Publications

Author names in Bold are our lab members!    * co-first authorship      # co-corresponding authorship

After joining University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus (2023)

• Rhiannon M. Sears, Nathan L. Nowling, Jake Yarbro, Ning Zhao Expanding the tagging toolbox for visualizing translation live. Biochem J (2025) 482 (3): BCJ20240183. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20240183. 

• DeRoo J, Terry JS, Zhao N, Stasevich TJ, Snow CD, Geiss BJ. PAbFold: Linear Antibody Epitope Prediction using AlphaFold2. eLife June (2024). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98369.2.

• Malgorzata J. Latallo, Shaopeng Wang, Daoyuan Dong, Blake Nelson, Nathan M. Livingston, Rong Wu, Ning Zhao, Timothy J. Stasevich, Michael C. Bassik, Shuying Sun & Bin Wu. Single-molecule imaging reveals distinct elongation and frameshifting dynamics between frames of expanded RNA repeats in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD. Nat Commun 14, 5581 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41339-x. 

Before joining University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus

• Cialek CA, Galindo G, Morisaki T, Zhao N, Montgomery TA, Stasevich TJ. Imaging translational control by Argonaute with single-molecule resolution in live cells. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 10;13(1):3345. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30976-3. PubMed PMID: 35688806.

• Murakawa T, Nakamura T, Kawaguchi K, Murayama F, Zhao N, Stasevich TJ, Kimura H, Fujita N. A Drosophila toolkit for HA-tagged proteins unveils a block in autophagy flux in the last instar larval fat body. Development. 2022 Mar 15;149(6). doi: 10.1242/dev.200243. Epub 2022 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 35319746.

• DeLuca KF, Mick JE, Ide AH, Lima WC, Sherman L, Schaller KL, Anderson SM, Zhao N, Stasevich TJ, Varma D, Nilsson J, DeLuca JG. Generation and diversification of recombinant monoclonal antibodies. Elife. 2021 Dec 31;10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72093. PubMed PMID: 34970967.

• Liu Y*, Zhao N*, Kanemaki MT, Yamamoto Y, Sadamura Y, Ito Y, Tokunaga M, Stasevich TJ, Kimura H. Visualizing looping of two endogenous genomic loci using synthetic zinc-finger proteins with anti-FLAG and anti-HA frankenbodies in living cells. Genes Cells. 2021 Nov;26(11):905-926. doi: 10.1111/gtc.12893. Epub 2021 Sep 20. PubMed PMID: 34465007. *Contribute equally

• Vigano MA, Ell CM, Kustermann MMM, Aguilar G, Matsuda S, Zhao N, Stasevich TJ, Affolter M, Pyrowolakis G. Protein manipulation using single copies of short peptide tags in cultured cells and in Drosophila melanogaster. Development. 2021 Mar 16;148(6). doi: 10.1242/dev.191700. PubMed PMID: 33593816.

• Zhao N, Kamijo K, Fox PD, Oda H, Morisaki T, Sato Y, Kimura H, Stasevich TJ. A genetically encoded probe for imaging nascent and mature HA-tagged proteins in vivo. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 3;10(1): 2947. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10846-1. PubMed PMID: 31270320. Recommended by F1000

• Zhang Y, Zhang X, Tang J, Snow C, Sun G, Kowalski A, Hartje L, Zhao N, Wang Y, Belfiore L. Synthesis of luminescent lanthanide complexes within crosslinked protein crystal matrices. CrystEngComm. 2018; 20(16):2267-2277. doi: 10.1039/C8CE00318A.

• Zhao N, Spencer J, Schmitt MA, Fisk JD. Hyperthermostable binding molecules on phage: Assay components for point-of-care diagnostics for active tuberculosis infection. Anal Biochem. 2017 Mar 15;521:59-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2016.12.021. Epub 2017 Jan 3. PubMed PMID: 28062210.

• Zhao N, Schmitt MA, Fisk JD. Phage display selection of tight specific binding variants from a hyperthermostable Sso7d scaffold protein library. FEBS J. 2016 Apr; 283(7):1351-67. doi: 10.1111/febs.13674. Epub 2016 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 26835881.