Yi-Ping Li

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The Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Medicine
Medicine
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 1997

Mailing Address

One Baylor Plaza
Baylor College of Medicine
Room 520B
Houston, Texas 77030
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (713) 798-3126
yiping@bcm.tmc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Pharmacology, 1990.
M.S., Shanghai College of Chinese Medicine, Pharmacology, 1985.
B.S., Shanghai College of Chinese Medicine, Pharmacy, 1982.

Expertise and Research Interests

Dr. Li's research interests include TNF and signaling, skeletal muscle, gene regulation, and nucleolar protein in cancer.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

AIDS, Cancer Or Carcinogenesis, Gene Regulation, Genetics, Musculoskeletal System, Proteins and Macromolecules.

Additional Terms:

Gene Regulation, Nucleolar Protein in AIDS, Nucleolar Protein in Cancer, Signal Transduction in CNS.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Chinese, Mandarin: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Previous Positions

1996-1997, Instructor, The Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Molecular Physiology/Biophysics and Medicine
1994-1997, Instructor, The Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Medicine, Pharmacology
1990-1994, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Medical School - Departments and Divisions, Biochemistry

Funding Received

  • American Lung Association (ALA): Respiratory Muscle in Lung Disease, $25,000, Jul 1, 2000 to Jun 30, 2001.
  • Texas Affiliate: Effects of Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha on Skeletal Muscle, $43,000, Jul 1998 to Jun 2000.
  • Developmental Award from the Baylor Center for AIDS Research: Protein B23 and the nucleolar localization of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 protein Tat, $12,000, Jan 1996 to Dec 1996.
  • Co-PI: Physiology of Respiratory Muscle Cells, $179,143, Apr 1998 to Mar 2001.

Publications

  • Li Y.P., Atkins C.M., Sweatt J.D., and Reid M.B., Mitochondria mediate tumor necrosis factor-a/NF-kB signaling in skeletal muscle myotubes, Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 1, 97-104, 1999
  • Li Y P, Schwartz R J, Waddell I D, Holloway B R, Reid M B, Skeletal muscle myocytes undergo protein loss and reactive oxygen-mediated NF-kappaB activation in response to tumor necrosis factor alpha, Faseb Journal, 12(10), 871-80, 1998 Abstract
  • Li Y-P., Protein B23 is an important human factor for the nucleolar localization of the human immunodeficiency virus protein Tat, Journal of Virology, 71, 4098-4102, 1997
  • Baskin F, Li YP, Rosenberg RN, Hersh LB, Davis R, An AP-2 binding sequence within Exon-1 of human and porcine choline acetyltransferase genes enhances transcription in neural cells, Neuroscience, 76, 821-827, 1997
  • Ren Y, Busch R, Durban E, Taylor C, Gustafson W C, Valdez B, Li Y P, Smetana K, Busch H, Overexpression of human nucleolar proteins in insect cells: characterization of nucleolar protein p120, Protein Expression and Purification, 7(2), 212-9, March 1996 Abstract
  • Li Y-P, Busch RK, Valdez BC, and Busch H, C23 interacts with B23, a putative nucleolar-localization-signal-binding protein, European Journal of Biochemistry, 237, 153-158, 1996
  • Yi-Ping Li, Fred Baskin, Richard Davis, Donghai Wu, & Louis B. Hersh, A cell type-specific silencer in the human choline acetyltransferase gene requiring two distinct and interactive E boxes, Mol. Brain Res., 30, 106-114, 1995
  • Hiroyasu Inoue, Yi-Ping Li, John A. Wagner, & Louis B. Hersh, Expression of the choline Acetyltransferase gene depends on protein kinase, A. J. Neurochem, 64, 985-990, 1995
  • Li Y.P., Davis, R., Baskin F., and Hersh L.B., Cholinergic neuron-specific expression of the human choline acetyltransferase gene is controlled by silencer elements, Journal of Neurochemistry, 61, 748-751, 1993
  • Hersh L.B., Kong C.F., Sampson C. Mues G., Li Y.P., Fisher A., Hilt D., and Baetge E.E., Comparison of the human and porcine choline acetyltransferase genes: identification of an enhancer-like element, Journal of Neurochemistry, 61, 306-314, 1993
  • Li Y.P., Baetge E.E., and Hersh L.B., Cyclic AMP regulation of the human choline acetyltransferase gene, Neurochemical Research, 18, 271-275, 1993
  • Li Y, [Peri-operative care of pheochromocytoma surgery], Chung-hua Hu Li Tsa Chih Chinese Journal of Nursing, 27(8), 342-3, August 1992 Abstract
  • Li Y.P. and Lombardi J.B., Inhibition by taurine of the phosphorylation of specific synaptosomal proteins in the rat cortex: effects of taurine on the stimulation of calcium uptake in mitochondria and inhibition of phosphoinosi, Brain Research, 553, 89-96, 1991
  • Li Y.P. and Lombardi J.B., Taurine inhibits protein kinase C-catalyzed phosphorylation of specific proteins in a rat cortical P2 fraction, Journal of Neurochemistry, 56, 1747-1753, 1991
  • Li Y.P. and Lombardi J., Btaurine inhibits the phosphorylation of two endrogenous proteins (M, 140K and 20K) in subcellular preparations of rat cortex, Neurochemistry International, 17, 389-399, 1990
  • Li Y.P. and Lombardi J.B., Guanidineothanesulfonic acid inhibitor of GABA uptake in rat cortial synaptosomes, Brain Research, 510, 147-149, 1990
  • Li Y.P. and Wang Y.M., Evolution of tussilagone: a cardiovascular-respiratory stimulant isolated from Chinese herbal medicine, Gen. Pharmacol., 19, 261-263, 1988
  • Li Y.P. and Wang Y.M., The effect of tussilagone on the hemodynamics of concious dogs and dogs during hemorrhagic shock, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica., 22, 486-490, 1987
  • Li Y.P. and Wang Y.M., Pressor mechanism of tussilagone, Acta Pharmacol., 7, 333-336, 1986

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