Yu Cao

4.7k total citations
94 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yu Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Cao has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Cell Biology and 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yu Cao's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (10 papers), Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (7 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers). Yu Cao is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (10 papers), Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (7 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers). Yu Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Yu Cao's co-authors include Stuart C. Mangel, Christophe Ribelayga, Hugo J. Bellen, P. Robin Hiesinger, R. Grace Zhai, Karen L. Schulze, Patrik Verstreken, Sunil Mehta, Wei Jia and Ming Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Yu Cao

87 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yu Cao China 29 2.0k 601 418 312 272 94 3.1k
Phillip W. Dickson Australia 32 1.7k 0.8× 916 1.5× 505 1.2× 484 1.6× 153 0.6× 77 3.7k
Young J. Oh South Korea 35 2.0k 1.0× 922 1.5× 377 0.9× 552 1.8× 556 2.0× 102 3.8k
Thomas W. Sedlak United States 22 2.3k 1.2× 352 0.6× 227 0.5× 308 1.0× 233 0.9× 40 3.8k
Gph Leung Hong Kong 36 1.9k 1.0× 296 0.5× 206 0.5× 487 1.6× 155 0.6× 158 4.4k
Kazuhiro Tsuruma Japan 45 2.6k 1.3× 631 1.0× 560 1.3× 587 1.9× 506 1.9× 166 5.9k
Xin Xu United States 33 2.9k 1.4× 1.0k 1.7× 659 1.6× 512 1.6× 153 0.6× 92 4.5k
Gino Cortopassi United States 34 2.1k 1.1× 815 1.4× 407 1.0× 698 2.2× 239 0.9× 83 3.4k
Andrew J. Brown United Kingdom 29 2.8k 1.4× 1.1k 1.8× 165 0.4× 539 1.7× 199 0.7× 51 4.9k
Morad Roudbaraki France 35 2.0k 1.0× 783 1.3× 269 0.6× 186 0.6× 123 0.5× 54 3.3k
Shih‐Ching Lo United States 14 2.5k 1.3× 416 0.7× 236 0.6× 412 1.3× 270 1.0× 18 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yu Cao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yu Cao. The network helps show where Yu Cao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Cao 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 Yu Cao. Yu Cao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gui, Jie, et al.. (2025). Divide and Conquer: Frequency-Aware Contrastive Adversarial Training for Robust Point Cloud Classification. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 7709–7723. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, Yang Chen, Jintong Yang, et al.. (2024). Cryo-EM structure of human sphingomyelin synthase and its mechanistic implications for sphingomyelin synthesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(6). 884–895. 14 indexed citations
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Yao, Deqiang, Bing Rao, Qian Wang, et al.. (2024). The structural basis for the collagen processing by human P3H1/CRTAP/PPIB ternary complex. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7844–7844. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, Deqiang Yao, Shaobai Li, et al.. (2024). Structural basis for inositol pyrophosphate gating of the phosphate channel XPR1. Science. 386(6723). eadp3252–eadp3252. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Meng, Yu Cao, Chunwei Liu, et al.. (2024). O-GlcNAcylation regulates long-chain fatty acid metabolism by inhibiting ACOX1 ubiquitination-dependent degradation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 266(Pt 2). 131151–131151. 7 indexed citations
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Cao, Yu, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of ceramide‐containing sunscreen on skin barrier. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. 23(2). 525–528. 4 indexed citations
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Rong, Kewei, Deqiang Yao, Xiankun Cao, et al.. (2023). The structural pathology for hypophosphatasia caused by malfunctional tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4048–4048. 27 indexed citations
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Cui, Zhenzhen, Cheng Lv, Xuemei Peng, et al.. (2023). Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a series of indolone derivatives as novel FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. Bioorganic Chemistry. 138. 106645–106645. 3 indexed citations
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Rao, Bing, Deqiang Yao, Shaobai Li, et al.. (2023). The cryo-EM structure of the human ERAD retrotranslocation complex. Science Advances. 9(41). eadi5656–eadi5656. 6 indexed citations
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Gan, Tingting, Bing Rao, Weiwei Zhang, et al.. (2022). C‐terminal deletion‐induced condensation sequesters AID from IgH targets in immunodeficiency. The EMBO Journal. 41(11). e109324–e109324. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jianan, Wenxia Yu, Shisheng Huang, et al.. (2021). Structure-guided engineering of adenine base editor with minimized RNA off-targeting activity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 50 indexed citations
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Chiang, Yeun-po, Zhiqiang Li, Yang Chen, Yu Cao, & Xian‐Cheng Jiang. (2021). Sphingomyelin synthases 1 and 2 exhibit phosphatidylcholine phospholipase C activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(6). 101398–101398. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Jianwei, Huifeng Wang, Bing Rao, et al.. (2019). Miniaturization of the Whole Process of Protein Crystallographic Analysis by a Microfluidic Droplet Robot: From Nanoliter-Scale Purified Proteins to Diffraction-Quality Crystals. Analytical Chemistry. 91(15). 10132–10140. 16 indexed citations
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Cao, Yu, Yaping Pan, Hua Huang, et al.. (2013). Gating of the TrkH ion channel by its associated RCK protein TrkA. Nature. 496(7445). 317–322. 80 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Patty Fan‐Havard, Xuhui Lee, et al.. (2012). A liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometric method for quantification of curcumin-O-glucuronide and curcumin in human plasma. Journal of Chromatography B. 900. 89–93. 21 indexed citations
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Ascenzi, Paolo, Yu Cao, Alessandra di Masi, et al.. (2010). Reductive nitrosylation of ferric human serum heme‐albumin. FEBS Journal. 277(11). 2474–2485. 24 indexed citations
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Zhai, R. Grace, P. Robin Hiesinger, Tong‐Wey Koh, et al.. (2003). Mapping Drosophila mutations with molecularly defined P element insertions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(19). 10860–10865. 86 indexed citations

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