Zhoutong Sun

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Zhoutong Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhoutong Sun has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 14 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhoutong Sun's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (63 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (11 papers). Zhoutong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (63 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (11 papers). Zhoutong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and South Korea. Zhoutong Sun's co-authors include Ge Qu, Manfred T. Reetz, Manfred T. Reetz, Aitao Li, Richard Lonsdale, Carlos G. Acevedo‐Rocha, Yan Feng, Qian Liu, Jiahai Zhou and Adriana Ilie and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Zhoutong Sun

92 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Utility of B-Factors in Protein Science: Interpreting Rigidity, Flexibility, and Internal Motion and Engineering Thermostability

2019 389 citations Zhoutong Sun, Ge Qu et al. profile →
The Crucial Role of Methodology Development in Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes

2019 367 citations Ge Qu, Aitao Li et al. profile →
Engineered enzymes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other high-value products

2024 94 citations Manfred T. Reetz, Ge Qu et al. Nature Synthesis profile →

Peers

Zhoutong Sun

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Dongming Lan China

Dong‐Sun Lee South Korea

Guolin Zou China

Aitao Li China

Zhanglin Lin China

Lothar Brecker Austria

Giovanna Speranza Italy

Hyungdon Yun South Korea

J.V. Sinisterra Spain

Katherine S. Ryan Canada

Dongming Lan China

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Countries citing papers authored by Zhoutong Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhoutong Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhoutong Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shi, Jun, Bo Yuan, Hai Yang, & Zhoutong Sun. (2025). Recent advances on protein engineering for improved stability. PubMed. 7(1). 100005–100005. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Bowen, Congcong Li, Pengpeng Zhang, et al.. (2025). In Silico Prediction of a Multimutational Stereoselective Alcohol Dehydrogenase. ACS Catalysis. 15(19). 16633–16642. 1 indexed citations

Qu, Ge, Fangrui Zhong, Jian Xu, Xiaoqiang Huang, & Zhoutong Sun. (2025). Intelligent enzyme design and hybrid catalytic systems: Driving innovation in biocatalysis. Green Synthesis and Catalysis.

Li, Congcong, Xu Han, Weidong Liu, et al.. (2024). Enzymatic Stereodivergent Access to Fluorinated β-Lactam Pharmacophores via Triple-Parameter Engineered Ketoreductases. ACS Catalysis. 14(8). 6358–6368. 15 indexed citations

Li, Congcong, Wei Gao, Ping Su, et al.. (2024). Rationally Engineered Novel Glycosyltransferase UGT74DD1 from Siraitia grosvenorii Catalyzes the Generation of the Sweetener Mogroside III. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(32). 18214–18224. 9 indexed citations

Paul, Caroline E., Ulf Hanefeld, Frank Hollmann, et al.. (2024). Enzyme engineering for biocatalysis. Molecular Catalysis. 555. 113874–113874. 15 indexed citations

Reetz, Manfred T., Ge Qu, & Zhoutong Sun. (2024). Engineered enzymes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other high-value products. Nature Synthesis. 3(1). 19–32. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Xiangying, Jingang Wang, Wencheng Su, et al.. (2023). Characterization and engineering of cephalosporin C acylases to produce 7-Aminocephalosporanic acid. Molecular Catalysis. 550. 113595–113595. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Bo, et al.. (2023). Biocatalytic reductive aminations with NAD(P)H-dependent enzymes: enzyme discovery, engineering and synthetic applications. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(1). 227–262. 53 indexed citations

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Qin, Zongmin, et al.. (2022). Carboxylic acid reductases enable intramolecular lactamization reactions. Green Synthesis and Catalysis. 3(3). 294–297. 10 indexed citations

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Qu, Ge, et al.. (2022). Unraveling the mechanism of enantio-controlling switches of an alcohol dehydrogenase toward sterically small ketone. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(6). 1777–1787. 13 indexed citations

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Yuan, Bo, et al.. (2022). Engineering the activity of amine dehydrogenase in the asymmetric reductive amination of hydroxyl ketones. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(19). 5952–5960. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Qiang, Jincheng Li, Yanjie Li, et al.. (2022). An enzyme-assembled gel monolithic microreactor for continuous flow asymmetric synthesis of aryl alcohols. Green Chemistry. 24(24). 9508–9518. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kun, Ge Qu, Jun‐Kuan Li, et al.. (2020). High-Throughput Fluorescence Assay for Ketone Detection and Its Applications in Enzyme Mining and Protein Engineering. ACS Omega. 5(23). 13588–13594. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Hongyue, Ge Qu, Jun‐Kuan Li, et al.. (2020). Data mining of amine dehydrogenases for the synthesis of enantiopure amino alcohols. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(17). 5945–5952. 24 indexed citations

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Qu, Ge, Lili Zhao, Beibei Liu, et al.. (2019). Computational Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of Bacterial Carboxylic Acid Reductase. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(2). 832–841. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Aitao, Ge Qu, Zhoutong Sun, & Manfred T. Reetz. (2019). Statistical Analysis of the Benefits of Focused Saturation Mutagenesis in Directed Evolution Based on Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 7769–7778. 46 indexed citations

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Qu, Ge, Aitao Li, Carlos G. Acevedo‐Rocha, Zhoutong Sun, & Manfred T. Reetz. (2019). Die zentrale Rolle der Methodenentwicklung in der gerichteten Evolution selektiver Enzyme. Angewandte Chemie. 132(32). 13304–13333. 40 indexed citations

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Dai, Zhubo, Yun Liu, Zhoutong Sun, et al.. (2018). Identification of a novel cytochrome P450 enzyme that catalyzes the C-2α hydroxylation of pentacyclic triterpenoids and its application in yeast cell factories. Metabolic Engineering. 51. 70–78. 56 indexed citations

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Qu, Ge, et al.. (2018). Biocatalysis of carboxylic acid reductases: phylogenesis, catalytic mechanism and potential applications. Green Chemistry. 20(4). 777–792. 65 indexed citations

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