J. L. Baker, E. L. Hendrickson, X. Tang, R. Lux, X. He, A. Edlund, J. S. McLean, W. Shi*. Klebsiella and Providencia emerge as lone survivors following long-term starvation of oral microbiota, PNAS 2019, 116(17): 8499-8504

J. J. Zhang, K. Yamanaka, X. Tang*, B. S. Moore*. Direct cloning and heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters by transformation-associated recombination. Methods in Enzymology 2019, 621: 87-110

J. J. Zhang, X. Tang, M. Zhang, D. Nguyen, and B. S. Moore#. Broad-host-range expression reveals native and host regulatory elements that influence heterologous antibiotic production in gram-negative bacteria. mBio 2017, 8(5): e01291-17

J. J. Zhang, B. S. Moore*, X. Tang*. Engineering Salinispora tropica for heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2018, 102(10): 8437-8446

J. Li#, X. Tang#, T. Awakawa, and B. S. Moore*. Enzymatic C-H oxidation–amidation cascade in the production of natural and unnatural thiotetronate antibiotics with potentiated bioactivity. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56 (40): 12234–12239

X. Tang, J. Li, and B. S. Moore*. Minimization of the thiolactomycin biosynthetic pathway reveals that the cytochrome P450 enzyme TlmF is required for five-membered thiolactone ring formation. ChemBioChem 2017, 18(12):1072-1076

X. Tang, J. Li, N. Millán-Aguiñaga, J.J. Zhang, E.C. O'Neill, J.A. Ugalde, P.R. Jensen, S.M. Mantovani*, and B.S. Moore*. Identification of thiotetronic acid antibiotic biosynthetic pathways by target-directed genome mining. ACS Chemical Biology 2015, 10(12): 2841-2849

X. Tang, K. Eitel, L. Kaysser, A. Kulik, S. Grond, and B. Gust*. A two-step sulfation in antibiotic biosynthesis requires a type III polyketide synthase. Nature Chemical Biology 2013, 9: 610–615

X. Tang, M. Goss, Y. Xie, A. Kulik and B. Gust*. Identification of mureidomycin analogues and functional analysis of an N-acetyltransferase in napsamycin biosynthesis. ChemBioChem, 14(17), 2248-55. (2013)

B. Gust*, K. Eitel, X. Tang. The biosynthesis of caprazamycins and related liponucleoside-antibiotics: new insights. Biological Chemistry 2013, 394(2): 251-259