Publications

# corresponding authors, ^UNL/NIU grad students/postdoc, +Undergraduate student, * co-first authors

Most significant publications

[P]: plant bioinformatics/genomics; [M]: microbial bioinformatics/genomics

Submitted

    2023

  1. Feng X*, Zheng J*, Irisarri I*, Yu H, Zheng B, Ali Z, de Vries S, Keller J, Fürst-Jansen J, DadrasA, Zegers J, Rieseberg TP, Ashok AD, Darienko T, Bierenbroodspot MJ, Gramzow L, Petroll R, Haas FB, Fernandez-Pozo N, Nousias O, Li T, Fitzek E, Grayburn WS, Rittmeier N, Permann C, Rümpler F, Archibald JM, Theißen G, Mower JP, Lorenz M, Buschmann H, von Schwartzenberg K, Boston L, Hayes RD, Daum C, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Wang X, Li FW, Rensing SA, Ben-Ari J, Keren N, Mosquna A, Holzinger A, Delaux PM, Zhang C, Huang J, Mutwil M, de Vries J#, Yin Y# (2023), Chromosome-level genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.31.526407v1, bioRxiv

    2. 2022

  2. Huang W, Zhang H, Li Z, and Yin Y (2022) Mutual Information Estimation-Based Disentangled Representation Network for Medical Image Fusion, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2022 (IEEE BIBM 2022), in press

  3. Yang B^, Zheng J^, Yin Y# (2022) AcaFinder: genome mining of anti-CRISPR associated genes in bacteria and phages, mSystems, doi:10.1128/msystems.00817-22, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.29.505781v1.abstract

  4. Zheng J^, Hu B^, Zhang X^, Ge Q^, Yan Y^, Piyush V^, Huang L, Yin Y# (2022) dbCAN-seq update: CAZyme gene clusters and substates in microbiomes, Nucleic Acids Res., doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1068

  5. Wei H, Li Y, Yan J, Peng S, Wei S, Yin Y, Li K, Cheng X (2022) Root cell wall remodeling: a way for exopolysaccharides to mitigate cadmium toxicity in rice seedling, accepted, Journal of Hazardous Materials

  6. Li W, Zhang H, Li M, Han M, Yin Y (2022) MGEGFP: a multi-view graph embedding method for gene function prediction based on adaptive estimation with GCN, Briefings in Bioinformatics 2022 Aug 10:bbac333. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbac333

  7. Li T^, Yin Y# (2022) Critical assessment of pan-genomics of metagenome-assembled genomes, bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.13.476228, Briefings in Bioinformatics 2022, doi: 10.1093/bib/bbac413

    8. 2021

  8. Zheng J^, Meinhardt L, Goenaga R, Matsumoto T, Zhang D, Yin Y# (2021) The chromosome-level rambutan genome reveals a significant role of segmental duplication in the expansion of resistance genes, Horticulture Research, 2022 Feb 11;9:uhac014. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhac014.

  9. Wang X, Wang J, Huang S, Zhang H, Yin Y. HDMC: a novel deep learning based framework for removing batch effects in single-cell RNA-seq data, Bioinformatics, 2021, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab821

  10. Zheng B^, He Y+, Zhang P+, Huo YX, Yin Y# (2021) Polyphenol utilization proteins in human gut microbiome, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01851-21

  11. Kang C, Zhang H, Liu Z, Huang S, Yin Y (2021) LR-GNN: a graph neural network based on link representation for predicting molecular associations, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab513

  12. Jin C, Shi Z, Zhang H, and Yin Y (2021) Predicting lncRNA–protein interactions based on graph autoencoders and collaborative training. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2021 (IEEE BIBM 2021)

  13. Li W, Zhang H, Zhao Q, Liu, J and Yin Y (2021) Adversarial Dual-Channel Variational Graph Autoencoder for Synthetic Lethality Prediction in Human Cancers. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2021 (IEEE BIBM 2021)

  14. Cheng X*, Yang B^*, Zheng J^, Wei H, Feng X^ and Yin Y# (2021) Cadmium stress triggers significant metabolic reprogramming in Enterococcus faecium CX 2-6, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.10.021

  15. Shi Z, Zhang H, Jin C, Quan X, Yin Y (2021) A representation learning model based on variational inference and graph autoencoder for predicting lncRNA-disease associations. BMC Bioinformatics. 2021 Mar 21;22(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04073-z.

  16. Peterson D^, Li T^, Calvo AM, Yin Y# (2021) Categorization of orthologous gene clusters in 92 Ascomycota genomes reveals functions important for phytopathogenicity, Journal of Fungi, 2021, 7(5), 337; https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7050337

  17. Zheng J^, Meinhardt L, Goenaga R, Zhang D, Yin Y# (2021) The chromosome-level genome of dragon fruit reveals whole genome duplication and chromosomal co-localization of betacyanin biosynthetic genes, Horticulture Research, 8, 63 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-021-00501-6

  18. Feng X^, Holzinger A, Permann C, Anderson C, Yin Y# (2021) Characterization of two Zygnema strains (Zygnema circumcarinatum SAG 698-1a and SAG 698-1b) and a rapid method to estimate nuclear genome size of Zygnematophycean green algae, Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Feb 10;12:610381, 10.3389/fpls.2021.610381

  19. Li W, Zhao Q, Zhang H, Quan X, Xu J, and Yin Y (2021) Bayesian Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network for Motif Occupancy Identification, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 293-298, doi: 10.1109/BIBM49941.2020.9313556

    20. 2020

  20. Huang L^*, Yang B^*, Yi H^, Asif A, Wang J, Lithgow T, Zhang H, Minhas F, Yin Y# (2020) AcrDB: a database of anti-CRISPR operons in prokaryotes and viruses, Nucleic Acids Res., 10.1093/nar/gkaa857

  21. Ausland C^, Zheng J^, Yi H^, Yang B^, Li T^, Feng X^, Zheng B^, Yin Y#. (2020) dbCAN-PUL: a database of experimentally characterized CAZyme gene clusters and their substrates, Nucleic Acids Res., 10.1093/nar/gkaa742

  22. Fitzek E.^, Balazic R.+, Yin Y#. (2020) Bioinformatics Analysis of Plant Cell Wall Evolution. In: Popper Z. (eds) The Plant Cell Wall. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2149. Humana, New York, NY, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0621-6_27

  23. Cao H^, Shimura Y, Steffen MM, Yang Z, Lu J, Joel A, Jenkins L, Kawachi M, Yin Y#, Garcia-Pichel F#. (2020). The trait repertoire enabling cyanobacteria to bloom assessed through comparative genomic complexity and metatranscriptomics. mBio 11:e01155-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01155-20.

  24. Wang X, Yi H, Wang J, Zhan D, Yin Y, Zhang H (2020) GDASC: A GPU parallel based web server for detecting hidden batch factors, Bioinformatics, 2020 May 9:btaa427. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa427

  25. Yi H^, Huang L^, Yang B^, Zhang H, Yin Y# (2020) AcrFinder: genome mining anti-CRISPR operons in prokaryotes and their viruses, Nucleic Acids Res., doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa351

  26. Orton L^, Fitzek E^, Feng X^, Grayburn SW, Mower JP, Liu K, Zhang C, Duvall MR, Yin Y# (2020) Zygnema circumcarinatum UTEX 1559 chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes provide insight into land plant evolution, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020 Mar 24. pii: eraa149. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraa149.

  27. Becker B, Feng X^, Yin Y, Holzinger A (2020) Desiccation tolerance in streptophyte algae and the algae to land plant transition: Evolution of LEA and MIP protein families within the Viridiplantae, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020 Feb 28. pii: eraa105. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraa105

    28. 2019

  28. Su X, Xu J, Yin Y, Quan X, Zhang H (2019) Antimicrobial Peptide Identification Using Multi-scale Convolutional Network, BMC Bioinformatics 20, 730 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3327-y

  29. Xu J, Zhang H, Zheng J^, Dovoedo P^, Yin Y# (2019) eCAMI: simultaneous classification and motif identification for enzyme annotation, Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz908

  30. Li W, Yin Y, Quan X, Zhang H (2019) Gene Expression Value Prediction Based on XGBoost Algorithm, Frontiers in Genetics, doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01077

  31. Satterlee T, Entwistle S, Yin Y, Cary J, Lebar M, Losada L, Calvo A (2019) rmtA-Dependent Transcriptome and its Role in Secondary Metabolism, Environmental Stress, and Virulence in Aspergillus flavus, G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, g3. doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400777

  32. Yin Y#, Yang B^, Entwistle S^ (2019) Bioinformatics identification of anti-CRISPR loci using homology, guilt-by-association, and CRISPR self-targeting spacer approaches, mSystems, doi:10.1128/mSystems.00455-19

  33. Fitzek E^, Orton F^, Entwistle S^, Grayburn SW, Ausland C^, Duvall DR, Yin Y# (2019) Cell wall enzymes in Zygnema circumcarinatum UTEX 1559 respond to osmotic stress in a plant-like fashion, Frontiers in Plant Science, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00732

  34. Han W, Fan X, Teng L, Kaczurowski M, Zhang X, Xu D, Yin Y, Ye X (2018), Classification, Evolution and Function of putative Xylosyltransferases from Algae, Protoplasma. 2019 Apr 3. doi: 10.1007/s00709-019-01358-2.

  35. Entwistle S, Li X, Yin Y# (2018) Orphan genes shared by pathogenic genomes are more associated with bacterial pathogenicity, mSystems, 4(1). pii: e00290-18, doi:10.1128/mSystems.00290-18

    36. 2018

  36. Cary J, Entwistle S, Satterlee T, Mack B, Gilbert M, Chang P, Scharfenstein L, Yin Y, Calvo A (2018) The transcriptional regulator Hbx1 affects the expression of thousands of genes in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus, G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, g3. 200870.2018

  37. Wu G, Jurick W, Yin G, Yu J, Peng H, Gaskins V, Yin Y, Hua S, Peter K, Bennett J (2018) Penicillium expansum and Penicillium solitum comparative genomics yields new insights into phylogeny and candidate genes involved in postharvest apple-fungus interactions, Peer J, DOI:10.7287/peerj.preprints.27430v1

  38. Lyu Q*, Zhang K, Zhu Q, Li Z, Liu Y, Fitzek E^, Yohe Y+, Zhao L, Li W, Liu T, Yin Y, Liu W (2018), Structural and biochemical characterization of a multidomain alginate lyase reveals a novel role of CBM32 in CAZymes., Biochim Biophys Acta. 2018 Jun 1;1862(9):1862-1869.

  39. Driscoll CB, Meyer KA, Šulčius S, Brown NM, Dick GJ, Cao H^, Gasiūnas G, Timinskas A, Yin Y, Landry ZC, Otten TG, Davis TW, Watson SB, Dreher TW (2018), A closely-related clade of globally distributed bloom-forming cyanobacteria within the Nostocales, Harmful Algae, Volume 77, July 2018, Pages 93–107

  40. Zhang H*, Yohe T*+, Huang L, Entwistle S^, Wu P, Yang Z, Busk P, Xu Y, Yin Y# (2018) dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation, Nucleic Acids Res. Web server issue 2018, doi:10.1093/nar/gky418

  41. Han W, Ibarra G, Gupta M, Yin Y, Elsawa S (2018), Elevated Expression of GLI3 in Germinal Center Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, Leukemia and Lymphoma, 2018 Feb 21:1-3. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2018.1439169

    42. 2017

  42. Huang L, Zhang H, Wu P, Entwistle S+, Li X^, Yohe T+, Yi H, Yang Z, Yin Y# (2017) dbCAN-seq: a database of carbohydrate-active enzyme (CAZyme) sequence and annotation, Nucleic Acids Res. database issue 2018, 46 (D1), D516-D521, doi:10.1093/nar/gkx894

  43. Yang X, ..., Fitzek E^, ... Yin Y, ..., Tuskan GA (2017) The Kalanchoë genome provides insights into convergent evolution and building blocks of crassulacean acid metabolism, Nature Communications 8:1899, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01491-7

  44. Jiang X, Zhang H, Quan X, Yin Y (2017) A Heterogeneous Networks Fusion Algorithm Based on Local Topological Information for Neurodegenerative Disease, Current Bioinformatics 12 (5), 387-397

  45. Jiang X, Quan X, Zhang H, Zhan D, Yin Y (2017) Disease-related Gene Module Detection Based on A Multi-label Propagation Clustering Algorithm, PLoS One. 2017 May 19;12(5):e0178006

  46. Huo L, Zhang H, Huo X, Yang Y^, Li X^, Yin Y# (2017) pHMM-tree: Phylogeny of Profile Hidden Markov Models, Bioinformatics, 2017 Apr 1;33(7):1093-1095, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw779

    47. 2016

  47. Wysocki W, Riuz-Sanches E, Yin Y, Duvall M (2016) The floral transcriptomes of four bamboo species (Bambusoideae; Poaceae): support for common ancestry among woody bamboos, BMC Genomics, 17:384, DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2707-1

  48. Yu J, Wu G, Jurick WM, Jr, Gaskins VL, Yin Y, Yin G, Bennett JW, Shelton DR. (2016) Genome sequence of Penicillium solitum RS1, which causes postharvest apple decay. Genome Announc 4(3):e00363-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00363-16.

  49. Ekstrom A+, Yin Y# (2016) ORFanFinder: automated identification of taxonomically restricted orphan genes, Bioinformatics, pii: btw122, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw122

  50. Hu L, Taujale R^, Song J, Guo J, Yin Y# (2016) Draft genome sequence of Talaromyces verruculosus ("Penicillium verruculosum") strain TS63-9, a fungus with great potential for industrial production of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes, Journal of Biotechnology, 2016 Feb 10;219:5-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.12.017.

    51. 2015

  51. Yang X, Leeben-Mack J, Chen F, Yin Y (2015) Plant Comparative and Functional Genomics, International Journal of Genomics, 2015:924369. doi: 10.1155/2015/924369

  52. Nguyen M+, Ekstrom A+, Li X^ and Yin Y# (2015) HGT-Finder: a new tool for horizontal gene transfer finding and application to Aspergillus genomes, Toxins, 7(10):4035-4053; doi:10.3390/toxins7104035 [highly accessed article]

  53. Cary JW*, Han Z*, Yin Y*, Lohmar JM, Shantappa S, Harris-Coward PY, Mack B, Ehrlich KC, Wei Q, Arroyo-Manzanares N, Uka V, Vanhaecke L, Bhatnagar D, Yu J, Nierman WC, Johns MA, Sorensen D+, Shen H^, De Saeger S, Diana Di Mavungu J, Calvo AM. (2015) Transcriptome analysis of Aspergillus flavus reveals veA-dependent regulation of secondary metabolite gene clusters, including the novel aflavarin cluster. Eukaryot Cell 14:983-997. doi:10.1128/EC.00092-15. [Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors]

  54. Taujale R^, Yin Y# (2015) Glycosyltransferase family 43 is also found in early eukaryotes and has three subfamilies in Charophycean green algae, PLoS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128409

  55. Cao H^, Ekstrom A+, Yin Y# (2015) Plant carbohydrate active enzyme (CAZyme) repertoires: a comparative study, invited book chapter for "Advances in the Understanding of Biological Sciences using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Approaches", Springer publishing, 10.1007/978-3-319-17157-9_8, p115-134

  56. Cui J, Yin Y, Ma Q, Wang G, Olman V, Zhang Y, Chou WC, Hong CS, Zhang C, Cao S, Mao X, Li Y, Qin S, Zhao S, Jiang J, Hastings P, Li F, Xu Y. (2015) Comprehensive Characterization of the Genomic Alterations in Human Gastric Cancer. Int J Cancer. 2014 Nov 24. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29352

    57. 2014

  57. Ekstrom A+, Taujale R^, McGinn N+, Yin Y# (2014) PlantCAZyme: a database for plant carbohydrate-active enzymes, Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, DOI: 10.1093/database/bau079 [Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day award of NIU]

  58. Zhao Q, Zeng Y, Yin Y, Pu Y, Jackson LA, Engle NL, Martin MZ, Tschaplinski TJ, Ding SY, Ragauskas AJ, Dixon RA (2014) Pinoresinol reductase 1 impacts lignin distribution during secondary cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, Phytochemistry. 2014 Aug 5. pii: S0031-9422(14)00278-7. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.07.008

  59. Yu J, Jurick WM, Cao H^, Yin Y, Gaskins VL, Losada L, Zafar N, Kim M, Bennett JW, Nierman WC (2014) Draft genome sequence of Penicillium expansum (R19) that causes postharvest decay of apple fruit. Genome Announcements, 2(3):e00635-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00635-14

  60. Zhou C, Ma Q, Mao X, Yin Y#, Xu Y# (2014) New Insights Revealed through Comparative Genomic Analysis of 40 Clostridium Genomes, Bioenergy Research,7:1481-1492, doi: 10.1007/s12155-014-9486-9

  61. Zhou C, Mao F, Yin Y, Huang J, Gogarten JP, et al. (2014) AST: An Automated Sequence-Sampling Method for Improving the Taxonomic Diversity of Gene Phylogenetic Trees. PLoS ONE 9(6): e98844. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098844

  62. Cao H^, Yin Y# (2014) Rapid evolution of cellulosome modules by comparative analyses of five Clostridiales genomes. Bioenergy Research, 7:1369-1381, DOI 10.1007/s12155-014-9474-0

  63. Yin Y#, Johns MA, Cao H^, Rupani M^ (2014) A survey of the genomes and transcriptomes of diverse plants and algae reveals new insights into the evolution and function of the cellulose synthase superfamily, BMC Genomics, 15:260, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-260 [highly accessed article]

  64. Cao H^, Shimura Y, Masanobu K, Yin Y# (2014) Draft genome sequence of the toxic bloom-forming cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NIES-81. Genome Announc. 2(1):e00044-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00044-14

  65. Escamilla-Trevino L, Shen H, Hernandez T, Yin Y, Xu Y, and Dixon RA (2014) Early lignin pathway enzymes and routes to chlorogenic acid in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Plant Mol Biol. 2014 Mar;84(4-5):565-76. doi: 10.1007/s11103-013-0152-y. Epub 2013 Nov 5

    66. 2013

  66. Zhao Q, Nakashima Q, Chen F, Yin Y, Yun J, Shao H, Wang X, and Dixon RA (2013) LACCASE is necessary and non-redundant with PEROXIDASE for lignin polymerization during vascular development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell, 2013 Oct;25(10):3976-87. doi: 10.1105/tpc.113.117770 [selected by Faculty 1000: http://f1000.com/prime/718148808]; ESI Highly Cited (Top 1%) Paper in Plant & Animal Science field

  67. Liu J, Duan X, Sun J, Yin Y, Li G, Wang L, Liu B (2013) Bi-factor Analysis Based on Noise-reduction (BIFANR): A New Algorithm for Detecting Coevolving Amino Acid Sites in Proteins. Plos ONE, 2013 Nov 20;8(11):e79764. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079764

  68. Ma Q, Liu B, Zhou C, Yin Y, Li G, Xu Y (2013) An integrated toolkit for accurate prediction and analysis of cis-regulatory motifs at a genome scale. Bioinformatics. 2013 Sep 15;29(18):2261-8

  69. Yin Y#. (2013) Databases for bioenergy-related enzymes. Chapter 6 of Bioenergy Research: Advances & Applications, Elsevier Publishing, edited by Gupta VJ et al., 95-107

  70. Ma Q*, Yin Y*, Schell M, Li G, Xu Y (2013) Elucidation of the Dynamic Supercoil Structures of folded E. coli Chromosome: a computational approach, Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jun 1;41(11):5594-5603. Epub 2013 Apr 17

  71. Zhang JY, Lee YC, Torres-Jerez I, Wang M, Yin Y, Chou WC, He J, Shen H, Srivastava AC, Pennacchio C, Lindquist E, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Xu Y, Sharma M, Sharma R, Bartley LE, Ronald PC, Saha MC, Dixon RA, Tang Y, Udvardi MK (2013) Development of an integrated transcript sequence database and a gene expression atlas for gene discovery and analysis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). Plant J. 2013 Apr;74(1):160-73. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12104

    72. 2012

  72. Wang S*, Yin Y*, Ma Q, Tang X, Xu Y. Genome-scale identification of cell-wall related genes in Arabidopsis based on co-expression network analysis. BMC Plant Biology, 2012, 12:138

  73. Li G, Köllner TG, Yin Y, Jiang Y, Xu Y, Gershenzon J, Pichersky E, Chen F. Nonseed plant Selaginella moellendorffii has both seed plant and microbial types of terpene synthases, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2012, Sep 4; 109(36):14711-5 [selected by Faculty 1000: http://f1000.com/717957718, listed as must read]

  74. Blumer-Schuette SE, Giannone RJ, Zurawski1 JV, Ozdemir I, Mistry DB, Ma Q, Yin Y, Xu Y, Poole FL II, Kataeva I, Adams MWW, Hamilton-Brehm SD, Elkins JG, Larimer FW, Land ML, Hauser L, Cottingham RW, Hettich RL, and Kelly RM, Caldicellulosiruptor core and pan genomes reveal determinants for non-cellulosomal thermophilic deconstruction of lignocellulose. J Bacteriol. 2012 Aug;194(15):4015-28. Epub 2012 May 25.

  75. Mao X, Zhang H, Yin Y, Xu Y. The percentage of bacterial genes on leading versus lagging strands is influenced by multiple balancing forces, Nucleic Acids Res., 2012 Sep 1;40(17):8210-8.

  76. Yin Y*, Mao X*, Yang JC, Chen X and Xu Y. dbCAN: a web resource for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation. Nucleic Acids Res. web server issue 2012, Jul;40(Web Server issue):W445-51 [selected by DOE's Bioenergy Science Centers as one of the Key Advances for Biofuels Production]

  77. Zhang H*, Yin Y*, Olman V, Xu Y. Genomic arrangement of regulons in bacterial genomes. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e29496. Epub 2012 Jan 3. PubMed PMID: 22235300; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3250446.

  78. Kulkarni AR, Peña MJ, Avci U, Mazumder K, Urbanowicz BR, Pattathil S, Yin Y, O'Neill MA, Roberts AW, Hahn MG, Xu Y, Darvill AG, York WS. The ability of land plants to synthesize glucuronoxylans predates the evolution of tracheophytes. Glycobiology. 2012 Mar;22(3):439-51. Epub 2011 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 22048859.

    79. 2011

  79. Yin Y, Huang J, Gu X, Bar-Peled M, Xu Y. Evolution of plant nucleotide-sugar interconversion enzymes. PLoS One. 2011;6(11):e27995. Epub 2011 Nov 18. PubMed PMID: 22125650; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3220709.

  80. Yin Y, Mohnen D, Xu Y, Hahn M Glycosyltransferase Family 8 (GT8). Book chapter of "Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides: Biosynthesis and Bioengineering" ; Annual Plant Review series (Blackwell), 2011;41:167-212

  81. Li G, Ma Q, Mao X, Yin Y, Zhu X, Xu Y. Integration of sequence-similarity and functional association information can overcome intrinsic problems in orthology mapping across bacterial genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Dec;39(22):e150. Epub 2011 Sep 29. PubMed PMID: 21965536; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3239196.

  82. Kong Y, Zhou G, Yin Y, Xu Y, Pattathil S, Hahn MG. Molecular analysis of a family of Arabidopsis genes related to galacturonosyltransferases. Plant Physiol. 2011 Apr;155(4):1791-805. Epub 2011 Feb 7. PubMed PMID: 21300919; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3091093.

  83. Dam P, Kataeva I, Yang SJ, Zhou F, Yin Y, Chou W, Poole FL 2nd, Westpheling J, Hettich R, Giannone R, Lewis DL, Kelly R, Gilbert HJ, Henrissat B, Xu Y, Adams MW. Insights into plant biomass conversion from the genome of the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Apr;39(8):3240-54. Epub 2011 Jan 11. PubMed PMID: 21227922; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3082886.

    84. 2010

  84. Yin Y, Chen H, Hahn MG, Mohnen D, Xu Y. Evolution and function of the plant cell wall synthesis-related glycosyltransferase family 8. Plant Physiol. 2010 Aug;153(4):1729-46. Epub 2010 Jun 3. PubMed PMID: 20522722; PubMed Central MCID: PMC2923890. [cited 12 times]

  85. Yin Y*, Zhang H*, Olman V, Xu Y. Genomic arrangement of bacterial operons is constrained by biological pathways encoded in the genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 6;107(14):6310-5. Epub 2010 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 20308592; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2851940. [cited 2 times]

  86. Chou WC, Yin Y, Xu Y. GolgiP: prediction of Golgi-resident proteins in plants. Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 1;26(19):2464-5. Epub 2010 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 20733061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2944200.

  87. Zhou C, Yin Y, Dam P, Xu Y. Identification of novel proteins involved in plant cell-wall synthesis based on protein-protein interaction data. J Proteome Res. 2010 Oct 1;9(10):5025-37. PubMed PMID: 20687615.

  88. Zhao Q, Wang H, Yin Y, Xu Y, Chen F, Dixon RA. Syringyl lignin biosynthesis is directly regulated by a secondary cell wall master switch. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 10;107(32):14496-501. Epub 2010 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 20660755; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2922545.

  89. Gu X, Glushka J, Yin Y, Xu Y, Denny T, Smith J, Jiang Y, Bar-Peled M. Identification of a bifunctional UDP-4-keto-pentose/UDP-xylose synthase in the plant pathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum strain GMI1000, a distinct member of the 4,6-dehydratase and decarboxylase family. J Biol Chem. 2010 Mar 19;285(12):9030-40. Epub 2010 Jan 29. PubMed PMID: 20118241; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2838324.

  90. Yang SJ, Kataeva I, Wiegel J, Yin Y, Dam P, Xu Y, Westpheling J, Adams MW. Classification of 'Anaerocellum thermophilum' strain DSM 6725 as Caldicellulosiruptor bescii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2010 Sep;60(Pt9):2011-5. Epub 2009 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 19801388.

    91. 2009

  91. Yin Y, Huang J, Xu Y. The cellulose synthase superfamily in fully sequenced plants and algae. BMC Plant Biol. 2009 Jul 31;9:99. PubMed PMID: 19646250; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3091534. [cited 21 times]

  92. Shen H*, Yin Y*, Chen F, Xu Y, Dixon R. A bioinformatic analysis of NAC genes for plant cell wall development in relation to lignocellulosic bioenergy production. Bioenergy Research 2009;2(4):217-232; [cited 11 times]

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