Research Description
Research on the non-canonical functions of interferon-stimulated gene (ISG)-encoded proteins in DNA damage repair.
Research Interests
- DNA damage repair
Education and Work Experience
- 🎓 BSc in Biological Science (Teacher Education), School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University (2008.09-2012.07)
- 🎓 PhD in Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center (2012.09-2019.01)
- 💼 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (2019.05-2022.12)
- 💼 Postdoctoral Fellow, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Biomedical Innovation, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (2023.02-2025.03)
- 💼 Associate Research Professor, Medical School, Shenzhen University (2025.04-Present)
Published Papers
- Wenjie Ren*, Yuxin Huang*, Min Hu, Yanyang Yang, Wen Yang# & Hui Wang# (2026) Client recruitment mechanism of the cytosolic Fe-S cluster assembly targeting complex. EMBO J 45, 1264–1291.
- Yuxin Huang*, Wenjing Li*, Tzeh Foo, Jae-Hoon Ji, Bo Wu, Nozomi Tomimatsu, Qingming Fang, Boya Gao, Melissa Long, Jingfei Xu, Rouf Maqbool, Bipasha Mukherjee, Tengyang Ni, Salvador Alejo, Yuan He, Sandeep Burma, Li Lan, Bing Xia & Weixing Zhao# (2024) DSS1 restrains BRCA2’s engagement with dsDNA for homologous recombination, replication fork protection, and R-loop homeostasis. Nat Commun 15,7081.
- David G. Maranon*, Neelam Sharma*, Yuxin Huang*, Platon Selemenakis, Meiling Wang, Noelia Altina, Weixing Zhao#, Claudia Wiese# (2020) NUCKS1 promotes RAD54 activity in homologous recombination DNA repair. J. Cell Biol. 219 (10): e201911049.
- Fei Ye*, Yuxin Huang*, Jianchao Li, Yuqian Ma, Chensu Xie, Zexu Liu, Xiaoying Deng, Jun Wan, Tian Xue, Wei Liu#, Mingjie Zhang# An unexpected INAD PDZ tandem-mediated PLCβ binding in Drosophila photo receptors. eLife 2018;7:e41848.