2026 Publications

Yu, Z., Hu, Z. [...] & Liu, B. (2026, July). Liquid-liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection. Nucleic Acids Research.

Chen, W., Han, W., Nan, Y., [...] Liu, B* & Li, Y*. (2026, June). Repurposing-Inspired Discovery of Novel Sagitta-Shaped Covalent TEAD Inhibitors from NSAID Diflunisal. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Chen, H., Xu, Y., Xiong, Z., [...] & Liu, B. (2026, March). Cinnamic-Hydroxamic-Acid Derivatives Exhibit Antibiotic, Anti-Biofilm, and Supercoiling Relaxation Properties by Targeting Bacterial Nucleoid-Associated Protein HU. Advanced Science, 13.

Yang, X., Qiu, C., Gan, B., [...] & Liu, B. (2026, February). Isolation, characterization and evaluation of a novel phage against Elizabethkingia anophelis. Archives of Virology.

Ding, N., Wu, H., Hua, Y., [...] & Li, T. (2026, February). Gut microbiota-derived isovaleric acid alleviates atrial fibrillation by suppressing GSDME-dependent pyroptosis. Cell Metabolism.

Yang, Q., Gan, B., Wang, Z., [...] Liu, B* & Zeng, X*. (2026, January). Therapeutic Potential of a Novel Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Phage XAN_XB1: Isolation, Characterization, Genome Analysis and Evaluation in Mice Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

 

2025 Publications

Wang, Z., Chen, W., Wang, E., [...] & Liu, B. (2025, November). Battle beyond membrane: flagella as a conduit for phage DNA entry and a trigger for bacterial defense in Yersinia enterocolitica. Nucleic Acids Research.

Chen, W., Nan, Y., Zhang, Y., [...] Liu, B* & Li, Y*. (2025, October). Discovery of Repurposed Ethacrynic Acid and its Derivatives as Novel TEAD inhibitors. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Zhao, X., Aohan, W., Wang, Y., [...] Liu, B* & Fang, Q*. (2025, August). Capsid structure of phage SPO1 reveals novel minor capsid proteins and insights into capsid stabilization. Structure.

Kang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhou, H., [...] & Liu, B. (2025, June). A temperature-driven DNA discrimination strategy to distinguish E. coli DNA and phage 5hmC-modified DNA. Nucleic Acids Research.

 

2024 Publications

Xiang, W., Xiong, Z., Chen, H., Xiong, J., Zhang, W., Fu, Z., Zheng, M.,Liu, B*., & Shi, Q. (2024). FAPM: functional annotation of proteins using multimodal models beyond structural modeling. Bioinformatics, 40(12).

Zhang, B., Chen, H., Shi, L., Guo, R., Wang, Y., Zheng, Y., Bai, R., Gao, Y., Liu, B*., & Zhang, X. (2024). Nitroreductase-Based "Turn-On" Fluorescent Probe for Bacterial Identification with Visible Features. ACS Sensors.

Ren, H.#, Chen, H.#, Kang, Y.#, Liu, W., Liu, Y., Tao, F., Miao, S., Zhang, Y., Liu, Q., Dong, M., Liu, Y., Liu, B*., & Yang, P.* (2024). Non-fibril Amyloid Aggregation at the Air/Water Interface: Self-adaptive Pathway Resulting in a 2D Janus Nanofilm. Chemical Science.

Fan, T. T., Liu, B., Yao, H. Y., Chen, X. R., Yang, H., Guo, S. R., Wu, B., Li, X. Z., Li, X. Y., Xun, M., & Wang, H. L. (2024). Cathelicidin peptide analogues inhibit EV71 infection through blocking viral entry and uncoating. PLOS Pathogens, 20(1).

 

2023 Publications

Yang, Y., Hu, Z., Kang, Y., Gao, J., Chen, H., Liu, H., Wang, Y., & Liu, B. (2023). Phage SPO1 Protein Gp49 Is a Novel RNA Binding Protein That Is Involved in Host Iron Metabolism. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24.

Zhang, M., Zhang, K., Chen, Z., Wang, L., Wu, L., Wang, Y., Liu, B., & Shi, B. (2023). Secretory expression of human thyroid stimulating hormone receptor A subunit in sf9 insect cell system. Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University (Medical Sciences), 44, 409-414.

Liu, W., Bi, J., Ren, Y., Chen, H., Zhang, J., Wang, T., Wang, M., Zhang, L., Zhao, J., Wu, Z., Lv, Y., Liu, B., & Wu, R. (2023). Targeting extracellular CIRP with an X-aptamer shows therapeutic potential in acute pancreatitis. iScience, 26.

Yang, L., Wang, J., Lu, S., Zhong, Y., Xiong, K., Liu, X., Liu, B., Wang, X., Wang, P., & Le, S. (2023). Temperature-dependent carrier state mediated by H-NS promotes the long-term coexistence of Y. pestis and a phage in soil. PLOS Pathogens, 19(6): e1011470.

Li, L., Zhong, Q., Zhao, Y., Bao, J., Liu, B., Zhong, Z., Wang, J., Yang, L., Zhang, T., Cheng, M., Wu, N., Zhu, T., & Le, S. (2023). First-in-human application of double-stranded RNA bacteriophage in the treatment of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Microbial Biotechnology.

 

2022 Publications

Wang, X., Ji, Y., Qiu, C., Zhang, H., Bi, L., Xi, H., Lei, L., Liu, B., Han, W., & Gu, J. (2022). A phage cocktail combined with the enteric probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri ameliorated mouse colitis caused by S. typhimurium. Food & Function, 13, 8509-8523.

Li, Y., Zhu, F., Li, Y., Pan, S., Wang, H., Yang, Z., Yu, J., Li, T., Liu, X., Wang, Y., Ma, X., & Liu, B. (2022). Bacteriophages allow selective depletion of gut bacteria to produce a Targeted-Bacterium-Depleted (TBD) mouse model. Cell Reports Methods.

Guo, R., Gao, J., Hui, L., Li, Y., Liu, J., Fu, Y., Shi, L., Wang, Y., & Liu, B. (2022). An Improved Method for Quick Quantification of Unsaturated Transferrin. Biosensors, 12(9), 708.

Zhang, K., Li, S., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Mulvenna, N., Yang, H., Zhang, P., Chen, H., Li, Y., Wang, H., Gao, Y., Wigneshweraraj, S., Matthews, S., Zhang, K., & Liu, B. (2022). Bacteriophage protein PEIP is a potent Bacillus subtilis enolase inhibitor. Cell Reports.

Zhang, P., Zhao, X., Wang, Y., Du, K., Wang, Z., Yu, J., Chang, G., Matthews, S., Wang, H., & Liu, B. (2022). Bacteriophage protein Gp46 is a cross-species inhibitor of nucleoid-associated HU proteins. PNAS.

Wang, M., Wang, C., Feng, C., Guo, W., Chen, H., Liu, B., Li, E., Liu, W., Taouil, A., Ojima, I., & Hou, P. (2022). Potent antitumor activity of novel taxoids in anaplastic thyroid cancer. Endocrine, 75(2), 465-477.

 

2021 Publications

Liu, D., Xu, C., He, W., Xu, Z., Fu, W., Zhang, L., Yang, J., Wang, Z., Liu, B., Peng, G., Han, D., Bai, X., & Qiao, N. (2021). AutoGenome: An AutoML Tool for Genomic Research. Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences.

Garnett, J. A., Palma, A. S., Liu, B., & Liu, Y. (2021). Editorial: Glycans as Players in Host-Microbe Interactions: A Structural Perspective. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 8.

Liu, B.*, Li, S., Liu, Y., Chen, H., Hu, Z., Wang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhang, L., Ma, B., Wang, H., et al. (2021). Bacteriophage Twort protein Gp168 is a beta-clamp inhibitor by occupying the DNA sliding channel. Nucleic Acids Research.

Zhao, K., Ke, Z., Hu, H., Liu, Y., Li, A., Hua, R., Guo, F., Xiao, J., Zhang, Y., Duan, L., Yan, X., Gao, Y., Liu, B., Xia, Y., & Li, Y. (2021). Structural basis and function of the N-terminus of SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1. Microbiology Spectrum.

Zhang, K.†, Li, X.†, Wang, Z.†, Li, G., Ma, B., Chen, H., Li, N., Yang, H., Wang, Y., & Liu, B.* (2021). Systemic expression, purification and initial structural characterization of bacteriophage T4 proteins without known structure homologs. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Wang, Z.†, Wang, H.†, Mulvenna, N., Sanz-Hernandez, M., Zhang, P., Li, Y., Ma, J., Wang, Y., Matthews, S., Wigneshweraraj, S., & Liu, B. (2021). A bacteriophage DNA mimic protein employs a nonspecific strategy to inhibit the bacterial RNA polymerase. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Wang, Z., Zhao, S., Li, Y., Zhang, K., Mo, F., Zhang, J., Hou, Y., He, L., Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, H., Buck, M., Matthews, S. J., & Liu, B.* (2021). RssB-mediated sigma(S) Activation is Regulated by a Two-Tier Mechanism via Phosphorylation and Adaptor Protein - IraD. Journal of Molecular Biology, 433.

Li, Y., Li, G., Wang, Z., Chen, W., Wang, H., Wang, Y., & Liu, B.* (2021). Resonance assignments of the cytoplasmic domain of ECF sigma factor W pathway protein YsdB from Bacillus subtilis. Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

 

2020 Publications

Xu, C., Ke, Z., Liu, C., Wang, Z., Liu, D., Zhang, L., Wang, J., He, W., Xu, Z., Li, Y., Yang, Y., Huang, Z., Lv, P., Wang, X., Han, D., Li, Y., Qiao, N., & Liu, B.* (2020). Systemic In Silico Screening in Drug Discovery for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) with an Online Interactive Web Server. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 60, 5735-5745.

Krishna, A., Liu, B., Peacock, S. J., & Wigneshweraraj, S. (2020). The prevalence and implications of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes encoding the RNA polymerase of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. MicrobiologyOpen, 9, 1-8.

Yang, Y., Ke, Z., Wang, Z., Li, Y., Li, Y., Wang, Y., & Liu, B.* (2020). 1H, 13C and 15N NMR assignments of solubility tag protein Msyb of Escherichia coli. Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

Wang, Z., Liang, Y., Liu, H., Wang, Y., Wang, H., & Liu, B.* (2020). Resonance assignments of bacteriophage SPO1 Gp49 protein. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 14, 111-114.

 

2019 Publications

Zhang, K., Wang, Z., Chang, G., Wang, H., Wang, Y., & Liu, B.* (2019). Resonance assignments of bacteriophage T4 Y04L protein. Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

Wang, Z., Zhao, S., Jiang, S., Wang, Y., Buck, M., Matthews, S., & Liu, B.* (2019). Resonance assignments of N-terminal receiver domain of sigma factor S regulator RssB from Escherichia coli. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 13, 333-337.

Zhu, F., Guo, R., Wang, W., Ju, Y., Wang, Q., Ma, Q., Sun, Q., Fan, Y., Xie, Y., Yang, Z., Jie, Z., Zhao, B., Xiao, L., Yang, L., Zhang, T., Liu, B., Guo, L., He, X., Chen, Y., Chen, C., Gao, C., Xu, X., Yang, H., Wang, J., Dang, Y., Madsen, L., Brix, S., Kristiansen, K., Jia, H., & Ma, X. (2019). Transplantation of microbiota from drug-free patients with schizophrenia causes schizophrenia-like abnormal behaviors and dysregulated kynurenine metabolism in mice. Molecular Psychiatry.

Zhang, P., Wang, Z., Zhao, S., Wang, Y., Matthews, S., & Liu, B.* (2019). 1H, 13C and 15N NMR assignments of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPO1 protein Gp46. Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

Zhao, S., Zhang, K., Jiang, S., Liu, Z., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., & Liu, B.* (2019). Resonance assignments of Sigma factor S binding protein Crl from Escherichia Coli. Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

 

2018 Publications

Darvill, N., Dubois, D., Rouse, S., Hammoudi, P., Blake, T., Benjamin, S., Liu, B., Dominique, S., & Matthews, S. (2018). Structural Basis of Phosphatidic Acid Sensing by APH in Apicomplexan Parasites. Structure.

Tabib-Salazar, A.#, Liu, B.#, Barker, D., Burchell, L., Qimron, U., Matthews, S., & Wigneshweraraj, S. (2018). A T7 phage factor required for managing RpoS in Escherichia coli. PNAS.

Liu, B., Wang, Z., Lan,L., Yang, Q., Zhang, P., Shi, L., Lang, Y., Tabib-Salazar, A., Wigneshweraraj, S., Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Tang, Y., Matthews, S., & Zhang, X. (2018). A Rapid Colorimetric Method to Visualize Protein Interactions. Chemistry: A European Journal.