Junhao Mao

9.2k citations

59 papers · 6.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Cell Biology top 0.5%
- Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
Molecular Biology top 1%
- Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
- Cancer-related gene regulation
- Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Bone Metabolism and Diseases
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation

Papers in

Cell Biology 23
- Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ 22
Developmental Biology 2

Co-authors: Dianqing Wu Andrew P. McMahon Huidong Yuan Joseph L. Belsky Anita Farhi Lynn M. Boyden Mary Ann Mitnick Richard P. Lifton
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (7 papers)Developmental Cell (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Development (4 papers)eLife (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Japan

In The Last Decade

Junhao Mao

59 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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High Bone Density Due to a Mutation in LDL-Receptor–Related Protein 5 2002 · 1.2k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2002 New England Journal of Medicine
2001 Molecular Cell

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#	Work
1	Microglia promote inflammatory cell death upon neuronal mitochondrial impairment during neurodegeneration Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Guangyan Miao, Tina M. Fortier, Haibo Liu, Dorothy P. Schafer, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Junhao Mao, Eric H. Baehrecke	2025	2
2	Aluminum-tuned the strength-ductility synergy in Ti50Zr30Nb20-xAlx refractory medium-entropy alloys Materials Science and Engineering A ·Kunchuan Wang, Kai Xiong, Yunyang Ye, Zixing Li, Linbo Deng, Zhangyi Chen, Junhao Mao, Shunmeng Zhang, Yingxu Wang	2025	1
3	VGLL2 and TEAD1 fusion proteins identified in human sarcoma drive YAP/TAZ-independent tumorigenesis by engaging EP300 eLife ·Susu Guo, Xiaodi Hu, Jennifer L. Cotton, Lifang Ma, Qi Li, Jiangtao Cui, Yongjie Wang, Ritesh Thakare, Zhipeng Tao, Y. Tony Ip, Xu Wu, Jiayi Wang, Junhao Mao	2025	1
4	VGLL2 and TEAD1 fusion proteins identified in human sarcoma drive YAP/TAZ-independent tumorigenesis by engaging EP300 eLife ·Susu Guo, Xiaodi Hu, Jennifer L. Cotton, Lifang Ma, Qi Li, Jiangtao Cui, Yongjie Wang, Ritesh Thakare, Zhipeng Tao, Y. Tony Ip, Xu Wu, Jiayi Wang, Junhao Mao	2024	3
5	Two Hippo signaling modules orchestrate liver size and tumorigenesis The EMBO Journal ·Sixian Qi, Zhenxing Zhong, Yuwen Zhu, Yebin Wang, Mingyue Ma, Yu Wang, Xincheng Liu, Ruxin Jin, Zhihan Jiao, Rui Zhu, Zhao Sha, Kyvan Dang, Ying Liu, Dae‐Sik Lim, Junhao Mao, Lei Zhang, Fa‐Xing Yu	2023	33
6	Pharmacological blockade of TEAD–YAP reveals its therapeutic limitation in cancer cells Nature Communications ·Yang Sun, Lu Hu, Zhipeng Tao, Gopala K. Jarugumilli, Hannah Erb, Alka Singh, Qi Li, Jennifer L. Cotton, Patricia Greninger, Regina K. Egan, Y. Tony Ip, Cyril H. Benes, Jianwei Che, Junhao Mao, Xu Wu	2022	70
7	Deletion of Lats1/2 in adult kidney epithelia leads to renal cell carcinoma Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Phoebe Carter, Ulrike Schnell, Christopher Chaney, Betty Tong, Xinchao Pan, Jianhua Ye, Glenda Mernaugh, Jennifer L. Cotton, Vitaly Margulis, Junhao Mao, Roy Zent, Bret M. Evers, Payal Kapur, Thomas J. Carroll	2021	14
8	YAP1/TAZ drives ependymoma-like tumour formation in mice Nature Communications ·Noreen Eder, Federico Roncaroli, Marie‐Charlotte Domart, Stuart Horswell, Felipe Andreiuolo, Helen R. Flynn, André T. Lopes, Suzanne Claxton, John‐Paul Kilday, Lucy Collinson, Junhao Mao, Torsten Pietsch, Barry J. Thompson, Ambrosius P. Snijders, Sila K. Ultanir	2020	34
9	YAP/TAZ deficiency reprograms macrophage phenotype and improves infarct healing and cardiac function after myocardial infarction PLoS Biology ·Masum M. Mia, Dasan Mary Cibi, Siti Aishah Binte Abdul Ghani, Weihua Song, Nicole Tee, Sujoy Ghosh, Junhao Mao, Eric N. Olson, Manvendra K. Singh	2020	122
10	YAP/TAZ Activation Drives Uveal Melanoma Initiation and Progression Cell Reports ·Huapeng Li, Qi Li, Kyvan Dang, Shan Ma, Jennifer L. Cotton, Sun Yang, Lihua Julie Zhu, April Deng, Y. Tony Ip, Randy L. Johnson, Xu Wu, Claudio Punzo, Junhao Mao	2019	57
11	YAP drives cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma formation and progression eLife ·Zoé I. Vincent‐Mistiaen, Ahmed Elbediwy, Hannah Vanyai, Jennifer L. Cotton, Gordon Stamp, Emma Nye, Bradley Spencer‐Dene, Gareth J. Thomas, Junhao Mao, Barry J. Thompson	2018	44
12	Ingestion of Food Particles Regulates the Mechanosensing Misshapen-Yorkie Pathway in Drosophila Intestinal Growth Developmental Cell ·Qi Li, Niraj K. Nirala, Yingchao Nie, Hsi‐Ju Chen, Gary R. Ostroff, Junhao Mao, Qi Wang, Lan Xu, Y. Tony Ip	2018	38
13	IKBKE Is Required during KRAS-Induced Pancreatic Tumorigenesis Cancer Research ·Mihir Rajurkar, Kyvan Dang, Maite G. Fernández‐Barrena, Xiangfan Liu, Martín E. Fernández-Zapico, Brian C. Lewis, Junhao Mao	2017	33
14	A Predictive Model of Bifunctional Transcription Factor Signaling during Embryonic Tissue Patterning Developmental Cell ·Jan Philipp Junker, Kevin A. Peterson, Yuichi Nishi, Junhao Mao, Andrew McMahon, Alexander van Oudenaarden	2014	26
15	Mutations in Hedgehog pathway genes in fetal rhabdomyomas The Journal of Pathology ·Simone Hettmer, Lisa A. Teot, Paul Van Hummelen, Laura E. MacConaill, Roderick T. Bronson, C. Dall’Osso, Junhao Mao, Andrew P. McMahon, Peter J. Gruber, Holcombe E. Grier, Carlos Rodríguez‐Galindo, Christopher D.�M. Fletcher, Amy J. Wagers	2013	22
16	Acquisition of Granule Neuron Precursor Identity Is a Critical Determinant of Progenitor Cell Competence to Form Shh-Induced Medulloblastoma Cancer Cell ·Ulrich Schüller, Vivi M. Heine, Junhao Mao, Alvin T. Kho, Allison K. Dillon, Young-Goo Han, Emmanuelle Huillard, Tao Sun, Azra H. Ligon, Ying Qian, Qiufu Ma, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, Andrew P. McMahon, David H. Rowitch, Keith L. Ligon	2008	456
17	A Novel Somatic Mouse Model to Survey Tumorigenic Potential Applied to the Hedgehog Pathway Cancer Research ·Junhao Mao, Keith L. Ligon, Elena Y. Rakhlin, Sarah P. Thayer, Roderick T. Bronson, David H. Rowitch, Andrew P. McMahon	2006	211
18	Regulation of Gli1 Transcriptional Activity in the Nucleus by Dyrk1 Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Junhao Mao, Peter Maye, Priit Kogerman, Francisco J. Tejedor, Rune Toftgård, Wei Xie, Guanqing Wu, Dianqing Wu	2002	155
19	Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5 Binds to Axin and Regulates the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway Molecular Cell ·Junhao Mao, Jiyong Wang, Bo Liu, Weijun Pan, Gist H. Farr, Christopher Flynn, Huidong Yuan, Shinji Takada, David Kimelman, Li Lin, Dianqing Wu Hit paper breakdown →	2001	677
20	Tec/Bmx non-receptor tyrosine kinases are involved in regulation of Rho and serum response factor by Galpha 12/13 The EMBO Journal ·Junhao Mao	1998	82

About Junhao Mao

Junhao Mao is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Aging and Immunology and Allergy, having authored 59 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (22 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (16 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (16 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (11 papers), Tumors and Oncological Cases (7 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), Kruppel-like factors research (5 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (1.4k citations), Molecular Biology (5.3k citations), Genetics (1.2k citations), Oncology (1.2k citations) and Genetics (424 citations). Junhao Mao has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Dianqing Wu, Andrew P. McMahon, Huidong Yuan, Joseph L. Belsky, Anita Farhi, Lynn M. Boyden, Mary Ann Mitnick, Richard P. Lifton, Karl Insogna and Toyoaki Tenzen. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Developmental Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Development and eLife.

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