Kai Chen

Kai Chen

University of California, Berkeley

H-index: 27

North America-United States

About Kai Chen

Kai Chen, With an exceptional h-index of 27 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Berkeley, specializes in the field of Protein Engineering, Gene Editing, Biocatalysis, Synthetic Chemistry, Organometallics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Enzymatic Assembly of Diverse Lactone Structures: An Intramolecular C–H Functionalization Strategy

Engineering self-deliverable ribonucleoproteins for genome editing in the brain

Eukaryotic RNA-guided endonucleases evolved from a unique clade of bacterial enzymes

Reversing the enantioselectivity of enzymatic carbene N–H insertion through mechanism‐guided protein engineering

Rapid DNA unwinding accelerates genome editing by engineered CRISPR-Cas9

Lung and liver editing by lipid nanoparticle delivery of a stable CRISPR-Cas9 RNP

Improved genome editing by an engineered CRISPR-Cas12a

Method for producing an organosilicon product

Kai Chen Information

University

Position

Postdoc at

Citations(all)

4308

Citations(since 2020)

2973

Cited By

2705

hIndex(all)

27

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

31

i10Index(since 2020)

30

Email

University Profile Page

University of California, Berkeley

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Kai Chen Skills & Research Interests

Protein Engineering

Gene Editing

Biocatalysis

Synthetic Chemistry

Organometallics

Top articles of Kai Chen

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Enzymatic Assembly of Diverse Lactone Structures: An Intramolecular C–H Functionalization Strategy

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Daniel J Wackelin

Runze Mao

Kathleen M Sicinski

Yutao Zhao

Anuvab Das

...

2024/1/2

Engineering self-deliverable ribonucleoproteins for genome editing in the brain

Nature Communications

Kai Chen

Elizabeth C Stahl

Min Hyung Kang

Bryant Xu

Ryan Allen

...

2024/2/26

Eukaryotic RNA-guided endonucleases evolved from a unique clade of bacterial enzymes

Nucleic Acids Research

Peter H Yoon

Petr Skopintsev

Honglue Shi

LinXing Chen

Benjamin A Adler

...

2023/12/11

Reversing the enantioselectivity of enzymatic carbene N–H insertion through mechanism‐guided protein engineering

Carla Calvó-Tusell

Zhen Liu

Kai Chen

Frances H Arnold

Marc Garcia-Borràs

2022/8/18

Rapid DNA unwinding accelerates genome editing by engineered CRISPR-Cas9

bioRxiv

Amy R Eggers

Kai Chen

Katarzyna M Soczek

Owen T Tuck

Erin E Doherty

...

2023

Lung and liver editing by lipid nanoparticle delivery of a stable CRISPR-Cas9 RNP

bioRxiv

Kai Chen

Hesong Han

Sheng Zhao

Bryant Xu

Boyan Yin

...

2023

Improved genome editing by an engineered CRISPR-Cas12a

Nucleic Acids Research

Enbo Ma

Kai Chen

Honglue Shi

Elizabeth C Stahl

Ben Adler

...

2022/12/9

Method for producing an organosilicon product

2021/2/23

Engineering enzymes for new-to-nature carbene chemistry

Soumitra V Athavale

Kai Chen

Frances H Arnold

2021/12/20

Dual-function enzyme catalysis for enantioselective carbon–nitrogen bond formation

Nature Chemistry

Zhen Liu

Carla Calvó-Tusell

Andrew Z Zhou

Kai Chen

Marc Garcia-Borràs

...

2021/12

Diverse carbene transferase enzyme catalysts derived from a P450 enzyme

2022/12/13

A method for enantioselective carbenoid C–H insertion using an iron-containing protein catalyst

2021/3/2

Engineering cytochrome P450s for enantioselective cyclopropenation of internal alkynes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Kai Chen

Frances H Arnold

2020/3/29

Engineering new catalytic activities in enzymes

Kai Chen

Frances H Arnold

2020/3

Biocatalytic synthesis of strained carbocycles

2020/11/10

Heme protein catalysts for carbon–boron bond formation in vitro and in vivo

2020/8/18

Expanding the catalytic repertoire of hemeproteins as carbene transferases to access diverse molecular structures

Kai Chen

2020/6/1

Enzymatic lactone-carbene C‒H insertion to build contiguous chiral centers

ACS Catalysis

Andrew Z Zhou

Kai Chen

Frances H Arnold

2020/4/21

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Co-Authors

H-index: 150
Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna

University of California, Berkeley

H-index: 145
Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

California Institute of Technology

H-index: 69
Bing-Feng Shi

Bing-Feng Shi

Zhejiang University

H-index: 33
Marc Garcia-Borràs

Marc Garcia-Borràs

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 26
Zhen Liu

Zhen Liu

California Institute of Technology

H-index: 23
Xiongyi Huang

Xiongyi Huang

Johns Hopkins University

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