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Taosheng Huang

Associate Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology
School of Biological Sciences

Associate Professor, Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, New York, 1991, Biomedical Science


M.D., Fujian Medical College, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, 1983, Pediatrics

Phone: (949) 824-9346
Fax: (949) 824-9776
Email: huangts@uci.edu

University of California
314 Sprague Hall
Mail Code: 3950
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Molecular basis of genetic diseases in humans
   
URL www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/pediatrics/drhuang/
   
Academic
Distinctions
1989 American Society of Virology Travel Fellowship
1990 Third Place, SCBA Poster Competition
1996 Resident Research Award, Georgetown University Hospital
1996 National Health Institute Fellowship Training Grant
1999-2004 Clinical Associate Physician Award
   
Research
Abstract
The primary interests of Huang Lab are in the molecular basis of genetic diseases in humans. Currently, the Lab is focusing on Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS, Heart-Hand syndrome), an autosomal dominant condition with congenital cardiac defects and forelimb anomalies. This condition is caused by mutation of TBX5. We are employing clinical and basic research approaches to understand the intracellular pathway of TBX5, molecular basis of phenotypic variations and its gene regulation
   
Publications Mike Zaragoza, Guifeng Sun, Christopher Price, JG Seidman, Christine E Seidman Taosheng Huang: Mutation Analysis of TBX5 in Families with Holt-Oram Syndrome: Novel Mutations, Polymorphism and the Absence of TBX5 Mutations in preparation
   
  Weiwei Fan, Xu Huang, Chira Chen, Joe Gray and Taosheng Huang: TBX3 and TBX3+2a are Functionally Distinctive in Inhibition of Senescence and are Overexpressed in a Subset of Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Submitted
   
  Mike Zaragoza, Lisa E. Lewis, Guifeng Sun, Eric Wang, Ling Li, Ilham Said-Salman, Laura Feucht, Taosheng Huang: Identification of the TBX5 Transactivating Domain And the Nuclear Localization Signal, Gene, in press
   
  Guifeng Sun Lisa E Lewis, Xu Huang, Quang Nguyen, Christopher Price, Taosheng Huang: Tbx5, A Gene Mutated In Holt-Oram Syndrome, Is Regulated through a GC-Box and TBEs, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, in press 2003
   
  Drapkin RI, Genest DR, Holmes LB, Huang T, Vargas SO. Unilateral transverse arm defect with subterminal digital nubbins. Pediatrics Developmental Pathology 6(4): 348-354, 2003.
   
  Helen M. Lyon, Lewis B Holmes and Taosheng Huang Multiple congenital anomalies associated with in utero exposure phynotoin support hypoxic ischemic mechanisms Birth Defect Research (Part A) 67:993-996, 2003
   
  Taosheng Huang, James E Lock, Audrey C Marshall, Craig Basson, J.G. Seidman, Christine E. Seidman. Causes of Clinical Diversity in TBX5 Mutations Cold Spring Harbor Quantitative Biology Symposium, LXVII 115-120, 2003
   
  Taosheng Huang & Mark Korson, Celeste Krauss, Lewis B. Holmes: A New Genetic Syndrome: Four Cases with Encephalocele, triphalangeal thumb, American Journal of Medical Genetics 111:178-181, 2002 (Collected by London Dysmorphology Database)
   
  Taosheng Huang, Angela E. Lin, Gerry Cox, Wendy L. Golden, Mitsuhiro Kamisago, Gerald L. Feldman, Stefan Vermeulen, Moog Ute, Connie Schrander-Stumpel: Variable Cardiac Phenotypes in Chromosome 4q- Syndrome with dHAND Deletion, Genetics in Medicine, 4(6) 464-467, 2002
   
  Taosheng Huang, Wenxue Yang, Alexandre Pereira, Vivian E Shih. Cloning and characterization of a putative human 2-hydroxylacid dehydrogenase, Biophysica Biochemica Research Communication, 268:298-301. 2000
   
  Craig T Basson, Taosheng Huang, Robert Lin, David R Bachinsky, Stanislawa Weremowicz, Alicia Vaglio, Rina Bruzzone, Roberto Quadrelli, Margherita Lerone, Giovanni Romeo, Margherita Silengo, Cynthia C Morton, Christoph W Muller, JG Seidman, Christine E Seidman, Different TBX5 interactions in heart and limb defined by Holt-Oram syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences of the USA, 96:2919-2924, 1999
   
  Taosheng Huang, Ellen Elias, John B Mulliken, Daniel J Kirse and Lewis B Holmes. A new syndrome: cardiac defects, Laryngeal anomalies, preaxial polydactyly, and colonic aganglionosis in sibs. Genetics in Medicine, 1(3):104-108, 1999 (Collected by Possum Database and OMIN)
   
  Huang T, Pavloic J, Staeheli P, and Krystal M. Overexpression of the influenza polymerase protein can titrate out inhibition by the murine Mx1 protein. Journal of Virology 66:4154-4160. 1992
   
  Park KH, Huang T, Correia FF, and Krystal M. Rescue of a foreign gene by Sendai virus. Proceeding of the National Academy Sciences of USA 88:5537-5541. 1991
   
  Huang T, and Hsu MT. Inhibition of DNA replication of adenovirus type 5 and Simian virus 40 by tunicamycin. Virology 182:889-893. 1991
   
  Huang T, Palese P, and Krystal M. Determination of influenza virus proteins required for genome replication. Journal of Virology 64:5669-5673. 1990
   
  Chu Y, Huang T, and Hsu MT. P1 nuclease defines a subpopulation of active SV40 chromatin-- a new nuclease hypersensitivity assay. Nucleic Acid Research 18:3705-3711. 1989
   
  Huang T, and Dong, Y. Assay of the protein turnover rate for skeletal muscle. Biochem Biophys Acta 11:43-48. 1987
   
  Huang T, and Dong, Y. Changes in protein and nucleic acid metabolism in the liver of the scalded rats. Acta Academia Medicine 10:41-45. 1987
   
  Huang T, and Dong Y. Changes in protein metabolism in the soleus muscle of the scalded rats and therapeutic effect of leucine and insulin (II). Journal of PLA Medical Colleges 4:1-9. 1987
   
  Huang T, and Dong Y. Changes in protein metabolism in the soleus muscle of the scalded rats and therapeutic effect of leucine and insulin (II). Journal of PLA Medical Colleges 4:1-9. 1987
   
Grants University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Molecular studies of TBX3 in Human Breast cancer
   
Clinical Associate Physician Award Title: The Molecular Basis of Phenotypic Variability in Holt-Oram Syndrome The major goals of this project are to isolate and characterize the promoter of TBX5, genotype-phenotype correlation and to provide insight into the understanding of the structure-function relationship of TBX5.
   
College of Medicine, UCI research award Howard Hughes Medical Research Program
   
2003-2004 Faculty Desktop Computing Initiative Allocation College of Medicine, UCI
   
Professional
Societies
Fellow, American College of Medical Genetics, 2003-
Western Society for Pediatric Research 2001-
American Society of Human Genetics
American Association for Advancement of Science
American Academy of Pediatrics
Medical Director & Board Director
American Chinese Medical Association (ACMA) 1998-2001
Vice President of ACMA, New England Area, 1998-2000
   
Other Experience Attending Physician and Assistant in Medicine
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 1999—2001

Instructor in Genetics
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 1999—2001

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