Dandan Zhang#, Yansong Tang#, Wen Ye#, Danli Yang, ShengtangQin, Juntao Liu, Nan Su, Rongrong Huang, Guangzheng Shi, Dachun Xu, XiaochenKou, Yanhong Zhao, Hong Wang, Shaorong Gao*, Ke Wei*, Lan Kang*, “Pkm1is required for embryonic cardiomyocyte proliferation through energeticregulation of NFYa stability” (2025) National Science Review https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf408

Kuisheng Liu#, Zihui Yan#, Dandan Bai#, Rui Jiang#, Yan Bi#,Xiangjun Ma#, Jiani Xiang, Yifan Sheng, Baoxing Dong, Zhiyuan Ning, Shanru Yi,Yingdong Liu, Xinyi Lei, Yanping Jia, Yan Zhang, Yalin Zhang, Yanhe Li, Tao Wu,Chenxiang Xi, Shanyao Liu, Shuyi Liu, Jiayu Chen, Jiqing Yin, Xiaochen Kou,Yanhong Zhao, Hong Wang, Yixuan Wang*, Ke Wei*, Shaorong Gao*, WenqiangLiu*, “Modeling post-gastrula development via bidirectional pluripotent stemcells” (2025) Cell Research doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01172-x

Rui Jiang, Jiayu Chen, Lijuan Pei, Shiqi Huang, MengyingFeng, Zhaohui Ouyang, Min Yuan, Yalin Zhu, Su Yao, Fenglian He, Hongjie Zhang,Xin Dong, Peng Xie*, Ke Wei*, “Myosin inhibition enhances cardiomyocytecell cycle activity through SIRT1-NFAT-mediated H3K9me3 modification” (2025) European Journal of Cell Biology 104(3):151504

Jingjing He#, Yi Yang#, Rui Jiang#, Yanying Zheng#, XianfaYang, Xu Jiang, Xin Xue, Zhongzhou Yang, Naihe Jing, Hailong Cao*, Zhuojuan Luo*, Ke Wei*, PengXie*, Chengqi Lin* “Integration of single-cell andspatial transcriptomics by SEU-TCA reveals the spatial origin of early cardiacprogenitors” (2025) Genome Biology 26(1):158

Yan Bi#*, JindianHu#, Tao Wu#, Zhaohui Ouyang, Tan Lin, Jiaxing Sun, Xinbao Zhang, Xiaoyu Xu,Hong Wang, Ke Wei, Shaorong Gao*,Yixuan Wang* “Optimized derivationand culture system of human naïve pluripotent stem cells with enhanced DNAmethylation status and genomic stability” (2025) Protein & Cell pwaf053,https://doi.org/10.1093/procel/pwaf053

Peng Xie, Xu Jiang, Jingjing He, Qingyun Pan, Xianfa Yang, YanyingZheng, Wenli Fan, Chen Wu, Weiheng Zheng, Ke Fang, Shuhan Si, Shiqi Zhu, YiYang, Tao P Zhong, Zhongzhou Yang, KeWei, Wei Xie, Naihe Jing*, ZhuojuanLuo*, Chengqi Lin* “Epigenetic delineation of theearliest cardiac lineage segregation by single-cell multi-omics” (2024) eLife

Rui Jiang, Lijuan Pei, Hongjie Zhang, Fenglian He, Yuhan Min,Xinhang Li, Ke Wei* “miR-199a-3p suppresses Vldlr expressionto promote cardiomyocyte proliferation” (2024) Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica doi: 10.3724/abbs.2024240

Yihang Zhou#, Jihong Zheng#, Wenqi Song#, Xinyi Yan, Li Du,Zhonglin Ma, Yanbin Fu, Zhaohui Ouyang, Yuchen Xiao, Zhuoqun Liu, Feng Tian,Jason Wing Hon Wong, Jen Hao David Shih, Shikang Liang, Honglei Tian, Liu Liu, Ke Wei*, Chao Zhang*, Jiangtao Li*, XiaozhuWang* “OUTPOST: A comprehensiveanalysis software for whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing incorporating groupstratification” (2024) iMetaOmics 2024:e29

Su Yao, Yalin Zhu, Fenglian He, Min Yuan, Rui Jiang, HongjieZhang, Yanbin Fu, Ke Wei* “JAKActivity Regulates Mesoderm Cell Fate by controlling MESP1 expression” (2024) European Journal of Cell Biology 103(4):151452

Miaomiao Chen#, Guoxiu Wu#, Yanli Lu#, Shiwen Sun, Zhao Yu,Xin Pan, Wenjian Chen, Hongyu Xu, Hua Qiu, Weizhi He, Xiuhua Li, Xicheng Wang,Yi Luo, Yuan Du, Jialing Wu, Ke Wei,Wencheng Zhang, Zhongmin Liu, Zhiying He* “A p21-ATD Mouse Model for Monitoringand Eliminating Senescent Cells and Its Application in Liver Regeneration postInjury” (2024) Molecular Therapy S1525-0016(24)00218-1

Xinhang Li, Yalin Zhu, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano*, Ke Wei* “Mitochondrial-to-nuclearcommunications through multiple routes regulate cardiomyocyte proliferation”(2024) Cell Regeneration 13(1), 2

Lijuan Pei#, ZhaohuiOuyang#, Hongjie Zhang, Shiqi Huang, Rui Jiang,Bilin Liu, Yansong Tang, Mengying Feng, Min Yuan, Haocun Wang, Su Yao, ShuyueShi, Zhao Yu, Dachun Xu, Guohua, Gong, Ke Wei* “Thrombospondin1 and Reelin act through Vldlr to regulate cardiac growth and repair” (2023) Basic Research in Cardiology 119(1):169-192

Yansong Tang, Mengying Feng, Dachun Xu, Ke Wei* “Response by Tang et al to Letter Regarding Article, “Jmjd4facilitates Pkm2 degradation in cardiomyocytes and is protective againstdilated cardiomyopathy”” (2023) Circulation 148 (24), 1980-1981

Yu Chen#, Shiqi Huang#, Zhen Cui, Xiaoxiang Sun, YansongTang, Hongjie Zhang, Zhixi Chen, Rui Jiang, Weina Zhang, Xue Li, Jiayu Chen,Baohua Liu, Ying Jiang, Ke Wei*,Zhiyong Mao* “Impaired end joining induces cardiac atrophy in aHutchinson–Gilford progeria mouse model” (2023) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(47):e2309200120

Yansong Tang#, Mengying Feng#, Yang Su, Teng Ma, HongjieZhang, Hongchun Wu, Xiaoyu Wang, Shuyue Shi, Ying Zhang, Yawei Xu, Shijun Hu, Ke Wei*, Dachun Xu* “Jmjd4 facilitatesPkm2 degradation in cardiomyocytes and is protective against dilatedcardiomyopathy” (2023) Circulation 147(22):1684–1704

Shuangshuang Zhao#, Qiuping Xu#, Yanqin Cui#, Su Yao, SihuiJin, Qian Zhang, Zeyu Wen, Haihua Ruan, Xin Liang, Yanjie Chao, Sitang Gong,Philippe Sansonetti, Ke Wei*, HongTang*, Yaming Jiu* “Salmonella effectorSopB reorganizes cytoskeletal vimentin to maintain replication vacuoles forefficient infection” (2023) Nature Communications 14(1), 478

Jing Zhang#, Zhaohui Ouyang#, Limei Xia, Qi Wang, Feng Zheng,Kun Xu, Yuexian Xing, Ke Wei*,Shaolin Shi*, Chaojun Li*, Jingping Yang* “Dynamic chromatin landscape encodes programs for perinataltransition of cardiomyocytes” (2023) CellDeath Discovery 9(1), 11

王皓存，欧阳兆惠，魏珂* “心肌细胞的成熟及其转录调控” 中国细胞生物学学报 （2022） 44:8 1473–1483

Mengying Feng, YansongTang, Su Yao, Hongjie Zhang, Dachun Xu, KeWei* “PLK inhibitors identified by high content phenotypic screeningpromote maturation of human PSC-derived cardiomyocytes” (2022) Biochemical and Biophysical ResearchCommunications 620 (2022) 113-120

Hongjie Zhang#, Lijuan Pei#, Zhaohui Ouyang, Haocun Wang, XinChen, Kai Jiang, Shiqi Huang, Rui Jiang, Yaozu Xiang, Ke Wei* “AP-1activation mediates postnatal cardiomyocyte maturation” (2022) Cardiovascular Research 119(2), 536-550

Lijuan Pei, Hongjie Zhang, Meihui Zhang, Yixuan Wang*, Ke Wei* “Rcor2 Is Required for SomaticDifferentiation and Represses Germline Cell Fate” (2022) Stem Cells International 2022:5283615

Jianyong Du#, Lixia Zheng#, Peng Gao, Hang Yang, Wan-JieYang, Fusheng Guo, Ruqi Liang, Mengying Feng, Zihao Wang, Zongwang Zhang, LinluBai, Ye Bu, Shijia Xing, Wen Zheng, Xuelian Wang, Li Quan, Xinli Hu, Haosen Wu,Zhixing Chen, Liangyi Chen, Ke Wei,Zhe Zhang, Xiaojun Zhu, Xiaolin Zhang, Qiang Tu, Shi-Min Zhao*, Xiaoguang Lei*, Jing-Wei Xiong* “A small-molecule cocktail promotes mammaliancardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration” (2022) Cell Stem Cell 29 (4), 545-558. e13

Zhaohui Ouyang, Ke Wei* “miRNA incardiac development and regeneration” (2021) Cell Regeneration 10 (1):1-21

Zhaohui Ouyang#, Shuangshuang Zhao#, SuYao#, Jing Wang, Yanqin Cui, Ke Wei*, Yaming Jiu* “Multifaceted Functionof Myosin-18, an Unconventional Class of the Myosin Superfamily” (2021) Frontiersin Cell and Developmental Biology 9;9:632445

Lei Gao#, Hongjie Zhang#, Jingyi Cui,Lijuan Pei, Shiqi Huang, Yaning Mao, Zhongmin Liu*, Ke Wei*, HongmingZhu* “Single-cell transcriptomics of cardiac progenitors reveals functionalsubpopulations and their cooperative crosstalk in cardiac repair” (2021) Protein& Cell 12(2):152-157

Weina Zhang, Yu Chen, Jiaqing Yang, JingZhang, Jiayu Yu, Mengting Wang, Xiaodong Zhao, Ke Wei, Xiaoping Wan,Xiaojun Xu, Ying Jiang, Jiayu Chen, Shaorong Gao, Zhiyong Mao* “Ahigh-throughput small molecule screen identifies farrerol as a potentiator ofCRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing” (2020) Elife e56008

Ying Tao, Hongjie Zhang, Shiqi Huang, Lijuan Pei, MengyingFeng, Xiaodong Zhao, Zhaohui Ouyang, Su Yao, Rui Jiang, Ke Wei* “miR-199a-3p PromotesCardiomyocyte Proliferation by Inhibiting Cd151Expression” (2019) Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 516(1):28-36

Ke Wei#, Vahid Serpooshan#, Cecilia Hurtado, Marta Diez-Cuñado, MingmingZhao, Sonomi Maruyama, Wenhong Zhu, Giovanni Fajardo, Michela Noseda, KazutoNakamura, Xueying Tian, Qiaozhen Liu, Andrew Wang, Yuka Matsuura, Paul Bushway,Wenqing Cai, Alex Savchenko, Morteza Mahmoudi, Michael D. Schneider, Maurice J.B. van den Hoff, Manish J. Butte, Phillip C. Yang, Kenneth Walsh, Bin Zhou,Daniel Bernstein, Mark Mercola & Pilar Ruiz-Lozano* “Epicardial FSTL1 Reconstitution Regenerates the Adult Mammalian Heart”(2015) Nature 525(7570): 479-485

Marta Diez-Cuñado, Ke Wei,Paul J Bushway, Mano R Maurya, Ranjan Perera, Shankar Subramaniam, PilarRuiz-Lozano, Mark Mercola* “miRNAs that Induce Human CardiomyocyteProliferation Converge on the Hippo Pathway” (2018) Cell Reports 23/7 2168-2174

Rosana Crespo, Ke Wei,Boris Rodenak-kladniew, Mark Mercola, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Cecilia Hurtado* “Effectof geraniol on rat cardiomyocytes and its potential use as a cardioprotectivenatural compound” (2017) Life Sciences172, 8-12

Ke Wei#,Ramon Díaz-Trelles#, Qiaozhen Liu, Marta Diez-Cuñado, Maria-CeciliaScimia, Wenqing Cai, Junko Sawada, Masanobu Komatsu, Joseph J. Boyle, Bin Zhou,Pilar Ruiz-Lozano*, and Mark Mercola* “Developmental origin of age-relatedcoronary artery disease” (2015) CardiovascularResearch 107 (2): 287-294

VahidSerpooshan, Morteza Mahmoudi, Mingming Zhao, Ke Wei, Senthilkumar Sivanesan, Khatereh Motamedchaboki, Andrey V.Malkovskiy, Andrew.B. Gladstone, Jeffrey Cohen, Phillip C. Yang, JayakumarRajadas, Daniel Bernstein, Y. Joseph Woo, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano* “Protein coronainfluences cell-biomaterial interactions in nanostructured tissue engineeringscaffolds.” (2015) Advanced FunctionalMaterials 25 (28): 4379-4389

VahidSerpooshan, Mingming Zhao, Scott A Metzler, Ke Wei, Parisha B Shah, Andrew Wang, Morteza Mahmoudi, Andrey VMalkovskiy, Jayakumar Rajadas, Manish J Butte, Daniel Bernstein, PilarRuiz-Lozano* (2014) “Use of bio-mimetic three-dimensional technology intherapeutics for heart disease” Bioengineered5:3, 193-197

WenqingCai, Sonia Albini, Ke Wei, ErikWillems, Rosa M Guzzo, Masanao Tsuda, Lorenzo Giordani, Sean Spiering, LeoKurian, Gene W Yeo, Pier Lorenzo Puri, Mark Mercola* (2013) “Coordinate Nodaland BMP inhibition directs Baf60c-dependent cardiomyocyte commitment” Genes & Development 27(21):2332-44

Vahid Serpooshan, Mingming Zhao, Scott AMetzler, Ke Wei, Parisha B Shah,Andrew Wang, Morteza Mahmoudi, Andrey V Malkovskiy, Jayakumar Rajadas, Manish JButte, Daniel Bernstein, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano* (2013) “The effect of bioengineeredacellular collagen patch on cardiac remodeling and ventricular function postmyocardial infarction” Biomaterials 34(36):9048-55

Wenqing Cai,Rosa M. Guzzo, Ke Wei, Erik Willems,Herman Davidovics and Mark Mercola* (2012) “A Nodal to TGFβ Cascade ExertsBiphasic Control Over Cardiopoiesis” CirculationResearch 111: 876-881

MariaCecilia Scimia, Cecilia Hurtado, Saugata Ray, Scott Metzler, Ke Wei, Jianming Wang, Chris E. Woods,Nicole H. Purcell, Daniele Catalucci, Takeshi Akasaka, Orlando F. Bueno, GeorgeP. Vlasuk, Perla Kaliman, Rolf Bodmer, Layton H. Smith, Euan Ashley, MarkMercola, Joan Heller Brown & Pilar Ruiz-Lozano* (2012) “APJ acts as a dual receptor in cardiac hypertrophy”. Nature488: 394–398

RobertaNoberini, Sayantan Mitra, Ombretta Salvucci, Fatima Valencia, SrinivasDuggineni, Natalie Prigozhina, Ke Wei,Giovanna Tosato, Ziwei Huang, and Elena B. Pasquale* (2011) “PEGylationPotentiates the Effectiveness of an Antagonistic Peptide That Targets the EphB4Receptor with Nanomolar Affinity” PlosOne 6(12): e28611

Natalie L.Prigozhina, Andrew Heisel, Ke Wei,Roberta Noberini, Edward A. Hunter, Diego Calzolari, Jordan R. Seldeen, ElenaB. Pasquale, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Mark Mercola and Jeffrey H. Price* (2011)“Characterization of a novel angiogenic model based on stable, fluorescentlylabeled endothelial cell lines amenable to scale-up for high content screening”Biology of the Cell 103(10): 467-81

Minqi Hao, Kevan Akrami, Ke Wei, Carlos De Diego, Nam Che, Jeong-Hee Ku, James Tidball,Michael C. Graves, Perry B. Shieh, Fabian Chen* (2008) “Muscleblind-like 2(Mbnl2) -deficient mice as a model for myotonic dystrophy” Developmental Dynamics 237(2): 403-10.

Ke Wei, JiyuanChen, Kevan Akrami, Gary C. Galbraith, Ivan A. Lopez, and Fabian Chen (2007) “NeuralCrest Cell Deficiency of c-myc Causes Skull and Hearing Defects” Genesis 45(6): 382-390

Ke Wei, Jiyuan Chen, Kevan Akrami, and Fabian Chen* (2007)“Generation of mice deficient for Lbx2,a gene expressed in the urogenital system, nervous system and Pax3 dependent tissues” Genesis 45(6): 361-368

Ke Wei, Nam Che, and Fabian Chen* (2007). “Myocardin-related transcription factor B is required for normalmouse vascular development and smooth muscle gene expression” Developmental Dynamics 236(2): 416-425.

Xiao-Nan Dong, Ke Wei,Zu-Qiang Liu, and Ying-Hua Chen* (2002). “Candidate peptide vaccine inducedprotection against classical swine fever virus” Vaccine 21(3-4): 167-173.