1.Huang J, Xie J, Wang Y, Sheng M, Sun Y, Chen P, Rong S, Yin D, Wang Y, Zhu P, Bohlander SK, Xu GL, Gao H*, ZHOU D*, Shi Y*. STING mediates increased self-renewal and lineage skewing in DNMT3A-mutated hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Leukemia. 2025 Feb 22.

2.Jin GB#, Rong SQ#, Yin DR, Deng ZH, Ding X, Sheng MY, Gao H, Kohli RM, Xu GL*, ZHOU D*. Neomorphic leukemia-derived mutations in the TET2 enzyme induce genome instability via a substrate shift from 5-methylcytosine to thymine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Feb 4;122(5):e2418318122.

3.Sun, Y., Wu, Y., Pang, G., Huang, J., Sheng, M., Xie, J., Chen, P., Wang, Y., Yin, D., Zhao, G., Bohlander, S. K., Huang, J., Xu, G. L., Gao, H*, ZHOU D*, & Shi, Y*. STING is crucial for the survival of RUNX1::RUNX1T1 leukemia cells. Leukemia. 2024 Aug 23.

4.Xie J#, Sheng M#, Rong S#, ZHOU D#, Wang C, Wu W, Huang J, Sun Y, Wang Y, Chen P, Wu Y, Wang Y, Wang L, Zhou BO, Huang X, Walsh CP, Bohlander SK, Huang J, Wang X, Xu GL*, Gao H*, Shi Y*. STING activation in TET2-mutated hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells contributes to the increased self-renewal and neoplastic transformation. Leukemia. 2023 Oct 10.

5.Shao Z*, Han Y, ZHOU D*. Optimized bisulfite sequencing analysis reveals the lack of 5-methylcytosine in mammalian mitochondrial DNA. BMC Genomics. 2023 Aug 4;24(1):439.

6.Zhao YH, Jiang W, Gao H, Pang GZ, Wu YS, Wang YX, Sheng MY, Xie JY, Wu WL, Ji ZJ, Du YR, Zhang L, Wang XQ, Walsh CP, Jiang H*, Xu GL*, ZHOU D*. DCK confers sensitivity of DCTD-positive cancer cells to oxidized methylcytidines. Protein Cell. 2023 Jun 28;14(7):532-537.

7.Pang GZ, Zhao YH, Wang YX, Rong SQ, Gao H*, ZHOU D*. Mycoplasma infection of cancer cells enhances anti-tumor effect of oxidized methylcytidines. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2023 Sep 10;672:193-200.

8.ZHOU D, Alver BM, Li S, Hlady RA, Thompson JJ, Schroeder MA, Lee JH, Qiu J, Schwartz PH, Sarkaria JN, Robertson KD. Distinctive epigenomes characterize glioma stem cells and their response to differentiation cues. Genome Biol. 2018 Mar 27;19(1):43.

9.ZHOU D, Hlady RA, Schafer MJ, White TA, Liu C, Choi JH, Miller JD, Roberts LR, LeBrasseur NK, Robertson KD. High fat diet and exercise lead to a disrupted and pathogenic DNA methylome in mouse liver. Epigenetics. 2017 Jan 2;12(1):55-69.