Xuelei Lai

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Xuelei Lai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xuelei Lai has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Xuelei Lai's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (15 papers), melanin and skin pigmentation (8 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (7 papers). Xuelei Lai is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (15 papers), melanin and skin pigmentation (8 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (7 papers). Xuelei Lai collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and China. Xuelei Lai's co-authors include Bauke W. Dijkstra, Montserrat Soler‐López, Harry J. Wichers, Chloé Zubieta, Jae‐Hoon Jung, Philip A. Wigge, Katja E. Jaeger, Catarina S. Silva, Stephanie Hutin and Véronique Hugouvieux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xuelei Lai

33 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

A prion-like domain in ELF3 functions as a thermosensor in Arabidopsis

2020 419 citations Jae‐Hoon Jung, António Daniel Barbosa et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xuelei Lai France	19	1.1k	1.1k	419	293	116	35	1.8k
Yoriko Sawano Japan	16	904 0.8×	989 0.9×	99 0.2×	89 0.3×	57 0.5×	43	1.7k
María Isabel Rodríguez‐García Spain	26	885 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	42 0.1×	50 0.2×	28 0.2×	84	1.7k
Nam‐Hai Chua United States	25	2.8k 2.6×	2.6k 2.5×	170 0.4×	29 0.1×	29 0.3×	31	3.8k
R. K. Tripathi United States	15	218 0.2×	418 0.4×	459 1.1×	327 1.1×	22 0.2×	46	868
Nir Yakoby United States	18	791 0.7×	807 0.8×	419 1.0×	45 0.2×	76 0.7×	33	1.6k
Alexandre Pons France	24	1.0k 1.0×	495 0.5×	211 0.5×	77 0.3×	340 2.9×	63	1.8k
Benedetta Mattei Italy	27	2.0k 1.9×	1.2k 1.2×	161 0.4×	108 0.4×	55 0.5×	58	2.6k
Nat N. V. Kav Canada	32	2.0k 1.9×	1.6k 1.5×	191 0.5×	177 0.6×	27 0.2×	89	2.9k
Rudi Grimm Germany	19	432 0.4×	718 0.7×	58 0.1×	87 0.3×	45 0.4×	28	1.4k
Jay L. Brewster United States	12	446 0.4×	1.7k 1.6×	476 1.1×	25 0.1×	12 0.1×	15	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xuelei Lai

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Ye, Tiantian, Huaijun Wang, Xiaokai Li, et al.. (2025). A novel OsCRK14–OsRLCK57–MAPK signaling module activates OsbZIP66 to confer drought resistance in rice. Molecular Plant. 18(8). 1390–1408.

Zhang, Jumei, Hai Liu, Sheng Luo, et al.. (2025). Fe-deficiency-induced chlorosis 1 is essential for chloroplast iron transport and homeostasis under continuous light conditions in Arabidopsis. Cell Reports. 44(7). 115942–115942. 1 indexed citations

Hugouvieux, Véronique, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, Jérémy Lucas, et al.. (2024). SEPALLATA-driven MADS transcription factor tetramerization is required for inner whorl floral organ development. The Plant Cell. 36(9). 3435–3450. 11 indexed citations

Yan, Junjie, Fei Zhang, Zeyuan Guan, et al.. (2023). Serine protease NAL1 exerts pleiotropic functions through degradation of TOPLESS-related corepressor in rice. Nature Plants. 9(7). 1130–1142. 22 indexed citations

Hutin, Stephanie, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, Philippe Rieu, et al.. (2023). Identification of Plant Transcription Factor DNA-Binding Sites Using seq-DAP-seq. Methods in molecular biology. 2698. 119–145. 5 indexed citations

Falavigna, Vítor da Silveira, Edouard Severing, Xuelei Lai, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the role of MADS transcription factor complexes in apple tree dormancy. New Phytologist. 232(5). 2071–2088. 36 indexed citations

Lai, Xuelei, Véronique Hugouvieux, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, et al.. (2021). The intervening domain is required for DNA-binding and functional identity of plant MADS transcription factors. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4760–4760. 44 indexed citations

Lai, Xuelei, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, Ying Huang, et al.. (2021). The LEAFY floral regulator displays pioneer transcription factor properties. Molecular Plant. 14(5). 829–837. 47 indexed citations

Silva, Catarina S., Xuelei Lai, Stephanie Hutin, et al.. (2020). Molecular mechanisms of Evening Complex activity in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(12). 6901–6909. 113 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Arnaud Stigliani, Jérémy Lucas, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide binding of SEPALLATA3 and AGAMOUS complexes determined by sequential DNA-affinity purification sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(17). 9637–9648. 43 indexed citations

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Jung, Jae‐Hoon, António Daniel Barbosa, Stephanie Hutin, et al.. (2020). A prion-like domain in ELF3 functions as a thermosensor in Arabidopsis. Nature. 585(7824). 256–260. 419 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lai, Xuelei, Hicham Chahtane, Raquel Martín-Arevalillo, Chloé Zubieta, & François Parcy. (2020). Contrasted evolutionary trajectories of plant transcription factors. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 54. 101–107. 31 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, et al.. (2019). Structural Basis for Plant MADS Transcription Factor Oligomerization. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 17. 946–953. 44 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Jérémie Bazin, Stuart Webb, et al.. (2018). CircRNAs in Plants. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 1087. 329–343. 40 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Arnaud Stigliani, Gilles Vachon, et al.. (2018). Building Transcription Factor Binding Site Models to Understand Gene Regulation in Plants. Molecular Plant. 12(6). 743–763. 78 indexed citations

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Ezer, Daphne, Jae‐Hoon Jung, Hui Y. Lan, et al.. (2017). The evening complex coordinates environmental and endogenous signals in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 3(7). 17087–17087. 215 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Harry J. Wichers, Montserrat Soler‐López, & Bauke W. Dijkstra. (2017). Structure of Human Tyrosinase Related Protein 1 Reveals a Binuclear Zinc Active Site Important for Melanogenesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(33). 9812–9815. 188 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Montserrat Soler‐López, Harry J. Wichers, & Bauke W. Dijkstra. (2016). Large-Scale Recombinant Expression and Purification of Human Tyrosinase Suitable for Structural Studies. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161697–e0161697. 57 indexed citations

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Lai, Xuelei, Montserrat Soler‐López, Wangsa T. Ismaya, Harry J. Wichers, & Bauke W. Dijkstra. (2016). Crystal structure of recombinant tyrosinase-binding protein MtaL at 1.35 Å resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 72(3). 244–250. 13 indexed citations

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Ismaya, Wangsa T., Xuelei Lai, Debbie S. Retnoningrum, et al.. (2016). A novel immune-tolerable and permeable lectin-like protein from mushroom Agaricus bisporus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 473(4). 1090–1093. 16 indexed citations

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