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.

Chai, Jijie, Nieng Yan, Jun Huh, Jia-Wei Wu, Wenyu Li, Bruce Hay, and Yigong Shi. (2003) 2003. “Molecular Mechanism of Reaper-Grim-Hid-Mediated Suppression of DIAP1-Dependent Dronc Ubiquitination”. Nat Struct Biol 10 (11): 892-8. doi:10.1038/nsb989.

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.

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.

Yang, Chonglin, Nieng Yan, Jay Parish, Xiaochen Wang, Yigong Shi, and Ding Xue. (2006) 2006. “RNA Aptamers Targeting the Cell Death Inhibitor CED-9 Induce Cell Killing in Caenorhabditis Elegans”. J Biol Chem 281 (14): 9137-44. doi:10.1074/jbc.M511742200.

Wu, Jianping, Zhen Yan, Zhangqiang Li, Chuangye Yan, Shan Lu, Mengqiu Dong, and Nieng Yan. (2015) 2015. “Structure of the Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Cav1.1 Complex”. Science 350 (6267): aad2395. doi:10.1126/science.aad2395.

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.

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.

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.

Deng, Dong, Chuangye Yan, Jianping Wu, Xiaojing Pan, and Nieng Yan. (2014) 2014. “Revisiting the TALE Repeat”. Protein Cell 5 (4): 297-306. doi:10.1007/s13238-014-0035-2.

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.

Li, Quanxiu, Chuangye Yan, Huisha Xu, Zheng Wang, Jiafu Long, Wenqi Li, Jianping Wu, Ping Yin, and Nieng Yan. (2014) 2014. “Examination of the Dimerization States of the Single-Stranded RNA Recognition Protein Pentatricopeptide Repeat 10 (PPR10)”. J Biol Chem 289 (45): 31503-12. doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.575472.

Li, Wenqi, Li Wang, Xinlei Sheng, Chuangye Yan, Rui Zhou, Jing Hang, Ping Yin, and Nieng Yan. (2013) 2013. “Molecular Basis for the Selective and ABA-Independent Inhibition of PP2CA by PYL13”. Cell Res 23 (12): 1369-79. doi:10.1038/cr.2013.143.

Hao, Qi, Ping Yin, Wenqi Li, Li Wang, Chuangye Yan, Zhaohu Lin, Jim Zhen Wu, Jiawei Wang, Frank Yan, and Nieng Yan. (2011) 2011. “The Molecular Basis of ABA-Independent Inhibition of PP2Cs by a Subclass of PYL Proteins”. Mol Cell 42 (5): 662-72. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2011.05.011.

Zhang, Xu, Wenlin Ren, Paul DeCaen, Chuangye Yan, Xiao Tao, Lin Tang, Jingjing Wang, et al. (2012) 2012. “Crystal Structure of an Orthologue of the NaChBac Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel”. Nature 486 (7401): 130-4. doi:10.1038/nature11054.

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.

Feng, Liang, Hanchi Yan, Zhuoru Wu, Nieng Yan, Zhe Wang, Philip Jeffrey, and Yigong Shi. (2007) 2007. “Structure of a Site-2 Protease Family Intramembrane Metalloprotease”. Science 318 (5856): 1608-12. doi:10.1126/science.1150755.

Feng, Liang, David Gell, Suiping Zhou, Lichuan Gu, Yi Kong, Jianqing Li, Min Hu, et al. (2004) 2004. “Molecular Mechanism of AHSP-Mediated Stabilization of Alpha-Hemoglobin”. Cell 119 (5): 629-40. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.025.