Hongtao Yu

22.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
172 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Hongtao Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongtao Yu has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Molecular Biology, 94 papers in Cell Biology and 21 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Hongtao Yu's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (89 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (58 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (38 papers). Hongtao Yu is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (89 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (58 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (38 papers). Hongtao Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Hongtao Yu's co-authors include Zhanyun Tang, Xuelian Luo, Marc W. Kirschner, Rajnish Bharadwaj, Patrick Ryan Potts, Guowei Fang, Sibo Feng, James Chen, Stuart L. Schreiber and Bing Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hongtao Yu

167 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Structural basis for the binding of proline-rich peptides to SH3 domains

1994 880 citations Hongtao Yu et al. profile →
Two Binding Orientations for Peptides to the Src SH3 Domain: Development of a General Model for SH3-Ligand Interactions

1994 715 citations Hongtao Yu et al. Science profile →
Noncoding RNA NORAD Regulates Genomic Stability by Sequestering PUMILIO Proteins

2015 664 citations Sung‐Yul Lee, Florian Kopp et al. profile →
The checkpoint protein MAD2 and the mitotic regulator CDC20 form a ternary complex with the anaphase-promoting complex to control anaphase initiation

1998 503 citations Hongtao Yu et al. profile →
Human cohesin compacts DNA by loop extrusion

2019 458 citations Yoori Kim, Zhubing Shi et al. Science profile →
Prolonged activation of innate immune pathways by a polyvalent STING agonist

2021 240 citations Suxin Li, Min Luo et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongtao Yu United States	74	14.6k	7.5k	2.4k	2.1k	1.3k	172	17.0k
Philip Hieter United States	69	18.3k 1.2×	5.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.7×	964 0.7×	167	21.8k
Jan‐Michael Peters Austria	83	21.4k 1.5×	12.0k 1.6×	3.6k 1.5×	4.5k 2.2×	828 0.6×	148	24.0k
Tim Hunt United Kingdom	73	15.0k 1.0×	7.1k 0.9×	4.2k 1.7×	1.7k 0.8×	774 0.6×	159	18.9k
Stefan Jentsch Germany	64	17.0k 1.2×	4.6k 0.6×	3.6k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	106	19.0k
P. Todd Stukenberg United States	54	10.5k 0.7×	5.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	427 0.3×	105	12.2k
Angelika Amon United States	73	15.2k 1.0×	10.2k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	4.1k 2.0×	1.9k 1.4×	166	18.6k
Jonathon Pines United Kingdom	72	14.8k 1.0×	8.5k 1.1×	7.4k 3.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	122	18.8k
Xuebiao Yao China	57	8.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	954 0.5×	762 0.6×	260	11.6k
Mark Hochstrasser United States	70	17.7k 1.2×	5.7k 0.8×	4.7k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	166	20.3k
Helen Piwnica‐Worms United States	70	15.1k 1.0×	5.5k 0.7×	7.2k 3.0×	671 0.3×	1.9k 1.4×	161	18.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongtao Yu

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Sun, Hongwei, Kebing Du, Yan Sun, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Genetic and Phenotypic Landscape of a Chinese Cohort With Retinitis Pigmentosa. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine. 13(2). e70011–e70011. 2 indexed citations

Ji, Yapeng, Song Hu, Yuchen Ji, et al.. (2025). Targeting necrotic lipid release in tumors enhances immunosurveillance and cancer immunotherapy of glioblastoma. Cell Research. 35(11). 859–875.

Cao, Jinghui, Liang Cai, & Hongtao Yu. (2025). Aneuploidy as a cancer vulnerability. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 94. 102490–102490.

Xie, Xuping, Yang Yang, Hongtao Yu, et al.. (2024). Resistance mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro to the non-covalent inhibitor WU-04. Cell Discovery. 10(1). 40–40. 14 indexed citations

Li, Suxin, Min Luo, Zhaohui Wang, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Prolonged activation of innate immune pathways by a polyvalent STING agonist. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(5). 483–483. 5 indexed citations

Li, Suxin, Min Luo, Zhaohui Wang, et al.. (2021). Prolonged activation of innate immune pathways by a polyvalent STING agonist. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(5). 455–466. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

Kopp, Florian, Mahmoud Elguindy, Mehmet E. Yalvaç, et al.. (2019). PUMILIO hyperactivity drives premature aging of Norad-deficient mice. eLife. 8. 70 indexed citations

Choi, Eunhee, Sotaro Kikuchi, Haishan Gao, et al.. (2019). Mitotic regulators and the SHP2-MAPK pathway promote IR endocytosis and feedback regulation of insulin signaling. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1473–1473. 69 indexed citations

Uchikawa, Emiko, Eunhee Choi, Guijun Shang, Hongtao Yu, & Xiao‐chen Bai. (2019). Activation mechanism of the insulin receptor revealed by cryo-EM structure of the fully liganded receptor–ligand complex. eLife. 8. 120 indexed citations

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Kim, Yoori, Zhubing Shi, Hongshan Zhang, Ilya J. Finkelstein, & Hongtao Yu. (2019). Human cohesin compacts DNA by loop extrusion. Science. 366(6471). 1345–1349. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Christine C., Bing Li, Hongtao Yu, & Michael J. Matunis. (2018). Sumoylation promotes optimal APC/C activation and timely anaphase. eLife. 7. 28 indexed citations

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Soardi, Fernanda Caroline, Alice Machado-Silva, Natália D. Linhares, et al.. (2017). Familial STAG2 germline mutation defines a new human cohesinopathy. npj Genomic Medicine. 2(1). 7–7. 48 indexed citations

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Ji, Zhejian, Haishan Gao, Luying Jia, Bing Li, & Hongtao Yu. (2017). A sequential multi-target Mps1 phosphorylation cascade promotes spindle checkpoint signaling. eLife. 6. 119 indexed citations

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Díaz-Martínez, Laura A., Zemfira N. Karamysheva, Ross Warrington, et al.. (2014). Genome‐wide si RNA screen reveals coupling between mitotic apoptosis and adaptation. The EMBO Journal. 33(17). 1960–1976. 33 indexed citations

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Wu, Nan & Hongtao Yu. (2012). The Smc complexes in DNA damage response. Cell & Bioscience. 2(1). 5–5. 96 indexed citations

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Solomon, David A., Taeyeon Kim, Laura A. Díaz-Martínez, et al.. (2011). Mutational Inactivation of STAG2 Causes Aneuploidy in Human Cancer. Science. 333(6045). 1039–1043. 311 indexed citations

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Stolz, Ailine, Celia Vogel, Verena Schneider, et al.. (2009). Pharmacologic Abrogation of the Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint by an Indolocarbazole Discovered by Cellular Screening Efficiently Kills Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 69(9). 3874–3883. 30 indexed citations

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Yang, Maojun, Jeffrey C. Culhane, Lawrence M. Szewczuk, et al.. (2007). Structural basis of histone demethylation by LSD1 revealed by suicide inactivation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 14(6). 535–539. 148 indexed citations

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Bharadwaj, Rajnish, Wei Qi, & Hongtao Yu. (2004). Identification of Two Novel Components of the Human NDC80 Kinetochore Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(13). 13076–13085. 101 indexed citations

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Xia, Guo-Hong, Xuelian Luo, Toshiyuki Habu, et al.. (2004). Conformation‐specific binding of p31comet antagonizes the function of Mad2 in the spindle checkpoint. The EMBO Journal. 23(15). 3133–3143. 165 indexed citations

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