教育经历
2003-2007 湖南大学 生命科学与技术学院 学士
2007-2013 清华大学 生命科学学院 博士
工作经历与任职
2013-2015 清华大学 博士后
2015-2019 美国加州大学圣地亚哥分校 博士后及助理项目科学家
2020-至今 武汉大学医学研究院/免疫与代谢前沿科学中心 教授、博导
武汉大学中南医院 特聘教授
所获研究资助
海外高层次人才计划A类(2021-2023,主持)
国家科技部重点研发专项(2021-2025,课题组长)
国家科技重大专项(2025-2028,课题组长)
国家科技部重点研发专项(2021-2024,骨干)
国家自然科学基金面上项目(2021-2024,主持)
国家自然科学基金面上项目(2024-2027,主持)
国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目 (2014-2016,主持)
武汉大学重点交叉团队建设项目(2025,主持)
武汉大学“双一流”建设专项人才启动经费(2020-2022,主持)
研究领域
内质网/高尔基体自噬与疾病发生:选择性自噬通过受体分子将特定的蛋白或细胞器靶向到自噬小体进行降解,以维持细胞稳态。它与多种疾病(如神经退行性疾病、癌症)的发生关系密切。内质网和高尔基体作为细胞内的重要细胞器,其选择性自噬降解机制受到了高度关注,但目前对其调控机制及生理病理功能还很不清楚。研究策略:利用酿酒酵母全基因组敲除文库和细胞CRISPR敲除文库进行大规模遗传筛选,鉴定了新的内质网自噬及高尔基体自噬因子;跨模型(酿酒酵母、哺乳动物细胞、果蝇和小鼠)开展机制研究;并解析其在多种疾病(如阿尔茨海默症和癌症)发生中的作用。
代表性论文
[1] Yixian Cui, Smriti Parashar, Muhammad Zahoor, Patrick G. Needham, Muriel Mari, Ming Zhu, Shuliang Chen, Hsuan-Chung Ho, Fulvio Reggiori, Hesso Farhan, Jeffrey L. Brodsky, and Susan Ferro-Novick*. A COPII subunit acts with an autophagy receptor to target endoplasmic reticulum for degradation. Science, 365, 53–60, 2019;
[2] Jiejie Yang, Yang Dong, Jiaxin Xu, Xuehong Qian, Yang Cai, Yanjun Chen, Pei Zhang, Ding Gao, Zongqiang Cui, Yixian Cui*. TM9SF3 is a Golgi-resident ATG8-binding protein essential for Golgi selective autophagy. Developmental Cell, (In press) 2025;
[3] Xuehong Qian, Lingang He, Jiejie Yang, Jiajia Sun, Xueying Peng, Yuting Zhang, Yizhou Mao, Ying Zhang and Yixian Cui*. UVRAG cooperates with cargo receptors to assemble the ER-phagy site. The EMBO Journal, e13625, 2023;
[4] Wenqing Mou, Yinglu Tang, Yunpeng Huang, Zhihao Wu*, Yixian Cui*. Upregulation of neuronal ER-phagy improves organismal fitness and alleviates APP toxicity. Cell Reports, 43, 114255, 2024;
[5] Xueying Peng and Yixian Cui*. PDZD8 orchestrates synaptic remodeling through autophagy. Trends in Neurosciences, 2025;
[6] Wenqing Mou, Yixian Cui*. Enhancing neuronal reticulophagy: a strategy for combating aging and APP toxicity. Autophagy, 2024;
[7] Xuehong Qian, Jiajia Sun and Yixian Cui*. UVRAG: orchestrating the initiation of reticulophagy. Autophagy, 2023;
[8] Lingang He, Xuehong Qian, Yixian Cui*. Advances in ER-phagy and its diseases relevance. Cells, 10(9):2328, 2021;
[9] Yixian Cui, Smriti Parashar, and Susan Ferro-Novick*. A new role for a COPII cargo adaptor in autophagy. Autophagy, Dec 3:1-3, 2019;
[10] Shuliang Chen, Yixian Cui, Smriti Parashar, Peter J. Novick*, and Susan Ferro-Novick*. ER-phagy requires Lnp1, a protein that stabilizes rearrangements of the ER network. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(27), E6237-E6244, 2018;
[11] Shuliang Chen, Muriel Mari, Smriti Parashar, Dongmei Liu, Yixian Cui, Fulvio Reggiori, Peter J. Novick*, Susan Ferro-Novick*. Vps13 is required for the packaging of the ER into autophagosomes during ER-phagy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117(31), 18530-18539, 2020;
[12] Yixian Cui#, * Shanke Zhao#, Xudong Wang, Bing Zhou*. A novel Drosophila mitochondrial carrier protein acts as a Mg2+ exporter in fine-tuning mitochondrial Mg2+ homeostasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) –Molecular Cell Research, 1863, 30–39, 2016;
[13] Yixian Cui#, *, Shanke Zhao#, Juan Wang, Xudong Wang, Bingquan Gao, Qiangwang Fan, Fei Sun, Bing Zhou*. A novel mitochondrial carrier protein Mme1 acts as a yeast mitochondrial magnesium exporter. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) –Molecular Cell Research, 1853, 724–732, 2015;
[14] Yixian Cui, Shanke Zhao, Zhihao Wu, Pinghua Dai, Bing Zhou*. Mitochondrial release of the NADH dehydrogenase Ndi1 induces apoptosis in yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 23(22), 4373-4382, 2012.