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Conduction system regeneration and remodeling after myocardial infarction.

Cui M. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2025 Feb;4(2):124-125. doi: 10.1038/s44161-024-00594-x. PubMed PMID: 39753977.

Robust differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into mural progenitor cells via transient activation of NKX3.1

Lee U, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Luo AC, Gong L, Tremmel DM, Kim Y, Villarreal VS, Wang X, Lin RZ, Cui M, Ma M, Yuan K, Wang K, Chen K, Melero-Martin JM. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 30;15(1):8392. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52678-8. PubMed PMID: 39349465

Identification of FDA-approved drugs that induce heart regeneration in mammals

Ahmed MS, Nguyen NUN, Nakada Y, Hsu CC, Farag A, Lam NT, Wang P, Thet S, Menendez-Montes I, Elhelaly WM, Lou X, Secco I, Tomczyk M, Zentilin L, Pei J, Cui M, Dos Santos M, Liu X, Liu Y, Zaha D, Walcott G, Tomchick DR, Xing C, Zhang CC, Grishin NV, Giacca M, Zhang J, Sadek HA. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024 Mar;3(3):372-388. doi: 10.1038/s44161-024-00450-y. Epub 2024 Mar 11. PubMed PMID: 39183959

The PD-1–PD-L1 pathway maintains an immunosuppressive environment essential for neonatal heart regeneration

Vargas Aguilar S*, Cui M*, Tan W, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bassel-Duby R, Liu N, Olson EO. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024 Mar 1. 3, 3, p. 389-402 14 p. * co-first author.

Transcription factor NFYa controls cardiomyocyte metabolism and proliferation during mouse fetal heart development.

Cui M*, Bezprozvannaya S, Hao T#, Elnwasany A, Szweda LI, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN*. Dev Cell. 2023 Nov 8:S1534-5807(23)00555-5. PMID: 37972593. * co-corresponding author; # Cui lab trainee.

Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice

Chai AC, Cui M, Chemello F, Li H, Chen K, Tan W, Atmanli A, McAnally JR, Zhang Y, Xu L, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Nat Med. 2023 Feb;29(2):401-411. PMID: 36797478

Precise genomic editing of pathogenic mutations in RBM20 rescues dilated cardiomyopathy

Nishiyama T, Zhang Y, Cui M, Li H, Sanchez-Ortiz E, McAnally JR, Tan W, Kim J, Chen K, Xu L, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Nov 23;14(672):eade1633. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.ade1633. Epub 2022 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 36417486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10088465.

Nrf1 promotes heart regeneration and repair by regulating proteostasis and redox balance

Cui M, Atmanli A, Morales MG, Tan W, Chen K, Xiao X, Xu L, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Nat Commun. 2021 Sep 6;12(1):5270. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25653-w. PubMed PMID: 34489413; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8421386.

Cardiac Myoediting Attenuates Cardiac Abnormalities in Human and Mouse Models of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Atmanli A, Chai AC, Cui M, Wang Z, Nishiyama T, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Circ Res. 2021 Sep 3;129(6):602-616. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319579. Epub 2021 Aug 10. PubMed PMID: 34372664; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8416801.

Cell-Type-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Murine Neonatal Heart Regeneration at Single-Cell Resolution

Wang Z, Cui M, Shah AM, Tan W, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Cell Rep. 2021 May 25;35(8):109211. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109211. PubMed PMID: 34038730; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8210827.

miRNA-independent function of long noncoding pri-miRNA loci

He D, Wu D, Muller S, Wang L, Saha P, Ahanger SH, Liu SJ, Cui M, Hong SJ, Jain M, Olson HE, Akeson M, Costello JF, Diaz A, Lim DA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 30;118(13). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2017562118. PubMed PMID: 33758101; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8020771.

Dynamic Transcriptional Responses to Injury of Regenerative and Non-regenerative Cardiomyocytes Revealed by Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing

Cui M, Wang Z, Chen K, Shah AM, Tan W, Duan L, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Li H, Xu L, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Dev Cell. 2020 Apr 6;53(1):102-116.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.02.019. Epub 2020 Mar 26. PubMed PMID: 32220304; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7365574.

Protocol for Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics of Diploid and Tetraploid Cardiomyocytes in Murine Hearts

Cui M, Olson EN. STAR Protoc. 2020 Sep 18;1(2):100049. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100049. eCollection 2020 Sep 18. PubMed PMID: 33111095; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7580205.

Mechanistic basis of neonatal heart regeneration revealed by transcriptome and histone modification profiling

Wang Z*, Cui M*, Shah AM, Ye W, Tan W, Min YL, Botten GA, Shelton JM, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Sep 10;116(37):18455-18465. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905824116. Epub 2019 Aug 26. PubMed PMID: 31451669; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6744882. * co-first author

The Long Noncoding RNA Pnky Is a Trans-acting Regulator of Cortical Development In Vivo

Andersen RE, Hong SJ, Lim JJ, Cui M, Harpur BA, Hwang E, Delgado RN, Ramos AD, Liu SJ, Blencowe BJ, Lim DA. Dev Cell. 2019 May 20;49(4):632-642.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.04.032. PubMed PMID: 31112699; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6556063.

Genetic and epigenetic regulation of cardiomyocytes in development, regeneration and disease

Cui M, Wang Z, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Development. 2018 Dec 20;145(24). doi: 10.1242/dev.171983. Review. PubMed PMID: 30573475; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6307883.

Identification of a multipotent Twist2-expressing cell population in the adult heart

Min YL, Jaichander P, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bezprozvannaya S, Malladi VS, Cui M, Wang Z, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN, Liu N. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 4;115(36):E8430-E8439. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800526115. Epub 2018 Aug 20. PubMed PMID: 30127033; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6130356.

Recent advances in functional perturbation and genome editing techniques in studying sea urchin development

Cui M, Lin CY, Su YH. Brief Funct Genomics. 2017 Sep 1;16(5):309-318. doi: 10.1093/bfgp/elx011. Review. PubMed PMID: 28605407.

Sequential Response to Multiple Developmental Network Circuits Encoded in an Intronic cis-Regulatory Module of Sea Urchin hox11/13b

Cui M*, Vielmas E, Davidson EH, Peter IS. Cell Rep. 2017 Apr 11;19(2):364-374. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.039. PubMed PMID: 28402858. * corresponding author

Specific functions of the Wnt signaling system in gene regulatory networks throughout the early sea urchin embryo

Cui M, Siriwon N, Li E, Davidson EH, Peter IS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Nov 25;111(47):E5029-38. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419141111. Epub 2014 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 25385617; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4250154.

Encoding regulatory state boundaries in the pregastrular oral ectoderm of the sea urchin embryo

Li E, Cui M, Peter IS, Davidson EH. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Mar 11;111(10):E906-13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323105111. Epub 2014 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 24556994; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3956148.

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