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17921
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Overview

Xu Wu is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, specializing primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant body of work also related to Medicine.

Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Plant Science. Xu Wu's work covers a diverse range of scientific topics such as:

  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Their publication record includes several recent papers as follows:

  • "Global characterization of macrophage polarization mechanisms and identification of M2-type polarization inhibitors," 2021, Cell Reports
  • "Lats1/2 Sustain Intestinal Stem Cells and Wnt Activation through TEAD-Dependent and Independent Transcription," 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • "Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) Therapy for Solid Tumor Treatment: Progressions and Challenges," 2022, Cancers
  • "Pharmacological blockade of TEAD-YAP reveals its therapeutic limitation in cancer cells," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Carboranes as unique pharmacophores in antitumor medicinal chemistry," 2022, Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics

Xu Wu frequently publishes in venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Cell Reports
  • International Journal of Biological Sciences

Collaborations form an important part of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including Junhao Mao, Zhipeng Tao, Jennifer L. Cotton, Y. Tony Ip, and Lu Hu. These collaborators have worked jointly on numerous publications, indicating sustained partnerships in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Targeting Wnt-driven cancer through the inhibition of Porcupine by LGK974

    Jun Liu;Shifeng Pan;Mindy H. Hsieh;Nicholas Ng

  • A Stem Cell–Based Approach to Cartilage Repair

    Kristen Johnson;Shoutian Zhu;Matthew S. Tremblay;Matthew S. Tremblay;Joshua N. Payette

  • Interfering with Resistance to Smoothened Antagonists by Inhibition of the PI3K Pathway in Medulloblastoma

    Silvia Buonamici;Juliet Williams;Michael Morrissey;Anlai Wang

  • Dedifferentiation of Lineage-Committed Cells by a Small Molecule

    Shuibing Chen;Qisheng Zhang;Xu Wu;Peter G. Schultz

  • The Renewal and Differentiation of Isl1+ Cardiovascular Progenitors Are Controlled by a Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway

    Yibing Qyang;Silvia Martin-Puig;Murali Chiravuri;Shuibing Chen

  • Discovery of NVP-LDE225, a Potent and Selective Smoothened Antagonist

    Shifeng Pan;Xu Wu;Jiqing Jiang;Wenqi Gao

  • Energy Stress Regulates Hippo-YAP Signaling Involving AMPK-Mediated Regulation of Angiomotin-like 1 Protein

    Michael DeRan;Jiayi Yang;Che-Hung Shen;Eric C. Peters

  • The inhalation anesthetic isoflurane increases levels of proinflammatory TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1β

    Xu Wu;Yan Lu;Yan Lu;Yuanlin Dong;Guohua Zhang

  • A Combinatorial Scaffold Approach toward Kinase-Directed Heterocycle Libraries

    Sheng Ding;Nathanael S. Gray;Xu Wu;Qiang Ding

  • Small Molecules that Induce Cardiomyogenesis in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Xu Wu;Sheng Ding;Qiang Ding;Nathanael S Gray

  • Identification of Serum-Derived Sphingosine-1-Phosphate as a Small Molecule Regulator of YAP

    Eric Miller;Jiayi Yang;Michael DeRan;Chunlei Wu

  • Purmorphamine induces osteogenesis by activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway.

    Xu Wu;John Walker;Jie Zhang;Sheng Ding

  • A small molecule with osteogenesis-inducing activity in multipotent mesenchymal progenitor cells.

    Xu Wu;Sheng Ding;Qiang Ding;Nathanael S. Gray

  • The Mitochondrial Pathway of Anesthetic Isoflurane-induced Apoptosis *

    Yiying Zhang;Yiying Zhang;Yuanlin Dong;Xu Wu;Xu Wu;Yan Lu;Yan Lu

  • Autopalmitoylation of TEAD proteins regulates transcriptional output of the Hippo pathway

    PuiYee Chan;Xiao Han;Baohui Zheng;Michael DeRan

  • Anesthetic sevoflurane causes neurotoxicity differently in neonatal naïve and Alzheimer disease transgenic mice.

    Yan Lu;Xu Wu;Yuanlin Dong;Zhipeng Xu

  • Protein Lipidation in Cell Signaling and Diseases: Function, Regulation, and Therapeutic Opportunities.

    Baoen Chen;Yang Sun;Jixiao Niu;Gopala K. Jarugumilli

  • A Small Molecule Primes Embryonic Stem Cells for Differentiation

    Shoutian Zhu;Heiko Wurdak;Jian Wang;Costas A. Lyssiotis

  • Topical Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinomas in Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome with a Smoothened Inhibitor

    Hans Skvara;Frank Kalthoff;Josef G. Meingassner;Barbara Wolff-Winiski

  • Palmitoylation-dependent activation of MC1R prevents melanomagenesis.

    Shuyang Chen;Bo Zhu;Chengqian Yin;Wei Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Sheng Ding
Sheng Ding Tsinghua University
Eric C. Peters
Eric C. Peters Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Nathanael S. Gray
Nathanael S. Gray Stanford University
Fernando D. Camargo
Fernando D. Camargo Harvard University
William R. Sellers
William R. Sellers Harvard University
Costas A. Lyssiotis
Costas A. Lyssiotis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Randy L. Johnson
Randy L. Johnson The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Barry S. Cooperman
Barry S. Cooperman University of Pennsylvania
David M. Langenau
David M. Langenau Harvard University

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