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

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Lei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ming Lei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ming Lei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ming Lei. Ming Lei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Eight EDA mutations in Chinese patients with tooth agenesis and genotype–phenotype analysis 2024 ·Oral Diseases ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shuwen Yang, (unknown), Ming Lei, Yiqun Wu	1
2	LINC02454-CCT complex interaction is essential for telomerase activity and cell proliferation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma 2024 ·Cancer Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Mingyue Li, (unknown), Tao Ye, Wenkai Zhou, (unknown), Shufang He, Rijing Liao, Jie Huang, Qian Wang, Ming Xu, Ge Yunhui, Wei Cao, Ming Lei, Yanjie Zhang	2
3	SPRR1B+ keratinocytes prime oral mucosa for rapid wound healing via STAT3 activation 2024 ·Communications Biology ·(unknown), Li Zhang, Zheng Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ming Lei, Hui Xu, Hanlin Zeng	3
4	C9orf72-catalyzed GTP loading of Rab39A enables HOPS-mediated membrane tethering and fusion in mammalian autophagy 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Shen Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Huiying Huang, Linsen Li, Christian Ungermann, (unknown), Han-Yan Luo, Ming Lei, Zaiming Tang, Fu Wan, She Chen, (unknown), Qing Zhong	19
5	p53‐Dependent Mitochondrial Compensation in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction 2022 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·(unknown), Hao Lin, (unknown), Jianan Pan, (unknown), Shanqing Xu, Shufang He, Ming Lei, Alex Chia Yu Chang, Huili Zhang	21
6	Mechanistic insight into allosteric activation of human pyruvate carboxylase by acetyl-CoA 2022 ·Molecular Cell ·Peiwei Chai, Pengfei Lan, Shaobai Li, Deqiang Yao, Chénchén Cháng, Cao Mi, Yafeng Shen, Shengfang Ge, Jian Wu, Ming Lei, Xianqun Fan	19
7	The SUN1-SPDYA interaction plays an essential role in meiosis prophase I 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Yanyan Chen, Yan Wang, Juan Chen, (unknown), Yong Fan, Sijia Huang, Yongmei Liu, Guangming Chen, Qing Li, Jinsong Li, Jian Wu, Qian Bian, Chenhui Huang, Ming Lei	23
8	Structural insights into telomere protection and homeostasis regulation by yeast CST complex 2020 ·Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Ge Yunhui, Zhenfang Wu, Hongwen Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Guohui Li, Jian Wu, Ming Lei	23
9	Structural insights into NDH-1 mediated cyclic electron transfer 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Chunli Zhang, Shuai Jin, (unknown), Jiaohong Zhao, Zhenfang Wu, Rijing Liao, Jian Wu, Weimin Ma, Ming Lei	70
10	Miniaturization of the Whole Process of Protein Crystallographic Analysis by a Microfluidic Droplet Robot: From Nanoliter-Scale Purified Proteins to Diffraction-Quality Crystals 2019 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Jianwei Wang, (unknown), Huifeng Wang, (unknown), Bing Rao, Wei Deng, Yu Cao, Ming Lei, Sheng Ye, Qun Fang	16
11	Cryo-electron microscopy structure of an archaeal ribonuclease P holoenzyme 2019 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Jing Tan, Ming Tan, Juan Chen, Shaohua Shi, Pengfei Lan, Jian Wu, Ming Lei	37
12	Structural insight into precursor tRNA processing by yeast ribonuclease P 2018 ·Science ·Pengfei Lan, Ming Tan, Yuebin Zhang, (unknown), Juan Chen, Shaohua Shi, (unknown), Xuejuan Wang, Xiangda Peng, Gang Cai, Hong Cheng, Jian Wu, Guohui Li, Ming Lei	59
13	Crystal structure of chromo barrel domain of RBBP1 2018 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Ming Lei, Yue Feng, Mengqi Zhou, Yuan Yang, P. Loppnau, Yanjun Li, Yi Yang, Yanli Liu	2
14	Rapamycin upregulates glutamate transporter and IL-6 expression in astrocytes in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease 2017 ·Cell Death and Disease ·Yunlong Zhang, Xiaoliang He, Xiaojuan Wu, Ming Lei, Zhiyun Wei, Xiuping Zhang, Lei Wen, Pingyi Xu, Shaomin Li, Shaogang Qu	50
15	Fission yeast telomere-binding protein Taz1 is a functional but not a structural counterpart of human TRF1 and TRF2 2015 ·Cell Research ·Wei Deng, Jian Wu, Feng Wang, Junko Kanoh, Pierre-Marie Dehé, (unknown), Juan Chen, Ming Lei	16
16	Crystal structure of the N‐terminal region of human Ash2L shows a winged‐helix motif involved in DNA binding 2011 ·EMBO Reports ·Yong Chen, Bingbing Wan, Ke Wang, Fang Cao, Yuting Yang, (unknown), Yali Dou, Howard Y. Chang, Ming Lei	42
17	Human Telomere POT1-TPP1 Complex and Its Role in Telomerase Activity Regulation 2011 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Feng Wang, Ming Lei	18
18	A Shared Docking Motif in TRF1 and TRF2 Used for Differential Recruitment of Telomeric Proteins 2008 ·Science ·Yong Chen, Yuting Yang, Megan van Overbeek, Jill R. Donigian, Paul Baciu, Titia de Lange, Ming Lei	207
19	Stretch-induced whole-cell currents during the action potential of guinea-pig ventricular myocytes 2001 ·The Journal of Physiology ·Ming Lei, Patrizia Camelliti, (unknown), Klaus Linz, Peter Köhl	1
20	A Lesion in the DNA Replication Initiation Factor Mcm10 Induces Pausing of Elongation Forks through Chromosomal Replication Origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1997 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·(unknown), Yasuo Kawasaki, Yanru Chen, Ming Lei, Bik K. Tye	126

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