Jiajie Diao

10.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Jiajie Diao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiajie Diao has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Cell Biology and 31 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jiajie Diao's work include Cellular transport and secretion (43 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (43 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers). Jiajie Diao is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (43 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (43 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers). Jiajie Diao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Jiajie Diao's co-authors include Axel T. Brünger, Ying Lai, Zhiqi Tian, Minjoung Kyoung, Richard A. Pfuetzner, Daniel J. Cipriano, Yunxiang Zhang, Qixin Chen, Sandro Vivona and Minglei Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Jiajie Diao

134 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ATG14 promotes membrane tethering and fusion of autophagosomes to endolysosomes

2015 443 citations Jiajie Diao, Ying Lai et al. profile →
Native α-synuclein induces clustering of synaptic-vesicle mimics via binding to phospholipids and synaptobrevin-2/VAMP2

2013 276 citations Jiajie Diao, Jacqueline Burré et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jiajie Diao United States	40	2.8k	1.6k	992	788	711	144	5.1k
Masataka Kinjo Japan	41	4.3k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	432 0.4×	700 0.9×	592 0.8×	206	6.5k
Diane L. Barber United States	44	5.6k 2.0×	1.2k 0.8×	971 1.0×	637 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	93	9.2k
Jyoti K. Jaiswal United States	38	4.3k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	2.4k 3.1×	552 0.8×	91	6.9k
Sushmita Mukherjee United States	34	3.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	668 0.7×	259 0.3×	352 0.5×	74	5.6k
Minglei Zhao China	41	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	772 0.8×	2.1k 2.7×	484 0.7×	151	6.5k
Dieter G. Weiss Germany	39	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	706 0.7×	882 1.1×	982 1.4×	180	5.5k
Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle United Kingdom	41	2.5k 0.9×	590 0.4×	580 0.6×	734 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	121	5.5k
Maciej S. Lesniak United States	60	4.5k 1.6×	310 0.2×	2.2k 2.2×	580 0.7×	290 0.4×	253	11.7k
Daniela Rotin Canada	61	10.0k 3.5×	2.1k 1.3×	567 0.6×	388 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	125	13.0k
Jian Chen China	44	4.4k 1.5×	483 0.3×	613 0.6×	390 0.5×	758 1.1×	195	8.7k

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He, Qi, et al.. (2025). Bisphenol A promotes OSCC progression via GABBR1-mediated MAPK signaling and macrophage polarization: A network toxicology based study. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 303. 118835–118835.

Diao, Jiajie, et al.. (2025). Study on the Mechanism of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets Loading Sr2+ Used in Photothermal Antibacterial Treatment. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 20. 1119–1132.

Zhou, Lei, Ting Liang, Jiajie Diao, et al.. (2025). External field induced high speed sintering of polyurethane covalent adaptable network. Polymer. 334. 128735–128735.

Wang, Xi, Bing Zhang, Jiajie Diao, et al.. (2025). Maresin1 ameliorates osseointegration in type 2 diabetes mellitus by promoting FAM134B-mediated ER-phagy in osteoblasts. Biochemical Pharmacology. 240. 117099–117099.

Diao, Jiajie, Calvin K. Yip, & Qing Zhong. (2024). Molecular structures and function of the autophagosome-lysosome fusion machinery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

Guo, Jiaqi, Qian‐Feng Qiu, Michael M. Norton, et al.. (2024). Cell-Free Nonequilibrium Assembly for Hierarchical Protein/Peptide Nanopillars. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26102–26112. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Chuchu, Chunyu Zhao, Zhenying Liu, et al.. (2024). N-acetylation of α-synuclein enhances synaptic vesicle clustering mediated by α-synuclein and lysophosphatidylcholine. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

Qiu, Kangqiang, Guan‐Qun Han, Bidyut Kumar Kundu, et al.. (2023). Quantifying cell viability through organelle ratiometric probing. Chemical Science. 14(37). 10236–10248. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Qixin, Liu‐Yi Liu, Zhiqi Tian, et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial nucleoid condensates drive peripheral fission through high membrane curvature. Cell Reports. 42(12). 113472–113472. 14 indexed citations

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Qiu, Kangqiang, Weiwei Zou, Hongbao Fang, et al.. (2023). Optical modulation of mitochondrial morphology and functions. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 97a–98a. 1 indexed citations

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Lai, Ying, Chunyu Zhao, Chuchu Wang, et al.. (2023). Neutral lysophosphatidylcholine mediates α-synuclein-induced synaptic vesicle clustering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(44). e2310174120–e2310174120. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuxin, et al.. (2023). Programmable Digital-Microfluidic Biochips for SARS-CoV-2 Detection. Bioengineering. 10(8). 923–923. 3 indexed citations

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Bu, Bing, Zhiqi Tian, Dechang Li, et al.. (2023). Double-Transmembrane Domain of SNAREs Decelerates the Fusion by Increasing the Protein-Lipid Mismatch. Journal of Molecular Biology. 435(13). 168089–168089. 1 indexed citations

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Fang, Hongbao & Jiajie Diao. (2020). De Novo-Designed Near-Infrared Nano-Aggregates for the Superresolution Monitoring of Lysosomes in Cells, in Whole Organoids, and In Vivo. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 478a–478a. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Chuchu, Jia Tu, Shengnan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Different regions of synaptic vesicle membrane regulate VAMP2 conformation for the SNARE assembly. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1531–1531. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Liu‐Yi, Hongbao Fang, Qixin Chen, et al.. (2020). Multiple‐Color Platinum Complex with Super‐Large Stokes Shift for Super‐Resolution Imaging of Autolysosome Escape. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(43). 19229–19236. 70 indexed citations

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Malmersjö, Seth, Serena Di Palma, Jiajie Diao, et al.. (2016). Phosphorylation of residues inside the SNARE complex suppresses secretory vesicle fusion. The EMBO Journal. 35(16). 1810–1821. 33 indexed citations

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Diao, Jiajie, et al.. (2016). In Vitro Reconstitution of Autophagosome–Lysosome Fusion. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 587. 365–376. 17 indexed citations

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Diao, Jiajie, Patricia Grob, Daniel J. Cipriano, et al.. (2012). Synaptic proteins promote calcium-triggered fast transition from point contact to full fusion. eLife. 1. e00109–e00109. 137 indexed citations

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Kyoung, Minjoung, Ankita Srivastava, Yunxiang Zhang, et al.. (2011). In vitro system capable of differentiating fast Ca ²⁺ -triggered content mixing from lipid exchange for mechanistic studies of neurotransmitter release. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(29). E304–13. 133 indexed citations

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