
Derui Liu, Professor, Ph.D.
E-mail: drliu@sdau.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Functions and molecular mechanism of Receptor-like kinases/Receptor-like proteins and their small peptide ligands in plant stress response and root growth and development
Education:
2019.11-2021.09: Postdoc, Texas A&M University, USA
2016.02-2019.08: Postdoc, VIB-UGENT Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
2014.04-2015.12: Postdoc, University of Massachusetts, USA
2006.09-2013.07: Predoctorate, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2002.09-2006.06: Undergraduate, Xinjiang University, China
Publications:
1. Shuguo Hou*, Derui Liu*, Shijia Huang*, Dexian Luo, Zunyong Liu, Qingyuan Xiang, Ping Wang, Ruimin Mu, Zhifu Han, Sixue Chen, Jijie Chai, Libo Shan, Ping He. The Arabidopsis MIK2 receptor elicits immunity by sensing a conserved signature from phytocytokines and microbes. Nature Communications,2021,12: 5494. (*Co-first author)
2. Derui Liu*, Dexian Luo*, Ping He. 2021. ROS around RIPK. Molecular Plant, 2021, 14: 1607-1609. (*Co-first author)
3. Shuguo Hou*, Derui Liu*,Ping He. Phytocytokines function as immunological modulators of plant immunity. Stress Biology, 2021,1:8. (*Co-first author)
4. Derui Liu*, Lina Xu*, Wei Wang, Shuwen Jia, Sukui Jin, Jiping Gao. 2020.OsRRM, an RNA binding protein, modulates sugar transport in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Front. Plant Sci.,2020, 11:605276. (*Co-first author)
5. Derui Liu, Rahul Kumar, Lucas Alves Neubus Claus, Alexander J. Johnson, Wei Siao, Isabelle Vanhoutte, Peng Wang, Kyle W. Bender, Klaas Yperman, Sara Martins, Xiuyang Zhao, Grégory Vert, Daniël Van Damme, Jirí Friml, Eugenia Russinova. Endocytosis of BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 is partly driven by a canonical tyrosine-based motif. Plant Cell,2020,32 (11): 3598-3612.
6. Trevor M. Nolan*, Nemanja Vukasinovic*, Derui Liu*, Eugenia Russinova, Yanhai Yin.
Brassinosteroids: Multidimensional regulators of plant growth, development, and stress responses. Plant Cell,2020, 32(2): 295-318. (*Co-first author)
7. Jinggeng Zhou*, Derui Liu*, Ping Wang, Xiyu Ma, Wenwei Lin, Sixue Cheng, Kiril Mishev, Dongping Lu, Rahul Kumar, Isabelle Vanhoutte, Xiangzong Meng, Ping He, Eugenia Russinova, Libo Shan. Regulation of Arabidopsis brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 endocytosis and degradation by plant U-box PUB12/PUB13-mediated ubiquitination. PNAS,2018, 115(8): E1906-E1915. (*Co-first author)
8. Derui Liu*, Nina Zehfroosh*, Brandon L. Hancock, Kevin Hines, Wenjuan Fang, Maria Kilfoil, Erik Learned-Miller, Karen A. Sanguinet, Lori S. Goldner, Tobias I. Baskin. Imaging cellulose synthase motility during primary cell wall synthesis in the grass Brachypodium distachyon. Sci. Rep.,2017,7(1):15111. (*Co-first author)
9. Derui Liu, Wei Wang, Xiuling Cai. Modulation of amylose content by structure-based modification of OsGBSS1 activity in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Biotechnol. J., 2014, 12(9):1297-1307.
10. Derui Liu, Weixue Huang, Xiuling Cai. Oligomerization of rice granule-bound starch synthase 1 modulates its activity regulation. Plant Sci., 2013, 210:141-150.
11. Derui Liu, Xiuling Cai. OsRRMh, a Spen-like gene, plays an important role during the vegetative to reproductive transition in rice. J. Integr. Plant Biol., 2013, 55(9): 876-887.
12. Jiu Liu, Yanyang Huang, Liang Kong, Xiao Yu, Baomin Feng, Derui Liu, Baoyu Zhao, Giselle C. Mendes, Peiguo Yuan, Dongdong Ge, Wen-Ming Wang, Elizabeth P. B. Fontes, Pingwei Li, Libo Shan, Ping He. The malectin-like receptor-like kinase LETUM1 modulates NLR protein SUMM2 activation via MEKK2 scaffolding. Nat. Plants,2020,6(9): 1106-1115.
13. Dexian Luo, Sarah Langendries, Sonia Garcia Mendez, Joren De Ryck, Derui Liu, Stien Beirinckx, Anne Willems, Eugenia Russinova, Jane Debode, Sofie Goormachtig. Plant growth promotion driven by a novel Caulobacter strain. MPMI, 2019, 32(9): 1162-1174.
14. Changquan Zhang, Shengjie Chen, Xinyu Ren, Yan Lu, Derui Liu, Xiuling Cai, Qianfeng Li, Jiping Gao, Qiaoquan Liu. Molecular structure and physicochemical properties of starches from rice with different amylose contents resulting from modification of OsGBSSI activity. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2017,65(10): 2222-2232.
15. Nina Zehfroosh, Derui Liu,Brandon Hancock, Tobias I. Baskin, Lori S. Goldner. Evidence of a transition from diffusive to super-diffusive motion of cellulose synthase complexes in living plants. Biophys. J.,2017,112 (3): 240A.