Xi-Wei Chen, Zhiyong Liu, Shaobo Dai*, Yi Zou*. (2024) Discovery, Characterization and Engineering of the Free l-Histidine C4-Prenyltransferase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146, 34, 23686–23691

Zhihong Xiao, Jinyin Zha, Xu Yang, Tingting Huang, Shuxin Huang, Qi Liu, Xiaozheng Wang, Jie Zhong, Jianting Zheng, Rubing Liang, Zixin Deng, Jian Zhang*, Shuangjun Lin*, Shaobo Dai*. (2024) A three-level regulatory mechanism of a new AKR subfamily. Nature Communications. 15(1): 2128-2143

Qinglong Shi, Xiu-Wen Kang, Zhiyong Liu, Pandaram Sakthivel, Hasil Aman, Rui Chang, Xiaoyu Yan, Yubin Pang, Shaobo Dai*, Bei Ding*, Juntao Ye*. (2024) Single-electron oxidation-initiated enantioselective hydrosulfonylation of olefins enabled by photoenzymatic catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(4): 2748-2756

Zhiyong Liu, Chengliang Xiao, Shuangjun Lin, Kai Tittmann*, Shaobo Dai*. (2023) The multi-faceted role of the substrate phosphate group in transketolase. ACS Catalysis. 14(1): 355-365

Haipei Zhao, Xuehao Xiu, Mingqiang Li, Shaobo Dai, Mingyang Gou, Leyang Tao, Xiaolei Zuo, Chunhai Fan, Zhongqun Tian, and Ping Song. (2023) Programming Super DNA-Enzyme Molecules for On-Demand Enzyme Activity Modulation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62(14):e202214450

Zihua Zhou, Xu Yang, Tingting Huang, Jianting Zheng, Zixin Deng, Shaobo Dai*, Shuangjun Lin*. (2022) Bifunctional NadC Homologue PyrZ Catalyzes Nicotinic Acid Formation in Pyridomycin Biosynthesis. ACS Chem. Biol. 2022, 18, 1, 141–150

Shaobo Dai#, Lisa-Marie Funk#, Fabian Rabe von Pappenheim, Viktor Sautner, Mirko Paulikat, Benjamin Schröder, Jon Uranga, Ricardo A Mata, Kai Tittmann. (2019) Low-barrier hydrogen bonds in enzyme cooperativity. Nature, 573(7775) 609-613.

Shaobo Dai, John R Horton, Clayton B Woodcock, Alex W Wilkinson, Xing Zhang, Or Gozani, Xiaodong Cheng. (2019) Structural basis for the target specificity of actin histidine methyltransferase SETD3. Nature Communications 10(1) 3541

Alex W Wilkinson#, Jonathan Diep#, Shaobo Dai#, Shuo Liu, Yaw Shin Ooi, Dan Song, Tie-Mei Li, John R Horton, Xing Zhang, Chao Liu, Darshan V Trivedi, Katherine M Ruppel, José G Vilches-Moure, Kerriann M Casey, Justin Mak, Tina Cowan, Joshua E Elias, Claude M Nagamine, James A Spudich, Xiaodong Cheng*, Jan E Carette*, Or Gozani* (2019) SETD3 is an actin histidine methyltransferase that prevents primary dystocia. (#co-first authors) Nature, 565(7739) 372-376.