1987年畢業於中國科學院上海細胞生物學研究所,獲細胞生物學碩士學位。1987年進入中國醫學科學院北京腫瘤研究所攻讀博士學位,1990年獲醫學博士學位。自1994年以來,先後在Rockefeller University, Columbia University, University of Illinois at Chicago做博士後以及在Baylor Medical College 和 Harvard Medical School任講師。在Science,Neuron,PNAS, MCB, JBC等國際一流雜誌上發表論文十餘篇,並被廣泛引用。2005年9月回國,任中國科學院微生物研究所研究員。
1. Deng M, Li F, Ballif BA, Li S, Chen X, Guo L, and Ye X (2009)Identification and functional analysis of a novel cyclin E/CDK2 substrate Ankrd17 J. Biol. Chem. 284:7875-7888.
2. Chen Y, Guo H, Du Z,Liu X-Z, Che Y and Ye X (2009) Ecology-based Screen Identifies New Metabolites from a Cordyceps-Colonizng Fungus as Cancer CellProliferation Inhibitors and Apoptosis Inducers. Cell Prolif. (Accepted).
3. Ye X, Nalepa G, Welcker M, Kessler B, Spooner E, Qin, J, Elledge S, Clurman B, and Harper JW (2004) Recognition of phosphodegron motifs in human cyclin E by the SCFFbw7 ubiquitin ligase. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 50110-50119.
4. Ye X, Wei Y, Nalepa G, and Harper JW (2003) The cyclin E/Cdk2 substrate p220NPAT is required for S-phase entry, histone gene expression, and Cajal body maintenance in human somatic cells. Mol. Cell. Biol. 23: 8586-8600.
5. Koepp DM, Schaefer LK*, Ye X*, Keyomarsi K, Chu C, Harper JW and Elledge SJ. (2001) Phosphorylation-dependent ubiquitination of cyclin E by the SCFFbw7 ubiquitin ligase. Science 294: 173-177. (*, co-second authorship).
6. Gartel A, Ye X, Goufman E, Shianov P, Hay N, Najmabadi F, and Tyner. AL (2001) Myc represses the p21(WAF1/CIP1) promoter and interacts with Sp1/Sp3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:4510-4515.
7. Ye X, Zhu C, and Harper JW (2001) A premature termination mutation in the M. musculus cyclin-dependent kinase 3 (CDK3) gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 1682-1686.
8. Dou C*, Ye X*, Stewart C, Lai, E and Li S (1997) TWH regulates the development of subsets of spinal cord neurons. Neuron 18: 539-551 (*co-first author).