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Xiaokun Shu, PhD

TitleAssociate Professor
SchoolUCSF School of Pharmacy
DepartmentPharmaceutical Chemistry
Address555 Mission Bay Blvd South
San Francisco CA 94158
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    2012NIH Director's New Innovator Award

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    The Shu lab is interested in applying Principles of Physics and Chemistry to develop technologies for Biology. With the completion of human genome project, the next step in understanding biology and disease is to identify protein interactome and to characterize protein machines since protein-protein interaction networks underlie most cellular processes and protein machines carry out every major cellular process and maintain homeostasis of an organism. However, unlike the genome, protein interactome is dynamic and contains weakly associated components, which are difficult to detect. Hence, toward construction of a complete human interactome, we aim to develop new technologies for: 1) identifying weak or transient protein interactions; 2) imaging protein-protein interactions with spatiotemporal resolution. To understand mechanisms of biological processes and disease, we are also interested in developing technologies for: 3) imaging spatiotemporal dynamics of cell signaling including kinase activities in whole-animals; 4) imaging neuronal activities in brain by recording calcium and membrane potential. With these technologies, our ultimate goal is to understand molecular mechanisms of animal development and disease.


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    Rational design of a genetically encoded infrared fluorescent protease reporter
    NIH/NIGMS R01GM115399Aug 1, 2015 - Jul 31, 2019
    Role: Principal Investigator
    New principle-based technologies for identifying transient protein interactions
    NIH/NIGMS DP2GM105446Sep 30, 2012 - Jun 30, 2017
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Makhijani K, To TL, Ruiz-González R, Lafaye C, Royant A, Shu X. Precision Optogenetic Tool for Selective Single- and Multiple-Cell Ablation in a Live Animal Model System. Cell Chem Biol. 2016 Dec 28. PMID: 28065655.
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    2. Rodriguez EA, Campbell RE, Lin JY, Lin MZ, Miyawaki A, Palmer AE, Shu X, Zhang J, Tsien RY. The Growing and Glowing Toolbox of Fluorescent and Photoactive Proteins. Trends Biochem Sci. 2016 Nov 1. PMID: 27814948.
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    3. Rodriguez EA, Tran GN, Gross LA, Crisp JL, Shu X, Lin JY, Tsien RY, et al. A far-red fluorescent protein evolved from a cyanobacterial phycobiliprotein. Nat Methods. 2016 Aug 1. PMID: 27479328.
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    4. Feliks M, Lafaye C, Shu X, Royant A, Field M, et al. Structural Determinants of Improved Fluorescence in a Family of Bacteriophytochrome-Based Infrared Fluorescent Proteins: Insights from Continuum Electrostatic Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biochemistry. 2016 Jul 29. PMID: 27471775.
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    5. To TL, Schepis A, Ruiz-González R, Zhang Q, Yu D, Dong Z, Coughlin SR, Shu X. Rational Design of a GFP-Based Fluorogenic Caspase Reporter for Imaging Apoptosis In Vivo. Cell Chem Biol. 2016 Jul 21; 23(7):875-82. PMID: 27447051.
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    6. To TL, Medzihradszky KF, Burlingame AL, DeGrado WF, Jo H, Shu X. Photoactivatable protein labeling by singlet oxygen mediated reactions. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2016 Jul 15; 26(14):3359-63. PMID: 27220724.
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    7. To TL, Zhang Q, Shu X. Structure-guided design of a reversible fluorogenic reporter of protein-protein interactions. Protein Sci. 2016 Mar; 25(3):748-53. PMID: 26690964.
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    8. Yu D, Dong Z, Gustafson WC, Ruiz-González R, Signor L, Marzocca F, Borel F, Klassen MP, Makhijani K, Royant A, Jan YN, Weiss WA, Guo S, Shu X. Rational design of a monomeric and photostable far-red fluorescent protein for fluorescence imaging in vivo. Protein Sci. 2016 Feb; 25(2):308-15. PMID: 26549191.
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    9. Yu D, Baird MA, Allen JR, Howe ES, Klassen MP, Reade A, Makhijani K, Song Y, Liu S, Murthy Z, Zhang SQ, Weiner OD, Kornberg TB, Jan YN, Davidson MW, Shu X. A naturally monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for protein labeling in vivo. Nat Methods. 2015 Aug; 12(8):763-5. PMID: 26098020; PMCID: PMC4521985 [Available on 02/01/16].
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    10. To TL, Piggott BJ, Makhijani K, Yu D, Jan YN, Shu X. Rationally designed fluorogenic protease reporter visualizes spatiotemporal dynamics of apoptosis in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 17; 112(11):3338-43. PMID: 25733847; PMCID: PMC4371907.
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    11. To TL, Fadul MJ, Shu X. Singlet oxygen triplet energy transfer-based imaging technology for mapping protein-protein proximity in intact cells. Nat Commun. 2014; 5:4072. PMID: 24905026; PMCID: PMC4091638.
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    12. Yu D, Gustafson WC, Han C, Lafaye C, Noirclerc-Savoye M, Ge WP, Thayer DA, Huang H, Kornberg TB, Royant A, Jan LY, Jan YN, Weiss WA, Shu X. An improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging. Nat Commun. 2014; 5:3626. PMID: 24832154; PMCID: PMC4077998.
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    13. Asensio CS, Sirkis DW, Maas JW, Egami K, To TL, Brodsky FM, Shu X, Cheng Y, Edwards RH. Self-assembly of VPS41 promotes sorting required for biogenesis of the regulated secretory pathway. Dev Cell. 2013 Nov 25; 27(4):425-37. PMID: 24210660; PMCID: PMC3974617.
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    14. Butko MT, Yang J, Geng Y, Kim HJ, Jeon NL, Shu X, Mackey MR, Ellisman MH, Tsien RY, Lin MZ. Fluorescent and photo-oxidizing TimeSTAMP tags track protein fates in light and electron microscopy. Nat Neurosci. 2012 Dec; 15(12):1742-51. PMID: 23103964; PMCID: PMC3509268.
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    15. Ou HD, Kwiatkowski W, Deerinck TJ, Noske A, Blain KY, Land HS, Soria C, Powers CJ, May AP, Shu X, Tsien RY, Fitzpatrick JA, Long JA, Ellisman MH, Choe S, O'Shea CC. A structural basis for the assembly and functions of a viral polymer that inactivates multiple tumor suppressors. Cell. 2012 Oct 12; 151(2):304-19. PMID: 23063122; PMCID: PMC3681303.
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    16. Qi YB, Garren EJ, Shu X, Tsien RY, Jin Y. Photo-inducible cell ablation in Caenorhabditis elegans using the genetically encoded singlet oxygen generating protein miniSOG. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 8; 109(19):7499-504. PMID: 22532663; PMCID: PMC3358873.
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    17. Ellisman MH, Deerinck TJ, Shu X, Sosinsky GE. Picking faces out of a crowd: genetic labels for identification of proteins in correlated light and electron microscopy imaging. Methods Cell Biol. 2012; 111:139-55. PMID: 22857927; PMCID: PMC3532940.
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    18. Shu X, Lev-Ram V, Deerinck TJ, Qi Y, Ramko EB, Davidson MW, Jin Y, Ellisman MH, Tsien RY. A genetically encoded tag for correlated light and electron microscopy of intact cells, tissues, and organisms. PLoS Biol. 2011 Apr; 9(4):e1001041. PMID: 21483721; PMCID: PMC3071375.
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    19. Shu X, Royant A, Lin MZ, Aguilera TA, Lev-Ram V, Steinbach PA, Tsien RY. Mammalian expression of infrared fluorescent proteins engineered from a bacterial phytochrome. Science. 2009 May 8; 324(5928):804-7. PMID: 19423828; PMCID: PMC2763207.
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    20. Shu X, Wang L, Colip L, Kallio K, Remington SJ. Unique interactions between the chromophore and glutamate 16 lead to far-red emission in a red fluorescent protein. Protein Sci. 2009 Feb; 18(2):460-6. PMID: 19165727; PMCID: PMC2708057.
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    21. Shu X, Leiderman P, Gepshtein R, Smith NR, Kallio K, Huppert D, Remington SJ. An alternative excited-state proton transfer pathway in green fluorescent protein variant S205V. Protein Sci. 2007 Dec; 16(12):2703-10. PMID: 17965188; PMCID: PMC2222808.
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    22. Leiderman P, Genosar L, Huppert D, Shu X, Remington SJ, Solntsev KM, Tolbert LM. Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in the green fluorescent protein variant S65T/H148D. 3. Short- and long-time dynamics of the excited-state proton transfer. Biochemistry. 2007 Oct 30; 46(43):12026-36. PMID: 17918961.
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    23. Shi X, Abbyad P, Shu X, Kallio K, Kanchanawong P, Childs W, Remington SJ, Boxer SG. Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in the green fluorescent protein variant S65T/H148D. 2. Unusual photophysical properties. Biochemistry. 2007 Oct 30; 46(43):12014-25. PMID: 17918960; PMCID: PMC2527858.
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    24. Shu X, Kallio K, Shi X, Abbyad P, Kanchanawong P, Childs W, Boxer SG, Remington SJ. Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in the green fluorescent protein variant S65T/H148D. 1. Mutagenesis and structural studies. Biochemistry. 2007 Oct 30; 46(43):12005-13. PMID: 17918959; PMCID: PMC2536499.
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    25. Shu X, Shaner NC, Yarbrough CA, Tsien RY, Remington SJ. Novel chromophores and buried charges control color in mFruits. Biochemistry. 2006 Aug 15; 45(32):9639-47. PMID: 16893165.
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    26. Quillin ML, Anstrom DM, Shu X, O'Leary S, Kallio K, Chudakov DM, Remington SJ. Kindling fluorescent protein from Anemonia sulcata: dark-state structure at 1.38 A resolution. Biochemistry. 2005 Apr 19; 44(15):5774-87. PMID: 15823036.
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    27. X.K.Shu, P. Jiang, J.G. Che. Surface alloying of immiscible metals induced by surface state shift. Surface Science. 2003; 545(3):199-210.
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