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Zhang X, Ren W, DeCaen P, Yan C, Tao X, Tang L, Wang J, Hasegawa K, Kumasaka T, He J, Wang J, Clapham D, Yan N. Crystal structure of an orthologue of the NaChBac voltage-gated sodium channel. Nature. 2012;486(7401):130–4. PMCID: PMC3979295

Xie T, Ren R, Zhang Y- yuan, Pang Y, Yan C, Gong X, He Y, Li W, Miao D, Hao Q, Deng H, Wang Z, Wu J-W, Yan N. 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. 2012;287(1):794–802. PMCID: PMC3249133

Shao Y, Bassler B. Quorum-sensing non-coding small RNAs use unique pairing regions to differentially control mRNA targets. Mol Microbiol. 2012;83(3):599–611. PMCID: PMC3262071

Wei Y, Ng W-L, Cong J, Bassler B. Ligand and antagonist driven regulation of the Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing receptor CqsS. Mol Microbiol. 2012;83(6):1095–108. PMCID: PMC3310172

Tootoonian S, Coen P, Kawai R, Murthy M. Neural representations of courtship song in the Drosophila brain. J Neurosci. 2012;32(3):787–98. PMCID: PMC3520490

Sun L, Zeng X, Yan C, Sun X, Gong X, Rao Y, Yan N. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1-4. Nature. 2012;490(7420):361–6. PMID: 23075985

Deng D, Yin P, Yan C, Pan X, Gong X, Qi S, Xie T, Mahfouz M, Zhu J-K, Yan N, Shi Y. Recognition of methylated DNA by TAL effectors. Cell Res. 2012;22(10):1502–4. PMCID: PMC3463267

Yin P, Deng D, Yan C, Pan X, Xi J, Yan N, Shi Y. Specific DNA-RNA hybrid recognition by TAL effectors. Cell Rep. 2012;2(4):707–13. PMID: 23022487

Nguyen T, Deshmukh N, Nagarah J, Kramer T, Purohit P, Berry M, McAlpine M. Piezoelectric nanoribbons for monitoring cellular deformations. Nat Nanotechnol. 2012;7(9):587–93. PMID: 22796742