Qingyun Dan

764 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 522 citations indexed

About

Qingyun Dan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingyun Dan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 522 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Pharmacology and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Qingyun Dan's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (8 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Qingyun Dan is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (8 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Qingyun Dan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and China. Qingyun Dan's co-authors include Jay D. Keasling, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Yuzhong Liu, Elias Englund, Michael S. Belcher, Bo Pang, Kevin Yin, Amin Zargar, Janet L. Smith and David H. Sherman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Qingyun Dan

12 papers receiving 518 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.

Biofuels for a sustainable future

2021 243 citations Yuzhong Liu, Pablo Cruz‐Morales et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qingyun Dan United States	9	264	159	144	99	48	13	522
Dayu Yu China	17	423 1.6×	198 1.2×	231 1.6×	56 0.6×	97 2.0×	36	750
Jin-Ming Gao China	9	127 0.5×	163 1.0×	122 0.8×	85 0.9×	31 0.6×	29	561
Valerie C. A. Ward Canada	13	475 1.8×	126 0.8×	130 0.9×	32 0.3×	58 1.2×	25	683
Dongsheng Xue China	14	193 0.7×	197 1.2×	45 0.3×	57 0.6×	139 2.9×	38	457
Ernesto Simón Spain	16	497 1.9×	135 0.8×	56 0.4×	70 0.7×	57 1.2×	20	804
Hongchuan Song China	15	135 0.5×	48 0.3×	147 1.0×	59 0.6×	47 1.0×	30	569
Sebastian Bormann Germany	12	276 1.0×	89 0.6×	33 0.2×	143 1.4×	33 0.7×	17	578
Yanxiu Gao China	12	64 0.2×	96 0.6×	57 0.4×	66 0.7×	28 0.6×	17	350
Rossella Nisi Italy	11	182 0.7×	103 0.6×	29 0.2×	39 0.4×	47 1.0×	18	551
Fanny Lambert France	10	165 0.6×	130 0.8×	28 0.2×	32 0.3×	47 1.0×	15	421

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingyun Dan

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Zhan, Chunjun, Guangxu Lan, Qingyun Dan, et al.. (2025). Hybrid biological-chemical strategy for converting polyethylene into a recyclable plastic monomer using engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. Metabolic Engineering. 90. 106–116. 3 indexed citations

2.

Dan, Qingyun, Namil Lee, J.H. Pereira, et al.. (2025). A polyketide-based biosynthetic platform for diols, amino alcohols and hydroxy acids. Nature Catalysis. 8(2). 147–161. 7 indexed citations

3.

Lee, Namil, Woori Kim, Ji Hun Kim, et al.. (2025). Regulatory orchestration of FK506 biosynthesis in Streptomyces tsukubaensis NRRL 18488 revealed through systematic analysis. iScience. 28(6). 112698–112698.

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Englund, Elias, Sarah H. Klass, Qingyun Dan, et al.. (2023). Biosensor Guided Polyketide Synthases Engineering for Optimization of Domain Exchange Boundaries. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4871–4871. 13 indexed citations

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Zhan, Chunjun, Namil Lee, Guangxu Lan, et al.. (2023). Improved polyketide production in C. glutamicum by preventing propionate-induced growth inhibition. Nature Metabolism. 5(7). 1127–1140. 18 indexed citations

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Huang, Jing, Andrew F. G. Quest, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, et al.. (2023). Complete integration of carbene-transfer chemistry into biosynthesis. Nature. 617(7960). 403–408. 43 indexed citations

7.

Shende, Vikram V., Qingyun Dan, Ying Ye, et al.. (2022). Data Science-Driven Analysis of Substrate-Permissive Diketopiperazine Reverse Prenyltransferase NotF: Applications in Protein Engineering and Cascade Biocatalytic Synthesis of (−)-Eurotiumin A. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(42). 19326–19336. 29 indexed citations

8.

Liu, Yuzhong, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Amin Zargar, et al.. (2021). Biofuels for a sustainable future. Cell. 184(6). 1636–1647. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Skiba, Meredith A., et al.. (2019). Repurposing the GNAT Fold in the Initiation of Polyketide Biosynthesis. Structure. 28(1). 63–74.e4. 11 indexed citations

10.

Dan, Qingyun, Sean A. Newmister, Amy E. Fraley, et al.. (2019). Fungal indole alkaloid biogenesis through evolution of a bifunctional reductase/Diels–Alderase. Nature Chemistry. 11(11). 972–980. 64 indexed citations

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Skiba, Meredith A., Steffen M. Bernard, William D. Fiers, et al.. (2018). Structural Basis of Polyketide Synthase O-Methylation. ACS Chemical Biology. 13(12). 3221–3228. 8 indexed citations

12.

Skiba, Meredith A., Qingyun Dan, Amy E. Fraley, et al.. (2018). PKS–NRPS Enzymology and Structural Biology: Considerations in Protein Production. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 604. 45–88. 15 indexed citations

13.

Fraley, Amy E., Marc Garcia‐Borràs, Ashootosh Tripathi, et al.. (2017). Function and Structure of MalA/MalA′, Iterative Halogenases for Late-Stage C–H Functionalization of Indole Alkaloids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34). 12060–12068. 68 indexed citations

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