Jie Yang, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Yang works on the study of protein folding, misfolding and assembly using single molecule fluorescence and force spectroscopy techniques.

Publications

  • Published 3/26/2024

    Meijer M, Öttl M, Yang J, Subkhangulova A, Kumar A, Feng Z, van Voorst TW, Groffen AJ, van Weering JRT, Zhang Y, Verhage M. Tomosyns attenuate SNARE assembly and synaptic depression by binding to VAMP2-containing template complexes. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 26; 15(1):2652. PMID: 38531902.

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  • Published 10/13/2023

    Ren Y, Yang J, Fujita B, Jin H, Zhang Y, Berro J. Force redistribution in clathrin-mediated endocytosis revealed by coiled-coil force sensors. Sci Adv. 2023 Oct 13; 9(41):eadi1535. PMID: 37831774.

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  • Published 12/1/2022

    Yang J, Jin H, Liu Y, Guo Y, Zhang Y. A dynamic template complex mediates Munc18-chaperoned SNARE assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Dec 06; 119(49):e2215124119. PMID: 36454760.

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  • Published 1/1/2022

    Jin H, Ge J, Yang J, Zhang Y. Single-Molecule Manipulation Study of Chaperoned SNARE Folding and Assembly with Optical Tweezers. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2478:461-481. PMID: 36063331.

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  • Published 12/16/2021

    Ge J, Bian X, Ma L, Cai Y, Li Y, Yang J, Karatekin E, De Camilli P, Zhang Y. Stepwise membrane binding of extended synaptotagmins revealed by optical tweezers. Nat Chem Biol. 2022 Mar; 18(3):313-320. PMID: 34916620.

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Education

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
  • Shandong University, BS