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Duanqing Pei

Duanqing Pei

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Molecular Biology
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Molecular Biology

D-Index
91
Citations
30870
World Ranking
720
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in China Leader Award

Overview

Duanqing Pei is affiliated with the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health in China. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Oncology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Surgery. The main topics of their work involve Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Renal and related cancers, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, and RNA Research and Splicing.

Pei has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable recent publications such as:

  • Challenges and advances in clinical applications of mesenchymal stromal cells, 2021, Journal of Hematology & Oncology
  • The RNA m6A reader YTHDC1 silences retrotransposons and guards ES cell identity, 2021, Nature
  • Glis1 facilitates induction of pluripotency via an epigenome-metabolome-epigenome signalling cascade, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Treating COVID-19 with Chloroquine, 2020, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology
  • Preliminary evidence from a multicenter prospective observational study of the safety and efficacy of chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, 2020, National Science Review

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Pei include:

  • Jiekai Chen
  • Junqi Kuang
  • Jing Liu
  • Mingfeng Zhang
  • Yuanyue Shan

Pei regularly publishes in several scientific venues, with repeated appearances in:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell & Bioscience
  • Journal of Hematology & Oncology
  • Nature Metabolism

The size and scope of Pei's research output are reflected in the total number of publications across their main fields of study, with 243 works in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 65 in Medicine. The interdisciplinary nature and volume of the research indicate ongoing contributions to various areas of cellular and molecular science.

Best Publications

  • A Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition Initiates and Is Required for the Nuclear Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts

    Ronghui Li;Jialiang Liang;Su Ni;Ting Zhou

  • Vitamin C Enhances the Generation of Mouse and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Miguel Angel Esteban;Tao Wang;Baoming Qin;Jiayin Yang

  • Furin-dependent intracellular activation of the human stromelysin-3 zymogen

    Duanqing Pei;Stephen J. Weiss

  • Design of Wide-Spectrum Inhibitors Targeting Coronavirus Main Proteases

    Haitao Yang;Weiqing Xie;Xiaoyu Xue;Xiaoyu Xue;Kailin Yang;Kailin Yang

  • Genomic instability in laminopathy-based premature aging

    Baohua Liu;Jianming Wang;Kui Ming Chan;Wai Mui Tjia

  • Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells from urine samples

    Ting Zhou;Christina Benda;Sarah Dunzinger;Yinghua Huang

  • H3K9 methylation is a barrier during somatic cell reprogramming into iPSCs

    Jiekai Chen;He Liu;Jing Liu;Jing Qi

  • Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines from Tibetan Miniature Pig

    Miguel Angel Esteban;Jianyong Xu;Jiayin Yang;Meixiu Peng

  • Stem cell pluripotency and transcription factor Oct4.

    Guang Jin Pan;Zeng Yi Chang;Hans R. Schöler;Duanqing Pei;Duanqing Pei

  • The Histone Demethylases Jhdm1a/1b Enhance Somatic Cell Reprogramming in a Vitamin-C-Dependent Manner

    Tao Wang;Keshi Chen;Xiaoming Zeng;Jianguo Yang

  • Transmembrane-deletion Mutants of the Membrane-type Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 Process Progelatinase A and Express Intrinsic Matrix-degrading Activity

    Duanqing Pei;Stephen J. Weiss

  • Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Urine

    Ting Zhou;Christina Benda;Sarah Duzinger;Yinghua Huang

  • Hallmarks of pluripotency

    Alejandro De Los Angeles;Francesco Ferrari;Ruibin Xi;Ruibin Xi;Yuko Fujiwara

  • Challenges and advances in clinical applications of mesenchymal stromal cells.

    Tian Zhou;Tian Zhou;Zenan Yuan;Jianyu Weng;Duanqing Pei

  • Tet and TDG mediate DNA demethylation essential for mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in somatic cell reprogramming.

    Xiao Hu;Lei Zhang;Shi Qing Mao;Zheng Li

  • Vitamin C modulates TET1 function during somatic cell reprogramming

    Jiekai Chen;Lin Guo;Lei Zhang;Haoyu Wu;Haoyu Wu

  • Identification and characterization of the fifth membrane-type matrix metalloproteinase MT5-MMP.

    Duanqing Pei

  • MicroRNA cluster 302-367 enhances somatic cell reprogramming by accelerating a mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition.

    Baojian Liao;Xichen Bao;Xichen Bao;Longqi Liu;Shipeng Feng

  • A negative feedback loop of transcription factors that controls stem cell pluripotency and self-renewal

    Guangjin Pan;Jun Li;Yali Zhou;Hui Zheng

  • Establishment of porcine and human expanded potential stem cells

    Xuefei Gao;Xuefei Gao;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Xi Chen;Dongsheng Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiekai Chen
Jiekai Chen Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
Miguel A. Esteban
Miguel A. Esteban Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
Pentao Liu
Pentao Liu University of Hong Kong
Ke Ding
Ke Ding Jinan University
Hung-Fat Tse
Hung-Fat Tse University of Hong Kong
Liangxue Lai
Liangxue Lai Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
Donghai Wu
Donghai Wu Cornell University
Johannes Grillari
Johannes Grillari BOKU University
Hao Sun
Hao Sun Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kwok-Fai So
Kwok-Fai So University of Hong Kong

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