Sheng Sun, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2009- Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke Medical School, Durham, NC, United States 
Area:
Fungal Genetics and Genomics

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2024 Yadav V, Mohan R, Sun S, Heitman J. Calcineurin contributes to RNAi-mediated transgene silencing and small interfering RNA production in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Genetics. PMID 38279937 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyae010  0.448
2024 Coelho MA, David-Palma M, Shea T, Bowers K, McGinley-Smith S, Mohammad AW, Gnirke A, Yurkov AM, Nowrousian M, Sun S, Cuomo CA, Heitman J. Comparative genomics of and reveals pathogenesis evolution and contrasting karyotype dynamics via intercentromeric recombination or chromosome fusion. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 38234769 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.27.573464  0.819
2023 Sauters TJC, Roth C, Murray D, Sun S, Floyd Averette A, Onyishi CU, May RC, Heitman J, Magwene PM. Amoeba predation of Cryptococcus: A quantitative and population genomic evaluation of the accidental pathogen hypothesis. Plos Pathogens. 19: e1011763. PMID 37956179 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011763  0.549
2023 Rivera A, Young Lim W, Park E, Dome PA, Hoy MJ, Spasojevic I, Sun S, Averette AF, Pina-Oviedo S, Juvvadi PR, Steinbach WJ, Ciofani M, Hong J, Heitman J. Enhanced fungal specificity and therapeutic efficacy of a C-22-modified FK520 analog against . Mbio. e0181023. PMID 37737622 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01810-23  0.771
2023 Yadav V, Mohan R, Sun S, Heitman J. Calcineurin contributes to RNAi-mediated transgene silencing and small interfering RNA production in the human fungal pathogen . Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37546757 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.25.550548  0.625
2023 Rivera A, Lim WY, Park E, Dome PA, Hoy MJ, Spasojevic I, Sun S, Averette AF, Pina-Oviedo S, Juvvadi PR, Steinbach WJ, Ciofani M, Hong J, Heitman J. Enhanced fungal specificity and therapeutic efficacy of a C-22 modified FK520 analog against . Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37333270 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.05.543712  0.769
2023 Yadav V, Sun S, Heitman J. On the evolution of variation in sexual reproduction through the prism of eukaryotic microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2219120120. PMID 36867686 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219120120  0.696
2022 Passer AR, Clancey SA, Shea T, David-Palma M, Averette AF, Boekhout T, Porcel BM, Nowrousian M, Cuomo CA, Sun S, Heitman J, Coelho MA. Obligate sexual reproduction of a homothallic fungus closely related to the pathogenic species complex. Elife. 11. PMID 35713948 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.79114  0.789
2022 Sun S, Roth C, Floyd Averette A, Magwene PM, Heitman J. Epistatic genetic interactions govern morphogenesis during sexual reproduction and infection in a global human fungal pathogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119. PMID 35169080 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122293119  0.552
2021 Michelotti LA, Sun S, Heitman J, James TY. Clonal evolution in serially passaged Cryptococcus neoformans x deneoformans hybrids reveals a heterogenous landscape of genomic change. Genetics. PMID 34849836 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyab142  0.679
2021 Fu C, Davy A, Holmes S, Sun S, Yadav V, Gusa A, Coelho MA, Heitman J. Dynamic genome plasticity during unisexual reproduction in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans. Plos Genetics. 17: e1009935. PMID 34843473 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009935  0.774
2021 Boekhout T, Aime MC, Begerow D, Gabaldón T, Heitman J, Kemler M, Khayhan K, Lachance MA, Louis EJ, Sun S, Vu D, Yurkov A. The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks. Fungal Diversity. 109: 27-55. PMID 34720775 DOI: 10.1007/s13225-021-00475-9  0.584
2021 Yadav V, Sun S, Heitman J. Uniparental nuclear inheritance following bisexual mating in fungi. Elife. 10. PMID 34338631 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.66234  0.716
2021 Roth C, Murray D, Scott A, Fu C, Averette AF, Sun S, Heitman J, Magwene PM. Pleiotropy and epistasis within and between signaling pathways defines the genetic architecture of fungal virulence. Plos Genetics. 17: e1009313. PMID 33493169 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009313  0.618
2021 Priest SJ, Coelho MA, Mixão V, Clancey SA, Xu Y, Sun S, Gabaldón T, Heitman J. Factors enforcing the species boundary between the human pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus deneoformans. Plos Genetics. 17: e1008871. PMID 33465111 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008871  0.564
2020 Bahn YS, Sun S, Heitman J, Lin X. Erratum: Microbe Profile: species complex. Microbiology (Reading, England). 166: 1191. PMID 33357260 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001013  0.708
2020 Sun S, Hoy MJ, Heitman J. Fungal pathogens. Current Biology : Cb. 30: R1163-R1169. PMID 33022261 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.032  0.488
2020 Bahn YS, Sun S, Heitman J, Lin X. Microbe Profile: species complex. Microbiology (Reading, England). PMID 32956032 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.000973  0.722
2020 Gusa A, Williams JD, Cho JE, Averette AF, Sun S, Shouse EM, Heitman J, Alspaugh JA, Jinks-Robertson S. Transposon mobilization in the human fungal pathogen is mutagenic during infection and promotes drug resistance in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32303657 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.2001451117  0.433
2020 Yadav V, Sun S, Coelho MA, Heitman J. Centromere scission drives chromosome shuffling and reproductive isolation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32193338 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1918659117  0.722
2020 Sankaranarayanan SR, Ianiri G, Coelho MA, Reza MH, Thimmappa BC, Ganguly P, Vadnala RN, Sun S, Siddharthan R, Tellgren-Roth C, Dawson TL, Heitman J, Sanyal K. Loss of centromere function drives karyotype evolution in closely related species. Elife. 9. PMID 31958060 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.53944  0.486
2019 Sun S, Fu C, Ianiri G, Heitman J. The Pheromone and Pheromone Receptor Mating-Type Locus Is Involved in Controlling Uniparental Mitochondrial Inheritance in . Genetics. PMID 31888949 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.119.302824  0.732
2019 Ergin Ç, Şengül M, Aksoy L, Döğen A, Sun S, Averette AF, Cuomo CA, Seyedmousavi S, Heitman J, Ilkit M. Recovered From Olive Trees () in Turkey Reveal Allopatry With African and South American Lineages. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 9: 384. PMID 31788454 DOI: 10.3389/Fcimb.2019.00384  0.534
2019 Sun S, Coelho MA, David-Palma M, Priest S, Heitman J. The Evolution of Sexual Reproduction and the Mating-Type Locus: Links to Pathogenesis of Human Pathogenic Fungi. Annual Review of Genetics. PMID 31537103 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Genet-120116-024755  0.833
2019 Sun S, Coelho MA, Heitman J, Nowrousian M. Convergent evolution of linked mating-type loci in basidiomycete fungi. Plos Genetics. 15: e1008365. PMID 31490920 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1008365  0.593
2019 Sun S, Lin X, Coelho MA, Heitman J. Mating-System Evolution: All Roads Lead to Selfing. Current Biology : Cb. 29: R743-R746. PMID 31386850 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2019.06.073  0.57
2019 Ianiri G, Dagotto G, Sun S, Heitman J. Advancing Functional Genetics Through -Mediated Insertional Mutagenesis and CRISPR/Cas9 in the Commensal and Pathogenic Yeast . Genetics. PMID 31243056 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.119.302329  0.46
2019 Passer AR, Coelho MA, Billmyre RB, Nowrousian M, Mittelbach M, Yurkov AM, Averette AF, Cuomo CA, Sun S, Heitman J. Genetic and Genomic Analyses Reveal Boundaries between Species Closely Related to Pathogens. Mbio. 10. PMID 31186317 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.00764-19  0.799
2019 Sun S, Priest SJ, Heitman J. Cryptococcus neoformans Mating and Genetic Crosses. Current Protocols in Microbiology. e75. PMID 30661293 DOI: 10.1002/Cpmc.75  0.558
2018 Roth C, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Heitman J, Magwene PM. A High Resolution Map of Meiotic Recombination inDemonstrates Decreased Recombination in Unisexual Reproduction. Genetics. PMID 29625994 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.118.300996  0.795
2018 Yadav V, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Thimmappa BC, Shea T, Lintner R, Bakkeren G, Cuomo CA, Heitman J, Sanyal K. RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29507212 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1713725115  0.805
2017 Sun S, Yadav V, Billmyre RB, Cuomo CA, Nowrousian M, Wang L, Souciet JL, Boekhout T, Porcel B, Wincker P, Granek JA, Sanyal K, Heitman J. Fungal genome and mating system transitions facilitated by chromosomal translocations involving intercentromeric recombination. Plos Biology. 15: e2002527. PMID 28800596 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.2002527  0.837
2017 Desjardins CA, Giamberardino C, Sykes SM, Yu CH, Tenor JL, Chen Y, Yang T, Jones AM, Sun S, Haverkamp MR, Heitman J, Litvintseva AP, Perfect JR, Cuomo CA. Population genomics and the evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Genome Research. PMID 28611159 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.218727.116  0.549
2017 Coelho MA, Bakkeren G, Sun S, Hood ME, Giraud T. Fungal Sex: The Basidiomycota. Microbiology Spectrum. 5. PMID 28597825 DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.FUNK-0046-2016  0.441
2017 Zhu Y, Engström PG, Tellgren-Roth C, Baudo CD, Kennell JC, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Schröder MS, Andersson A, Holm T, Sigurgeirsson B, Wu G, Sankaranarayanan SR, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K, et al. Proteogenomics produces comprehensive and highly accurate protein-coding gene annotation in a complete genome assembly of Malassezia sympodialis. Nucleic Acids Research. PMID 28100699 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/Gkx006  0.77
2015 Sun S, Heitman J. From Two to One: Unipolar Sexual Reproduction. Fungal Biology Reviews. 29: 118-125. PMID 26744600 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fbr.2015.06.002  0.546
2015 Wu G, Zhao H, Li C, Rajapakse MP, Wong WC, Xu J, Saunders CW, Reeder NL, Reilman RA, Scheynius A, Sun S, Billmyre BR, Li W, Averette AF, Mieczkowski P, et al. Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin. Plos Genetics. 11: e1005614. PMID 26539826 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1005614  0.612
2015 Kourist R, Bracharz F, Lorenzen J, Kracht ON, Chovatia M, Daum C, Deshpande S, Lipzen A, Nolan M, Ohm RA, Grigoriev IV, Sun S, Heitman J, Brück T, Nowrousian M. Genomics and Transcriptomics Analyses of the Oil-Accumulating Basidiomycete Yeast Trichosporon oleaginosus: Insights into Substrate Utilization and Alternative Evolutionary Trajectories of Fungal Mating Systems. Mbio. 6: e00918. PMID 26199329 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.00918-15  0.521
2015 Fu C, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Roach KC, Heitman J. Unisexual versus bisexual mating in Cryptococcus neoformans: Consequences and biological impacts. Fungal Genetics and Biology : Fg & B. 78: 65-75. PMID 25173822 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fgb.2014.08.008  0.813
2014 Sun S, Billmyre RB, Mieczkowski PA, Heitman J. Unisexual reproduction drives meiotic recombination and phenotypic and karyotypic plasticity in Cryptococcus neoformans. Plos Genetics. 10: e1004849. PMID 25503976 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1004849  0.79
2014 Roach KC, Feretzaki M, Sun S, Heitman J. Unisexual reproduction. Advances in Genetics. 85: 255-305. PMID 24880737 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800271-1.00005-6  0.824
2014 Janbon G, Ormerod KL, Paulet D, Byrnes EJ, Yadav V, Chatterjee G, Mullapudi N, Hon CC, Billmyre RB, Brunel F, Bahn YS, Chen W, Chen Y, Chow EW, Coppée JY, ... ... Sun S, et al. Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii reveals complex RNA expression and microevolution leading to virulence attenuation. Plos Genetics. 10: e1004261. PMID 24743168 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1004261  0.749
2014 Lee SC, Sun S, Heitman J. Unseen sex in ancient virgin fungi. The New Phytologist. 201: 3-5. PMID 24274789 DOI: 10.1111/Nph.12564  0.443
2013 James TY, Sun S, Li W, Heitman J, Kuo HC, Lee YH, Asiegbu FO, Olson A. Polyporales genomes reveal the genetic architecture underlying tetrapolar and bipolar mating systems. Mycologia. 105: 1374-90. PMID 23928418 DOI: 10.3852/13-162  0.711
2013 Heitman J, Sun S, James TY. Evolution of fungal sexual reproduction. Mycologia. 105: 1-27. PMID 23099518 DOI: 10.3852/12-253  0.692
2012 Lee SC, Phadke S, Sun S, Heitman J. Pseudohyphal growth of Cryptococcus neoformans is a reversible dimorphic transition in response to ammonium that requires Amt1 and Amt2 ammonium permeases. Eukaryotic Cell. 11: 1391-8. PMID 23002105 DOI: 10.1128/Ec.00242-12  0.422
2012 Sun S, Heitman J. Should Y stay or should Y go: the evolution of non-recombining sex chromosomes. Bioessays : News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. 34: 938-42. PMID 22948853 DOI: 10.1002/Bies.201200064  0.456
2012 Wang X, Wang P, Sun S, Darwiche S, Idnurm A, Heitman J. Transgene induced co-suppression during vegetative growth in Cryptococcus neoformans. Plos Genetics. 8: e1002885. PMID 22916030 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1002885  0.685
2012 Sun S, Hsueh YP, Heitman J. Gene conversion occurs within the mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans during sexual reproduction. Plos Genetics. 8: e1002810. PMID 22792079 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1002810  0.678
2012 Floudas D, Binder M, Riley R, Barry K, Blanchette RA, Henrissat B, Martínez AT, Otillar R, Spatafora JW, Yadav JS, Aerts A, Benoit I, Boyd A, Carlson A, Copeland A, ... ... Sun S, et al. The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes. Science (New York, N.Y.). 336: 1715-9. PMID 22745431 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1221748  0.801
2012 Findley K, Sun S, Fraser JA, Hsueh YP, Averette AF, Li W, Dietrich FS, Heitman J. Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex. Plos Genetics. 8: e1002528. PMID 22359516 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1002528  0.824
2012 Wang X, Li W, Sun S, Kozubowski L, Lee SC, Feretzaki M, Heitman J. Know your enemy: how to build and vanquish a global fungal scourge. Mycopathologia. 173: 295-301. PMID 21997858 DOI: 10.1007/S11046-011-9484-9  0.765
2011 Ni M, Feretzaki M, Sun S, Wang X, Heitman J. Sex in fungi. Annual Review of Genetics. 45: 405-30. PMID 21942368 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Genet-110410-132536  0.795
2011 Sun S, Heitman J. Is sex necessary? Bmc Biology. 9: 56. PMID 21880159 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-56  0.545
2011 Chowdhary A, Hiremath SS, Sun S, Kowshik T, Randhawa HS, Xu J. Genetic differentiation, recombination and clonal expansion in environmental populations of Cryptococcus gattii in India. Environmental Microbiology. 13: 1875-88. PMID 21631689 DOI: 10.1111/J.1462-2920.2011.02510.X  0.504
2011 Chowdhary A, Randhawa HS, Sundar G, Kathuria S, Prakash A, Khan Z, Sun S, Xu J. In vitro antifungal susceptibility profiles and genotypes of 308 clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii and Cryptococcus gattii serotype B from north-western India. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 60: 961-7. PMID 21393452 DOI: 10.1099/Jmm.0.029025-0  0.413
2010 Rodriguez-Carres M, Findley K, Sun S, Dietrich FS, Heitman J. Morphological and genomic characterization of Filobasidiella depauperata: a homothallic sibling species of the pathogenic cryptococcus species complex. Plos One. 5: e9620. PMID 20224779 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0009620  0.834
2010 Skosireva I, James TY, Sun S, Xu J. Mitochondrial inheritance in haploid x non-haploid crosses in Cryptococcus neoformans. Current Genetics. 56: 163-76. PMID 20127336 DOI: 10.1007/S00294-010-0289-Z  0.597
2009 Guo H, Sun S, Eardly B, Finan T, Xu J. Genome variation in the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. Genome / National Research Council Canada = GéNome / Conseil National De Recherches Canada. 52: 862-75. PMID 19935910 DOI: 10.1139/g09-060  0.515
2009 Sun S, Xu J. Chromosomal rearrangements between serotype A and D strains in Cryptococcus neoformans. Plos One. 4: e5524. PMID 19436753 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0005524  0.482
2008 Randhawa HS, Kowshik T, Chowdhary A, Preeti Sinha K, Khan ZU, Sun S, Xu J. The expanding host tree species spectrum of Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans and their isolations from surrounding soil in India. Medical Mycology. 46: 823-33. PMID 18608895 DOI: 10.1080/13693780802124026  0.472
2008 Hiremath SS, Chowdhary A, Kowshik T, Randhawa HS, Sun S, Xu J. Long-distance dispersal and recombination in environmental populations of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii from India. Microbiology (Reading, England). 154: 1513-24. PMID 18451060 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.2007/015594-0  0.501
2007 Sun S, Xu J. Genetic analyses of a hybrid cross between serotypes A and D strains of the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Genetics. 177: 1475-86. PMID 17947421 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.078923  0.476
2007 Wang H, Guo H, Sun S, Xu J. Abundant sequence variation around the mitochondrial origin of replication in the human opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida albicans from a tropical island in China. Fungal Genetics and Biology : Fg & B. 44: 991-1001. PMID 17493848 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fgb.2007.03.005  0.522
2007 Yan Z, Hull CM, Sun S, Heitman J, Xu J. The mating type-specific homeodomain genes SXI1 alpha and SXI2a coordinately control uniparental mitochondrial inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans. Current Genetics. 51: 187-95. PMID 17186242 DOI: 10.1007/S00294-006-0115-9  0.693
2007 Yan Z, Sun S, Shahid M, Xu J. Environment factors can influence mitochondrial inheritance in the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Fungal Genetics and Biology : Fg & B. 44: 315-22. PMID 17092744 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fgb.2006.10.002  0.448
2006 Sun S, Guo H, Xu J. Multiple gene genealogical analyses reveal both common and distinct population genetic patterns among replicons in the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. Microbiology (Reading, England). 152: 3245-59. PMID 17074896 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.29170-0  0.519
2005 Guo H, Sun S, Finan TM, Xu J. Novel DNA sequences from natural strains of the nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 7130-8. PMID 16269751 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.11.7130-7138.2005  0.481
2004 Yan Z, Hull CM, Heitman J, Sun S, Xu J. SXI1alpha controls uniparental mitochondrial inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans. Current Biology : Cb. 14: R743-4. PMID 15380081 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2004.09.008  0.726
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