Yanjie Chao

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Yanjie Chao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanjie Chao has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yanjie Chao's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Yanjie Chao is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Yanjie Chao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Yanjie Chao's co-authors include Jörg Vogel, Cynthia M. Sharma, Mária Eckert, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Krzysztof Chylinski, Zaid Ahmed Pirzada, Elitza Deltcheva, Richard Reinhardt, Masatoshi Miyakoshi and Kai Papenfort and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Yanjie Chao

37 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III

2011 1.8k citations Elitza Deltcheva, Krzysztof Chylinski et al. Nature profile →
Dual RNA-seq unveils noncoding RNA functions in host–pathogen interactions

2016 367 citations Konrad U. Förstner, Yanjie Chao et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Yanjie Chao	3.2k	1.3k	900	406	385	39	4.0k
Udi Qimron	2.6k 0.8×	931 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	426 1.0×	255 0.7×	62	3.9k
Josiane E. Garneau	3.0k 1.0×	690 0.5×	992 1.1×	296 0.7×	172 0.4×	6	3.4k
Melissa Richards	4.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	410 1.0×	246 0.6×	7	5.1k
Alfonso H. Magadán	2.3k 0.7×	545 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	202 0.5×	153 0.4×	13	2.7k
Francisco J. M. Mojica	5.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	587 1.4×	317 0.8×	35	6.4k
Joseph Bondy‐Denomy	4.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	2.4k 2.7×	391 1.0×	278 0.7×	70	5.4k
Raymond H.J. Staals	3.0k 1.0×	663 0.5×	873 1.0×	282 0.7×	109 0.3×	44	3.4k
Hélène Deveau	6.1k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 2.3×	588 1.4×	352 0.9×	15	6.9k
Manuela Villion	2.1k 0.7×	485 0.4×	659 0.7×	190 0.5×	117 0.3×	19	2.4k
Aude Bernheim	2.4k 0.8×	656 0.5×	2.1k 2.3×	298 0.7×	286 0.7×	48	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanjie Chao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanjie Chao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanjie Chao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yanjie Chao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yanjie Chao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yanjie Chao. Yanjie Chao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Chen, Ziying, et al.. (2025). An RNase III–processed sRNA coordinates sialic acid metabolism of Salmonella enterica during gut colonization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2414563122–e2414563122. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuo & Yanjie Chao. (2025). Quality over quantity: Small RNA pauses translation elongation to lift protein activity. Molecular Cell. 85(9). 1708–1711. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shangrong, Lisha Bai, Huimin Zhao, et al.. (2024). Structural transition of GP64 triggered by a pH-sensitive multi-histidine switch. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7668–7668. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Jing, Shuo Zhang, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2024). A widely conserved protein Rof inhibits transcription termination factor Rho and promotes Salmonella virulence program. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3187–3187. 7 indexed citations

Li, Jinming, Ziying Chen, Qinying Wang, et al.. (2024). Microbial and metabolic profiles unveil mutualistic microbe-microbe interaction in obesity-related colorectal cancer. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(3). 101429–101429. 24 indexed citations

Zhao, Shuangshuang, Qiuping Xu, Su Yao, et al.. (2023). Salmonella effector SopB reorganizes cytoskeletal vimentin to maintain replication vacuoles for efficient infection. Nature Communications. 14(1). 24 indexed citations

Guo, Jiaxin, et al.. (2023). Absolute quantification of the microbiota spatial distribution in the murine large intestine. 1(2). 100030–100030. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Fang, Ziying Chen, Shuo Zhang, et al.. (2023). In vivo RNA interactome profiling reveals 3’UTR-processed small RNA targeting a central regulatory hub. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8106–8106. 17 indexed citations

Islam, Md. Saiful, Katarzyna Bandyra, Yanjie Chao, Jörg Vogel, & Ben F. Luisi. (2021). Impact of pseudouridylation, substrate fold, and degradosome organization on the endonuclease activity of RNase E. RNA. 27(11). 1339–1352. 8 indexed citations

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Chao, Yanjie, Lei Li, Dylan Girodat, et al.. (2017). In Vivo Cleavage Map Illuminates the Central Role of RNase E in Coding and Non-coding RNA Pathways. Molecular Cell. 65(1). 39–51. 210 indexed citations

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Miyakoshi, Masatoshi, Yanjie Chao, & Jörg Vogel. (2015). Cross talk between ABC transporter m RNA s via a target m RNA ‐derived sponge of the G cv B small RNA. The EMBO Journal. 34(11). 1478–1492. 143 indexed citations

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Miyakoshi, Masatoshi, Yanjie Chao, & Jörg Vogel. (2015). Regulatory small RNAs from the 3′ regions of bacterial mRNAs. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 24. 132–139. 118 indexed citations

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Fan, Ben, Lei Li, Yanjie Chao, et al.. (2015). dRNA-Seq Reveals Genomewide TSSs and Noncoding RNAs of Plant Beneficial Rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142002–e0142002. 24 indexed citations

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Chao, Yanjie, Kai Papenfort, Richard Reinhardt, Cynthia M. Sharma, & Jörg Vogel. (2012). An atlas of Hfq‐bound transcripts reveals 3′ UTRs as a genomic reservoir of regulatory small RNAs. The EMBO Journal. 31(20). 4005–4019. 289 indexed citations

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Deltcheva, Elitza, Krzysztof Chylinski, Cynthia M. Sharma, et al.. (2011). CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III. Nature. 471(7340). 602–607. 1842 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chao, Yanjie & Jörg Vogel. (2010). The role of Hfq in bacterial pathogens. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 13(1). 24–33. 314 indexed citations

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Chen, Yingyu, Yanjie Chao, Tao Liu, et al.. (2008). Potential challenges to the Stop TB Plan for humans in China; cattle maintain M. bovis and M. tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 89(1). 95–100. 66 indexed citations

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Chao, Yanjie, et al.. (2007). Serological survey of bovine herpesvirus type 1 infection in China. Veterinary Microbiology. 127(1-2). 136–141. 20 indexed citations

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Chao, Yanjie, et al.. (1987). Regulation of the promoter of rat apolipoprotein A-I gene in cultured cells. Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States). 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yanjie, et al.. (1986). Purification and serology of an isolate of zucchini yellow mosaic virus. 35(4). 495–503. 5 indexed citations

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