Yuquan Tong

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 872 citations indexed

About

Yuquan Tong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuquan Tong has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 872 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yuquan Tong's work include RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Yuquan Tong is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Yuquan Tong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Sweden. Yuquan Tong's co-authors include Matthew D. Disney, Jessica L. Childs‐Disney, Quentin M. R. Gibaut, Xueyi Yang, Robert Batey, Raphael I. Benhamou, Samantha M. Meyer, Blessy M. Suresh, Alexander Adibekian and Daniel Abegg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yuquan Tong

18 papers receiving 856 citations

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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.

Targeting RNA structures with small molecules

2022 331 citations Jessica L. Childs‐Disney, Xueyi Yang et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuquan Tong United States	11	790	101	67	59	47	18	872
Hafeez S. Haniff United States	13	618 0.8×	125 1.2×	50 0.7×	33 0.6×	50 1.1×	15	723
Jonathan L. Chen United States	14	619 0.8×	46 0.5×	37 0.6×	18 0.3×	54 1.1×	24	672
Colleen M. Connelly United States	13	872 1.1×	371 3.7×	28 0.4×	67 1.1×	25 0.5×	22	1.0k
Annie Bouchard Canada	16	750 0.9×	43 0.4×	66 1.0×	13 0.2×	56 1.2×	22	914
Leslie O. Ofori United States	9	286 0.4×	77 0.8×	88 1.3×	85 1.4×	35 0.7×	9	471
Fruzsina Hóbor United Kingdom	11	451 0.6×	89 0.9×	35 0.5×	61 1.0×	18 0.4×	18	501
Dimitrios G. Anastasakis United States	16	761 1.0×	252 2.5×	71 1.1×	30 0.5×	15 0.3×	35	900
Maarten Jacquemyn Belgium	11	457 0.6×	30 0.3×	94 1.4×	21 0.4×	15 0.3×	19	610
David Sweedler United States	9	699 0.9×	38 0.4×	36 0.5×	55 0.9×	26 0.6×	11	762
Thomas Monecke Germany	12	739 0.9×	35 0.3×	56 0.8×	17 0.3×	13 0.3×	22	805

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuquan Tong

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18 of 18 papers shown

Tong, Yuquan, Patrick R. A. Zanon, Xueyi Yang, et al.. (2024). Protocol for transcriptome-wide mapping of small-molecule RNA-binding sites in live cells. STAR Protocols. 5(3). 103271–103271. 3 indexed citations

Tong, Yuquan, Peiyuan Zhang, Xueyi Yang, et al.. (2024). Decreasing the intrinsically disordered protein α-synuclein levels by targeting its structured mRNA with a ribonuclease-targeting chimera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(2). e2306682120–e2306682120. 28 indexed citations

Tong, Yuquan, et al.. (2024). Heterobifunctional small molecules to modulate RNA function. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 45(5). 449–463. 4 indexed citations

Tong, Yuquan, et al.. (2024). Targeting RNA with small molecules, from RNA structures to precision medicines: IUPHAR review: 40. British Journal of Pharmacology. 181(21). 4152–4173. 8 indexed citations

Tong, Yuquan, Xiaoxuan Su, Jessica L. Childs‐Disney, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome-Wide, Unbiased Profiling of Ribonuclease Targeting Chimeras. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(31). 21525–21534. 9 indexed citations

Meyer, Samantha M., et al.. (2023). Methods for the study of ribonuclease targeting chimeras (RiboTACs). Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 692. 249–298. 2 indexed citations

Suresh, Blessy M., Yuquan Tong, Daniel Abegg, et al.. (2023). Altering the Cleaving Effector in Chimeric Molecules that Target RNA Enhances Cellular Selectivity. ACS Chemical Biology. 18(11). 2385–2393. 10 indexed citations

Gibaut, Quentin M. R., Yuquan Tong, Hailey Olafson, et al.. (2023). Transcriptome-Wide Studies of RNA-Targeted Small Molecules Provide a Simple and Selective r(CUG)^exp Degrader in Myotonic Dystrophy. ACS Central Science. 9(7). 1342–1353. 12 indexed citations

Meyer, Samantha M., Rita Fuerst, Yuquan Tong, et al.. (2022). A blood–brain penetrant RNA-targeted small molecule triggers elimination of r(G ₄ C ₂ ) ^exp in c9ALS/FTD via the nuclear RNA exosome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(48). e2210532119–e2210532119. 14 indexed citations

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Benhamou, Raphael I., Blessy M. Suresh, Yuquan Tong, et al.. (2022). DNA-encoded library versus RNA-encoded library selection enables design of an oncogenic noncoding RNA inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 41 indexed citations

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Tong, Yuquan, Quentin M. R. Gibaut, Jessica L. Childs‐Disney, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome-Wide Mapping of Small-Molecule RNA-Binding Sites in Cells Informs an Isoform-Specific Degrader of QSOX1 mRNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(26). 11620–11625. 46 indexed citations

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Childs‐Disney, Jessica L., Xueyi Yang, Quentin M. R. Gibaut, et al.. (2022). Targeting RNA structures with small molecules. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 21(10). 736–762. 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haniff, Hafeez S., Xiaohui Liu, Yuquan Tong, et al.. (2021). A structure-specific small molecule inhibits a miRNA-200 family member precursor and reverses a type 2 diabetes phenotype. Cell chemical biology. 29(2). 300–311.e10. 24 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher C., Samantha M. Meyer, Yuquan Tong, et al.. (2021). Systematically Studying the Effect of Small Molecules Interacting with RNA in Cellular and Preclinical Models. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(7). 1111–1127. 8 indexed citations

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Benhamou, Raphael I., et al.. (2021). Bioinformatic Searching for Optimal RNA Targets of Dimeric Compounds Informs Design of a MicroRNA-27a Inhibitor. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(1). 5–10. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peiyuan, Xiaohui Liu, Daniel Abegg, et al.. (2021). Reprogramming of Protein-Targeted Small-Molecule Medicines to RNA by Ribonuclease Recruitment. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(33). 13044–13055. 75 indexed citations

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Meyer, Samantha M., Christopher C. Williams, Haruo Aikawa, et al.. (2020). Small molecule recognition of disease-relevant RNA structures. Chemical Society Reviews. 49(19). 7167–7199. 108 indexed citations

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Haniff, Hafeez S., Yuquan Tong, Xiaohui Liu, et al.. (2020). Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 RNA Genome with Small Molecule Binders and Ribonuclease Targeting Chimera (RIBOTAC) Degraders. ACS Central Science. 6(10). 1713–1721. 144 indexed citations

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