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44
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World Ranking
19226
National Ranking
7857

Overview

Zhi Liu is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work predominantly focuses on plant science and molecular biology, with additional contributions to biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering. The main topics addressed by Liu include advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, catalytic processes in materials science, plant stress responses and tolerance, catalysis and oxidation reactions, plant physiology and cultivation studies, and plant molecular biology research.

The frequent publication venues for Liu's research include:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • New Phytologist
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Liu has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Jiafeng Pan, Junhua Chen, Fang Deng, Yunbo Yu, and Hong He.

Some of Liu's recent papers are:

  • "Auxin-activated MdARF5 induces the expression of ethylene biosynthetic genes to initiate apple fruit ripening," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "ERF49 mediates brassinosteroid regulation of heat stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana," 2022, BMC Biology
  • "Different MicroRNA Families Involved in Regulating High Temperature Stress Response during Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Anther Development," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Toehold-Mediated Cascade Catalytic Assembly for Mycotoxin Detection and Its Logic Applications," 2022, Analytical Chemistry
  • "Exosome-shuttled mitochondrial transcription factor A mRNA promotes the osteogenesis of dental pulp stem cells through mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation activation," 2022, Cell Proliferation

Best Publications

  • Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies specific for myeloperoxidase cause glomerulonephritis and vasculitis in mice

    Hong Xiao;Peter Heeringa;Peiqi Hu;Zhi Liu

  • A passive transfer model of the organ-specific autoimmune disease, bullous pemphigoid, using antibodies generated against the hemidesmosomal antigen, BP180.

    Zhi Liu;Luis A. Diaz;James L. Troy;James L. Troy;Ann F. Taylor

  • The Serpin α1-Proteinase Inhibitor Is a Critical Substrate for Gelatinase B/MMP-9 In Vivo

    Zhi Liu;Xiaoye Zhou;Steven D Shapiro;J.Michael Shipley

  • Bullous pemphigoid and herpes gestationis autoantibodies recognize a common non-collagenous site on the BP180 ectodomain

    G.J. Giudice;D.J. Emery;B.D. Zelickson;G.J. Anhalt

  • The Role of Neutrophils in the Induction of Glomerulonephritis by Anti-Myeloperoxidase Antibodies

    Hong Xiao;Peter Heeringa;Zhi Liu;Dennis Huugen

  • Tight Clustering of Extracellular BP180 Epitopes Recognized by Bullous Pemphigoid Autoantibodies

    Detlef Zillikens;Pamela A. Rose;Shawn D. Balding;Zhi Liu

  • The role of complement in experimental bullous pemphigoid.

    Zhi Liu;George J. Giudice;Susan J. Swartz;Janet A. Fairley;Janet A. Fairley

  • Gelatinase B–deficient Mice Are Resistant to Experimental Bullous Pemphigoid

    Zhi Liu;Zhi Liu;J. Michael Shipley;Thiennu H. Vu;Xiaoye Zhou;Xiaoye Zhou

  • Mast cells play a key role in neutrophil recruitment in experimental bullous pemphigoid

    Ruoyan Chen;Gang Ning;Ming-Lang Zhao;Matthew G. Fleming

  • Desmosome signaling. Inhibition of p38MAPK prevents pemphigus vulgaris IgG-induced cytoskeleton reorganization.

    Paula Berkowitz;Peiqi Hu;Zhi Liu;Luis A. Diaz

  • A major role for neutrophils in experimental bullous pemphigoid

    Zhi Liu;George J. Giudice;Xiaoye Zhou;Susan J. Swartz

  • p38MAPK inhibition prevents disease in pemphigus vulgaris mice

    Paula Berkowitz;Peiqi Hu;Simon Warren;Zhi Liu

  • Complete FcRn dependence for intravenous Ig therapy in autoimmune skin blistering diseases

    Ning Li;Minglang Zhao;Julio Hilario-Vargas;Phillip Prisayanh

  • A novel subepidermal blistering disease with autoantibodies to a 200-kDa antigen of the basement membrane zone

    Detlef Zillikens;Detlef Zillikens;Yoshie Kawahara;Akira Ishiko;Hiroshi Shimizu

  • A Highly Sensitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Circulating Anti-BP180 Autoantibodies in Patients with Bullous Pemphigoid

    Detlef Zillikens;Jose M. Mascaro;Pamela A. Rose;Zhi Liu

  • A critical role for neutrophil elastase in experimental bullous pemphigoid

    Zhi Liu;Steven D. Shapiro;Xiaoye Zhou;Sally S. Twining

  • Neutrophil emigration in the lungs, peritoneum, and skin does not require gelatinase B.

    Tomoko Betsuyaku;J. Michael Shipley;Zhi Liu;Robert M. Senior

  • Cutting Edge: NLRP12 Controls Dendritic and Myeloid Cell Migration To Affect Contact Hypersensitivity

    Janelle C. Arthur;John D. Lich;Zhengmao Ye;Irving C. Allen

  • Evidence that Anti-Type VII Collagen Antibodies Are Pathogenic and Responsible for the Clinical, Histological, and Immunological Features of Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita

    David T. Woodley;Carl Chang;Payam Saadat;Ramin Ram

  • The anti-desmoglein 1 autoantibodies in pemphigus vulgaris sera are pathogenic

    Xiang Ding;Luis A. Diaz;Luis A. Diaz;Janet A. Fairley;Janet A. Fairley;George J. Giudice

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis A. Diaz
Luis A. Diaz Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
George J. Giudice
George J. Giudice University of Iowa
Janet A. Fairley
Janet A. Fairley University of Iowa
Robert M. Senior
Robert M. Senior Washington University in St. Louis
Detlef Zillikens
Detlef Zillikens University of Lübeck
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven D. Shapiro
Steven D. Shapiro University of Southern California
Grant James Anhalt
Grant James Anhalt Johns Hopkins University
Jenny P.-Y. Ting
Jenny P.-Y. Ting University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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