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Jia Zhou is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research spans significant areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, emphasizing molecular biology and oncology as their main subfields.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as protein degradation and inhibitors, receptor mechanisms and signaling, peptidase inhibition and analysis, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, mosquito-borne diseases and control, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and cancer mechanisms and therapy.

Jia Zhou has contributed to several well-regarded research venues, including:

  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Cancer Research
  • Gastroenterology
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • Intestinal microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids regulation of immune cell IL-22 production and gut immunity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Molecular targeting therapies for neuroblastoma: Progress and challenges, 2020, Medicinal Research Reviews
  • Broad Spectrum Antiviral Agent Niclosamide and Its Therapeutic Potential, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Emerging roles of SIRT6 in human diseases and its modulators, 2020, Medicinal Research Reviews
  • Oridonin and its derivatives for cancer treatment and overcoming therapeutic resistance, 2020, Genes & Diseases

Collaboration plays a role in their work, with frequent co-authors including Haiying Chen, Pingyuan Wang, Jimin Xu, Qiang Shen, and Zhiqing Liu.

Best Publications

  • Intestinal microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids regulation of immune cell IL-22 production and gut immunity.

    Wenjing Yang;Tianming Yu;Xiangsheng Huang;Anthony J. Bilotta

  • Genome-wide expression profiling of human blood reveals biomarkers for Huntington's disease

    F. Borovecki;L. Lovrecic;J. Zhou;H. Jeong

  • Therapeutic Potential of Spirooxindoles as Antiviral Agents.

    Na Ye;Haiying Chen;Eric A. Wold;Pei Yong Shi

  • Transcription Factor STAT3 as a Novel Molecular Target for Cancer Prevention

    Ailian Xiong;Zhengduo Yang;Yicheng Shen;Jia Zhou

  • Broad Spectrum Antiviral Agent Niclosamide and Its Therapeutic Potential.

    Jimin Xu;Pei Yong Shi;Hongmin Li;Jia Zhou

  • NAAG peptidase inhibitors and their potential for diagnosis and therapy

    Jia Zhou;Joseph H. Neale;Martin G. Pomper;Alan P. Kozikowski

  • Small molecule inhibitors targeting activator protein 1 (AP-1).

    Na Ye;Ye Ding;Christopher Wild;Qiang Shen

  • Drug Discovery Targeting Bromodomain-Containing Protein 4.

    Zhiqing Liu;Pingyuan Wang;Haiying Chen;Eric A. Wold

  • Molecular targeting therapies for neuroblastoma: Progress and challenges.

    Atif Zafar;Wei Wang;Gang Liu;Xinjie Wang

  • A Novel EPAC-Specific Inhibitor Suppresses Pancreatic Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion

    Muayad Almahariq;Tamara Tsalkova;Fang C. Mei;Haijun Chen

  • Direct Activation of Bax Protein for Cancer Therapy

    Zhiqing Liu;Ye Ding;Na Ye;Christopher Wild

  • A first-in-class polymerase theta inhibitor selectively targets homologous-recombination-deficient tumors

    Jia Zhou;Camille Gelot;Constantia Pantelidou;Adam Li

  • Existing drugs as broad-spectrum and potent inhibitors for Zika virus by targeting NS2B-NS3 interaction

    Zhong Li;Matthew Brecher;Yong Qiang Deng;Jing Zhang

  • Norepinephrine transporter inhibitors and their therapeutic potential

    Jia Zhou

  • Discovery and development of natural product oridonin-inspired anticancer agents

    Ye Ding;Chunyong Ding;Na Ye;Zhiqing Liu

  • NAAG peptidase inhibition reduces locomotor activity and some stereotypes in the PCP model of schizophrenia via group II mGluR

    Rafal T. Olszewski;Rafal T. Olszewski;Noreen Bukhari;Jia Zhou;Alan P. Kozikowski;Alan P. Kozikowski

  • Associations between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and pregnancy outcomes: a prospective observational study in southern China.

    J Zhou;L Su;M Liu;Y Liu

  • Evolution in medicinal chemistry of ursolic acid derivatives as anticancer agents.

    Haijun Chen;Yu Gao;Ailan Wang;Xiaobin Zhou

  • The NEIL glycosylases remove oxidized guanine lesions from telomeric and promoter quadruplex DNA structures

    Jia Zhou;Aaron M. Fleming;April M. Averill;Cynthia J. Burrows

  • HDAC inhibitor increases histone H3 acetylation and reduces microglia inflammatory response following traumatic brain injury in rats.

    Bin Zhang;Bin Zhang;Eric J. West;Ken C. Van;Gene G. Gurkoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan R. Brasier
Allan R. Brasier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hongmin Li
Hongmin Li University of Arizona
Joseph H. Neale
Joseph H. Neale Georgetown University
Alan P. Kozikowski
Alan P. Kozikowski StarWise Therapeutics LLC
Alan D. D'Andrea
Alan D. D'Andrea Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Susan S. Wallace
Susan S. Wallace University of Vermont
Csaba Szabó
Csaba Szabó University of Fribourg
Yingzi Cong
Yingzi Cong The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Suresh S. Ramalingam
Suresh S. Ramalingam Emory University

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