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Xun Lan

Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
Verified email at tsinghua.edu.cn
Cited by 4174

iEnhancer-2L: a two-layer predictor for identifying enhancers and their strength by pseudo k-tuple nucleotide composition

B Liu, L Fang, R Long, X Lan, KC Chou - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Enhancers are of short regulatory DNA elements. They can be bound with proteins
(activators) to activate transcription of a gene, and hence play a critical role in promoting …

Tumour-associated macrophages secrete pleiotrophin to promote PTPRZ1 signalling in glioblastoma stem cells for tumour growth

…, C Chen, BSJ Bian, L Zhang, L Chen, X Lan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Intense infiltration of tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) facilitates malignant growth of
glioblastoma (GBM), but the underlying mechanisms remain undefined. Herein, we report …

Integration of Hi-C and ChIP-seq data reveals distinct types of chromatin linkages

X Lan, H Witt, K Katsumura, Z Ye, Q Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We have analyzed publicly available K562 Hi-C data, which enable genome-wide unbiased
capturing of chromatin interactions, using a Mixture Poisson Regression Model and a power…

Functional and genetic analysis of viral receptor ACE2 orthologs reveals a broad potential host range of SARS-CoV-2

…, M Gong, X Ju, Y Zhu, X Cai, J Lan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The pandemic of COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a major global health threat.
Epidemiological studies suggest that bats (Rhinolophus affinis) are the natural zoonotic reservoir …

Methylation QTLs are associated with coordinated changes in transcription factor binding, histone modifications, and gene expression levels

NE Banovich, X Lan, G McVicker, B Van de Geijn… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic regulator of gene expression. Recent studies
have revealed widespread associations between genetic variation and methylation levels. …

iDNA-Prot| dis: identifying DNA-binding proteins by incorporating amino acid distance-pairs and reduced alphabet profile into the general pseudo amino acid …

B Liu, J Xu, X Lan, R Xu, J Zhou, X Wang, KC Chou - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Playing crucial roles in various cellular processes, such as recognition of specific nucleotide
sequences, regulation of transcription, and regulation of gene expression, DNA-binding …

Caffeine protects against MPTP‐induced blood‐brain barrier dysfunction in mouse striatum

X Chen, X Lan, I Roche, R Liu… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The blood‐brain barrier (BBB) is important physiologically. Pathologically, BBB disruption
has been implicated in a wide spectrum of neurological disorders including Parkinson’s …

scRNA-seq of gastric tumor shows complex intercellular interaction with an alternative T cell exhaustion trajectory

…, W Kang, L Jia, J Xiong, H Hu, Y Tian, X Lan - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) in gastric cancer (GC) has been shown to be important
for tumor control but the specific characteristics for GC are not fully appreciated. We …

An immune-related gene signature for predicting survival and immunotherapy efficacy in hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Dai, W Qiang, K Lin, Y Gui, X Lan, D Wang - Cancer Immunology …, 2021 - Springer
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks the fourth in terms of cancer-related
mortality globally. Herein, in this research, we attempted to develop a novel immune-related …

[PDF][PDF] Large-scale clonal analysis resolves aging of the mouse hematopoietic stem cell compartment

R Yamamoto, AC Wilkinson, J Ooehara, X Lan, CY Lai… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Aging is linked to functional deterioration and hematological diseases. The hematopoietic
system is maintained by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), and dysfunction within the HSC …