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D-Index
85
Citations
30748
World Ranking
3108
National Ranking
1572

Overview

Huilin Li is affiliated with the Van Andel Institute in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, plant science, cell biology, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as DNA repair mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, genomics and chromatin dynamics, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Significant recent papers by Huilin Li include:

  • Ordered three-dimensional nanomaterials using DNA-prescribed and valence-controlled material voxels, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Structure of the ER membrane complex, a transmembrane-domain insertase, 2020, Nature
  • Highly sensitive and specific detection of hepatitis B virus DNA and drug resistance mutations utilizing the PCR-based CRISPR-Cas13a system, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Comparative study of antioxidant activity of grape (Vitis vinifera) seed powder assessed by different methods, 2020, Journal of Food and Drug Analysis
  • Structure and activation mechanism of the hexameric plasma membrane H+-ATPase, 2021, Nature Communications

Huilin Li has published frequently in several scientific journals and preprint archives, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PubMed

Their research collaborations include multiple coauthors, with some of the most frequent being Mike O'Donnell, Xiang Feng, Lin Bai, Roxana E. Georgescu, and Amanda Kovach. These coauthorships indicate active involvement in collaborative multidisciplinary research.

Best Publications

  • Altering the Intestinal Microbiota during a Critical Developmental Window Has Lasting Metabolic Consequences

    Laura M. Cox;Shingo Yamanishi;Jiho Sohn;Alexander V. Alekseyenko

  • Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity

    Ilseung Cho;Shingo Yamanishi;Laura Cox;Barbara A. Methé

  • Refined structure of alpha beta-tubulin at 3.5 A resolution.

    J Löwe;H Li;K.H Downing;E Nogales;E Nogales

  • Antibiotics, birth mode, and diet shape microbiome maturation during early life

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;Jennifer Chung;Thomas Battaglia;Nora Henderson

  • A double-hexameric MCM2-7 complex is loaded onto origin DNA during licensing of eukaryotic DNA replication

    Cecile Evrin;Pippa Clarke;Juergen Zech;Rudi Lurz

  • Self-assembly in aqueous solution of wheel-shaped Mo154 oxide clusters into vesicles.

    Tianbo Liu;Ekkehard Diemann;Huilin Li;Andreas W. M. Dress

  • The binding mode of epothilone A on alpha,beta-tubulin by electron crystallography

    James H. Nettles;Huilin Li;Ben Cornett;Joseph M. Krahn

  • Microtubule structure at 8 A resolution.

    Huilin Li;David J. DeRosier;William V. Nicholson;Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales

  • Cigarette smoking and the oral microbiome in a large study of American adults.

    Jing Wu;Brandilyn A Peters;Christine Dominianni;Yilong Zhang

  • Strong Electronic Interaction in Dual‐Cation‐Incorporated NiSe2 Nanosheets with Lattice Distortion for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting

    Yiqiang Sun;Yiqiang Sun;Kun Xu;Zengxi Wei;Huilin Li;Huilin Li

  • Huntingtin spheroids and protofibrils as precursors in polyglutamine fibrilization.

    Michelle A. Poirier;Huilin Li;Jed Macosko;Shuowei Cai

  • Diamond family of nanoparticle superlattices

    Wenyan Liu;Miho Tagawa;Huolin L. Xin;Tong Wang

  • Metabolic and metagenomic outcomes from early-life pulsed antibiotic treatment

    Yael R. Nobel;Laura M. Cox;Francis F. Kirigin;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • The postsynaptic density proteins homer and shank form a polymeric network structure

    Mariko Hayashi;Chunyan Tang;Chiara Verpelli;Radhakrishnan Narayanan

  • Antibiotic-mediated gut microbiome perturbation accelerates development of type 1 diabetes in mice

    Alexandra E. Livanos;Thomas U. Greiner;Pajau Vangay;Wimal Pathmasiri

  • ATPase-dependent cooperative binding of ORC and Cdc6 to origin DNA.

    Christian Speck;Zhiqiang Chen;Huilin Li;Bruce Stillman

  • Prescribed nanoparticle cluster architectures and low-dimensional arrays built using octahedral DNA origami frames

    Ye Tian;Tong Wang;Wenyan Liu;Huolin L. Xin

  • Inhibitors of amyloid toxicity based on beta-sheet packing of Abeta40 and Abeta42.

    Takeshi Sato;Pascal Kienlen-Campard;Mahiuddin Ahmed;Wei Liu

  • Structure of the CED-4–CED-9 complex provides insights into programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Nieng Yan;Jijie Chai;Eui Seung Lee;Eui Seung Lee;Lichuan Gu

  • Fiber formation across the bacterial outer membrane by the chaperone/usher pathway.

    Han Remaut;Chunyan Tang;Nadine S. Henderson;Jerome S. Pinkner

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Blaser
Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mike O'Donnell
Mike O'Donnell Rockefeller University
Bruce Stillman
Bruce Stillman Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ann Marie Schmidt
Ann Marie Schmidt New York University
Zhongqin Li
Zhongqin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carl Nathan
Carl Nathan Cornell University
David S. Goldfarb
David S. Goldfarb University of Rochester
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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