Chitong Rao

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Chitong Rao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Chitong Rao has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Endocrinology and 5 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Chitong Rao's work include Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (6 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (5 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (5 papers). Chitong Rao is often cited by papers focused on Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (6 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (5 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (5 papers). Chitong Rao collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Chitong Rao's co-authors include Katharine Z. Coyte, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Alexander W. Ensminger, Erwin W. Gelfand, Raif S. Geha, Wayne Bainter, Camilia R. Martin, Sasson Lavi, Howard M. Lederman and Chaim M. Roifman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Chitong Rao

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Multi-kingdom ecological drivers of microbiota assembly in preterm infants

2021 219 citations Chitong Rao, Katharine Z. Coyte et al. Nature profile →

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Jessica R. McCann United States

Keiji Nagano Japan

Jessica A. Sexton United States

Alvin W. Lo Australia

Cora Kooi Canada

Jim Manos Australia

Nidia Correa United States

Tobias Kerrinnes Germany

Shin-ichi Yoshida Japan

Augusto A. Franco United States

Jessica R. McCann United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chitong Rao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chitong Rao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chitong Rao 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 Chitong Rao. Chitong Rao 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

Rao, Chitong, et al.. (2025). Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production in a circular CO2 economy: it's role in mitigating global CO2 emissions. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 219. 108303–108303. 6 indexed citations

Feng, Jing, Xueshan Li, Dingding Fan, et al.. (2025). Harnessing CO2 fixation and reducing power recycling for enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoates industrial bioproduction. Metabolic Engineering. 91. 204–216. 4 indexed citations

Teng, Xinying, Tengxun Zhang, & Chitong Rao. (2025). Novel probiotics adsorbing and excreting microplastics in vivo show potential gut health benefits. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1522794–1522794. 2 indexed citations

Qiu, Yuling, Dingding Fan, Jianxin Wang, et al.. (2025). High throughput construction of species characterized bacterial biobank for functional bacteria screening: demonstration with GABA-producing bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1545877–1545877. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Tianyu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing oil feedstock utilization for high-yield low-carbon polyhydroxyalkanoates industrial bioproduction. Metabolic Engineering. 91. 44–58. 7 indexed citations

Teng, Xinying, Changyin Wu, Tengxun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Lactic acid bacteria reduce polystyrene micro- and nanoplastics-induced toxicity through their bio-binding capacity and gut environment repair ability. Environmental Pollution. 366. 125288–125288. 5 indexed citations

Rao, Chitong, Katharine Z. Coyte, Yancong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Strain-level fitness in the gut microbiome is an emergent property of glycans and a single metabolite. Cell. 185(3). 513–529.e21. 53 indexed citations

Coyte, Katharine Z., Chitong Rao, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, & Kevin R. Foster. (2021). Ecological rules for the assembly of microbiome communities. PLoS Biology. 19(2). e3001116–e3001116. 78 indexed citations

Rao, Chitong, Katharine Z. Coyte, Wayne Bainter, et al.. (2021). Multi-kingdom ecological drivers of microbiota assembly in preterm infants. Nature. 591(7851). 633–638. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coyte, Katharine Z., Chitong Rao, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, & Kevin R. Foster. (2019). Community assembly in the microbiome: ecological insights into infant microbiome development. Access Microbiology. 1(1A). 2 indexed citations

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Rao, Chitong, et al.. (2017). Priming in a permissive type I-C CRISPR–Cas system reveals distinct dynamics of spacer acquisition and loss. RNA. 23(10). 1525–1538. 35 indexed citations

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Urbanus, Malene L., Andrew T. Quaile, P.J. Stogios, et al.. (2016). Diverse mechanisms of metaeffector activity in an intracellular bacterial pathogen, Legionella pneumophila. Molecular Systems Biology. 12(12). 95 indexed citations

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Deng, Xianding, Chitong Rao, Alexander W. Ensminger, et al.. (2015). Genome-based Definition of an Inflammatory Bowel Disease-associated Adherent-Invasive Escherichia coli Pathovar. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 22(1). 1–12. 48 indexed citations

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Rao, Chitong, et al.. (2014). Silencing by H-NS Potentiated the Evolution of Salmonella. PLoS Pathogens. 10(11). e1004500–e1004500. 76 indexed citations

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Rao, Chitong, et al.. (2013). Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia-1 Laboratory Strains through Comparative Genomics. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64129–e64129. 54 indexed citations

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Abdel‐Nour, Mena, Carla Duncan, Akriti Prashar, et al.. (2013). The Legionella pneumophila Collagen-Like Protein Mediates Sedimentation, Autoaggregation, and Pathogen-Phagocyte Interactions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(4). 1441–1454. 36 indexed citations

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Rao, L. Venkateswar, et al.. (1990). Immobilization of α-amylase complex in detection of higher oligosaccharides on paper.. Current Science. 59(24). 1339–1340. 6 indexed citations

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Gelfand, Erwin W., et al.. (1987). Inherited deficiency of properdin and C2 in a patient with recurrent bacteremia. The American Journal of Medicine. 82(3). 671–675. 23 indexed citations

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Rao, Chitong & Erwin W. Gelfand. (1983). Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis in patients with hypogammaglobulinemia and intact T cell immunity. The Journal of Pediatrics. 103(3). 410–412. 25 indexed citations

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Cutz, Ernest, Paul S. Thorner, Chitong Rao, et al.. (1982). Disseminated Legionella pneumophila infection in an infant with severe combined immunodeficiency. The Journal of Pediatrics. 100(5). 760–762. 28 indexed citations

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