Zhixin Lyu

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 658 citations indexed

About

Zhixin Lyu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhixin Lyu has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 658 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Zhixin Lyu's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Zhixin Lyu is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Zhixin Lyu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Zhixin Lyu's co-authors include Xinxing Yang, Jie Xiao, Ryan McQuillen, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Amanda Miguel, Xin Zhao, Joshua W. McCausland, Mei Luo, Hao Wang and Carla Coltharp and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhixin Lyu

13 papers receiving 645 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.

GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis

2017 338 citations Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhixin Lyu China	11	443	386	243	63	56	14	658
Ryan McQuillen United States	7	389 0.9×	344 0.9×	205 0.8×	52 0.8×	49 0.9×	10	578
Georgia R. Squyres United States	8	475 1.1×	412 1.1×	274 1.1×	62 1.0×	80 1.4×	10	721
Jackson Buss United States	12	715 1.6×	553 1.4×	280 1.2×	48 0.8×	68 1.2×	19	1.0k
Yong Everett Zhang Denmark	13	511 1.2×	344 0.9×	118 0.5×	69 1.1×	59 1.1×	23	668
Mark Leaver Germany	8	483 1.1×	342 0.9×	220 0.9×	36 0.6×	29 0.5×	12	708
Alex Dajkovic United States	10	412 0.9×	394 1.0×	221 0.9×	51 0.8×	48 0.9×	10	580
Sunish Kumar Radhakrishnan Switzerland	11	525 1.2×	451 1.2×	214 0.9×	109 1.7×	45 0.8×	15	674
Brett Geissler United States	13	500 1.1×	478 1.2×	197 0.8×	159 2.5×	49 0.9×	22	724
Noritaka Hara Japan	10	353 0.8×	410 1.1×	143 0.6×	144 2.3×	41 0.7×	10	580
Hervé Joël Defeu Soufo Germany	10	541 1.2×	487 1.3×	276 1.1×	47 0.7×	32 0.6×	13	704

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhixin Lyu

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Perez, Amilcar J., Zhixin Lyu, Atsushi Yahashiri, et al.. (2025). FtsZ-mediated spatial–temporal control over septal cell wall synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(27). e2426431122–e2426431122.

Lyu, Zhixin, Xinxing Yang, Atsushi Yahashiri, et al.. (2025). Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli. Nature Microbiology. 10(6). 1521–1534. 1 indexed citations

Lyu, Zhixin, Joshua W. McCausland, Jordan M. Barrows, et al.. (2023). Integration of cell wall synthesis and chromosome segregation during cell division in Caulobacter. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(2). 13 indexed citations

Yan, Di, et al.. (2023). Protocol for single-molecule labeling and tracking of bacterial cell division proteins. STAR Protocols. 5(1). 102766–102766. 5 indexed citations

Lyu, Zhixin, Atsushi Yahashiri, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2022). FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5751–5751. 27 indexed citations

Yang, Xinxing, Ryan McQuillen, Zhixin Lyu, et al.. (2021). A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW. Nature Microbiology. 6(5). 584–593. 56 indexed citations

McCausland, Joshua W., Xinxing Yang, Georgia R. Squyres, et al.. (2021). Treadmilling FtsZ polymers drive the directional movement of sPG-synthesis enzymes via a Brownian ratchet mechanism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 609–609. 49 indexed citations

Yang, Xinxing, Zhixin Lyu, Amanda Miguel, et al.. (2017). GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis. Science. 355(6326). 744–747. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

Luo, Mei, Hao Wang, & Zhixin Lyu. (2017). [Evaluating the performance of species distribution models Biomod2 and MaxEnt using the giant panda distribution data].. PubMed. 28(12). 4001–4006. 37 indexed citations

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Lyu, Zhixin, Carla Coltharp, Xinxing Yang, & Jie Xiao. (2016). Influence of FtsZ GTPase activity and concentration on nanoscale Z‐ring structure in vivo revealed by three‐dimensional Superresolution imaging. Biopolymers. 105(10). 725–734. 29 indexed citations

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Lyu, Zhixin & Xin Zhao. (2015). Periplasmic quality control in biogenesis of outer membrane proteins. Biochemical Society Transactions. 43(2). 133–138. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Guangqiao, Guangtao Song, Danyang Zhang, et al.. (2014). EF-G catalyzes tRNA translocation by disrupting interactions between decoding center and codon–anticodon duplex. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21(9). 817–824. 35 indexed citations

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Ge, Xi, Zhixin Lyu, Yang Liu, et al.. (2013). Identification of FkpA as a Key Quality Control Factor for the Biogenesis of Outer Membrane Proteins under Heat Shock Conditions. Journal of Bacteriology. 196(3). 672–680. 31 indexed citations

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Lyu, Zhixin, Qiang Shao, Yi Qin Gao, & Xin Zhao. (2012). Direct Observation of the Uptake of Outer Membrane Proteins by the Periplasmic Chaperone Skp. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e46068–e46068. 18 indexed citations

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