Erwei Zuo

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Erwei Zuo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erwei Zuo has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Erwei Zuo's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (29 papers), RNA regulation and disease (8 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Erwei Zuo is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (29 papers), RNA regulation and disease (8 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Erwei Zuo collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Erwei Zuo's co-authors include Yidi Sun, Yixue Li, Wenqin Ying, Tanglong Yuan, Hui Yang, Wei Wu, Hao Sun, Liyun Yuan, Lars M. Steinmetz and Hui Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Erwei Zuo

33 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cytosine base editor generates substantial off-target single-nucleotide variants in mouse embryos

2019 555 citations Erwei Zuo, Yidi Sun et al. Science profile →
Off-target RNA mutation induced by DNA base editing and its elimination by mutagenesis

2019 343 citations Changyang Zhou, Yidi Sun et al. profile →
Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clustering

2023 132 citations Qiupeng Lin, Zixin He et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erwei Zuo China	18	1.7k	505	207	171	105	35	1.9k
Julian Grünewald United States	9	1.6k 0.9×	454 0.9×	228 1.1×	163 1.0×	108 1.0×	11	1.6k
Yidi Sun China	18	1.5k 0.9×	433 0.9×	167 0.8×	146 0.9×	106 1.0×	39	1.7k
Kayeong Lim South Korea	14	1.7k 1.0×	521 1.0×	209 1.0×	141 0.8×	83 0.8×	20	1.8k
Heon Seok Kim South Korea	14	1.7k 1.0×	471 0.9×	175 0.8×	217 1.3×	96 0.9×	24	1.9k
Eunji Kim South Korea	11	1.7k 1.0×	424 0.8×	214 1.0×	220 1.3×	66 0.6×	28	1.9k
Luhan Yang United States	9	2.0k 1.2×	605 1.2×	225 1.1×	217 1.3×	61 0.6×	12	2.3k
Wenqin Ying China	16	1.2k 0.7×	384 0.8×	130 0.6×	113 0.7×	58 0.6×	17	1.3k
Chris D. Richardson United States	9	1.7k 1.0×	398 0.8×	151 0.7×	175 1.0×	79 0.8×	14	1.7k
H. Steve Zhang United States	4	1.7k 1.0×	542 1.1×	229 1.1×	109 0.6×	85 0.8×	6	1.9k
Siyuan Tan United States	10	1.7k 1.0×	510 1.0×	263 1.3×	115 0.7×	51 0.5×	22	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erwei Zuo

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

Xu, Kui, et al.. (2025). AlphaCD: a machine learning model capable of highly accurate characterization for 21,335 cytidine deaminases. Cell Research. 35(10). 750–761.

Li, Guoling, Xue Dong, Jiamin Luo, et al.. (2024). Engineering TadA ortholog-derived cytosine base editor without motif preference and adenosine activity limitation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8090–8090. 6 indexed citations

Yin, Lijuan, Chikai Zhou, Bo Qu, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-level genome of Ambrosia trifida provides insights into adaptation and the evolution of pollen allergens. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 259(Pt 2). 129232–129232. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Nana, Feng Hu, Ying Xin, et al.. (2023). Cytosine base editors induce off-target mutations and adverse phenotypic effects in transgenic mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1784–1784. 21 indexed citations

Chen, Qinchang, Guohui Chuai, Huan Guan, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide CRISPR off-target prediction and optimization using RNA-DNA interaction fingerprints. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7521–7521. 36 indexed citations

Yan, Zixiang, Yuqin Yao, Luyao Li, et al.. (2023). Treatment of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by RHO-P23H mutation with high-fidelity Cas13X in mice. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 33. 750–761. 14 indexed citations

Lin, Qiupeng, Zixin He, Hu Xu, et al.. (2023). Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clustering. Cell. 186(15). 3182–3195.e14. 132 indexed citations breakdown →

Gao, Yanxia, Kailun Fang, Zixiang Yan, et al.. (2022). Develop an efficient and specific AAV-based labeling system for Muller glia in mice. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22410–22410. 9 indexed citations

Li, Guoling, Ming Jin, Zhifang Li, et al.. (2022). Mini-dCas13X–mediated RNA editing restores dystrophin expression in a humanized mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(3). 30 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinfu, Hussein M. Abkallo, Yuan Zhou, et al.. (2021). The advancements, challenges, and future implications of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in swine research. Journal of genetics and genomics. 48(5). 347–360. 14 indexed citations

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Yuan, Tanglong, Nana Yan, Juan Meng, et al.. (2021). Optimization of C-to-G base editors with sequence context preference predictable by machine learning methods. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4902–4902. 39 indexed citations

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Abdelnour, Sameh A., et al.. (2021). The Potential of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing as a Treatment Strategy for Inherited Diseases. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 699597–699597. 65 indexed citations

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Zuo, Erwei, Yidi Sun, Wei Wu, et al.. (2020). GOTI, a method to identify genome-wide off-target effects of genome editing in mouse embryos. Nature Protocols. 15(9). 3009–3029. 28 indexed citations

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Ding, Ning, Yidi Sun, Tanglong Yuan, et al.. (2020). Single C-to-T substitution using engineered APOBEC3G-nCas9 base editors with minimum genome- and transcriptome-wide off-target effects. Science Advances. 6(29). eaba1773–eaba1773. 64 indexed citations

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Zuo, Erwei, Yidi Sun, Tanglong Yuan, et al.. (2020). A rationally engineered cytosine base editor retains high on-target activity while reducing both DNA and RNA off-target effects. Nature Methods. 17(6). 600–604. 106 indexed citations

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Zuo, Erwei, Yidi Sun, Wei Wu, et al.. (2019). Cytosine base editor generates substantial off-target single-nucleotide variants in mouse embryos. Science. 364(6437). 289–292. 555 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Wei, Hong Pan, Junyu Nie, et al.. (2019). Identification of the Sex of Pre-implantation Mouse Embryos Using a Marked Y Chromosome and CRISPR/Cas9. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14315–14315. 5 indexed citations

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Zuo, Erwei, Xuan Yao, Xinde Hu, et al.. (2017). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted chromosome elimination. Genome biology. 18(1). 224–224. 139 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenxin, Erwei Zuo, Ying He, et al.. (2016). Promoter structures and differential responses to viral and non-viral inducers of chicken melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5. Molecular Immunology. 76. 1–6. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongbo, Xiangxing Zhu, Xianwei Wang, et al.. (2014). In vitro development of porcine transgenic nuclear-transferred embryos derived from newborn Guangxi Bama mini-pig kidney fibroblasts. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal. 50(9). 811–821. 6 indexed citations

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