Ames JB. Zinc-chelating postsynaptic density-95 N-terminus impairs its palmitoyl modification. Protein Sci. 2021 Nov;30(11):2246-2257. doi: 10.1002/pro.4187.

7. Li L, Xie M, Zhang Y, Xu Y, Li J, Shan Y, Zhao Y, Zhou D, Chen X, Cui W. Thermal safety and performances analysis of gel polymer electrolytes synthesized by in situ polymerization for Li-ion battery. J Solid State Electrochem 25, 2021–2032 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-021-04965-3 

8. Zhang Y, Hell JW, Ames JB. Chemical shift assignments of the N-terminal domain of PSD95 (PSD95-NT). Biomol NMR Assign. 2021 Apr 30. doi: 10.1007/s12104-021-10028-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33929702.

9. Silva A, Xiao W, Wang Y, Wang W, Chang HW, Ames JB, Lam KS, Zhang Y. Structure-Activity Relationship of RGD-Containing Cyclic Octapeptide and αvβ3 Integrin Allows for Rapid Identification of a New Peptide Antagonist. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Apr 27;21(9):E3076. doi: 10.3390/ijms21093076. PMID: 32349271. 

10. Li L, Palmer SO, Gomez EA, Mendiola F, Wang T, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. 1 H, 13 C and 15 N Resonance Assignments of Translation Initiation Factor 3 From Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. Biomol NMR Assign. 2020 Apr;14(1):93-97. doi: 10.1007/s12104-020-09926-x. Epub 2020 Jan 4. PMID: 31902070.

11. M Xie, L Li, Y Zhang, J Du, Y Li, Y Shan, H Zheng. Mastering high ion conducting of room-temperature all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries via safe phthaloyl starch-poly (vinylidene fluoride)–based polymer electrolyte. Ionics 26 (3), 1109-1117 (2020). 

12. Aguilar F, Banaei N, Zhang Y. 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments and structure prediction of translation initiation factor 1 from Clostridium difficile.  Biomol NMR Assign. 2018 Oct 28. doi: 10.1007/s12104-018-9858-8. 

13. Matt L, Kim K, Hergarden AC, Patriarchi T, Malik ZA, Park DK, Chowdhury D, Buonarati OR, Henderson PB, Gökçek Saraç Ç, Zhang Y, Mohapatra D, Horne MC, Ames JB, Hell JW. α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites. Neuron. 2018 Mar 7;97(5):1094-1109.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.036. Epub 2018 Feb 8. 

14. Chowdhury D, Turner M, Patriarchi T, Hergarden AC, Anderson D, Zhang Y, Sun J, Chen CY, Ames JB, Hell JW. Ca2+/calmodulin binding to PSD-95 mediates homeostatic synaptic scaling down. EMBO J. 2018 Jan 4;37(1):122-138. doi: 10.15252/embj.201695829. Epub 2017 Nov 8.

15. B Cheng, LD Morales, Y Zhang, S Mito, A Tsin. Niclosamide induces protein ubiquitination and inhibits multiple pro-survival signaling pathways in the human glioblastoma U-87 MG cell line. PLoS ONE 12 (9), e0184324 (2017).

16. Z Li, Y Zhang, AC Hedman, JB Ames, DB Sacks. Calmodulin Lobes Facilitate Dimerization and Activation of Estrogen Receptor-α. Journal of Biological Chemistry 292 (11), 4614-4622 (2017).

17. L Li, Y Ma, W Wang, Y Xu, J You, Y Zhang. A thermal and electrochemical properties research on gel polymer electrolyte membrane of lithium ion battery. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 99 , 159-166 (2016).

18. Hu Y, Bernal A, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. Solution structure of protein synthesis initiation factor 1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Protein Sci. 2016 Dec;25(12):2290-2296. doi: 10.1002/pro.3042. Epub 2016 Sep 26.

19. Alejandra Bernal, Yanmei Hu, Stephanie O. Palmer, Aaron Silva, James Bullard and Yonghong Zhang. 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments and  secondary structure analysis of tranlation initiation factor 1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biomolecular NMR Assignments (2016).

20. Yan Wang, Wenwu Xiao, Yonghong Zhang, Leah Meza, Harry Tseng, Yoshikazu Takada, James B Ames and Kit S Lam. Optimization of RGD containing cyclic peptides against αvβ3 integrin. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (2015).

21. Turner M, Zhang Y, Stadler HS and Ames JB. Backbone Chemical Shift Assignments of Mouse HOXD13 DNA Binding Domain Bound to Duplex DNA. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 9(2):267-270 (2015).

Before joining UTRGV:

1. Zhang Y, Matt L, Patriarchi T, Malik Z, Chowdhury D, Park DK, Renieri A, Ames JB and Hell JW. Capping of the N-terminus of PSD-95 by Calmodulin Triggers its Postsynaptic Release, EMBO J, 33(12):1341-53 (2014) (featured in “Have you seen?” section of EMBO Journal; F1000 Recommended).

2. Zhang Y, Li Z, Sacks DB, and Ames JB. Structural Basis for Ca2+-induced activation and dimerization of Estrogen Receptor Alpha by Calmodulin, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(12): 9336-44 (2012) (Journal of Biological Chemistry “Paper Of The Week” on the March 16th edition; F1000 Recommended).

3. Zhang Y, Larsen CA, Stadler HS and Ames JB. Structure basis for sequence specific DNA binding and protein dimerization of HOXA13, PLoS ONE, Vol. 6(8): e23069 (2011).

4. Zhang Y, Thornburg CK, Stadler HS and Ames JB. Backbone chemical shift assignments of mouse HOXA13 DNA binding domain bond to duplex DNA, Biomolecular NMR Assignments, Vol. 4(1): 97-99 (2010).

5. Zhang Y, Thornburg CK, Stadler HS and Ames JB. 1H, 15N and 13C chemical shift assignments of mouse HOXA13 DNA binding domain, Biomolecular NMR Assignments, Vol. 3: 199-201 (2009).

6. Sivashanmugam A, Murray V, Cui C, Zhang Y, Wang J and Li Q. Practical protocols for production of very high yields of recombinant proteins using Escherichia coli, Protein Science, Vol. 18(5): 936-948 (2009) (F1000 Recommended).

7. Zhang Y, Chen J and Wang J. A complete backbone spectral assignment of lipid-free human apolipoprotein E (apoE), Biomolecular NMR Assignments, Vol. 2: 207-210 (2008).

8. Zhao W, Zhang Y*, Cui C, Li Q and Wang J. An efficient on-column expressed protein ligation strategy application to segmental triple labeling of human apolipoprotein E3, Protein Science, Vol. 17(4): 736-747 (2008) (* Co-first author).

9. Zhang Y, Vasudevan S, Sojitrawala R, Zhao Z, Cui C, Xu C, Fan D, Newhouse Y, Balestra R, Jerome WG, Weisgraber K, Li Q and Wang J, A monomeric, biologically active, full-length human apolipoprotein E, Biochemistry, Vol. 46(37): 10722-10732 (2007).

10. Zhang YH, Bhunia A, Wan KF, Lee MC, Chan SL, Yu VCK, Mok YK, Chelerythrine and sanguinarine docks at distinct sites on BclXL that are not the classic “BH3 binding cleft”, Journal of Molecular Biology. Vol. 364(3):536-549 (2006).

11. Zhang YH, Dou H and Mao XA, 2D NMR Studies on a Cyclic Octopeptide, Chinese Journal Magnetic Resonance, Vol. 20(2): 113-120 (2003).

12. Zhang YH and Mao XA, Deuterium Discrimination in P-H/P-D Exchange of Phosphorous Acid, Phosphor, Sulfur, Silicon and the Related Elements, Vol.177(10): 2409-2414 (2002).

13. Mao XA, Xu ZH, Luo RS, Mathers NJ, Zhang YH, and Saffigna PG, Nitrate in Soil humic acids revealed by 14N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Australian Journal of Soil Research, Vol. 40: 717-726 (2002).

14. Zhang YH and Mao XA, Revisit to hydrogen exchange between ammonium and water: diffusion independent chemical exchange, Chinese J Magn Reson Vol.19:235-245 (2002).

15. Mao XA and Zhang YH, Restraints on Bi-exponential Fitting of Inversion-Recovery Data Involved in Two-State Exchange, Concept in Magn Reson, Vol.13 (5): 326-333 (2001).

16. Zhang YH and Mao XA, Chemical Exchange and Self-diffusion Dynamics of Quercetin in Solution, Acta. Phys.-Chim. Sin. (Wuli Huaxue XueBao), 17 (4): 300-304 (2001).

17. Zhang YH and Mao XA, NMR Study of Diffusion-Controlled Exchange of Halogen in the Mixtures of Tin (IV) Tetrahalides, Chinese Journal Magnetic Resonance, Vol.18 (4): 321-328 (2001).

18. Zhang YH and Mao XA, Nitrogen-14 NMR as a Method of Quantitative Nitrogen Analysis and Its Application to Determination of Nitrate in Several Humic Acids, Chinese Journal Magnetic Resonance, Vol.17 (6): 449-454 (2000).

19. Zhang YH, Wang JM, Liao DS, et al., Chemical Studies on the volatile constituents of Ginkgo biloba L. leaves, Chinese Natural Product Research and Development, Vol.11(2): 62-66 (1998).

20. Zhang YH, Wang JM, and Liao DS, Studies on polyprenols from leaves of Ginkgo biloba L., Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs, Vol. 29: 32-36 (1998).

21. Wang JM, Liao DS, and Zhang YH, Studies on Extraction and Determination of Ginkgo biloba L.Terpene Lactones, Chinese Food Science, Vol.18 (12): 46-49 (1997).

22. Wang JM, Liao DS, and Zhang YH, Studies on the Productive Technology of Grape Seed Oil, China Oils and Fats, Vol. 2: 10-11 (1997).

23. Wang JM, Liao DS, and Zhang YH, Studies on the Nutrition and Food Therapy Values of Grapeseed Oil, Acta Nutrimenta Sinica (YingYang XueBao), Vol. 18(2): 221-223 (1996).

24. Wang JM, Liao DS, and Zhang YH, Studies on the Properties and Food Therapy Values of Grapeseed Oil, Chinese Food Science, Vol. 8: 11-13 (1995).

25. Wang JM, Liao DS, Zhang YH, et al., Exploitation and Application of Ginkgo biloba L, Chinese Food Science, Vol. 8: 35-36 (1994).