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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Zu-Hang Sheng is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work focuses extensively on biochemical and molecular biology aspects of neuroscience, with significant contributions to understanding mitochondrial function and pathology as well as neurodegeneration and regeneration.

The primary fields of study for Zu-Hang Sheng include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine; and Neuroscience. Within these, the scientist has specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Cell Biology.

The main research topics addressed by Zu-Hang Sheng involve mitochondrial function and pathology, autophagy in disease and therapy, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, lysosomal storage disorders research, ATP synthase and ATPases research, nerve injury and regeneration, and adipose tissue and metabolism.

Zu-Hang Sheng has published multiple papers in notable venues, including:

  • Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics in neurodegeneration and regeneration, 2022, Neuron
  • Energy matters: presynaptic metabolism and the maintenance of synaptic transmission, 2021, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • Restoring Cellular Energetics Promotes Axonal Regeneration and Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury, 2020, Cell Metabolism
  • Oligodendrocytes enhance axonal energy metabolism by deacetylation of mitochondrial proteins through transcellular delivery of SIRT2, 2021, Neuron
  • The cross-talk of energy sensing and mitochondrial anchoring sustains synaptic efficacy by maintaining presynaptic metabolism, 2020, Nature Metabolism

The frequent publication venues for Zu-Hang Sheng's work include Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Neuron, Nature Metabolism, Current Biology, and The Journal of Cell Biology.

Zu-Hang Sheng collaborates often with a number of co-authors, with the most frequent being Sunan Li, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Ning Huang, Yuxiang Xie, and Kelly A. Chamberlain.

The scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mitochondrial transport in neurons: impact on synaptic homeostasis and neurodegeneration

    Zu-Hang Sheng;Qian Cai;Qian Cai

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Docking of Axonal Mitochondria by Syntaphilin Controls Their Mobility and Affects Short-Term Facilitation

    Jian-Sheng Kang;Jin-Hua Tian;Ping-Yue Pan;Ping-Yue Pan;Philip Zald

  • Identification of a syntaxin-binding site on N-type calcium channels.

    Zu Hang Sheng;Jens Rettig;Masami Takahashi;William A. Catterall

  • Calcium-dependent interaction of N-type calcium channels with the synaptic core complex

    Zu-Hang Sheng;Jens Rettig;Terry Cook;William A. Catterall

  • Mitochondrial trafficking and anchoring in neurons: New insight and implications

    Zu-Hang Sheng

  • Inhibition of Neurotransmission by Peptides Containing the Synaptic Protein Interaction Site of N-Type Ca2+ Channels

    Sumiko Mochida;Zu Hang Sheng;Carl Baker;Haruo Kobayashi

  • Isoform-specific interaction of the alpha1A subunits of brain Ca2+ channels with the presynaptic proteins syntaxin and SNAP-25.

    J Rettig;Z H Sheng;D K Kim;C D Hodson

  • Spatial parkin translocation and degradation of damaged mitochondria via mitophagy in live cortical neurons.

    Qian Cai;Hesham Mostafa Zakaria;Hesham Mostafa Zakaria;Anthony Simone;Zu Hang Sheng

  • MUL1 acts in parallel to the PINK1/parkin pathway in regulating mitofusin and compensates for loss of PINK1/parkin

    Jina Yun;Rajat Puri;Huan Yang;Michael A Lizzio

  • Facilitation of axon regeneration by enhancing mitochondrial transport and rescuing energy deficits

    Bing Zhou;Panpan Yu;Mei-Yao Lin;Tao Sun

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Expression of the iron transporter ferroportin in synaptic vesicles and the blood–brain barrier

    Laura Jui Chen Wu;Laura Jui Chen Wu;A. G.Miriam Leenders;Sharon Cooperman;Esther Meyron-Holtz

  • Kinesin-1–syntaphilin coupling mediates activity-dependent regulation of axonal mitochondrial transport

    Yanmin Chen;Zu-Hang Sheng

  • Syntabulin-mediated anterograde transport of mitochondria along neuronal processes

    Qian Cai;Claudia Gerwin;Zu Hang Sheng

  • Interaction of the synprint site of N-type Ca2+ channels with the C2B domain of synaptotagmin I

    Zu-Hang Sheng;Charles T. Yokoyama;William A. Catterall

  • Motile Axonal Mitochondria Contribute to the Variability of Presynaptic Strength

    Tao Sun;Haifa Qiao;Ping Yue Pan;Yanmin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Stephen A. Spector
Stephen A. Spector University of California, San Diego
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Felix Randow
Felix Randow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre Aix-Marseille University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine

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