Qiang Wu

Dr. Qiang Wu is currently a Chair professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Systems Biomedicine and Shanghai Cancer Institute. They are interested in the regulation and function of the proto-cadherin and UGT clusters during brain development as well as in brain diseases. To this end, they have developed novel methods of CRISPR DNA-fragment editing or chromosomal rearrangements to investigate mechanisms of three-dimensional (3D) genome folding. Finally, they are interested in the role of genome architectural protein CTCF in higher-order chromatin structure and its dynamic regulation. Their team has been systematically studying proto-cadherin regulation and brain developmental functions and the metabolic functions of complex protein groups such as the drug-metabolizing enzyme UGT. Their researches have been published in journals such as Cell, Molecular Cell, PNAS, Cell Research, MCB, JMCB etc. Their team has also developed a DNA reversal and knockout technology based on gene-editing technique, and used this technology to discover an important chromatin architecture law in the field of three-dimensional genomes. In 2018, Their team won the First Prize of Natural Science awarded by the Ministry of Education of China and the First Prize of Natural Science awarded by Shanghai government. They actively recruit graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research associates.

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  1. Jia Z., Li J., Ge X., Wu Y., Guo Y., Wu Q. (2020). Tandem CTCF sites function as insulators to balance spatial chromatin contacts and topological enhancer-promoter selection. Genome Biology 21 (75), 1-24

  2. Wu Q. and Jia Z. (2020). Wiring the Brain by Clustered Protocadherin Neural Codes. Neuroscience Bulletin. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12264-020-00578-4.

  3. Jia Z. and Wu Q. (2020). Clustered Protocadherins Emerge as Novel Susceptibility Loci for Mental Disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience 14, 1191.

  4. Wu Q., Liu P. and Wang L. (2020). Many facades of CTCF unified by its coding for three dimensional genome architecture. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 47, 407-424.

  5. Wu Q. and Shou J. (2020). Toward precision CRISPR DNA fragment editing and predictable 3D genome engineering. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, mjaa060, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjaa060.

  6. Wu Y., Jia Z., Ge X., Wu Q. (2020). Three-dimensional genome architectural CCCTC-binding factor makes choice in duplicated enhancers at Pcdhα locus. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences, 63: 835-844.

  7. Lu Y., Shou J., Jia Z., Wu Y., Li J., Guo Y., Wu Q. (2019). Genetic evidence for asymmetric blocking of higher-order chromatin structure by CTCF/cohesin. Protein & Cell 10 (12), 914-920

  8. Shi X., J Shou, MM Mehryar, J Li, L Wang, M Zhang, H Huang, X Sun, Q Wu. (2019). Cas9 has no exonuclease activity resulting in staggered cleavage with overhangs and predictable di-and tri-nucleotide CRISPR insertions without template donor. Cell discovery 5 (1), 1-4

  9. Shou J., Li J., Liu Y., Wu Q. (2018) Precise and predictable CRISPR chromosomal rearrangements reveal principles of Cas9-mediated nucleotide insertion. Molecular Cell. 71, 498-509. Epub 2018 Jul 19. Research Highlighted in National Science Review doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy156.

  10. Fan L., Lu Y., Shen X., Shao H., Suo L., Wu Q. (2018) Alpha protocadherins and Pyk2 kinase regulate cortical neuron migration and cytoskeletal dynamics via Rac1 GTPase and WAVE complex in mice. eLife. 7. pii: e35242. doi: 10.7554/eLife.35242. Highlighted in eLife Digest.

  11. Yin, M., Wang, J., Wang, M., Li, X., Zhang, M., Wu, Q., Wang, Y. (2017) Molecular mechanism of directional CTCF recognition of a diverse range of genomic sites. Cell Research 27: 1365-1377.

  12. Chen W.V., Nwakeze C.L., Denny C.A., O'Keeffe S., Rieger M.A., Mountoufaris G., Kirner A., Dougherty J.D., Hen R., Wu Q., Maniatis T. (2017) Pcdhαc2 is required for axonal tiling and assembly of serotonergic circuitries in mice. Science. 356: 406-411. doi: 10.1126/science.aal3231. Research Highlighted in Perspective in Science, 356: 376-378.

  13. Huang, H. and Wu, Q. (2016). CRISPR Double Cutting through the Labyrinthine Architecture of 3D Genomes. J Genet Genomics. 43: 273-288. Invited Review.

  14. Guo, Y., Q. Xu, D. Canzio, J. Shou, J. Li, D.U. Gorkin, I. Jung, H. Wu, Y. Zhai, Y. Tang, Y. Lu, Y. Wu, Z. Jia, W. Li, M.Q. Zhang, B. Ren, A.R. Krainer, T. Maniatis, Wu Q. (2015). CRISPR inversion of CTCF sites alters genome topology and enhancer/promoter function. Cell 162: 900-910. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.07.038. CELL Hottest Article. Research Highlighted in Cell, 162, 703–705; Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 16, 578–579.

  15. Li J, Shou J,Guo Y, Tang Y, Wu Y, Jia Z, Zhai Y, Chen Z, Xu Q, Wu, Q. (2015). Efficient inversions and duplications of mammalian regulatory DNA elements and gene clusters by CRISPR/Cas9. J. Mol. Cell Biol. 7: 284-298. Cover Article.


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