
Zhi-Ping Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department Internal Medicine | Molecular Biology
Graduate Programs Genetics, Development and Disease
Biography
Education
University of Science and Technology of China, BS 1982 Computer Science
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, MS 1986 Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center, PhD 1993 Biophysics
Education
- Undergraduate
- Unlisted - International Colle (1982)
- Graduate School
- Unlisted - International Colle (1986)
- Graduate School
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (1993)
Research Interest
- Epigenetic regulation of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
- Intracellular signaling
- Molecular mechanism of cardiovascular diseases
- Transcriptional regulation
- Vascular biology
Publications
Featured Publications
- Phenotypic Modulation of Smooth Muscle Cells through Interaction of Foxo4 and Myocardin
- Liu, ZP, Wang, Z, Yanagisawa, H, Olson, EN Developmental Cell 2002 9 161-270
- FoxO4 inhibits atherosclerosis through its function in bone marrow derived cells.
- Zhu M, Zhang QJ, Wang L, Li H, Liu ZP Atherosclerosis 2011 Oct
- The histone trimethyllysine demethylase JMJD2A promotes cardiac hypertrophy in response to hypertrophic stimuli in mice.
- Zhang QJ, Chen HZ, Wang L, Liu DP, Hill JA, Liu ZP J. Clin. Invest. 2011 Jun 121 6 2447-56
- Tumor-suppressive functions of leucine zipper transcription factor-like 1.
- Wei Q, Zhou W, Wang W, Gao B, Wang L, Cao J, Liu ZP Cancer Res. 2010 Apr 70 7 2942-50
- FoxO4 inhibits NF-kappaB and protects mice against colonic injury and inflammation.
- Zhou W, Cao Q, Peng Y, Zhang QJ, Castrillon DH, DePinho RA, Liu ZP Gastroenterology 2009 Oct 137 4 1403-14
- Foxo4 regulates TNFa-directed smooth muscle cell migration by activating matrix metalloproteinase 9 gene transcription
- Li H, Liang J, Castrillon DH, DePinho RA, Olson EN, Liu Z-P Molecular and Cellular Biology 2007 27 2676-2686
- Modulation of cardiac growth and development by HOP, an unusual homeodomain protein
- Shin*, CH, Liu*, ZP, Passier*, R, Zhang, CL, Wang, DZ, Harris, TM, Yamagishi, H, Richardson, JA, Childs, G, Olson, EN Cell 2002 110 725-735
- Suppression of proliferation and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy by CHAMP, a cardiac-specific RNA helicase
- Liu, ZP, Olson, EN. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 99 2043-2048
- CHAMP, a novel cardiac-specific helicase regulated by MEF2C
- Liu, ZP, Nakagawa, O, Nakagawa, M, Yanagisawa, H, Passier, R, Richardson, JA, Srivastava, D, Olson, EN Dev Biol. 2001 234 497-509
- A role for CKII phosphorylation of the cactus PEST domain in dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo
- Liu, ZP, Galindo, RL, Wasserman, SA Genes Dev. 1997 11 3413-3422