2019–Present (ZZ lab production at Duke):
2024 ⎜ Nature (In press)
Li Z, Xu Q, Zhong J, Zhang Y, Zhang T, Ying X, Lu X, Li X, Wan L, Xue J, Huang J, Zhen Y, Zhang Z, Wu J, Shen EZ
Structural insights into RNA cleavage by PIWI Argonaute.
2024 ⎜ Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Li Z, Li Z, Zhang Y, Zhou L, Xu Q, Li L, Zeng L, Xue J, Niu H, Zhong J, Yu Q, Li D, Gui M, Huang Y, Tu S, Zhang Z, Song CQ, Wu J, Shen EZ
Mammalian PIWI–piRNA–target complexes reveal features for broad and efficient target silencing.
2024 ⎜ Advanced Science
Liang Y, Pan C, Yin T, Wang L, Gao X, Wang E, Quang H, Huang D, Tan L, Xiang K, Wang Y, Alexander P, Li QJ, Yao TP, Zhang Z, Wang XF
Branched‐Chain Amino Acid Accumulation Fuels the Senescence‐Associated Secretory Phenotype.
2023 ⎜ Nature
Yang F#, Su W#, Chung L, Tracy L, Wang L, Ramsden D, Zhang Z. (#Co-first, briefing by Nature, Duke coverage)
Retrotransposons hijack alt-EJ for DNA replication and eccDNA biogenesis.
2022 ⎜ Nature Genetics
Wang L#*, Tracy L#, Su W, Yang F, Feng Y, Silverman N, Zhang Z*. (#Co-first, *Co-corresponding authors , highlighted by News and Views)
Gaining protection against future viral infection from a family of mobile genetic elements.
2020 ⎜ Journal of Genetics and Genomics
Dou K*, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Wang C, Huang Y*, Zhang Z*. (*Co-corresponding authors)
Drosophila P75 safeguards oogenesis by preventing H3K9me2 spreading.
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2014–2019 (ZZ lab production at Carnegie):
2018 ⎜ Developmental Cell
Moon S#, Cassani M#, Lin Y, Wang L, Dou K, Zhang Z. (#Co-first authors)
A robust transposon-endogenizing response from germline stem cells.
2018 ⎜ Cell
Wang L#, Dou K#, Moon S, Tan F, Zhang Z. (#Co-first authors)
Hijacking oogenesis enables massive propagation of LINE and retroviral transposons.
2018 ⎜ EMBO reports
Yu B#, Lin Y#, Parhad SP, Jin Z, Ma J, Theurkauf WE, Zhang Z*, Huang Y*. (#Co-first authors, *Co-corresponding authors)
Structural insights into Rhino-Deadlock complex for germline piRNA cluster specification.
2015 ⎜ Molecular Cell
Wang W, Han B, Tipping C, Ge DT, Zhang Z, Weng Z, Zamore PD.
Slicing and Binding by Ago3 or Aub Trigger Piwi-Bound piRNA Production by Distinct Mechanisms.
2015 ⎜ Cell Research
Yu B, Cassani M, Wang M, Liu M, Ma J, Li G, Zhang Z*, Huang Y*. (*Co-corresponding authors)
Structural insights into Rhino mediated germline piRNA cluster formation.
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2009-2014 (ZZ as a graduate student):
2014 ⎜ Cell
Zhang Z, Wang J, Schultz N, Zhang F, Parhad SP, Tu S, Vreven T, Zamore PD, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE.
Rhi anchors a nuclear complex that suppresses piRNA precursor splicing.
2014 ⎜ EMBO Journal
Zhang Z, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD.
Antisense piRNA amplification, but not piRNA production or nuage assembly, requires the Tudor-domain protein Qin.
2012 ⎜ Silence
Zhang Z, Theurkauf WE, Weng Z, Zamore PD.
Strand-specific libraries for high throughput sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) prepared without poly(A) selection.
2012 ⎜ Cell
Zhang F, Wang J, Xu J, Zhang Z, Koppetsch B, Schultz N, Vreven T, Meignin, C, Davis I, Zamore PD, Weng Z and Theurkauf WE.
UAP56 couples piRNA clusters to the perinuclear transposon silencing machinery.
2011 ⎜ Molecular Cell
Zhang Z, Xu J, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Ma S, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD.
Heterotypic piRNA Ping-Pong requires Qin, a protein with both E3-ligase and Tudor domains.
2009 ⎜ Cell
Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z.
SnapShot: Mouse piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle.
2009 ⎜ Cell
Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z.
SnapShot: Fly piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle.