Ming Ma

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ming Ma is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Ma has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Pharmacology, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 26 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ming Ma's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (47 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (17 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (8 papers). Ming Ma is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (47 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (17 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (8 papers). Ming Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ming Ma's co-authors include Ben Shen, Jianbo Wang, Lingling Peng, Jeffrey D. Rudolf, Xiu Zhang, Chin‐Yuan Chang, Jeremy R. Lohman, Donghui Yang, Changkun Li and Jianzhong Xi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ming Ma

81 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

The microbial metabolite agmatine acts as an FXR agonist to promote polycystic ovary syndrome in female mice

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Ma China	29	1.2k	868	697	255	254	86	2.4k
Jennifer Herrmann Germany	34	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	866 1.2×	168 0.7×	558 2.2×	139	3.3k
Tomoyasu Hirose Japan	29	948 0.8×	641 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	170 0.7×	306 1.2×	138	2.4k
Kinya Hotta Japan	25	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	417 0.6×	157 0.6×	313 1.2×	45	1.9k
Yukihiro Asami Japan	21	669 0.5×	508 0.6×	402 0.6×	148 0.6×	243 1.0×	98	1.5k
Yanwen Duan China	28	1.0k 0.8×	953 1.1×	512 0.7×	149 0.6×	344 1.4×	103	2.2k
Zhe Wang China	29	2.7k 2.2×	402 0.5×	721 1.0×	195 0.8×	229 0.9×	118	4.6k
Guojian Zhang China	27	874 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	343 0.5×	163 0.6×	728 2.9×	126	2.3k
Lin Du China	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	502 0.7×	230 0.9×	694 2.7×	101	2.6k
Huawei Chen United States	32	2.1k 1.7×	810 0.9×	395 0.6×	161 0.6×	252 1.0×	81	2.9k
Tohru Nagamitsu Japan	24	836 0.7×	602 0.7×	837 1.2×	110 0.4×	210 0.8×	85	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming Ma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ming Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ming Ma 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 Ma. Ming Ma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Jingshuai, Rui Ge, Ke Ma, et al.. (2025). Characterization and Engineering of a Bisabolene Synthase Reveal an Unusual Hydride Shift and Key Residues Critical for Mono-, Bi-, and Tricyclic Sesquiterpenes Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(12). 10413–10422. 2 indexed citations

Tang, Tao, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the biocontrol potential and whole genome sequencing of Pseudomonas fluorescensHT1: a promising agent against southern blight in Coptis chinensis. Pest Management Science. 81(7). 3833–3845.

Yu, Jiahui, Mengyuan Li, Jie Wang, et al.. (2025). Structural insights into two thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes and their synthetic applications in carbon–carbon linkage reactions. Nature Chemistry. 17(7). 1107–1118. 1 indexed citations

Gong, Ting, Jin‐Ling Yang, Jungui Dai, et al.. (2024). Characterization and Engineering of Two Highly Paralogous Sesquiterpene Synthases Reveal a Regioselective Reprotonation Switch. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(13). e202315674–e202315674. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Meng, Houchao Xu, Zhenyu Lei, et al.. (2024). Structural Insights Into the Terpene Cyclization Domains of Two Fungal Sesterterpene Synthases and Enzymatic Engineering for Sesterterpene Diversification. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(23). e202405140–e202405140. 8 indexed citations

Lei, Zhenyu, Yuxian Wang, Chenyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Structural biology of terpene synthases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 699. 59–87.

Ding, Wenping, et al.. (2023). Structure-Based Mechanistic Insights into ColB1, a Flavoprotein Functioning in-trans in the 2,2′-Bipyridine Assembly Line for Cysteine Dehydrogenation. ACS Chemical Biology. 18(1). 18–24. 2 indexed citations

De, Bidhan Chandra, Wenjun Zhang, Chunfang Yang, et al.. (2022). Flavin-enabled reductive and oxidative epoxide ring opening reactions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4896–4896. 21 indexed citations

Yu, Jiahui, Changbiao Chi, Annan Li, et al.. (2021). Functional characterization and structural bases of two class I diterpene synthases in pimarane-type diterpene biosynthesis. Communications Chemistry. 4(1). 140–140. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Siqi, Jijia Pan, Chen Yang, et al.. (2021). A chondrogenesis induction system based on a functionalized hyaluronic acid hydrogel sequentially promoting hMSC proliferation, condensation, differentiation, and matrix deposition. Acta Biomaterialia. 122. 145–159. 47 indexed citations

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Yuan, Bochuan, Dong Liu, Xin‐Yuan Guan, et al.. (2020). Piperazine ring formation by a single-module NRPS and cleavage by an α-KG-dependent nonheme iron dioxygenase in brasiliamide biosynthesis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 104(14). 6149–6159. 19 indexed citations

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Mutunga, James M., Ming Ma, Qiao‐Hong Chen, et al.. (2019). Mosquito Acetylcholinesterase as a Target for Novel Phenyl-Substituted Carbamates. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(9). 1500–1500. 6 indexed citations

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Pan, Guohui, Zhengren Xu, Zhi‐Kai Guo, et al.. (2017). Discovery of the leinamycin family of natural products by mining actinobacterial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). E11131–E11140. 85 indexed citations

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Ma, Ming, Junyu Yang, Bolun Wang, Zhihua Zhao, & Jianzhong Xi. (2017). High-Throughput Identification of miR-596 Inducing p53-Mediated Apoptosis in HeLa and HCT116 Cells Using Cell Microarray. SLAS TECHNOLOGY. 22(6). 636–645. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Tao, Ming Ma, Hui Ming Ge, et al.. (2015). Synthesis and evaluation of 8,4′-dideshydroxy-leinamycin revealing new insights into the structure–activity relationship of the anticancer natural product leinamycin. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 25(21). 4899–4902. 8 indexed citations

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Tong, Fan, et al.. (2013). Effects of anticholinesterases on catalysis and induced conformational change of the peripheral anionic site of murine acetylcholinesterase. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 106(3). 79–84. 6 indexed citations

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Hartsel, Joshua A., Dawn M. Wong, James M. Mutunga, et al.. (2012). Re-engineering aryl methylcarbamates to confer high selectivity for inhibition of Anopheles gambiae versus human acetylcholinesterase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(14). 4593–4598. 41 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hanshuo, Hao Yang, Junyu Yang, et al.. (2011). Genome-wide functional screening of miR-23b as a pleiotropic modulator suppressing cancer metastasis. Nature Communications. 2(1). 554–554. 175 indexed citations

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Carlier, Paul R., Troy D. Anderson, Dawn M. Wong, et al.. (2008). Towards a species-selective acetylcholinesterase inhibitor to control the mosquito vector of malaria, Anopheles gambiae. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 175(1-3). 368–375. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chang, Yuna Sun, Wei Wang, et al.. (2008). Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of human Ca²⁺-loaded calbindin-D28k. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 64(2). 133–136. 3 indexed citations

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