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Overview

Ji-Kai Liu is affiliated with South Central University for Nationalities in China. Their research contributions span a wide range of topics within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specific focus on pharmacology, molecular biology, and organic chemistry.

The scientist has published extensively in fields such as fungal biology and applications, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and natural product bioactivities and synthesis. Other research interests include chemical synthesis and alkaloids, phytochemistry and biological activities, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, and catalytic C-H functionalization methods.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ji-Kai Liu include Tao Feng, Zheng-Hui Li, Juan He, He-Ping Chen, and Huixiang Yang.

Ji-Kai Liu has contributed regularly to several scientific journals, with a notable number of publications appearing in:

  • Phytochemistry (24 publications)
  • Natural Products and Bioprospecting (16 publications)
  • Molecules (11 publications)
  • Organic Letters (10 publications)
  • Phytochemistry Letters (10 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ji-Kai Liu include:

  • Natural products in cosmetics, 2022, Natural Products and Bioprospecting
  • Antiaging agents: safe interventions to slow aging and healthy life span extension, 2022, Natural Products and Bioprospecting

Ji-Kai Liu also has contributions in various book publications published by Springer Science+Business Media, including works such as:

  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 114 (2021)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 118 (2022)
  • Antimalarial Natural Products (2022)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 116 (2021)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 112 (2020)
  • Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds (2023)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 115 (2021)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 113 (2020)
  • Ancistrocladus Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids (2023)
  • Modern Photocatalytic Strategies in Natural Product Synthesis (2023)
  • Neurotrophic Natural Products (2024)

The breadth of Ji-Kai Liu's research addresses both fundamental and applied topics in natural product chemistry, with a significant emphasis on bioactivities, synthesis, and structural characterization relevant to medical and biochemical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Natural terphenyls: developments since 1877.

    Ji-Kai Liu

  • Vibralactone: A lipase inhibitor with an unusual fused beta-lactone produced by cultures of the basidiomycete Boreostereum vibrans

    Dong-Ze Liu;Fei Wang;Tou-Gen Liao;Jian-Guo Tang

  • Xanthohumol, a novel anti-HIV- 1 agent purified from Hops Humulus lupulus

    Qian Wang;Zhi-Hui Ding;Ji-Kai Liu;Yong-Tang Zheng

  • Universally occurring phenylpropanoid and species-specific indolic metabolites in infected and uninfected Arabidopsis thaliana roots and leaves

    Jianwen Tan;Paweł Bednarek;Jikai Liu;Bernd Schneider

  • Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM): are polyphenols and saponins the key ingredients triggering biological activities?

    Jikai Liu;Thomas Henkel

  • Discovery of an intrinsic tenase complex inhibitor: Pure nonasaccharide from fucosylated glycosaminoglycan.

    Longyan Zhao;Mingyi Wu;Chuang Xiao;Lian Yang

  • Pigments of fungi (macromycetes).

    Zhong-Yu Zhou;Ji-Kai Liu

  • Grifolin, a potential antitumor natural product from the mushroom Albatrellus confluens, inhibits tumor cell growth by inducing apoptosis in vitro

    Mao Ye;Ji-kai Liu;Zhong-xin Lu;Yan Zhao

  • N-containing compounds of macromycetes.

    Ji-Kai Liu

  • DNMT1 mediates metabolic reprogramming induced by Epstein–Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 and reversed by grifolin in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

    Xiangjian Luo;Liping Hong;Liping Hong;Can Cheng;Can Cheng;Namei Li;Namei Li

  • Guajadial: an unusual meroterpenoid from guava leaves Psidium guajava.

    Xiao-Long Yang;Kun-Lung Hsieh;Ji-Kai Liu

  • Structural characterization of a low-molecular-weight polysaccharide from Angelica pubescens Maxim. f. biserrata Shan et Yuan root and evaluation of its antioxidant activity.

    Qingxia Yuan;Jing Zhang;Chulei Xiao;Chaligan Harqin

  • Flazinamide, a novel beta-carboline compound with anti-HIV actions.

    Yun-Hua Wang;Jian-Guo Tang;Rui-Rui Wang;Rui-Rui Wang;Liu-Meng Yang

  • Peroxy natural products

    Dong-Ze Liu;Ji-Kai Liu

  • A new ceramide from the basidiomycete Russula cyanoxantha

    Jin-Ming Gao;Ze-Jun Dong;Ji-Kai Liu

  • Matsutakone and Matsutoic Acid, Two (Nor)steroids with Unusual Skeletons from the Edible Mushroom Tricholoma matsutake

    Zhen-Zhu Zhao;He-Ping Chen;He-Ping Chen;Bin Wu;Ling Zhang

  • Secondary Metabolites from Higher Fungi

    He-Ping Chen;Ji-Kai Liu

  • DPPH radical scavenging activity of ten natural p-terphenyl derivatives obtained from three edible mushrooms indigenous to China

    Ji-Kai Liu;Lin Hu;Ze-Jun Dong;Qun Hu

  • Grifolin, a potential antitumor natural product from the mushroom Albatrellus confluens, induces cell-cycle arrest in G1 phase via the ERK1/2 pathway.

    Mao Ye;Xiangjian Luo;Lili Li;Ying Shi

  • Grifolin, a potent antitumour natural product upregulates death-associated protein kinase 1 DAPK1 via p53 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells.

    Xiang-jian Luo;Li-li Li;Qi-pan Deng;Xin-fang Yu

  • Concentricolide, an Anti-HIV Agent from the Ascomycete Daldinia concentrica

    Xiang-Dong Qin;Ze-Jun Dong;Ji-Kai Liu;Liu-Meng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei Wang
Fei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ya Cao
Ya Cao Central South University
Yong-Tang Zheng
Yong-Tang Zheng Kunming Institute of Zoology
Masahiko Isaka
Masahiko Isaka National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Ann M. Bode
Ann M. Bode University of Minnesota
Renxiang Tan
Renxiang Tan Nanjing University
Yue Huang
Yue Huang Xiamen University
Wolfgang Steglich
Wolfgang Steglich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Zigang Dong
Zigang Dong University of Minnesota
Bao-Kai Cui
Bao-Kai Cui Beijing Forestry University

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