Ming Lei

15.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
160 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Ming Lei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Lei has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Physiology and 16 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Ming Lei's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (46 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (38 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (26 papers). Ming Lei is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (46 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (38 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (26 papers). Ming Lei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Ming Lei's co-authors include Thomas R. Cech, Elaine R. Podell, Stephen C. Harrison, Dorothee Kern, Bik K. Tye, Martin Karplus, Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman, Vu Thai, Michael J. Eck and Yong Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ming Lei

155 papers receiving 11.8k 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.

A hierarchy of timescales in protein dynamics is linked to enzyme catalysis

2007 872 citations Ming Lei et al. profile →
Intrinsic motions along an enzymatic reaction trajectory

2007 734 citations Ming Lei et al. profile →
Crystal Structures of c-Src Reveal Features of Its Autoinhibitory Mechanism

1999 712 citations Ming Lei et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Arsenic degrades PML or PML–RARα through a SUMO-triggered RNF4/ubiquitin-mediated pathway

2008 588 citations Ming Lei et al. profile →
Characterization of Sfp, a Bacillus subtilis Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase for Peptidyl Carrier Protein Domains in Peptide Synthetases

1998 571 citations Ming Lei et al. profile →
The POT1–TPP1 telomere complex is a telomerase processivity factor

2007 545 citations Feng Wang, Yuting Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Lei United States	52	9.9k	2.5k	1.2k	1.2k	1.0k	160	12.0k
Joost Schymkowitz Belgium	58	10.6k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	799 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	188	14.3k
Gerard Manning United States	38	9.6k 1.0×	825 0.3×	1.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.9×	567 0.5×	52	12.9k
Kevin H. Mayo United States	55	6.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	656 0.6×	450 0.4×	283	10.5k
Mikako Shirouzu Japan	63	11.2k 1.1×	690 0.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	951 0.9×	390	14.7k
Annalisa Pastore United Kingdom	65	10.0k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	419 0.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	333	14.4k
Francesc Avilés Spain	52	7.1k 0.7×	907 0.4×	2.4k 2.0×	903 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	266	9.9k
Nieng Yan China	63	9.8k 1.0×	799 0.3×	909 0.7×	877 0.7×	644 0.6×	137	13.4k
Ronen Marmorstein United States	70	12.8k 1.3×	981 0.4×	3.8k 3.1×	1.3k 1.1×	641 0.6×	205	16.1k
Cynthia Wolberger United States	55	9.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	660 0.6×	500 0.5×	121	12.8k
Fuyuhiko Inagaki Japan	64	7.3k 0.7×	853 0.3×	853 0.7×	2.4k 2.0×	854 0.8×	329	14.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Shuwen, et al.. (2024). Eight EDA mutations in Chinese patients with tooth agenesis and genotype–phenotype analysis. Oral Diseases. 30(7). 4598–4607. 1 indexed citations

Li, Mingyue, Tao Ye, Wenkai Zhou, et al.. (2024). LINC02454-CCT complex interaction is essential for telomerase activity and cell proliferation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Letters. 588. 216734–216734. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Li, et al.. (2024). SPRR1B+ keratinocytes prime oral mucosa for rapid wound healing via STAT3 activation. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1155–1155. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Shen, Huiying Huang, Linsen Li, et al.. (2023). C9orf72-catalyzed GTP loading of Rab39A enables HOPS-mediated membrane tethering and fusion in mammalian autophagy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6360–6360. 19 indexed citations

Lin, Hao, Jianan Pan, Shanqing Xu, et al.. (2022). p53‐Dependent Mitochondrial Compensation in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(11). e024582–e024582. 21 indexed citations

Chai, Peiwei, Pengfei Lan, Shaobai Li, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insight into allosteric activation of human pyruvate carboxylase by acetyl-CoA. Molecular Cell. 82(21). 4116–4130.e6. 19 indexed citations

Chen, Yanyan, Yan Wang, Juan Chen, et al.. (2021). The SUN1-SPDYA interaction plays an essential role in meiosis prophase I. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3176–3176. 23 indexed citations

Yunhui, Ge, Zhenfang Wu, Hongwen Chen, et al.. (2020). Structural insights into telomere protection and homeostasis regulation by yeast CST complex. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(8). 752–762. 23 indexed citations

Zhang, Chunli, Shuai Jin, Jiaohong Zhao, et al.. (2020). Structural insights into NDH-1 mediated cyclic electron transfer. Nature Communications. 11(1). 888–888. 70 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianwei, Huifeng Wang, Bing Rao, et al.. (2019). Miniaturization of the Whole Process of Protein Crystallographic Analysis by a Microfluidic Droplet Robot: From Nanoliter-Scale Purified Proteins to Diffraction-Quality Crystals. Analytical Chemistry. 91(15). 10132–10140. 16 indexed citations

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Tan, Jing, Ming Tan, Juan Chen, et al.. (2019). Cryo-electron microscopy structure of an archaeal ribonuclease P holoenzyme. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2617–2617. 37 indexed citations

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Lan, Pengfei, Ming Tan, Yuebin Zhang, et al.. (2018). Structural insight into precursor tRNA processing by yeast ribonuclease P. Science. 362(6415). 59 indexed citations

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Lei, Ming, Yue Feng, Mengqi Zhou, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of chromo barrel domain of RBBP1. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 496(4). 1344–1348. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yunlong, Xiaoliang He, Xiaojuan Wu, et al.. (2017). Rapamycin upregulates glutamate transporter and IL-6 expression in astrocytes in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. Cell Death and Disease. 8(2). e2611–e2611. 50 indexed citations

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Deng, Wei, Jian Wu, Feng Wang, et al.. (2015). Fission yeast telomere-binding protein Taz1 is a functional but not a structural counterpart of human TRF1 and TRF2. Cell Research. 25(7). 881–884. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Yong, Bingbing Wan, Ke Wang, et al.. (2011). Crystal structure of the N‐terminal region of human Ash2L shows a winged‐helix motif involved in DNA binding. EMBO Reports. 12(8). 797–803. 42 indexed citations

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Wang, Feng & Ming Lei. (2011). Human Telomere POT1-TPP1 Complex and Its Role in Telomerase Activity Regulation. Methods in molecular biology. 735. 173–187. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Yong, Yuting Yang, Megan van Overbeek, et al.. (2008). A Shared Docking Motif in TRF1 and TRF2 Used for Differential Recruitment of Telomeric Proteins. Science. 319(5866). 1092–1096. 207 indexed citations

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Lei, Ming, et al.. (2001). Stretch-induced whole-cell currents during the action potential of guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. The Journal of Physiology. 533. 1 indexed citations

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Kawasaki, Yasuo, et al.. (1997). A Lesion in the DNA Replication Initiation Factor Mcm10 Induces Pausing of Elongation Forks through Chromosomal Replication Origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 17(6). 3261–3271. 126 indexed citations

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