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Wu, Zhuoru, Nieng Yan, Liang Feng, Adam Oberstein, Hanchi Yan, Rosanna Baker, Lichuan Gu, Philip Jeffrey, Sinisa Urban, and Yigong Shi. (2006) 2006. “Structural Analysis of a Rhomboid Family Intramembrane Protease Reveals a Gating Mechanism for Substrate Entry”. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13 (12): 1084-91. doi:10.1038/nsmb1179.

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Sugihara, Junichi, Linfeng Sun, Nieng Yan, and Ronald Kaback. (2012) 2012. “Dynamics of the L-Fucose H+ Symporter Revealed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109 (37): 14847-51. doi:10.1073/pnas.1213445109.

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Qian, Hongwu, Pingping Cao, Miaohui Hu, Shuai Gao, Nieng Yan, and Xin Gong. (2019) 2019. “Inhibition of Tetrameric Patched1 by Sonic Hedgehog through an Asymmetric Paradigm”. Nat Commun 10 (1): 2320. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10234-9.

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Sun, Linfeng, Xin Zeng, Chuangye Yan, Xiuyun Sun, Xinqi Gong, Yu Rao, and Nieng Yan. (2012) 2012. “Crystal Structure of a Bacterial Homologue of Glucose Transporters GLUT1-4”. Nature 490 (7420): 361-6. doi:10.1038/nature11524.

Wang, Yi, Yongjian Huang, Jiawei Wang, Chao Cheng, Weijiao Huang, Peilong Lu, Ya-Nan Xu, Pengye Wang, Nieng Yan, and Yigong Shi. (2009) 2009. “Structure of the Formate Transporter FocA Reveals a Pentameric Aquaporin-Like Channel”. Nature 462 (7272): 467-72. doi:10.1038/nature08610.

Gong, Deshun, Ximin Chi, Kang Ren, Gaoxingyu Huang, Gewei Zhou, Nieng Yan, Jianlin Lei, and Qiang Zhou. (2018) 2018. “Structure of the Human Plasma Membrane Ca-ATPase 1 in Complex With Its Obligatory Subunit Neuroplastin”. Nat Commun 9 (1): 3623. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06075-7.

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Yan, Zhen, Xiaochen Bai, Chuangye Yan, Jianping Wu, Zhangqiang Li, Tian Xie, Wei Peng, et al. (2015) 2015. “Structure of the Rabbit Ryanodine Receptor RyR1 at Near-Atomic Resolution”. Nature 517 (7532): 50-55. doi:10.1038/nature14063.

Xie, Tian, Ruobing Ren, Yuan-yuan Zhang, Yuxuan Pang, Chuangye Yan, Xinqi Gong, Yuan He, et al. (2012) 2012. “Molecular Mechanism for Inhibition of a Critical Component in the Arabidopsis Thaliana Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction Pathways, SnRK2.6, by Protein Phosphatase ABI1”. J Biol Chem 287 (1): 794-802. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.313106.

Zhao, Yanyu, Gaoxingyu Huang, Qiurong Wu, Kun Wu, Ruiqi Li, Jianlin Lei, Xiaojing Pan, and Nieng Yan. (2019) 2019. “Cryo-EM Structures of Apo and Antagonist-Bound Human Ca3.1”. Nature 576 (7787): 492-97. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1801-3.

Chi, Ximin, Deshun Gong, Kang Ren, Gewei Zhou, Gaoxingyu Huang, Jianlin Lei, Qiang Zhou, and Nieng Yan. (2019) 2019. “Molecular Basis for Allosteric Regulation of the Type 2 Ryanodine Receptor Channel Gating by Key Modulators”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116 (51): 25575-82. doi:10.1073/pnas.1914451116.

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Gong, Deshun, Ximin Chi, Jinhong Wei, Gewei Zhou, Gaoxingyu Huang, Lin Zhang, Ruiwu Wang, Jianlin Lei, Wayne Chen, and Nieng Yan. (2019) 2019. “Modulation of Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor 2 by Calmodulin”. Nature 572 (7769): 347-51. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1377-y.

Deng, Dong, Chuangye Yan, Xiaojing Pan, Magdy Mahfouz, Jiawei Wang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Yigong Shi, and Nieng Yan. (2012) 2012. “Structural Basis for Sequence-Specific Recognition of DNA by TAL Effectors”. Science 335 (6069): 720-3. doi:10.1126/science.1215670.

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Yan, Nieng, Jun Huh, Virgil Schirf, Borries Demeler, Bruce Hay, and Yigong Shi. (2006) 2006. “Structure and Activation Mechanism of the Drosophila Initiator Caspase Dronc”. J Biol Chem 281 (13): 8667-74. doi:10.1074/jbc.M513232200.

Deng, Dong, and Nieng Yan. (2016) 2016. “GLUT, SGLT, and SWEET: Structural and Mechanistic Investigations of the Glucose Transporters”. Protein Sci 25 (3): 546-58. doi:10.1002/pro.2858.

Yan, Nieng, and Yigong Shi. 2005. “Mechanisms of Apoptosis through Structural Biology”. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 21: 35-56. doi:10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.131040.

Yan, Nieng, Lichuan Gu, David Kokel, Jijie Chai, Wenyu Li, Aidong Han, Lin Chen, Ding Xue, and Yigong Shi. (2004) 2004. “Structural, Biochemical, and Functional Analyses of CED-9 Recognition by the Proapoptotic Proteins EGL-1 and CED-4”. Mol Cell 15 (6): 999-1006. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.08.022.

Yan, Zhen, Qiang Zhou, Lin Wang, Jianping Wu, Yanyu Zhao, Gaoxingyu Huang, Wei Peng, Huaizong Shen, Jianlin Lei, and Nieng Yan. (2017) 2017. “Structure of the Na1.4-β1 Complex from Electric Eel”. Cell 170 (3): 470-482.e11. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.039.

Jiang, Xin, Irina Smirnova, Vladimir Kasho, Jianping Wu, Kunio Hirata, Meng Ke, Els Pardon, Jan Steyaert, Nieng Yan, and Ronald Kaback. (2016) 2016. “Crystal Structure of a LacY-Nanobody Complex in a Periplasmic-Open Conformation”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113 (44): 12420-25. doi:10.1073/pnas.1615414113.

Chai, Jijie, Jia-Wei Wu, Nieng Yan, Joan Massagué, Nikola Pavletich, and Yigong Shi. (2003) 2003. “Features of a Smad3 MH1-DNA Complex. Roles of Water and Zinc in DNA Binding”. J Biol Chem 278 (22): 20327-31. doi:10.1074/jbc.C300134200.

Zhao, Yanyu, Gaoxingyu Huang, Jianping Wu, Qiurong Wu, Shuai Gao, Zhen Yan, Jianlin Lei, and Nieng Yan. (2019) 2019. “Molecular Basis for Ligand Modulation of a Mammalian Voltage-Gated Ca Channel”. Cell 177 (6): 1495-1506.e12. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.043.

Wang, Jing, Chuangye Yan, Yini Li, Kunio Hirata, Masaki Yamamoto, Nieng Yan, and Qi Hu. (2014) 2014. “Crystal Structure of a Bacterial Homologue of SWEET Transporters”. Cell Res 24 (12): 1486-9. doi:10.1038/cr.2014.144.

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Qian, Hongwu, Xin Zhao, Pingping Cao, Jianlin Lei, Nieng Yan, and Xin Gong. (2017) 2017. “Structure of the Human Lipid Exporter ABCA1”. Cell 169 (7): 1228-1239.e10. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.020.

Madej, Gregor, Linfeng Sun, Nieng Yan, and Ronald Kaback. (2014) 2014. “Functional Architecture of MFS D-Glucose Transporters”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111 (7). doi:10.1073/pnas.1400336111.

Shiozaki, Eric, Lichuan Gu, Nieng Yan, and Yigong Shi. (2004) 2004. “Structure of the BRCT Repeats of BRCA1 Bound to a BACH1 Phosphopeptide: Implications for Signaling”. Mol Cell 14 (3): 405-12. doi:10.1016/s1097-2765(04)00238-2.

Wu, Jianping, Zhen Yan, Zhangqiang Li, Xingyang Qian, Shan Lu, Mengqiu Dong, Qiang Zhou, and Nieng Yan. (2016) 2016. “Structure of the Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Ca(v)1.1 at 3.6 Å Resolution”. Nature 537 (7619): 191-96. doi:10.1038/nature19321.

Bai, Xiao-Chen, Zhen Yan, Jianping Wu, Zhangqiang Li, and Nieng Yan. (2016) 2016. “The Central Domain of RyR1 Is the Transducer for Long-Range Allosteric Gating of Channel Opening”. Cell Res 26 (9): 995-1006. doi:10.1038/cr.2016.89.

Yan, Nieng, Jia-Wei Wu, Jijie Chai, Wenyu Li, and Yigong Shi. (2004) 2004. “Molecular Mechanisms of DrICE Inhibition by DIAP1 and Removal of Inhibition by Reaper, Hid and Grim”. Nat Struct Mol Biol 11 (5): 420-8. doi:10.1038/nsmb764.