Y Yin*, L Yang*, G Zheng, C Gu, C Yi, C He, Y Gao, XS Zhao, Dynamics of spontaneous flipping of a mismatched base in DNA duplex, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2014, 111, 8043-8048 (*co-first author)

Y. Zhang#, G. Liao#, M. Wang#, Z. Zhang#, L. Liu, Y. Song, D. Wang, T. Hao, J. Feng, B. Xia, Y. Wang, X. Tang*, Y. Chen*. Human-associated bacteria adopt an unusual route for synthesizing 3-acetylated tetramates for environmental adaptation. Microbiome Accepted

B. R. Terlouw, … X. Tang … T. Weber*, M. H. Medema*. MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research 2023, 51(D1): D603-D610

G. Liao, C. Mi, L. Yang, H. Zhang, X. Ding, M. Cai, H. Wang, W. Mei*, H. Dai*, X. Tang*. Para-quinone methide-mediated nonenzymatic formation of chalcane-containing dimers in dragon’s blood. Organic Letters 2022, 24(50): 9275–9280

M. Cai and X. Tang*. Human archaea and associated metabolites in health and disease. Biochemistry 2022, 61(24): 2835–2840

H. Zhang, G. Liao, X. Luo*, X. Tang*. Harnessing nature’s biosynthetic capacity to facilitate total synthesis. National Science Review 2022, 9(10): nwac178

H. Zhang, X. Tang*. Combining microbial and chemical syntheses for the production of complex natural products. Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines 2022, 20(10): 1-8

L. Hou, H. Tian, L. Wang, Z. E. Ferris, J. Wang, M. Cai, E. A. Older, M. R. K. Raja, D. Xue, W. Sun, P. Nagarkatti, M. Nagarkatti, H. Chen, D. Fan, X. Tang*, J. Li*. Identification and biosynthesis of pro-inflammatory sulfonolipids from an opportunistic pathogen Chryseobacterium gleum. ACS Chemical Biology 2022, 17(5): 1197–1206

J. Baker, X. Tang, S. LaBonte, C. Uranga, A. Edlund. mucG, mucH, and mucI modulate production of mutanocyclin and reutericyclins in Streptococcus mutans B04Sm5. Journal of Bacteriology 2022, 204(5): e0004222

D. Xue, E. A. Older, Z. Zhong, Z. Shang, N. Chen, N. Dittenhauser, L. Hou, M. D. Walla, S. Dong, X. Tang, P. Nagarkatti, M. Nagarkatti, Y. Li*, J. Li*. Correlational networking guides the discovery of unclustered lanthipeptide protease-encoding genes. Nature Communications 2022, 13: 1647

X. Yin, G. Zhou, M. Cai, Q. Zhu, T. Richter-Heitmann, D. A. Aromokeye, Y. Liu, R. Nimzyk, Q. Zheng, X. Tang, M. Elvert, M. Li, M. W. Friedrich. Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea. The ISME Journal 2022, 16: 1617–1626

M. Cai, S. Kandalai, X. Tang*, Q. Zheng*. Contributions of human-associated archaeal metabolites to tumor microenvironment and carcinogenesis. Microbiology Spectrum 2022, 10(2): e02367-21

M. Cai, X. Yin, X. Tang, C. Zhang, Q. Zheng*, M. Li*. Metatranscriptomics reveals different features of methanogenic archaea among global vegetated coastal ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 2022, 802: 149848

G. Liao, X. Tang*. Mining the microbial chemistry behind tooth decay. Biochemistry 2022, 61(24): 2779–2781

S. Xing, Y. Hu, Z. Yin, M. Liu, X. Tang, M. Fang, T. Huan*. Retrieving and utilizing hypothetical neutral losses from tandem mass spectra for spectral similarity analysis and unknown metabolite annotation. Analytical Chemistry 2020, 92(21): 14476–14483

X. Tang, Y. Kudo, J. Baker, S. LaBonte, P. A. Jordan, S. M. K. Mckinnie, J. Guo, T. Huan, B. S. Moore*, A. Edlund*. Cariogenic Streptococcus mutans produces strain-specific antibiotics that impair commensal colonization. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(4), 563-571 (2020)

J. J. Zhang, X. Tang, T. Huan, A. C. Ross, B. S. Moore*. Pass-back chain extension expands multi-modular assembly line biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology 2020, 16: 42–49

J. J. Zhang*, X. Tang, B. S. Moore*. Genetic platforms for heterologous expression of microbial natural products. Natural Product Reports 2019, 36: 1313-1332

G. Aleti, J. L. Baker, X. Tang, R. Alvarez, M. Boltelho, N. C. Tran, A. V. Melnik, C. Zhong, M. Ernst, P.C. Dorrestein, A. Edlund*. Identification of the bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters of the oral microbiome illuminates the unexplored social language of bacteria during health and disease. mBio 2019, 10(2): e00321-19