Xue Gao

6.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
87 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Xue Gao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xue Gao has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Pharmacology and 10 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Xue Gao's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (25 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (24 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (12 papers). Xue Gao is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (25 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (24 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (12 papers). Xue Gao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Xue Gao's co-authors include Yi Tang, David R. Liu, Holly A. Rees, Johnny H. Hu, Shannon M. Miller, Maarten H. Geurts, Weixin Tang, Liwei Chen, Ning Sun and Zhi Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xue Gao

84 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Evolved Cas9 variants with broad PAM compatibility and high DNA specificity

2018 1.2k citations Johnny H. Hu, Xue Gao et al. profile →
Efficient delivery of genome-editing proteins using bioreducible lipid nanoparticles

2016 540 citations Ming Wang, John A. Zuris et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Treatment of autosomal dominant hearing loss by in vivo delivery of genome editing agents

2017 410 citations Xue Gao, Yong Tao et al. profile →
CRISPR‐Cas Biochemistry and CRISPR‐Based Molecular Diagnostics

2023 123 citations Zhengyan Weng, Zheng You et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xue Gao United States	32	3.7k	742	590	455	349	87	4.7k
Ying Sun China	22	1.7k 0.5×	150 0.2×	296 0.5×	109 0.2×	155 0.4×	86	2.8k
Weishan Wang China	28	1.8k 0.5×	681 0.9×	168 0.3×	385 0.8×	153 0.4×	85	2.6k
Seung‐Goo Lee South Korea	28	2.3k 0.6×	120 0.2×	277 0.5×	602 1.3×	318 0.9×	156	3.0k
Hyun Ho Park South Korea	31	2.2k 0.6×	119 0.2×	133 0.2×	264 0.6×	189 0.5×	196	3.9k
Tom Ellis United Kingdom	37	3.7k 1.0×	163 0.2×	860 1.5×	910 2.0×	376 1.1×	91	4.8k
Mo Li China	36	3.2k 0.9×	58 0.1×	508 0.9×	561 1.2×	273 0.8×	160	4.7k
Rongfeng Li China	35	1.4k 0.4×	421 0.6×	581 1.0×	125 0.3×	223 0.6×	109	3.0k
Dae‐Hyuk Kweon South Korea	34	2.0k 0.5×	96 0.1×	252 0.4×	409 0.9×	180 0.5×	140	3.2k
Wilfried Weber Germany	48	5.1k 1.4×	108 0.1×	796 1.3×	1.8k 3.9×	1.3k 3.7×	198	7.1k
Younghoon Lee South Korea	38	3.3k 0.9×	108 0.1×	968 1.6×	529 1.2×	187 0.5×	207	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xue Gao

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Jin, Xue Gao, Bing Xia, et al.. (2025). Bamboo‐Inspired Composite Conduit Accelerates Peripheral Nerve Regeneration through Synergistic Oriented Structure and Piezoelectricity. Advanced Materials. 38(1). e09425–e09425. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Zheng, Jiawen Luo, Xue Gao, et al.. (2024). Machine learning accelerates the discovery of epitope-based dual-bioactive peptides against skin infections. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 64(6). 107371–107371. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jinyuan, Xue Gao, Rong Wang, et al.. (2024). Co-W18O49/PDI Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst for photocatalytic BPA degradation and mechanism. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 703. 135050–135050. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Jinxin, Jinxin Liu, Xingwang Zhu, et al.. (2024). Halogen-doped ultrathin Bi2WO6 for promoted separation of photogenerated carriers and efficient photocatalysis. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 695. 134113–134113. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Yongjie, et al.. (2024). Orthogonal and multiplexable genetic perturbations with an engineered prime editor and a diverse RNA array. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10868–10868. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Chunxiao, et al.. (2024). Enzymatic Ring Contraction for the Biosynthesis of Sulfur-Containing Cyclopentachromone. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(1). 548–556. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuxuan, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhengyan Weng, et al.. (2023). A point-of-care microfluidic biosensing system for rapid and ultrasensitive nucleic acid detection from clinical samples. Lab on a Chip. 23(17). 3862–3873. 9 indexed citations

Weng, Zhengyan, Zheng You, Huijie Li, et al.. (2023). CRISPR-Cas12a Biosensor Array for Ultrasensitive Detection of Unamplified DNA with Single-Nucleotide Polymorphic Discrimination. ACS Sensors. 8(4). 1489–1499. 40 indexed citations

Weng, Zhengyan, Zheng You, Jie Yang, et al.. (2023). CRISPR‐Cas Biochemistry and CRISPR‐Based Molecular Diagnostics. Angewandte Chemie. 135(17). 6 indexed citations

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Tao, Yong, Verónica Lamas, Wan Du, et al.. (2023). Treatment of monogenic and digenic dominant genetic hearing loss by CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein delivery in vivo. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4928–4928. 29 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiwen, Sean A. Newmister, Jacob N. Sanders, et al.. (2023). An NmrA-like enzyme-catalysed redox-mediated Diels–Alder cycloaddition with anti-selectivity. Nature Chemistry. 15(4). 526–534. 21 indexed citations

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Hajikhani, Mehdi, Yi Zhang, Xue Gao, & Mengshi Lin. (2023). Advances in CRISPR-based SERS detection of food contaminants: A review. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 138. 615–627. 43 indexed citations

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Weng, Zhengyan, Zheng You, Jie Yang, et al.. (2023). CRISPR‐Cas Biochemistry and CRISPR‐Based Molecular Diagnostics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(17). e202214987–e202214987. 123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xing, Chao, Qitian Lin, Xue Gao, et al.. (2022). Intracellular miRNA Imaging Based on a Self-Powered and Self-Feedback Entropy-Driven Catalyst–DNAzyme Circuit. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(35). 39866–39872. 53 indexed citations

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Li, Huijie, Jie Yang, Guangfu Wu, et al.. (2022). Amplification‐Free Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Using CRISPR Cas13a and Graphene Field‐Effect Transistors. Angewandte Chemie. 134(32). 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiwen, Fanglong Zhao, Jie Yang, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of the stereoselective formation of the spirooxindole ring in the biosynthesis of citrinadins. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4158–4158. 34 indexed citations

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Zhong, Keli, Lin Chen, Lijun Tang, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of 2-(3-Cyanofuran-2(5H)-ylidene)malononitrile Derivative and Its Recognition for Pd²⁺. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 41(3). 1124–1124. 1 indexed citations

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Ding, Ning, Yidi Sun, Tanglong Yuan, et al.. (2020). Single C-to-T substitution using engineered APOBEC3G-nCas9 base editors with minimum genome- and transcriptome-wide off-target effects. Science Advances. 6(29). eaba1773–eaba1773. 64 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhixin, et al.. (2019). Research on Noise Reduction Algorithm Based on Combination of LMS Filter and Spectral Subtraction. Journal of Information Processing Systems. 15(4). 748–764. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Ming, John A. Zuris, Fantao Meng, et al.. (2016). Efficient delivery of genome-editing proteins using bioreducible lipid nanoparticles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(11). 2868–2873. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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