Charles Ng

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 727 citations indexed

About

Charles Ng is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Ng has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 727 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Charles Ng's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (3 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers). Charles Ng is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (3 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers). Charles Ng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and France. Charles Ng's co-authors include Dan R. Littman, Juan J. Lafaille, Yi Yang, Alessandra Chen, Andrew Sczesnak, Jonathan L. Linehan, Marc K. Jenkins, Mo Xu, Huizhong Xiong and Miriam B. Torchinsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Charles Ng

10 papers receiving 724 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Lactate activates the mitochondrial electron transport chain independently of its metabolism

2023 107 citations Xin Cai, Charles Ng et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers

Charles Ng

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M. Hanief Sofi United States

Arijita Jash United States

Teruyuki Sano United States

Jun Siong Low United States

Ana‐Maria Dragoi United States

Giulia Nizzoli Italy

Matthew E. Long United States

Joern Pezoldt Germany

Chin‐Wen Lai United States

M. Hanief Sofi United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Charles Ng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Ng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Ng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Charles Ng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Charles Ng based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Charles Ng. Charles Ng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Ng, Charles, et al.. (2025). E. coli-activated cellular circuit restrains intestinal inflammatory microbiota-specific T cells and protects against colitis. Cell Reports. 44(10). 116332–116332. 1 indexed citations

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Mesa, Kailin R., et al.. (2025). Niche-specific dermal macrophage loss promotes skin capillary ageing. Nature. 648(8092). 173–181.

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Liu, Jia, Audun Kvalvaag, Anna S. Tocheva, et al.. (2024). Transmembrane domain–driven PD-1 dimers mediate T cell inhibition. Science Immunology. 9(93). eade6256–eade6256. 17 indexed citations

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Cai, Xin, Charles Ng, Tak Shun Fung, et al.. (2023). Lactate activates the mitochondrial electron transport chain independently of its metabolism. Molecular Cell. 83(21). 3904–3920.e7. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

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Viladomiu, Monica, Belgin Dogan, Svetlana Lima, et al.. (2022). Agr2-associated ER stress promotes adherent-invasive E. coli dysbiosis and triggers CD103+ dendritic cell IL-23-dependent ileocolitis. Cell Reports. 41(7). 111637–111637. 10 indexed citations

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Saldana-Morales, Fatima B., Myunghoo Kim, Charles Ng, et al.. (2022). Microbiota manipulation to increase macrophage IL-10 improves colitis and limits colitis-associated colorectal cancer. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2119054–2119054. 49 indexed citations

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Sano, Teruyuki, Takahiro Kageyama, Victoria Fang, et al.. (2021). Redundant cytokine requirement for intestinal microbiota-induced Th17 cell differentiation in draining lymph nodes. Cell Reports. 36(8). 109608–109608. 28 indexed citations

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Wu, Lin, Kate E.R. Hollinshead, Yuhan Hao, et al.. (2020). Niche-Selective Inhibition of Pathogenic Th17 Cells by Targeting Metabolic Redundancy. Cell. 182(3). 641–654.e20. 83 indexed citations

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Ng, Charles, Martin Aichinger, Tung H. Nguyen, et al.. (2019). The histone chaperone CAF-1 cooperates with the DNA methyltransferases to maintain Cd4 silencing in cytotoxic T cells. Genes & Development. 33(11-12). 669–683. 25 indexed citations

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Issuree, Priya D., Charles Ng, & Dan R. Littman. (2017). Heritable Gene Regulation in the CD4:CD8 T Cell Lineage Choice. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 291–291. 26 indexed citations

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Yang, Yi, Miriam B. Torchinsky, Michael Gobert, et al.. (2014). Focused specificity of intestinal TH17 cells towards commensal bacterial antigens. Nature. 510(7503). 152–156. 381 indexed citations

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