Publications

  1. Dong W.*, Wang, F.*, Saladin, B. A., Leskaj, S., Neupane, R., Carruthers, V. B., Brito Querido, J. (2026) Structural basis for emetine inhibition of ribosome translocation in Toxoplasma gondii. bioRxiv 2026.07.23.740346 (*co-first author)
  2. Wang, F. (2026). Translational control of Toxoplasma gondii differentiation. Biosci Rep (PMID: 41925158)
  3. Rimple, P., Olafsson, E., Markus, B., Wang, F., Augusto, L., Lourido, A., and Carruthers, V.B. (2025). Metabolic Adaptability and Nutrient Scavenging in Toxoplasma gondii: Insights from Ingestion Pathway-Deficient Mutants. mSphere (PMC11623567) 
  4. Thaprawat, P, Wang F., Chalasani, S, Schultz, T. L., Di Cristina, M., Carruthers V. B. (2025). Toxoplasma gondii PROP1 is critical for autophagy and parasite viability during chronic infection. mSphere (PMID: 39982060)
  5. Thaprawat, P., Zhang, Z., Rentchler, E., Wang, F., Chalasani, S., Lourido, S., Cristina, M. D., Klionsky, D. J., and Carruthers, V. B. (2024). TgATG9 is required for autophagosome biogenesis and maintenance of chronic infection in Toxoplasma gondii. Autophagy Reports, 3(1). (PMC11588310)
  6. Wang, F., Holmes, M. J., Hong, H. J., Thaprawat, P., Kannan, G., Huynh, M. H., Schultz, T. L., Licon, M. H., Lourido, S., Dong, W., Querido, J.B., Sullivan, W. J. Jr., O’Leary, S. E., and Carruthers, V. B. (2024). Translation initiation factor eIF1.2 orchestrates Toxoplasma differentiation by regulating stage-specific gene expression. Nature Communications, 15:4385. (PMC11116398)
  7. Smith, D., Kannan, G., Coppens, I., Wang, F., Nugyen, H. M., Cerutti, A., Olafsson E.B., Rimple, P., Schultz, T. L., Mercado Soto, N. M., Di Cristina, M., Besteiro, S., and Carruthers, V. B. (2021). Toxoplasma TgATG9 is critical for autophagy and long-term persistence in tissue cysts. Elife, 10, e59384. (PMC8128441)
  8. Steen, K., Chen, D., Wang, F., Majumdar, R., Chen, S., Kumar, S., Lombard, D. B., Weigert, R., Parent, C. A., and Coulombe, P. A. (2020). A role for keratins in supporting mitochondrial organization and function in skin keratinocytes. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31, 1103-1111. (PMC7353162)
  9. Kannan, G., Di Cristina, M., Schultz, A. J., Huynh, M. H., Wang, F., Schultz, T. L., Lunghi, M., Coppens, I., and Carruthers, V. B. (2019). A role for Toxoplasma gondii chloroquine resistance transporter in bradyzoite viability and digestive vacuole maintenance. mBio, 01324-19. (PMC6686041)
  10. Wang, F., Chen, S., Liu, H. B., Parent, C. A., and Coulombe, P. A. (2018). Keratin 6 regulates collective keratinocyte migration by altering cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion. Journal of Cell Biology, 217, 4314-4330. (PMC6279382)
  11. Wang, F., Zieman, A., and Coulombe, P. A. (2016). Chapter Twelve-Skin Keratins. Methods in enzymology, 568, 303-350. (PMC4902878)
  12. Wang, F., Chmil, C., Pierce, F., Ganapathy, K., Gump, B., MacKenzie, J., Mechref, Y., and Bendinskas, K. (2013). Immobilized metal affinity chromatography and human serum proteins. Journal of Chromatography B, 934, 26-33. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2013.06.032)