Fei Sun

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
219 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Fei Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fei Sun has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Structural Biology and 34 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Fei Sun's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (40 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (19 papers). Fei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (40 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (19 papers). Fei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Fei Sun's co-authors include Yujia Zhai, Zihe Rao, Mark Bartlam, Yun Zhu, Dan Su, Jian-Xing Xu, Aojin Wang, Xia Huo, Kai Zhang and Shibo Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fei Sun

209 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) infection by a highly potent pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitor targeting its spike protein that harbors a high capacity to mediate membrane fusion

2020 978 citations Fei Sun, Yun Zhu et al. profile →
Crystal Structure of Mitochondrial Respiratory Membrane Protein Complex II

2005 656 citations Fei Sun et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fei Sun

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	PRDetect: Perturbation-Robust LLM-generated Text Detection Based on Syntax Tree 2025 ·Xiang Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Diqing Su, Yi Cheng, Huawei Shen, Fei Sun	0
2	Identification of a stromal immunosuppressive barrier orchestrated by SPP1+/C1QC+ macrophages and CD8+ exhausted T cells driving gastric cancer immunotherapy resistance 2025 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·(unknown), Xiaohan Liu, (unknown), Shaowei Li, Qijing Wu, Bishan Liang, Fei Sun, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Min Shi, Qiong Huang	1
3	DeepETPicker: Fast and accurate 3D particle picking for cryo-electron tomography using weakly supervised deep learning 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Guole Liu, Tongxin Niu, (unknown), Yun Zhu, Fei Sun, Ge Yang	13
4	Direct antifungal activity of methyl salicylate on soft rot caused by Rhizopus stolonifer and its membrane targeting mechanism 2024 ·Postharvest Biology and Technology ·Qianqian Liu, Qingmin Chen, Hu Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Fei Sun, Maorun Fu, (unknown), (unknown)	5
5	Modeling the Co-permeation of hydrogen isotopes through metals in all rate-limited regimes 2024 ·Journal of Nuclear Materials ·(unknown), Xiaoqiu Ye, Changan Chen, Fei Sun, Wei Jin, Xuxu Liu	2
6	Cross‐species signaling pathways analysis inspire animal model selections for drug screening and target prediction in vascular aging diseases 2024 ·Evolutionary Applications ·Fei Sun, Xingxing Chen, Shuqing Zhang, (unknown), Tianhong Chen, (unknown), Xueyi Li, (unknown), (unknown), Jia Jia	0
7	SARS-CoV-2 NSP3/4 control formation of replication organelle and recruitment of RNA polymerase NSP12 2024 ·The Journal of Cell Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rongrong Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yun Zhu, Fei Sun, Yongxia Shi, Yaming Jiu, Wei Ji, Yanhong Xue, Tao Xu, (unknown)	5
8	Mammalian SLC39A13 promotes ER/Golgi iron transport and iron homeostasis in multiple compartments 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Huihui Li, Yanmei Cui, (unknown), (unknown), Kuanyu Li, Xiaoyun Pang, Fei Sun, Bing Zhou	3
9	In situ structural insights into the excitation-contraction coupling mechanism of skeletal muscle 2024 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Chenyi Liao, Changcheng Yin, Guohui Li, Yun Zhu, Fei Sun	6
10	Immuno-electron microscopy localizes Caenorhabditis elegans vitellogenins along the classic exocytosis route 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Xixia Li, (unknown), Fei Sun, Meng‐Qiu Dong	4
11	Effects of LED spectra on the growth and physiological mechanism of juvenile Sebastes schlegelii. Part I: Growth, feeding and digestion and metabolism 2023 ·Aquaculture ·Songtao Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Yining Zhang, Yingying Fang, Fei Sun, Yanling Wu, Xin Li, (unknown), Qian Zhang, (unknown)	6
12	Young LINE-1 transposon 5′ UTRs marked by elongation factor ELL3 function as enhancers to regulate naïve pluripotency in embryonic stem cells 2023 ·Nature Cell Biology ·(unknown), Xiaoxu Liu, Shiqi Zhu, Peng Xie, Haitong Fang, (unknown), Ke Fang, Fanfan Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yan Wang, Ping Hu, Kai Chen, Fei Sun, Wei Xie, Zhuojuan Luo, Chengqi Lin	17
13	Fusion and expansion of vitellogenin vesicles during Caenorhabditis elegans intestinal senescence 2022 ·Aging Cell ·(unknown), (unknown), Xixia Li, Xi Chen, Fei Sun, Meng‐Qiu Dong	9
14	Long Noncoding RNA PVT1 Promotes Prostate Cancer Metastasis by Increasing NOP2 Expression via Targeting Tumor Suppressor MicroRNAs 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Fei Sun, Kaili Wu, Yao Zhang, (unknown), Zhaohui Zheng, Ming Sun, Yu Wang, Zhongfan Liu, Ying Zhu	1
15	The characterization of Mediator 12 and 13 as conditional positive gene regulators in Arabidopsis 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Qikun Liu, Sylvain Bischof, C. Jake Harris, Zhenhui Zhong, (unknown), (unknown), Andrew Q. Rashoff, William D. Barshop, Fei Sun, Suhua Feng, Magdalena E. Potok, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé, Jixian Zhai, James A. Wohlschlegel, Michael Carey, (unknown), Steven E. Jacobsen	23
16	A single-cell transcriptomic landscape of primate arterial aging 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Weiqi Zhang, Shu Zhang, Pengze Yan, Jie Ren, Moshi Song, Jingyi Li, Jinghui Lei, Huize Pan, Si Wang, Xibo Ma, Shuai Ma, Hongyu Li, Fei Sun, Haifeng Wan, Wei Li, Piu Chan, Qi Zhou, Guang‐Hui Liu, Fuchou Tang, Jing Qu	95
17	Structural basis of G _s and G _i recognition by the human glucagon receptor 2020 ·Science ·(unknown), Shuo Han, Xinmei Li, (unknown), Peishen Zhao, Antao Dai, (unknown), Linhua Tai, Qiuxiang Tan, Xiaojing Chu, Limin Ma, Thor S. Thorsen, Steffen Reedtz‐Runge, Dehua Yang, Ming‐Wei Wang, Patrick M. Sexton, Denise Wootten, Fei Sun, Qiang Zhao, Beili Wu	110
18	MDM2-P53 Signaling Pathway-Mediated Upregulation of CDC20 Promotes Progression of Human Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Chao Sun, Min Li, Ying Feng, Fei Sun, Liang Zhang, (unknown), Lu Shen, Jingjing Zhu, Jinhua Huang, Junjun Wang, (unknown), Yi Zhang	1
19	Cryo-EM Structure of Actin Filaments from Zea mays Pollen 2019 ·The Plant Cell ·(unknown), Yan Zhang, Yi Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Zhanxin Wang, Fei Sun, Haiyun Ren	19
20	High-vacuum optical platform for cryo-CLEM (HOPE): A new solution for non-integrated multiscale correlative light and electron microscopy 2017 ·Journal of Structural Biology ·Shuoguo Li, Gang Ji, Yue‐De Yang, Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen, Tongxin Niu, Shengliu Wang, Xiao‐Jun Huang, Wei Ding, Xiang Zhang, Mingdong Dong, Wei Xü, Fei Sun	20

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