Xing Dai, Ph.
D.
D234 Med Sci I,
Department of Biological Chemistry
School of Medicine, University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-1700
Tel: 949-824-3101
Fax: 949-824-2688
E-mail: xdai@uci.edu
| 1995 | Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1989 | M. S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics University of Hawaii at Monoa, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 1985 | B. S. in Biology East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. of China |
| 1987-1989 | Research Assistant, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 1989-1990 | Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, IL, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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1989-1992 |
Research Assistant, University of Chicago, IL, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology |
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1992-1995 |
NIH pre-doctoral trainee, University of Chicago, IL, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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1995-1999 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, IL, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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1999-Present |
Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Biological Chemistry |
| 1992 | NIH Biotechnology Pre-doctoral Training Grant Award |
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1995 |
Departmental award for outstanding performance in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago (generally known as the “best thesis award”) |
| 1995 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1996 | NIH Individual National Research Service Award |
Ogata, K., Dai, X., and Volini, M. (1989). " Bovine mitochondrial rhodanese is a phosphoprotein". J. Biol. Chem. 264, 2718-2725.
Glucksmann-Kuis, M. A., Dai, X., Markiewicz, P., and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1996). "E. coli SSB activation of N4 virion RNA polymerase: specific activation of an essential DNA hairpin required for promoter recognition". Cell 84, 147-154.
Miller, A., Dai, X., Choi, M., Glucksmann-Kuis, M. A., and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1996). "Role of single-stranded DNA binding proteins in transcriptional activation". Methods in Enzymology 274, 9-20.
Dai, X., Greizerstein, M., Nadas-Chinni, K., and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1997). "Supercoil-induced extrusion of a regulatory DNA hairpin". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 2174-2179.
Dai, X. and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1998). "Sequence and DNA strucutral determinants of N4 virion RNA polymerase-promoter recognition". Genes & Development 12, 2782-2790.
Rothman-Denes, L. B., Dai, X., Davydova, E., Carter, R., Kazmierczak, K. (1998). "Transcriptional regulation by DNA structural transtions and single-stranded DNA binding proteins". Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology LXIII, 63-73.
Dai, X., Schonbaum, C., Degenstein, L., Bai, W., Mahowald, A., Fuchs, E. (1998). "The ovo gene required for cutcle formation and oogenesis in flies is involved in hair formation and spermatogenesis in mice". Genes & Development 12, 3452-3463.
Dai, X., Kloster, M., and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1998). "Sequence-dependent extrusion of a small DNA hairpin at the N4 virion RNA polymerase promotes". J. Mol. Biol.283, 43-58.
Dai, X. and Rothman-Denes, L. B. (1999). "DNA structure and transcription". Current Opinion in Microbiology 2, 126-130.
Li, B., Mackay, D. R., Dai, Q., Li, T. W. H., Nair, M., Fallahi, M., Schonbaum, C., Fantes, J., Mahowald, A., Waterman, M. L., Fuchs, E., and Dai, X. The LEF1/b-catenin complex activates movo1, a mouse homolog of Drosophila ovo gene required for epidermal appendage differentiation. (2002). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 6064-6069.
Li, B., Dai, Q., Li, L., Nair, M., Mackay, D. R., and Dai, X. ovol2, a mammalian homolog of Drosophila ovo: gene structure, chromosomal mapping, and aberrant expression in blind-sterile mice. (2002). Genomics 80, 319-325.