Gaohua Liu

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Gaohua Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Gaohua Liu has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Gaohua Liu's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Gaohua Liu is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers). Gaohua Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Gaohua Liu's co-authors include G.T. Montelione, David Baker, Rong Xiao, Nobuyasu Koga, Rie Koga, Thomas Acton, Alexander Eletsky, James M. Aramini, P. Rossi and Ivano Bertini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gaohua Liu

64 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data

2008 669 citations Yang Shen, Oliver F. Lange et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Principles for designing ideal protein structures

2012 410 citations Nobuyasu Koga, Rie Koga et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gaohua Liu United States	26	2.3k	1.0k	608	219	214	66	2.9k
Kathleen G. Valentine United States	29	1.8k 0.8×	619 0.6×	633 1.0×	140 0.6×	237 1.1×	57	2.5k
James M. Aramini United States	32	2.5k 1.1×	934 0.9×	753 1.2×	206 0.9×	138 0.6×	102	3.8k
Jochen Balbach Germany	33	2.6k 1.1×	989 1.0×	412 0.7×	198 0.9×	293 1.4×	127	3.4k
Thomas Szyperski United States	26	2.4k 1.0×	661 0.6×	696 1.1×	158 0.7×	95 0.4×	63	3.1k
Bertrand García‐Moreno E. United States	31	3.1k 1.3×	965 0.9×	475 0.8×	99 0.5×	230 1.1×	53	3.8k
Daniel Nietlispach United Kingdom	36	2.7k 1.2×	408 0.4×	608 1.0×	371 1.7×	478 2.2×	82	3.8k
D. Flemming Hansen United Kingdom	33	2.5k 1.1×	957 0.9×	1.4k 2.3×	300 1.4×	173 0.8×	97	3.4k
Munehito Arai Japan	27	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	214 0.4×	87 0.4×	246 1.1×	81	3.0k
Ranjith Muhandiram Canada	13	2.8k 1.2×	744 0.7×	552 0.9×	160 0.7×	362 1.7×	13	3.5k
Valentina Tereshko United States	39	3.6k 1.5×	546 0.5×	286 0.5×	346 1.6×	165 0.8×	58	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gaohua Liu

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Kong, Xiangyu, et al.. (2025). Optimal decision method of demand side flexible resources as power system operation reserve based on master–slave game. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 172. 111095–111095.

Yan, Shuxia, et al.. (2023). A Novel Strategy for Extracting Richer Semantic Information Based on Fault Detection in Power Transmission Lines. Entropy. 25(9). 1333–1333. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Yuanpeng J., Ning Zhang, Beate Bersch, et al.. (2021). Assessment of prediction methods for protein structures determined by NMR in CASP14 : Impact of AlphaFold2. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 89(12). 1959–1976. 32 indexed citations

Aiyer, Sriram, G.V.T. Swapna, Gaohua Liu, et al.. (2021). A common binding motif in the ET domain of BRD3 forms polymorphic structural interfaces with host and viral proteins. Structure. 29(8). 886–898.e6. 26 indexed citations

Sala, Davide, Yuanpeng J. Huang, David A. Snyder, et al.. (2019). Protein structure prediction assisted with sparse NMR data in CASP13. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 87(12). 1315–1332. 16 indexed citations

Song, Fei, Gaohua Liu, G.V.T. Swapna, et al.. (2018). Antiparallel Coiled-Coil Interactions Mediate the Homodimerization of the DNA Damage-Repair Protein PALB2. Biochemistry. 57(47). 6581–6591. 16 indexed citations

Marcos, Enrique, Benjamin Basanta, Tamuka M. Chidyausiku, et al.. (2017). Principles for designing proteins with cavities formed by curved β sheets. Science. 355(6321). 201–206. 96 indexed citations

Liu, Gaohua, et al.. (2017). Reuses of the Ionic Polymer metal composites (IPMCs) with various thicknesses. 1 indexed citations

Koga, Nobuyasu, Rie Koga, Gaohua Liu, et al.. (2012). Principles for designing ideal protein structures. Nature. 491(7423). 222–227. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Raman, Srivatsan, Oliver F. Lange, P. Rossi, et al.. (2010). NMR Structure Determination for Larger Proteins Using Backbone-Only Data. Science. 327(5968). 1014–1018. 201 indexed citations

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Mills, Jeffrey, Gaohua Liu, Arne Skerra, & Thomas Szyperski. (2009). NMR Structure and Dynamics of the Engineered Fluorescein-Binding Lipocalin FluA Reveal Rigidification of β-Barrel and Variable Loops upon Enthalpy-Driven Ligand Binding. Biochemistry. 48(31). 7411–7419. 11 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang, Oliver F. Lange, Frank Delaglio, et al.. (2008). Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(12). 4685–4690. 669 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Gaohua, F. Forouhar, Alexander Eletsky, et al.. (2008). NMR and X-RAY structures of human E2-like ubiquitin-fold modifier conjugating enzyme 1 (UFC1) reveal structural and functional conservation in the metazoan UFM1-UBA5-UFC1 ubiquination pathway. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 10(2). 127–136. 26 indexed citations

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Singarapu, Kiran Kumar, Gaohua Liu, Rong Xiao, et al.. (2007). NMR structure of protein yjbR from Escherichia coli reveals ‘double‐wing’ DNA binding motif. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 67(2). 501–504. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Gaohua, Yang Shen, Hanudatta S. Atreya, et al.. (2005). NMR data collection and analysis protocol for high-throughput protein structure determination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(30). 10487–10492. 90 indexed citations

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Liu, Gaohua, Dinesh K. Sukumaran, Yiwen Chiang, et al.. (2004). NMR structure of the hypothetical protein NMA1147 from Neisseria meningitidis Reveals a distinct 5‐helix bundle. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 55(3). 756–758. 7 indexed citations

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Wong, Hing C., Gaohua Liu, Yongmei Zhang, Charles O. Rock, & Jie Zheng. (2002). The Solution Structure of Acyl Carrier Protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(18). 15874–15880. 101 indexed citations

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Banci, Lucia, Ivano Bertini, Gaohua Liu, et al.. (2001). Effects of extrinsic imidazole ligation on the molecular and electronic structure of cytochrome c. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 6(5-6). 628–637. 30 indexed citations

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Im, Sang‐Choul, Gaohua Liu, Claudio Luchinat, A. Geoffrey Sykes, & Ivano Bertini. (1998). The solution structure of parsley [2Fe‐2S]ferredoxin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 258(2). 465–477. 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Gaohua, et al.. (1997). The effects of imidazole binding on the conformation of cytochrome c. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1338(2). 199–206. 2 indexed citations

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