Zukai Liu

Zukai Liu

Postdoc Researcher at University of Washington

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

First/co-First Author

  1. Liu, Z., Tan, Y., Flynn, W.F., Sun, L., Pratumkaew, P., Diniz, J.A., Oliveira, N.A., McDonough, J.A., Skarnes, W.C. and Robson, P., 2025. HAND1, partially mediated through ape-specific LTR binding, is essential for human extra-embryonic mesenchyme derivation from iPSCs. Cell Reports. 2025 Apr 22;44(4).
  2. Liu, Z., Jillette N., Robson, P., Cheng, A.W., 2023. Simultaneous multifunctional transcriptome engineering by CRISPR RNA scaffold. Nucleic acids research. 2023 Aug 11;51(14):e77-
  3. Gong, Y.#, Liu, Z.#, Yuan, Y.#, Yang, Z.#, Zhang, J., Lu, Q., Wang, W., Fang, C., Lin, H. and Liu, S., 2022. PUMILIO proteins promote colorectal cancer growth via suppressing p21. Nature communications. 2022 Mar 25;13(1):1627.
  4. Wang, B.#, Liu, Z.#, Chen, V.P., Wang, L., Inman, C.L., Zhou, Y., Guo, C., Tchkonia, T., Rowe, D.W., Kuchel, G.A. and Robson, P., 2020. Transplanting cells from old but not young donors causes physical dysfunction in older recipients. Aging cell, 19(3), p.e13106.
  5. Liu, S.#, Wang, Z.#, Liu, Z.#, Shi, S., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J. and Lin, H., 2018. miR-221/222 activate the Wnt/β-catenin signaling to promote triple-negative breast cancer. Journal of molecular cell biology. 2018 Aug;10(4):302-15.

Note: # means co-first author.

Other

  1. Adli, M., Przybyla, L., Burdett, T., Burridge, P. W., Cacheiro, P., Chang, H. Y., ... & The MorPhiC Consortium. 2025. MorPhiC Consortium: towards functional characterization of all human genes. Nature. 2025 Feb 13;638(8050):351-9.
  2. Hu, J., Zhang, J., Yu, M., Liu, Z., Zou, Y., Hong, L., Zhang, T., Sun, J., Zheng, M., Zhu, X. Wang, Z. and Liu, S., 2021. Circulating miR-221/222 reduces CD4+ T cells by inhibiting CD4 expression in colorectal cancer. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. 2021 Oct 1;53(10):1367-76.
  3. Wang, J., Ding, K., Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Xue, A., Gu, W., Yang, X., Li, X., Huang, J. and Xing, C., 2014. Detection of thrombin with an aptamer-based macromolecule biosensor using bacterial ghost system. ACS Synthetic Biology. 2014 Dec 19;3(12):963-5.