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photo Yandong Lai, PhD

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: yandong.lai@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-7225
Contact
Office: UPMC Montefiore Hospital, NW628
3459 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-624-7225
Fax: 412-624-1670
E-mail: yandong.lai@pitt.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Stacie Truszkowski
Email: truszkowskisl@upmc.edu
Phone: 412-624-7225
Fax: 412-624-1670
Education and Training
Education
B.S.Med. in Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Science, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 2000
M.Sc. in Pathogen Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 2003
Ph.D in Toxicology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 2011
Research Interest
Dr. Lai's research interests include the role of alterations of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components in the airway remodeling in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and the underlying mechanisms of increased ECM deposition and degradation of ECM molecules in COPD.
Publications
For my complete bibliography, Click Here.
Selected Publications:
Lai, Y, Jiang Y. Reciprocal regulation between primary cilia and mTORC1. Genes. 2020; 11(6): 711.
Long C, Lai Y, Li T, Nyunoya T, Zou C. Cigarette smoke extract modulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial load via USP25/HDAC11 axis in lung epithelial cells. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 2020; 318(2): L252-L263.
Lai Y, Li J, Li X, Zou C. Lipopolysaccharide modulates p300 and Sirt1 to promote PRMT1 stability via an SCFFbxl17-recognized acetyldegron. Journal of cell science. 2017; 130(20): 3578-3587.
Li X, Lai Y, Li J, Zou M, Zou C. Oxidative stress destabilizes protein arginine methyltransferase 4 via glycogen synthase kinase 3ß to impede lung epithelial cell migration. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 2017; 313(3): C285-C294.
Li X, Nan A, Xiao Y, Chen Y, Lai Y. PP2A–B56? complex is involved in dephosphorylation of ?-H2AX in the repair process of CPT-induced DNA double-strand breaks. Toxicology. 2015; 331: 57-65.
Hu G, Yang T, Zheng J, Dai J, Nan A, Lai Y, Zhang Y, Yang C, Jiang Y. Functional role and mechanism of lncRNA LOC728228 in malignant 16HBE cells transformed by anti-benzopyrene-trans-7, 8-dihydrodiol-9, 10-epoxide. Molecular Carcinogenesis. 2015; 54(S1): E192-E204.
Gao L, Mai A, Li X, Lai Y, Zheng J, Yang Q, Wu J, Nan A, Ye S, Jiang Y. LncRNA-DQ786227-mediated cell malignant transformation induced by benzo (a) pyrene. Toxicology Letters. 2013; 223(2): 205-210.
Chen LP, Lai YD, Li DC, Zhu XN, Yang P, Li WX, Zhu W, Zhao J, Li XD, Xiao YM, Zhang Y. a4 is highly expressed in carcinogen-transformed human cells and primary human cancers. Oncogene. 2011; 30(26): 2943-2953.
Pang Y, Li W, Ma R, Ji W, Wang Q, Li D, Xiao Y, Wei Q, Lai Y, Yang P, Chen L. Development of human cell models for assessing the carcinogenic potential of chemicals. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 2008; 232(3): 478-486.
Long C, Lai Y, Li J, Huang J, Zou C. LPS promotes HBO1 stability via USP25 to modulate inflammatory gene transcription in THP-1 cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 2018; 1861(9): 773-782.

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