1. Xiaobao Bi, Juan Yin, Chang Rao, Biplab Banerjee, Seetharamsing Balamkundu, Dingpeng Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Peter C. Dedon, and Chuan-fa Liu*. Thiazolidin-5-imine Formation as a Catalyst-Free Bioorthogonal Reaction for Protein and Live Cell Labeling. Org. Lett., 2018, 20 (24), pp 7790–7793.
2. Xiaobao Bi#, Juan Yin#, Xinya Hemu, Chang Rao, James P. Tam*, and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Immobilization and Intracellular Delivery of Circular Proteins by Modifying a Genetically Incorporated Unnatural Amino Acid. Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (7), pp 2170–2175.
3. Xiaobao Bi, Juan Yin, Ashley Chen Guanbang, and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Chemical and Enzymatic Strategies for Bacterial and Mammalian Cell Surface Engineering. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 2 – 11.
4. Xiaobao Bi, Pasunooti K K, Liu C F*. Total chemical and semisynthetic approaches for the preparation of ubiquitinated proteins and their applications. Science China Chemistry, 2017, 1-15.
5. Xiaobao Bi#, Juan Yin#, Giang K. T. Nguyen, Chang Rao, Nurashikin Bte Abdul Halim, James P. Tam and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Enzymatic engineering of live bacterial cell surface using butelase 1. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7822.
6. Xiaobao Bi, Kalyan Kumar Pasunooti, Julien Lescar, and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Thiazolidine-Masked α-Oxo Aldehyde Functionality for Peptide and Protein Modification. Bioconjugate Chem., 2017, 28 (2), pp 325–329.
7. Xiaobao Bi, Kalyan Kumar Pasunooti, Ahmad Hussen Tareq, John Takyi Williams and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Genetic incorporation of 1,2-aminothiol functionality for site-specific protein modification via thiazolidine formation. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 5282-5285.
8. Xiaobao Bi#, Renliang Yang#, Xiaoyu Feng, Daniela Rhodes and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Semisynthetic UbH2A reveals different activities of deubiquitinases and inhibitory effects of H2A K119 ubiquitination on H3K36 methylation in mononucleosomes. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 835-839.
9. Renliang Yang#, +Xiaobao Bi#, Fupeng Li, Yuan Cao and Chuan-Fa Liu*. Native chemical ubiquitination using a genetically incorporated azidonorleucine. Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7971-7974. (+Co-first author)
10. Xiaobao Bi*#, Juan Yin#, Dingpeng Zhang, Xiaohong Zhang, Wenjun He, Seetharamsing Balamkundu, Peter C. Dedon, James P. Tam*, and Chuan-fa Liu*.Tagging Transferrin Receptor with a Disulfide FRET Probe To Gauge the Redox State in Endosomal Compartments. Anal. Chem. 2020, 92, 18, 12460–12466