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Overview

Jie Chen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their work spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with a focus on Molecular Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

Their scholarly contributions include research on topics such as Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, RNA modifications and cancer, Extracellular vesicles in disease, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Jie Chen's recent published papers include:

  • Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images, 2023, Science
  • Redefining the specificity of phosphoinositide-binding by human PH domain-containing proteins, 2021, Nature Communications
  • TGF-β1-Induced SOX18 Elevation Promotes Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression and Metastasis Through Transcriptionally Upregulating PD-L1 and CXCL12, 2024, Gastroenterology
  • Muscle cell-derived cytokines in skeletal muscle regeneration, 2022, FEBS Journal
  • LanCLs add glutathione to dehydroamino acids generated at phosphorylated sites in the proteome, 2021, Cell

They have frequently collaborated with researchers including Adriana Reyes-Ordoñez, Jae-Sung You, Nilmani Singh, Songpol Srinual, and Rongjin Sun.

Jie Chen has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Combustion and Flame, and The FASEB Journal.

Best Publications

  • Phosphatidic Acid-Mediated Mitogenic Activation of mTOR Signaling

    Yimin Fang;Montserrat Vilella-Bach;Rebecca Bachmann;Asa Flanigan

  • Exaggerated neuroinflammation and sickness behavior in aged mice following activation of the peripheral innate immune system

    J. P. Godbout;J. Chen;J. Abraham;A. F. Richwine

  • Aegilops tauschii draft genome sequence reveals a gene repertoire for wheat adaptation

    Jizeng Jia;Shancen Zhao;Xiuying Kong;Yingrui Li

  • Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu

    Hong-Qing Ling;Shancen Zhao;Dongcheng Liu;Junyi Wang

  • Regulation of Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ Activity by Mammalian Target of Rapamycin and Amino Acids in Adipogenesis

    Jae Eun Kim;Jie Chen

  • Probing cellular protein complexes using single-molecule pull-down

    Ankur Jain;Ruijie Liu;Biswarathan Ramani;Edwin Arauz

  • Hepatic Hdac3 promotes gluconeogenesis by repressing lipid synthesis and sequestration

    Zheng Sun;Russell A Miller;Rajesh T Patel;Jie Chen

  • Interleukin-6 and insulin resistance.

    Jeong Ho Kim;Rebecca A. Bachmann;Jie Chen

  • Electronic states and phases of KxC60 from photoemission and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    C. T. Chen;L. H. Tjeng;P. Rudolf;G. Meigs

  • Cytoplasmic-nuclear shuttling of FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein is involved in rapamycin-sensitive signaling and translation initiation.

    Jae Eun Kim;Jie Chen

  • IGF-II is regulated by microRNA-125b in skeletal myogenesis

    Yejing Ge;Yuting Sun;Jie Chen

  • Molecular footprints of domestication and improvement in soybean revealed by whole genome re-sequencing

    Ying hui Li;Shan cen Zhao;Jian xin Ma;Dong Li

  • Duration of rapamycin treatment has differential effects on metabolism in mice

    Yimin Fang;Reyhan Westbrook;Cristal Hill;Ravneet K. Boparai

  • mTOR supports long-term self-renewal and suppresses mesoderm and endoderm activities of human embryonic stem cells.

    Jiaxi Zhou;Pei Su;Lu Wang;Joanna Chen

  • MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN REGULATES MIRNA-1 AND FOLLISTATIN IN SKELETAL MYOGENESIS

    Yuting Sun;Yejing Ge;Jenny Drnevich;Yong Zhao

  • PLD1 Regulates mTOR Signaling and Mediates Cdc42 Activation of S6K1

    Yimin Fang;In Hyun Park;Ai Luen Wu;Guangwei Du

  • The FKBP12-rapamycin-binding domain is required for FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein kinase activity and G1 progression

    Montserrat Vilella-Bach;Paul Nuzzi;Yimin Fang;Jie Chen

  • MicroRNAs in skeletal myogenesis

    Yejing Ge;Jie Chen

  • Electrochemical cues regulate assembly of the Frizzled/Dishevelled complex at the plasma membrane during planar epithelial polarization

    Matias Simons;William J. Gault;Daniel Gotthardt;Rajeev Rohatgi

  • Corrigendum: Genome-wide adaptive complexes to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax.

    Xiaodong Fang;Eviatar Nevo;Lijuan Han;Erez Y. Levanon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Bennett
Michael J. Bennett University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Rodney W. Johnson
Rodney W. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taekjip Ha
Taekjip Ha Johns Hopkins University
In-Hyun Park
In-Hyun Park Yale University
Jonathan P. Godbout
Jonathan P. Godbout The Ohio State University
Wilfred A. van der Donk
Wilfred A. van der Donk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary D. Wu
Gary D. Wu University of Pennsylvania
Derek E. Wildman
Derek E. Wildman University of South Florida
Petra Rudolf
Petra Rudolf University of Groningen

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