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16217
National Ranking
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Overview

Zhouxin Shen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The work spans multiple subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, and Pharmacology.

Shen's research contributions focus on key topics such as Plant Molecular Biology Research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, Insect Resistance and Genetics, and Plant Gene Expression Analysis.

Among recent publications, the following papers provide insight into their research themes:

  • Genetic elucidation of interconnected antibiotic pathways mediating maize innate immunity (2020) in Nature Plants
  • Dynamic regulation of Pep-induced immunity through post-translational control of defence transcript splicing (2020) in Nature Plants
  • Nitrate triggered phosphoproteome changes and a PIN2 phosphosite modulating root system architecture (2021) in EMBO Reports
  • Plant height heterosis is quantitatively associated with expression levels of plastid ribosomal proteins (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nuclear pyruvate dehydrogenase complex regulates histone acetylation and transcriptional regulation in the ethylene response (2024) in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhouxin Shen include Steven P. Briggs, Eric A. Schmelz, Elly Poretsky, Amruth Chilukuri, and Margaret Kim. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary teamwork within related scientific domains.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Plants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and Gastroenterology, reflecting a range of outlets relevant to both plant sciences and broader biomedical research.

Best Publications

  • Processing and Subcellular Trafficking of ER-Tethered EIN2 Control Response to Ethylene Gas

    Hong Qiao;Zhouxin Shen;Shao Shan Carol Huang;Robert J. Schmitz

  • Integration of omic networks in a developmental atlas of maize.

    Justin W. Walley;Justin W. Walley;Ryan C. Sartor;Zhouxin Shen;Robert J. Schmitz

  • RF1 knockout allows ribosomal incorporation of unnatural amino acids at multiple sites

    David B F Johnson;Jianfeng Xu;Zhouxin Shen;Jeffrey K Takimoto

  • Discovery and revision of Arabidopsis genes by proteogenomics.

    Natalie E. Castellana;Samuel H. Payne;Zhouxin Shen;Mario Stanke

  • Direct identification of the Meloidogyne incognita secretome reveals proteins with host cell reprogramming potential.

    Stéphane Bellafiore;Zhouxin Shen;Marie-Noelle Rosso;Pierre Abad

  • Clustering Millions of Tandem Mass Spectra

    Ari M. Frank;Nuno Bandeira;Zhouxin Shen;Stephen Tanner

  • ELYS is a dual nucleoporin/kinetochore protein required for nuclear pore assembly and proper cell division

    Beth A. Rasala;Arturo V. Orjalo;Zhouxin Shen;Steven Briggs

  • Robust Expression and Secretion of Xylanase1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by Fusion to a Selection Gene and Processing with the FMDV 2A Peptide

    Beth A. Rasala;Philip A. Lee;Zhouxin Shen;Steven P. Briggs

  • Plant elicitor peptides are conserved signals regulating direct and indirect antiherbivore defense

    Alisa Huffaker;Gregory Pearce;Nathalie Veyrat;Matthias Erb

  • GroEL from the endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola betrays the aphid by triggering plant defense.

    Ritu Chaudhary;Hagop S. Atamian;Zhouxin Shen;Steven P. Briggs

  • Activation of the unfolded protein response is required for defenses against bacterial pore-forming toxin in vivo.

    Larry J. Bischof;Cheng-Yuan Kao;Ferdinand C. O. Los;Manuel R. Gonzalez

  • Improving gene annotation using peptide mass spectrometry

    Stephen Tanner;Zhouxin Shen;Julio Ng;Liliana Florea

  • Wnt5a induces ROR1/ROR2 heterooligomerization to enhance leukemia chemotaxis and proliferation

    Jian Yu;Liguang Chen;Bing Cui;George F. Widhopf

  • The Nup107-160 Nucleoporin Complex Is Required for Correct Bipolar Spindle Assembly

    Arturo V. Orjalo;Alexei Arnaoutov;Zhouxin Shen;Yekaterina Boyarchuk

  • Phosphorylation stabilizes Nanog by promoting its interaction with Pin1

    Matteo Moretto-Zita;Hua Jin;Zhouxin Shen;Tongbiao Zhao

  • A Ras signaling complex controls the RasC-TORC2 pathway and directed cell migration

    Pascale G. Charest;Zhouxin Shen;Ashley Lakoduk;Atsuo T. Sasaki

  • Identification of evening complex associated proteins in Arabidopsis by affinity purification and mass spectrometry.

    He Huang;Sophie Alvarez;Rebecca K. Bindbeutel;Zhouxin Shen

  • Reconstruction of protein networks from an atlas of maize seed proteotypes

    Justin W. Walley;Zhouxin Shen;Ryan Sartor;Kevin J. Wu

  • Expanding the Genetic Code of Caenorhabditis elegans Using Bacterial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase/tRNA Pairs

    Angela R. Parrish;Xingyu She;Zheng Xiang;Irene Coin

  • Discovery, Biosynthesis and Stress-Related Accumulation of Dolabradiene-Derived Defenses in Maize

    Sibongile Mafu;Yezhang Ding;Katherine M. Murphy;Omar Yaacoobi

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven P. Briggs
Steven P. Briggs University of California, San Diego
Thomas J. Kipps
Thomas J. Kipps University of California, San Diego
Laura Z. Rassenti
Laura Z. Rassenti University of California, San Diego
Richard A. Firtel
Richard A. Firtel University of California, San Diego
Eric A. Schmelz
Eric A. Schmelz University of California, San Diego
Joseph R. Ecker
Joseph R. Ecker Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Vineet Bafna
Vineet Bafna University of California, San Diego
Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Bing Yang
Bing Yang University of Missouri
Robert J. Schmitz
Robert J. Schmitz University of Georgia

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