1. Rationally engineering santalene synthase to readjust the component ratio of sandalwood oil. Wenlong Zha, Fan Zhang, Jiaqi Shao, Xingmei Ma, Jianxun Zhu, Pinghua Sun, Ruibo Wu*., Jiachen Zi*. Nature Communications 2022, 13: 2508.
2. Green production of silybin and isosilybin by merging metabolic engineering approaches and enzymatic catalysis. Jiazeng Yang, Jincai Liang, Lei Shao, Lihong Liu, Ke Gao, Junliang Zhang, Zhenjiao Sun, Wendong Xu, Pengcheng, Lin, Rongmin Yu, Jiachen Zi*. Metabolic Engineering 2020, 59: 44–52.
3. Enzyme Promiscuity versus Fidelity in two Sesquiterpene Cyclases (TEAS versus ATAS). Fan Zhang, Tianyue An, Xiaowen Tang, Jiachen Zi*, Hai-Bin Luo*, and Ruibo Wu*. ACS Catalysis 2020, 10: 1470–1484.
4. Reconstruction of the Biosynthetic Pathway of Santalols under Control of the GAL Regulatory System in Yeast. Wenlong Zha, Tianyue An, Ting Li, Jianxun Zhu, Ke Gao, Zhenjiao Sun, Wendong Xu, Pengcheng Lin, Jiachen Zi*. ACS Synthetic Biology 2020, 9(2): 449–456.
5. Characterization of a Sesquiterpene Synthase Catalyzing Formationof Cedrol and Two Diastereoisomers of Tricho-Acorenol from Euphorbia fischeriana. Jianxun Zhu, Lihong Liu, Maobo Wu, Guiyang Xia, Pengcheng Lin, and Jiachen Zi*. Journal of Natural Products 2021, 84: 1780−1786.
6. Mining of the Catharanthus roseus Genome Leads to Identification of a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for Fungicidal Sesquiterpenes. Jincai Liang, Tianyue An, Jian-Xun Zhu, Shan Chen, Jian-Hua Zhu, Reuben J. Peters*, Rongmin Yu*, Jiachen Zi*. Journal of Natural Products 2021, 84: 2709−2716.
7. Characterization of guaiene synthases from Stellera chamaejasme L. flowers and their application in de novo production of (-)-rotundone in yeast. Tianyue An, Linsheng Li, Ying Lin, Fanqi Zeng, Pengcheng Lin, Jiachen Zi*. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2020, 68(10): 3214–3219.
8. Biotechnological Production of Betulinic Acid and Derivatives and Their Applications. Tianyue An, Wenlong Zha, Jiachen Zi*. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2020, 104(8): 3339–3348.
9. Identification of RoCYP01 (CYP716A155) enables construction of engineered yeast for high-yield production of betulinic acid. Jiajian Huang, Wenlong Zha, Tianyue An, Hua Dong, Ying Huang, Dong Wang, Rongmin Yu, Lixin Duan, Xueli Zhang, Reuben J. Peters*, Zhubo Dai*, Jiachen Zi*. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019, 103(17): 7029–7039.
10. Limonoids from seeds of Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and their cytotoxic activity. Jian Chen, Xiaona Fan, Jianhua Zhu, Liyan Song, Zhiwei Li, Fei Lin, Rongmin Yu*, Hanhong Xu*, Jiachen Zi*. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2018, 8(4): 639–644.
11. Jiachen Zi, Yuki Matsuba, Young J. Hong, Alana J. Jackson, Dean J. Tantillo, Eran Pichersky and Reuben J. Peters. Biosynthesis of lycosantalonol, a cis-prenyl derived diterpenoid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2014, 136: 16951–16953.
12. Jiachen Zi, Sibongile Mafu, and Reuben J. Peters. To Gibberellins and Beyond! Surveying the Evolution of (Di)terpenoid Metabolism. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 2014, 65: 259–286.