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Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
Tel: 86-755-88018446
Fax: 86-755-88018446
E-mail: dujm@sustech.edu.cn
https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/dujiamu.html
Area of expertise: Biochemistry; structural biology; plant epigenetics; DNA methylation; flowering; gene regulation
Selected Publications:
Zhang, Y.Z., Yuan, J., Zhang, L., Chen, C., Wang, Y., Zhang, G., Peng, L., Xie, S.S., Jiang, J., Zhu, J.K., Du, J., Duan, C.G. (2020). Coupling of H3K27me3 recognition with transcriptional repression through the BAH-PHD-CPL2 complex in Arabidopsis. Nat. Commun.11: 6212
Tan, L.M., Liu, R., Gu, B.W., Zhang, C.J., Luo, J., Guo, J., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Du, X., Li, S., Shao, C.R., Su, Y.N., Cai, X.W., Lin, R.N., Li, L., Chen, S., Du, J., He, X.J. (2020). Dual Recognition of H3K4me3 and DNA by the ISWI Component ARID5 Regulates the Floral Transition in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 32:2178–2195.
Zheng, S., Hu, H., Ren, H., Yang, Z., Qiu, Q., Qi, W., Liu, X., Chen, X., Cui, X., Li, S., Zhou, B., Sun, D., Cao, X., and Du, J. (2019). The Arabidopsis H3K27me3 demethylase JUMONJI 13 is a temperature and photoperiod dependent flowering repressor. Nat. Commun.10: 1303.
Li, X., Harris, C.J., Zhong, Z., Chen, W., Liu, R., Jia, B., Wang, Z., Li, S., Jacobsen, S.E., and Du, J. (2018). Mechanistic insights into plant SUVH family H3K9 methyltransferases and their binding to context biased non-CG DNA methylation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115: E8793–E8802.
Qian, S., Lv, X., Scheid, R.N., Lu, L., Yang, Z., Chen, W., Liu, R., Boersma, M.D., Denu, J.M., Zhong, X., and Du, J. (2018). Dual recognition of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 by a plant histone reader SHL. Nat. Commun. 9: 2425.
Yang, Z., Qiu, Q., Chen, W., Jia, B., Chen, X., Hu, H., He, K., Deng, X., Li, S., Tao, W.A., Cao, X., and Du, J. (2018). Structure of the Arabidopsis JMJ14-H3K4me3 complex provides insight into the substrate specificity of KDM5 subfamily histone demethylases. Plant Cell 30: 167–177.
Liu, R., Li, X., Chen, W., and Du, J. (2018). Structure and mechanism of plant histone mark readers. Sci. China Life Sci. 61: 170–177.
Du, J. (2016) Structure and mechanism of plant DNA methyltransferases. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 945: 173–92.
Li, S., Yang, Z., Du, X., Liu, R., Wilkinson, A.W., Gozani, O., Jacobsen, S.E., Patel, D.J., and Du, J. (2016). Structural basis for the unique multivalent readout of unmodified H3 tail by Arabidopsis ORC1b BAH-PHD cassette. Structure 24: 486–94.
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