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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
19943
World Ranking
5593
National Ranking
177

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Quan Chen is affiliated with Nankai University in China and has a significant body of work in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Immunology.

The scientist's research interests are reflected in their contributions to several main topics, such as:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Quan Chen has authored numerous papers, some of the recent ones include:

  • "Mitophagy, Mitochondrial Homeostasis, and Cell Fate" (2020), published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023" (2023), published in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • "Dynamic O-GlcNAcylation coordinates ferritinophagy and mitophagy to activate ferroptosis" (2022), published in Cell Discovery
  • "Crosstalk between mitochondrial biogenesis and mitophagy to maintain mitochondrial homeostasis" (2023), published in Journal of Biomedical Science
  • "Ferroptosis in health and disease" (2024), published in Redox Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Yushan Zhu, Yanjun Li, Jinming Liu, Bin Huang, and Guo Chen.

Quan Chen's publications appear predominantly in venues such as Research Square with nine publications, Journal of Clinical Oncology with seven, and Nature Chemical Biology and Frontiers in Oncology, each with five publications. Additionally, four papers have been published in Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mitochondrial outer-membrane protein FUNDC1 mediates hypoxia-induced mitophagy in mammalian cells

    Lei Liu;Du Feng;Guo Chen;Ming Chen

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • CD44 is of Functional Importance for Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells

    Lei Du;Hongyi Wang;Leya He;Jingyu Zhang

  • A Regulatory Signaling Loop Comprising the PGAM5 Phosphatase and CK2 Controls Receptor-Mediated Mitophagy

    Guo Chen;Zhe Han;Du Feng;Yanfang Chen

  • Parkin Ubiquitinates Drp1 for Proteasome-dependent Degradation: IMPLICATION OF DYSREGULATED MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS IN PARKINSON DISEASE *

    Hongxia Wang;Pingping Song;Lei Du;Weili Tian

  • Receptor-mediated mitophagy in yeast and mammalian systems

    Lei Liu;Kaori Sakakibara;Quan Chen;Koji Okamoto

  • Mitophagy, Mitochondrial Homeostasis, and Cell Fate.

    Kaili Ma;Guo Chen;Wenhui Li;Oliver Kepp;Oliver Kepp

  • Mitophagy receptor FUNDC1 regulates mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy.

    Ming Chen;Ziheng Chen;Yueying Wang;Zheng Tan

  • Distinct stages of cytochrome c release from mitochondria: Evidence for a feedback amplification loop linking caspase activation to mitochondrial dysfunction in genotoxic stress induced apoptosis

    Q. Chen;B. Gong;Alexandru Almasan

  • STING directly activates autophagy to tune the innate immune response.

    Dong Liu;Hao Wu;Chenguang Wang;Yanjun Li

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Selective removal of mitochondria via mitophagy: distinct pathways for different mitochondrial stresses.

    Huifang Wei;Lei Liu;Quan Chen;Quan Chen

  • Apo2L/TRAIL and Bcl-2–related proteins regulate type I interferon–induced apoptosis in multiple myeloma

    Quan Chen;Bendi Gong;Ashraf S. Mahmoud-Ahmed;Aimin Zhou

  • Beclin 1 cleavage by caspase-3 inactivates autophagy and promotes apoptosis

    Yushan Zhu;Yushan Zhu;Lixia Zhao;Lei Liu;Ping Gao

  • Hypoxia regulates Hippo signalling through the SIAH2 ubiquitin E3 ligase

    Biao Ma;Yan Chen;Ling Chen;Hongcheng Cheng

  • Mitochondrial E3 ligase MARCH5 regulates FUNDC1 to fine‐tune hypoxic mitophagy

    Ziheng Chen;Lei Liu;Qi Cheng;Yanjun Li

  • Essential role of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) in mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening and cytochrome c release induced by arsenic trioxide.

    Yanhua Zheng;Yong Shi;Changhai Tian;Chunsun Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hao Wu
Hao Wu Harvard University
Alexandru Almasan
Alexandru Almasan Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias Northwestern University
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Felix Randow
Felix Randow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Tian Xia
Tian Xia University of California, Los Angeles

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