Postdoctoral Associate

Yao Liu is from Yangzhou, China. He received his B.S. degree from Central South University (Changsha, China) in 2011 with a major in biotechnology. He joined Dr. Zhao-Qing Luo’s Lab at Purdue University in 2013, where he studied the modulation of actin cytoskeleton by L. pneumophila effector proteins. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in December 2018 and joined the Ehrt lab as a postdoctoral associate in March 2019. He is currently studying immune mediators that affect the relapse of tuberculosis.

Publications:

Gan, N.*, Zhen, Z.*, Liu, Y.*, Xu, X.*, He, C., Qiu, J., …& Luo, Z. Q. (2019) Regulation of phosphoribosyl ubiquitination by a calmodulin-dependent glutamylase. Nature, 572(7769), 387-391. * Equal contribution

Akturk, A., Wasilko, D. J., Wu, X., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Qiu, J., ... & Mao, Y. (2018). Mechanism of phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination mediated by a single Legionella effector. Nature, 557(7707), 729.

Liu, Y., Zhu, W., Tan, Y., Nakayasu, E. S., Staiger, C. J., & Luo, Z. Q. (2017). A Legionella effector disrupts host cytoskeletal structure by cleaving actin. PLoS pathogens, 13(1), e1006186.

Zhao, J., Beyrakhova, K., Liu, Y., Alvarez, C. P., Bueler, S. A., Xu, L., ... & Cygler, M. (2017). Molecular basis for the binding and modulation of V-ATPase by a bacterial effector protein. PLoS pathogens, 13(6), e1006394.

Luo, X., Wasilko, D. J., Liu, Y., Sun, J., Wu, X., Luo, Z. Q., & Mao, Y. (2015). Structure of the Legionella virulence factor, SidC reveals a unique PI (4) P-specific binding domain essential for its targeting to the bacterial phagosome. PLoS pathogens, 11(6), e1004965.