Liya Gu

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Liya Gu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Liya Gu has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 14 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Liya Gu's work include Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (42 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (36 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers). Liya Gu is often cited by papers focused on Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (42 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (36 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers). Liya Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Liya Gu's co-authors include Guo‐Min Li, Guogen Mao, Fenghua Yuan, Jian Huang, Feng Li, Dan Tong, Yanbin Zhang, Wei Yang, Steven R. Presnell and Janice Ortega and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Liya Gu

66 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

The Histone Mark H3K36me3 Regulates Human DNA Mismatch Repair through Its Interaction with MutSα

2013 435 citations Guogen Mao, Jian Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liya Gu United States	33	2.5k	1.0k	700	379	280	67	3.1k
Alessandro Cama Italy	33	1.9k 0.8×	923 0.9×	529 0.8×	748 2.0×	102 0.4×	147	3.8k
Lisiane B. Meira United States	31	2.0k 0.8×	248 0.2×	653 0.9×	648 1.7×	180 0.6×	61	2.6k
J G Shelton United States	11	1.6k 0.6×	257 0.2×	368 0.5×	593 1.6×	278 1.0×	11	2.4k
Stephen S. Myatt United Kingdom	15	2.2k 0.9×	393 0.4×	669 1.0×	574 1.5×	172 0.6×	18	2.7k
Kathrin Gottlob United States	7	2.0k 0.8×	191 0.2×	648 0.9×	291 0.8×	221 0.8×	7	2.4k
Olivier Coqueret France	31	2.1k 0.9×	269 0.3×	565 0.8×	1.4k 3.8×	435 1.6×	69	3.4k
Baochun Zhang United States	22	1.4k 0.6×	593 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	765 2.0×	1.1k 3.8×	51	3.0k
Masato Furuichi Japan	20	1.9k 0.8×	243 0.2×	473 0.7×	309 0.8×	78 0.3×	32	2.3k
Toshiyuki Sakamaki United States	19	2.1k 0.8×	232 0.2×	712 1.0×	1.0k 2.7×	236 0.8×	25	2.9k
Juan‐José Ventura United States	22	1.8k 0.7×	214 0.2×	521 0.7×	650 1.7×	472 1.7×	34	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liya Gu

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Li, Xueying, Junqiu Zhang, Junhong Guan, et al.. (2024). Mutant huntingtin protein induces MLH1 degradation, DNA hyperexcision, and cGAS–STING-dependent apoptosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(13). e2313652121–e2313652121. 12 indexed citations

Huang, Yaping, Changzheng Lu, Hanzhi Wang, et al.. (2023). DNAJA2 deficiency activates cGAS-STING pathway via the induction of aberrant mitosis and chromosome instability. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5246–5246. 13 indexed citations

Huang, Yaping, Liya Gu, & Guo‐Min Li. (2023). Heat shock protein DNAJA2 regulates transcription-coupled repair by triggering CSB degradation via chaperone-mediated autophagy. Cell Discovery. 9(1). 107–107. 5 indexed citations

Li, Xueying, et al.. (2021). DNA polymerase θ promotes CAG•CTG repeat expansions in Huntington’s disease via insertion sequences of its catalytic domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(4). 101144–101144. 12 indexed citations

Guan, Junhong, Changzheng Lu, Qihuang Jin, et al.. (2020). MLH1 Deficiency-Triggered DNA Hyperexcision by Exonuclease 1 Activates the cGAS-STING Pathway. Cancer Cell. 39(1). 109–121.e5. 161 indexed citations

Fang, Jun, Yaping Huang, Guogen Mao, et al.. (2018). Cancer-driving H3G34V/R/D mutations block H3K36 methylation and H3K36me3–MutSα interaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(38). 9598–9603. 87 indexed citations

Huang, Yaping, Liya Gu, & Guo‐Min Li. (2018). H3K36me3-mediated mismatch repair preferentially protects actively transcribed genes from mutation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(20). 7811–7823. 67 indexed citations

Gu, Liya, et al.. (2016). MutSβ promotes trinucleotide repeat expansion by recruiting DNA polymerase β to nascent (CAG)n or (CTG)n hairpins for error-prone DNA synthesis. Cell Research. 26(7). 775–786. 37 indexed citations

Yuan, Fenghua, Tanmay Dutta, Ling Wang, et al.. (2015). Human DNA Exonuclease TREX1 Is Also an Exoribonuclease That Acts on Single-stranded RNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(21). 13344–13353. 36 indexed citations

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Barrios, Ysamar, Miguel Andújar, Liya Gu, et al.. (2012). The hMSH2(M688R) Lynch syndrome mutation may function as a dominant negative. Carcinogenesis. 33(9). 1647–1654. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianyi, Jian Huang, Liya Gu, & Guo‐Min Li. (2011). In vitro repair of DNA hairpins containing various numbers of CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats. DNA repair. 11(2). 201–209. 19 indexed citations

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Hou, Caixia, Tianyi Zhang, Lei Tian, et al.. (2011). The Role of XPG in Processing (CAG)n/(CTG)n DNA Hairpins. Cell & Bioscience. 1(1). 11–11. 11 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shuling, Guo‐Min Li, Liya Gu, et al.. (2008). Altered 8-oxoguanine glycosylase in mild cognitive impairment and late-stage Alzheimer's disease brain. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 45(6). 813–819. 96 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanbin, Fenghua Yuan, Daojing Wang, Liya Gu, & Guo‐Min Li. (2008). Identification of Regulatory Factor X as a Novel Mismatch Repair Stimulatory Factor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(19). 12730–12735. 8 indexed citations

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Mao, Guogen, Xiaoyu Pan, Yanbin Zhang, et al.. (2007). Identification and characterization of OGG1 mutations in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(8). 2759–2766. 100 indexed citations

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Guo, Shuangli, Steven R. Presnell, Fenghua Yuan, et al.. (2004). Differential Requirement for Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen in 5′ and 3′ Nick-directed Excision in Human Mismatch Repair. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(17). 16912–16917. 44 indexed citations

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Yuan, Fenghua, Liya Gu, Shuangli Guo, Chunmei Wang, & Guo‐Min Li. (2004). Evidence for Involvement of HMGB1 Protein in Human DNA Mismatch Repair. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(20). 20935–20940. 114 indexed citations

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Murata, Hiroaki, Nada H. Khattar, Liya Gu, & Guo‐Min Li. (2004). Roles of mismatch repair proteins hMSH2 and hMLH1 in the development of sporadic breast cancer. Cancer Letters. 223(1). 143–150. 44 indexed citations

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Gu, Liya, Jianxin Wu, Lu Qiu, C. Darrell Jennings, & Guo‐Min Li. (2002). Involvement of DNA mismatch repair in folate deficiency-induced apoptosis☆. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 13(6). 355–363. 32 indexed citations

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Gu, Liya, et al.. (2002). Mismatch repair deficiency in hematological malignancies with microsatellite instability. Oncogene. 21(37). 5758–5764. 37 indexed citations

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