Dr Qian Guo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Journal Articles
Antón-Plágaro, Carlos, Chen, Kai-en, Guo, Qian, Liu, Meihan, Evans, Ashley J., Lewis, Philip A., Heesom, Kate J., Wilkinson, Kevin A., Collins, Brett M. and Cullen, Peter J. (2025). Mapping of endosomal proximity proteomes reveals Retromer as a hub for RAB GTPase regulation. Nature Communications, 16 (1) 6990, 1-23. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61802-1
Daly, James L., Chen, Kai-en, Butkovič, Rebeka, Guo, Qian, Healy, Michael D., Pennink, Eva, Gamble-Strutt, Georgia, Higham, Zara, Moody, Edmund R. R., Lewis, Philip A., Heesom, Kate J., Williams, Tom A., McMillan, Kirsty J., Collins, Brett M. and Cullen, Peter J. (2025). Identification of a VPS29 isoform with restricted association to Retriever and Retromer accessory proteins through autoinhibition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (27) e2501111122, e2501111122-27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2501111122
Gao, Ya, Tillu, Vikas A., Wu, Yeping, Rae, James, Hall, Thomas E., Chen, Kai-en, Weeratunga, Saroja, Guo, Qian, Livingstone, Emma, Tham, Wai-Hong, Parton, Robert G. and Collins, Brett M. (2025). Cavin1 binding nanobodies reveal structural flexibility and regulated interactions of the N-terminal coiled-coil domain. Journal of Cell Science, 138 (8) 263756. doi: 10.1242/jcs.263756
Chen, Kai-En, Tillu, Vikas A., Gopaldass, Navin, Chowdhury, Sudeshna Roy, Leneva, Natalya, Kovtun, Oleksiy, Ruan, Juanfang, Guo, Qian, Ariotti, Nicholas, Mayer, Andreas and Collins, Brett M. (2025). Molecular basis for the assembly of the Vps5-Vps17 SNX-BAR proteins with Retromer. Nature Communications, 16 (1) 3568, 3568. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58846-8
Guo, Qian, Chen, Kai-en, Gimenez-Andres, Manuel, Jellett, Adam P., Gao, Ya, Simonetti, Boris, Liu, Meihan, Danson, Chris M., Heesom, Kate J., Cullen, Peter J. and Collins, Brett M. (2024). Structural basis for coupling of the WASH subunit FAM21 with the endosomal SNX27–Retromer complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (33) e2405041121, 1-12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2405041121
Simonetti, Boris, Guo, Qian, Giménez-Andrés, Manuel, Chen, Kai-En, Moody, Edmund R. R., Evans, Ashley J., Chandra, Mintu, Danson, Chris M., Williams, Tom A., Collins, Brett M. and Cullen, Peter J. (2022). SNX27–Retromer directly binds ESCPE-1 to transfer cargo proteins during endosomal recycling. PLoS Biology, 20 (4) e3001601, e3001601. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001601
Chen, Kai-En, Guo, Qian, Hill, Timothy A., Cui, Yi, Kendall, Amy K., Yang, Zhe, Hall, Ryan J., Healy, Michael D., Sacharz, Joanna, Norwood, Suzanne J., Fonseka, Sachini, Xie, Boyang, Reid, Robert C., Leneva, Natalya, Parton, Robert G., Ghai, Rajesh, Stroud, David A., Fairlie, David P, Suga, Hiroaki, Jackson, Lauren P., Teasdale, Rohan D., Passioura, Toby and Collins, Brett M. (2021). De novo macrocyclic peptides for inhibiting, stabilizing, and probing the function of the retromer endosomal trafficking complex. Science Advances, 7 (49) eabg4007, eabg4007. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg4007
Peleg, Yoav, Vincentelli, Renaud, Collins, Brett M., Chen, Kai-En, Livingstone, Emma K., Weeratunga, Saroja, Leneva, Natalya, Guo, Qian, Remans, Kim, Perez, Kathryn, Bjerga, Gro E K, Larsen, Øivind, Vaněk, Ondřej, Skořepa, Ondřej, Jacquemin, Sophie, Poterszman, Arnaud, Kjær, Svend, Christodoulou, Evangelos, Albeck, Shira, Dym, Orly, Ainbinder, Elena, Unger, Tamar, Schuetz, Anja, Matthes, Susann, Bader, Michael, de Marco, Ario, Storici, Paola, Semrau, Marta S., Stolt-Bergner, Peggy ... Fleishman, Sarel J. (2021). Community-wide experimental evaluation of the PROSS stability-design method. Journal of Molecular Biology, 433 (13) 166964, 166964. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166964
Conference Papers
Guo, Qian, Chen, Kai-En, Simonetti, Boris, Gimenez-Andres, Manuel, Cullen, Peter J. and Collins, Brett M. (2023). Structural basis for coupling of the WASH subunit Fam21 with the SNX27–retromer endosomal trafficking complex. XXVI IUCr Congress, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-29 August 2023. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1107/s2053273323086837
Gao, Ya, Tillu, Vikas A., Wu, Yeping, Rae, James, Hall, Thomas E., Chen, Kai-En, Weeratunga, Saroja, Guo, Qian, Parton, Robert G. and Collins, Brett M. (2023). Discovery and structural characterization of novel nanobodies targeting the Cavin1 complex essential for forming caveola membrane vesicles. XXVI IUCr Congress, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 22-29 August 2023. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1107/s2053273323086825
Gao, Ya, Tillu, Vikas A., Wu, Yeping, Rae, James, Hall, Thomas E., Chen, Kai-en, Weeratunga, Saroja, Guo, Qian, Parton, Robert G. and Collins, Brett M. (2023). Discovery and structural characterization of novel nanobodies targeting the Cavin1 complex essential for forming caveola membrane vesicles. XXVI IUCr Congress, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-29 August 2023. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1107/S2053273323086825
Thesis
Guo, Qian (2023). Structural characterisation of endosomal trafficking protein sorting nexin 27. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/f0f0d72