Jiwei Mao

728 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 512 citations indexed

About

Jiwei Mao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiwei Mao has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 512 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Jiwei Mao's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (8 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers). Jiwei Mao is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (8 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers). Jiwei Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and Denmark. Jiwei Mao's co-authors include Yun Chen, Quanli Liu, Haijin Xu, Mingqiang Qiao, Yu Chen, Verena Siewers, Zhi Li, Jens Nielsen, Qilin Yu and Mingchun Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jiwei Mao

22 papers receiving 507 citations

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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.

Relieving metabolic burden to improve robustness and bioproduction by industrial microorganisms

2024 60 citations Jiwei Mao, Hongyu Zhang et al. Biotechnology Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jiwei Mao China	15	396	113	93	52	49	27	512
Daniel M. Lachance United States	8	462 1.2×	96 0.8×	99 1.1×	107 2.1×	23 0.5×	9	564
Teisuke Takita Japan	16	393 1.0×	105 0.9×	71 0.8×	25 0.5×	59 1.2×	70	640
Alma Laura Díaz-Pérez Mexico	13	354 0.9×	74 0.7×	75 0.8×	60 1.2×	38 0.8×	29	543
Oksik Choi South Korea	8	401 1.0×	63 0.6×	160 1.7×	52 1.0×	24 0.5×	11	489
Na Shang China	11	278 0.7×	45 0.4×	59 0.6×	55 1.1×	28 0.6×	24	444
Nicholas C. Harris United States	6	212 0.5×	53 0.5×	38 0.4×	52 1.0×	17 0.3×	6	313
Rüdiger Bode Germany	17	548 1.4×	214 1.9×	132 1.4×	30 0.6×	70 1.4×	45	786
Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim Faraag Egypt	12	151 0.4×	32 0.3×	56 0.6×	51 1.0×	35 0.7×	42	390
Robbert A. Damveld Netherlands	8	316 0.8×	69 0.6×	79 0.8×	124 2.4×	56 1.1×	9	486
Duangnate Isarangkul Thailand	13	172 0.4×	62 0.5×	53 0.6×	56 1.1×	10 0.2×	22	368

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiwei Mao

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Yao, Ruosi, Yaxin Zhang, Xu Cao, et al.. (2025). Identification of a new micropeptide altKLF4 derived from KLF4 that influences myeloma chemotherapeutic sensitivity. Cellular Signalling. 131. 111767–111767. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Lian, et al.. (2025). Sucrose-driven carbon redox rebalancing eliminates the Crabtree effect and boosts energy metabolism in yeast. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5211–5211.

Mao, Jiwei, et al.. (2025). Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for De Novo Biosynthesis of 3′-Hydroxygenistein. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(8). 4797–4806.

Mao, Jiwei, et al.. (2025). Metabolic Engineering of Yeasts for the Production of the Triterpene Squalene: Current Status and Future Prospective. Microorganisms. 13(11). 2422–2422.

Zhang, Yaxin, et al.. (2025). LncRNA H19 ‐Encoded Micropeptide altH19 Promotes DNA Replication and Mitosis in Myeloma Cells by Enhancing the Phosphorylation of CDK2 at Threonine 160. Cell Proliferation. 59(2). e70089–e70089.

Mao, Jiwei, Hongyu Zhang, Yu Chen, et al.. (2024). Relieving metabolic burden to improve robustness and bioproduction by industrial microorganisms. Biotechnology Advances. 74. 108401–108401. 60 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Yaxin, et al.. (2024). The Selective SIRT3 Inhibitor 3-TYP Represses Primary Myeloma Growth by Reducing c-Myc Stability. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 37(6). 1062–1069.

Mao, Jiwei, Yiyi Li, Shengchun Wu, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen removal capability and mechanism of a novel low-temperature-tolerant simultaneous nitrification-denitrification bacterium Acinetobacter kyonggiensis AKD4. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1349152–1349152. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Chang, Qingqing Ye, Chen Ding, et al.. (2024). Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica to Produce l-Malic Acid from Glycerol. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(11). 3635–3645. 6 indexed citations

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Mao, Jiwei, et al.. (2023). Systematic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chassis for Efficient Flavonoid-7-O-Disaccharide Biosynthesis. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(9). 2740–2749. 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Juan, et al.. (2023). Optimizing yeast for high-level production of kaempferol and quercetin. Microbial Cell Factories. 22(1). 74–74. 24 indexed citations

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Mao, Jiwei, Jing Fu, Xiaowei Li, et al.. (2023). Fine-tuning of p-coumaric acid synthesis to increase (2S)-naringenin production in yeast. Metabolic Engineering. 79. 192–202. 34 indexed citations

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Mao, Jiwei, et al.. (2022). Optimization of Pinocembrin Biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(1). 144–152. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Yuanzi, Jiwei Mao, Xiaofei Song, et al.. (2020). Optimization of the l-tyrosine metabolic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by analyzing p-coumaric acid production. 3 Biotech. 10(6). 258–258. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuzhen, Miao Cai, Xiaofei Song, et al.. (2019). Comparative transcriptome analysis of genomic region deletion strain with enhanced l-tyrosine production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnology Letters. 42(3). 453–460. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yi, Shuke Wu, Jiwei Mao, & Zhi Li. (2018). Bioproduction of Benzylamine from Renewable Feedstocks via a Nine‐Step Artificial Enzyme Cascade and Engineered Metabolic Pathways. ChemSusChem. 11(13). 2221–2228. 29 indexed citations

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Mao, Jiwei, et al.. (2017). Combinatorial analysis of enzymatic bottlenecks of l-tyrosine pathway by p-coumaric acid production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnology Letters. 39(7). 977–982. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiangxiang, Jiwei Mao, Yi‐Ming Chen, et al.. (2016). Design of antibacterial biointerfaces by surface modification of poly (ε-caprolactone) with fusion protein containing hydrophobin and PA-1. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 151. 255–263. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meng, Zhe Liu, Qilin Yu, et al.. (2015). Deletion of genes encoding fatty acid desaturases leads to alterations in stress sensitivity in Pichia pastoris. FEMS Yeast Research. 15(4). fov020–fov020. 14 indexed citations

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Xu, Ning, Yijie Dong, Xinxin Cheng, et al.. (2013). Cellular iron homeostasis mediated by the Mrs4–Ccc1–Smf3 pathway is essential for mitochondrial function, morphogenesis and virulence in Candida albicans. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1843(3). 629–639. 39 indexed citations

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