Journal Articles


Tao Sun, and Christopher A. Walsh (2006). Molecular approaches to brain asymmetry and handedness. Nature Review Neuroscience, 7(8): 655-662. [PDF]

Tao Sun, Brain Hafler, Sovann Kaing, Masaaki Kitada, Keith Ligon, Hans Widlund, Dong-in Yuk, Charles D. Stiles and David H. Rowitch. (2006). Evidence for motoneuron lineage-specific regulation of Olig2 in the vertebrate neural tube. Developmental Biology, 292(1:152-164). [PDF]

Tao Sun, Randall V. Collura, Katherine Miller, Maryellen Ruvolo and Christopher A. Walsh (2006). Genomic and evolutionary analyses of asymmetrically expressed genes in human fetal left and right cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 16 Suppl 1:i18-25. [PDF]

Tao Sun, Christina Patoine, Jane Visvader, Eleanor Sum, Timothy J. Cherry, Stuart H. Orkin, Daniel H. Geschwind and Christopher A. Walsh (2005). Early asymmetry of gene transcription in embryonic human left and right cerebral cortex. Science, 308(5729):1794-8. (Published online 12 May 2005). [PDF]

Lizi Wu, Karla Kobayashi, Tao Sun, Ping Gao, Jingxuan Liu, Makoto Nakamura, Ellen Weisberg, Nishit Mukhopadhyay and James D. Griffin (2004). Cloning and functional characterization of the murine mastermind-like 1 (maml1) gene. Gene, 328:153-65. [PDF]

Tao Sun*, Hualing Dong*, Lizi Wu, Micheal Kane, David H. Rowitch and Charles D. Stiles (2003). Cross-repressive interaction of the Olig2 and Nkx2.2 transcription factors in developing neural tube associated with formation of a specific physical complex. Journal of Neuroscience. 23(29):9547-56. * equal contribution. [PDF]

Lizi Wu, Tao Sun, Karla Kobayashi, Ping Gao, and James D. Griffin (2002). Identification of a family of mastermind-like transcriptional coactivators for mammalian Notch receptors. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 22(21):7688–7700 [PDF]

Q. Richard Lu, Tao Sun, Zhimin Zhu, Nan Ma, Meritxell Garcia, Charles D. Stiles and David H. Rowitch (2002). Common developmental requirement for Olig function indicates a motor neuron/oligodendrocyte connection. Cell 109, 75–86. [PDF]

Tao Sun, Yann Echelard, Richard Lu, Dong-in Yuk, Sovann Kaing, Charles D. Stiles and David H. Rowitch (2001). Olig bHLH proteins interact with homeodomain proteins to regulate cell fate acquisition in progenitors of the ventral neural tube. Current Biology 11:1413–1420. [PDF]

Jose L. Mullor, Nadia Dahmane, Tao Sun and Ariel Ruiz i Altaba (2001). Wnt signals are targets and mediators of Gli function. Current Biology 11:769-73 [PDF]

Tao Sun, Damith Jayatilake, Gijs Afink, Paris Ataliotis, Monica Nister, William D. Richardson and Hazel K. Smith (2000). A human YAC transgene rescues craniofacial and neural tube development in PDGFR knockout mice and uncovers a role for PDGFR in prenatal lung growth. Development 127, 4519-4529. [PDF]

William D. Richardson, Hazel K. Smith, Tao Sun, Nigel P. Pringle,Anita Hall and Rachel Woodruff (2000). Oligodendrocyte lineage and the motor neuron connection. Glia 29, 136-142. [PDF]

Tao Sun, Nigel P. Pringle, Adrain P. Hardy, William D. Richardson and Hazel K. Smith (1998). Pax6 influences the time and site of origin of glial precursors in the ventral spinal cord. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 12, 228-239. [PDF]