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Publications

1. Xiaofei Bai#, Harold E. Smith, and Andy Golden. Identification of Genetic Suppressors for a Berardinelli-Seip Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy Type 2 (BSCL2) Pathogenic Variant in C. elegans. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050524

2. Xiaofei Bai#, Harold E. Smith, Luis O Romero, Briar Bell, Valeria Vásquez, and Andy Golden. Mutation in F-actin Polymerization Factor Suppresses Distal Arthrogryposis Type 5 (DA5) PIEZO2 Pathogenic Variant in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development,  2024. 151, PMID: 38349741. (# Corresponding author).

3. Xiaofei Bai# and Andy Golden. Transmembrane protein 120A (TMEM-120A/TACAN) coordinates with PIEZO channel during Caenorhabditis elegans reproductive regulation. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2023.
(# Corresponding author).

4. Xiaofei Bai*#, Rebecca Green*#, Tao Cai, Karen Oegema, and Andy Golden. A missense mutation in the C. elegans src-2 tyrosine-protein kinase reduces brood size and enhances embryonic morphogenesis defects in src-1(RNAi) conditions. microPublication Biology. 2023. PMID: 37497183.

(* Contributed equally to this manuscript; # Corresponding author).

5. Xiaofei Bai, Leng-Jie Huang, Sheng-Wen Chen, Benjamin Nebenfuehr, Brian Wysolmerski, JuiChing Wu, Sara K. Olson, Andy Golden, Chao-Wen Wang. Loss of the seipin gene perturbs eggshell formation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development. 2020. Oct 16; 147(20).

6. Xiaofei Bai, Jeff Bouffard, Avery Lord, Katherine Brugman, Paul Sternberg, Erin Cram, Andy Golden. Caenorhabditis elegans PIEZO channel coordinates multiple reproductive tissues to govern ovulation. eLife. 2020;9. Epub 2020/06/04.
(Faculty Opinions Recommendation: https://facultyopinions.com/prime/738065203).

7. Xiaofei Bai, David Woodbury and Andy Golden. The fasn-1(g14ts) allele is a Gly1830Arg missense mutation in C. elegans FASN-1. microPublication Biology. 2020. PMID: 32550489.

Additional Publications

1. Anna K. Allen, Xiaofei Bai, Edward S. Davis, Amy Fabritius, Aimee Jaramillo-Lambert, Peter A. Kropp, Christopher T. Richie, Jill M. Schumacher, Sanjay Shrestha, Kathryn Stein, and Ann K. Corsi. Andy Golden: Mentorship through the Years. Journal of Developmental Biology. 2023

2. Kara McDonald*, Kerry Larkin*, Daniel J Dickinson, Andy Golden, Xiaofei Bai#, and Ryan Doonan#. Using CRISPR knock-in of fluorescent tags to examine isoform-specific expression of EGL-19 in C. elegans. microPublication Biology. 2023.

(* Contributed equally to this manuscript; # Corresponding author).

3. Alexandre Toulmay, Fawn Whittle, Jerry Yang, Xiaofei Bai, Jessica Diarra, Subhrajit Banerjee, Ashley Ferguson, Tim Levine, Andy Golden, William Prinz. Vps13-like proteins provide phosphatidylethanolamine for glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor synthesis in the ER. Journal of Cell Biology, 2022; 221,3.

4. Kiley Hughes*, Ashka Shah*, Xiaofei Bai, Adams Jessica, Rosemary Bauer, Janelle Jackson, Chance Bainbridge, Emily Harris, Alyson Ficca, Ploy Freebairn, Shawn Mohammed, Eliana Fernández, Marcela Brocco, Wolfgang Stein, Andres Vidal-Gadea. Distinct mechanoreceptor pezo-1 isoforms modulate food intake in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2022.
(* Contributed equally to this manuscript).

5. Elodie Mailler, Carlos Guardia, Xiaofei Bai, Michal Jarnik, Chad Williamson, Yan Li, Nunziata Maio, Andy Golden and Juan S. Bonifacino. The autophagy protein ATG9A enables lipid mobilization from lipid droplets at sites of phagophore formation. Nature Communications. 2021. 12:6750.

6. Todd Starich, Xiaofei Bai, David Greenstein. Gap junctions deliver malonyl-CoA from soma to germline to support embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. eLife. 2020. Jul 31;9.