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Rui-Ping Xiao

Rui-Ping Xiao

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
20693
World Ranking
3946
National Ranking
112

Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
20783
World Ranking
16784
National Ranking
192

Overview

Rui-Ping Xiao is affiliated with Peking University in China and has a research focus predominantly in Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Genetics.

The main topics covered by Rui-Ping Xiao's research include pancreatic function and diabetes, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, autophagy in disease and therapy, cardiac ischemia and reperfusion, cancer and hypoxia metabolism, mitochondrial function and pathology, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Their recent publications highlight these topics in diverse journals:

  • Negative regulation of AMPK signaling by high glucose via E3 ubiquitin ligase MG53, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • Vitamin B12 and folate decrease inflammation and fibrosis in NASH by preventing syntaxin 17 homocysteinylation, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
  • Activation of GPR81 by lactate drives tumour-induced cachexia, 2024, Nature Metabolism
  • Cardiac Ischemic Preconditioning Promotes MG53 Secretion Through H 2 O 2 -Activated Protein Kinase C-δ Signaling, 2020, Circulation
  • Heterodimerization With 5-HT 2B R Is Indispensable for β 2 AR-Mediated Cardioprotection, 2020, Circulation Research

Rui-Ping Xiao frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Xinli Hu, Fengxiang Lv, Yan Zhang, Xiuqin Zhang, and Peng Xie.

Their work is regularly published in several prominent venues, notably:

  • Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • Circulation
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Nature Communications
  • Circulation Research

Best Publications

  • CaMKII is a RIP3 substrate mediating ischemia- and oxidative stress-induced myocardial necroptosis

    Ting Zhang;Yan Zhang;Mingyao Cui;Li Jin

  • Dual modulation of cell survival and cell death by beta(2)-adrenergic signaling in adult mouse cardiac myocytes.

    Wei-Zhong Zhu;Ming Zheng;Walter J. Koch;Robert J. Lefkowitz

  • The β2-Adrenergic receptor delivers an antiapoptotic signal to cardiac myocytes through Gi-Dependent coupling to phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase

    Alan Chesley;Martha S. Lundberg;Toshinobu Asai;Rui Ping Xiao

  • Dysregulation of HSG triggers vascular proliferative disorders

    Kuang-Hueih Chen;Xiaomei Guo;Dalong Ma;Yanhong Guo

  • Linkage of β1-adrenergic stimulation to apoptotic heart cell death through protein kinase A–independent activation of Ca2+/calmodulin kinase II

    Wei-Zhong Zhu;Shi-Qiang Wang;Khalid Chakir;Dongmei Yang

  • Functional coupling of the beta 2-adrenoceptor to a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein in cardiac myocytes.

    Rui-Ping Xiao;Xiangwu Ji;E. G. Lakatta

  • Coupling of beta2-adrenoceptor to Gi proteins and its physiological relevance in murine cardiac myocytes.

    Rui Ping Xiao;Pavel Avdonin;Ying Ying Zhou;Heping Cheng

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

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

  • The in vivo role of p38 MAP kinases in cardiac remodeling and restrictive cardiomyopathy.

    Pu Liao;Dimitrios Georgakopoulos;Attila Kovacs;Meizi Zheng

  • Beta-adrenergic signaling in the heart: dual coupling of the beta2-adrenergic receptor to G(s) and G(i) proteins.

    Rui-Ping Xiao

  • Culture and adenoviral infection of adult mouse cardiac myocytes: methods for cellular genetic physiology.

    Ying Ying Zhou;Shi Qiang Wang;Wei Zhong Zhu;Andrej Chruscinski

  • Increased expression of 72-kd type IV collagenase (MMP-2) in human aortic atherosclerotic lesions.

    Z. Li;L. Li;H. R. Zielke;L. Cheng

  • Recent Advances in Cardiac β2-Adrenergic Signal Transduction

    Rui-Ping Xiao;Heping Cheng;Ying-Ying Zhou;Meike Kuschel

  • Beta 1-adrenoceptor stimulation and beta 2-adrenoceptor stimulation differ in their effects on contraction, cytosolic Ca2+, and Ca2+ current in single rat ventricular cells.

    Rui-Ping Xiao;E. G. Lakatta

  • High Basal Protein Kinase A–Dependent Phosphorylation Drives Rhythmic Internal Ca2+ Store Oscillations and Spontaneous Beating of Cardiac Pacemaker Cells

    Tatiana M. Vinogradova;Alexey E. Lyashkov;Weizhong Zhu;Abdul M. Ruknudin

  • Central role of E3 ubiquitin ligase MG53 in insulin resistance and metabolic disorders

    Ruisheng Song;Wei Peng;Yan Zhang;Fengxiang Lv

  • β1/β2-Adrenergic Receptor Heterodimerization Regulates β2-Adrenergic Receptor Internalization and ERK Signaling Efficacy

    Catherine Lavoie;Jean-François Mercier;Ali Salahpour;Dhiviya Umapathy

  • Age-associated reductions in cardiac beta1- and beta2-adrenergic responses without changes in inhibitory G proteins or receptor kinases.

    Rui Ping Xiao;Eric D. Tomhave;Ding Ji Wang;Xiangwu Ji

  • Beta 2-adrenergic receptor-stimulated increase in cAMP in rat heart cells is not coupled to changes in Ca2+ dynamics, contractility, or phospholamban phosphorylation.

    Rui Ping Xiao;Charlene Hohl;Ruth Altschuld;Larry Jones

  • Chemoproteomics reveals baicalin activates hepatic CPT1 to ameliorate diet-induced obesity and hepatic steatosis.

    Jianye Dai;Jianye Dai;Kai Liang;Kai Liang;Shan Zhao;Shan Zhao;Wentong Jia

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward G. Lakatta
Edward G. Lakatta National Institutes of Health
Heping Cheng
Heping Cheng Peking University
Brian K. Kobilka
Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University
Jianjie Ma
Jianjie Ma The Ohio State University
Walter J. Koch
Walter J. Koch Temple University
Ju Chen
Ju Chen University of California, San Diego
Robert J. Lefkowitz
Robert J. Lefkowitz Duke University
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroshi Takeshima
Hiroshi Takeshima Kyoto University
David A. Kass
David A. Kass Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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