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Overview

Pentao Liu is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine.

Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Oncology, Genetics, and Cancer Research. Key research topics covered by Liu involve Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, CAR-T cell therapy research, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Renal and related cancers, and Immune cells in cancer.

Frequent venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • EMBO Reports

Several recent papers exemplify their research output:

  • "Establishment of bovine expanded potential stem cells," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "SpatialDM for rapid identification of spatially co-expressed ligand-receptor and revealing cell-cell communication patterns," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Myeloid-derived suppressor cells promote lung cancer metastasis by CCL11 to activate ERK and AKT signaling and induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition in tumor cells," 2021, Oncogene
  • "IL-6 trans-signaling promotes the expansion and anti-tumor activity of CAR T cells," 2020, Leukemia
  • "Co-expression of a PD-L1-specific chimeric switch receptor augments the efficacy and persistence of CAR T cells via the CD70-CD27 axis," 2022, Nature Communications

Liu frequently collaborates with several researchers who have coauthored multiple publications alongside them. These co-authors include:

  • Peng Li
  • Yao Yao
  • Degong Ruan
  • Qiting Wu
  • Xuefei Gao

Best Publications

  • piggyBac transposition reprograms fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells

    Knut Woltjen;Iacovos P. Michael;Iacovos P. Michael;Paria Mohseni;Paria Mohseni;Ridham Desai;Ridham Desai

  • A Highly Efficient Recombineering-Based Method for Generating Conditional Knockout Mutations

    Pentao Liu;Nancy A. Jenkins;Neal G. Copeland

  • Requirement for Wnt3 in vertebrate axis formation

    Pentao Liu;Maki Wakamiya;Martin J. Shea;Urs Albrecht

  • The Merlin/NF2 Tumor Suppressor Functions through the YAP Oncoprotein to Regulate Tissue Homeostasis in Mammals

    Nailing Zhang;Haibo Bai;Karen K. David;Jixin Dong

  • Chromosome engineering in mice

    Ramlro Ramirez-Solis;Pentao Liu;Allan Bradley

  • Single Cell RNA-Sequencing of Pluripotent States Unlocks Modular Transcriptional Variation.

    Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk;Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk;Jong Kyoung Kim;Jason C.H. Tsang;Tomislav Ilicic;Tomislav Ilicic

  • Chromosomal transposition of PiggyBac in mouse embryonic stem cells

    Wei Wang;Chengyi Lin;Dong Lu;Zeming Ning

  • Bcl11a is essential for normal lymphoid development

    Pentao Liu;Jonathan R Keller;Mariaestela Ortiz;Lino Tessarollo

  • Reprogramming of T Cells to Natural Killer–Like Cells upon Bcl11b Deletion

    Peng Li;Shannon Burke;Juexuan Wang;Xiongfeng Chen

  • Evolutionary routes and KRAS dosage define pancreatic cancer phenotypes

    Sebastian Mueller;Thomas Engleitner;Thomas Engleitner;Roman Maresch;Roman Maresch;Magdalena Zukowska

  • Establishment of porcine and human expanded potential stem cells

    Xuefei Gao;Xuefei Gao;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Xi Chen;Dongsheng Chen

  • Rapid and efficient reprogramming of somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells by retinoic acid receptor gamma and liver receptor homolog 1

    Wei Wang;Jian Yang;Hui Liu;Dong Lu

  • Single-cell RNA-seq identifies a PD-1 hi ILC progenitor and defines its development pathway

    Yong Yu;Jason C. H. Tsang;Jason C. H. Tsang;Cui Wang;Simon Clare

  • PiggyBac Transposon Mutagenesis: A Tool for Cancer Gene Discovery in Mice

    Roland Rad;Lena Rad;Wei Wang;Juan Cadinanos

  • Bcl11a is essential for lymphoid development and negatively regulates p53

    Yong Yu;Yong Yu;Juexuan Wang;Walid Khaled;Shannon Burke

  • Mutant nucleophosmin and cooperating pathways drive leukemia initiation and progression in mice

    George S Vassiliou;Jonathan L Cooper;Roland Rad;Juan Li

  • Establishment of mouse expanded potential stem cells

    Jian Yang;David J. Ryan;Wei Wang;Jason Cheuk-Ho Tsang

  • JAK2 V617F impairs hematopoietic stem cell function in a conditional knock-in mouse model of JAK2 V617F–positive essential thrombocythemia

    Juan Li;Dominik Spensberger;Jong Sook Ahn;Shubha Anand

  • A Genetic Progression Model of BrafV600E-Induced Intestinal Tumorigenesis Reveals Targets for Therapeutic Intervention

    Roland Rad;Roland Rad;Roland Rad;Juan Cadiñanos;Lena Rad;Ignacio Varela

  • CRISPR/Cas9 somatic multiplex-mutagenesis for high-throughput functional cancer genomics in mice

    Julia Weber;Julia Weber;Rupert Öllinger;Mathias Friedrich;Ursula Ehmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley University of Cambridge
Duanqing Pei
Duanqing Pei Westlake University
Wei Wang
Wei Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Donghai Wu
Donghai Wu Cornell University
Roland Rad
Roland Rad Technical University of Munich
Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Neal G. Copeland
Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Fengtang Yang
Fengtang Yang Wellcome Sanger Institute
George S. Vassiliou
George S. Vassiliou University of Cambridge

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