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A complete chronological list of papers and patents is on Google Scholar.

After Joining ITBR: *equal contribution; #corresponding author

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Before Joining ITBR

14. Gao, C., Wu, Y., Fitzgerald, C., Wang, H., Ugo, T., Uyeda, T., Zhou, W., Su, Y.#, Kirkland, T. A.#, Lin, M. Z.#, “An optimized luciferin formulation for NanoLuc-based in vivo bioluminescence imaging” Sci. Rep. (2025) 15, 12884

13. Wu, Y., Hao, C., Gao, C., Hageman, M., Lee, S., Kirkland, T. A., Gray, N.S., Su, Y.#, Lin, M. Z.#, “Pharmacodynamics of Akt drugs revealed by a kinase-modulated bioluminescent indicator” Nat. Chem. Biol. (2025) 21(8), 1194-1204

           Related Highlights: Nat. Chem. Biol. research briefing

12. Westberg, M.#, Su, Y., Zou, X., Huang, P., Rustagi, A., Garhyan, J., Patel, P. B., Fernandez, D., Wu, Y., Hao, C., Lo, C-W., Karim, M., Ning, L., Beck, A., Saenkham-Huntsinger, P., Tat, V., Drelich, A., Peng, B., Einav, S., Tseng, C. K., Blish, C., Lin, M. Z.#, “An orally bioavailable SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor exhibits improved affinity and reduced sensitivity to mutations” Sci. Transl. Med. (2024) 16, eadi0979

11. Wu, Y.*, Walker, J. R., Ning, L., Westberg, M., Monje, M., Kirkland, T. A., Lin, M. Z.#, Su, Y.*#,  “Kinase-modulated bioluminescent indicators enable noninvasive imaging of drug activity in the brain” ACS Cent. Sci. (2023) 9(4), 719-732

        Related Highlights: ACS Central Science FIRST REACTIONS; SCOPE, Stanford Medicine blog; Promega connections.

10. Su, Y.*, Walker, J. R.*, Hall, M. P., Klein, M. A., Wu, X., Encell, L. P., Casey, K. M., Liu, L. X., Hong, G., Lin, M. Z. and Kirkland, T. A., “An optimized bioluminescent substrate for non-invasive imaging in the brain.” Nat. Chem. Biol., (2023) 19, 731-739.

        Related Highlights: Promega connections; Promega News and Press Releases.

9.  Liu, S., Su, Y., Lin, M. Z., Ronald, J. A., “Brightening up biology: advances in luciferases systems for in vivo imaging” ACS Chem. Biol., (2021) 16, 2707-2718. 

8.  Su, Y.*, Walker, J. R.*, Park, Y., Smith, T. P., Liu, L. X., Hall, M. P., Labanieh, L., Hurst, R., Wang, D. C., Encell, L. P., Kim, N., Zhang, F., Kay, M. A., Casey, M. K., Majzner, R. G., Cochran. J. R., Mackall, C. L., Kirkland, T. A., Lin, M. Z., “Novel NanoLuc substrates enable bright two-population bioluminescence imaging in animals”, Nat. Methods, (2020) 17, 852-860. 

        Related Highlights: Promega connections.

7.  Li, Y., Fin, A., Rovira, A. R., Su, Y., Dippel, A. B., Valderrama, J. A., Riestra, A. M., Nizet, V., Hammond, M. C., Tor, Y., “Tuning the innate immune response to cyclic dinucleotides using atomic mutagenesis”, ChemBioChem, (2020), 21, 2595-2598. 

6.  Su, Y., Hammond, M. C., “RNA-based fluorescent biosensors for live cell imaging of small molecules and RNAs”, Curr. Opin. Biotech., (2020) 63, 157-166. 

5.  Villa, J. K.*, Su, Y.*, Contreras, L. M.#, Hammond, M. C.#, “Synthetic biology of small RNAs and Riboswitches” Microbiol Spectr., (2018) 6, 3 

4.  Hallberg, Z. F., Su, Y., Kitto, Z. R., Hammond, M. C., “Engineering and in vivo applications of riboswithes” Annu. Rev. Biochem., (2017) 86, 515-539. 

3.  Bose, D.*, Su, Y.*, Marcus, A., Raulet, D. H., Hammond, M. C., “An RNA-based fluorescent biosensor for high-throughput analysis of cGAS-cGAMP-STING pathway” Cell. Chem. Biol., (2016) 23, 1539-1549. 

2.  Su, Y., Hickey, S. F., Keyser, S. G. L., Hammond, M. C., “In vitro and in vivo enzyme activity screening via RNA-based fluorescent biosensors for S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH)” J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2016) 138, 7040-7047.

1.  Kellenberger, C. A.*, Wilson, S. C.*, Hickey, S. F., Gonzalez, T. L., Su, Y., Hallberg, Z. F., Brewer, T. F., Iavarone, A. T., Carlson, H. K., Hsieh, Y. F., Hammond, M. C. "GEMM-I riboswitches from Geobacter sense the bacterial second messenger c-AMP-GMP" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., (2015) 112, 5383-5388. 

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