1. Xianshengjie Lang*; Changbin Zhang*; Jingxuan Lin;Zhe Zhang#; Wenfei Li#. A simplified and highly efficient cell-free protein synthesis system for prokaryotes.eLife, 2025 14:RP109495. (*Co-first Author)
2. Yile Zhai*; Tiantian Wang*; Jiangxue Han; Mengxiao Wu; Meixi Gong; Wenfei Li#;Zhe Zhang#. Lysosomal control of proteostasis and reproductive capacity by conserved LMD-3 protein inC. elegans.Science Advances, 2025 11: eadz3192. (*Co-first Author)
3. Nanxuan Luo*; Yijie Xiao*; Yile Zhai*; Jie Li; Lijie Lv; Houhua Yin; Fang Lin; Biwen Wan; Ke Zhang; Junchi Hu; Junyan Liu; Yongjun Dang; Yi He; Yahui Zhao;Zhe Zhang#;Shenyou Nie#; Haixin Yuan#. Vitamin A and its analogues modulate MUFAs metabolism to improve ferroptosis and aging by direct targeting of ACSL3.Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2025 11: j.apsb.2025.11.004. (*Co-first Author)
4.Zhe Zhang#; Shuo Luo; Guilherme Oliveira Barbosa; Meirong Bai; Thomas B Kornberg; Dengke K Ma#. The conserved transmembrane protein TMEM-39 coordinates with COPII to promote collagen secretion and regulate ER stress response.PLoS Genetics, 2021, 17(2): e1009317.
5. Shuo Luo; Xin Wang; Meirong Bai; Wei Jiang;Zhe Zhang; Yifan Chen; Dengke K Ma. The conserved autoimmune-disease risk gene TMEM39A regulates lysosome dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, 118(6).
6.Zhe Zhang; Meirong Bai; Guilherme Oliveira Barbosa; Andrew Chen; Yuehua Wei; Shuo Luo; Xin Wang; Bingying Wang; Tatsuya Tsukui; Hao Li; Dean Sheppard; Thomas B Kornberg; Dengke K Ma. Broadly conserved roles of TMEM131 family proteins in intracellular collagen assembly and secretory cargo trafficking.Science Advances, 2020, 6(7): eaay7667.
7. Song Chen*; Shuo Luo*;Zhe Zhang; Dengke K Ma. VHL-1 inactivation and mitochondrial antioxidants rescue C. elegans dopaminergic neurodegeneration.Protein & Cell, 2019, 10(8): 610-614. (*Co-first Author)
8.Zhe Zhang; Limeng Liu; Kwame Twumasi-Boateng; Dena H.S. Block; Michael Shapira. FOS-1 functions as a transcriptional activator downstream of the C. elegans JNK homolog KGB-1.Cellular Signalling, 2017, 30: 1-8.
9. Jason L J Lin; Akihisa Nakagawa; Riley Skeen-Gaar; Wei-Zen Yang; Pei Zhao;Zhe Zhang; Xiao Ge; Shohei Mitani; Ding Xue; Hanna S Yuan. Oxidative Stress Impairs Cell Death by Repressing the Nuclease Activity of Mitochondrial Endonuclease G.Cell Reoports, 2016, 2(16): 279-287.
10. Pei Zhao*;Zhe Zhang*; Xiaoying Lv; Xiang Zhao; Yuji Suehiro; Yinan Jiang; Xinquan Wang; Shohei Mitani; Haipeng Gong; Ding Xue. One-step homozygosity in precise gene editing by an improved CRISPR/Cas9 system.Cell Research, 2016, 26(5): 633-636. (*Co-first Author)
11. Pei Zhao*;Zhe Zhang*; Hongmei Ke; Yiren Yue; Ding Yue. Oligonucleotide-based targeted gene editing in C. elegans via the CRISPR/Cas9 system.Cell Research, 2014, 24(2): 247-250. (*Co-first Author)
