Yoontae Lee

11.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
38 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Yoontae Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoontae Lee has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yoontae Lee's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers). Yoontae Lee is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers). Yoontae Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Canada. Yoontae Lee's co-authors include Jinju Han, V. Narry Kim, Minju Kim, Sanghyuk Lee, Sung Hee Baek, Young Kook Kim, Hua Jin, Je‐Keun Rhee, Byoung-Tak Zhang and Jin‐Wu Nam and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Yoontae Lee

38 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

MicroRNA genes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II

2004 3.3k citations Yoontae Lee, Minju Kim et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
The Drosha-DGCR8 complex in primary microRNA processing

2004 1.6k citations Jinju Han, Yoontae Lee et al. Genes & Development profile →
Molecular Basis for the Recognition of Primary microRNAs by the Drosha-DGCR8 Complex

2006 1.2k citations Jinju Han, Yoontae Lee et al. profile →
The role of PACT in the RNA silencing pathway

2006 511 citations Yoontae Lee, Young Kook Kim et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yoontae Lee South Korea	22	6.9k	5.3k	1.0k	612	356	38	8.3k
Marc R. Fabian Canada	31	5.8k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	714 0.7×	550 0.9×	273 0.8×	58	7.4k
Chanseok Shin South Korea	27	5.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.8×	784 0.8×	521 0.9×	296 0.8×	61	7.3k
Philip W. Garrett-Engele United States	14	8.6k 1.2×	6.0k 1.1×	450 0.4×	578 0.9×	430 1.2×	15	10.0k
Mariana Lagos‐Quintana United States	11	8.5k 1.2×	6.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	555 0.9×	580 1.6×	14	10.5k
Harpreet K. Saini United Kingdom	22	4.5k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	850 0.8×	343 0.6×	308 0.9×	47	5.9k
Minju Ha South Korea	13	6.4k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	334 0.3×	475 0.8×	239 0.7×	16	7.6k
Jinju Han South Korea	19	12.9k 1.9×	10.6k 2.0×	1.3k 1.3×	837 1.4×	706 2.0×	29	15.2k
Janell M. Schelter United States	17	8.0k 1.2×	5.5k 1.0×	410 0.4×	652 1.1×	670 1.9×	20	9.5k
Mo‐Fang Liu China	36	5.4k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	830 0.8×	539 0.9×	562 1.6×	73	6.6k
Neil Cooch United States	14	6.0k 0.9×	3.6k 0.7×	351 0.3×	474 0.8×	547 1.5×	25	6.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Yoontae, et al.. (2025). The role of transcription factors in prostate cancer progression. Molecules and Cells. 48(4). 100193–100193. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Dasom, et al.. (2024). Cytosolic N-terminal formyl-methionine deformylation derives cancer stem cell features and tumor progression. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14900–14900. 2 indexed citations

Park, Ji‐Ho, Dasom Kim, June‐Yong Lee, et al.. (2024). ETV5 promotes lupus pathogenesis and follicular helper T cell differentiation by inducing osteopontin expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2322009121–e2322009121. 4 indexed citations

Golkaram, Mahdi, et al.. (2024). ETV4 is a mechanical transducer linking cell crowding dynamics to lineage specification. Nature Cell Biology. 26(6). 903–916. 9 indexed citations

Kim, Tae-Kyung, et al.. (2024). The capicua-ataxin-1-like complex regulates Notch-driven marginal zone B cell development and sepsis progression. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10579–10579. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Chan Johng, Jinyong Choi, Yoon Kyung Jeon, et al.. (2023). The transcription factor Mef2d regulates B:T synapse–dependent GC-T _FH differentiation and IL-21–mediated humoral immunity. Science Immunology. 8(81). eadf2248–eadf2248. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Yoontae, et al.. (2023). The ubiquitin–proteasome system links NADPH metabolism to ferroptosis. Trends in Cell Biology. 33(12). 1088–1103. 33 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kha The, Eunjeong Kim, Dasom Kim, et al.. (2022). The MARCHF6 E3 ubiquitin ligase acts as an NADPH sensor for the regulation of ferroptosis. Nature Cell Biology. 24(8). 1239–1251. 56 indexed citations

Park, Joonyoung, et al.. (2022). ERK phosphorylation disrupts the intramolecular interaction of capicua to promote cytoplasmic translocation of capicua and tumor growth. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 1030725–1030725. 3 indexed citations

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Park, Ji‐Ho, Su Jin Lee, Tae Jin Kim, et al.. (2022). Postnatal regulation of B-1a cell development and survival by the CIC-PER2-BHLHE41 axis. Cell Reports. 38(7). 110386–110386. 10 indexed citations

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Cho, Jae-Ho, et al.. (2020). Deletion Timing of Cic Alleles during Hematopoiesis Determines the Degree of Peripheral CD4⁺ T Cell Activation and Proliferation. Immune Network. 20(5). e43–e43. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Eunjeong, Donghyo Kim, Chang‐Jin Kim, et al.. (2020). Capicua suppresses colorectal cancer progression via repression of ETV4 expression. Cancer Cell International. 20(1). 42–42. 19 indexed citations

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Lee, Kihwan, Hyun-Ju Kim, Kyongman An, et al.. (2016). Replenishment of microRNA-188-5p restores the synaptic and cognitive deficits in 5XFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34433–34433. 62 indexed citations

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Kim, Eunjeong, Sung-Jun Park, Nahyun Choi, et al.. (2015). Deficiency of Capicua disrupts bile acid homeostasis. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8272–8272. 26 indexed citations

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Han, Kihoon, Vincenzo A. Gennarino, Yoontae Lee, et al.. (2013). Human-specific regulation of MeCP2 levels in fetal brains by microRNA miR-483-5p. Genes & Development. 27(5). 485–490. 86 indexed citations

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Kahle, Juliette J., George P. Souroullas, Peng Yu, et al.. (2013). Ataxin1L Is a Regulator of HSC Function Highlighting the Utility of Cross-Tissue Comparisons for Gene Discovery. PLoS Genetics. 9(3). e1003359–e1003359. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Yoontae, John Denis Fryer, Hyojin Kang, et al.. (2011). ATXN1 Protein Family and CIC Regulate Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Lung Alveolarization. Developmental Cell. 21(4). 746–757. 82 indexed citations

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Lee, Yoontae, Rodney C. Samaco, Jennifer R. Gatchel, et al.. (2008). miR-19, miR-101 and miR-130 co-regulate ATXN1 levels to potentially modulate SCA1 pathogenesis. Nature Neuroscience. 11(10). 1137–1139. 179 indexed citations

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Lee, Yoontae, Minju Kim, Jinju Han, et al.. (2004). MicroRNA genes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II. The EMBO Journal. 23(20). 4051–4060. 3254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Han, Jinju, et al.. (2004). The Drosha-DGCR8 complex in primary microRNA processing. Genes & Development. 18(24). 3016–3027. 1645 indexed citations breakdown →

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