Ya‐Ming Hou

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
175 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ya‐Ming Hou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ya‐Ming Hou has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 166 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ya‐Ming Hou's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (129 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (128 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (43 papers). Ya‐Ming Hou is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (129 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (128 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (43 papers). Ya‐Ming Hou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Ya‐Ming Hou's co-authors include Paul Schimmel, Howard Gamper, John J. Perona, Thomas Christian, Isao Masuda, Cuiping Liu, Christopher S. Francklyn, Chunmei Zhang, Christian S. Hamann and Chunmei Zhang 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

Ya‐Ming Hou

168 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

A simple structural feature is a major determinant of the identity of a transfer RNA

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ya‐Ming Hou	4.7k	619	260	239	229	175	5.3k
Daniel Lim	3.0k 0.6×	467 0.8×	233 0.9×	429 1.8×	314 1.4×	38	4.4k
M.P. Coles	2.6k 0.5×	522 0.8×	387 1.5×	207 0.9×	190 0.8×	66	3.3k
T.H. Tahirov	3.2k 0.7×	952 1.5×	392 1.5×	401 1.7×	216 0.9×	115	4.0k
Michel Jaquinod	2.1k 0.5×	486 0.8×	303 1.2×	249 1.0×	487 2.1×	77	3.2k
Jens Nyborg	4.4k 0.9×	943 1.5×	730 2.8×	257 1.1×	201 0.9×	80	4.9k
Raymond Gilmour	2.4k 0.5×	501 0.8×	163 0.6×	279 1.2×	200 0.9×	63	3.3k
Takaho Terada	3.7k 0.8×	449 0.7×	433 1.7×	322 1.3×	679 3.0×	129	4.7k
Lichuan Gu	2.1k 0.5×	421 0.7×	186 0.7×	251 1.1×	522 2.3×	105	3.3k
Albert Schmitz	2.5k 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	164 0.6×	197 0.8×	215 0.9×	21	3.1k
Richard Charles Garratt	2.8k 0.6×	648 1.0×	507 1.9×	246 1.0×	233 1.0×	153	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ya‐Ming Hou

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Bing, et al.. (2025). Structural basis for retron co-option of anti-phage ATPase-nuclease. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 33(1). 53–62. 3 indexed citations

Li, Haixing, et al.. (2025). An RNA modification prevents extended codon-anticodon interactions from facilitating +1 frameshifting. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7392–7392.

Nakano, Yuko, Howard Gamper, Jiatong Li, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide profiling of tRNA modifications by Induro-tRNAseq reveals coordinated changes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1047–1047. 2 indexed citations

Gamper, Howard, Thomas Christian, Robert Y. Henley, et al.. (2024). Post-transcriptional methylation of mitochondrial-tRNA differentially contributes to mitochondrial pathology. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9008–9008.

Saito, Renata de Freitas, Hui Wei, David M.J. Lilley, et al.. (2024). Cracking the Code: Enhancing Molecular Tools for Progress in Nanobiotechnology. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 7(6). 3587–3604. 7 indexed citations

Christian, Thomas, Isao Masuda, Fenglin Li, et al.. (2024). A kinetic model for compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase gene YARS2-Associated neonatal phenotype. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(1). 108092–108092.

Fallahi, Ali, Howard Gamper, Miten Jain, et al.. (2024). Nanopore signal deviations from pseudouridine modifications in RNA are sequence-specific: quantification requires dedicated synthetic controls. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22457–22457. 5 indexed citations

Augustyniak, Rafał, et al.. (2023). Nucleolar Essential Protein 1 (Nep1): Elucidation of enzymatic catalysis mechanism by molecular dynamics simulation and quantum mechanics study. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 3999–4008. 4 indexed citations

Li, Yunlong, Manjuli R. Sharma, Howard Gamper, et al.. (2023). Starvation sensing by mycobacterial RelA/SpoT homologue through constitutive surveillance of translation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2302006120–e2302006120. 5 indexed citations

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Gamper, Howard, et al.. (2023). Semi-quantitative detection of pseudouridine modifications and type I/II hypermodifications in human mRNAs using direct long-read sequencing. Nature Communications. 14(1). 334–334. 64 indexed citations

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Gamper, Howard, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Stably Charged Arg-tRNAArg for Structural Analysis. Methods in molecular biology. 2620. 263–271. 1 indexed citations

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Demo, Gabriel, Howard Gamper, A.B. Loveland, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for +1 ribosomal frameshifting during EF-G-catalyzed translocation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4644–4644. 19 indexed citations

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Loveland, A.B., et al.. (2021). Time-resolved cryo-EM visualizes ribosomal translocation with EF-G and GTP. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7236–7236. 66 indexed citations

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Masuda, Isao, Thomas Christian, Fuad Mohammad, et al.. (2021). Loss of N1-methylation of G37 in tRNA induces ribosome stalling and reprograms gene expression. eLife. 10. 25 indexed citations

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Gamper, Howard, Christine Polte, Zoya Ignatova, et al.. (2020). tRNAArg-Derived Fragments Can Serve as Arginine Donors for Protein Arginylation. Cell chemical biology. 27(7). 839–849.e4. 21 indexed citations

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Walvoord, Ryan R., et al.. (2014). Amino acid–dependent stability of the acyl linkage in aminoacyl-tRNA. RNA. 20(6). 758–764. 38 indexed citations

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Christian, Thomas, Howard Gamper, & Ya‐Ming Hou. (2013). Conservation of structure and mechanism by Trm5 enzymes. RNA. 19(9). 1192–1199. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Cuiping, et al.. (2009). Distinct kinetic determinants for the stepwise CCA addition to tRNA. RNA. 15(10). 1827–1836. 17 indexed citations

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Arar, Khalil, et al.. (2005). Unrestricted accessibility of short oligonucleotides to RNA. RNA. 11(9). 1441–1447. 9 indexed citations

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Hou, Ya‐Ming, et al.. (1995). Evidence for a conserved relationship between an acceptor stem and a tRNA for aminoacylation.. PubMed Central. 1(7). 707–13. 12 indexed citations

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