Publications:
Wang, N., Wang, Y., Zhao, Q., Zhang, X., Peng, C., Zhang, W., Liu, Y., Vallon, O., Schroda, M., Cong, Y., Liu, C. (2021) The Cryo-EM Structure of the Chloroplast ClpP Complex. Nature Plants. DOI:10.1038/s41477-021-01020-x
Gao, F., Zhang, H., Zhang, W., Wang, N., Zhang, S., Chu, C., Liu, C. (2021) Engineering of the Cytosolic form of Phosphoglucose Isomerase into Chloroplasts Improves Plant Photosynthesis and Biomass. New Phytologist. DOI:10.1111/nph.17368
Lu, P., Guo, L., Wang, Z., Li, B., Li, J., Li, Y., Qiu, D., Shi, W., Yang, L., Wang, N., Guo, G., Xie, J., Wu, Q., Chen, Y., Li, M., Zhang, H., Dong, L., Zhang, P., Zhu, K., Yu, D., Zhang, Y., Deal, K.; Huo, N., Liu, C., Luo, M., Dvorak, J., Gu, Y., Li, H., Liu, Z.(2020). A rare gain of function mutation in a wheat tandem kinase confers resistance to powdery mildew. Nature Communications 11:680
Zhao, Q., Zhang, X., Sommer, F., Ta, N., Wang, N., Schroda, M., Cong, Y., Liu, C. (2019). Hetero-oligomeric CPN60 resembles highly symmetric group I chaperonin structure revealed by Cryo-EM. Plant J 98: 798-812
Gao, F., Chen, B., Jiao, J., Jia, L and Liu, C.(2017) Two Novel Vesicle-Inducing Proteins in Plastids 1 Genes Cloned and Characterized in Triticum urartu. PLoS One 12(1):e0170439
Liang, Z., Chen, K., Li, T., Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, Q., Liu, J., Zhang, H,. Liu, C., Ran, Y. and Gao, C.(2017) Efficient DNA-free Genome Editing of Bread Wheat Using CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Complexes. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms14261
Li, W., Zhang, F., Wu, R., Jia, L., Li, G., Guo, Y., Liu, C. and Wang, G.(2017). A novel N-methyltransferase in Arabidopsis appears to feed a conserved pathway for nicotinate detoxification among land plants and is associated with lignin biosynthesis. Plant Physiol 174:1492-1504
Zhao, Q., and Liu, C. (2017). Chloroplast Chaperonin: An Intricate Protein Folding Machine for Photosynthesis. Front Mol Biosci 4:98
Zhang, S., Zhou, H., Yu. F., Bai, C., Zhao, Q., He, J. and Liu, C. (2016) Structural insight into the cooperation of chloroplast chaperonin subunits. BMC Biology doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0251-8
Zhang, S., Zhou, H., Yu. F., Gao, F., He, J. and Liu, C. (2016) The functional partition of Cpn60α and Cpn60β subunits in substrates recognition and cooperation with cochaperonin. Mol Plant 9(8):1210-13
Xu, Y., Jin, W., Li, Na., Zhang, W., Liu, C., Li, C. and Li, Y. (2016) UBIQUITIN-SPECIFIC PROTEASE 14 interacts with ULTRAVIOLET-B INSENSITIVE 4 to regulate endoreduplication and cell and organ growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 28(5):1200-14
Bai, C., Guo, P., Zhao, Q., Lv, Z., Zhang, S., Gao, F., Gao, L., Wang, Y., Tian, Z., Wang, J., Yang, F. and Liu, C. (2015) Protomer Roles in Chloroplast Chaperonin Assembly and Function. Mol Plant 8: 1478-92
Guo, P., Jiang, S., Bai, C., Zhang, W., Zhao, Q. and Liu, C. (2015) Asymmetric functional interaction between chaperonin and its plastidic cofactors. FEBS J 282: 3959-70
Gao, F., Wang, W., Zhang, W. and Liu, C. (2015) alpha-Helical Domains Affecting the Oligomerization of Vipp1 and Its Interaction with Hsp70/DnaK in Chlamydomonas. Biochemistry 54: 4877-89
Bracher, A., Hauser, T., Liu, C., Hartl, F. U. and Hayer-Hartl, M. (2015) Structural Analysis of the Rubisco-Assembly Chaperone RbcX-II from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS One 10: e0135448
Fang, C., Li, C., Li, W., Wang, Z., Zhou, Z., Shen, Y., Wu, M., Wu, Y., Li, G., Kong, L. A., Liu, C., Jackson, S. A. and Tian, Z. (2014) Concerted evolution of D1 and D2 to regulate chlorophyll degradation in soybean. Plant J 77: 700-12
Liu, C., Young, A. L., Starling-Windhof, A., Bracher, A., Saschenbrecker, S., Rao, B. V., Rao, K. V., Berninghausen, O., Mielke, T., Hartl, F. U., Beckmann, R. and Hayer-Hartl, M. (2010) Coupled chaperone action in folding and assembly of hexadecameric Rubisco. Nature 463(7278):197-202
Liu, C., Willmund, F., Golecki, J. R., Cacace, S., Hess, B., Markert, C. and Schroda, M. (2007) The chloroplast HSP70B-CDJ2-CGE1 chaperones catalyze assembly and disassembly of VIPP1 oligomers in Chlamydomonas. Plant J 50, 265-277
Liu, C., Willmund, F., Whitelegge, J. P., Hawat, S., Knapp, B., Lodha, M. and Schroda, M. (2005) J-domain protein CDJ2 and HSP70B are a plastidic chaperone pair that interacts with vesicle inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1). Mol Biol Cell 16: 1165-1177