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81
Citations
21061
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Min Han is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their work spans several fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology and Plant Science. Additionally, they have contributed to research in Medicine and subfields such as Aging, Epidemiology, and Genetics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, as well as Plant Gene Expression Analysis and Plant Molecular Biology Research. Other significant areas of study include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders.

Some of Min Han's recent papers include the following:

  • Non-Canonical Caspase Activity Antagonizes p38 MAPK Stress-Priming Function to Support Development (2020, Developmental Cell)
  • Regulation of Nucleotide Metabolism and Germline Proliferation in Response to Nucleotide Imbalance and Genotoxic Stresses by EndoU Nuclease (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Genome-wide identification and characterization of the bHLH gene family and analysis of their potential relevance to chlorophyll metabolism in Raphanus sativus L (2022, BMC Genomics)
  • Comparative transcriptome analysis identifies genes associated with chlorophyll levels and reveals photosynthesis in green flesh of radish taproot (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Bacterial muropeptides promote OXPHOS and suppress mitochondrial stress in mammals (2024, Cell Reports)

Frequent coauthors in Min Han's work include Mingxue Cui, Aileen K. Sewell, Ruihua Wang, Yuanyuan Li, and Minggang Gao.

Their publications are often found in venues such as Cell Reports, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Cell, BMC Genomics, and PLoS ONE.

Min Han was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Efficient Transposition of the piggyBac (PB) Transposon in Mammalian Cells and Mice

    Sheng Ding;Xiaohui Wu;Gang Li;Min Han;Min Han

  • Nucleosome loss activates yeast downstream promoters in vivo

    Min Han;Michael Grunstein

  • Extremely conserved histone H4 N terminus is dispensable for growth but essential for repressing the silent mating loci in yeast

    Paul S. Kayne;Ung-Jin Kim;Min Han;Janet R. Mullen

  • let-60, a gene that specifies cell fates during C. elegans vulval induction, encodes a ras protein

    Min Han;Paul W. Sternberg

  • SUN1/2 and Syne/Nesprin-1/2 complexes connect centrosome to the nucleus during neurogenesis and neuronal migration in mice.

    Xiaochang Zhang;Kai Lei;Xiaobing Yuan;Xiaohui Wu

  • A 5-bp deletion in ELOVL4 is associated with two related forms of autosomal dominant macular dystrophy

    Kang Zhang;Kang Zhang;Marina Kniazeva;Min Han;Wen Li

  • Role of ANC-1 in tethering nuclei to the actin cytoskeleton.

    Daniel A. Starr;Min Han

  • The C. elegans ksr-1 gene encodes a novel Raf-related kinase involved in Ras-mediated signal transduction.

    Meera Sundaram;Min Han

  • SUN1 is required for telomere attachment to nuclear envelope and gametogenesis in mice.

    Xu Ding;Rener Xu;Juehua Yu;Tian Xu;Tian Xu

  • UNC-84 localizes to the nuclear envelope and is required for nuclear migration and anchoring during C. elegans development.

    C. J. Malone;W. D. Fixsen;H. R. Horvitz;Min Han

  • The Developmental Timing Regulator AIN-1 Interacts with miRISCs and May Target the Argonaute Protein ALG-1 to Cytoplasmic P Bodies in C. elegans

    Lei Ding;Andrew Spencer;Kiyokazu Morita;Min Han

  • C. elegans lin-45 raf gene participates in let-60 ras-stimulated vulval differentiation

    Min Han;Andy Golden;Yuming Han;Paul W. Sternberg

  • A unified nomenclature for protein subunits of mediator complexes linking transcriptional regulators to RNA polymerase II.

    Henri Marc Bourbon;Andres Aguilera;Aseem Z. Ansari;Francisco J. Asturias

  • Activation of FAK and Src are receptor-proximal events required for netrin signaling

    Weiquan Li;Jeeyong Lee;Haris G. Vikis;Seung Hee Lee

  • A new marker for mosaic analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans indicates a fusion between hyp6 and hyp7, two major components of the hypodermis.

    John Yochem;John Yochem;Trent Gu;Min Han;Min Han

  • Syne-1 and Syne-2 play crucial roles in myonuclear anchorage and motor neuron innervation.

    Xiaochang Zhang;Rener Xu;Binggen Zhu;Xiujuan Yang

  • Systematic identification of C. elegans miRISC proteins, miRNAs, and mRNA targets by their interactions with GW182 proteins AIN-1 and AIN-2.

    Liang Zhang;Lei Ding;Tom H. Cheung;Meng-Qiu Dong

  • Effects of histone H4 depletion on the cell cycle and transcription of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Ung-Jin Kim;Min Han;P. Kayne;M. Grunstein

  • Depletion of histone H4 and nucleosomes activates the PHO5 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Min Han;Ung-Jin Kim;P. Kayne;M. Grunstein

  • Genetics of RAS signaling in C. elegans

    Paul W Sternberg;Min Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Tian Xu
Tian Xu Westlake University
Yuan Zhuang
Yuan Zhuang Duke University
Wendy L. Freedman
Wendy L. Freedman University of Chicago
Paul W. Sternberg
Paul W. Sternberg California Institute of Technology
Kang Zhang
Kang Zhang Macau University of Science and Technology
Holland C. Ford
Holland C. Ford Johns Hopkins University
Kun-Liang Guan
Kun-Liang Guan Westlake University
Laura Ferrarese
Laura Ferrarese National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Michael Grunstein
Michael Grunstein University of California, Los Angeles
Shoko Sakai
Shoko Sakai University of California, Los Angeles

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