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  • Zhang, Z., Wang, W., Zhong, P., Liu, S. J., Long, J. Z., Zhao, L., Gao, H. Q., Cravatt, B. F., Liu, Q. S. Blockade of 2-arachidonoylglycerol hydrolysis produces antidepressant-like effects and enhances adult hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity Hippocampus  2015 25:16-26  DOI:10.1002/hipo.22344  PMID:25131612  PMCID:PMC4517601
  • Montezuma-Rusca, J. M., Moir, S., Kardava, L., Buckner, C. M., Louie, A., Kim, L. J. Y., Santich, B. H., Wang, W., Fankuchen, O. R., Diaz, G., Daub, J. R., Rosenzweig, S. D., et al. Bone marrow plasma cells are a primary source of serum HIV-1-specific antibodies in chronically infected individuals Journal of Immunology  2015 194:2561-2568  DOI:10.4049/jimmunol.1402424  PMID:25681347  PMCID:PMC4355319
  • Penas, C., Govek, E. E., Fang, Y., Ramachandran, V., Daniel, M., Wang, W., Maloof, M. E., Rahaim, R. J., Bibian, M., Kawauchi, D., Finkelstein, D., Han, J. L., et al. Casein kinase 1δ is an APC/C(Cdh1) substrate that regulates cerebellar granule cell neurogenesis Cell Reports  2015 11:249-260  DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.016  PMID:25843713  PMCID:PMC4401652
  • Wang, W., Kapur, A., Ji, X., Safi, M., Palui, G., Palomo, V., Dawson, P. E., Mattoussi, H. Photoligation of an amphiphilic polymer with mixed coordination provides compact and reactive quantum dots Journal of the American Chemical Society  2015 137:5438-5451  DOI:10.1021/jacs.5b00671  PMID:25797052
  • Zhong, P., Wang, W., Pan, B., Liu, X., Zhang, Z., Long, J. Z., Zhang, H. T., Cravatt, B. F., Liu, Q. S. Monoacylglycerol lipase inhibition blocks chronic stress-induced depressive-like behaviors via activation of mTOR signaling Neuropsychopharmacology  2014 39:1763-1776  DOI:10.1038/npp.2014.24  PMID:24476943  PMCID:PMC4023150
  • Buckner, C. M., Moir, S., Ho, J., Wang, W., Posada, J. G., Kardava, L., Funk, E. K., Nelson, A. K., Li, Y., Chun, T. W., Fauci, A. S. Characterization of plasmablasts in the blood of HIV-infected viremic individuals: Evidence for nonspecific immune activation Journal of Virology  2013 87:5800-5811  DOI:10.1128/jvi.00094-13  PMID:23487459  PMCID:PMC3648153
  • Shen, W., Tremblay, M. S., Deshmukh, V. A., Wang, W., Filippi, C. M., Harb, G., Zhang, Y. Q., Kamireddy, A., Baaten, J. E., Jin, Q., Swoboda, J. G., Cho, C. Y. Small-molecule inducer of β cell proliferation identified by high-throughput screening Journal of the American Chemical Society  2013 135:1669-1672  DOI:10.1021/ja309304m  PMID:23330637
  • Herr, D. R., Lee, C. W., Wang, W., Ware, A., Rivera, R., Chun, J. Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors are essential mediators of eyelid closure during embryonic development Journal of Biological Chemistry  2013 288:29882-29889  DOI:10.1074/jbc.M113.510099  PMID:24003216  PMCID:PMC3795286
  • Yin, S. M., Kaluz, S., Devi, N. S., Jabbar, A. A., de Noronha, R. G., Mun, J. Y., Zhang, Z. B., Boreddy, P. R., Wang, W., Wang, Z. B., Abbruscato, T., Chen, Z. J., et al. Arylsulfonamide kcn1 inhibits in vivo glioma growth and interferes with hif signaling by disrupting hif-1 alpha interaction with cofactors p300/cbp Clinical Cancer Research  2012 18:6623-6633  DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-0861  PMID:22923450  PMCID:PMC3518680
  • Wang, W., Perovic, I., Chittuluru, J., Kaganovich, A., Nguyen, L. T. T., Liao, J. L., Auclair, J. R., Johnson, D., Landeru, A., Simorellis, A. K., Ju, S. L., Cookson, M. R., et al. A soluble alpha-synuclein construct forms a dynamic tetramer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  2011 108:17797-17802  DOI:10.1073/pnas.1113260108  PMID:22006323  PMCID:PMC3203798
  • Pan, B., Wang, W., Zhong, P., Blankman, J. L., Cravatt, B. F., Liu, Q. S. Alterations of endocannabinoid signaling, synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory in monoacylglycerol lipase knock-out mice Journal of Neuroscience  2011 31:13420-13430  DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.2075-11.2011  PMID:21940435  PMCID:PMC3371386
  • Wang, Y. C., Kelber, J. A., Cao, H. S. T., Cantin, G. T., Lin, R., Wang, W., Kaushal, S., Bristow, J. M., Edgington, T. S., Hoffman, R. M., Bouvet, M., Yates, J. R., et al. Pseudopodium-enriched atypical kinase 1 regulates the cytoskeleton and cancer progession Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  2010 107:10920-10925  DOI:10.1073/pnas.0914776107  PMID:20534451  PMCID:PMC2890752
  • Pan, B., Wang, W., Long, J. Z., Sun, D. L., Hillard, C. J., Cravatt, B. F., Liu, Q. S. Blockade of 2-arachidonoylglycerol hydrolysis by selective monoacylglycerol lipase inhibitor 4-nitrophenyl 4-(dibenzo d 1,3 dioxol-5-yl(hydroxy)methyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate (jzl184) enhances retrograde endocannabinoid signaling Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics  2009 331:591-597  DOI:10.1124/jpet.109.158162  PMID:19666749  PMCID:PMC2775254
  • Wang, W., Fridman, A., Blackledge, W., Connelly, S., Wilson, I. A., Pilz, R. B., Boss, G. R. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/akt cassette regulates purine nucleotide synthesis Journal of Biological Chemistry  2009 284:3521-3528  DOI:10.1074/jbc.M806707200  PMID:19068483  PMCID:PMC2635033
  • Frazer, K. A., Ballinger, D. G., Cox, D. R., Hinds, D. A., Stuve, L. L., Gibbs, R. A., Belmont, J. W., Boudreau, A., Hardenbol, P., Leal, S. M., Pasternak, S., Wheeler, D. A., et al. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs Nature  2007 449:851-861  DOI:10.1038/nature06258  PMID:17943122  PMCID:PMC2689609
  • Sabeti, P. C., Varilly, P., Fry, B., Lohmueller, J., Hostetter, E., Cotsapas, C., Xie, X. H., Byrne, E. H., McCarroll, S. A., Gaudet, R., Schaffner, S. F., Lander, E. S. Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations Nature  2007 449:913-918  DOI:10.1038/nature06250  PMID:17943131  PMCID:PMC2687721
  • Altshuler, D., Brooks, L. D., Chakravarti, A., Collins, F. S., Daly, M. J., Donnelly, P., Gibbs, R. A., Belmont, J. W., Boudreau, A., Leal, S. M., Hardenbol, P., Pasternak, S., et al. A haplotype map of the human genome Nature  2005 437:1299-1320  DOI:10.1038/nature04226  PMID:16255080  PMCID:PMC1880871
  • Cheng, Q., Fu, J. A., Burkard, R., Wang, W., Yamamoto, M., Yang, J., Stevens, R. C. Monolayer and epi-fluorescence microscopy studies of amino acid derivatized diacetylene lipids Thin Solid Films  1999 345:292-299  DOI:10.1016/s0040-6090(98)01608-3