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Liping Xiong

Duke Medical Center

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:C. elegans· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Approach:genetic perturbation / CRISPR· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Joseph HeitmaniD· 2 shared Sheng SuniD· 2 shared A. LehmanniD· 1 shared Jun HuangiD· 1 shared Patricia P PetersoniD· 1 shared Vikas YadaviD· 1 shared Ziyan XuiD· 1 shared

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Dissecting the homeodomain MAT locus and engineering novel tripolar and bipolar mating systems in Cryptococcus amylolentus

Liping Xiong, Vikas Yadav, Sheng Sun, Joseph Heitman

This study investigates the role of HD genes in sexual reproduction and demonstrates a tetrapolar-to-bipolar transition in Cryptococcus amylolentus using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.

mBio · Mar 17, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Homeodomain protein Sxi1α independently controls cell-cell fusion and gene expression during sexual reproduction in Cryptococcus deneoformans

Jun Huang, A. Lehmann, Patricia P Peterson, Ziyan Xu, Liping Xiong, Sheng Sun, Joseph Heitman

This study identifies Sxi1's inhibitory role in unisexual cell fusion and distinct transcriptional regulation from Sxi2a in Cryptococcus deneoformans.

PLoS Genetics · Mar 12, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology