Shilong Fan

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Shilong Fan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Shilong Fan has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Shilong Fan's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Shilong Fan is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Shilong Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Shilong Fan's co-authors include Jun Lan, Xinquan Wang, Huan Zhou, Linqi Zhang, Xuanling Shi, Sisi Shan, Jiwan Ge, Qi Zhang, Jinfang Yu and Qisheng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shilong Fan

62 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound to the ACE2 receptor

2020 4.0k citations Jun Lan, Huan Zhou et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shilong Fan China	18	3.4k	2.5k	676	621	429	63	5.8k
Hideki Aihara United States	31	2.6k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	438 0.6×	391 0.6×	425 1.0×	117	5.3k
Huan Zhou China	28	5.1k 1.5×	3.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	645 1.0×	517 1.2×	141	8.7k
Bruno Coutard France	39	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	456 0.7×	654 1.1×	660 1.5×	124	6.3k
Qisheng Wang China	18	5.2k 1.6×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.9×	597 1.0×	495 1.2×	60	7.6k
Shuai Xia China	25	3.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	467 0.7×	520 0.8×	451 1.1×	61	4.6k
Jun Lan China	15	3.7k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	694 1.0×	401 0.6×	338 0.8×	36	4.8k
Qibin Geng United States	17	4.8k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	615 0.9×	574 0.9×	452 1.1×	28	5.9k
Jiwan Ge China	8	3.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	678 1.0×	448 0.7×	308 0.7×	16	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shilong Fan

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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

Fan, Shilong, et al.. (2024). CharacterEval: A Chinese Benchmark for Role-Playing Conversational Agent Evaluation. 11836–11850. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Chenghai, Yu Zhang, Chen Yang, et al.. (2024). Receptor binding mechanism and immune evasion capacity of SARS-CoV-2 BQ.1.1 lineage. Virology. 600. 110241–110241. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yirui, Shilong Fan, Chang Li, et al.. (2024). CircPCNXL2 promotes tumor growth and metastasis by interacting with STRAP to regulate ERK signaling in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Molecular Cancer. 23(1). 35–35. 14 indexed citations

Fan, Shilong, et al.. (2023). Polymorphic nanobody crystals as long‐acting intravitreal therapy for wet age‐related macular degeneration. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 8(6). e10523–e10523. 5 indexed citations

Huang, Yujie, Jun Lan, Chao Wu, et al.. (2023). Stability of collagen heterotrimer with same charge pattern and different charged residue identities. Biophysical Journal. 122(13). 2686–2695. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Yanfei, Zhimeng Wang, Shilong Fan, et al.. (2023). SMPDL3A is a cGAMP-degrading enzyme induced by LXR-mediated lipid metabolism to restrict cGAS-STING DNA sensing. Immunity. 56(11). 2492–2507.e10. 54 indexed citations

Wang, Yulu, Yuebin Zhang, Haiyan Yu, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into the oligomeric effects on catalytic activity of a decameric feruloyl esterase and its application in ferulic acid production. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 253(Pt 1). 126540–126540. 4 indexed citations

Fan, Shilong, Yirui Wang, Ruixiang Chen, et al.. (2023). ACSL4 serves as a novel prognostic biomarker correlated with immune infiltration in Cholangiocarcinoma. BMC Cancer. 23(1). 444–444. 10 indexed citations

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Valle, Jaione, et al.. (2021). Structural mechanism for modulation of functional amyloid and biofilm formation by Staphylococcal Bap protein switch. The EMBO Journal. 40(14). e107500–e107500. 29 indexed citations

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Ren, Wenlin, Jun Lan, Xiaohui Ju, et al.. (2021). Mutation Y453F in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 enhances interaction with the mink ACE2 receptor for host adaption. PLoS Pathogens. 17(11). e1010053–e1010053. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haowen, Boting Wen, Yusi Liu, et al.. (2021). A reverse catalytic triad Asp containing loop shaping a wide substrate binding pocket of a feruloyl esterase from Lactobacillus plantarum. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 184. 92–100. 11 indexed citations

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Meng, Yuan, Ying Ma, Min Li, et al.. (2020). De novo assembly and analysis of the transcriptome of the Dermacentor marginatus genes differentially expressed after blood-feeding and long-term starvation. Parasites & Vectors. 13(1). 563–563. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenhe, Jinyu Li, Xiaoyu Yu, et al.. (2017). Structural insights into the coordination of plastid division by the ARC6–PDV2 complex. Nature Plants. 3(3). 17011–17011. 32 indexed citations

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Dong, De, Kuan Ren, Jianlin Zheng, et al.. (2016). The crystal structure of Cpf1 in complex with CRISPR RNA. Nature. 532(7600). 522–526. 313 indexed citations

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Xu, Peng, Chengmin Li, Zhihong Chen, et al.. (2016). The NuA4 Core Complex Acetylates Nucleosomal Histone H4 through a Double Recognition Mechanism. Molecular Cell. 63(6). 965–975. 51 indexed citations

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Hu, Zehan, Qiang Zhou, Chenlu Zhang, et al.. (2015). Structural and biochemical basis for induced self-propagation of NLRC4. Science. 350(6259). 399–404. 246 indexed citations

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Deng, Dong, Pengcheng Sun, Chuangye Yan, et al.. (2015). Molecular basis of ligand recognition and transport by glucose transporters. Nature. 526(7573). 391–396. 291 indexed citations

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Luo, Ping, Xinzhe Yu, Wei‐Guang Wang, et al.. (2015). Crystal structure of a phosphorylation-coupled vitamin C transporter. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(3). 238–241. 29 indexed citations

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Fan, Shilong, Yingang Feng, Zhiyi Wei, Bin Xia, & Weimin Gong. (2009). Solution Structure of Synbindin Atypical PDZ Domain and Interaction with Syndecan-2. Protein and Peptide Letters. 16(2). 189–195. 11 indexed citations

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