Wulan Deng

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Wulan Deng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wulan Deng has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Wulan Deng's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (5 papers). Wulan Deng is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (5 papers). Wulan Deng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Wulan Deng's co-authors include Gerd A. Blobel, Andreas Reik, Philip D. Gregory, Ann Dean, Hong‐Xin Wang, Jongjoo Lee, Jeff F. Miller, Robert Tjian, Ross C. Hardison and Yong Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wulan Deng

21 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Controlling Long-Range Genomic Interactions at a Native Locus by Targeted Tethering of a Looping Factor

2012 523 citations Wulan Deng, Jongjoo Lee et al. Cell profile →
Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 genome interrogation in living cells

2015 265 citations Spencer C. Knight, Liangqi Xie et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wulan Deng United States	13	1.8k	314	233	228	206	21	2.0k
Claire Francastel France	27	2.4k 1.3×	484 1.5×	114 0.5×	85 0.4×	499 2.4×	55	2.7k
Patrick G. Schupp United States	7	746 0.4×	52 0.2×	191 0.8×	75 0.3×	181 0.9×	12	1.0k
Sonia Verp Switzerland	15	1.6k 0.9×	402 1.3×	111 0.5×	18 0.1×	266 1.3×	19	1.8k
Miklós Gaszner United States	12	2.5k 1.4×	512 1.6×	59 0.3×	28 0.1×	772 3.7×	13	2.7k
John LaCava United States	21	2.2k 1.2×	481 1.5×	65 0.3×	44 0.2×	109 0.5×	49	2.5k
Jonathan J. Ipsaro United States	16	812 0.5×	279 0.9×	28 0.1×	46 0.2×	83 0.4×	23	1.1k
Christèle Maison France	19	2.5k 1.4×	560 1.8×	29 0.1×	40 0.2×	265 1.3×	26	2.7k
Emmanuel Debrand United Kingdom	11	1.1k 0.6×	182 0.6×	33 0.1×	25 0.1×	334 1.6×	13	1.4k
Ineke van der Kraan Netherlands	18	1.7k 0.9×	250 0.8×	35 0.2×	38 0.2×	176 0.9×	20	1.8k
Madelaine Gogol United States	26	2.4k 1.3×	340 1.1×	21 0.1×	55 0.2×	214 1.0×	42	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wulan Deng

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Ling, Jing, Bo Wang, Junwei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Thioether editing generally increases the photostability of rhodamine dyes on self-labeling tags. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(30). e2426354122–e2426354122. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Junwei, Kecheng Zhang, Bo Wang, et al.. (2025). A palette of bridged bicycle-strengthened fluorophores. Nature Methods. 22(6). 1276–1287. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Bo, Di Niu, Ying Bi, et al.. (2024). Mesoscale chromatin confinement facilitates target search of pioneer transcription factors in live cells. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(1). 125–136. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Hui, Boyuan Li, Bo Wang, et al.. (2022). The transcriptional coactivator RUVBL2 regulates Pol II clustering with diverse transcription factors. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5703–5703. 26 indexed citations

Deng, Wulan, et al.. (2021). Dynamic transcription regulation at the single-molecule level. Developmental Biology. 482. 67–81. 10 indexed citations

Breda, Laura, Irene Motta, Wulan Deng, et al.. (2016). Forced chromatin looping raises fetal hemoglobin in adult sickle cells to higher levels than pharmacologic inducers. Blood. 128(8). 1139–1143. 59 indexed citations

Deng, Wulan & Gerd A. Blobel. (2016). Detecting Long-Range Enhancer–Promoter Interactions by Quantitative Chromosome Conformation Capture. Methods in molecular biology. 1468. 51–62. 6 indexed citations

Knight, Spencer C., Liangqi Xie, Wulan Deng, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 genome interrogation in living cells. Science. 350(6262). 823–826. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

Deng, Wulan, Xinghua Shi, Robert Tjian, Timothée Lionnet, & Robert H. Singer. (2015). CASFISH: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated in situ labeling of genomic loci in fixed cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). 11870–11875. 213 indexed citations

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Deng, Wulan, Jeremy Rupon, Ivan Krivega, et al.. (2014). Reactivation of Developmentally Silenced Globin Genes by Forced Chromatin Looping. Cell. 158(4). 849–860. 311 indexed citations

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Deng, Wulan & Gerd A. Blobel. (2013). Manipulating nuclear architecture. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 25. 1–7. 17 indexed citations

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Rupon, Jeremy, Wulan Deng, Hongxin Wang, et al.. (2013). Using Forced Chromatin Looping To Overcome Developmental Silencing Of Embryonic and Fetal β-Type Globin Genes In Adult Erythroid Cells. Blood. 122(21). 433–433. 3 indexed citations

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Deng, Wulan, Jongjoo Lee, Hong‐Xin Wang, et al.. (2012). Controlling Long-Range Genomic Interactions at a Native Locus by Targeted Tethering of a Looping Factor. Cell. 149(6). 1233–1244. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamonica, Janine M., Wulan Deng, Stephan Kadauke, et al.. (2011). Bromodomain protein Brd3 associates with acetylated GATA1 to promote its chromatin occupancy at erythroid target genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(22). E159–68. 181 indexed citations

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Deng, Wulan & Gerd A. Blobel. (2010). Do chromatin loops provide epigenetic gene expression states?. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 20(5). 548–554. 48 indexed citations

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Lamonica, Janine M., Stephan Kadauke, Wulan Deng, & Gerd A. Blobel. (2010). Acetylation-Dependent Interaction of GATA-1 with the Potential Mitotic “Bookmarking” Protein Brd3.. Blood. 116(21). 2598–2598. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yong, Wei-Sheng Wu, Swathi A. Kumar, et al.. (2009). Erythroid GATA1 function revealed by genome-wide analysis of transcription factor occupancy, histone modifications, and mRNA expression. Genome Research. 19(12). 2172–2184. 180 indexed citations

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Tripic, Tamara, Wulan Deng, Yong Cheng, et al.. (2008). SCL and associated proteins distinguish active from repressive GATA transcription factor complexes. Blood. 113(10). 2191–2201. 141 indexed citations

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Deng, Wulan, Tamara Tripic, Yong Cheng, et al.. (2008). SCL and Associated Proteins Distinguish Active from Repressive GATA Transcription Factor Complexes.. Blood. 112(11). 1379–1379. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Feng, Gang Wu, Wulan Deng, et al.. (2006). Interaction of rice dwarf virus outer capsid P8 protein with rice glycolate oxidase mediates relocalization of P8. FEBS Letters. 581(1). 34–40. 16 indexed citations

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