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Overview

Tao Zhu is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research spans multiple areas including medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on oncology and cancer research.

The main fields of study for Tao Zhu encompass Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant work in the following subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Epidemiology

Their research topics explore diverse areas related to cancer and molecular biology, such as:

  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Tao Zhu has contributed to various research venues with repeated publications in:

  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Cancer Letters
  • Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
  • Cancer Research

Recent scholarly publications showcase Tao Zhu's collaborations and research focus areas:

  • Cancer stem cell regulated phenotypic plasticity protects metastasized cancer cells from ferroptosis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Mitochondria: The metabolic switch of cellular oncogenic transformation, 2021, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer
  • A Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Novel Patterns of Gene Expression During 3T3-L1 Adipocyte Differentiation, 2020, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • CPSF6 links alternative polyadenylation to metabolism adaption in hepatocellular carcinoma progression, 2021, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
  • Breast Cancer Stem Cells Secrete MIF to Mediate Tumor Metabolic Reprogramming That Drives Immune Evasion, 2024, Cancer Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Tao Zhu include:

  • Peter E. Lobie
  • Vijay Pandey
  • Basappa Basappa
  • Mingming Wu
  • Xi Zhang

Best Publications

  • Signal transduction via the growth hormone receptor.

    Tao Zhu;Eyleen L.K Goh;Ralph Graichen;Ling Ling

  • RUNX3 Is Frequently Inactivated by Dual Mechanisms of Protein Mislocalization and Promoter Hypermethylation in Breast Cancer

    Quek Choon Lau;Erna Raja;Manuel Salto-Tellez;Qiang Liu

  • HOXB7, a homeodomain protein, is overexpressed in breast cancer and confers epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

    Xinyan Wu;Hexin Chen;Belinda Parker;Belinda Parker;Ethel Rubin

  • MicroRNA-7 Inhibits Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis of Breast Cancer Cells via Targeting FAK Expression

    Xiangjun Kong;Gaopeng Li;Yan Yuan;Yan He

  • Gd-metallofullerenol nanomaterial as non-toxic breast cancer stem cell-specific inhibitor

    Ying Liu;Chunying Chen;Pengxu Qian;Xuefei Lu

  • Lymphoma endothelium preferentially expresses Tim-3 and facilitates the progression of lymphoma by mediating immune evasion

    Xiaoyuan Huang;Xiangyang Bai;Yang Cao;Jingyi Wu

  • Human growth hormone-regulated HOXA1 is a human mammary epithelial oncogene.

    Xin Zhang;Tao Zhu;Yong Chen;Hichem C. Mertani

  • Comprehensive elaboration of the cGAS-STING signaling axis in cancer development and immunotherapy

    Juyan Zheng;Junluan Mo;Tao Zhu;Wei Zhuo

  • c-MYC-regulated miR-23a/24-2/27a Cluster Promotes Mammary Carcinoma Cell Invasion and Hepatic Metastasis by Targeting Sprouty2

    Xiaoni Li;Xin Liu;Weiyi Xu;Peng Zhou

  • Pivotal Role of Reduced let-7g Expression in Breast Cancer Invasion and Metastasis

    Pengxu Qian;Zehua Zuo;Zhengsheng Wu;Xianyi Meng

  • Long-term pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes promotes breast cancer metastatic cascades

    Xuefei Lu;Yong Zhu;Ru Bai;Zhengsheng Wu

  • Oncogenic Transformation of Human Mammary Epithelial Cells by Autocrine Human Growth Hormone

    Tao Zhu;B. Starling-Emerald;Xin Zhang;Kok-Onn Lee

  • DEAD-box helicase DP103 defines metastatic potential of human breast cancers

    Eun Myoung Shin;Hui Sin Hay;Moon Hee Lee;Jen Nee Goh

  • Activation of fibronectin/PI-3K/Akt2 leads to chemoresistance to docetaxel by regulating survivin protein expression in ovarian and breast cancer cells.

    Hui Xing;Danhui Weng;Gang Chen;Wenming Tao

  • The HOXB7 protein renders breast cancer cells resistant to tamoxifen through activation of the EGFR pathway

    Kideok Jin;Xiangjun Kong;Tariq Shah;Marie-France Penet

  • miR-198 inhibits migration and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by targeting the HGF/c-MET pathway.

    Sheng Tan;Rui Li;Keshuo Ding;Peter E. Lobie

  • The Effects of Autocrine Human Growth Hormone (hGH) on Human Mammary Carcinoma Cell Behavior Are Mediated via the hGH Receptor1

    Karmal K. Kaulsay;Tao Zhu;William F. Bennett;Kok-Onn Lee

  • Identification of miR-26 as a key mediator of estrogen stimulated cell proliferation by targeting CHD1, GREB1 and KPNA2.

    Sheng Tan;Keshuo Ding;Rui Li;Weijie Zhang

  • Janus kinase 2-dependent activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase by growth hormone. Resultant transcriptional activation of ATF-2 and CHOP, cytoskeletal re-organization and mitogenesis.

    Tao Zhu;Peter E. Lobie

  • Gd-metallofullerenol nanomaterial as non-toxic breast cancer stem cell-specific inhibitor

    Ying Liu;Chunying Chen;Pengxu Qian;Tao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter E. Lobie
Peter E. Lobie Tsinghua University
Saraswati Sukumar
Saraswati Sukumar Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chunying Chen
Chunying Chen National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Alan Prem Kumar
Alan Prem Kumar National University of Singapore
Lance D. Miller
Lance D. Miller Wake Forest University
Murray D. Mitchell
Murray D. Mitchell Queensland University of Technology
Suling Liu
Suling Liu Fudan University
Edison T. Liu
Edison T. Liu The Jackson Laboratory
Bingya Liu
Bingya Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Nancy E. Davidson
Nancy E. Davidson University of Washington

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