Epernicus: Cheng-Yuan Kao, Ph.D.

Cheng-Yuan Kao, Ph.D.

Position:
Postdoc

University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
Advisor:
Raffi V. Aroian
Degrees:

Ph.D., Genetics, University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
Past Advisors:

Reen Wu (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Dissecting Caenorhabditis elegans innate immunity mechanisms against Bacillus thuringiensis Crystal toxin Cry5B.

Communities:

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Cheng-Yuan Kao's Publications (12)

Hypoxia and the hypoxic response pathway protect against pore-forming toxins in C. elegans.
Bellier A, Chen CS, Kao CY, Cinar HN, Aroian RV

PLoS pathogens. 2009 Dec;5(12):e1000689
Nervous about immunity: neuronal signals control innate immune system.
Kao CY, Los FC, Aroian RV

Nature immunology. 2008 Dec;9(12):1329-30
Activation of the unfolded protein response is required for defenses against bacterial pore-forming toxin in vivo.
Bischof LJ, Kao CY, Los FC, Gonzalez MR, Shen Z, Briggs SP, van der Goot FG, Aroian RV

PLoS pathogens. 2008 Oct;4(10):e1000176
Requirements for two proximal NF-kappaB binding sites and IkappaB-zeta in IL-17A-induced human beta-defensin 2 expression by conducting airway epithelium.
Kao CY, Kim C, Huang F, Wu R

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2008 May 30;283(22):15309-18
Regulation of mucosal immunity by airway epithelium: the interleukin-17A paradigm.
Fei Huang, Cheng-Yuan Kao, Philip Thai, Shinichiro Wachi, Christy Kim, Yong Lee, Li-Yin Hung, Richart Harper, Mary Mann-Jong Chang, Reen Wu

Journal of Organ Dysfunction. 2008;4(2):93-98
Requirement for both JAK-mediated PI3K signaling and ACT1/TRAF6/TAK1-dependent NF-kappaB activation by IL-17A in enhancing cytokine expression in human airway epithelial cells.
Huang F, Kao CY, Wachi S, Thai P, Ryu J, Wu R

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2007 Nov 15;179(10):6504-13
New insights into airway mucous cell differentiation.
Reen Wu, Richart Harper, Cheng-Yuan Kao, Philip Thai, Daphne Wu, Yin Chen, Mary M. J. Chang

Journal of Organ Dysfunction. 2006;2(1):30-36
Up-regulation of CC chemokine ligand 20 expression in human airway epithelium by IL-17 through a JAK-independent but MEK/NF-kappaB-dependent signaling pathway.
Kao CY, Huang F, Chen Y, Thai P, Wachi S, Kim C, Tam L, Wu R

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2005 Nov 15;175(10):6676-85
Differential regulation of dual NADPH oxidases/peroxidases, Duox1 and Duox2, by Th1 and Th2 cytokines in respiratory tract epithelium.
Harper RW, Xu C, Eiserich JP, Chen Y, Kao CY, Thai P, Setiadi H, Wu R

FEBS letters. 2005 Aug 29;579(21):4911-7
IL-17 markedly up-regulates beta-defensin-2 expression in human airway epithelium via JAK and NF-kappaB signaling pathways.
Kao CY, Chen Y, Thai P, Wachi S, Huang F, Kim C, Harper RW, Wu R

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2004 Sep 1;173(5):3482-91
ORFeome-based search of airway epithelial cell-specific novel human [beta]-defensin genes.
Kao CY, Chen Y, Zhao YH, Wu R

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology. 2003 Jul;29(1):71-80
Tin-protoporphyrin potentiates arsenite-induced DNA strand breaks, chromatid breaks and kinetochore-negative micronuclei in human fibroblasts.
Ho IC, Yih LH, Kao CY, Lee TC

Mutation research. 2000 Jul 20;452(1):41-50

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Cheng-Yuan Kao, Ph.D.

Postdoc

Dissecting Caenorhabditis elegans innate immunity mechanisms against Bacillus thuringiensis Crystal toxin Cry5B.

Cheng-Yuan Kao's Genealogy

Cheng-Yuan Kao's Publications (12)