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D-Index
55
Citations
9518
World Ranking
15190
National Ranking
6351

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hong Li is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work is concentrated in several specialized subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Oncology. Hong Li's research topics frequently address cancer-related molecular mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, microRNA in disease regulation, RNA research and splicing, mitochondrial function and pathology, immune cells in cancer, and autophagy in disease and therapy.

Hong Li has contributed to several research papers, notable examples include:

  • The combination of disulfiram and copper for cancer treatment (2020, Drug Discovery Today)
  • Inducing trained immunity in pro-metastatic macrophages to control tumor metastasis (2023, Nature Immunology)
  • A nerve injury-specific long noncoding RNA promotes neuropathic pain by increasing Ccl2 expression (2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • Targeting purine metabolism in ovarian cancer (2022, Journal of Ovarian Research)
  • SOD1 regulates ribosome biogenesis in KRAS mutant non-small cell lung cancer (2021, Nature Communications)

Hong Li frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Tong Liu, Xiangtao Kang, Yadong Tian, Evren U. Azeloglu, and Zhuanjian Li. These collaborations have contributed significantly to their body of work.

The most frequent venues for Hong Li's publications are Research Square (Research Square), SSRN Electronic Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Scientific Reports.

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, Hong Li was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Upregulation of Nox4 by Hypertrophic Stimuli Promotes Apoptosis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Cardiac Myocytes

    Tetsuro Ago;Junya Kuroda;Jayashree Pain;Cexiong Fu

  • Mst1 inhibits autophagy by promoting the interaction between Beclin1 and Bcl-2

    Yasuhiro Maejima;Yasuhiro Maejima;Shiori Kyoi;Peiyong Zhai;Tong Liu

  • A redox-dependent pathway for regulating class II HDACs and cardiac hypertrophy

    Tetsuro Ago;Tong Liu;Peiyong Zhai;Wei Chen

  • A redox-dependent mechanism for regulation of AMPK activation by thioredoxin1 during energy starvation

    Dan Shao;Shin Ichi Oka;Tong Liu;Peiyong Zhai

  • Enhancement of Nuclear Factor-κB Acetylation by Coactivator p300 and HIV-1 Tat Proteins

    Bansri Furia;Longwen Deng;Kaili Wu;Shanese Baylor

  • Acetylation of HIV-1 Tat by CBP/P300 increases transcription of integrated HIV-1 genome and enhances binding to core histones.

    Longwen Deng;Cynthia de la Fuente;Peng Fu;Lai Wang

  • An alternative mitophagy pathway mediated by Rab9 protects the heart against ischemia

    Toshiro Saito;Jihoon Nah;Shin ichi Oka;Risa Mukai

  • A Rab5 endosomal pathway mediates Parkin-dependent mitochondrial clearance.

    Babette C. Hammerling;Rita H. Najor;Melissa Q. Cortez;Sarah E. Shires

  • Identification of peptides from brain and pituitary of Cpefat/Cpefat mice

    Fa Yun Che;Lin Yan;Lin Yan;Hong Li;Nino Mzhavia

  • Prevention of glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis in osteocytes and osteoblasts by calbindin-D28k.

    Yan Liu;Angela Porta;Xiaorong Peng;Kristen Gengaro

  • mTORC2 Regulates Cardiac Response to Stress by Inhibiting MST1

    Sebastiano Sciarretta;Peiyong Zhai;Yasuhiro Maejima;Dominic P. Del Re

  • Redox Regulatory Mechanism of Transnitrosylation by Thioredoxin

    Changgong Wu;Tong Liu;Wei Chen;Shin-ichi Oka

  • Somatodendritic accumulation of misfolded SOD1-L126Z in motor neurons mediates degeneration: αB-crystallin modulates aggregation

    Jiou Wang;Guilian Xu;Hong Li;Victoria Gonzales

  • Heterodimerization with small Maf proteins enhances nuclear retention of Nrf2 via masking the NESzip motif.

    Wenge Li;Siwang Yu;Tong Liu;Jung Hwan Kim

  • The human brain mannose 6-phosphate glycoproteome: a complex mixture composed of multiple isoforms of many soluble lysosomal proteins.

    David E. Sleat;Henry Lackland;Yanhong Wang;Istvan Sohar

  • Mst1 promotes cardiac myocyte apoptosis through phosphorylation and inhibition of Bcl-xL.

    Dominic P. Del Re;Takahisa Matsuda;Peiyong Zhai;Yasuhiro Maejima

  • MicroRNA-7 activates Nrf2 pathway by targeting Keap1 expression.

    Savan Kabaria;Doo Chul Choi;Amrita Datta Chaudhuri;Mohit Raja Jain

  • Quantitative analysis of redox-sensitive proteome with DIGE and ICAT.

    Cexiong Fu;Jun Hu;Tong Liu;Tetsuro Ago

  • Thioredoxin 1-Mediated Post-Translational Modifications: Reduction, Transnitrosylation, Denitrosylation, and Related Proteomics Methodologies

    Changgong Wu;Andrew M. Parrott;Cexiong Fu;Tong Liu

  • Cleavage site selection within a folded substrate by the ATP-dependent lon protease.

    Gabriela Ondrovičová;Tong Liu;Kamalendra Singh;Bin Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohit Jain
Mohit Jain University of California, San Diego
Junichi Sadoshima
Junichi Sadoshima Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Fatah Kashanchi
Fatah Kashanchi George Mason University
Raymond B. Birge
Raymond B. Birge Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ravi Iyengar
Ravi Iyengar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David A. Schooley
David A. Schooley University of Nevada Reno
John D. Wade
John D. Wade Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Bin Tian
Bin Tian The Wistar Institute
David S. Perlin
David S. Perlin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kyushu University

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