1). Linqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian, Juan Wang, Haihua Yang, Keqiang Fan, Gangming Xu, Keqian Yang* and Huarong Tan*. Autoregulation of antibiotic biosynthesis by binding of the end product to an atypical response regulator. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 2009, 106 (21): 8617-8622.
2). Gang Liu, Yuqing Tian, Haihua Yang, Huarong Tan*. A pathway-specific transcriptional regulatory gene for nikkomycin biosynthesis in S. ansochromogenes that also influences colony development. Mol Microbiol.,2005, 55 (6): 1855-1866.
3). Haihua Yang, Linqi Wang, Zhoujie Xie, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu, Huarong Tan*. The tyrosine degradation gene hppD is transcriptionally activated by HpdA and repressed by HpdR in Streptomyces coelicolor, while hpdA is negativelyautoregulated and repressed by HpdR. Mol Microbiol., 2007, 65(4): 1064-1077.
4). Yuanyuan Pan, Gang Liu, Haihua Yang, Yuqing Tian and HuarongTan*. The pleiotropic regulator AdpA-L directly controls the pathway-specific activator of nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Mol Microbiol., 2009, 72(3): 710-723.
5). Rui Li, Gang Liu, Zhoujie Xie, Xihong He, Wenqing Chen, Zixin Deng and Huarong Tan*. PolY, a transcriptional regulator with ATPase activity, directly activates transcription of polR in polyoxin biosynthesis in Streptomyces cacaoi. Mol Microbiol., 2010, 75(2): 349-364.
6). Gangming Xu, Juan Wang, Linqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian, Haihua Yang, Keqiang Fan, Keqian Yang*, and Huarong Tan*. Pseudo gamma-butyrolactone receptors respond to antibiotic signals to coordinate antibiotics biosynthesis. J Biol Chem., 2010, 285(35): 27440-27448.
7). Guoqing Niu, Gang Liu, Yuqing Tian and Huarong Tan*. SanJ, an ATP-dependent picolinate-CoA ligase, catalyzes the conversion of picolinate to picolinate-CoA during nikkomycin biosynthesis in S. ansochromogenes. Metab Eng., 2006, 8(3): 183-195.
8). Yirong Li, Hongbo Ling, Wenli Li, Huarong Tan*. Improvement of nikkomycin production by enhanced copy of sanU and sanV in Streptomyces ansochromogenes and characterization of a novel glutamate mutase encoded by sanU and sanV. Metab Eng., 2005, 7(3): 165-173.
9). Shuli Zhang, Bo Liu, Haihua Yang*, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu, Lei Li and Huarong Tan*. Characterization of EndoTT, a novel sequence-specific single-stranded DNA endonuclease from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis. Nucleic Acids Res, 2010, 38(11): 3709-3720.
10).Qiyu Bao, Yuqing Tian, Wei Li, Zuyuan Xu, Zhenyu Xuan, Songnian Hu, Wei Dong, Jian Yang, Yanjiong Chen, Yanfen Xue, Yi Xu, Xiaoqin Lai, Li Huang, Xiuzhu Dong, Yanhe Ma, Lunjiang Ling, Huarong Tan*, Runsheng Chen*, Jian Wang, Jun Yu, Huanming Yang*. A complete sequence of the Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis genome. Genome Res., 2002, 12(5):689-700.