Yu Deng

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
147 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Yu Deng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Deng has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 21 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Deng's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (59 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (36 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (27 papers). Yu Deng is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (59 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (36 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (27 papers). Yu Deng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yu Deng's co-authors include Shenghu Zhou, Yin Mao, Gaolin Liang, Stephen S. Fong, Yunying Zhao, Nana Ding, Xiaoyang Liu, Mei Zhao, Wenjun Zhan and Xiaojuan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yu Deng

144 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Enzyme‐Mediated Tumor Starvation and Phototherapy Enhance Mild‐Temperature Photothermal Therapy

2020 281 citations Ge Gao, Yao‐Wen Jiang et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Tailoring industrial enzymes for thermostability and activity evolution by the machine learning-based iCASE strategy

2025 21 citations Yu Deng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Deng China	33	2.2k	1.5k	517	416	292	147	3.6k
Ian Wheeldon United States	35	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	379 0.7×	308 0.7×	278 1.0×	88	3.9k
Ye Ni China	32	2.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	247 0.5×	225 0.5×	550 1.9×	157	3.8k
Lirong Yang China	34	2.4k 1.1×	809 0.6×	395 0.8×	163 0.4×	284 1.0×	250	3.8k
Min‐Kyu Oh South Korea	40	3.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	440 0.9×	395 0.9×	256 0.9×	157	4.3k
Parayil Kumaran Ajikumar United States	26	4.0k 1.8×	888 0.6×	310 0.6×	338 0.8×	421 1.4×	52	4.8k
Ji‐Sook Hahn South Korea	34	2.3k 1.0×	855 0.6×	267 0.5×	247 0.6×	240 0.8×	92	3.2k
Qingsheng Qi China	39	3.0k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	294 0.6×	833 2.0×	445 1.5×	147	4.0k
Leilei Zhu China	28	1.3k 0.6×	854 0.6×	228 0.4×	256 0.6×	394 1.3×	80	2.2k
Yingang Feng China	30	2.0k 0.9×	760 0.5×	187 0.4×	155 0.4×	330 1.1×	155	3.0k
Pingkai Ouyang China	40	3.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.7×	661 1.3×	606 1.5×	560 1.9×	198	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Deng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Deng

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Huang, Chao, Wenyan Cao, Shenghu Zhou, & Yu Deng. (2025). Biogenesis mechanisms, regulatory strategies, and applications of bacterial extracellular vesicles. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 45(8). 1700–1716. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Wenyan, Xuan Zhou, Chao Huang, Shenghu Zhou, & Yu Deng. (2025). Developing PhoR-PhoB-Based Biosensor by Directed Evolution for Application in Ultralow Inorganic Phosphorus Detection. ACS Sensors. 10(9). 6489–6500.

Zhou, Xuan, Rui Feng, Nana Ding, et al.. (2025). Deep learning guided programmable design of Escherichia coli core promoters from sequence architecture to strength control. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(16). 1 indexed citations

Xu, Lingling, Yu Deng, Hang Gao, et al.. (2024). Near-infrared AIEgens for sulfatase imaging in breast cancer in vivo. Nanoscale. 16(24). 11538–11541. 2 indexed citations

Deng, Yu, Kui Yan, Lingling Xu, et al.. (2024). “Turn-on” NIR-II fluorescence of a dually quenched probe for sensitive imaging of cathepsin B in vivo. Chemical Communications. 61(3). 544–547. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Lixia, Shuang Liu, Xiangyang Hu, Shenghu Zhou, & Yu Deng. (2024). Enhancing the activity and succinyl-CoA specificity of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase Tfu_0875 through rational binding pocket engineering. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 9(3). 558–568. 8 indexed citations

He, Yu-Cai, et al.. (2024). Dynamic regulation and cofactor engineering of escherichia coli to enhance production of glycolate from corn stover hydrolysate. Bioresource Technology. 398. 130531–130531. 13 indexed citations

Zhou, Shenghu, et al.. (2024). Static and Dynamic Regulation of Precursor Supply Pathways to Enhance Raspberry Ketone Synthesis from Glucose in Escherichia coli. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(42). 23411–23421. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Xiaofeng, Yu Deng, Ying Xu, et al.. (2024). Activatable Fluorescence and Bio/Chemiluminescence Probes for Aminopeptidases: From Design to Biomedical Applications. Advanced Materials. 36(45). e2409893–e2409893. 16 indexed citations

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Ma, Cuiluan, et al.. (2023). Improved production of adipic acid from a high loading of corn stover via an efficient and mild combination pretreatment. Bioresource Technology. 382. 129196–129196. 42 indexed citations

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Hu, Shan, et al.. (2022). Knockdown of hnRNPA1 Promotes NSCLC Metastasis and EMT by Regulating Alternative Splicing of LAS1L exon 9. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 837248–837248. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Shenghu, Hal S. Alper, Jingwen Zhou, & Yu Deng. (2022). Intracellular biosensor-based dynamic regulation to manipulate gene expression at the spatiotemporal level. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 43(4). 646–663. 15 indexed citations

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Gao, Ge, Yao‐Wen Jiang, Yuxin Guo, et al.. (2020). Enzyme‐Mediated Tumor Starvation and Phototherapy Enhance Mild‐Temperature Photothermal Therapy. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(16). 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ding, Nana, et al.. (2020). Programmable cross-ribosome-binding sites to fine-tune the dynamic range of transcription factor-based biosensor. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(18). 10602–10613. 82 indexed citations

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Wang, Ting, Yu Deng, Yaozhong Chen, et al.. (2019). Cell microarray chip system for accurate, rapid diagnosis and target treatment of breast cancer cells SK-BR-3. Chinese Chemical Letters. 30(5). 1043–1050. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Ting, Yu Deng, Jing Shang, et al.. (2019). Post-self-repair process of neuron cells under the influence of neutral and cationic nanoparticles. Chinese Chemical Letters. 30(12). 2368–2374. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yunying, et al.. (2018). Efficient Isolation and Characterization of a Cellulase Hyperproducing Mutant Strain of Trichoderma reesei. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 28(9). 1473–1481. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Li, Yan Hong, Yu Deng, et al.. (2018). Enzyme assisted fermentation of potato pulp: An effective way to reduce water holding capacity and improve drying efficiency. Food Chemistry. 258. 118–123. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Yi Shan, Wenqi Zhou, et al.. (2016). Production for High-vitality Starter Culture of <i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> NDC 75017 by High Cell-density Cultivation and Low-temperature Vacuum Drying. Food Science and Technology Research. 22(4). 519–527. 8 indexed citations

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Deng, Yu, et al.. (2006). Deletion of Presenilin 1 Hydrophilic Loop Sequence Leads to Impaired γ-Secretase Activity and Exacerbated Amyloid Pathology. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(14). 3845–3854. 55 indexed citations

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