Ming‐Jer Tsai

41.7k citations

331 papers · 35.1k · 6 hit papers · h-index 98

Impact in

Genetics top 0.05%
- Estrogen and related hormone effects
Developmental Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Papers in

Genetics 146
- Estrogen and related hormone effects 137
Molecular Biology 180
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 91
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation 27

Co-authors: Bert W. O’Malley (168 shared papers)Sergio A. Oñate (6 shared papers)Francesco John DeMayo (26 shared papers)Austin J. Cooney (14 shared papers)Neil J. McKenna (6 shared papers)Jun Qin (19 shared papers)Jiemin Wong (8 shared papers)Thomas E. Spencer (4 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (46 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (37 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (29 papers)Molecular Endocrinology (22 papers)Cell (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Japan

In The Last Decade

Ming‐Jer Tsai

329 papers receiving 33.1k citations

Ming‐Jer Tsai's Hit Papers

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Estrogen Receptor β Modulates Apoptosis Complexes and the Inflammasome to Drive the Pathogenesis of Endometriosis 2015 · 326 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2015 Cell
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1999 Cell
1997 Nature
1995 Science
1994 Annual Review of Biochemistry

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ming‐Jer Tsai, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF STEROID/THYROID RECEPTOR SUPERFAMILY MEMBERS Annual Review of Biochemistry ·Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley Hit paper breakdown →	1994	2556
2	Sequence and Characterization of a Coactivator for the Steroid Hormone Receptor Superfamily Science ·Sergio A. Oñate, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley Hit paper breakdown →	1995	2052
3	Steroid receptor coactivator-1 is a histone acetyltransferase Nature ·Thomas E. Spencer, Guido W Jenster, Mark M. Burcin, C. David Allis, Craig Andrew Mizzen, Neil J. McKenna, Sergio A. Oñate, Ming‐Jer Tsai Hit paper breakdown →	1997	1056
4	A Steroid Receptor Coactivator, SRA, Functions as an RNA and Is Present in an SRC-1 Complex Cell ·Rainer B. Lanz, Neil J. McKenna, Sergio A. Oñate, Urs Albrecht, Jiemin Wong, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley Hit paper breakdown →	1999	671
5	Partial Hormone Resistance in Mice with Disruption of the Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 (SRC-1) Gene Science ·Jianming Xu, Yuhong Qiu, Francesco John DeMayo, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1998	593
6	Suppression of Notch signalling by the COUP-TFII transcription factor regulates vein identity Nature ·Li‐Ru You, Fu‐Jung Lin, Christopher T. Lee, Francesco John DeMayo, Ming‐Jer Tsai	2005	535
7	Molecular interactions of steroid hormone receptor with its enhancer element: Evidence for receptor dimer formation Cell ·Ming‐Jer Tsai, Jan Carlstedt‐Duke, Nancy L. Weigel, Karin Dahlman, Jan-Ακε Gustafsson, Bert W. O’Malley	1988	525
8	Role of co-activators and co-repressors in the mechanism of steroid/thyroid receptor action. PubMed ·Hirotaka Shibata, Thomas E. Spencer, Sergio A. Oñate, Guido W Jenster, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1997	467
9	COUP transcription factor is a member of the steroid receptor superfamily Nature ·Lee‐Ho Wang, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Richard G. Cook, Wanda G. Beattie, Bert W. O’Malley	1989	432
10	Estrogens protect pancreatic β-cells from apoptosis and prevent insulin-deficient diabetes mellitus in mice Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cédric Le May, Khoi Chu, Min Hu, Christina S. Ortega, Evan Simpson, Kenneth Steven Korach, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Franck Mauvais‐Jarvis Hit paper breakdown →	2006	429
11	The Angelman Syndrome-Associated Protein, E6-AP, Is a Coactivator for the Nuclear Hormone Receptor Superfamily Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Zafar Nawaz, David Michael Lonard, Carolyn L. Smith, Efrat Lev-Lehman, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1999	373
12	CREB binding protein acts synergistically with steroid receptor coactivator-1 to enhance steroid receptor-dependent transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·C L Smith, Sergio A. Oñate, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1996	368
13	The Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 Contains Multiple Receptor Interacting and Activation Domains That Cooperatively Enhance the Activation Function 1 (AF1) and AF2 Domains of Steroid Receptors Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Sergio A. Oñate, Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit, Thomas E. Spencer, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Dean P. Edwards, Bert W. O’Malley	1998	365
14	Actively transcribed genes are associated with the nuclear matrix Nature ·Elena M. Ciejek, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1983	363
15	Nuclear receptor coactivators: multiple enzymes, multiple complexes, multiple functionsProceedings of Xth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids, Quebec, Canada, 17–21 June 1998. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ·Neil J. McKenna, Jianming Xu, Zafar Nawaz, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1999	349
16	Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor (COUP-TF) dimers bind to different GGTCA response elements, allowing COUP-TF to repress hormonal induction of the vitamin D3, thyroid hormone, and retinoic acid receptors. Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Austin J. Cooney, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1992	345
17	The mechanism of RU486 antagonism is dependent on the conformation of the carboxy-terminal tail of the human progesterone receptor Cell ·Elisabetta Vegeto, George F. Allan, William T. Schrader, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Donald Patrick McDonnell, Bert W. O’Malley	1992	339
18	Estrogen Receptor β Modulates Apoptosis Complexes and the Inflammasome to Drive the Pathogenesis of Endometriosis Cell ·Sang Jun Han, Sung Yun Jung, San‐Pin Wu, Shannon M. Hawkins, Satoru Kyo, Jun Qin, John P. Lydon, Ming‐Jer Tsai Hit paper breakdown →	2015	326
19	Hormone and antihormone induce distinct conformational changes which are central to steroid receptor activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·George F. Allan, Xiaohua Leng, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Nancy L. Weigel, Dean P. Edwards, Bert W. O’Malley	1992	312
20	Members of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily interact with TFIIB (S300-II). Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Nancy H. Ing, Johanna M. Beekman, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Bert W. O’Malley	1992	304

About Ming‐Jer Tsai

Ming‐Jer Tsai is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, having authored 331 papers that have together received 35.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (137 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (91 papers), Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (34 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (27 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (21 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (16 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (14 papers) and Thyroid Disorders and Treatments (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (13.2k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (1k citations), Molecular Biology (14.6k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (3.1k citations) and Reproductive Medicine (1.3k citations). Ming‐Jer Tsai has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Bert W. O’Malley, Sergio A. Oñate, Francesco John DeMayo, Austin J. Cooney, Neil J. McKenna, Jun Qin, Jiemin Wong, Thomas E. Spencer, Zafar Nawaz and Jianming Xu. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular Endocrinology and Cell.

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