Papers
1. Gong, R.*, Reynolds, M.J., Sun, X., and Alushin, G.M.* (2025). Afadin mediates cadherin-catenin complex clustering on F-actin linked to cooperative binding and filament curvature. Sci Adv 11, eadu0989.
2. Gong, R.#*, Reynolds, M.J.#, Carney, K.R., Hamilton, K., Bidone, T.C., and Alushin, G.M.* (2025). Fascin structural plasticity mediates flexible actin bundle construction. Nat Struct Mol Biol.
3. Reynolds, M.J., Hachicho, C., Carl, A.G., Gong, R., and Alushin, G.M. (2022). Bending forces and nucleotide state jointly regulate F-actin structure. Nature 611, 380–386.
4. Gong, R., Jiang, F., Moreland, Z.G., Reynolds, M.J., de Los Reyes, S.E., Gurel, P., Shams, A., Heidings, J.B., Bowl, M.R., Bird, J.E., et al. (2022). Structural basis for tunable control of actin dynamics by myosin-15 in mechanosensory stereocilia. Sci Adv 8, eabl4733.
5. Ruijgrok, P.V., Ghosh, R.P., Zemsky, S., Nakamura, M., Gong, R., Ning, L., Chen, R., Vachharajani, V.T., Chu, A.E., Anand, N., et al. (2021). Optical control of fast and processive engineered myosins in vitro and in living cells. Nat Chem Biol 17, 540–548.
6. Sun, X., Phua, D.Y.Z., Axiotakis, L., Smith, M.A., Blankman, E., Gong, R., Cail, R.C., Espinosa de Los Reyes, S., Beckerle, M.C., Waterman, C.M., et al. (2020). Mechanosensing through Direct Binding of Tensed F-Actin by LIM Domains. Dev Cell 55, 468-482.e7.
7. Gong, R., Hong, A.W., Plouffe, S.W., Zhao, B., Liu, G., Yu, F.-X., Xu, Y., and Guan, K.-L. (2015). Opposing roles of conventional and novel PKC isoforms in Hippo-YAP pathway regulation. Cell Res 25, 985–988.
8. Gong, R., and Yu, F.-X. (2015). Targeting the Hippo Pathway for Anti-cancer Therapies. Curr Med Chem 22, 4104–4117.
9. Yang, H.#, Gong, R.#, and Xu, Y. (2013). Control of cell growth: Rag GTPases in activation of TORC1. Cell Mol Life Sci 70, 2873–2885.
10. Gong, R.#, Li, L.#, Liu, Y.#, Wang, P., Yang, H., Wang, L., Cheng, J., Guan, K.-L., and Xu, Y. (2011). Crystal structure of the Gtr1p-Gtr2p complex reveals new insights into the amino acid-induced TORC1 activation. Genes Dev 25, 1668–1673.
* correspondence; # equal contribution