Pingwei Li

9.7k citations

79 papers · 7.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

Immunology top 0.5%
- interferon and immune responses
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Immune Response and Inflammation
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Infectious Diseases top 1%
- Viral Infections and Vectors

Papers in ⓘ

Immunology 43
- interferon and immune responses 32
- Immune Response and Inflammation 17
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 11
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 5
Molecular Biology 32
- Inflammasome and immune disorders 9
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 5

Co-authors: Roland K. Strong (8 shared papers)Chang Shu (12 shared papers)Yigong Shi (4 shared papers)C. Cheng Kao (7 shared papers)Baoyu Zhao (18 shared papers)Daniel L. Morris (3 shared papers)Thomas A. Spies (3 shared papers)Andrew B. Herr (5 shared papers)
Journals: Immunity (6 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (4 papers)Nature (3 papers)Cell (3 papers)The Journal of Immunology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Australia

In The Last Decade

Pingwei Li

76 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Mitochondrial ROS promotes susceptibility to infection via gasdermin D-mediated necroptosis 2022 · 250 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Cell
2019 Nature
2013 Immunity
2003 Molecular Cell
2002 Cell

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Pingwei Li, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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#	Work
1	Mechanism of XIAP-Mediated Inhibition of Caspase-9 Molecular Cell ·Eric N. Shiozaki, Jijie Chai, Daniel J. Rigotti, Stefan J. Riedl, Pingwei Li, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Emad S. Alnemri, Robert Fairman, Yigong Shi Hit paper breakdown →	2003	527
2	Crystal Structure of a UBP-Family Deubiquitinating Enzyme in Isolation and in Complex with Ubiquitin Aldehyde Cell ·Min Hu, Pingwei Li, Muyang Li, Wenyu Li, Tingting Yao, Jia-Wei Wu, Wei Gu, Robert E. Cohen, Yigong Shi Hit paper breakdown →	2002	515
3	Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase Is Activated by Double-Stranded DNA-Induced Oligomerization Immunity ·Xin Li, Chang Shu, Guanghui Yi, Catherine T. Chaton, Catherine L. Shelton, Jiasheng Diao, Xiaobing Zuo, C. Cheng Kao, Andrew B. Herr, Pingwei Li Hit paper breakdown →	2013	511
4	Interactions of human NKG2D with its ligands MICA, MICB, and homologs of the mouse RAE-1 protein family Immunogenetics ·Alexander Steinle, Pingwei Li, Daniel L. Morris, Veronika Groh, Lewis L. Lanier, Roland K. Strong, Thomas A. Spies	2001	372
5	Structure and mechanisms of the proteasome‐associated deubiquitinating enzyme USP14 The EMBO Journal ·Min Hu, Pingwei Li, Ling Song, Philip D. Jeffrey, Tatiana A Chenova, Keith D. Wilkinson, Robert E. Cohen, Yigong Shi	2005	339
6	A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1 Nature ·Baoyu Zhao, Fenglei Du, Pengbiao Xu, Chang Shu, Banumathi Sankaran, Samantha L. Bell, Mengmeng Liu, Yuanjiu Lei, Xinsheng Gao, Xiaofeng Fu, Fanxiu Zhu, Yang Liu, Arthur Laganowsky, Xueyun Zheng, Jun‐Yuan Ji, A. Phillip West, Robert O. Watson, Pingwei Li Hit paper breakdown →	2019	322
7	Complex structure of the activating immunoreceptor NKG2D and its MHC class I–like ligand MICA Nature Immunology ·Pingwei Li, Daniel L. Morris, Benjamin E. Willcox, Alexander Steinle, Thomas A. Spies, Roland K. Strong	2001	321
8	HLA-E Allelic Variants Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Roland K. Strong, Margaret A. Holmes, Pingwei Li, Laura Braun, Ni Lee, Daniel E. Geraghty	2003	252
9	Structure of STING bound to cyclic di-GMP reveals the mechanism of cyclic dinucleotide recognition by the immune system Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Chang Shu, Guanghui Yi, Tylan Watts, C. Cheng Kao, Pingwei Li	2012	250
10	Mitochondrial ROS promotes susceptibility to infection via gasdermin D-mediated necroptosis Cell ·Chi G. Weindel, E. Martínez, Xiao Zhao, Cory J. Mabry, Samantha L. Bell, Krystal J. Vail, Aja K. Coleman, Jordyn J. VanPortfliet, Baoyu Zhao, Allison R. Wagner, Sikandar Azam, Haley M. Scott, Pingwei Li, A. Phillip West, Jason Karpac, Kristin L. Patrick, Robert O. Watson Hit paper breakdown →	2022	250
11	Structural insights into the pro-apoptotic function of mitochondrial serine protease HtrA2/Omi Nature Structural Biology ·Wenyu Li, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Jijie Chai, Pingwei Li, Jiawei Wu, Zhijia Zhang, Emad S. Alnemri, Yigong Shi	2002	227
12	Antitumor Activity of cGAMP via Stimulation of cGAS-cGAMP-STING-IRF3 Mediated Innate Immune Response Scientific Reports ·Tiejun Li, Hao Cheng, Hong Yuan, Qiming Xu, Chang Shu, Yuefan Zhang, Pengbiao Xu, Jason Tan, Yao‐Cheng Rui, Pingwei Li, Xiangshi Tan	2016	201
13	Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Human STING Can Affect Innate Immune Response to Cyclic Dinucleotides PLoS ONE ·Guanghui Yi, Volker Brendel, Chang Shu, Pingwei Li, Satheesh Palanathan, C. Cheng Kao	2013	194
14	The Structural Basis of 5′ Triphosphate Double-Stranded RNA Recognition by RIG-I C-Terminal Domain Structure ·Cheng Lü, Hengyu Xu, C. T. Ranjith-Kumar, Monica T. Brooks, Tim Y. Hou, Fuqu Hu, Andrew B. Herr, Roland K. Strong, C. Cheng Kao, Pingwei Li	2010	176
15	The molecular basis of tight nuclear tethering and inactivation of cGAS Nature ·Baoyu Zhao, Pengbiao Xu, Chesley Marie Rowlett, Tao Jing, Omkar Shinde, Yuanjiu Lei, A. Phillip West, Wenshe Ray Liu, Pingwei Li	2020	175
16	NONO Detects the Nuclear HIV Capsid to Promote cGAS-Mediated Innate Immune Activation Cell ·Xavier Lahaye, Matteo Gentili, Aymeric Silvin, Cécile Conrad, Léa Picard, Mabel Jouve, Elina Zueva, Mathieu Maurin, Francesca Nadalin, Gavin J. Knott, Baoyu Zhao, Fenglei Du, Marlène Rio, Jeanne Amiel, Archa H. Fox, Pingwei Li, Lucie Etienne, Charles S. Bond, Laurence Colleaux, Nicolas Manel	2018	167
17	Structure and function of the Zika virus full-length NS5 protein Nature Communications ·Baoyu Zhao, Guanghui Yi, Fenglei Du, Yin-Chih Chuang, Robert C. Vaughan, Banumathi Sankaran, Chia‐Sui Kao, Pingwei Li	2017	151
18	Crystal Structure of the MHC Class I Homolog MIC-A, a γδ T Cell Ligand Immunity ·Pingwei Li, Sirkku T. Willie, Stefan Bauer, Daniel L. Morris, Thomas A. Spies, Roland K. Strong	1999	148
19	The ubiquitin ligase Peli1 negatively regulates T cell activation and prevents autoimmunity Nature Immunology ·Mikyoung Chang, Wei Jin, Jae‐Hoon Chang, Yichuan Xiao, George C. Brittain, Jiayi Yu, Xiaofei Zhou, Yi-Hong Wang, Xuhong Cheng, Pingwei Li, Brian Rabinovich, Patrick Hwu, Shao‐Cong Sun	2011	147
20	Structural basis for concerted recruitment and activation of IRF-3 by innate immune adaptor proteins Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Baoyu Zhao, Chang Shu, Xinsheng Gao, Banumathi Sankaran, Fenglei Du, Catherine L. Shelton, Andrew B. Herr, Jun‐Yuan Ji, Pingwei Li	2016	140

About Pingwei Li

Pingwei Li is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 79 papers that have together received 7.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include interferon and immune responses (32 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (17 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (11 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (11 papers), Inflammasome and immune disorders (9 papers), Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (4.2k citations), Infectious Diseases (1.3k citations), Molecular Biology (3.7k citations), Oncology (1.2k citations) and Virology (166 citations). Pingwei Li has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Roland K. Strong, Chang Shu, Yigong Shi, C. Cheng Kao, Baoyu Zhao, Daniel L. Morris, Thomas A. Spies, Andrew B. Herr, Alexander Steinle and Min Hu. Their work appears in journals such as Immunity, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature, Cell and The Journal of Immunology.

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