Research Specialist (PI: Dr. Jie Chen)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Senior Research Specialist, Cell and Developmental Biology

Recent Publications

Barai, P., Abdullah, R., Bendre, S. V., Weisser, E., van der Donk, M. J., Wong, K. L., Reyes-Ordoñez, A., Nelson, E. R., & Chen, J. (2026). Threonyl-tRNA synthetase activates STAT3 by a nontranslational mechanism[Figure presented]. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 302(2), Article 111032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.111032

Moreno, J. F., You, J. S., Rodriguez, C. C., Pant, S., Reyes-Ordoñez, A., Abdullah, R., Singh, N., van der Donk, M. J., Tajkhorshid, E., & Chen, J. (2025). Regulation of Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 3 by phosphorylation in the PH domain. iScience, 28(6), Article 112753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112753

Reyes-Ordoñez, A., Shree, S., Singh, N., Sligar, S. G., & Chen, J. (2025). Nanodisc single-molecule pulldown to study lipid-protein interactions. Journal of Lipid Research, 66(7), Article 100846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2025.100846

Boss-Kennedy, A., Kim, D., Barai, P., Maldonado, C., Reyes-Ordoñez, A., & Chen, J. (2024). Muscle cell-derived Ccl8 is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle regeneration. FASEB Journal, 38(14), Article e23841. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202400184R

You, J. S., Karaman, K., Reyes-Ordoñez, A., Lee, S., Kim, Y., Bashir, R., & Chen, J. (2024). Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Contributes to Muscle Weakness through Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 Activation and Autophagy Suppression in a Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. American Journal of Pathology, 194(8), 1571-1580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2024.04.006

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