| Structural basis for backtracking by the SARS-CoV-2 replication–transcription complex B Malone, J Chen, Q Wang, E Llewellyn, YJ Choi, PDB Olinares, X Cao, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (19), e2102516118, 2021 | 95 | 2021 |
| Lipoate-binding proteins and specific lipoate-protein ligases in microbial sulfur oxidation reveal an atpyical role for an old cofactor X Cao, T Koch, L Steffens, J Finkensieper, R Zigann, JE Cronan, C Dahl Elife 7, e37439, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Protein moonlighting elucidates the essential human pathway catalyzing lipoic acid assembly on its cognate enzymes X Cao, L Zhu, X Song, Z Hu, JE Cronan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (30), E7063-E7072, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Understanding and Engineering Distributed Biochemical Pathways in Microbial Communities X Cao, JJ Hamilton, OS Venturelli Biochemistry 58 (2), 94-107, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Basis of narrow-spectrum activity of fidaxomicin on Clostridioides difficile X Cao, H Boyaci, J Chen, Y Bao, R Landick, EA Campbell Nature 604 (7906), 541-545, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| Enterococcus faecalis Encodes an Atypical Auxiliary Acyl Carrier Protein Required for Efficient Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis by Exogenous Fatty Acids L Zhu, Q Zou, X Cao, JE Cronan MBio 10 (3), 10.1128/mbio. 00577-19, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Toll-like receptor 4 plays a central role in cardiac dysfunction during trauma hemorrhage shock X Zhang, C Lu, M Gao, X Cao, T Ha, JH Kalbfleisch, DL Williams, C Li, ... Shock 42 (1), 31-37, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Development and retention of a primordial moonlighting pathway of protein modification in the absence of selection presents a puzzle X Cao, Y Hong, L Zhu, Y Hu, JE Cronan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (4), 647-655, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| An Atypical α/β-Hydrolase Fold Revealed in the Crystal Structure of Pimeloyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Methyl Esterase BioG from Haemophilus influenzae J Shi, X Cao, Y Chen, JE Cronan, Z Guo Biochemistry 55 (48), 6705-6717, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| Novel Xanthomonas campestris long-chain-specific 3-oxoacyl-acyl carrier protein reductase involved in diffusible signal factor synthesis Z Hu, H Dong, JC Ma, Y Yu, KH Li, QQ Guo, C Zhang, WB Zhang, X Cao, ... MBio 9 (3), 10.1128/mbio. 00596-18, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Expression and activity of the BioH esterase of biotin synthesis is independent of genome context X Cao, L Zhu, Z Hu, JE Cronan Scientific reports 7 (1), 2141, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| The Streptomyces coelicolor lipoate-protein ligase is a circularly permuted version of the Escherichia coli enzyme composed of discrete interacting domains X Cao, JE Cronan Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (11), 7280-7290, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Novel Xanthomonas campestris long-chain-specific 3-oxoacyl-acyl carrier protein reductase involved in diffusible signal factor synthesis. mBio 9: e00596-18 Z Hu, H Dong, JC Ma, Y Yu, KH Li, QQ Guo, C Zhang, WB Zhang, X Cao, ... | 7 | 2018 |
| Programming bacteria for multiplexed DNA detection YY Cheng, Z Chen, X Cao, TD Ross, TG Falbel, BM Burton, OS Venturelli Nature Communications 14 (1), 2001, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| A roadmap for designing narrow-spectrum antibiotics targeting bacterial pathogens X Cao, R Landick, EA Campbell Microbial Cell 9 (7), 136, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Programming bacteria to sense environmental DNA for multiplexed pathogen detection YY Cheng, Z Chen, X Cao, TD Ross, TG Falbel, BM Burton, OS Venturelli bioRxiv, 2022.03. 10.483875, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| RNA polymerase SI3 domain modulates global transcriptional pausing and pause-site fluctuations Y Bao, X Cao, R Landick Nucleic Acids Research 52 (8), 4556-4574, 2024 | | 2024 |
| How the antibiotic fidaxomicin targets an intestinal pathogen X Cao, EA Campbell NATURE, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Basis of narrow-spectrum activity of fidaxomicin on gut pathogen Clostridioides difficile X Cao, H Boyaci, J Chen, Y Bao, R Landick, EA Campbell bioRxiv, 2022.01. 17.476619, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Bacterial Transcription Continues to Surprise: Activation by Alarmone-Mediated σ-Factor Tethering J Saba, X Cao, R Landick Molecular Cell 81 (1), 8-9, 2021 | | 2021 |
