Publications

Zhang, Q., An, Y., Chen, Z.S., Koon, A.C., Lau, K.F., Ngo, J.C.* and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2019) A peptidylic inhibitor for neutralizing r(GGGGCC)exp-associated neurodegeneration in C9ORF72-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Mol. Ther. Nucleic Acids 16, 172-185.


Hong, H., Koon, A.C., Chen, Z.S., Wei, Y., An, Y., Li, W., Lau, M.H.Y., Lau, K.F., Ngo, J.C.K., Wong, C.H., Au-Yeung, H.Y., Zimmerman, S.C., Chan, H.Y.E.* (2019) AQAMAN, a bisamidine-based inhibitor of toxic protein inclusions in neurons, ameliorates cytotoxicity in polyglutamine disease models. J. Biol. Chem. 294, 2757-2770.


Koon, A.C., Chen, Z.S., Peng, S.H., Fung, J.M., Zhang, X., Lembke, K.M., Chow, H.K., Frank, C.A., Jiang, L.W., Lau, K.F. and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2018) Drosophila Exo70 is essential for neurite extension and survival under thermal stress. J. Neurosci. 38, 8071-8086.

Chen, Z.S., Li, L., Peng, S., Chen, F.M., Zhang, Q., An, Y., Lin, X., Li, W., Chan, T.F., Lau, K.F., Ngo, J.C., Wong, W.T., Kwan, K.M. and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2018) Planar cell polarity gene Fuz triggers apoptosis in neurodegenerative diseases. EMBO Rep. 19, e45419


Li L., Ng, N.K. Koon, A.C., Chan, H.Y.E.* (2017) Expanded polyalanine tracts function as nuclear export signals and promote protein mislocalization via eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1. J. Biol. Chem. 292, 5784-5800.

Zhang, Q., Tsoi, H., Peng, S., Li, P.P., Lau, K.F., Rudnicki, D.D., Ngo, J.C. and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2016) Assessing a peptidylic inhibitor-based therapeutic approach that simultaneously suppresses polyglutamine RNA- and protein-mediated toxicities in patient cells and Drosophila. Dis. Model. Mech. 9, 321-34.

Nguyen, L., Luu, L.M., Peng, S., Serrano, J.F., Chan, H.Y.E. and Zimmerman, S.C. (2015) Rationally designed small molecules that target both the DNA and RNA causing myotonic dystrophy type 1. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 14180-14189.

Tsoi, H., Yu, A.C., Chen, Z.S., Ng, N.K., Chan, A.Y., Yuen, L.Y., Abrigo, J.M., Tsang, S.Y., Tsui, S.K., Tong, T.M., Lo, I.F., Lam, S.T., Mok, V.C, Wong, L.K., Ngo, C.K., Lau, K.F., Chan, T.F.* and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2014) A novel missense mutation in CCDC88C activates the JNK pathway and causes a dominant form of spinocerebellar ataxia. J. Med. Genet. 51, 590-595.

Lu, J.H., Tan, J.Q., Durairajan, S.S., Liu, L.F., Zhang, Z.H., Ma, L., Shen, H.M., Chan, H.Y.E.* and Li, M.* (2012) Isorhynchophylline, a natural alkaloid, promotes the degradation of alpha-synuclein in neuronal cells via inducing autophagy. Autophagy 8, 98-108.

Tsoi, H., Lau, C.K., Tsang, S.Y., Lau, K.F. and Chan, H.Y.E.* (2012) CAG expansion induces nucleolar stress in polyglutamine diseases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 109, 13428-13433.