Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
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llimin@itsa.ucsf.edu Box 0414, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0414 |
| EDUCATION | |
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University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China, B.S., 1986, Biology
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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1996- 1997 |
Research Associate, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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1997- 2004 |
Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Duke University Medical Center |
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1998-2003 |
Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
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1989-1990 |
Scholarship, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri |
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1989-1993 |
Predoctoral Fellowship, Molecular Biology Program, University of Missouri |
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1994 |
New Investigator Award (First Place), Society for the Study of Reproduction (Biology of Reproduction, Vol. 52, pp. 261) |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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Wu WY, Zhao YG and Liu L (1989). Trophic effect of slow nerve on minced fast muscle from newly hatched chicks transplanted into three-week chicks. Chin J Physiol Sci 5:95-97. | |
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Wu WY, Zhao YG, Liu L, Lu DX and Tian, WH (1990). The second stage commitment of chick muscle satellite cells and its relation to the state of innervation. Chin J Physiol Sci 6:19-29. | |
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Roberts RM and Liu L (1996). Interferon-ƒÖ. In: Aggarawal BB and Gutterman U, eds., Human Cytokines: Handbook for Basic and Clinical Research (II), pp.168-177. | |
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Liu L, Leaman DW, Bixby JA and Roberts RM (1996). A type 1 ovine interferon with limited similarity to IFN-ƒ¿, IFN-ƒÖ, and IFN-ƒÑ: gene structure, biological properties and unusual species specificity. Biochem Biophys Acta 1294:55-62. | |
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Liu L and Roberts RM (1996). Silencing of the gene for the ƒÀ-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin by the embryonic transcription factor Oct-3/4. J Biol Chem 271:16683-16689. | |
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Liu L, Leaman DW and Roberts RM (1996). The interferon-tau genes of the giraffe, a nonbovid species. J Interferon Cytokine Res 16:949-951. | |
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Roberts RM, Liu L and Alexenko A (1997). New and atypical families of type I interferons in mammals: comparative functions, structures and evolutionary relationships. Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol 56:287-325. | |
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Liu L, Leaman DW, Villalta M and Roberts RM (1997). Silencing of the gene for the alpha-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin by the embryonic transcription factor Oct-3/4. Mol Endocrinol 11:1651-1658. | |
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Roberts RM, Liu L, Guo Q, Leaman D and Bixby J (1998) The evolution of type I interferons. J Interferon Cytokine Res 18:805-816. | |
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Liu L, Leaman DW and Roberts RM (1998). Possible role of the transcription factor Oct-3/4 in control of human chorionic gonadotropin expression. In: D. Carson, ed., Embryo Implantation: Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Aspects (Serono Symposium), pp.261-270. | |
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Mannick JB, Hausladen A, Liu L, Hess DT, Zeng M, Miao QX, Kane LS, Gow AJ, Stamler JS (1999). Fas-induced caspase denitrosylation. Science 284:651-654. | |
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Liu L, Stamler JS. (1999) NO: an inhibitor of cell death. Cell Death Differ 6:937-942 | |
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Liu L, Zeng M, Stamler JS. (1999) Hemoglobin induction in mouse macrophages. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96:6643-6647. | |
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Eu JP, Liu L, Zeng M and Stamler JS (2000). An apoptotic model for nitrosative stress. Biochemistry 39:1040-1047. | |
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Liu L, Zeng M, Hausladen A, Heitman J, Stamler JS (2000). Protection from nitrosative stress by yeast flavohemoglobin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:4672-4676. | |
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Ealy AD*, Larson SF*, Liu L*, Winkelman GL, Kubisch HM, Alexnko AP, Bixby JA, Roberts RM. (2001) Polymorphic forms of expressed bovine interferon-tau genes: relative transcript abundance during early placental development, promoter sequences of genes and biological activity of protein products. Endocrinology 142:2906-2915. *These authors contributed equally. | |
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Liu L, Hausladen A, Zeng M, Loretta Que, Heitman J, Stamler JS (2001). A metabolic enzyme for S-nitrosothiol conserved from bacteria to humans. Nature 410:490-494. | |
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Matsumoto A, Comatas KE, Liu L, Stamler JS (2003). Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions. Science 301:657-661. | |
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Jesus-Berrios MD, Liu L, Nussbaum JC, Cox GM, Stamler JS, Heitman J (2003). Enzymes that counteract nitrosative stress promote fungal virulence. Current Biology 13:1963-1968. | |
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Liu L, Yan Y, Zeng M, Zhang J, Hanes MA, Ahearn G, McMahon TJ, Dickfeld T, Marshall HE, Que LG, Stamler JS (2004). Essential roles of S-nitrosothiols in vascular homeostasis and endotoxic shock. Cell 116:617-628. |
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