Litong Nie

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Litong Nie is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Litong Nie has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Litong Nie's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (8 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (6 papers). Litong Nie is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (8 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (6 papers). Litong Nie collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Litong Nie's co-authors include Junjie Chen, Chao Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Boyi Gan, Chao Mao, Li Zhuang, Guang Lei, Yilei Zhang, Traver Hart and Masha V. Poyurovsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Litong Nie

29 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Actin cytoskeleton vulnerability to disulfide stress mediates disulfidptosis

2023 648 citations Xiaoguang Liu, Litong Nie et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
mTORC1 couples cyst(e)ine availability with GPX4 protein synthesis and ferroptosis regulation

2021 533 citations Yilei Zhang, Robert V. Swanda et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Litong Nie United States	16	1.2k	812	634	320	223	31	1.9k
Chen Zhang China	21	1.3k 1.0×	977 1.2×	709 1.1×	366 1.1×	316 1.4×	89	2.2k
Dong Lin Canada	30	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	593 1.9×	210 0.9×	99	2.9k
Haoming Lin China	16	1.1k 0.9×	513 0.6×	784 1.2×	237 0.7×	200 0.9×	47	1.8k
Koji Fukuda Japan	23	1.4k 1.1×	614 0.8×	783 1.2×	974 3.0×	164 0.7×	86	2.5k
Xi Jin China	26	1.3k 1.0×	668 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	775 2.4×	326 1.5×	83	2.5k
Sunil Sudarshan United States	26	1.3k 1.0×	630 0.8×	644 1.0×	205 0.6×	141 0.6×	61	1.8k
Chandra Goparaju United States	25	924 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	415 0.7×	340 1.1×	181 0.8×	37	2.2k
Ying Shi China	22	1.3k 1.1×	612 0.8×	927 1.5×	222 0.7×	161 0.7×	59	1.8k
Silvia von Karstedt Germany	17	1.8k 1.5×	761 0.9×	740 1.2×	566 1.8×	608 2.7×	32	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Litong Nie

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Tang, Mengfan, Siting Li, Ziqiang Zhu, et al.. (2025). USP37 counteracts HLTF to protect damaged replication forks and promote survival of BRCA1-deficient cells and PARP inhibitor resistance. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12).

Nie, Litong, Huimin Zhang, Chao Wang, et al.. (2025). Cell cycle progression of under-replicated cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1).

Liu, Xiaoguang, Zhen Chen, Yuelong Yan, et al.. (2024). Proteomic analysis of ferroptosis pathways reveals a role of CEPT1 in suppressing ferroptosis. Protein & Cell. 15(9). 686–703. 19 indexed citations

Li, Siting, Mengfan Tang, Yun Xiong, et al.. (2024). Systematic investigation of BRCA1-A, -B, and -C complexes and their functions in DNA damage response and DNA repair. Oncogene. 43(35). 2621–2634. 3 indexed citations

Nie, Litong, Chao Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, et al.. (2023). DePARylation is critical for S phase progression and cell survival. eLife. 12. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaoguang, Litong Nie, Yilei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Actin cytoskeleton vulnerability to disulfide stress mediates disulfidptosis. Nature Cell Biology. 25(3). 404–414. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Huimin, Litong Nie, Chao Wang, et al.. (2023). Genome-Wide CRISPR Screens Reveal ZATT as a Synthetic Lethal Target of TOP2-Poison Etoposide That Can Act in a TDP2-Independent Pathway. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(7). 6545–6545. 3 indexed citations

Nie, Litong, Chao Wang, Dan Su, et al.. (2023). FACS-based genome-wide CRISPR screens define key regulators of DNA damage signaling pathways. Molecular Cell. 83(15). 2810–2828.e6. 13 indexed citations

Feng, Xu, Mengfan Tang, Merve Dede, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide CRISPR screens using isogenic cells reveal vulnerabilities conferred by loss of tumor suppressors. Science Advances. 8(19). eabm6638–eabm6638. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Chang‐Mei, Litong Nie, Lixia Fan, et al.. (2022). Discovery of toxoflavin, a potent IRE1α inhibitor acting through structure-dependent oxidative inhibition. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 44(1). 234–243. 4 indexed citations

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Hang, Qinglei, Liyong Zeng, Li Wang, et al.. (2021). Non-canonical function of DGCR8 in DNA double-strand break repair signaling and tumor radioresistance. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4033–4033. 17 indexed citations

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Gong, Yanqiu, Litong Nie, & Lunzhi Dai. (2021). Beyond proteins: Ubiquitylation of lipopolysaccharide to fight bacteria. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 855–857. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yilei, Robert V. Swanda, Litong Nie, et al.. (2021). mTORC1 couples cyst(e)ine availability with GPX4 protein synthesis and ferroptosis regulation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1589–1589. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Azizian, Nancy G., Delaney K. Sullivan, Litong Nie, et al.. (2020). Selective Labeling and Identification of the Tumor Cell Proteome of Pancreatic Cancer In Vivo. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(1). 858–866. 12 indexed citations

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Nie, Litong, Chao Wang, Nan Li, et al.. (2020). Proteome-wide Analysis Reveals Substrates of E3 Ligase RNF146 Targeted for Degradation. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 19(12). 2015–2030. 13 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Mrinal, Dan Su, Huimin Zhang, et al.. (2020). HMCES safeguards replication from oxidative stress and ensures error‐free repair. EMBO Reports. 21(6). e49123–e49123. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao, Zhen Chen, Litong Nie, et al.. (2020). Extracellular signal-regulated kinases associate with and phosphorylate DHPS to promote cell proliferation. Oncogenesis. 9(9). 85–85. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhen, Chao Wang, Antrix Jain, et al.. (2020). AMPK Interactome Reveals New Function in Non-homologous End Joining DNA Repair. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 19(3). 467–477. 15 indexed citations

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Dai, Xiaoyang, Juan Yan, Xuhong Fu, et al.. (2017). Aspirin Inhibits Cancer Metastasis and Angiogenesis via Targeting Heparanase. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(20). 6267–6278. 98 indexed citations

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Nie, Litong, Lin Shuai, Mingrui Zhu, et al.. (2017). The Landscape of Histone Modifications in a High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese (DIO) Mouse Model. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 16(7). 1324–1334. 71 indexed citations

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