Professor Biao Ding

Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology Center
Ohio State University, Columbus
OH 43210
USA
Tel: +1-614-247-6077; Fax: +1-614-292-5379
E-mail: ding.35@osu.edu
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/pcmb/osu_pcmb/people_faculty_dingBiao.php
Area of expertise: inter- and intra-cellular communication; plasmodesmata; phloem and viral movement
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010

• Ding B (2009) The biology of viroid-host interactions. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 47, 105-131.
• Ding B, Zhong X (2009) Viroids/Virusoids. Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Third Edition. (Ed. M. Schaechter). Elsevier Inc. pp. 535-545.
• Ding B, Wang Y (2009) Viroids: Uniquely simple and tractable models to elucidate regulation of cell-to-cell trafficking of RNA. DNA Cell Biol. 28, 51-56.
• Qian S, Zhong X, Yu L, Ding B, de Haan P, Boris-Lawrie K (2009) HIV-1 Tat RNA silencing suppressor activity is conserved across kingdoms and counteracts translational repression of HIV-1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 605-610.
• Zhong X, Archual AJ, Amin AA, Ding B (2008) A genomic map of viroid RNA motifs critical for replication and systemic trafficking. Plant Cell 20, 35-47
• Itaya A, Bundschuh R, Archual AJ, Joung JG, Fei Z, Dai X, Zhao PX, Tang Y, Nelson RS, Ding B (2008) Small RNAs in tomato fruit and leaf development. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1779, 99-107.
• Zhong X, Ding B (2008) Distinct RNA motifs mediate systemic RNA trafficking. Plant Signal Behav. 3, 1-2.
• Zhou F, Pu Y, Wei T, Liu H, Deng W, Wei C, Ding B, Omura T, Li Y (2007) The P2 capsid protein of the nonenveloped rice dwarf phytoreovirus induces membrane fusion in insect host cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 19547-19552.
• Zhong X, Tao X, Stombaugh J, Leontis N, Ding B (2007) Tertiary structure and function of an RNA motif required for plant vascular entry to initiate systemic trafficking. EMBO J. 26, 3836-3846.
• Ding B, Itaya A (2007) Control of macromolecular trafficking across specific cellular boundaries: a key to integrative plant biology. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 49, 1227-1234.
• Ding B, Itaya A (2007) Intracellular and intercellular transport of viroids. In: Plant Cell Monographs: Viral Transport in Plants , Vol. 7 (eds: E. Waigmann and M. Heinlein), Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 119-126.
• Wang Y, Zhong X, Itaya A, Ding B (2007) Evidence for the existence of the loop E motif of Potato spindle tuber viroid in vivo. J. Virol. 81, 2074-2077.
• Ding B, Itaya A (2007) Viroid: A useful model for studying the basic principles of infection and RNA biology. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 20, 7-20.
• Zhong X, Leontis NB, Qian S, Itaya A, Boris-Lawrie K, Ding B (2006) Tertiary structural and functional analyses of a viroid RNA motif by isostericity matrix and mutagenesis reveal its essential role in replication. J. Virol. 80, 8566-8581.
• Ding B, Itaya A, Zhong X (2005) Viroid trafficking: a small RNA makes a big move. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 8, 606-612.
• Cao X, Zhou P, Zhang X, Zhu S, Zhong X, Xiao Q, Ding B, Li Y (2005). Identification of an RNA silencing suppressor from a plant double-stranded RNA virus. J. Virol. 79, 13018-13027.
• Qi Y, Zhong X, Itaya A, Ding B (2004) Dissecting RNA silencing in protoplasts uncovers novel effects of viral suppressors on the silencing pathway at the cellular level. Nucleic Acids Res. 32, e179.
• Qi Y, Pelissier T, Itaya A, Hunt E, Wassenegger M, Ding B (2004) Direct role of a viroid RNA motif in mediating directional RNA trafficking across a specific cellular boundary. Plant Cell 16, 1741-1752.
• Ding B, Itaya A, Qi Y (2003) Symplasmic traffic of proteins and RNAs: Regulatory points and regulatory factors. Curr Opin. Plant Biol. 6, 596-602.
• Qi Y, Ding B (2003) Differential subnuclear localization of RNA strands of opposite polarity derived from an autonomously-replicating viroid. Plant Cell 15, 2566-2577.
• Qi Y, Ding B (2003) Inhibition of cell growth and shoot development by a specific nucleotide sequence in a noncoding viroid RNA. Plant Cell 15, 1360-1374.
• Ding B, Owens R (2003) Movement. In: Viroids (A. Hadidi, R. Flores, J. W. Randles, J. S. Semancik, eds). CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia. pp. 49-54.
• Qi Y, Ding B (2002) Replication of Potato spindle tuber viroid in cultured cells of tobacco and Nicotiana benthamiana : The role of specific nucleotides in determining replication levels for host adaptation. Virology 302, 445-456.
• Itaya A, Ma F, Qi Y, Matsuda Y, Zhu Y, Liang G, Ding B (2002) Plasmodesma-mediated selective protein traffic between "symplasmically isolated" cells probed by a viral movement protein. Plant Cell 14, 2071-2083.
• Zhu Y, Qi Y, Xun Y, Owens R, Ding B (2002) Movement of Potato spindle tuber viroid reveals regulatory points of phloem-mediated RNA traffic. Plant Physiol. 130, 138-146.
• Itaya A, Matsuda Y, Gonzales RA, Nelson RS, Ding B (2002) Potato spindle tuber viroid strains of different pathogenicity induces and suppresses expression of common and unique genes in infected tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 15, 990-999.
• Matsuda Y, Liang G, Zhu Y, Ma F, Nelson RS, Ding B (2002). The Commelina yellow mottle virus promoter drives companion cell-specific gene expression in multiple organs of transgenic tobacco. Protoplasma 220, 51-58.
• Itaya A, Folimonov A, Matsuda Y, Nelson RS, Ding B (2001) Potato spindle tuber viroid as inducer of RNA silencing in infected tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14, 1332-1334.
• Owens RA, Blackburn M, Ding B (2001) Possible involvement of phloem protein 2 in long distance viroid movement. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14, 905-909.
• Zhu Y, Green L, Woo YM, Owens R, Ding B (2001) Cellular basis of Potato spindle tuber viroid systemic movement. Virology 279, 69-77.