Ximing Du

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Ximing Du is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ximing Du has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Cell Biology and 18 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Ximing Du's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (17 papers), Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (14 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers). Ximing Du is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (17 papers), Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (14 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers). Ximing Du collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Ximing Du's co-authors include Hongyuan Yang, Andrew J. Brown, Armella Zadoorian, Robert G. Parton, Weihua Fei, Peng Li, Nieng Yan, Hongwu Qian, Guanghou Shui and Markus R. Wenk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ximing Du

44 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Lipid droplet biogenesis and functions in health and disease

2023 320 citations Armella Zadoorian, Ximing Du et al. Nature Reviews Endocrinology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ximing Du Australia	26	2.1k	1.1k	1.1k	614	569	46	3.1k
Francesc Tebar Spain	33	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	755 0.7×	297 0.5×	593 1.0×	71	3.5k
Jinglei Cheng Japan	28	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	225 0.4×	571 1.0×	39	2.9k
Christopher R. McMaster Canada	36	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	845 0.8×	400 0.7×	258 0.5×	99	3.6k
Albert Pol Spain	36	2.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	494 0.8×	781 1.4×	76	4.3k
Yuki Ohsaki Japan	29	1.4k 0.7×	757 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	281 0.5×	622 1.1×	53	2.6k
Maarit Hölttä‐Vuori Finland	21	1.2k 0.6×	669 0.6×	471 0.4×	269 0.4×	364 0.6×	29	1.9k
Symeon Siniossoglou United Kingdom	31	3.1k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	194 0.3×	381 0.7×	43	3.9k
Hyock Joo Kwon United States	21	1.7k 0.8×	539 0.5×	224 0.2×	1.2k 2.0×	728 1.3×	26	3.3k
Derk D. Binns United States	26	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	190 0.3×	484 0.9×	41	3.0k
Osamu Kuge Japan	33	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	436 0.4×	344 0.6×	296 0.5×	74	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ximing Du

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ximing Du

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Guang, Ximing Du, Dougall M. Norris, et al.. (2025). CHP1 promotes lipid droplet growth and regulates the localization of key enzymes for triacylglycerol synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2508912122–e2508912122.

Norris, Dougall M., Elvis Pandžić, Renée Whan, et al.. (2024). Phosphatidylserine regulates plasma membrane repair through tetraspanin-enriched macrodomains. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(6). 4 indexed citations

Lin, Yani, Liyuan Ran, Ximing Du, Hongyuan Yang, & Yingjie Wu. (2023). Oxysterol-Binding Protein: new insights into lipid transport functions and human diseases. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1868(9). 159365–159365. 6 indexed citations

Zadoorian, Armella, Ximing Du, & Hongyuan Yang. (2023). Lipid droplet biogenesis and functions in health and disease. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 19(8). 443–459. 320 indexed citations breakdown →

Coates, Hudson W., Ellen M. Olzomer, Ximing Du, et al.. (2022). Hypoxia truncates and constitutively activates the key cholesterol synthesis enzyme squalene monooxygenase. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations

Du, Ximing, Hongyuan Yang, Jenny M. Gunnersen, et al.. (2022). The BACE1-generated C-terminal fragment of the neural cell adhesion molecule 2 (NCAM2) promotes BACE1 targeting to Rab11-positive endosomes. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 79(11). 555–555. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yi-Chang, Ximing Du, Hoi Yin Mak, et al.. (2021). TMEM41B and VMP1 are scramblases and regulate the distribution of cholesterol and phosphatidylserine. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(6). 119 indexed citations

Mak, Hoi Yin, Qian Ouyang, Sergey Tumanov, et al.. (2021). AGPAT2 interaction with CDP-diacylglycerol synthases promotes the flux of fatty acids through the CDP-diacylglycerol pathway. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6877–6877. 28 indexed citations

Yuan, Yiqiong, et al.. (2021). TMEM41B and VMP1 are phospholipid scramblases. Autophagy. 17(8). 2048–2050. 19 indexed citations

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Yan, Renhong, Pingping Cao, Hongwu Qian, et al.. (2021). A structure of human Scap bound to Insig-2 suggests how their interaction is regulated by sterols. Science. 371(6533). 70 indexed citations

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Qian, Hongwu, Xin Zhao, Renhong Yan, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for catalysis and substrate specificity of human ACAT1. Nature. 581(7808). 333–338. 79 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanqing, Ximing Du, Nigel Turner, Andrew J. Brown, & Hongyuan Yang. (2019). Enhanced acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase activity increases cholesterol levels on the lipid droplet surface and impairs adipocyte function. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(50). 19306–19321. 40 indexed citations

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Du, Ximing, Linkang Zhou, Hoi Yin Mak, et al.. (2019). ORP5 localizes to ER–lipid droplet contacts and regulates the level of PI(4)P on lipid droplets. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(1). 85 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanqing, Hoi Yin Mak, Ivan Lukmantara, et al.. (2019). CDP-DAG synthase 1 and 2 regulate lipid droplet growth through distinct mechanisms. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(45). 16740–16755. 27 indexed citations

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Yan, Renhong, Hongwu Qian, Ivan Lukmantara, et al.. (2018). Human SEIPIN Binds Anionic Phospholipids. Developmental Cell. 47(2). 248–256.e4. 160 indexed citations

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Qi, Yanfei, Ximing Du, Qianli Ma, et al.. (2016). CDP-diacylglycerol synthases regulate the growth of lipid droplets and adipocyte development. Journal of Lipid Research. 57(5). 767–780. 38 indexed citations

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Du, Ximing, et al.. (2012). An Essential Role of Hrs/Vps27 in Endosomal Cholesterol Trafficking. Cell Reports. 1(1). 29–35. 44 indexed citations

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Fei, Weihua, Hui Li, Guanghou Shui, et al.. (2011). Molecular characterization of seipin and its mutants: implications for seipin in triacylglycerol synthesis. Journal of Lipid Research. 52(12). 2136–2147. 70 indexed citations

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Fei, Weihua, Ximing Du, & Hongyuan Yang. (2011). Seipin, adipogenesis and lipid droplets. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 22(6). 204–210. 87 indexed citations

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Du, Ximing, Ika Kristiana, Jenny Wong, & Andrew J. Brown. (2006). Involvement of Akt in ER-to-Golgi Transport of SCAP/SREBP: A Link between a Key Cell Proliferative Pathway and Membrane Synthesis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(6). 2735–2745. 139 indexed citations

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