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., Robson, P., Kirkland, J., and Xu, M., 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. Liu, Z., Garofalo, J., Diniz, J. A., & Robson, P. , 2025. JAX DPC: Differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells to primitive syncytium. Protocols.io, 2025 Jan 17.
  3. Liu, Z., Garofalo, J., Diniz, J. A., & Robson, P. , 2025. JAX DPC:Differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into extra-embryonic mesenchyme cells. Protocols.io, 2025 Jan 17.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.