Chou-Long Huang, MD, PhD

Professor
Endowed Title: Jacob Lemann, M.D., Professorship in Calcium Transport
Internal Medicine
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering
Integrative Biology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

chou-long.huang@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Education

FellowshipThe Unviersity of California of San Francisco, Nephrology (1993)
ResidencyThe University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Internal Medicine (1992)
Medical SchoolTaipei Medical College (1981)
InternshipTaipei Medical College, Rotating (1981)

Research Interests

Biology of the WNK kinase cascade and the anti-aging protein Klotho
Human (genetic) diseases caused by ion channel disorders
Ion channel physiology, biophysics, and signaling mechanisms of ion channel regulation

Publications

Featured
Downregulation of NCC and NKCC2 cotransporters by kidney-specific WNK1 revealed by gene disruption and transgenic mouse models

Liu, Z., Xie, J., Wu, T., Thao, T., Auchus, R. J., and Huang, C.-L. , Hum. Mol. Genet. , 2011; (20):855-866

Featured
Identification and functional characterization of Kir2.6 mutations associated with non-familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis

Cheng CJ, Lin SH, Lo YF, Yang SS, Hsu YJ, Cannon SC, Huang CL, , 2011; 286 (31):27425-27435

Featured
Regulation of ROMK channel and K+ homeostasis by kidney-specific WNK1 kinase

Liu, Z., Wang, H-R., and Huang, C.-L. , J. Biol. Chem. , 2009; (284):12198-12206

Featured
Endothelial expression of WNK1 is essential for angiogenesis and cardiovascular development in mice.

Xie, J., Wu, T., Xu, K., Huang, I. K., Cleaver, D., and Huang, C.-L. , Am. J. Pathology , 2009; (175):1315-1327

Featured
Removal of sialic acid involving Klotho causes cell-surface retention of TRPV5 channel via binding to galectin-1

Cha, S.-K., Ortega, B., Kurosu, H., Rosenblatt K. P., Kuro-o, M, and Huang, C.-L. , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA , 2008; (105):9805-9810

Featured
Intersectin links WNK kinases to endocytosis of ROMK

He, G., Wang, H.-R., Huang, S.-K., and Huang, C.-L. , J. Clin. Invest. , 2007; (117):1078-1087

Featured
Antagonistic regulation of ROMK by long and kidney-specific WNK1 isoforms

Lazrak, A., Liu, Z., and Huang, C.-L. , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 2006; (103):1615-1620

Featured
Conformational changes of pore helix coupled to gating of TRPV5 by protons

Yeh, B.-I., Kim, Y. K., Jabbar, W., and Huang, C.-L. , EMBO J. , 2005; (24):3224-3234

Featured
Regulation of ROMK1 channel by protein kinase A via a phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate-dependent mechanism

Liou, H.-H., Zhou, S.S., and Huang C.-L. , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 1999; (96):5820-5825

Featured
Direct activation of inward rectifier potassium channels by PIP2 and its stabilization by GΒγ.

Huang, C.-L., Feng, S. and Hilgemann, D.W. , Nature , 1998; (391):803-806

Honors/Awards

Best Intern Award/National Taiwan University Hospital, 1981

Elected to membership, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2001

Elected to membership, Association of American Physicians, 2009

Established Investigator Award, American Heart Association, 2003

Lyndon B. Johnson Award, American Heart Association, 1997