Publications

See a current list of Dr. Xu's publications on PubMed

• Ruilin Zhang, Jingchun Yang, Jin Zhu, Xiaolei Xu. Depletion of zebrafish Tcap leads to muscular dystrophy by disruption of sarcomere-membrane interaction, not of sarcomere assembly. Human Molecular Genetics, 2009 (in press)
• Xiaojing Sun, Tiffany Hoage, Ping Bai, Yonghe Ding, Zhenyue Chen, Wei Huang, Ruilin Zhang, Ashad Jahangir, Barry Paw, Yigang Li, Xiaolei Xu. Cardiac remodeling in adult zebrafish involves both myocyte hypertrophy and hyperplasia. PLoS ONE, 2009 (in press)
• Wei Huang, Ruilin Zhang, Xiaolei Xu. Myofibrillogenesis in the Developing Zebrafish Heart: a Functional Study of tnnt2. Developmental Biology, 331(2):237-249, 2009
• Ruilin Zhang, Xiaolei Xu. Transient and Transgenic Analysis of Zebrafish ventricular myosin heavy chain (vmhc) promoter: an inhibitory mechanism of ventricle-specific expression. Developmental Dynamics, 238(6):1564-1573, 2009
• Xueying Lin, Xiaolei Xu. Distinct Functions of Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in KV Development and Cardiac Asymmetry. Development 136(2):207-17, 2009
• Zhenyue Chen, Wei Huang, Tillman Dahme, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Michael J. Ackerman, Xiaolei Xu. Depletion of zebrafish essential and regulatory Myosin Light Chains reduces cardiac function through distinct mechanisms. Cardiovascular Research 79(1):97-108, 2008
• Xiaojing Sun, Ruilin Zhang, Xueying Lin, Xiaolei Xu. Wnt3a regulates the development of cardiac neural crest cells by modulating expression of crip2 in rhombomere 6. Circulation Research 102(7):831-39, 2008.
• Xueying Lin, Lorenzo Rinaldo, Ahmed F. Fazly, Xiaolei Xu. Depletion of Med10 Enhances Wnt and Suppresses Nodal Signaling during Zebrafish Embryogenesis. Developmental Biology 303:536-48, 2007.
• Michael Seeley, Wei Huang, Zhenyue Chen, William Oscar Wolff, Xueying Lin, Xiaolei Xu. Depletion of Zebrafish Titin Reduces Cardiac Contractility by Disrupting the Assembly of Z-discs and A-bands. Circulation Research 100(2):238-45, 2007 (cover page).
• Bos JM, Poley RN, Ny M, Tester DJ, Xiaolei Xu, Vatta M, Towbin JA, Gersh BJ, Ommen SR, Ackerman MJ. Genotype-phenotype relationships involving hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated mutations in titin, muscle LIM protein, and telethonin. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 88(1):78-85, 2006.
• Ling Wang, Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Xiaolei Xu. C terminus of RGS-GAIP-interacting protein conveys Neuropilin-1-mediated signaling during angiogenesis. FASEB Journal 2006 20(9):1513-5
• Xiaolei Xu, Steffen E. Meiler, Tao P. Zhong, Manzoor Mohideen, Dane A. Crossley, Warren W. Burggren, Mark C. Fishman. Cardiomyopathy in zebrafish due to mutation in an alternatively spliced exon of titin. Nature Genetics 30(2):205-9, 2002