publications

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2026 · bioRxiv · Preprint

Paralemmin2 is a shared, alternatively-spliced regulator of axon initial segments and paranodal junctions in oligodendrocytes.

Ding X#, Ogawa Y, Palfini VL, Zhang W, Anderson AP, Gancelo-López L, Liao Z, Yang Z, Haddix SG, Xing Y, Nguyen DMV, Curtis JR, Church JD, Wu Y, Jain A, Saltzman AB, Oses-Prieto JA, Torre M, Tat TT, Kraushaar DC, Burlingame AL, Malovannaya A, Shang L, Liu P, Li J, Gao Y, Rasband MN#.

2026 · Journal of Neuroscience

Defining the early response of oligodendrocyte-lineage cells to traumatic CNS axonal injury.

Wu Y*, Ding X*, Li J, Xing Y, Franke B, Rodriguez V, Ricco E, Kang P, Esmanur T, Oses-Prieto JA, Tan T, Shang L, Burlingame AL, Kraushaar DC, Stassart R, Rasband MN#.

2025 · bioRxiv · Preprint

OASIS: in vivo AAV-mediated transduction and genome editing of adult oligodendrocytes.

Ding X, Curtis JR, Xing Y, Wu Y, Peles E, Rasband MN#.

2025 · Nature Communications

A distinct PP2A subunit regulates local protein phosphorylation at the axon initial segment.

Anderson A, Kim S, Melton AJ, Ding X, Zhang W, Saltzman A, Malovannaya A, Rasband MN, Gao Y#.

2025 · Science Advances

A hierarchy of PDZ domain scaffolding proteins clusters the Kv1 K+ channel protein complex at the axon initial segment.

Zhang W*, Palfini V*, Wu Y, Ding X, Melton AJ, Gao Y, Ogawa Y, Rasband MN#.

2024 · Nature Communications

Age-dependent regulation of axoglial interactions and behavior by oligodendrocyte AnkyrinG.

Ding X, Wu Y, Vainshtein A, Rodriguez V, Ricco E, Okoh JT, Liu Y, Kraushaar DC, Peles E, Rasband MN#.

Highlighted by Nature Aging.

2024 · Journal of Cell Biology

An evolutionarily conserved AnkyrinG-dependent motif clusters axonal K2P K+ channels.

Escobedo G, Wu Y, Ogawa Y, Ding X, Rasband MN#.

2024 · The Journal of Physiology

Postsynaptic β1 spectrin maintains Na+ channels at the Neuromuscular Junction.

Sert O, Ding X, Zhang C, Mi R, Hoke A, Rasband MN#.

2023 · Nature Communications

Immunoproximity biotinylation reveals the axon initial segment proteome.

Zhang W, Fu Y, Peng L, Ogawa Y, Ding X, Rasband A, Zhou X, Shelly M, Rasband MN#, Zou P#.

2022 · Blood

Engineering T cells to suppress acute GvHD and leukemia relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Mo F, Watanabe N, Ingersoll Omdahl K, Burkhardt PM, Ding X, Hayase E, Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Jenq RR, Heslop HE, Kean LS, Brenner MK, Tkachev V, Mamonkin M#.

2021 · Neuron

Dynorphin, won’t you myelinate my neighbor?

Ding X, Rasband MN#.

2021 · Journal of Cell Science

Daam2 couples translocation and clustering of Wnt receptor signalosomes through Rac1.

Cristobal CD, Ye Q, Jo J, Ding X, Wang CY, Cortes D, Chen Z, Lee HK#.

2020 · Genes & Development

The Daam2-VHL-Nedd4 axis governs developmental and regenerative oligodendrocyte differentiation.

Ding X, Jo J, Wang CY, Cristobal CD, Zuo Z, Ye Q, Wirianto M, Lindeke-Myers A, Choi JM, Mohila CA, Kawabe H, Jung SY, Bellen HJ, Yoo SH, Lee HK#.

Featured on cover.

2020 · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Regeneration of functional neurons after spinal cord injury via in situ NeuroD1-mediated astrocyte-to-neuron conversion.

Puls B, Ding Y, Zhang F, Pan M, Lei Z, Pei Z, Jiang M, Bai Y, Forsyth C, Metzger M, Rana T, Zhang L, Ding X, Keefe M, Cai A, Redilla A, Lai M, He K, Li H, Chen G#.

Ding Lab · Axon–Glia Interactions