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Publications

2025

Sun Rong, Allen James, Mao Zhuqing, Wilson Liana, Haider Mariam, Alten Baris, Zhou Zimeng, Wang Xinyi, Zhou Qiangjun, The postsynaptic density in excitatory synapses is composed of clustered, heterogeneous nanoblocks Journal of Cell Biology. 2025 Jun 2 224 (6). e202406133

2024

Yin Jun, Chen Hsueh-Ling, Grigsby-Brown Anna, He Yi, Cotten Myriam L, Short Jacob, Dermady Aidan, Lei Jingce, Gibbs Mary, Cheng Ethan S, Zhang Dean, Long Caixia, Xu Lele, Zhong Tiffany, Abzalimov Rinat, Haider Mariam, Sun Rong, He Ye, Zhou Qiangjun, Tjandra Nico, Yuan Quan, Glia-derived secretory fatty acid binding protein Obp44a regulates lipid storage and efflux in the developing brain bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2024 Apr 11

2023

Zhou Qiangjun, Calcium Sensors of Neurotransmitter Release - A chapter of the textbook entitled Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Release. Advances in Neurobiology. 2023 Aug 25 33 119-138
Zhou Qiangjun, Organizing the synaptic junctions Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2023 Apr 13
Pi Hualiang*, Sun Rong*, McBride R. James, Kruse Angela, Gibson-Corley N. Katherine, Krystofiak S. Evan, Nicholson R. Maribeth, Spraggins M. Jeffrey, Zhou Qiangjun#, Skaar P. Eric#, Clostridioides difficile ferrosome organelles combat nutritional immunity Nature. 2023 Nov 15 (623). 1009–1016

2022

Jaczynska Klaudia, Esquivies Luis, Pfuetzner A. Richard, Alten Baris, Brewer D. Kyle, Zhou Qiangjun, Kavalali T. Ege, Brunger T. Axel, Rizo Josep, Analysis of tripartite Synaptotagmin-1-SNARE-complexin-1 complexes in solution FEBS Open Bio. 2022 Oct 28 1 (13).
Lai Ying, Tuvim J. Michael, Leitz Jeremy, Peters John, Pfuetzner A. Richard, Esquivies Luis, Zhou Qiangjun, Czako Barbara, Cross B. Jason, Jones Philip, Dickey F. Burton, Brunger T. Axel, Screening of Hydrocarbon-Stapled Peptides for Inhibition of Calcium-Triggered ExocytosisFrontiers in Pharmacology. 2022 Jun 17 891041 (13).
LaiY, FoisG, FloresJR, TuvimMJ, ZhouQ, YangK, LeitzJ, PetersJ, ZhangY, PfuetznerRA, EsquiviesL, JonesP, FrickM, DickeyBF, BrungerAT, Inhibition of calcium-triggered secretion by hydrocarbon-stapled peptidesNature. 2022 Mar 23

2020

AltenB, ZhouQ, ShinO, EsquiviesL, LinPY, WhiteKI, SunR, ChungWK, MonteggiaLM, BrungerAT, KavalaliET, Role of aberrant spontaneous neurotransmission in SNAP25-associated encephalopathiesNeuron. 2020 Nov 3 109 (1). 59-72

2019

WilsonSC, WhiteKI, ZhouQ, PfuetznerRA, ChoiUB, SüdhofTC, BrungerAT, Structures of neurexophilin-neurexin complexes reveal a regulatory mechanism of alternative splicingThe EMBO journal. 2019 Sep 30 e101603
BrungerAT, ChoiUB, LaiY, LeitzJ, WhiteKI, ZhouQ, The pre-synaptic fusion machineryCurrent opinion in structural biology. 2019 Apr 12 54 179-188
UervirojnangkoornM, LyubimovAY, ZhouQ, WeisWI, BrungerAT, Resolving indexing ambiguities in X-ray free-electron laser diffraction patternsActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology. 2019 Feb 6 75 (Pt 2). 234-241

2018

ChoiUB, ZhaoM, WhiteKI, PfuetznerRA, EsquiviesL, ZhouQ, BrungerAT, NSF-mediated disassembly of on- and off-pathway SNARE complexes and inhibition by complexineLife. 2018 Jul 9 7
BrungerAT, ChoiUB, LaiY, LeitzJ, ZhouQ, Molecular Mechanisms of Fast Neurotransmitter ReleaseAnnual review of biophysics. 2018 May 20 47 469-497
BrungerAT, LeitzJ, ZhouQ, ChoiUB, LaiY, Ca-Triggered Synaptic Vesicle Fusion Initiated by Release of InhibitionTrends in cell biology. 2018 Apr 26 28 (8). 631-645

2017

ZhouQ, ZhouP, WangAL, WuD, ZhaoM, SüdhofTC, BrungerAT, The primed SNARE-complexin-synaptotagmin complex for neuronal exocytosisNature. 2017 Aug 16 548 (7668). 420-425

2016

LyubimovAY, UervirojnangkoornM, ZeldinOB, ZhouQ, ZhaoM, BrewsterAS, Michels-ClarkT, HoltonJM, SauterNK, WeisWI, BrungerAT, Advances in X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) diffraction data processing applied to the crystal structure of the synaptotagmin-1 / SNARE complexeLife. 2016 Oct 12 5

2015

ZhouQ, LaiY, BacajT, ZhaoM, LyubimovAY, UervirojnangkoornM, ZeldinOB, BrewsterAS, SauterNK, CohenAE, SoltisSM, Alonso-MoriR, CholletM, LemkeHT, PfuetznerRA, ChoiUB, WeisWI, DiaoJ, SüdhofTC, BrungerAT, Architecture of the synaptotagmin-SNARE machinery for neuronal exocytosisNature. 2015 Aug 17 525 (7567). 62-7
DiaoJ, LiuR, RongY, ZhaoM, ZhangJ, LaiY, ZhouQ, WilzLM, LiJ, VivonaS, PfuetznerRA, BrungerAT, ZhongQ, ATG14 promotes membrane tethering and fusion of autophagosomes to endolysosomesNature. 2015 Feb 9 520 (7548). 563-6
ZeldinOB, BrewsterAS, HattneJ, UervirojnangkoornM, LyubimovAY, ZhouQ, ZhaoM, WeisWI, SauterNK, BrungerAT, Data Exploration Toolkit for serial diffraction experimentsActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. 2015 Jan 23 71 (Pt 2). 352-6
ZhaoM, WuS, ZhouQ, VivonaS, CiprianoDJ, ChengY, BrungerAT, Mechanistic insights into the recycling machine of the SNARE complexNature. 2015 Jan 12 518 (7537). 61-7

2014

PangX, FanJ, ZhangY, ZhangK, GaoB, MaJ, LiJ, DengY, ZhouQ, EgelmanEH, HsuVW, SunF, A PH domain in ACAP1 possesses key features of the BAR domain in promoting membrane curvatureDevelopmental cell. 2014 Oct 2 31 (1). 73-86
ZhouQ, LiJ, YuH, ZhaiY, GaoZ, LiuY, PangX, ZhangL, SchultenK, SunF, ChenC, Molecular insights into the membrane-associated phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase IIαNature communications. 2014 Mar 28 5 3552

2013

SunF, ZhouQ, PangX, XuY, RaoZ, Revealing various coupling of electron transfer and proton pumping in mitochondrial respiratory chainCurrent opinion in structural biology. 2013 Jul 16 23 (4). 526-38

2012

BaiM, PangX, LouJ, ZhouQ, ZhangK, MaJ, LiJ, SunF, HsuVW, Mechanistic insights into regulated cargo binding by ACAP1 proteinThe Journal of biological chemistry. 2012 May 29 287 (34). 28675-85

2011

WangL, ZhangK, WuL, LiuS, ZhangH, ZhouQ, TongL, SunF, FanZ, Structural insights into the substrate specificity of human granzyme H: the functional roles of a novel RKR motifJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2011 Dec 9 188 (2). 765-73
ZhouQ, ZhaiY, LouJ, LiuM, PangX, SunF, Thiabendazole inhibits ubiquinone reduction activity of mitochondrial respiratory complex II via a water molecule mediated binding featureProtein & cell. 2011 Aug 6 2 (7). 531-42
ZhaiY, ZhangK, HuoY, ZhuY, ZhouQ, LuJ, BlackI, PangX, RoszakAW, ZhangX, IsaacsNW, SunF, Autotransporter passenger domain secretion requires a hydrophobic cavity at the extracellular entrance of the β-domain poreThe Biochemical journal. 2011 May 1 435 (3). 577-87

2010

HuoY, HuZ, ZhangK, WangL, ZhaiY, ZhouQ, LanderG, ZhuJ, HeY, PangX, XuW, BartlamM, DongZ, SunF, Crystal structure of group II chaperonin in the open stateStructure (London, England : 1993). 2010 Oct 13 18 (10). 1270-9
LiuZ, ZhouQ, MaoX, ZhengX, GuoJ, ZhangF, WenT, PangH, Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of cecropin B from Bombyx moriActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications. 2010 Jul 1 66 (Pt 7). 851-3
LiZ, ZhaiY, FangJ, ZhouQ, GengY, SunF, Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase from Caenorhabditis elegansActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications. 2010 Mar 31 66 (Pt 4). 426-30
ZhouQiangjun, SunJi, YujiaZhai, SunFei, , Prokaryotic Expression of Active Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 1, Progress in Biochemistry and BiophysicsProgress in Biochemistry and Biophysics . 2010 Mar 31 1 (37). 56-62
    LiSJ, ZhaoQ, ZhouQ, UnnoH, ZhaiY, SunF, The role and structure of the carboxyl-terminal domain of the human voltage-gated proton channel Hv1The Journal of biological chemistry. 2010 Feb 10 285 (16). 12047-54
    ZhouQiangjun, LiZ., ZhangKai, YujiaZhai, Cloning, Expression, Purification and Preliminary Crystallographic Analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans Enoyl-CoA HydrataseActa Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. 2010 Jan 27 (26). 37-48

      2009

      LiSJ, ZhaoQ, ZhouQ, ZhaiY, Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of the carboxyl-terminal domain of the human voltage-gated proton channel Hv1Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications. 2009 Feb 26 65 (Pt 3). 279-81

      2008

      RaoZ., SunF., ZhouQ., SunJ., ZhaiY., , Structure of mitochondrial respiratory membrane protein complexesChinese Bulletin of Life Sciences. 2008 Sep 5 4 (20). 566-578