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  1. Hari Timilsina†, Dmytro Kompaniiets†, Satya Prakash Arya, Rick Mason Postema, Raunak Jahan, Andrew Michael Reynolds, Siddhartha Kalpa Samadhi Thennakoon, Bin Liu* and Xiaohong Tan.* DNA aptamers targeting P. aeruginosa RNAP. Chem. Commun. 2025,61, 4848-4851. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC00682A

  2. Achut Prasad Silwal†, Siddhartha Thennakoon Kalpa Samadhi†, Raunak Jahan, Satya Prakash Arya, Rick Mason Postema, Hari Pra-sad Timilsina, Andrew Michael Reynolds, Kaytelee Brooke Kokensparger, Xiaohong Tan.* Aptamer-Assisted DNA SELEX: Dual-Site Targeting of a Single Protein. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2025. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c02053 (Front cover)

  3. Debmalya Ray, Austin R. Sartori, Aco Radujević, Sandra M. George, Rick Postema, Xiaohong Tan, Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev,* Pavel Anzenbacher Jr.* Cellular Phosphate Sensing and Anion Binding by an Azacrown-Calixpyrrole Hybrid. Chemistry - A European Journal 2024 Oct 16:e202401872. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202401872.

  4. Arya, S. P.; Timilsina, H.; Tan, X.* Biotechnological Advances Utilizing Aptamers and Peptides Refining PD-L1 Targeting. Front. Biosci. (Elite Ed) 2024, 16(3), 28. https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbe1603028. (Invited review)

  5. Postema, R. M.; Sims, C. B.; Fyfe, M. J.; Tan, X.*; Wildschutte, H.*; Furgal, J. C.*. Exploring Preliminary Biocompatibility Testing in Coating Development. Coatings 2024, 14 (7), 849. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings14070849 .

  6. Arya, S. P.; Thennakoon, S. K. S.; Phuoc, C. M. T.; Silwal, A. P.; Jahan, R.; Postema, R. M.; Timilsina, H.; Reynolds, A. M.; Tan, X.* Aptamer-assisted phage display: enhancing checkpoint inhibition with a peptide and an aptamer targeting distinct sites on a single PD-L1 protein. Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 7570-7573. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC02132K . (Back cover)

  7. Jahan, R.; Silwal, A. P.; Thennakoon, S. K. S.; Arya, S. P.; Postema, R. M.; Timilsina, H.; Reynolds, A. M.; Tan, X.*. Ni Aptamer: DNA Mimic of His-Tag to Recognize Ni-NTA. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 12851-12854. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc03349j. (Back cover)

  8. Tan, X.*, Zhao, Z.*, Wang, R.*, Zhu, G.*. Editorial: Molecular and nanoscale engineering of nucleic acid theranostics and vaccines. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 2023, 10, 1126876. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.1126876

  9. Silwal, A. P.; Thennakoon, S. K. S.; Arya, S. P.; Postema, R. M.; Jahan, R.; Phuoc, C. M. T.; Tan, X.*. DNA Aptamers Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Protein Binding to HACE2 by an RBD- Independent or Dependent Approach. Theranostics. 2022, 12 (12), 5522–5536. https://doi.org/10.7150/thno.74428. (Front cover)

  10. Silwal, A. P.; Jahan, R.; Thennakoon, S. K. S.; Arya, S. P.; Postema, R. M.; Vander Ark, E. C.; Tan, X.*. A Universal DNA Aptamer as an Efficient Inhibitor against Spike-Protein/HACE2 Interactions. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 8049–8052. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC02647C. (Front cover)

  11. Thennakoon, S. K. S.; Postema, R. M.; Tan, X.* Constraining TAT peptide by γPNA hairpin for enhanced cellular delivery of biomolecules. Methods Mol. Biol. 2021, 2355, 265-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1617-8_20.

2019 and before

1.    Xiaohong Tan*, Marcel P. Bruchez, Bruce A. Armitage. Efficient Cytoplasmic Delivery of Antisense Probes Assisted by Cyclized Peptide‐mediated Photo‐induced Endosomal Escape. ChemBioChem 2019, 20 (5), 727-733. 
2.    Xiaohong Tan*, Chuanfa Liu. Facilitating Subtiligase Catalyzed Peptide Ligation Reactions by Using Peptide Thioester Substrates. Org. Lett 2018, 20 (21), 6691-6694.  
3.    Sandip Shelke, Yaming Shao, Artur Laski, Deepak Koirala, Benjamin Weissman, James Fuller, Xiaohong Tan, Tudor constantin, Alan Waggoner, Marcel Bruchez, Bruce Armitage, and Joseph Piccirilli. Structural basis for activation of fluorogenic dyes by an RNA aptamer lacking a G-quadruplex motif. Nature Comm 2018, 9 (1), 4542.
4.    Xiaohong Tan*, Marcel P. Bruchez, Bruce A. Armitage. Closing the Loop: Constraining TAT Peptide by gammaPNA Hairpin for Enhanced Cellular Delivery of Biomolecules. Bioconjugate Chem 2018, 29 (9), 2892–2898. 
5.    Xiaohong Tan*, Chuanfa Liu. Investigating Glyoxylate-Mediated Transamination Using Dipeptide Arrays and Proteomic Peptide Mixtures. Bioconjugate Chem 2018, 29 (10), 3285-3292. 
6.    Xiaohong Tan, Tudor P. Constantin, Kelly L. Sloane, Alan S. Waggoner, Marcel P. Bruchez, Bruce A. Armitage. Fluoromodules Consisting of a Promiscuous RNA Aptamer and Red or Blue Fluorogenic Cyanine Dyes: Selection, Characterization and Bioimaging. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139 (26), 9001–9009
7.    Xiaohong Tan*, Y Wang, BA Armitage, MP Bruchez. Label-free Molecular Beacons for Biomolecular Detection. Analytical Chemistry 2014, 86 (21), 10864–10869. 
8.    Xiaohong Tan*, SK Dey, C Telmer, X Zhang, BA Armitage, MP Bruchez. Aptamers Act as Activators for the Thrombin Mediated‐Hydrolysis of Peptide Substrates. ChemBioChem 2014, 15 (2), 205-208. (Recommended by Faculty 1000) 
9.    Xiaohong Tan, R Jin. Ultrasmall metal nanoclusters for biorelated applications. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology 2013, 5 (6), 569-581
10.    X Zhang, J Liu, S Li, Xiaohong Tan, M Yu, J Du. Bioinspired synthesis of Ag@TiO2 plasmonic nanocomposites to enhance the light harvesting of dye-sensitized solar cells. RSC Adv. 2013, 3 (40), 18587- 18595
11.    X Zhang, J Liu, S Li, Xiaohong Tan, J Zhang, M Yu, M Zhao. DNA assembled single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2013, 1 (36), 11070-11077
12.    Xiaohong Tan, Tao Chen, Xiangling Xiong, Ye Mao, Guizhi Zhu, Emir Yasun, Chunmei Li, Zhi Zhu, Weihong Tan. Semi-quantification of ATP in Live Cells using Nonspecific Desorption of DNA from Graphene Oxide as the Internal Reference. Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 8622
13.    Xiaohong Tan, Weijun Chen, Shun Lu, Zhi Zhu, Tao Chen, Guizhi Zhu, Mingxu You, Weihong Tan. Molecular Beacon Aptamers for Direct and Universal Quantitation of Recombinant Proteins from Cell Lysates. Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 8272
14.    Basri Gulbakan, Emir Yasun, M Ibrahim Shukoor, Zhi Zhu, Mingxu You, Xiaohong Tan, Hernan Sanchez, David H Powell, Hongjie Dai, Weihong Tan. A Dual Platform for Selective Analyte Enrichment and Ionization in Mass Spectrometry Using Aptamer-Conjugated Graphene Oxide. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, P17408
15.    Junmei Zhang, Robert Sprung, Jimin Pei, Xiao-hong Tan, Sungchan Kim, Heng Zhu, Chuan-Fa Liu, Nick V. Grishin and Yingming Zhao. Lysine Acetylation Is a Highly Abundant and Evolutionarily Conserved Modification in Escherichia Coli. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2009, 8, p215
16.    Xiao-hong Tan, Rengliang Yang, R.Andre Wirjo, and Chuan-Fa Liu. Subtiligase as a hydrothiolase for the synthesis of peptide thioacids. Tetrahedron Letters, 2008, 49, p2891
17.    Xiao-hong Tan, Xiaohong Zhang, Rengliang Yang and Chuan-Fa Liu. A simple method for preparing peptide C-terminal thioacids and their application in sequential chemoenzymatic ligation. ChemBioChem, 2008, 9, p1052
18.    Xiao-hong Tan, Andre Wirjo, and Chuan-Fa Liu. An Enzymatic Approach to the Synthesis of Peptide Thioesters: Mechanism and Scope. ChemBioChem, 2007, 8, p1512
19.    Xiaohong Tan, Linfang Du, Nianhui Zhang. Characterization of the spectra change during reconstitution of the d1-d2-cyt b559 complex with the 33 kd protein. Acta Biophysica Sinica, 2004, 20, p13
20.    Xiaohong Tan, Linfang Du. The action of heavy metal silver ion on photosystem II. Chemical Research and Application, 2003, 3, p56
21.    S Tan, X Tan, L Du, J He, Z Tang. Inhibition of main components of a new pyrethroid termiticide on CarEs and Ca-ATPase in Reticulitermes chinensis Snyder. Acta entomologica Sinica, 2002, 45 (4), 441-446
22.    S Tan, J He, X Tan, L Du, Z Tang. Study on the activity of some enzymes concerned with pyrethroids metabolism in subterranean termite (Reticulitermes chinensis Snyder). Journal of Zhejiang University (Agriculture and Life Sciences), 2000, 26 (6), 601-606
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