1.Ruikang Liu#, Jeffrey L. Americo#, Patricia L. Earl#, Jack Villani, Catherine A. Cotter, Bernard Moss. Interferon a/β decoy receptor encoded by a variant in the Dryvax smallpox vaccine contributes to virulence and correlates with severe vaccine side effects.mBio.2022; 13 (1): e00102-22(Top Papers of the Year Submitted by American Academy of Microbiology Fellows)
2.Ruikang Liu#, Jeffrey L. Americo#, Catherine A. Cotter, Patricia L. Earl, Noam Erez, Chen Peng and Bernard Moss. One or two injections of MVA-vectored vaccine shields hACE2 transgenic mice from SARS-CoV-2 upper and lower respiratory tract infection.PNAS. 2021; 118 (12): e2026785118
3.Ruikang Liu, Lisa R. Olano, Yeva Mirzakhanyan, Paul Gershon, and Bernard Moss. Vaccinia virus ankyrin-repeat/F-box protein targets interferon-induced IFITs for degradation.Cell Reports.2019; 29 (4): 816–828
4.Ruikang Liu, Jorge D. Mendez-Rios, Chen Peng, Wei Xiao, Andrea S. Weisberg, Linda S. Wyatt and Bernard Moss. SPI-1 is a missing host-range factor required for replication of the attenuated modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vaccine vector in human cells.PLOS Pathogens. 2019; 15 (5): e1007710(Featured research article)
5.Ruikang Liuand Bernard Moss. Vaccinia virus C9 ankyrin repeat/F-Box protein is a newly identified antagonist of the type I interferon-induced antiviral state.Journal of Virology.2018; 92 (9): e00053-18
6.Ruikang Liuand Bernard Moss. Opposing roles of double-stranded RNA effector pathways and viral defense proteins revealed with CRISPR-Cas9 knockout cell lines and vaccinia virus mutants.Journal of Virology. 2016; 90 (17): 7864–7879
7.Ruikang Liu#, Yongquan Lin#, Rui Jia, Yunqi Geng, Chen Liang, Juan Tan, Wentao Qiao. HIV-1 Vpr stimulates NF-κB and AP-1 signaling by activating TAK1.Retrovirology. 2014; 11: 45
8.Ruikang Liu#, Juan Tan#, Yongquan Lin, Rui Jia, Wei Yang, Chen Liang, Yunqi Geng, Wentao Qiao. HIV-1 Vpr activates both canonical and noncanonical NF-κB pathway by enhancing the phosphorylation of IKKα/β.Virology. 2013; 439 (1): 47–56
9.Ruikang Liu, Yang Gao, Yongquan Lin, Juan Tan, Yunqi Geng, Wentao Qiao. Effect of RelB on HIV-1 Vpr-mediated transcription activation and cell G2/M arrest.Bing Du Xue Bao.2013; 29 (1): 44–50