Dehua Pei

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
171 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Dehua Pei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dehua Pei has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Oncology and 23 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Dehua Pei's work include Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (52 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (50 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (29 papers). Dehua Pei is often cited by papers focused on Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (52 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (50 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (29 papers). Dehua Pei collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Dehua Pei's co-authors include Ziqing Qian, Patrick G. Dougherty, Ashweta Sahni, P. T. Ravi Rajagopalan, Marina Buyanova, Jinge Zhu, Anne‐Sophie Wavreille, Christopher T. Walsh, Curran A. Rhodes and Qing Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Dehua Pei

168 papers receiving 7.4k citations

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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.

Understanding Cell Penetration of Cyclic Peptides

2019 417 citations Patrick G. Dougherty, Ashweta Sahni et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dehua Pei United States	50	6.0k	1.7k	1.1k	1.0k	829	171	7.5k
Akira Otaka Japan	50	4.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	2.6k 2.3×	1.2k 1.2×	581 0.7×	225	7.9k
Howard C. Hang United States	51	5.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.9k 2.6×	1.3k 1.3×	953 1.1×	122	8.4k
Jens Schneider‐Mergener Germany	47	5.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	357 0.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	124	7.5k
Adrian Whitty United States	40	4.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	882 1.1×	78	6.9k
Hiroaki Suga Japan	63	11.6k 1.9×	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 2.1×	303 0.3×	2.0k 2.4×	349	13.2k
Wei‐Chiang Shen United States	43	4.5k 0.8×	555 0.3×	351 0.3×	612 0.6×	752 0.9×	131	6.8k
John O. Trent United States	52	7.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	647 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	333 0.4×	151	9.7k
Stephan A. Sieber Germany	50	4.9k 0.8×	978 0.6×	2.6k 2.3×	176 0.2×	357 0.4×	236	7.8k
F.F. Vajdos United States	16	4.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	331 0.3×	634 0.6×	965 1.2×	20	6.1k
Jasna Peter‐Katalinić Germany	50	5.7k 1.0×	361 0.2×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	676 0.8×	226	7.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dehua Pei

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pei, Dehua. (2025). Endosomal Escape of Lipid Nanoparticles: A Perspective on the Literature Data. ACS Nano. 19(47). 40293–40303.

Chen, Sijie, Tong Lin, Ruchira Basu, et al.. (2024). Design of target specific peptide inhibitors using generative deep learning and molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1611–1611. 43 indexed citations

Patel, Preeti, et al.. (2024). Cell-penetrating peptides for sustainable agriculture. Trends in Plant Science. 29(10). 1131–1144. 7 indexed citations

Lin, Mingqun, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection by cell-permeable macrocyclic peptides that bind type IV secretion effector Etf-1. PNAS Nexus. 2(2). pgad017–pgad017. 5 indexed citations

Lin, Mingqun, Qi Yan, Khemraj Budachetri, et al.. (2021). An intracellular nanobody targeting T4SS effector inhibits Ehrlichia infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(18). 28 indexed citations

Dougherty, Patrick G., et al.. (2019). Designing Cell-Permeable Macrocyclic Peptides. Methods in molecular biology. 2001. 41–59. 11 indexed citations

Upadhyaya, Punit, et al.. (2015). Direct Inhibitors of Ras-Effector Protein Interactions. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. 16(5). 376–382. 11 indexed citations

Pei, Dehua, et al.. (2015). Screening One-Bead-One-Compound Peptide Libraries for Optimal Kinase Substrates. Methods in molecular biology. 1360. 169–181. 1 indexed citations

Harreither, Eva, Hanna A. Rydberg, Helene L. Åmand, et al.. (2014). Identification and characterization of a novel cell penetrating peptide derived from human Oct4. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Pei, Dehua. (2010). On-Bead Library Screening Made Easier. Chemistry & Biology. 17(1). 3–4. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Tao, Yu Liu, Hung‐Ying Kao, & Dehua Pei. (2010). Membrane Permeable Cyclic Peptidyl Inhibitors against Human Peptidylprolyl Isomerase Pin1. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 53(6). 2494–2501. 64 indexed citations

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Wnuk, Stanislaw F., et al.. (2009). Inhibition of S-ribosylhomocysteinase (LuxS) by substrate analogues modified at the ribosyl C-3 position. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 17(18). 6699–6706. 29 indexed citations

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Pei, Dehua & Anne‐Sophie Wavreille. (2007). Reverse interactomics: decoding protein–protein interactions with combinatorial peptide libraries. Molecular BioSystems. 3(8). 536–541. 11 indexed citations

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Ekici, Özlem Doǧan, et al.. (2006). Altered -3 Substrate Specificity of Escherichia coli Signal Peptidase 1 Mutants as Revealed by Screening a Combinatorial Peptide Library. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(1). 417–425. 16 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Kiet T., Xubo Hu, & Dehua Pei. (2004). Slow-binding inhibition of peptide deformylase by cyclic peptidomimetics as revealed by a new spectrophotometric assay. Bioorganic Chemistry. 32(3). 178–191. 10 indexed citations

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Robien, M.A., Kiet T. Nguyen, Abhinav Kumar, et al.. (2004). An improved crystal form of Plasmodium falciparum peptide deformylase. Protein Science. 13(4). 1155–1163. 21 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jinge, et al.. (2003). S -Ribosylhomocysteinase (LuxS) Is a Mononuclear Iron Protein. Biochemistry. 42(16). 4717–4726. 94 indexed citations

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Kumar, Abhinav, et al.. (2002). Crystals of Peptide Deformylase from Plasmodium falciparum Reveal Critical Characteristics of the Active Site for Drug Design. Structure. 10(3). 357–367. 37 indexed citations

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Wei, Yaoming, Yinfa Yan, Dehua Pei, & Bing Gong. (1998). A photoactivated prodrug. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8(18). 2419–2422. 28 indexed citations

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Payne, Gillian, Lesley A. Stolz, Dehua Pei, et al.. (1994). The phosphopeptide-binding specificity of Src family SH2 domains. Chemistry & Biology. 1(2). 99–105. 30 indexed citations

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