Kun Ping Lu

27.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
208 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Kun Ping Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Ping Lu has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 168 papers in Molecular Biology, 66 papers in Oncology and 47 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Kun Ping Lu's work include Signaling Pathways in Disease (126 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (55 papers) and Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins (25 papers). Kun Ping Lu is often cited by papers focused on Signaling Pathways in Disease (126 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (55 papers) and Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins (25 papers). Kun Ping Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Kun Ping Lu's co-authors include Xiao Zhen Zhou, Gerburg M. Wulf, Tony Hunter, Akihide Ryo, Pei‐Jung Lu, Yih‐Cherng Liou, Joseph P. Noel, Greg Finn, Yih-Cherng Liou and Tae Ho Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kun Ping Lu

201 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A human peptidyl–prolyl isomerase essential for regulation of mitosis

1996 763 citations Kun Ping Lu et al. profile →
Sequence-Specific and Phosphorylation-Dependent Proline Isomerization: A Potential Mitotic Regulatory Mechanism

1997 654 citations Mike Schutkowski, Minhui Shen et al. profile →
Structural basis for phosphoserine-proline recognition by group IV WW domains.

2000 609 citations Kun Ping Lu et al. profile →
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Mitotic Rotamase Pin1 Suggests Substrate Recognition Is Phosphorylation Dependent

1997 604 citations Kun Ping Lu et al. profile →
The prolyl isomerase Pin1 restores the function of Alzheimer-associated phosphorylated tau protein

1999 588 citations Gerburg M. Wulf, Xiao Zhen Zhou et al. profile →
Function of WW Domains as Phosphoserine- or Phosphothreonine-Binding Modules

1999 582 citations Xiao Zhen Zhou, Minhui Shen et al. profile →
The prolyl isomerase PIN1: a pivotal new twist in phosphorylation signalling and disease

2007 555 citations Kun Ping Lu, Xiao Zhen Zhou profile →
Regulation of NF-κB Signaling by Pin1-Dependent Prolyl Isomerization and Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis of p65/RelA

2003 544 citations Akihide Ryo, Yih‐Cherng Liou et al. profile →
Prolyl cis-trans isomerization as a molecular timer

2007 519 citations Kun Ping Lu, Tae Ho Lee et al. profile →
A Structural Basis for Substrate Specificities of Protein Ser/Thr Kinases: Primary Sequence Preference of Casein Kinases I and II, NIMA, Phosphorylase Kinase, Calmodulin-Dependent Kinase II, CDK5, and Erk1

1996 500 citations Kun Ping Lu et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kun Ping Lu United States	74	17.4k	6.8k	5.0k	2.8k	2.6k	208	21.0k
Dafna Bar‐Sagi United States	81	22.1k 1.3×	9.1k 1.3×	4.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	5.6k 2.1×	185	30.6k
Paul B. Fisher United States	89	16.6k 1.0×	10.4k 1.5×	7.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	568	31.4k
Joel Moss United States	87	12.8k 0.7×	6.4k 0.9×	6.4k 1.3×	6.8k 2.5×	5.4k 2.1×	642	28.9k
Akhilesh Pandey United States	89	20.8k 1.2×	3.2k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	502	31.6k
Stanisław Krajewski United States	72	15.2k 0.9×	5.4k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	981 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	183	22.9k
Michael B. Yaffe United States	90	23.8k 1.4×	5.7k 0.8×	3.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	7.9k 3.0×	279	30.9k
Walter Kölch Ireland	81	18.9k 1.1×	4.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	954 0.3×	3.7k 1.4×	298	25.5k
Melanie H. Cobb United States	93	27.3k 1.6×	5.6k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	5.7k 2.2×	278	37.1k
Peter J. Parker United Kingdom	95	25.3k 1.5×	3.9k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	7.6k 2.9×	406	33.7k
Xuesong Liu China	47	15.5k 0.9×	3.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	231	21.3k

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Wu, Yutao, Kun Ping Lu, Yixiang Liao, et al.. (2025). Comparison of Seven Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Prediction Models for Renal Fibrosis in Chronic Kidney Disease Using Aggregate Index of Systemic Inflammation and Ultrasound Radiomics. International Journal of General Medicine. Volume 18. 6483–6496.

Kim, Dongkyu, Junfeng Gao, Reza Noroozi, et al.. (2025). Generative AI for the Design of Molecules: Advances and Challenges. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(23). 12668–12690.

Stewart, Robert C., et al.. (2025). Covalent cross-linking approaches for all-trans retinoic acid-loaded thermo-responsive hydrogels. Soft Matter. 21(23). 4739–4750. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xiliang, Xingyu Liu, Hailun Zheng, et al.. (2024). Improvement of hydrophilicity and formation of heparin/chitosan coating inhibits stone formation in ureteral stents. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 694. 134065–134065. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Dongliang, et al.. (2024). Attenuating intervertebral disc degeneration through spermidine-delivery nanoplatform based on polydopamine for persistent regulation of oxidative stress. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 274(Pt 1). 132881–132881. 5 indexed citations

Amabebe, Emmanuel, Zheping Huang, Sukanta Jash, et al.. (2024). Novel Role of Pin1-Cis P-Tau-ApoE Axis in the Pathogenesis of Preeclampsia and Its Connection with Dementia. Biomedicines. 13(1). 29–29.

Wang, Ruizhi, Kun Ping Lu, & Xiao Zhen Zhou. (2023). Function and regulation of cis P‐tau in the pathogenesis and treatment of conventional and nonconventional tauopathies. Journal of Neurochemistry. 166(6). 904–914. 15 indexed citations

Zeng, Xiaoyan, Stanley K. K. Cheung, Penelope M.Y. Or, et al.. (2023). Astrocyte-specific knockout of YKL-40/Chi3l1 reduces Aβ burden and restores memory functions in 5xFAD mice. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 20(1). 11 indexed citations

Li, Rongpeng, et al.. (2023). Alternate Learning based Sparse Semantic Communications for Visual Transmission. 1. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jichuang, Nan Zhang, Wenxian Lu, et al.. (2018). Pin1 inhibition reverses the acquired resistance of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells to Regorafenib via the Gli1/Snail/E-cadherin pathway. Cancer Letters. 444. 82–93. 47 indexed citations

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Albayram, Önder, Megan K. Herbert, Asami Kondo, et al.. (2016). Function and regulation of tau conformations in the development and treatment of traumatic brain injury and neurodegeneration. Cell & Bioscience. 6(1). 59–59. 42 indexed citations

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Gong, Chang, Dong-Young Lee, Hai Hu, et al.. (2014). Prolyl Isomerase Pin1 Acts Downstream of miR200c to Promote Cancer Stem–like Cell Traits in Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 74(13). 3603–3616. 66 indexed citations

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Chang, Che‐Chang, Tae Ho Lee, Man‐Li Luo, et al.. (2013). SENP1 deSUMOylates and Regulates Pin1 Protein Activity and Cellular Function. Cancer Research. 73(13). 3951–3962. 73 indexed citations

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Lu, Kun Ping, Benjamin C. Moeller, & James A. Swenberg. (2010). Further Considerations for the Implausibility of Leukemia Induction by Formaldehyde. Toxicological Sciences. 120(1). 233–233. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Gaofeng, Yongjun Fan, Nupur Gupta, et al.. (2009). Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase Pin1 Markedly Enhances the Oncogenic Activity of the Rel Proteins in the Nuclear Factor-κB Family. Cancer Research. 69(11). 4589–4597. 33 indexed citations

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Ryo, Akihide, Gerburg M. Wulf, Tae Ho Lee, & Kun Ping Lu. (2009). Pinning down HER2–ER crosstalk in SMRT regulation. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 34(4). 162–165. 17 indexed citations

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Kim, Kyung‐Tae, Pat P. Ongusaha, Young‐Kwon Hong, et al.. (2004). Function of Drg1/Rit42 in p53-dependent Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(37). 38597–38602. 52 indexed citations

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Wulf, Gerburg M., et al.. (2004). Modeling breast cancer in vivo and ex vivo reveals an essential role of Pin1 in tumorigenesis. The EMBO Journal. 23(16). 3397–3407. 162 indexed citations

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Ryo, Akihide, Masafumi Nakamura, Gerburg M. Wulf, Yih-Cherng Liou, & Kun Ping Lu. (2001). Pin1 regulates turnover and subcellular localization of β-catenin by inhibiting its interaction with APC. Nature Cell Biology. 3(9). 793–801. 413 indexed citations

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Schutkowski, Mike, Anne Bernhardt, Xiao Zhen Zhou, et al.. (1998). Role of Phosphorylation in Determining the Backbone Dynamics of the Serine/Threonine-Proline Motif and Pin1 Substrate Recognition. Biochemistry. 37(16). 5566–5575. 141 indexed citations

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