Publications

Publication records (*Corresponding author, #Co-first author):

Zhuang X. #*,  Li R. #*, and Jiang L. #* (2024) A Century Journey of Organelles Research in the Plant Endomembrane System. Plant Cell. (Accepted)

Luo M#, Law KC#, He Y#, Chung KK, Po MK, Feng L, Chung KP, Gao C, Zhuang, X. * and Jiang L.* (2023) Arabidopsis AUTOPHAGY-RELATED (ATG) 2 is essential for ATG18a and ATG9 trafficking during autophagosome closure. Plant Physiology. 193(1), 304-321.

He Y, Gao J, Luo M, Gao C, Lin Y, Wong HY, Cui Y, Zhuang, X., Jiang L. (2023). VAMP724 and VAMP726 are involved in autophagosome formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Autophagy. 19(5):1406-1423. 

Zhou, J., Ma, J., Yang, C., Zhu, X., Li, J., Zheng, X., Li, X., Chen, S., Feng, L., Wang, P., Ho, M. I., Ma, W., Liao, J., Li, F., Wang, C., Zhuang, X., Jiang, L., Kang, B. H., & Gao, C. (2023). A non-canonical role of ATG8 in Golgi recovery from heat stress in plants. Nature Plants. 9(5), 749-765.  

Li H, Huang R, Liao Y, Yang S, Feng B, Qin H, Zhou J, Zeng Y, Shen J, Zhuang, X., Jiang L, Otegui MS, Zhang S, Gao C. (2023) A plant-unique protein BLISTER coordinates with core retromer to modulate endosomal sorting of plasma membrane and vacuolar proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(1):e2211258120. 

Li, H., Liao, Y., Zheng, X., Zhuang, X., Gao, C., Zhou, J. (2022). Shedding Light on the Role of Phosphorylation in Plant Autophagy. FEBS Lett. 596(17):2172-2185.

Law, K.C., Chung, K.K., and Zhuang, X. * (2022). An update on coat protein complexes for vesicle formation in plant post-Golgi trafficking. Front Plant Sci. 13, 826007.

Sun S, Feng L, Chung KP, Lee KM, Cheung HHY, Luo M, Ren K, Law KC, Jiang L, Wong KB, Zhuang X. * (2021) Mechanistic insights into an atypical interaction between ATG8 and SH3P2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Autophagy DOI: 1080/15548627.2021.1976965

Ren K, Feng L, Sun S and Zhuang X. * (2021) Plant Mitophagy in Comparison to Mammals: What Is Still Missing? International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22, 1236.

Zhang, X., Man, Y., Zhuang, X., Shen, J., Zhang, Y., Cui, Y., Yu, M., Xing, J., Wang, G., Lian, N., Hu, Z., Ma, L., Shen, W., Yang, S., Xu, H., Bian, J., Jing, Y., Li, X., Li, R., Mao, T., Jiao, Y., Sodmergen, Ren, H., and Lin, J. (2021). Plant multiscale networks: charting plant connectivity by multi-level analysis and imaging techniques. Sci China Life Sci 64, 1392-1422.

Yang C., Luo M , Zhuang X,  Li F and Gao C. (2020). Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Autophagy in Plants. Trends in Genetics 36: 676-688.

Wun CL, Quan Y and Zhuang, X. * (2020) Recent Advances in Membrane Shaping for Plant Autophagosome Biogenesis. Frontier in Plant Sciences 11: 565.

Zhuang, X.*. and Jiang, L. (2019) Chloroplast Degradation: Multiple Routes Into the Vacuole. Front. Plant Sci., https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00359

Huang, S., Jiang, L. and Zhuang, X.*. (2019) Possible Roles of Membrane Trafficking Components for Lipid Droplet Dynamics in Higher Plants and Green Algae. Front. Plant Sci., https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00207

Luo, M. and Zhuang, X.* (2018) Selective degradation of Peroxisome by autophagy in plants: mechanisms, functions, and perspectives. Plant Science 274:485-491 

Zhuang, X. #*, Chung, K.P. #, Luo Mengqian and Jiang, L*. (2018) Autophagosome Biogenesis and the Endoplasmic Reticulum: A plant perspective. Trends Plant Sci. 23:677-692

Gao C.#, Zhuang, X. #, Shen J and Jiang L. (2017) Plant ESCRT complexes: moving beyond endosomal sorting. Trends Plant Sci. 22:986-998

Zhuang, X. #, Chung, K.P. #, Cui, Y. #, Lin, W., Gao, C., Kang, Y.B., and Jiang, L. (2017) ATG9 Regulates Autophagosome Progression from the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.   114: E426-E435

Gao, C. #, Zhuang, X. #, Cui, Y., Fu, X., He, Y., Zhao, Q., Zeng, Y., Shen, J., Luo, M., and Jiang, L. (2015). Dual roles of an Arabidopsis ESCRT component FREE1 in regulating vacuolar protein transport and autophagic degradation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112, 1886-1891. 

Zhuang, X. #, Wang, H. #, Lam, S.K., Gao, C., Wang, X., Cai, Y., and Jiang, L. (2013). A BAR-domain protein SH3P2, which binds to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and ATG8, regulates autophagosome formation in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25, 4596-4615.  

Li, S., Liu, L., Zhuang, X., Yu, Y., Liu, X., Cui, X., Ji, L., Pan, Z., Cao, X., Mo, B., Zhang, F., Raikhel, N., Jiang, L., and Chen, X. (2013). MicroRNAs inhibit the translation of target mRNAs on the endoplasmic reticulum in Arabidopsis. Cell 153, 562-574. 

Cai, Y. #, Zhuang, X. #, Wang, J., Wang, H., Lam, S.K., Gao, C., Wang, X., and Jiang, L. (2012). Vacuolar degradation of two integral plasma membrane proteins, AtLRR84A and OsSCAMP1, is cargo ubiquitination-independent and prevacuolar compartment-mediated in plant cells. Traffic 13, 1023-1040. 

Wang, H., Zhuang, X., Cai, Y., Cheung, A.Y., and Jiang, L. (2013). Apical F-actin-regulated exocytic targeting of NtPPME1 is essential for construction and rigidity of the pollen tube cell wall. Plant J 76, 367-379.

Wang, H., Zhuang, X.H., Hillmer, S., Robinson, D.G., and Jiang, L.W. (2011). Vacuolar sorting receptor (VSR) proteins reach the plasma membrane in germinating pollen tubes. Mol Plant 4, 845-853. 

Soto-Burgos J.#, Zhuang, X. #, Jiang L and Bassham C.D (2017) Dynamics of autophagosome formation. Plant Physiol 176:219-229 

Luo Mengqian and Zhuang, X.* (2018) Analysis of Autophagic Activity using ATG8 Lipidation Assay in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bio-protocol. DOI:   10.21769/BioProtoc.2880

Ahn, G., Kim, H., Kim, D.H., Hanh, N.H., Yoon, Y., Singaram, I., Wijesinghe, K.J., Johnson, K.A., Zhuang, X.H., Liang, Z., Stahelin, R.V., Jiang, L., Cho, W., Kang, B.H., and Hwang, I. (2017). SH3P2 plays a crucial role at the step of membrane tubulation during cell plate formation in plants. Plant Cell. 29:1388-1405. 

Qi H, Xia FN, Xie LJ, Yu LJ, Chen QF, Zhuang XH, Wang Q, Li F, Jiang L, Xie Q, Xiao S. (2017) TRAF-Family Proteins Regulate Autophagy Dynamics by Modulating AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN6 Stability in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 29:890-911.

Zhuang, X., Chung, K.P. and Jiang, L. (2017) Targeting tail-anchored proteins into plant organelles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A   114:1762-1764

Zhuang, X.*, Chung, K.P., and Jiang, L*. (2016). Origin of the Autophagosomal Membrane in Plants. Front Plant Sci 7, 1655.. 

Wang, H. #, Zhuang, X. #, Wang, X., Law, A.H., Zhao, T., Du, S., Loy, M.M., and Jiang, L. (2016). A Distinct Pathway for Polar Exocytosis in Plant Cell Wall Formation. Plant Physiol 172, 1003-1018. 

Zhuang, X. #, Cui, Y. #, Gao, C., and Jiang, L. (2015). Endocytic and autophagic pathways crosstalk in plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol 28, 39-47. 

Zhuang, X., and Jiang, L. (2014). Autophagosome biogenesis in plants: roles of SH3P2. Autophagy 10, 704-705. 

Cai, Y.#, Zhuang, X. #, Gao, C. #, Wang, X. #, and Jiang, L. (2014). The Arabidopsis Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport III Regulates Internal Vesicle Formation of the Prevacuolar Compartment and Is Required for Plant Development. Plant Physiol 165, 1328-1343.

Shen, J., Zeng, Y., Zhuang, X., Sun, L., Yao, X., Pimpl, P., and Jiang, L. (2013). Organelle pH in the Arabidopsis endomembrane system. Mol Plant 6, 1419-1437.

Klionsky D et. al. (2016). Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy 12, 1-222.

Cui, Y., Shen, J., Gao, C., Zhuang, X., Wang, J., and Jiang, L. (2016). Biogenesis of Plant Prevacuolar Multivesicular Bodies. Mol Plant 9, 774-786.

Book Chapter

1.  Gao, C., Cai, Y., Zhuang, X., and Jiang, L. (2014). Analysis of prevacuolar compartment-mediated vacuolar proteins transport. Methods Mol Biol 1209, 119-129.

2.  Zhuang, X., and Jiang, L.(2015) SH Domain proteins in Plants: Roles in Signaling Transduction and Membrane Trafficking. SH Domains Structure, Mechanisms and Applications. Springer ISBN 978-3-319-20098-9 

3. Lin, W. and Zhuang, X*. (2017) Analysis of Autophagosomal structures in Plant Cells. Methods Mol Biol.1662:257-266.