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Junfei Ma

University of FloridaORCID 0000-0002-3733-8983Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:plant (other)· 2 Assay:proteomics· 2 Organism:Arabidopsis· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1

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Svetlana Yuryevna FolimonovaiD· 3 shared Ying WangiD· 3 shared Yunhan WangiD· 3 shared Bin LiuiD· 2 shared Jie HaoiD· 2 shared Amit LevyiD· 1 shared Benjamin A. Merritt· 1 shared Bin Liu· 1 shared

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2025-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Reorganizing the RNA polymerase II complex for replication of an infectious noncoding RNA in vivo

Jie Hao, Zhuan Qin, Junfei Ma, Jie Qu, Yunhan Wang, Svetlana Yuryevna Folimonova, Bin Liu, Wenwei Li, Ying Wang

The paper demonstrates how the RNA polymerase II complex reorganizes in vivo to transcribe an infectious noncoding RNA, revealing structural insights into this process.

PLoS Pathogens · Apr 30, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Elevated temperature enhances the infectivity of a pathogenic noncoding RNA and the likelihood of its host expansion

Jie Hao, Zongyun Yan, Yunhan Wang, Junfei Ma, Benjamin A. Merritt, Ethan Tucker, Amit Levy, Bin Liu, Svetlana Yuryevna Folimonova, Jeongim Kim, Zhonglin Mou, Yiliang Ding, Ying Wang

This study shows elevated temperature increases PSTVd infectivity and enables it to infect Arabidopsis, highlighting climate warming's role in viroid host expansion.

bioRxiv · Sep 19, 2025 · PreprintPlant Biology

Simultaneous observation of RNAs and their binding proteins in plant cells

Junfei Ma, Yunhan Wang, Svetlana Yuryevna Folimonova, Bin Liu, Ying Wang

This study develops a method to visualize RNA and their binding proteins simultaneously in plant cells using modified immunofluorescence and RNA FISH.

Plant Cell & Environment · Jun 22, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology