Yousong Ding

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yousong Ding is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yousong Ding has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Pharmacology and 18 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Yousong Ding's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (28 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (11 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (9 papers). Yousong Ding is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (28 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (11 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (9 papers). Yousong Ding collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Yousong Ding's co-authors include David H. Sherman, Steven D. Bruner, Ke Ding, York Tomita, Jeanne A. Stuckey, Yipin Lu, Krzysztof Krajewski, Peter P. Roller, Su Qiu and Damon A. Parrish and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Yousong Ding

68 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Structure-Based Design of Potent Non-Peptide MDM2 Inhibitors

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yousong Ding United States	27	1.1k	735	717	311	269	76	2.3k
Masayoshi Arai Japan	29	1.5k 1.4×	642 0.9×	905 1.3×	633 2.0×	135 0.5×	132	3.3k
Zhongjun Ma China	28	1.2k 1.1×	304 0.4×	563 0.8×	298 1.0×	71 0.3×	136	2.2k
Sangku Lee South Korea	28	845 0.8×	758 1.0×	311 0.4×	148 0.5×	105 0.4×	101	2.0k
Shigehiro Takase Japan	23	1.1k 1.0×	883 1.2×	640 0.9×	337 1.1×	74 0.3×	89	2.1k
Zhili Zuo China	25	796 0.7×	378 0.5×	460 0.6×	107 0.3×	78 0.3×	101	1.8k
Michael Greenstein United States	30	1.1k 1.0×	916 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	745 2.4×	75 0.3×	77	2.6k
Xu Shen China	31	1.6k 1.5×	392 0.5×	214 0.3×	147 0.5×	76 0.3×	66	2.3k
Hidetoshi Yamada Japan	27	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	248 0.3×	227 0.7×	65 0.2×	153	2.4k
Jiangnan Peng United States	27	1.1k 1.0×	1.7k 2.3×	538 0.8×	716 2.3×	45 0.2×	96	3.2k
Eric Débiton France	25	855 0.8×	555 0.8×	213 0.3×	104 0.3×	106 0.4×	51	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yousong Ding

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ding, Yousong, et al.. (2025). Biocatalytic potential of microbial CYP450s in the degradation of selected environmental pollutants. Medicinal Chemistry Research. 34(11). 2228–2238.

Dhakal, Dipesh, et al.. (2025). Synthetic biology strategies for cyanobacterial systems to heterologously produce cyanobacterial natural products. Natural Product Reports. 42(8). 1240–1250. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Dake, Zhixin Wang, Gilles J. Basset, et al.. (2025). Tomato pollen tube growth requires flavonol glycosylation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 199(3).

Philmus, Benjamin, Nicole E. Avalon, Yousong Ding, et al.. (2025). Green genes from blue greens: challenges and solutions to unlocking the potential of cyanobacteria in drug discovery. Natural Product Reports. 43(2). 286–300. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jie, Steven D. Bruner, Yousong Ding, et al.. (2025). Structure Determination and Biosynthesis of Dapalides A–C, Glycosylated Kahalalide F Analogues from the Marine Cyanobacterium Dapis sp. Journal of Natural Products. 88(9). 2138–2150.

Huang, Jia‐Qi, Yousong Ding, & Zhiping Zheng. (2025). Triply chalcogenophenolato-bridged erbium-cyclooctatetraenyl complexes: syntheses and single-molecule magnetic properties. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(24). 8560–8571.

Seabra, Gustavo, et al.. (2024). Characterization of a Dual Function Peptide Cyclase in Graspetide Biosynthesis. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(12). 2525–2534. 1 indexed citations

Kallifidas, Dimitris, Dipesh Dhakal, Man‐Yun Chen, et al.. (2024). Biosynthesis of Dolastatin 10 in Marine Cyanobacteria, a Prototype for Multiple Approved Cancer Drugs. Organic Letters. 26(7). 1321–1325. 12 indexed citations

Brevi, Arianna, Joanna Zhang, Abhinav Bhushan, et al.. (2024). Engineered bacterial therapeutics for detecting and treating CRC. Trends in cancer. 10(7). 588–597. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Ke, et al.. (2023). Design, synthesis and evaluation of halogenated phenazine antibacterial prodrugs targeting nitroreductase enzymes for activation. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 14(8). 1472–1481. 7 indexed citations

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Pan, Li, et al.. (2023). Carbohydrate-Small Molecule Hybrids as Lead Compounds Targeting IL-6 Signaling. Molecules. 28(2). 677–677. 5 indexed citations

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Ushijima, Blake, Sarath P. Gunasekera, Julie L. Meyer, et al.. (2023). Chemical and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease. Communications Biology. 6(1). 248–248. 35 indexed citations

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Vargas‐Rodriguez, Oscar, Ahmed H. Badran, Kyle Hoffman, et al.. (2021). Bacterial translation machinery for deliberate mistranslation of the genetic code. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(35). 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, et al.. (2021). Structural and biochemical studies of an iterative ribosomal peptide macrocyclase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 90(3). 670–679. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peilan, et al.. (2020). Cyanobacterial Dihydroxyacid Dehydratases Are a Promising Growth Inhibition Target. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(8). 2281–2288. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yucheng, Guangde Jiang, Yousong Ding, & Rosemary Loria. (2018). Genetic background affects pathogenicity island function and pathogen emergence in Streptomyces. Molecular Plant Pathology. 19(7). 1733–1741. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, et al.. (2018). A distributive peptide cyclase processes multiple microviridin core peptides within a single polypeptide substrate. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1780–1780. 32 indexed citations

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Zuo, Ran, Aaron T. Garrison, Akash Basak, et al.. (2016). In vitro antifungal and antibiofilm activities of halogenated quinoline analogues against Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 48(2). 208–211. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Kunhua, et al.. (2016). Structural basis for precursor protein–directed ribosomal peptide macrocyclization. Nature Chemical Biology. 12(11). 973–979. 50 indexed citations

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Yang, Guang & Yousong Ding. (2014). Recent advances in biocatalyst discovery, development and applications. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 22(20). 5604–5612. 26 indexed citations

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