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Selected Publications:

2023

  • Ma J§, Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD§, Hao J§Wang Y†. 2023. Cellular roadmaps of viroid infection. Trends in Microbiology 31:1179-1191.  (§: Equal contribution; †: The corresponding author) Download link

  • Wang Y†, Folimonova SY†. 2023. Long noncoding RNAs in plant-pathogen interactions. Phytopathology 113:1380-1386.  (†: Corresponding authors) Download link

2022

  • Ma J, Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD, Park WJ, Wang M, Takeda R, Liu B, Wang Y†. 2022. A nuclear import pathway exploited by pathogenic noncoding RNAs. Plant Cell 34:3543-3556.  (†: The corresponding author) (Featured in Trends in Microbiology's "Spotlight" and Plant Cell's "In brief") Download link

  • Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD, Ma J, Pechan T, Pechanova O, Liu B, Wang Y. 2022. A remodeled RNA polymerase II catalyzing viroid RNA-templated transcription. PLOS Pathogens 18:e1010850.  (†: The corresponding author) Download link

  • Qing Y, Zheng Y, Mlotshwa S, Smith HN, Wang X, Zhai X, van der Knaap E, Wang Y†, Fei Z. 2022. Dynamically expressed small RNAs, substantially driven by genomic structural variants, contribute to transcriptomic changes during tomato domestication. Plant Journal 110:1536-1550.  (†: Co-corresponding authors) (Featured in Journal's "Research Highlight" and "Cover"Download link

  • Ma J, Wang Y. 2022. Studies on viroid shed light on the role of RNA 3-dimensional structural motifs in RNA trafficking in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:836267.  (†: The corresponding author) Download link

  • Ma J§, Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD§, Wang Y†. 2022. Emerging value of the viroid model in molecular biology and beyond. Virus Research 313:198730.  (§: Equal contribution; †: The corresponding author) Download link

2021

  • Kong L, Feng B, Yan Y, Kim J, Xu L, Rack JGM, Wang Y, Jang JC, Ahel I, Shan L, He P. 2021. Noncanonical mono(ADP-ribosyl)action of zinc finger SZF proteins counteracts ubiquitination for protein     homeostasis in plant immunity. Molecular Cell 81:1-14. (Featured in Journal's "Preview") Download Link

  • Wang Y†. 2021. Current view and perspectives in viroid replication. Current Opinions in Virology 47:32-37. (†: Corresponding author)  Download Link

2020​​

  • Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD, Wang Y†. 2020. Evidence supporting that RNA polymerase II catalyzes de novo transcription using potato spindle tuber viroid circular RNA templates. Viruses 12:371. (†: The corresponding author)   Download link

2019

  • Jiang J, Ma J, Liu B†, Wang Y†. 2019. Combining a simple method for DNA/RNA/Protein co-purification and Arabidopsis protoplast assay to facilitate viroid research. Viruses 11:324. (†: Co-corresponding authors)  Download link

2018

  • Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD§, Qu J§, Tian N§, Jiang J§, Wang Y†. 2018. Potato spindle tuber viroid RNA-templated transcription: factors and regulation. Viruses 10:503. (§: Equal contribution; †: The corresponding author)  Download link

  • Jiang J, Smith HN, Ren D, Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage SD, Dawe AL, Wang L, Wang Y†. 2018. Potato spindle tuber viroid modulates its replication through a direct interaction with a splicing regulator. Journal of Virology 92:e01004-18. (†: The corresponding author; Featured in Journal's "Spotlight"Download link

  • Takeda R†, Zirbel CL, Leontis NB , Wang Y†, Ding B. 2018. Allelic RNA motifs in regulating systemic trafficking of potato spindle tuber viroid. Viruses 10:160. (†: Co-corresponding authors)  Download link

  • Wang Y†, Zirbel CL†, Leontis NB †, Ding B. 2018. RNA three-dimensional structural motifs as a critical constraint of viroid RNA evolution. PLOS Pathogens 14:e1006801. (†: Co-corresponding authors)  Download link

2017

  • Zheng Y§, Ding B, Fei Z†, Wang Y§,†. 2017. Comprehensive transcriptome analyses reveal tomato plant responses to tobacco rattle virus-based gene silencing vectors. Scientific Reports 7:9771 (§: Equal contribution; †: Co-corresponding authors)  Download link

  • Zheng Y§, Wang Y§,†, Ding B, Fei Z†. 2017. Comprehensive transcriptome analyses reveal that potato spindle tuber viroid triggers genome-wide changes in alternative splicing, inducible trans-acting activity of phased secondary small interfering RNAs and immune responses. Journal of Virology 91:e00247-17. (§: Equal contribution; †: Co-corresponding authors)  Download link

2016

  • Wang Y§,†, Qu J§, Ji S, Wallace AJ, Wu J, Li Y, Gopalan V, Ding B. 2016. A Land Plant-specific Transcription Factor Directly Enhances Transcription of a Pathogenic Noncoding RNA Template by DNA-dependent RNA Polymerase II. Plant Cell 28:1094-1107. (§: Equal contribution; †: The corresponding author; Featured in Journal's "In Brief"Download link

2015

  • Zheng Y§, Wang Y§, Wu J, Ding B, Fei Z. 2015. A dynamic evolutionary and functional landscape of plant phased small interfering RNAs. BMC Biology 13:32. (§: Equal contribution)  Download link

2011

  • Wang Y, Itaya A, Zhong X, Wu Y, Zhang J, van der Knaap E, Olmstead R, Qi Y, Ding B. 2011. Function and evolution of a microRNA that regulates a Ca2+-ATPase and triggers the formation of phased small interfering RNAs in tomato reproductive growth. Plant Cell 23:3185-3203. (Featured in Journal's "In Brief"Download link

2010

  • Wang Y, Ding B. 2010. Viroids: small probes for exploring the vast universe of RNA trafficking in plants. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 52:28-39.  Download link

2007

  • Wang Y, Zhong X, Itaya A, Ding B. 2007. Evidence for the existence of the loop E motif of Potato spindle tuber viroid in vivo. Journal of Virology 81:2074-2077.  Download link

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