Dr Quan Gu

Research Scientist (Virology)

RI of Infection, Immun & Inflam, Centre for Virus Research

Biography

Quan Gu is a Research Bioinformatician at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. Before his position at Glasgow, he was a postdoctoral research associate in Bioinformatics at Imperial College London.

Research interests

Quan Gu's broad research interests include:

Transcriptomics analysis including bulk, single-cell RNA-Seq and spatial transcriptomics;

Machine learning and pattern recognition;

Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrum data modelling and analysis.

Publications

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Number of items: 43.

2025

Chen, H., Charles, P. D., Gu, Q. , Liberatori, S., Robertson, D. L. , Palmarini, M. , Wilson, S. J. , Mohammed, S. and Castello, A. (2025) Omics analyses uncover host networks defining virus-permissive and -hostile cellular states. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, (doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100966) (In Press)

2024

Ruscica, V. et al. (2024) XRN1 supplies free nucleotides to feed alphavirus replication. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.12.09.625895)

Herder, V. et al. (2024) Correlates of disease severity in bluetongue as a model of acute arbovirus infection. PLoS Pathogens, 20(8), e1012466. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012466) (PMID:39150989) (PMCID:PMC11357116)

Herder, V. et al. (2024) A machine learning framework to identify the correlates of disease severity in acute arbovirus infection. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.02.23.581333)

2023

Meehan, G. R. et al. (2023) Phenotyping the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamsters by digital pathology and machine learning. PLoS Pathogens, 19(11), e1011589. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011589) (PMID:37934791) (PMCID:PMC10656012)

Cao, G. et al. (2023) Single-cell dissection of cervical cancer reveals key subsets of the tumor immune microenvironment. EMBO Journal, 42(16), e110757. (doi: 10.15252/embj.2022110757) (PMID:37427448)

Pinto, R. M. et al. (2023) BTN3A3 evasion promotes the zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses. Nature, 619(7969), pp. 338-347. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06261-8) (PMID:37380775)

Hardy, A. et al. (2023) The timing and magnitude of the type I interferon response are correlated with disease tolerance in arbovirus infection. mBio, 14(3), e0010123. (doi: 10.1128/mbio.00101-23) (PMID:37097030) (PMCID:PMC10294695)

2022

Chai, H., Gu, Q. , Robertson, D. L. and Hughes, J. (2022) Defining the characteristics of interferon-alpha–stimulated human genes: insight from expression data and machine learning. GigaScience, 11, giac103. (doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac103) (PMID:36399061) (PMCID:PMC9673497)

Chai, H., Gu, Q. , Hughes, J. and Robertson, D. L. (2022) In silico prediction of HIV-1-host molecular interactions and their directionality. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(2), e1009720. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009720) (PMID:35134057) (PMCID:PMC8856524)

2021

Amat, J. A.R. et al. (2021) Long-term adaptation following influenza A virus host shifts results in increased within-host viral fitness due to higher replication rates, broader dissemination within the respiratory epithelium and reduced tissue damage. PLoS Pathogens, 17(12), e1010174. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010174) (PMID:34919598) (PMCID:PMC8735595)

Herder, V. et al. (2021) Elevated temperature inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in respiratory epithelium independently of IFN-mediated innate immune defences. PLoS Biology, 19(12), e3001065. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001065) (PMID:34932557) (PMCID:PMC8765667)

Wickenhagen, A. et al. (2021) A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19. Science, 374(6567), eabj3624. (doi: 10.1126/science.abj3624) (PMID:34581622) (PMCID:PMC7612834)

Lau, B. et al. (2021) Human cytomegalovirus RNA2.7 is required for upregulating multiple cellular genes to promote cell motility and viral spread late in lytic infection. Journal of Virology, 95(20), e00698-21. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.00698-21) (PMID:34346763) (PMCID:PMC8475523)

Shaw, A. E. et al. (2021) The antiviral state has shaped the CpG composition of the vertebrate interferome to avoid self-targeting. PLoS Biology, 19(9), e3001352. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001352) (PMID:34491982) (PMCID:PMC8423302)

Baksmeier, C. et al. (2021) Modified recombinant human IgG1-Fc is superior to natural intravenous immunoglobulin at inhibiting immune-mediated demyelination. Immunology, 164(1), pp. 90-105. (doi: 10.1111/imm.13341) (PMID:33880776) (PMCID:PMC8358725)

Gallo, G. et al. (2021) Interactions of viral proteins from pathogenic and low or non-pathogenic orthohantaviruses with human type I interferon signaling. Viruses, 13(1), 140. (doi: 10.3390/v13010140) (PMID:33478127) (PMCID:PMC7835746)

Schultz, V. et al. (2021) Zika virus infection leads to demyelination and axonal injury in mature CNS cultures. Viruses, 13(1), 91. (doi: 10.3390/v13010091) (PMID:33440758) (PMCID:PMC7827345)

2020

Dimitrov, D. and Gu, Q. (2020) BingleSeq: A user-friendly R package for bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis. PeerJ, 8, e10469. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.10469) (PMID:33391870) (PMCID:PMC7761193)

Lau, B. , Kerr, K., Gu, Q. , Nightingale, K., Antrobus, R., Suarez, N. M., Stanton, R. J., Wang, E. C., Weekes, M. P. and Davison, A. J. (2020) Human cytomegalovirus long non-coding RNA1.2 suppresses extracellular release of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 by blocking NF-κB activation. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, 361. (doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00361) (PMID:32793512)

Sook Yuin Ho, J. et al. (2020) Hybrid gene origination creates human-virus chimeric proteins during infection. Cell, 181(7), 1502-1517.e23. (doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.035) (PMID:32559462) (PMCID:PMC7323901)

2019

McFarlane, S. et al. (2019) The histone chaperone HIRA promotes the induction of host innate immune defences in response to HSV-1 infection. PLoS Pathogens, 15(3), e1007667. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007667) (PMID:30901352) (PMCID:PMC6472835)

2018

Gu, Q. and Veselkov, K. (2018) Bi-clustering of metabolic data using matrix factorization tools. Methods, 151, pp. 12-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.02.004) (PMID:29438828) (PMCID:PMC6297113)

Selinger, M., Wilkie, G. S., Tong, L., Gu, Q. , Schnettler, E., Grubhoffer, L. and Kohl, A. (2018) Corrigendum: Analysis of tick-borne encephalitis virus-induced host responses in human cells of neuronal origin and interferon-mediated protection. Journal of General Virology, 99(8), pp. 1147-1149. (doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001109) (PMID:30067173)

Chauché, C., Nogales, A., Zhu, H., Goldfarb, D., Shanizza A.I., A., Gu, Q. , Parrish, C.R., Martínez-Sobrido, L., Marshall, J.F. and Murcia, P.R. (2018) Mammalian adaptation of an avian influenza A virus involves stepwise changes in NS1. Journal of Virology, 92(5), e01875-17. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.01875-17) (PMID:29237841) (PMCID:PMC5809720)

2017

Shaw, A. E. et al. (2017) Fundamental properties of the mammalian innate immune system revealed by multispecies comparison of type I interferon responses. PLoS Biology, 15(12), e2004086. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004086) (PMID:29253856) (PMCID:PMC574750)

Bhome, R. et al. (2017) Exosomal microRNAs derived from colorectal cancer-associated fibroblasts: role in driving cancer progression. Aging, 9(12), pp. 2666-2694. (doi: 10.18632/aging.101355) (PMID:29283887)

Klymenko, T. et al. (2017) RNA-Seq analysis of differentiated keratinocytes reveals a massive response to late events during human papillomavirus 16 infection, including loss of epithelial barrier function. Journal of Virology, 91(24), e01001-17. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.01001-17) (PMID:29021401) (PMCID:PMC5709591)

Selinger, M., Wilkie, G. S., Tong, L., Gu, Q. , Schnettler, E., Grubhoffer, L. and Kohl, A. (2017) Analysis of tick-borne encephalitis virus-induced host responses in human cells of neuronal origin and interferon-mediated protection. Journal of General Virology, 98(8), pp. 2043-2060. (doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000853) (PMID:28786780)

Dumas, M.-E. et al. (2017) Microbial-host co-metabolites are prodromal markers predicting phenotypic heterogeneity in behavior, obesity, and impaired glucose tolerance. Cell Reports, 20(1), pp. 136-148. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.039) (PMID:28683308)

2016

Dumas, M.-E. et al. (2016) Topological analysis of metabolic networks integrating co-segregating transcriptomes and metabolomes in type 2 diabetic rat congenic series. Genome Medicine, 8, 101. (doi: 10.1186/s13073-016-0352-6) (PMID:27716393) (PMCID:PMC5045612)

Ratinier, M., Shaw, A. E., Barry, G., Gu, Q. , Di Gialleonardo, L., Janowicz, A., Varela, M., Randall, R. E., Caporale, M. and Palmarini, M. (2016) Bluetongue virus NS4 protein is an interferon antagonist and a determinant of virus virulence. Journal of Virology, 90(11), pp. 5427-5439. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.00422-16) (PMID:27009961) (PMCID:PMC4934764)

Orton, R.J. , Gu, Q. , Hughes, J. , Maabar, M., Modha, S. , Vattipally, S. , Wilkie, G.S. and Davison, A. (2016) Bioinformatics tools for analysing viral genomic data. Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 35(1), pp. 241-285. (doi: 10.20506/rst.35.1.2432) (PMID:27217183)

2015

Gu, Q. , Ding, Y.-S. and Zhang, T.-L. (2015) An ensemble classifier based prediction of G-protein-coupled receptor classes in low homology. Neurocomputing, 154, pp. 110-118. (doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.12.013)

Blomström, A.-L. et al. (2015) Transcriptome analysis reveals the host response to Schmallenberg virus in bovine cells and antagonistic effects of the NSs protein. BMC Genomics, 16, 324. (doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1538-9) (PMID:25896169) (PMCID:PMC4404599)

2014

Hudson, N. J., Baker, M. L., Hart, N. S., Wynne, J. W., Gu, Q. , Huang, Z., Zhang, G., Ingham, A. B., Wang, L. and Reverter, A. (2014) Sensory rewiring in an echolocator: genome-wide modification of retinogenic and auditory genes in the bat myotis davidii. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 4(10), pp. 1825-1835. (doi: 10.1534/g3.114.011262) (PMID:25096539) (PMCID:PMC4199690)

2011

Hudson, N. J., Gu, Q. , Nagaraj, S. H., Ding, Y.-S., Dalrymple, B. P. and Reverter, A. (2011) Eukaryotic evolutionary transitions are associated with extreme codon bias in functionally-related proteins. PLoS ONE, 6(9), e25457. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025457) (PMID:21966531) (PMCID:PMC3179510)

Gu, Q. , Nagaraj, S. H., Hudson, N. J., Dalrymple, B. P. and Reverter, A. (2011) Genome-wide patterns of promoter sharing and co-expression in bovine skeletal muscle. BMC Genomics, 12, 23. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-23) (PMID:21226902) (PMCID:PMC3025955)

2010

Gu, Q. , Ding, Y.-S. and Zhang, T.-L. (2010) Prediction of G-protein-coupled receptor classes in low homology using Chou's pseudo amino acid composition with approximate entropy and hydrophobicity patterns. Protein and Peptide Letters, 17(5), pp. 559-567. (doi: 10.2174/092986610791112693)

Shen, Y.-Z., Ding, Y.-S., Gu, Q. and Chou, K.-C. (2010) Identifying the hub proteins from complicated membrane protein network systems. Medicinal Chemistry, 6(3), pp. 165-173. (doi: 10.2174/1573406411006030165) (PMID:20507268)

Gu, Q. , Ding, Y.-S., Jiang, X.-Y. and Zhang, T.-L. (2010) Prediction of subcellular location apoptosis proteins with ensemble classifier and feature selection. Amino Acids, 38(4), pp. 975-983. (doi: 10.1007/s00726-008-0209-4) (PMID:19048186)

2009

Ding, Y.-S., Zhang, T.-L., Gu, Q. , Zhao, P.-Y. and Chou, K.-C. (2009) Using maximum entropy model to predict protein secondary structure with single sequence. Protein and Peptide Letters, 16(5), pp. 552-560. (doi: 10.2174/092986609788167833) (PMID:19442235)

2008

Jiang, X., Wei, R., Zhang, T. and Gu, Q. (2008) Using the concept of chous pseudo amino acid composition to predict apoptosis proteins subcellular location: an approach by approximate entropy. Protein and Peptide Letters, 15(4), pp. 392-396.

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Number of items: 43.

Articles

Ruscica, V. et al. (2024) XRN1 supplies free nucleotides to feed alphavirus replication. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.12.09.625895)

Herder, V. et al. (2024) A machine learning framework to identify the correlates of disease severity in acute arbovirus infection. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.02.23.581333)

Pinto, R. M. et al. (2023) BTN3A3 evasion promotes the zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses. Nature, 619(7969), pp. 338-347. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06261-8) (PMID:37380775)

Wickenhagen, A. et al. (2021) A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19. Science, 374(6567), eabj3624. (doi: 10.1126/science.abj3624) (PMID:34581622) (PMCID:PMC7612834)

Schultz, V. et al. (2021) Zika virus infection leads to demyelination and axonal injury in mature CNS cultures. Viruses, 13(1), 91. (doi: 10.3390/v13010091) (PMID:33440758) (PMCID:PMC7827345)

Dimitrov, D. and Gu, Q. (2020) BingleSeq: A user-friendly R package for bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis. PeerJ, 8, e10469. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.10469) (PMID:33391870) (PMCID:PMC7761193)

Gu, Q. and Veselkov, K. (2018) Bi-clustering of metabolic data using matrix factorization tools. Methods, 151, pp. 12-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.02.004) (PMID:29438828) (PMCID:PMC6297113)

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Supervision

Qin, Zhiling
The host and viral factors influencing SARS-CoV2 infection and replication dynamics in culture models and human patient samples

Completed PhD students

2017-2022, H. Chai (with David Robertson and Joseph Hughes)

Machine-learning-based identification of factors that influence molecular virus-host interactions

Completed MSc students

2024 L. Hao

2023 K. Zhang

2021 E. Agboraw

2021 C. Bellward (with Shiela Graham)

2021 R. Moody (with Shiela Graham)

2019 D. Dimitrov

2018 J. Lim

2017 G. Yang

Research datasets

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Number of items: 3.

2023

Meehan, G. , Herder, V. , Allan, J., Huang, X., Kerr, K., Correa Mendonca, D. , Ilia, G., Wright, D. , Nomikou, K., Gu, Q. , Molina Arias, S., Hansmann, F., Hardas, A., Attipa, C., De Lorenzo, G. , Cowton, V., Upfold, N. , Palmalux, N., Brown, J., Barclay, W., Da Silva Filipe, A. , Furnon, W. , Patel, A. and Palmarini, M. (2023) Phenotyping the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamsters by digital pathology and machine learning. [Data Collection]

2021

Wickenhagen, A., Sugrue, E. , Lytras, S., Kuchi, S., Noerenberg, M. , Turnbull, M. , Loney, C. , Herder, V., Allan, J., Jarmson, I., Cameron Ruiz, N., Varjak, M. , Pinto, R. , Lee, J. Y., Iselin, L., Palmalux, N., Stewart, D., Swingler, S., Greenwood, E. J. D., Crozier, T. W. M., Gu, Q. , Davies, E., Clohisey, S., Wang, B., Trindade Maranhã Costa, F., Santana, M. F., Carlos de Lima Ferreira, L., Murphy, L., Fawkes, A., Meynert, A., Grimes, G., ISARICC investigators, , Da Silva Filho, J. , Marti, M. , Hughes, J. , Stanton, R. J., Wang, E. C. Y., Ho, A. , Davis, I., Jarrett, R. , Castello, A. , Robertson, D. , Semple, M. G., Openshaw, P. J. M., Palmarini, M. , Lehner, P. J., Baillie, K., Rihn, S. and Wilson, S. (2021) A Prenylated dsRNA Sensor Protects Against Severe COVID-19. [Data Collection]

Shaw, A., Rihn, S. , Mollentze, N. , Wickenhagen, A., Stewart, D., Orton, R. , Kuchi, S., Bakshi, S., Collados Rodriguez, M. , Turnbull, M. , Busby, J., Gu, Q. , Smollett, K., Bamford, C., Sugrue, E. , Johnson, P. , Da Silva Filipe, A. , Castello, A. , Streicker, D. , Robertson, D. , Palmarini, M. and Wilson, S. (2021) The 'antiviral state' has shaped the CpG composition of the vertebrate interferome to avoid self-targeting. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

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