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Biology and Biochemistry

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8318
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Overview

Ju Chen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, their work engages deeply with subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction, and Cell Biology.

The main topics Ju Chen investigates include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Structural Load-Bearing Analysis, Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Fire Effects on Concrete Materials, RNA Modifications and Cancer, and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling.

Ju Chen has contributed to various publication venues, notably:

  • Circulation Research
  • Circulation
  • Journal of Constructional Steel Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Selected recent research papers authored by or involving Ju Chen include:

  • "Hyperglycemia Acutely Increases Cytosolic Reactive Oxygen Species via O-linked GlcNAcylation and CaMKII Activation in Mouse Ventricular Myocytes," 2020, Circulation Research
  • "mTORC2 controls the activity of PKC and Akt by phosphorylating a conserved TOR interaction motif," 2021, Science Signaling
  • "Parallel Lineage-Tracing Studies Establish Fibroblasts as the Prevailing In Vivo Adipocyte Progenitor," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "Titin kinase ubiquitination aligns autophagy receptors with mechanical signals in the sarcomere," 2021, EMBO Reports
  • "Loss of Filamin C Is Catastrophic for Heart Function," 2020, Circulation

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ju Chen comprise:

  • Yusu Gu
  • Julius Bogomolovas
  • Sylvia Μ. Evans
  • Tongbin Wu
  • Xi Fang

Best Publications

  • Isl1 Identifies a Cardiac Progenitor Population that Proliferates Prior to Differentiation and Contributes a Majority of Cells to the Heart

    Chen Leng Cai;Xingqun Liang;Yunqing Shi;Po Hsien Chu

  • A myocardial lineage derives from Tbx18 epicardial cells

    Chen-Leng Cai;Jody C. Martin;Yunfu Sun;Li Cui

  • Conduction Slowing and Sudden Arrhythmic Death in Mice With Cardiac-Restricted Inactivation of Connexin43

    David E. Gutstein;Gregory E. Morley;Houman Tamaddon;Dhananjay Vaidya

  • Loss of a gp130 Cardiac Muscle Cell Survival Pathway Is a Critical Event in the Onset of Heart Failure during Biomechanical Stress

    Hisao Hirota;Ju Chen;Ulrich A.K Betz;Klaus Rajewsky

  • Superoxide Flashes in Single Mitochondria

    Wang Wang;Huaqiang Fang;Linda Groom;Aiwu Cheng

  • Conversion of mouse fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes using a direct reprogramming strategy.

    Jem A. Efe;Simon Hilcove;Janghwan Kim;Hongyan Zhou

  • The knockout of miR-143 and -145 alters smooth muscle cell maintenance and vascular homeostasis in mice: correlates with human disease

    Leonardo Elia;Manuela Quintavalle;Jianlin Zhang;Riccardo Contu

  • Mutations in Cypher/ZASP in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and left ventricular non-compaction.

    Matteo Vatta;Bhagyalaxmi Mohapatra;Shinawe Jimenez;Ximena Sanchez

  • Resident fibroblast lineages mediate pressure overload–induced cardiac fibrosis

    Thomas Moore-Morris;Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Indroneal Banerjee;Alexander C. Zambon

  • Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts to Neurons by Reprogramming PTB-Regulated microRNA Circuits

    Yuanchao Xue;Kunfu Ouyang;Jie Huang;Yu Zhou;Yu Zhou

  • Cardiotrophin 1 (CT-1) Inhibition of Cardiac Myocyte Apoptosis via a Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase-dependent Pathway DIVERGENCE FROM DOWNSTREAM CT-1 SIGNALS FOR MYOCARDIAL CELL HYPERTROPHY

    Zelin Sheng;Kirk Knowlton;Ju Chen;Masahiko Hoshijima

  • Local InsP3-dependent perinuclear Ca2+ signaling in cardiac myocyte excitation-transcription coupling.

    Xu Wu;Tong Zhang;Julie B C Bossuyt;Xiaodong Li

  • Vascular remodeling of the mouse yolk sac requires hemodynamic force

    Jennifer L. Lucitti;Elizabeth A. V. Jones;Chengqun Huang;Ju Chen

  • Pericytes of Multiple Organs Do Not Behave as Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Vivo

    Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Paola Cattaneo;Yunfu Sun;Thomas Moore-Morris

  • Absence of pressure overload induced myocardial hypertrophy after conditional inactivation of Gαq/Gα11 in cardiomyocytes

    Nina Wettschureck;Hartmut Rütten;Alexandra Zywietz;Doris Gehring

  • Requirement for Ca2+/calmodulin–dependent kinase II in the transition from pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure in mice

    Haiyun Ling;Tong Zhang;Laetitia Pereira;Christopher Kable Means

  • ASF/SF2-Regulated CaMKIIδ Alternative Splicing Temporally Reprograms Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Cardiac Muscle

    Xiangdong Xu;Dongmei Yang;Jian Hua Ding;Wang Wang

  • Islet 1 is expressed in distinct cardiovascular lineages, including pacemaker and coronary vascular cells.

    Yunfu Sun;Xingqun Liang;Nader Najafi;Margaret Cass

  • Endothelin-1–Induced Arrhythmogenic Ca2+ Signaling Is Abolished in Atrial Myocytes of Inositol-1,4,5-Trisphosphate(IP3)–Receptor Type 2–Deficient Mice

    Xiaodong Li;Aleksey V. Zima;Farah Sheikh;Lothar A. Blatter

  • MTORC1 regulates cardiac function and myocyte survival through 4E-BP1 inhibition in mice

    Denghong Zhang;Riccardo Contu;Michael V G Latronico;Jian Ling Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvia M. Evans
Sylvia M. Evans University of Montana
Kirk L. Peterson
Kirk L. Peterson University of California, San Diego
Kenneth R. Chien
Kenneth R. Chien Karolinska Institute
Richard L. Lieber
Richard L. Lieber Northwestern University
Jay A. Tischfield
Jay A. Tischfield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joan Heller Brown
Joan Heller Brown University of California, San Diego
Andrew D. McCulloch
Andrew D. McCulloch University of California, San Diego
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang University of California, Los Angeles
Donald M. Bers
Donald M. Bers University of California, Davis
John Ross
John Ross University of California, San Diego

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