Robert Chiu, Ph.D.

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Work Titles
UCLA Professor, Surgery Member, Surgical Oncology Member, JCCC Signal Transduction and Therapeutics Program Area
Education:
Degrees:
Ph.D.

Contact Information:

Email Address:

rchiu@dent.ucla.edu

Work Email Address:

rchiu@dent.ucla.edu


Work Phone Number:

310-825-0535

Work Address:

Office
CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Detailed Biography:

Dr. robert Chiu is a molecular biologist has served on the UCLA School of Dentistry and School of Medicine (surgical Oncology) since he joined the UCLA in 1989. He became full professor in 2000. Dr. Chiu earned Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSD, Department of Pharmacology, where he worked on proto-oncogenes c-Jun and Jun B as transcriptional regulators.

Publications:

A selected list of publications:

Ying-Chun Lu, Jun Song, Hee-Yeon Cho, Guoping Fan, Kazunari K. Yokoyama, and Robert Chiu   Cyclophilin A protects Peg3 from hypermethylation and inactive histone modification, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006; 281: 39081-39087.
Chunyuan Jin, Kohsuke Kato, Takahiko Chimura, Takahito Yamasaki, Koji Nakade, Takehide Murata, Hongjie Li, Jianzhi Pan, Mujun Zhao, Kailai Sun, Robert Chiu, Takashi Ito, Kyosuke Nagata, Masami Horikoshi & Kazunari K Yokoyama   Regulation of histone acetylation and nucleosome assembly by transcription factor JDP2, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2006; 13: 331-338.
Junying Zheng, Yiming Xie, Richard Campbell, Jun Song,Samira Massachi, Miriam Razi, Robert Chiu, James Berenson, Otto O Yang, Irvin SY Chen and Shen Pang   Involvement of claudin-7 in HIV infection of CD4(-) cells, Retrovirology, 2005; 2: 79-91.
Song, J., Pang, S., Lu, Y., Yokoyama, K. K., Zheng, J.-Y., and Chiu, R.   Gene silencing in androgen responsive prostate cancer cells from the tissue-specific PSA promoter, Cancer Research, 2004; 64(21): 7661-7663.
Song Jun, Pang Shen, Lu Yingchun, Yokoyama Kazunari K, Zheng Jun-Ying, Chiu Robert   Gene silencing in androgen-responsive prostate cancer cells from the tissue-specific prostate-specific antigen promoter Cancer research, 2004; 64(21): 7661-3.
Song, J. Pang, S., Lu, Y., and Chiu, R.   Poly (U) and polyadenylation signals are interchangeable for terminating the expression of shRNA from a pol II promoter, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun, 2004; 323: 573-578.
Song Jun, Lu Yingchun, Pang Shen, Chiu Robert   An internal control for immunoblot analysis using the blotted membrane Analytical biochemistry, 2004; 331(1): 201-3.
Song, J Lu, YC Yokoyama, K Rossi, J Chiu, R   Cyclophilin A is required for retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation in p19 cells The Journal of biological chemistry. , 2004; 279(23): 24414-9.
Song Jun, Lu Ying-Chun, Yokoyama Kazunari, Rossi John, Chiu Robert   Cyclophilin A is required for retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation in p19 cells The Journal of biological chemistry, 2004; 279(23): 24414-9.
Chiu Robert, Rey Osvaldo, Zheng Jun-Qi, Twiss Jeffery L, Song Jun, Pang Shen, Yokoyama Kazunari K   Effects of altered expression and localization of cyclophilin A on differentiation of p19 embryonic carcinoma cells Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2003; 23(6): 929-43.

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