Browsing by Author "Liu, Jun"

Electron tomography of cryofixed, isometrically contracting insect flight muscle reveals novel actin-myosin interactions.

Wu, Shenping; Liu, Jun; Reedy, Mary C; Tregear, Richard T; Winkler, Hanspeter; Franzini-Armstrong, Clara; Sasaki, Hiroyuki; ... (11 authors) (PLoS One, 2010-09-09)

BACKGROUND: Isometric muscle contraction, where force is generated without muscle shortening, is a molecular traffic jam in which the number of actin-attached motors is maximized and all states of motor action are trapped ...

GRK5 Deficiency Leads to Selective Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neuronal Vulnerability.

He, Minchao; Singh, Prabhakar; Cheng, Shaowu; Zhang, Qiang; Peng, Wei; Ding, XueFeng; Li, Longxuan; ... (13 authors) (Sci Rep, 2016-05-19)

Why certain diseases primarily affect one specific neuronal subtype rather than another is a puzzle whose solution underlies the development of specific therapies. Selective basal forebrain cholinergic (BFC) neurodegeneration ...

MicroRNA variants increase the risk of HPV-associated squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx in never smokers.

Song, Xicheng; Sturgis, Erich M; Liu, Jun; Jin, Lei; Wang, Zhongqiu; Zhang, Caiyun; Wei, Qingyi; ... (8 authors) (PloS one, 2013-01)

Both microRNAs and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection play an important role in the development and progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). In addition, microRNAs affect all facets of the immune/inflammation ...