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School of Life Sciences
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
E-mail: xffang@tsinghua.edu.cn
https://life.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1042/2728.htm
Area of expertise: phase separation, abiotic stress, RNA biology
Selected Publications:
Peng, J., Yu, Y., and Fang, X. (2025) Stress sensing and response through biomolecular condensates in plants. Plant Commun. 6: 101225.
Wang, Y., Li, S., Mokbel, M., May, A. I., Liang, Z., Zeng, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., Yu, F., Sporbeck, K., Jiang, L., Aland, S., Agudo-Canalejo, J., Knorr, R. L., and Fang, X. (2024) Biomolecular condensates mediate bending and scission of endosome membranes. Nature 634: 1204–1210.
Miao, Y., Chodasiewicz, M., and Fang, X. (2024) Navigating biomolecular condensates in plants from patterns to functions. Mol. Plant 17: 1329–1332.
Fang, X., and Li, P. (2024) SnapShot: Condensates in plant biology. Cell 187: 2894–2894.
Wang, Y., He, S., and Fang, X. (2023) Emerging roles of phase separation in plant transcription and chromatin organization. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 75: 102387
Zhang, H., Peng, F., He, C., Liu, Y., Deng, H., and Fang, X. (2023) Large-scale identification of potential phase separation proteins from plants using a cell-free system. Mol. Plant 16: 310–313.
Wang, B., Zhang, H., Huai, J., Peng, F., Wu, J., Lin, R., and Fang, X. (2022) Condensation of SEUSS promotes hyperosmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Nat. Chem. Biol. 18: 1361–1369.
Lin, Y., and Fang, X. (2021) Phase Separation in RNA Biology. J. Genet. Genomics 48: 872–880.
Fang, X., Wu, Z., Raitskin, O., Webb, K., Voigt, P., Lu, T., Howard, M., and Dean, C. (2020) The 3' processing of antisense RNAs physically links to chromatin-based transcriptional control. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 117: 15316–15321.
Fang, X., Wang, L., Ishikawa, R., Li, Y., Fiedler, M., Liu, F., Calder, G., Rowan, B., Weigel, D., Li, P., and Dean, C. (2019) Arabidopsis FLL2 promotes liquid-liquid phase separation of polyadenylation complexes. Nature 569: 265–269.
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