Fenglei Du

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 780 citations indexed

About

Fenglei Du is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fenglei Du has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 780 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Immunology, 2 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Fenglei Du's work include interferon and immune responses (3 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (1 paper). Fenglei Du is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (3 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (1 paper). Fenglei Du collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Fenglei Du's co-authors include Baoyu Zhao, Pingwei Li, Banumathi Sankaran, Chang Shu, Jun‐Yuan Ji, Xinsheng Gao, Guanghui Yi, Chia‐Sui Kao, Robert C. Vaughan and Yuanjiu Lei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fenglei Du

4 papers receiving 773 citations

Hit Papers

A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruit... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1
    2019 322 citations Baoyu Zhao, Fenglei Du et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Fenglei Du
R. Travis Taylor United States
Giulia Marsili Italy
Nicolas Gangneux France
Andreas Holleufer Denmark
Kate M. Franz United States
Lianqiang Feng China
Katrina B. Mar United States
Steve C. Ding United States
Turgut E. Aktepe Australia
Tina M. Sali United States
R. Travis Taylor United States
Fenglei Du
Citations per year, relative to Fenglei Du Fenglei Du (= 1×) peers R. Travis Taylor

Countries citing papers authored by Fenglei Du

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fenglei Du

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fenglei Du. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fenglei Du. The network helps show where Fenglei Du may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fenglei Du

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fenglei Du. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fenglei Du 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 Fenglei Du. Fenglei Du is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zhao, Baoyu, Fenglei Du, Pengbiao Xu, et al.. (2019). A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1. Nature. 569(7758). 718–722. 322 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lahaye, Xavier, Matteo Gentili, Aymeric Silvin, et al.. (2018). NONO Detects the Nuclear HIV Capsid to Promote cGAS-Mediated Innate Immune Activation. Cell. 175(2). 488–501.e22. 167 indexed citations
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Zhao, Baoyu, Guanghui Yi, Fenglei Du, et al.. (2017). Structure and function of the Zika virus full-length NS5 protein. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14762–14762. 151 indexed citations
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Zhao, Baoyu, Chang Shu, Xinsheng Gao, et al.. (2016). Structural basis for concerted recruitment and activation of IRF-3 by innate immune adaptor proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(24). E3403–12. 140 indexed citations

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