Ph.D., State University of New York, Health Science
Center at Syracuse,
Microbiology and Immunology, 1994
M.D., Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University, Medical School, China, 1982
专利权:Innovations
1. Zhang H and Pomerantz RJ: A method for increasing transduction
efficiency of recombinant retroviral vectors. US patent No: 5,763,242.
2. Zhang H, Pomerantz RJ, and Yang, B: Multimerization of HIV-1 Vif
protein as a potential anti-HIV-1 therapeutic target. US patent No:
6,653,443. International patent, pending
3. Zhang H: Method to search peptide inhibitors to block the entrance
of any plant, animal, or human viruses. US patent pending.
主要著作:Publications (in English only)
1. Zhang H, Zhang Y, Spicer TP, Abbott LZ, Abbott M, Poiesz BJ. Reverse
transcription takes place within extracellular HIV-1 virions: potential
biological significance. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 1993.
9:1287-1296
2. Zhang H, Zhang Y, Spicer T, Henrard D, Poiesz BJ. Nascent human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcription occurs within an
enveloped particle. Journal of Virology. 1995. 69: 3675-3682
3. Zhang H, Bagasra O, Niikura M, Poiesz BJ, Pomerantz RJ. Intravirion
reverse transcripts in the peripheral blood plasma on human
immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals. Journal of Virology
1994. 68: 7591-7597
4. Duan L, Zhang H, Oakes JW, Bagasra O, Pomerantz RJ. Molecular and
virological effects of intracellular anti-Rev single-chain variable
fragments on the expression of various human immunodeficiency virus-1
strains. Human Gene Therapy. 1994.
5: 1315-1324
5. Bagasra O, Seshama T, Zhang H, Bobroski L, Dornadula G, Saikumari P,
Pomerantz RJ. One-step amplification of HIV-1 mRNA and at a single-cell
level by in situ PCR. Cell Vision. 1995. 2: 425-429.
6. Zhang H, Duan LX, Dornadula G, Pomerantz RJ. Increasing transduction
efficiency of recombinant murine retrovirus vectors by initiation of
endogenous reverse transcription: potential utility for genetic
therapies. Journal of Virology. 1995. 69: 3929-3932
7. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Wu Y, Havlir D, Richman DD, Pomerantz RJ.
Kinetic analysis of intravirion reverse transcription in the blood
plasma of human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals:
direct assessment of resistance to reverse transcriptase inhibitors in
vivo. Journal of Virology. 1996. 70: 628-634
8. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Pomerantz RJ. Endogenous reverse transcription
of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in physiological
microenviroments: an important stage for viral infection of nondividing
cells. Journal of Virology. 1996. 70: 2809-2824
9. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Alur P, Laughlin MA, Pomerantz RJ. Amphipathic
domains in the C terminus of the transmembrane protein (gp41)
permeabilize HIV-1 virions: a molecular mechanism underlying natural
endogenous reverse transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences (USA). 1996. 93: 12519-1252
10. Niikura M, Dornadula G, Zhang H, Mukhtar M, Lingxun D, Khalili K,
Bagasra O, Pomerantz RJ. Mechanisms of transcriptional transactivation
and restriction of human immunodeficiency virus type I replication in
an astrocytic glial cell. Oncogene. 1996. 13: 313-322
11. Dornadula G, Zhang H, Bagasra O, Pomerantz RJ. Natural endogenous
reverse transcription of simian immunodeficiency virus. Virology. 1997.
227: 260-267
12. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Pomerantz RJ. Natural endogenous reverse
transcription of HIV type 1 (Review). AIDS Research and Human
Retroviruses. 1998. 14: S93-95
13. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Beumont M, Livornese L Jr, Van Uitert B,
Henning K, Pomerantz RJ. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in the
semen of men receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. New
England Journal of Medicine. 1998. 339: 1803-1809
14. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Pomerantz RJ. Natural endogenous reverse
transcription of HIV-1 (Review). Journal of Reproductive Immunology.
1998. 41: 255-260.
15. Dornadula G, Zhang H, Shetty S, Pomerantz RJ. HIV-1 virions
produced from replicating peripheral blood lymphocytes are more
infectious than those from nonproliferating macrophages due to higher
levels of intravirion reverse transcripts: implications for
pathogenesis and transmission. Virology. 1999. 253: 10-16
16. Kubota S, Zhang H, Kitahara S, Pomerantz RJ. Role of lentiviral
lytic polypeptide I (LLP-1) in the selective cytotoxicity of
g-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester against human immunodeficiency virus
type 1-producing cells. Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy. 1999. 10:
121-127.
17. Dornadula G, Zhang H, Van Uitert B, Stern J, Livornese L Jr,
Ingerman MJ, Witek J, Kedanis RJ, Natkin J, DeSimone J, Pomerantz RJ.
Residual HIV-1 RNA in the blood plasma of patients on suppressive
highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). JAMA. 1999. 282:
1627-1632.
18. Zhang H, Dornadula G, Orenstein J, Pomerantz RJ. Morphologic
changes in HIV-1 virions secondary to intra-virion reverse
transcription: evidence indicating that reverse transcription may not
take place within the intact viral core. Journal of Human Virology.
2000. 3: 165-72
19. Dornadula G, Yang SC, Pomerantz RJ, Zhang H*. Partial rescue of the
Vif-negative phenotype of mutant HIV-1 viruses from non-permissive
cells by intravirion reverse transcription. Journal of Virology. 2000.
74: 2594-2602.
20. Zhang H*, Pomerantz RJ, Dornadula G, Sun Y. HIV-1 Vif protein is an
integral component of an mRNP complex of viral RNA and could be
involved in the viral RNA folding and packaging process. Journal of
Virology. 2000. 74: 8252-8261.
21. Dornadula G, Nunnari G, Vanella M, Roman JR, Babinchak T, DeSimone
J, Stern J, Braffman M, Zhang H, and Pomerantz RJ. Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected Persons with Residual Disease
and Virus Reservoirs on Suppressive Highly Active Antiretroviral
Therapy Can Be Stratified into Relevant Virologic and Immunologic
Subgroups. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2001. 183: 1682-1687.
22. Pomerantz RJ and Zhang H: Residual HIV-1 Persistence during
suppressive HAART (Review). Current Clinical Topics in Infectious
Diseases. 2001. 21: 1-30.
23. Yang SC, Sun Y, Zhang H*. The multimerization of human
immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) Vif proteins: A requirement for
Vif function in the viral life cycle. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
2001. 276: 4889-4893.
24. Nunnari G, Otero M, Dornadula G, Vanella M, Zhang H, Frank I, and
Pomerantz RJ. Residual HIV-1 disease in seminal cells of HIV-infected
men on suppressive HAART: latency without on-going cellular infections.
AIDS. 2001. 15: 1-7
25. Kulkosky J, Nunnari G, Otero M, Calarota S, Dornadula G, Zhang H,
Malin A, Sullivan J, Xu Y, DeSimone J, Babinchak T, Stern J, Cavert W,
Haase A, Pomerantz RJ. Intensification and stimulation therapy for
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reservoirs in infected persons
receiving virally suppressive highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2002. 186: 1403-1411
26. Mascio MD, Dornadula G, Zhang H, Sullivan J, Xu Y, Kulkosky J,
Pomerantz RJ, Perelson AS. In a subset of subjects on highly active
antiretroviral therapy, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in
plasma decays from 50 to <5 Copies per milliliter, with a half-life
of 6 months. Journal of Virology. 2003. 77: 2271-2275.
27. Yang B, Gao L, Li L, Lu Z, Fan X, Patel CA, Pomerantz RJ, DuBois
GC, Zhang H*. Potent suppression of viral infectivity by peptides that
inhibit multimerization of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1)
Vif proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003. 278: 6596 - 6602
28. Zhang H*, Yang B, Pomerantz RJ, Zhang C, Arunachalam SC, Gao L. The
cytidine deaminase CEM15 induces hypermutation in newly-synthesized
HIV-1 DNA. Nature. 2003. 424: 94-98.
29. Gallego J, Greatorex J, Zhang H, Yang B, Arunachalam S, Fang J,
Seamons J, Lea S, Pomerantz R, Lever AM. Rev binds specifically to a
purine loop in the SL1 region of the HIV-1 leader RNA. Journal of
Biological Chemistry. In press. 2003 Jul 8 [Epub ahead of print].
30. Zhang H*. CEM15 (APOBEC3G) versus HIV-1 Vif: a story of defense and
anti-defense: (Invited review). Journal of Molecular Medicine.
Submitted.