Zhixun Dou

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Zhixun Dou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhixun Dou has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Zhixun Dou's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (11 papers), interferon and immune responses (6 papers) and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (4 papers). Zhixun Dou is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (11 papers), interferon and immune responses (6 papers) and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (4 papers). Zhixun Dou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Zhixun Dou's co-authors include Shelley L. Berger, Peter D. Adams, Greg Donahue, Joseph M. Catanzaro, Jiajun Zhu, Richard Z. Lin, Wei‐Xing Zong, Caiyue Xu, Terje Johansen and Ji-An Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Zhixun Dou

29 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Autophagy mediates degradation of nuclear lamina

2015 484 citations Zhixun Dou, Caiyue Xu et al. Nature profile →
SIRT1 is downregulated by autophagy in senescence and ageing

2020 357 citations Caiyue Xu, Lu Wang et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhixun Dou United States	23	1.9k	1.1k	586	584	437	32	3.2k
Frédéric Luciano France	31	2.8k 1.5×	859 0.8×	245 0.4×	1.2k 2.0×	492 1.1×	56	4.3k
David H. Perlmutter United States	30	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	315 0.5×	438 0.8×	1.0k 2.3×	54	3.8k
Ellen Triantafellow United States	7	2.2k 1.2×	506 0.5×	358 0.6×	434 0.7×	404 0.9×	9	3.2k
Akito Takamura Japan	10	1.8k 1.0×	2.8k 2.6×	346 0.6×	237 0.4×	821 1.9×	13	3.6k
Nabil Djouder Spain	25	1.1k 0.6×	472 0.4×	251 0.4×	437 0.7×	241 0.6×	47	2.2k
Brian C. Capell United States	24	2.5k 1.4×	460 0.4×	562 1.0×	272 0.5×	366 0.8×	44	3.4k
Toshiaki Inoue Japan	25	1.6k 0.9×	502 0.5×	286 0.5×	243 0.4×	191 0.4×	62	2.7k
Olivier Pluquet France	25	1.2k 0.7×	562 0.5×	364 0.6×	276 0.5×	921 2.1×	39	2.3k
Alex Lipovsky United States	12	1.9k 1.0×	563 0.5×	362 0.6×	458 0.8×	352 0.8×	17	3.0k
Takayuki Hoshii Japan	23	2.4k 1.3×	531 0.5×	148 0.3×	572 1.0×	227 0.5×	48	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhixun Dou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhixun Dou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhixun Dou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhixun Dou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhixun Dou 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 Zhixun Dou. Zhixun Dou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Yu, Ke Wang, Rong Hu, et al.. (2025). Spleen Transcriptome profiling shows varying immune reactions to poly (I:C) and LPS challenge in the Ussuri catfish (Pseudobagrus ussuriensis). Aquaculture Reports. 44. 103040–103040.

Wang, Weiqi, Zhixun Dou, Huiling Dai, et al.. (2025). RXLR effector SFI5 of Phytophthora infestans suppress MAMP-triggered immunity via inhibition of NbPHB1 in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Stress. 16. 100831–100831.

Leduc, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Limiting the impact of protein leakage in single-cell proteomics. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4169–4169.

Dou, Zhixun, Jill A. Kreiling, Susanne Heynen‐Genel, et al.. (2025). Cytosolic DNA crosstalk in senescence: a new axis of inflammatory signaling?. The EMBO Journal. 44(19). 5239–5243. 2 indexed citations

He, Lingli, Ting Zhao, Wei Zhong Leong, et al.. (2024). AML Stem Cell Clearance By Inhibiting Selenoprotein Biosynthesis That Causes Cgas-Sting Activation and Ferroptosis. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 1354–1354. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Brian, Viral S. Shah, Jiawei Sun, et al.. (2024). Airway hillocks are injury-resistant reservoirs of unique plastic stem cells. Nature. 629(8013). 869–877. 23 indexed citations

Onorati, Angelique, Aaron Havas, Brian Lin, et al.. (2022). Upregulation of PD-L1 in Senescence and Aging. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 42(10). e0017122–e0017122. 75 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhuo, Xiaobo Lei, Xia Xiao, et al.. (2021). Sensing of cytoplasmic chromatin by cGAS activates innate immune response in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 6(1). 382–382. 77 indexed citations

Xu, Caiyue, Lu Wang, Parinaz Fozouni, et al.. (2020). SIRT1 is downregulated by autophagy in senescence and ageing. Nature Cell Biology. 22(10). 1170–1179. 357 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vizioli, Maria Grazia, Tianhui Liu, Karl N. Miller, et al.. (2020). Mitochondria-to-nucleus retrograde signaling drives formation of cytoplasmic chromatin and inflammation in senescence. Genes & Development. 34(5-6). 428–445. 233 indexed citations

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Sen, Payel, Yemin Lan, Simone Sidoli, et al.. (2019). Histone Acetyltransferase p300 Induces De Novo Super-Enhancers to Drive Cellular Senescence. Molecular Cell. 73(4). 684–698.e8. 106 indexed citations

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Wangensteen, Kirk J., Yue J. Wang, Zhixun Dou, et al.. (2017). Combinatorial genetics in liver repopulation and carcinogenesis with a in vivo CRISPR activation platform†. Hepatology. 68(2). 663–676. 61 indexed citations

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Pan, Ji-An, Alex J. Bott, Nadia Jaber, et al.. (2016). TRIM21 Ubiquitylates SQSTM1/p62 and Suppresses Protein Sequestration to Regulate Redox Homeostasis. Molecular Cell. 61(5). 720–733. 217 indexed citations

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Capell, Brian C., Adam Drake, Jiajun Zhu, et al.. (2016). MLL1 is essential for the senescence-associated secretory phenotype. Genes & Development. 30(3). 321–336. 118 indexed citations

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Dou, Zhixun, Caiyue Xu, Greg Donahue, et al.. (2015). Autophagy mediates degradation of nuclear lamina. Nature. 527(7576). 105–109. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Jiajun, Morgan A. Sammons, Greg Donahue, et al.. (2015). Gain-of-function p53 mutants co-opt chromatin pathways to drive cancer growth. Nature. 525(7568). 206–211. 356 indexed citations

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Dou, Zhixun, Ji-An Pan, Hashem A. Dbouk, et al.. (2013). Class IA PI3K p110β Subunit Promotes Autophagy through Rab5 Small GTPase in Response to Growth Factor Limitation. Molecular Cell. 50(1). 29–42. 104 indexed citations

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Jaber, Nadia, Zhixun Dou, Richard Z. Lin, Jianhua Zhang, & Wei‐Xing Zong. (2012). Mammalian PIK3C3/VPS34. Autophagy. 8(4). 707–708. 22 indexed citations

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Jaber, Nadia, Zhixun Dou, Juei‐Suei Chen, et al.. (2012). Class III PI3K Vps34 plays an essential role in autophagy and in heart and liver function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(6). 2003–2008. 299 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhuo, Jie Yin, Zhixun Dou, et al.. (2007). The Calponin Homology Domain of Vav1 Associates with Calmodulin and Is Prerequisite to T Cell Antigen Receptor-induced Calcium Release in Jurkat T Lymphocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(32). 23737–23744. 25 indexed citations

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