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Tao Liu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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9 papers

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Molecular principles for graded activation of dopamine D1 receptor

Xinyue Zhang, Yu Zheng, Heng Liu, Jingjing Hou, Luyu Fan, Xinheng He, Jun Sun, Tao Liu, Jianhui Zhou, Ruxin Lei, Mingyang Li, Wen Hu, Xi Cheng, Sheng Wang, Xin Xie, , Youwen Zhuang

The paper defines the molecular mechanism of graded activation of the dopamine D1 receptor and shows how ligand efficacy is encoded through an activation pathway.

bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry

Elucidating the potential carcinogenic molecular mechanisms of parabens in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma through network toxicology and molecular docking

Lei Zhao, Jianwang Yang, Tao Liu, Huan Cao, Yu Miaomiao, Baoshan Wang

This study identifies parabens' potential carcinogenic mechanisms in HNSCC through network toxicology and molecular docking, revealing key hub genes and immune correlations.

PLoS ONE · Mar 23, 2026Peer-reviewedPharmacology & Toxicology

Ultraviolet B Induces Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus by Triggering a Ribotoxic-Stress-Response-Dependent MIF-p38 Feedback Loop in Keratinocytes

Chipeng Guo, Siweier Luo, Jigang Luo, Siyao Lu, Xiaomei You, Junlin Cao, Yong Du, Haoran Lv, Hanzhi Liang, Le Wang, Liangchun Wang, Tao Liu, Yiming Zhou

This study identifies a UVB-induced MIF-p38 feedback loop in lupus keratinocytes that drives cutaneous lupus erythematosus and shows a microneedle patch targeting MIF can alleviate skin lesions.

Cell Death and Disease · Feb 2, 2026Peer-reviewedImmunology

From Sensory to Perceptual Manifolds: The Twist of Neural Geometry

Heng Ma, Longsheng Jiang, Tao Liu, Jia Liu B

The paper investigates how the brain categorizes non-linearly separable stimuli by analyzing neural manifolds in macaques during a motion-induced illusory contour classification task, revealing a transformation from sensory to perceptual manifolds through geometric operations.

Science Advances · Dec 10, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Deficiency in DNAH12 causes male infertility by impairing DNAH1 and DNALI1 recruitment in humans and mice

Menglei Yang, Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain, Manan Khan, Muhammad Zubair, Jianteng Zhou, Ao Ma, Xiongheng Huang, Jingwei Ye, Min Chen, Aoran Zhi, Tao Liu, Ranjha Khan, Asim Ali, Wasim Shah, Aurang Zeb, , Baolu Shi

This study identifies DNAH12 mutations causing male infertility by disrupting DNAH1 and DNALI1 recruitment in sperm flagella, confirmed in human and mouse models.

eLife · Mar 27, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics

Assessment of DNA methylation from a single genomic region of ELOV2 is sufficient to predict chronological age

Bowen Zhu, Dean Li, Guojing Han, Xue Yao, Hongqin Gu, Tao Liu, Linghua Liu, Jie Dai, Isabella Zhaotong Liu, Yunshi Liang, Jian Zheng, Zheming Sun, He Lin, Wenyuan Wang, Nan Liu, , Lefeng Qu

This study develops an age-prediction model using DNA methylation from a single ELOV2 genomic region, validated across cohorts and forensic applications.

bioRxiv · Dec 10, 2024 · PreprintGenetics

Assessment of fish spermatogenesis through high-quality immunofluorescence against fish testicular samples with an antibody set

Ye Ding, Tao Liu, Yongming Li, Yonghua Sun

The paper develops antibodies and an immunofluorescence method to accurately identify spermatogenic cell types in fish testis samples across multiple species.

bioRxiv · Aug 23, 2022 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology

Open-pFind enables precise, comprehensive and rapid peptide identification in shotgun proteomics

Hao Chi, Chao Liu, Hao Yang, Wenfeng Zeng, Long Wu, Wenjing Zhou, Ruimin Wang, Xiu-Nan Niu, Yue‐He Ding, Yao Zhang, Zhaowei Wang, Zhenlin Chen, Rui-Xiang Sun, Tao Liu, Guangming Tan, , Si‐Min He

Open-pFind improves peptide identification in shotgun proteomics by handling complex modifications and increasing identification rates and speed.

Nature Biotechnology · Oct 8, 2018Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Chromatin Landscapes and Genetic Risk For Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

James N. Jarvis, Lisha Zhu, Kaiyu Jiang, Karstin Webber, Laiping Wong, Tao Liu, Yanmin Chen

The paper investigates chromatin landscapes and genetic risk loci in JIA by analyzing chromatin marks and transcription in neutrophils and CD4+ T cells, finding that risk loci show specific chromatin features and transcriptional activity.

bioRxiv · Sep 17, 2016Genetics