Hongfei Xu • UCSF Profiles

Hongfei Xu, PhD

Title(s)	Assistant Researcher, Neurology
School	School of Medicine
Address	35 Medical Center Way, #N274 San Francisco CA 94143
Email	hongfei.xu@ucsf.edu
ORCID	0000-0003-1381-2123
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Title(s)	UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Biography

education and training

UCSF, San Francisco	Post-doc	2019.01	Neurology and physiology
UCSF, San Francisco	Visiting Scholar	2018.05	Dense core vesicles formation and Neurology
Nanjing medical university, Nanjing, China	Ph.D.	2018.12	the role of retromer complex mediated retrograde trafficking
Qingdao University, Qingdao, China	B.S.	2013.06	Biotechnology

awards and honors

Nanjing Medical University	2018 -	2018	The Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National students
McKnight Foundation	2025		Doupe Fellowship

Bibliographic

selected publications

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Substrate recognition and allosteric regulation of synaptic vesicle glutamate transporter VGLUT2. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2025 Jun 03. Li F, Eriksen J, Oses-Prieto JA, Gomez YK, Xu H, Hareendranath S, Das P, Finer-Moore J, Nguyen P, Bowen A, Nelson A, Burlingame A, Grabe M, Stroud RM, Edwards RH. PMID: 40461871.

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Structural determinants specific for retromer protein sorting nexin 5 in regulating subcellular retrograde membrane trafficking. J Biomed Res. 2023 Nov 15; 37(6):492-506. Chen Q, Sun M, Han X, Xu H, Liu Y. PMID: 37964759; PMCID: PMC10687533.

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Adaptor protein-3 produces synaptic vesicles that release phasic dopamine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 10 17; 120(42):e2309843120. Jain S, Yee AG, Maas J, Gierok S, Xu H, Stansil J, Eriksen J, Nelson AB, Silm K, Ford CP, Edwards RH. PMID: 37812725; PMCID: PMC10589613.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Cells
Adaptor protein AP-3 produces synaptic vesicles that release at high frequency by recruiting phospholipid flippase ATP8A1. Nat Neurosci. 2023 10; 26(10):1685-1700. Xu H, Oses-Prieto JA, Khvotchev M, Jain S, Liang J, Burlingame A, Edwards RH. PMID: 37723322.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
Substrate recognition and proton coupling by a bacterial member of solute carrier family 17. J Biol Chem. 2023 05; 299(5):104646. Batarni S, Nayak N, Chang A, Li F, Hareendranath S, Zhou L, Xu H, Stroud R, Eriksen J, Edwards RH. PMID: 36965620; PMCID: PMC10149257.

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Bio Biochemistry
Translation:Cells
SNX5 targets a monoamine transporter to the TGN for assembly into dense core vesicles by AP-3. J Cell Biol. 2022 05 02; 221(5). Xu H, Chang F, Jain S, Heller BA, Han X, Liu Y, Edwards RH. PMID: 35426896; PMCID: PMC9016777.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Cells
Regulatory role of sorting nexin 5 in protein stability and vesicular targeting of vesicular acetylcholine transporter to synaptic vesicle-like vesicles in PC12 cells. J Biomed Res. 2020 Aug 21; 35(5):339-350. Sun M, Han X, Chang F, Xu H, Colgan L, Liu Y. PMID: 34230437; PMCID: PMC8502691.

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Galectin-1 attenuates cardiomyocyte hypertrophy through splice-variant specific modulation of CaV1.2 calcium channel. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis. 2019 01; 1865(1):218-229. Fan J, Fan W, Lei J, Zhou Y, Xu H, Kapoor I, Zhu G, Wang J. PMID: 30463690.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 8 Fields:
Bio Biochemistry Bio Biophysics Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Luminal/extracellular domains of chimeric CI-M6PR-C proteins interfere with their retrograde endosome-to-TGN trafficking in the transient expression system. J Biomed Res. 2018 Jul 23; 32(4):245-256. Chang F, Li N, Yan K, Huang Y, Xu H, Liu Y. PMID: 29988026; PMCID: PMC6117607.

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Distinctive roles of Rac1 and Rab29 in LRRK2 mediated membrane trafficking and neurite outgrowth. J Biomed Res. 2018 Mar 26; 32(2):145-156. Feng M, Hu X, Li N, Hu F, Chang F, Xu HF, Liu YJ. PMID: 29336357; PMCID: PMC5895569.

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Retrograde trafficking of VMAT2 and its role in protein stability in non-neuronal cells. J Biomed Res. 2016 Nov; 30(6):502-509. Wu Q, Xu H, Wang W, Chang F, Jiang Y, Liu Y. PMID: 27924069; PMCID: PMC5138583.

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