Publications

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Norepinephrine enhances oligodendrocyte precursor cell calcium dynamics in vivo to promote their proliferation during arousal.
Tsai-Yi Lu, Priyanka Hanumaihgari, Eric T Hsu, Amit Agarwal, Riki Kawaguchi, Peter A Calabresi, and Dwight E Bergles
Accepted at Nature Neuroscience (2023).
Preprint at bioRxiv 2022.08.25.505119; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.25.505119

Axon degeneration induces glial responses through Draper-TRAF4-JNK signalling.
Tsai-Yi Lu, Jennifer M MacDonald, Lukas J Neukomm, Amy E Sheehan, Rachel Bradshaw, Mary A Logan, and Marc R Freeman
Nature Communications, 8: 14355 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14355

New Transgenic Mouse Lines for Selectively Targeting Astrocytes and Studying Calcium Signals in Astrocyte Processes In Situ and In Vivo.
Rahul Srinivasan*, Tsai-Yi Lu*, Hua Chai*, Ji Xu, Ben S Huang, Peyman Golshani, Giovanni Coppola, and Baljit S Khakh
Neuron, 92(6): 1181-95 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.11.030
*: Equal contributions

PI3K signaling and Stat92E converge to modulate glial responsiveness to axonal injury.
Johnna Doherty, Amy E Sheehan, Rachel Bradshaw, A Nicole Fox, Tsai-Yi Lu, and Marc R Freeman
PLoS Biology, 12(11): e1001985 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001985

DRK/DOS/SOS converge with Crk/Mbc/dCed-12 to activate Rac1 during glial engulfment of axonal debris.
Tsai-Yi Lu, Johnna Doherty, and Marc R Freeman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(34), 12544-9 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403450111

A novel cellular protein, VPEF, facilitates vaccinia virus penetration into HeLa cells through fluid phase endocytosis.
Cheng-Yen Huang, Tsai-Yi Lu, Chi-Horng Bair, Yuan-Shau Chang, Jeng-Kuan Jwo, and Wen Chang
Journal of Virology, 49(6), 7988-99 (2008); https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00894-08

The non-structural 5A protein of hepatitis C virus exhibits genotypic differences in interferon antagonism.
Ya-Hui Tsai, Wan-Fen Kuang, Tsai-Yi Lu, Jia-Horng Kao, Ming-Yang Lai, Chun-Jen Liu, Pei-Jer Chen, and Lih-Hwa Hwang
Journal of Hepatology, 49(6), 899-907 (2008); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2008.06.030