Education

1994-1998, B.S., Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University

1998-2000, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University

2000-2006, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa

Professional Experience

2006-2012, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

2012-2019, Principle Investigator, Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences

2019- present, Professor, Xiamen University School of Life Sciences

Research Area

Mitochondrial RNA import, metabolism, functions, and the regulation network between them and other important cellular processes; Therapeutic research on mitochondrial diseases; Mechanistic study of normal ageing in mammals.

Selected Publications

1.Wang P, Zhang L, Chen S, Li R, Liu P, Li X, Luo H, Huo Y, Zhang Z, Cai Y, Liu X, Huang J, Zhou G, Sun Z, Ding S, Shi J, Zhou Z, Yuan R, Liu L, Wu S^*, Wang G^*. (2024) ANT2 functions as a translocon for mitochondrial cross-membrane translocation of RNAs. Cell Research, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-00978-5
2.Wu S, Cai Y, Zhang L, Li X, Liu X, Zhou G, Luo H, Li R, Huo Y, Zhang Z, Chen S, Huang J, Shi J, Ding S, Sun Z, Zhou Z, Wang P*, Wang G*. (2024) Noncoding RNA Terc-53 and hyaluronan receptor Hmmr regulate ageing in mice. Protein & Cell, https://doi.org/10.1093/procel/pwae023
3.Zheng Q, Liu P, Gao G, Yuan J, Wang P, Huang J, Xie L, Lu X, Di F, Tong T, Chen J, Lu Z, Guan J,Wang G^*. (2019) Mitochondrion-processed TERC regulates senescence without affecting telomerase activities. Protein Cell, doi: 10.1007/s13238-019-0612-5. [Epub ahead of print].
4.Huang J, Liu P,Wang G^*. (2018) Regulation of mitochondrion-associated cytosolic ribosomes by mammalian mitochondrial ribonuclease T2 (RNASET2). J biol chem, 293, 19633-19644.
5.Cheng Y, Liu P, Zheng Q, Gao G, Yuan J, Wang P, Huang J, Xie L, Lu X, Tong T, Chen J, Lu Z, Guan J,Wang G^*. (2018) Mitochondrial Trafficking and Processing of Telomerase RNA TERC. Cell Reports, 24(10):2589-2595.
6.Liu P, Huang J, Zheng Q, Xie L, Lu X, Jin J,Wang G^* (2017) Mammalian mitochondrial RNAs are degraded in the mitochondrial intermembrane space by RNASET2. Protein & Cell 8(1): 735-749.
7.Wang G, Shimada E, Nili M, Koehler CM, Teitell MA (2015) Mitochondria-targeted RNA import. Methods Mol Biol. 1264:107-116.
8.Wang G, Shimada E, Koehler CM, Teitell MA (2012) PNPASE and RNA trafficking into mitochondria. Biochimi Biophys Acta. 1819(9-10):998-1007.
9.Wang G, Shimada E, Zhang J, Hong JS, Smith GM, Teitell MA, Koehler CM (2012) Correcting human mitochondrial mutations with targeted RNA import. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109(13):4840-4845.
10.von Ameln S,Wang G, Boulouiz R, Rutherford MA, Smith GM, Li Y, Pogoda HM, Nürnberg G, Stiller B, Volk AE, Borck G, Hong JS, Goodyear RJ, Abidi O, Nürnberg P, Hofmann K, Richardson GP, Hammerschmidt M, Moser T, Wollnik B, Koehler CM, Teitell MA, Barakat A, Kubisch C (2012) A mutation in PNPT1, encoding mitochondrial-RNA-import protein PNPase, causes hereditary hearing loss. Am J Hum Genet. 91(5):919-927.
11.Wang G, Chen HW, Oktay Y, Zhang J, Allen EL, Smith GM, Fan KC, Hong JS, French SW, McCaffery JM, Lightowlers RN, Morse HC 3rd, Koehler CM, Teitell MA (2010) PNPASE regulates RNA import into mitochondria. Cell. 142(3):456-467.
12.Wang G, Deschenes RJ (2006) Plasma membrane localization of Ras requires class C Vps proteins and functional mitochondria in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol, 26:3243-3255.