Publications





A complete list of Lin lab publications (>100) and citations (>20,000) is on Google Scholar. Full-text articles are available through Pubmed.

Recent publications

Westberg M*, Su Y, Zou X, Huang P, Rustagi A, Garhyan J, Patel PB, Fernandez D, Wu Y, Hao C, Lo CW, Karim M, Ning L, Beck A, Saenkham-Huntsinger P, Tat V, Drelich A, Peng BH, Einav S, Tseng CTK, Blish C, Lin MZ*. An orally bioavailable SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor exhibits improved affinity and reduced sensitivity to mutations. Science Translational Medicine. 2024 Mar; 16, eadi0979. *corresponding authors. https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-1752/full. (unique link for free full-text access) 

Evans SW*, Shi DQ*, Chavarha M*, Plitt MH, Taxidis J, Madruga B, Fan JL, Hwang FJ, van Keulen SC, Suomivuori CM, Pang MM ... Lin MZ. A positively tuned voltage indicator for extended electrical recordings in the brain. Nature Methods. 2023 Jul;20(7):1104-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01913-z. *equal authors

Wu Y, Walker JR, Westberg M, Ning L, Monje M, Kirkland TA, Lin MZ*, Su Y*. Kinase-Modulated Bioluminescent Indicators Enable Noninvasive Imaging of Drug Activity in the Brain. ACS Cent Sci. 2023 Mar 20;9(4):719-732. PMID: 37122464; PMCID: PMC10141594. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.3c00074. *corresponding authors

Su Y, Walker JR, Hall MP, Klein MA, Wu X, Encell LP, Casey KM, Liu LX, Hong G, Lin MZ*, Kirkland TA*. An optimized bioluminescent substrate for non-invasive imaging in the brain. Nat Chem Biol. 2023 Jun;19(6):731-739. PMID: 36759751; PMCID: PMC10229426. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-023-01265-x. *corresponding authors

Ju J, Lee HN, Ning L, Ryu H, Zhou XX, Chun H, Lee YW, Lee-Richerson AI, Jeong C, Lin MZ, Seong J. Optical regulation of endogenous RhoA reveals selection of cellular responses by signal amplitude. Cell Rep. 2022 Jul 12;40(2):111080. PMID: 35830815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111080

Ning L, Geng Y, Lovett-Barron M, Niu X, Deng M, Wang L, Ataie N, Sens A, Ng HL, Chen S, Deisseroth K, Lin M. Z, Chu J. A bright, nontoxic, and non-aggregating red fluorescent protein for long-term labeling of fine structures in neurons. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2022; 10, 1038. https://doi.org/10.3389/FCELL.2022.893468

Labanieh L, Majzner RG, Klysz D, Sotillo E, Fisher CJ, Vilches-Moure JG, Pacheco KZB, Malipatlolla M, Xu P, Hui JH, Murty T, Theruvath J, Mehta N, Yamada-Hunter SA, Weber EW, Heitzeneder S, Parker KR, Satpathy AT, Chang HY, Lin MZ, Cochran JR, Mackall CL. Enhanced safety and efficacy of protease-regulated CAR-T cell receptors. Cell. 2022 May 12;185(10):1745-1763.e22. PMID: 35483375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.03.041 full text 

Kim BB, Wu H, Hao YA, Pan M, Chavarha M, Zhao Y, Westberg M, St-Pierre F, Wu JC, Lin MZ. A red fluorescent protein with improved monomericity enables ratiometric voltage imaging with ASAP3. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 7;12(1):3678. PMID: 35256624; PMCID: PMC8901740. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07313-1

Liu S, Su Y, Lin MZ, Ronald JA. Brightening up Biology: Advances in Luciferase Systems for in Vivo Imaging. ACS Chem Biol. 2021 Dec 17;16(12):2707-2718. PMID: 34780699; PMCID: PMC8689642. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.1c00549

Ruijgrok PV, Ghosh RP, Zemsky S, Nakamura M, Gong R, Ning L, Chen R, Vachharajani VT, Chu AE, Anand N, Eguchi RR, Huang PS, Lin MZ, Alushin GM, Liphardt JT, Bryant Z. Optical control of fast and processive engineered myosins in vitro and in living cells. Nat Chem Biol. 2021 May;17(5):540-548. PMID: 33603247. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41589-021-00740-7

Moreaux LC, Yatsenko D, Sacher WD, Choi J, Lee C, Kubat NJ, Cotton RJ, Boyden ES, Lin MZ, Tian L, Tolias AS, Poon JKS, Shepard KL, Roukes ML. Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Dense Volumetric Interrogation of Brain Circuit Activity-at Depth and in Real Time. Neuron. 2020 Oct 14;108(1):66-92. PMID: 33058767; PMCID: PMC8061790. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEURON.2020.09.043