Xinxing Yang

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 997 citations indexed

About

Xinxing Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinxing Yang has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 997 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Xinxing Yang's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers). Xinxing Yang is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers). Xinxing Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xinxing Yang's co-authors include Jie Xiao, Zhixin Lyu, Ryan McQuillen, Amanda Miguel, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Carla Coltharp, Jackson Buss, Gleb Shtengel, Harald F. Hess and Joshua W. McCausland and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Xinxing Yang

30 papers receiving 974 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.

GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis

2017 338 citations Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu 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
Xinxing Yang China	13	637	410	248	181	75	33	997
Carla Coltharp United States	13	610 1.0×	414 1.0×	254 1.0×	242 1.3×	76 1.0×	17	965
Benjamin P. Bratton United States	17	830 1.3×	537 1.3×	310 1.3×	85 0.5×	95 1.3×	30	1.2k
Irnov Irnov United States	13	1.2k 1.9×	643 1.6×	296 1.2×	240 1.3×	117 1.6×	15	1.6k
Jerod L. Ptacin United States	14	990 1.6×	596 1.5×	376 1.5×	237 1.3×	141 1.9×	19	1.4k
Ling Chin Hwang United Kingdom	14	600 0.9×	312 0.8×	173 0.7×	212 1.2×	59 0.8×	21	851
Diego I. Cattoni France	18	1.1k 1.7×	370 0.9×	228 0.9×	133 0.7×	78 1.0×	31	1.4k
Karl E. Duderstadt United States	17	1.2k 1.9×	355 0.9×	123 0.5×	104 0.6×	60 0.8×	27	1.4k
Jingyi Fei United States	25	2.2k 3.4×	430 1.0×	232 0.9×	219 1.2×	107 1.4×	55	2.5k
Bradley R. Parry United States	8	812 1.3×	416 1.0×	255 1.0×	110 0.6×	102 1.4×	10	1.2k
David Fange Sweden	16	1.2k 1.9×	537 1.3×	151 0.6×	216 1.2×	102 1.4×	21	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinxing Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zheng, Meiling, Rui Zhang, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2025). Integrating network pharmacology, molecular docking, and bioinformatics to explore the mechanism of sparganii rhizoma in the treatment of laryngeal cancer. Molecular Diversity. 29(6). 6325–6342.

Lyu, Zhixin, Xinxing Yang, Atsushi Yahashiri, et al.. (2025). Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli. Nature Microbiology. 10(6). 1521–1534. 1 indexed citations

McQuillen, Ryan, Amilcar J. Perez, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2024). Light-dependent modulation of protein localization and function in living bacteria cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10746–10746. 2 indexed citations

Zheng, Mei‐Ling, et al.. (2024). Investigating the mechanism of Sinisan formula in depression treatment: a comprehensive analysis using GEO datasets, network pharmacology, and molecular docking. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 43(5). 2397–2411. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Zhenzhou, et al.. (2024). Structural insights into <i>Deinococcus radiodurans</i> BamA: extracellular loop diversity and its evolutionary implications. JUSTC. 54(9). 905–905.

Gong, Han, Di Yan, Yuanyuan Cui, et al.. (2024). The divisome is a self-enhancing machine in Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8198–8198. 7 indexed citations

Li, Yaxin, et al.. (2023). Design of a Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Unmanned Vehicle System based on Computer Vision. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2504(1). 12033–12033.

Lyu, Zhixin, Joshua W. McCausland, Jordan M. Barrows, et al.. (2023). Integration of cell wall synthesis and chromosome segregation during cell division in Caulobacter. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(2). 13 indexed citations

Yan, Di, et al.. (2023). Protocol for single-molecule labeling and tracking of bacterial cell division proteins. STAR Protocols. 5(1). 102766–102766. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Minhua, Jie Chen, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2023). A unique mutation in PIN‐FORMED1 and a genetic pathway for reduced sensitivity of Arabidopsis roots to N‐1‐naphthylphthalamic acid. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(6). e14120–e14120. 1 indexed citations

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Lyu, Zhixin, Atsushi Yahashiri, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2022). FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5751–5751. 27 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxing, Ryan McQuillen, Zhixin Lyu, et al.. (2021). A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW. Nature Microbiology. 6(5). 584–593. 56 indexed citations

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McCausland, Joshua W., Xinxing Yang, Georgia R. Squyres, et al.. (2021). Treadmilling FtsZ polymers drive the directional movement of sPG-synthesis enzymes via a Brownian ratchet mechanism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 609–609. 49 indexed citations

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Bohrer, Christopher H., Xinxing Yang, Shreyasi Thakur, et al.. (2021). A pairwise distance distribution correction (DDC) algorithm to eliminate blinking-caused artifacts in SMLM. Nature Methods. 18(6). 669–677. 30 indexed citations

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Wooten, Matthew, Jonathan C. Snedeker, Zehra F. Nizami, et al.. (2019). Asymmetric histone inheritance via strand-specific incorporation and biased replication fork movement. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(8). 732–743. 59 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxing, Zhixin Lyu, Amanda Miguel, et al.. (2017). GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis. Science. 355(6326). 744–747. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mo, Gary, Brian Ross, Fabian Hertel, et al.. (2017). Genetically encoded biosensors for visualizing live-cell biochemical activity at super-resolution. Nature Methods. 14(4). 427–434. 139 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxing, Xiaofang Tan, Ligeng Xu, et al.. (2016). Functionalized graphene oxide in microbial engineering: An effective stimulator for bacterial growth. Carbon. 103. 172–180. 28 indexed citations

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Buss, Jackson, Carla Coltharp, Gleb Shtengel, et al.. (2015). A Multi-layered Protein Network Stabilizes the Escherichia coli FtsZ-ring and Modulates Constriction Dynamics. PLoS Genetics. 11(4). e1005128–e1005128. 84 indexed citations

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Coltharp, Carla, Xinxing Yang, & Jie Xiao. (2014). Quantitative analysis of single-molecule superresolution images. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 28. 112–121. 49 indexed citations

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