2026 Yun-Bo Shi: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	75	5418	4997	2573	2309	288	16836

Overview

Yun-Bo Shi is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Genetics. The scientist's research also extends into Cancer Research and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine as subfields.

The main scientific topics investigated by Yun-Bo Shi include:

Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
Cancer-related gene regulation
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Yun-Bo Shi has contributed to various respected publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

Cell & Bioscience (9 publications)
Gastroenterology (6 publications)
Thyroid (4 publications)
Cells (3 publications)
Vitamins and hormones (3 publications)

The researcher has coauthored extensively with several colleagues, including:

Yuta Tanizaki
Lingyu Bao
Liezhen Fu
Yuki Shibata
Zhaoyi Peng

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Yun-Bo Shi include:

"Multiview confocal super-resolution microscopy," published in 2021 in Nature
"Thyroid and Corticosteroid Signaling in Amphibian Metamorphosis," published in 2022 in Cells
"Identification of cuproptosis-related subtypes, characterization of tumor microenvironment infiltration, and development of a prognosis model in breast cancer," published in 2022 in Frontiers in Immunology
"Thyroid hormone receptor beta is critical for intestinal remodeling during Xenopus tropicalis metamorphosis," published in 2020 in Cell & Bioscience
"Life Without Thyroid Hormone Receptor," published in 2021 in Endocrinology

Best Publications

Control of amino-acid transport by antigen receptors coordinates the metabolic reprogramming essential for T cell differentiation

Linda V Sinclair;Julia Rolf;Elizabeth Emslie;Yun-Bo Shi

878
Citations
Amphibian Metamorphosis: From Morphology to Molecular Biology

Yun-Bo Shi

624
Citations
Identification and Characterization of a Membrane Protein (y+L Amino Acid Transporter-1) That Associates with 4F2hc to Encode the Amino Acid Transport Activity y+L A CANDIDATE GENE FOR LYSINURIC PROTEIN INTOLERANCE

David Torrents;Raúl Estévez;Marta Pineda;Esperanza Fernández

489
Citations
Xenopus laevis alpha and beta thyroid hormone receptors.

Yoshio Yaoita;Yun-Bo Shi;Donald D. Brown

293
Citations
Distinct Functions Are Implicated for the GATA-4, -5, and -6 Transcription Factors in the Regulation of Intestine Epithelial Cell Differentiation

Xiaoping Gao;Tiffany Sedgwick;Yun-Bo Shi;Todd Evans

285
Citations
A role for nucleosome assembly in both silencing and activation of the Xenopus TR beta A gene by the thyroid hormone receptor.

Jiemin Wong;Yun-Bo Shi;Alan P. Wolffe

261
Citations
Molecular and developmental analyses of thyroid hormone receptor function in Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog

Daniel R. Buchholz;Bindu D. Paul;Liezhen Fu;Yun Bo Shi

253
Citations
Fluorescent-Magnetic-Biotargeting Multifunctional Nanobioprobes for Detecting and Isolating Multiple Types of Tumor Cells

Er-Qun Song;Jun Hu;Cong-Ying Wen;Zhi-Quan Tian

227
Citations
Distinct requirements for chromatin assembly in transcriptional repression by thyroid hormone receptor and histone deacetylase

Jiemin Wong;Danielle Patterton;Axel Imhof;Dmitry Guschin

217
Citations
The earliest changes in gene expression in tadpole intestine induced by thyroid hormone.

Yun-Bo Shi;D. D. Brown

214
Citations
Determinants of chromatin disruption and transcriptional regulation instigated by the thyroid hormone receptor: hormone-regulated chromatin disruption is not sufficient for transcriptional activation.

Jiemin Wong;Yun‐Bo Shi;Alan P. Wolffe

213
Citations
Tadpole competence and tissue-specific temporal regulation of amphibian metamorphosis: Roles of thyroid hormone and its receptors

Yun-Bo Shi;J. Wong;M. Puzianowska-Kuznicka;M. A. Stolow

206
Citations
Transcriptional repression of Xenopus TR beta gene is mediated by a thyroid hormone response element located near the start site.

Mukul Ranjan;Jiemin Wong;Yun-Bo Shi

200
Citations
Biphasic intestinal development in amphibians: embryogenesis and remodeling during metamorphosis.

Yun-Bo Shi;Atsuko Ishizuya-Oka

197
Citations
Identification and characterization of a novel collagenase in Xenopus laevis: possible roles during frog development.

M. A. Stolow;D. D. Bauzon;J. Li;T. Sedgwick

183
Citations
Transcriptional activation of the matrix metalloproteinase gene stromelysin-3 coincides with thyroid hormone-induced cell death during frog metamorphosis.

Danielle Patterton;William Pär Hayes;Yun-Bo Shi

182
Citations
N-CoR-HDAC Corepressor Complexes: Roles in Transcriptional Regulation by Nuclear Hormone Receptors

Peter L. Jones;Y.-B. Shi

175
Citations
Coordinated Regulation of and Transcriptional Activation by Xenopus Thyroid Hormone and Retinoid X Receptors

Jiemin Wong;Yun-Bo Shi

174
Citations
A dominant-negative thyroid hormone receptor blocks amphibian metamorphosis by retaining corepressors at target genes.

Daniel R. Buchholz;Shao-Chung Victor Hsia;Liezhen Fu;Yun-Bo Shi

172
Citations
Cloning and characterization of the ribosomal protein L8 gene from Xenopus laevis

Yun-Bo Shi;Vivia C.-T. Liang

169
Citations