Wei Yang

Also affiliated with National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 100%percentile

0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

0in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Papers

Driven by 23 papers. Top paper: “Structure of an activated DNA-PK and its implications for NHEJ”.

Structure of an activated DNA-PK and its implications for NHEJ

Molecular Cell(2020)10.1016/j.molcel.2020.12.015

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

138 citations

Xiang Xu, Yun Chen, Joyce Cheung, Huaibin Wang, Jiansen Jiang +5 more

How mouse RAG recombinase avoids DNA transposition

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology(2020)10.1038/s41594-019-0366-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Yanxiang Cui, Huaibin Wang, Z. Hong Zhou, Martin Gellert, Wei Yang +1 more

How a B family DNA polymerase has been evolved to copy RNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2009415117

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Peng He, Arti Pothukuchy, Jimmy Gollihar, Andrew D. Ellington, Wei Yang +1 more

Cutting antiparallel DNA strands in a single active site

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology(2020)10.1038/s41594-019-0363-2

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

36 citations

Yanxiang Cui, Robert B. Best, Huaibin Wang, Z. Hong Zhou, Wei Yang +2 more

Structure of Human BCCIP and Implications for Binding and Modification of Partner Proteins

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.12.08.416925

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Bochao Liu, Zhiyuan Shen, Wei Yang, Woo Suk Choi

SARS-CoV-2: from its discovery to genome structure, transcription, and replication

Cell & Bioscience(2021)10.1186/s13578-021-00643-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

281 citations

Wei Tian, Vladimır Majerčiak, Wei Yang, Zhi-Ming Zheng, Ayslan Castro Brant

Autophosphorylation transforms DNA-PK from protecting to processing DNA ends

Molecular Cell(2021)10.1016/j.molcel.2021.11.025

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

84 citations

Xuemin Chen, Jun Li, Huaibin Wang, Christopher J. Buehl, Noah J. Goff +4 more

Mispair-bound human MutS–MutL complex triggers DNA incisions and activates mismatch repair

Cell Research(2021)10.1038/s41422-021-00468-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

67 citations

Grace Sanghee Lee, Liya Gu, Wei Yang, Guo‐Min Li, Janice Ortega

Structure of human BCCIP and implications for binding and modification of partner proteins

Protein Science(2021)10.1002/pro.4026

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Bochao Liu, Zhiyuan Shen, Wei Yang, Woo Suk Choi

Inner workings of RAG recombinase and its specialization for adaptive immunity

Current Opinion in Structural Biology(2021)10.1016/j.sbi.2021.05.014

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Martin Gellert, Wei Yang, Xuemin Chen

Flexibility of telomerase in binding the RNA template and DNA telomeric repeat

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2116159118

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Peter J. Weng, Wei Yang, Woo Suk Choi

Novel Escherichia coli active site dnaE alleles with altered base and sugar selectivity

Molecular Microbiology(2021)10.1111/mmi.14779

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Krystian Łazowski, Martin A.M. Reijns, Erin Walsh, John P. McDonald, Kristiniana C. Moreno +7 more

Structural and biochemical basis for DNA and RNA catalysis by human Topoisomerase 3β

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-32221-3

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

22 citations

Sourav Saha, Wei Yang, Keir C. Neuman, Yves Pommier, Xi Yang

Lesion recognition by XPC, TFIIH and XPA in DNA excision repair

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-05959-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

84 citations

Chia‐Lung Li, Xuemin Chen, Yanxiang Cui, Filip Gołębiowski, Huaibin Wang +4 more

Two distinct long-range synaptic complexes promote different aspects of end processing prior to repair of DNA breaks by non-homologous end joining

Molecular Cell(2023)10.1016/j.molcel.2023.01.012

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

41 citations

Noah J. Goff, Steven W. Hardwick, Martin Gellert, Tom L. Blundell, Wei Yang +3 more

Tandem MutSβ binding to long extruded DNA trinucleotide repeats underpins pathogenic expansions

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.12.12.571350

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Huaibin Wang, Wei Yang, Jun Li

Reversible, tunable epigenetic silencing of TCF1 generates flexibility in the T cell memory decision

Immunity(2024)10.1016/j.immuni.2023.12.006

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

52 citations

Elisa C. Clark, Rajesh M. Valanparambil, Obinna Ukogu, Wei Yang, Riza M. Daza +12 more

DNA polymerase zeta can efficiently replicate structures formed by AT/TA repeat sequences and prevent their deletion

Nucleic Acids Research(2024)10.1093/nar/gkae1254

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Suzanne E. Hile, Jennifer Brewster, Jan Leendert Boer, Rachel Bezalel‐Buch, Qiong Guo +5 more

Interaction between histone residue H3K56 and mismatch repair protein MutSβ drives CAG repeat expansion

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.09.29.615664

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Wei Yang, Guo‐Min Li, Jinzhen Guo

Structural insights into human topoisomerase 3β DNA and RNA catalysis and nucleic acid gate dynamics

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-55959-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Xuemin Chen, Wei Yang, Yves Pommier, Xi Yang

CBFβ-SMMHC–driven leukemogenesis requires enhanced RUNX1-DNA binding affinity in mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2025)10.1172/jci192923

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Yaqiang Cao, Tongyi Dou, Yun Chen, Guadalupe Lopez, Ana Catarina Menezes +16 more

How RAG1/2 evolved from ancestral transposases to initiate V(D)J recombination without transposition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2025)10.1073/pnas.2512362122

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Liangrui Yao, Wenwen Li, Shanshan Ma, Xingyun Yuan, Yang Yang +7 more

How RAG1/2 evolved from ancestral transposases to initiate V(D)J recombination without transposition

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-5443361/v1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Liangrui Yao, Shanshan Ma, Xingyun Yuan, Yang Yang, Yuan Yuan +6 more