东南大学新进教师启动经费，主持，100万，2025-2028

1.    Cao X#, Kose C#, Selby CP, Sancar A. In vitro DNA repair genomics using XR-seq with Escherichia coli and mammalian cell-free extracts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Oct24;120(43):e2314233120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2314233120. (#Equal contribution)

2.    Cao X, Yang Y, Selby CP, Liu Z,Sancar A. Molecular mechanism of the repressive phase of the mammaliancircadian clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jan12;118(2):e2021174118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021174118. 

3.    Cao X#, Wang L#, Selby CP, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Sancar A. Analysis of mammalian circadian clock protein complexes over a circadian cycle. J Biol Chem. 2023 Mar;299(3):102929. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.102929.Epub 2023 Jan 20. (#Equal contribution)

4.    Cao X#, Liu X#, Li H, Fan Y, Duan J, Liu Y,He Q. Transcription factor CBF-1 is critical for circadian gene expression by modulating WHITE COLLAR complex recruitment to the frq locus. PLoS Genet.2018 Sep 12;14(9):e1007570. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen. (#Equal contribution)

5.    Kose C#, Cao X#, Dewey EB, Malkoç M,Adebali O, Sekelsky J, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Sancar A. Cross-species investigation into the requirement of XPA for nucleotide excision repair. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Nov 22:gkad1104. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1104.

6.    Wang L#, Cao X#, Yang Y#,Kose C, Kawara H, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Selby CP, Sancar A. Nucleotide excisionrepair removes thymidine analog 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine from the mammaliangenome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 30;119(35):e2210176119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2210176119. (#Equal contribution) 

7.    Deger N#, Cao X#,Selby CP, Gulec S, Kawara H, Dewey EB, Wang L, Yang Y, Archibald S, Selcuk B,Adebali O, Sekelsky J, Sancar A, Liu Z. CSB-independent, XPC-dependenttranscription-coupled repair in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Mar 1;119(9):e2123163119.doi:101073pnas.2123163119. (#Equal contribution)

8.    GaiK, Cao X, Dong Q, Ding Z, Wei Y, Liu Y, Liu X, He Q. Transcriptionalrepression of frequency by the IEC-1-INO80 complex is required for normalNeurospora circadian clock function. PLoS Genet. 2017 Apr12;13(4):e1006732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.

9.    Liu Z, Selby CP, Yang Y, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Cao X, Eynullazada K, Sancar A.Circadian regulation of c-MYC in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020Sep 1;117(35):21609-21617. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2011225117. 

10. Yang Y, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Vaughn CM, Selby CP, Cao X, Liu Z, Hsu DS, SancarA. Circadian clock, carcinogenesis, chronochemotherapy connections. J Biol Chem. 2021 Sep;297(3):101068. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101068.

11. Yang Y, Duan Z, Liu XL, Li Z,Shen Z, Gong S, Lu Q, Hu Y, Song L, Wang Z, Cao X, Dang Y, Wang L, He Q,Liu X. Checkpoint kinases regulate the circadian clock after DNA damage by influencing chromatin dynamics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Feb27;53(5):gkaf162. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf162.