Featured Publications

Sun S, Liang B, Koplas A, Tikhonenko I, Nachury M, Khodjakov A and Sui H. Intraflagellar transport trains can switch rails and move along multiple microtubules in intact primary cilia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025; In press
Miao L, Lu Y, Nusrat A, Fan G, Zhang S, Zhao L, Wu CL, Guo H, Huyen TLN, Zheng Y, Fan ZC, Shou W, Schwartz RJ, Liu Y, Kumar A, Sui H, Serysheva II, Burns AR, Wan LQ, Zhou B, Evans SM, Wu M. Tunneling Nanotube-Like structures regulate distant cellular interactions during heart formation. Science. 2025; March 13 (In press):
Majumder S, Das S, Li P, Yang N, Dellario H, Sui H, Guan Z, Sun W. Pneumonic plague protection induced by a monophosphoryl lipid A decorated Yersinia outer-membrane-vesicle vaccine. Small. 2024; Apr;20 (15): e2307066. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202307066
Sui H. Sugar, sugar: Glucose activates motion in pancreatic cilia. Sci Adv. 2022; Sep 23;8 (38): eade4450. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4450
Sun S, Fisher RL, Bowser SS, Pentecost BT, Sui H. Three-dimensional architecture of epithelial primary cilia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019; 116 (19): 9370-9379.
Bowler M, Kong D, Sun S, Nanjundappa R, Evans L, Farmer V, Holland A, Mahjoub MR, Sui H, Loncarek J. High-resolution characterization of centriole distal appendage morphology and dynamics by correlative STORM and electron microscopy. Nat Comm. 2019; Mar 1;10 (1): 993. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08216-4
He J, Hsieh C, Wu Y, Schmelzer T, Wang P, Lin Y, Marko M, Sui H. Cryo-FIB specimen preparation for use in a cartridge-type cryo-TEM. Journal of Structural Biology. 2017; 199 (2): 114-119.
Magidson V, He J, Ault JG, O’Connell CB, Yang NC, McEwen BF, Sui H, and Khodjakov A. Radial expansion and compaction of the outer kinetochore during mitosis: Changes in the kinetochore shape during mitosis. Journal of Cell Biology. 2016; 212 (3): 307-19.
Kishchenko G, Danev D, Fisher R, He J, Hsieh C, Marko M, Sui H. Effect of fringe-artifact correction on sub-tomogram averaging from Zernike phase-plate cryo-TEM. Journal of Structural Biology. 2015; 191 (3): 299-305.
Sui HX, Downing KH. Structural Basis of Interprotofilament Interaction and Lateral Deformation of Microtubules. Structure. 2010; 18 (8): 1022-1031.
Sui H, Downing KH. Molecular architecture of axonemal microtubule doublets revealed by cryo-electron tomography. Nature. 2006; 442 (7101): 475-478.
Sui H, Han BG, Lee JK, Walian P, Jap BK. Structural basis of water-specific transport through the AQP1 water channel. Nature. 2001; 414 (6866): 872-878.