Hui Sun
Professor, Physiology, University of California Los Angeles
Professor, Ophthalmology, University of California Los Angeles
hsun@mednet.ucla.edu
310-206-4017
Laboratory
CHS 53-140
UNITED STATES
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UNITED STATES
Biography
Dr. Sun is Professor of Physiology and Ophthalmology in the Department of Physiology and Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1998. He came to UCLA in 2003 as an Assistant Professor and received the prestigious Early Career Scientist Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2009. He has taught in a variety of courses related to physiology and human diseases at UCLA Medical School, UCLA Dental School and UCLA Graduate School.
Publications
- Cook JD, Ng SY, Lloyd M, Eddington S, Sun H, Nathans J, Bok D, Radu RA, Travis GH. Peropsin modulates transit of vitamin A from retina to retinal pigment epithelium.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017.
- Kawaguchi R, Zhong M, Kassai M, Ter-Stepanian M, Sun H. Vitamin A Transport Mechanism of the Multitransmembrane Cell-Surface Receptor STRA6.. Membranes, 2015.
- Zhong M, Sun H. A genetic clog in the vitamin A transport machinery.. Cell, 2015.
- Cheng G, Zhong M, Kawaguchi R, Kassai M, Al-Ubaidi M, Deng J, Ter-Stepanian M, Sun H. Identification of PLXDC1 and PLXDC2 as the transmembrane receptors for the multifunctional factor PEDF.. eLife, 2014.
- Zhong M, Kawaguchi R, Kassai M, Sun H. Apo-RBP, holo-RBP, and insulin resistance.. Molecular and cellular biology, 2014.
- Zhong M, Kawaguchi R, Kassai M, Sun H. How free retinol behaves differently from rbp-bound retinol in RBP receptor-mediated vitamin A uptake.. Molecular and cellular biology, 2014.
- Zhong M, Kawaguchi R, Ter-Stepanian M, Kassai M, Sun H. Vitamin A transport and the transmembrane pore in the cell-surface receptor for plasma retinol binding protein.. PloS one, 2013.
- Kawaguchi R, Zhong M, Kassai M, Ter-Stepanian M, Sun H. Differential and isomer-specific modulation of vitamin A transport and the catalytic activities of the RBP receptor by retinoids.. The Journal of membrane biology, 2013.
- Kawaguchi R, Zhong M, Sun H. Real-time analyses of retinol transport by the membrane receptor of plasma retinol binding protein.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2013.
- Zhong M, Kawaguchi R, Kassai M, Sun H. Retina, retinol, retinal and the natural history of vitamin A as a light sensor.. Nutrients, 2012.
- Kawaguchi R, Zhong M, Kassai M, Ter-Stepanian M, Sun H. STRA6-catalyzed vitamin A influx, efflux, and exchange.. The Journal of membrane biology, 2012.
- Kawaguchi R, Yu J, Ter-Stepanian M, Zhong M, Cheng G, Yuan Q, Jin M, Travis GH, Ong D, Sun H. Receptor-mediated cellular uptake mechanism that couples to intracellular storage.. ACS chemical biology, 2011.
- Sun H. Membrane receptors and transporters involved in the function and transport of vitamin A and its derivatives.. Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2011.
- Sun H, Kawaguchi R. The membrane receptor for plasma retinol-binding protein, a new type of cell-surface receptor.. International review of cell and molecular biology, 2011.
- Kawaguchi R, Sun H. Techniques to study specific cell-surface receptor-mediated cellular vitamin A uptake.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2010.
- Kawaguchi R, Yu J, Wiita P, Ter-Stepanian M, Sun H. Mapping the membrane topology and extracellular ligand binding domains of the retinol binding protein receptor.. Biochemistry, 2008.
- Kawaguchi R, Yu J, Wiita P, Honda J, Sun H. An essential ligand-binding domain in the membrane receptor for retinol-binding protein revealed by large-scale mutagenesis and a human polymorphism.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2008.
- Yu J, Wiita P, Kawaguchi R, Honda J, Jorgensen A, Zhang K, Fischetti VA, Sun H. Biochemical analysis of a common human polymorphism associated with age-related macular degeneration.. Biochemistry, 2007.
- Kawaguchi R, Yu J, Honda J, Hu J, Whitelegge J, Ping P, Wiita P, Bok D, Sun H. A membrane receptor for retinol binding protein mediates cellular uptake of vitamin A.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2007.
- Jin M, Li S, Moghrabi WN, Sun H, Travis GH. Rpe65 is the retinoid isomerase in bovine retinal pigment epithelium.. Cell, 2005.