Publications

 
 

2024

Gui-Jing Xiong and Zu-Hang Sheng (2024). Presynaptic perspective: Axonal transport defects in neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Cell Biology 233 (6). PDF

 
2023
 
Sunan Li and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2023). Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 80 PDF
 
Xia Feng, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Pengli Zheng, Yan Li, Jill Hakim, Shirley Q. Zhang, Stacie M. Anderson, Kaari Linask, Ryan Prestil, Jizhong Zou, Zu-Hang Sheng, Craig Blackstone. (2023). Ligand-free mitochondria-localized mutant AR-induced cytotoxicity in spinal bulbar muscular atrophy. Brain 146, 278-294. PDF
 
2022
 
Ning Huang and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2022). Microfluidic platforms as model systems to study CNS regeneration and axonal mitochondrial transport and energetic metabolism after injury-ischemia. Cell Regeneration  PDF
 
Dinesh C. Joshi, Chuan-Li Zhang, Deepali Mathur, Alex Li, Gaurav Kaushik, Zu-Hang Sheng, Shing-Yan Chiu. (2022). Tripartite crosstalk between cytokine IL-1beta, NMDA-R and misplaced mitochondrial anchor in neuronal dendrites is a novel pathway for neurodegeneration in inflammatory diseases. Journal of Neuroscience 42, 7318-7329. PDF
 
Xiu-Tang Cheng, Ning Huang, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2022). Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics in neurodegeneration and regeneration.  Neuron  110, 1899-1923. PDF
 
Joseph C. Roney, Xiu-Tang Cheng, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2022). Neuronal endolysosomal transport and lysosomal functionality in maintaining axonostasis. Journal of Cell Biology   221, 3, 2022. PDF
 
Sunan Li and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2022). Energy matters: presynaptic metabolism and the maintenance of synaptic transmission.  Nature Reviews Neuroscience 23, 4-22. PDF
 
2021
 
Kelly A. Chamberlain, Ning Huang (co-first author), Yuxiang Xie, Francesca LiCausi, Sunan Li, Yan Li, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Oligodendrocytes enhance axonal energy metabolism by deacetylation of mitochondrial proteins through transcellular delivery of SIRT2.  Neuron 109, 3456-3472. PDF
  • NINDS/NIH Press: Signaling from neighboring cells provides power boost within axons. PDF
  • Neuron Preview by Eva-Maria Albers: Superfood for axons: Glial exosomes boost axonal energetics by delivery of SIRT2.  Neuron  109, 3397-3400, 2021. PDF
Joseph C Roney, Sunan Li, Tamar Farfel-Becker, Ning Huang, Tao Sun, Yuxiang Xie, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Mei-Yao Lin, Frances M Platt, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Lipid-mediated impairment of axonal lysosome transport contributing to autophagic stress.  Autophagy  17, 1796-1798. PDF
 
Ning Huang, Sunan Li, Yuxiang Xie, Qi Han, Xiao-Ming Xu, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Reprogramming an energetic AKT-PAK5 axis boosts axon energy supply and facilitates neuron survival and regeneration after injury and ischemia. Current Biology  31, 3098-3114. PDF
  • Current Biology | Dispatch by Twiss et al., “Neurobiology: Resetting the axon’s batteries”. PDF
Xiu-Tang Cheng and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Neurobiology: A Pathogenic Tug of War.  Current Biology  31, 491–493. PDF
 
Joseph C Roney, Sunan Li*, Tamar Farfel-Becker*, Ning Huang, Tao Sun, Yuxiang Xie, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Mei-Yao Lin, Frances M Platt, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Lipid-mediated motor-adaptor sequestration impairs axonal lysosome delivery leading to autophagic stress and dystrophy in Niemann-Pick type C.  Developmental Cell 56, 1452-1468. PDF
  • Developmental Cell Preview by Yap and Winckler "Lysosomes to the rescue: Anterograde axonal lysosome transport and neuronal proteostasis" PDF
  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT "Lysosome transport interrupted".  PDF
Gui-Jing Xiong, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Tao Sun, Yuxiang Xie, Ning Huang, Sunan Li, Meo-Yao Lin, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2021). Defective axonal transport associates with autism-like synaptic dysfunction and social behavioral traits.  Molecular Psychiatry 26, 1472-1490.  PDF
 
2020
 
Sunan Li, Gui-Jing Xiong, Ning Huang, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2020). The crosstalk of energy sensing and mitochondrial anchoring sustains synaptic efficacy by maintaining presynaptic metabolism.  Nature Metabolism  2, 1077-1095. PDF
  • NIH Press: "NIH scientists reveal how the brain may fuel intense neural communication".  PDF
  • Science | Research Highlight "Mitochondrial anchoring in synapses". PDF
Xiu-Tang Cheng and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2020). Developmental regulation of microtubule-based axonal mitochondria trafficking and anchoring in health and diseases. Developmental Neurobiology  81, 284-299. PDF
 
Qi Han, Yuxiang Xie, Josue D Ordaz, Andrew J Huh,Ning Huang, Wei Wu, Naikui Liu, Kelly A Chamberlain, Zu-Hang Sheng (lead corresponding), Xiao-Ming Xu (2020). Recovering energy deficits promotes CNS axonal regeneration and functional restoration after spinal cord injury.  Cell Metabolism 31, 623-641. PDF
  • NIH Press: "Boosting energy levels within damaged nerves may help them heal". PDF
2019
 
Rajat Puri, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Mei-Yao Lin, Ning Huang, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2019). Defending stressed mitochondria: uncovering the role of MUL1 in suppressing neuronal mitophagy.  Autophagy  16, 176-178. PDF
 
Tamar Farfel-Becker, Joseph V. Roney, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Sunan Li, Sean R. Cuddy, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2020). The secret life of degradative lysosomes in axons: delivery from the soma, enzymatic activity, and local autophagic clearance.  Autophagy  16, 167-168. PDF
 
Dinesh C Joshi, Chuan-Li Zhang, Lavanya Babujee, Jason D Vevea, Benjamin K August, Zu-Hang Sheng, Edwin R Chapman, Timothy M Gomez, Shing Yan Chiu (2019). Inappropriate Intrusion of an Axonal Mitochondrial Anchor into Dendrites Causes Neurodegeneration. Cell Reports  29, 685-696. PDF
 
Rajat Puri, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Mei-Yao Lin, Ning Huang, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2019). Mul1 restrains Parkin-mediated mitophagy in mature neurons by maintaining ER-mitochondrial contacts.  Nature Communications  10, 3645. PDF
 
Tamar Farfel-Becker, Joseph V. Roney, Xiu-Tang Cheng, Sunan Li, Sean R. Cuddy, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2019). Neuronal soma-derived degradative lysosomes are continuously delivered to distal axons to maintain local degradation capacity.  Cell Reports  28, 51-64. PDF
 
Kelly A. Chamberlain and Zu-Hang Sheng (2019). Mechanisms for the maintenance and regulation of axonal energy supply. Journal of Neuroscience Research 97, 897-913. PDF
 
2018
 
Xiu-Tang Cheng, Yuxiang Xie, Bing Zhou, Ning Huang, Tamar Farfel-Becker, Zu-Hang Sheng. (2018). Revisiting LAMP1 as a marker for degradative autophagy-lysosomal organelles in the nervous system.  Autophagy. 14, 1472-1474. PDF
 
Xiu-Tang Cheng,  Yuxiang Xie,  Bing Zhou, Ning Huang, Tamar Farfel-Becker, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2018). Characterization of LAMP1-labeled non-degradative lysosomal and endocytic compartments in nervous systems.  Journal of Cell Biology  217, 3127-3139.  PDF
  • Featured in the JCB Spotlight Article by Kulkarni and Maday “Neuronal endosomes to lysosomes: A journey to the soma” PDF
2017
 
Mei-Yao Lin, Xiu-Tang Cheng (co-first author), Prasad Tammineni, Yuxiang Xie, Bing Zhou, Qian Cai, Zu-Hang Sheng (2017). Releasing Syntaphilin Removes Stressed Mitochondria from Axons Independent of Mitophagy under pathophysiological Conditions.  Neuron  94, 595-610. PDF
 
Zu-Hang Sheng (2017), The Interplay of Axonal Energy Homeostasis and Mitochondrial Trafficking and Anchoring. (Invited Review), Trends in Cell Biology. 27, 403-416.  PDF
 
2016
 
Bing Zhou, Panpan Yu, Mei-Yao Lin, Tao Sun, Yanmin Cheng and Zu-Hang Sheng (2016). Facilitation of axon regeneration by enhancing mitochondrial transport and rescuing energy deficits.  Journal of Cell Biology. 204, 103-119.  PDF
  • Rockefeller Press: "Mobilizing mitochondria may be key to regenerating damaged neurons"  PDF
  • NATURE | RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT "Mitochondria make nerves grow".  PDF
  • The New England Journal of Medicine | RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT "Mitochondrial mobility and neuronal recovery".  PDF
Natalia S. Morsci, David H. Hall, Monica Driscoll, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2016). Age-related phasic patterns of mitochondrial maintenance in adult C. elegans neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 1373-1385.  PDF
 
2015
 
Yuxiang Xie, Bing Zhou (co-first author), Mei-Yao Lin, Shiwei Wang, Kevin D. Foust, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2015). Endolysosomal Deficits Augment Mitochondria Pathology in Spinal Motor Neurons of Asymptomatic fALS Mice. Neuron 87, 355-370.  PDF
  • NIH Press: “Neurons’ broken machinery piles up in ALS: NIH scientists identify a transport defect in a model of familial ALS”.  PDF
Jerome Di Giovanni & Zu-Hang Sheng (2015). Regulation of synaptic activity by snapin-mediated endolysosomal transport and sorting. The EMBO Journal 34, 2059-2077.  PDF
 
Xiu-Tang Cheng, Bing Zhou, Mei-Yao Lin, Qian Cai, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2015). Axonal autophagosomes recruit dynein for retrograde transport. through fusion with late endosomes. Journal of Cell Biology 209, 377-386.  PDF
 
Mei-Yao Lin and Zu-Hang Sheng (2015). Regulation of mitochondrial transport in neurons (Review). Exp Cell Res 334, 35-44. PDF
 
Dinesh C. Joshi, Chuan-Li Zhang, Tien-Min Lin, Anchal Gusain, Melissa G. Harris, Esther Tree, Yewin Yin, Connie Wu, Zu-Hang Sheng, Robert J Dempsey, Zsuzsanna Fabry, and Shing Yan Chiu (2015). Deletion of Mitochondrial Anchoring Protects Dysmyelinating Shiverer: Implications for Progressive MS. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 5293-5306. 
 
2014
 
Zu-Hang Sheng (2014). Mitochondrial trafficking and anchoring in neurons: New insight and implications. (Invited Review), Journal of Cell Biology, 204, 1087-98. PDF
 
Yun J, Puri R, Yang H, Lizzio MA, Wu C, Sheng ZH, Guo M (2014). MUL1 acts in parallel to the PINK1/parkin pathway in regulating mitofusin and compensates for loss of PINK1/parkin. eLife 3, e01958. PDF
 
Nobuhiko Ohno, Hao Chiang, Don J Mahad, Grahame Kidd, Liping Liu, Richard M. Ransohoff, Zu-Hang Sheng, Hitoshi Komuro and Bruce D. Trapp (2014). Mitochondrial immobilization mediated by syntaphilin facilitates survival of demyelinated axons. PNAS 111, 9953-9958. PDF
 
2013
 
Yanmin Chen and Zu-Hang Sheng (2013). Kinesin-1-syntaphilin coupling mediates activity-dependent regulation of axonal mitochondrial transport. Journal of Cell Biology 202, 351-364.  PDF
  • Featured in JCB by an In Focus Article: “Syntaphilin puts the brakes on axonal mitochondria".  PDF
Tao Sun, Haifa Qiao (co-first author), Ping-Yue Pan, Yanming Chen, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2013). Mobile axonal mitochondria contribute to the variability of presynaptic strength.  Cell Reports 4, 413-419. PDF
  • NIH Press "NIH researchers discover how brain cells change their tune". PDF
2012
 
Qian Cai, Hesham M Zakaria, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2012). Long time-lapse imaging reveals unique features of PARK2/Parkin-mediated mitophagy in mature cortical neurons.  Autophagy  8, 976-978. PDF
 
Bing Zhou, Qian Cai, Yuxiang Xie, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2012). Snapin recruits dynein to BDNF-TrkB signaling endosomes for retrograde axonal transport and is essential for dendrite growth of cortical neurons. Cell Reports 2, 42-51. PDF
 
Kim HJ, Zhong Q, Zu-Hang Sheng, Yoshimori T, Liang C, Jung JU (2012). Beclin 1-interacting autophagy protein Atg14L targets SNARE-associated protein Snapin to coordinate endocytic trafficking. Journal of Cell Science 125, 4740-4750.
 
Qian Cai, Hesham Mostafa Zakaria, Anthony Simone, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2012). Spatial Parkin Translocation and Degradation of Depolarized Mitochondria via Mitophagy in Live Cortical Neurons. Current Biology 22, 545-552. PDF
 
Zu-Hang Sheng & Qian Cai (2012). Mitochondrial Transport in Neurons: Impact on Synaptic Homeostasis and Neurodegeneration (Invited Review). Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 77-93. PDF
 
2011
 
Qian Cai and Zu-Hang Sheng (2011). Uncovering the role of Snapin in regulating autophagy-lysosomal function. Autophagy 7, 445-447. PDF
 
Bing Zhou, Yi-Bing Zhu, Lin Lin, Qian Cai, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2011). Snapin deficiency is associated with developmental defects of the central nervous system, Bioscience Reports 31, 151-158.
 
Qian Cai, Matthew Davis, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2011). Regulation of Axonal Mitochondrial Transport and Its Impact on Synaptic Transmission. Neuroscience Research, 70, 9-15 (invited review)
 
Yi-Bing Zhu, Zu-Hang Sheng (2011). Increased Axonal Mitochondrial Mobility Does Not Slow ALS-like Disease in Mutant SOD1 Mice. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 286, 23432-23440. PDF
 
2010
 
Qian Cai, Li Lu, Jin-Hua Tian, Yi-Bing Zhu, Haifa Qiao, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2010). Snapin-regulated late endosomal transport is critical for efficient autophagy-lysosomal function in neurons. Neuron  68, 73-86. PDF
  • Neuron Preview by Yuzaki:  “Snapin snaps into the dynein complex for late endosome-lysosome trafficking and autophagy".  PDF
2009
 
Qian Cai and Zu-Hang Sheng (2009). Moving or Stopping Mitochondria: Miro as a Traffic Cop by Sensing Calcium. Neuron 61, 493-496. PDF
 
Qian Cai and Zu-Hang Sheng (2009). Molecular Motors and Synaptic Assembly. The Neuroscientists 15, 78-89.  PDF
 
Huan Ma, Qian Cai, Wenbo Lu, Zu-Hang Sheng (co-corresponding author), Sumiko Mochida (2009). KIF5B Motor Adaptor Syntabulin Maintains Synaptic Transmission in Sympathetic Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 13019-13029.
 
Qian Cai and Zu-Hang Sheng (2009). Mitochondrial Transport and Docking in Axons. Experimental Neurology, 218, 257-267
Ping-Yue Pan, Jin-Hua Tian, Zu-Hang Sheng (2009). Snapin facilitates the synchronization of synaptic vesicle fusion. Neuron 61, 412-424. PDF
 
Yan-Min Chen, Claudia Gerwin, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2009). Dynein Light Chain LC8 Regulates Syntaphilin-Mediated Mitochondrial Docking in Axons. Journal of Neuroscience 29, 9429-9438.
 
2008
 
Jian-Sheng Kang, Jin-Hua Tian*, Ping-Yue Pan*, Philip Zald, Cuiling Li, Chuxia Deng, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2008). Docking of Axonal Mitochondria by Syntaphilin Controls their Mobility and Affects Short-term Facilitation. Cell 132, 137-248. PDF
  • Nature Reviews Neuroscience | RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT “Mitochondria in the dock". PDF
AG Miriam Leenders, Lin Lin, Li-Dong Huang, Claudia Gerwin, Pei-Hua Lu, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2008). The Role of MAP1A Light Chain 2 in Synaptic Surface Retention of Cav2.2 Channels in Hippocampal Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 11333-11346
 
Wenbo Lu, Huan Ma, Zu-Hang Sheng, and Sumiko Mochida. (2008). Dynamin and activity regulate synaptic vesicle recycling in sympathetic neurons. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284, 1930-1937
 
2007
 
Qain Cai, Ping-Yue Pan, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2007). Syntabulin-kinesin-1 family 5B-mediated axonal transport contributes to activity-dependent presynaptic assembly. Journal of Neuroscience 27, 7284-7296. PDF
 
1989-2005
 
Ping-Yue Pan, Qian Cai, Lin Lin, Pei-Hua Lu, Shu-Min Duan, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2005). SNAP29-mediated modulation of synaptic transmission in cultured hippocampal neurons. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, 25769-25779.
 
Qian Cai, Claudia Gerwin, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2005). Syntabulin-mediated anterograde transport of mitochondria along the neuronal processes. Journal of Cell Biology, 170, 959-969.
 
Jin-Hua Tian, Zheng-Xing Wu, Michael Unzicker, Li Lu, Qian Cai, Cuiling Li, Claudia Schirra, Ulf Matti, David Stevens, Chuxia Deng, Jens Rettig, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2005). The Role of Snapin in Neurosecretion: Snapin Knockout Mice Exhibit Impaired Calcium-dependent Exocytosis of Large Dense-core Vesicles in Chromaffin Cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 10546-10555.
 
Xiao-Ke Chen, Lie-Cheng Wang, Yang Zhou, Qian Cai, Murali Prakriya, Kai-Lai Duan, Zu-Hang Sheng, Christopher Lingle & Zhuan Zhou (2005). Activation of GPCRs modulates quantal size in chromaffin cells through Gbg and PKC. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1160-1168.
 
Wu LJ, Leenders AG, Cooperman S, Meyron-Holtz E, Smith S, Land W, Tsai RY, Berger UV, Sheng ZH, Rouault TA (2004). Expression of the iron transporter ferroportin in synaptic vesicles and the blood-brain barrier. Brain Res. 1001, 108-17.
 
Pratima Thakur, David R. Stevens, Zu-Hang Sheng and Jens Rettig (2004). Effects of PKA-mediated phosphorylation of Snapin on synaptic transmission in cultured hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 6476-6481.
 
Qingning Su, Qian Cai (co-first author), Claudia Gerwin, Carolyn L. Smith, Zu-Hang Sheng (2004). Syntabulin: a microtubule-associated protein implicated in syntaxin trafficking in neurons. Nature Cell Biology, 6, 941-953. 
Judit Boczan, A. G. Miriam Leenders, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2004). Phosphorylation of syntaphilin by PKA modulates its interaction with syntaxin-1 and annuls its inhibitory effect on vesicle exocytosis. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, 18911-18919.
 
Brij B. Singh, Timothy P. Lockwich, Bidhan C. Bandyopadhyay, Xibao Liu, Sunitha Bollimuntha, So-ching Brazer, Christian Combs, Sunit Das, A.G. Miriam Leenders, Zu-Hang Sheng, Mark A. Knepper, Suresh V. Ambudkar, and Indu S. Ambudkar (2004). VAMP2-Dependent Exocytosis Regulates Plasma Membrane Insertion of TRPC3 Channels and Contributes to Agonist-Stimulated Ca2+ Influx. Molecular Cell, 15, 635-646.
 
Haitao Song, Liping Nie, Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, Zu-Hang Sheng, and Ebenexer Yamoah (2003). Functional interaction of auxiliary subunits and synaptic proteins with Ca1.3 may impart hair cell Ca current properties. J Neurophysiol. 89, 1143.
 
Jin-Hua Tian, Sunit Das, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2003). Ca-dependent phosphorylation of syntaxin-1A by DAP-kinase regulates its interaction with Munc-18. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 278, 26265-26274.
 
Sunit Das, Judit Boczan, Claudia Gerwin, Philip B. Zald and Zu-Hang Sheng (2003). Regional and developmental regulation of syntaphilin expression in the brain: a candidate molecular element of synaptic functional differentiation. Molecular Brain Research 116, 38-49.
 
Sunit Das, Claudia Gerwin, and Zu-Hang Sheng (2003). Syntaphilin binds to dynamin-1 and inhibits dynamin-dependent endocytosis. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 278, 41221-41226.
 
Milan G. Chheda, Uri Ashery, Pratima Thakur, Jens Rettig,and Zu-Hang Sheng (2001). PKA phosphorylation of Snapin: modulating its interaction with the SNARE complex. Nature Cell Biology 3, 331-338.
 
Qingning Su, Sumiko Mochida, Jin-Hua Tian, Rashi Mehta,and Zu-Hang Sheng (2001). SNAP-29: A General SNARE Protein that Inhibits SNARE Disassembly and is Implicated in Synaptic Transmission. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 1438-1443.
 
Guifang Lao, Volker Scheuss, Claudia M. Gerwin, Qingning Su, Sumiko Mochida, Jens Rettig, and Zu-Hang Sheng. (2000). Syntaphilin: a syntaxin-1 clamp that controls SNARE assembly. Neuron 25, 191-201.
 
Jeffrey M. Ilardi, Sumiko Mochida, and Zu-Hang Sheng (1999). Snapin: a SNARE-associated protein implicated in synaptic transmission. Nature Neuroscience 2, 119-124.
 
Lucas D. Pozzo-Miller, Wolfram Gottschalk, Li Zhang, Kathryn McDermott, Chikara Oho, Zu-Hang Sheng, and Bai Lu (1999). The role of BDNF in Hippocampal synaptic plasticity: impairment in synaptic vesicle docking and synaptic protein distribution in BDNF knockout mice. J Neuroscience 19, 4972-4983.
 
Zu-Hang Sheng, Ruth E. Westenbroek, and William A. Catterall (1998). Physical link and functional coupling of presynaptic calcium channels and synaptic vesicle docking/fusion machinery. J. Bioenergetics & Biomembranes 30, 335-345.
 
Zu-Hang Sheng, Charles Yokoyoma, and William A. Catterall (1997). Interaction of the synprint site of N-type calcium channels with the C2B domain of synaptotagmin I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 5405-5410.
 
Jens Rettig, Christian Heinemann, Uri Ashery, Zu-Hang Sheng, Charles T. Yokoyama, William A. Catterall, and Erwin Neher (1997). Alteration of Ca2+ dependence of neurotransmitter release by disruption of Ca2+ channel/SNARE protein interaction. J Neuroscience 17, 6647-6656.
 
Charles Yokoyama, Zu-Hang Sheng, and William A. Catterall (1997). Phosphorylation of the synprint site on N-type calcium channels inhibits interactions with SNARE protein. J Neuroscience 17, 6929-6938.
 
Sumiko Mochida, Zu-Hang Sheng, Carl Baker, Haruo Kobayashi, and William A. Catterall (1996). Inhibition of neurotransmission by peptides containing the synaptic protein interaction site of N-type calcium channels. Neuron 17, 781-788.
 
Jens Rettig, Zu-Hang Sheng, D. Kyle Kim, Connie D. Hodson, Terry P. Snutch, and William A. Catterall (1996). Isoform-specific interaction of the a1A subunits of brain calcium channels with the presynaptic proteins syntaxin and SNAP-25. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 7363-7368.
 
Zu-Hang Sheng, Jens Rettig, Terry Cook, and William A. Catterall (1996). Calcium dependent interaction of neuronal N-type calcium channels with presynaptic fusion proteins. Nature 379, 451-454.
 
Zu-Hang Sheng, Jens Rettig, Masami Takahashi, and William A. Catterall (1994). Identification of a syntaxin-binding site on N-type calcium channels. Neuron 13, 1303-1313.
 
Roland G. Kallen, Zu-Hang Sheng, Liquiong Chen, Jan Yang, Rogart, R.B., and Robert L. Barchi (1990). Primary structure and differential expression of a sodium channel characteristic of immature and denervated rat skeletal muscle. Neuron 4, 233-242.
 
Trimmer, J.S., Cooperman, S.S., Tomiko, S.A., Zhou, J., Crean, S.M., Boyle, M.B., Kallen, R.G., Zu-Hang Sheng, Barchi, R.L., Sigworth, F.J., Goodman, R.G., Agnew, S.A., and Mandel, G (1989). Primary structure and functional expression of a mammalian skeletal muscle sodium channel. Neuron 3, 33-49.