Articles：

  1. Ying Cui, Yaguang Zhang, Chao Yang*, TBK1 and Caspase-8 Suppress Necroptosis but Activate NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation during CXCL4 and TLR8 Costimulation. Cell Death Discovery, 10, 511 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41420-024-02280-0 2024. (*Corresponding author, IF=6.1, JCR Q1)
  2. Chao Yang, Ruoxi Yuan, Caroline Brauner, Franck J. Barrat, Lionel B. Ivashkiv, Dichotomous roles of RIPK3 in regulating the IFN response and NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes. J Leukoc Biol. 2023;, qiad095, https://doi.org/10.1093/jleuko/qiad095. (IF=6.011, JCR Q2)
  3. Funing Bian, Dong Yan, Xiaopeng Wu, Chao Yang*, A Biological Perspective of TLR8 Signaling in Host Defense and Inflammation. Infectious Microbes & Diseases 5(2):p 44-55, June 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/IM9.0000000000000119. (*Corresponding author)
  4. Yang C, Bachu M, Du Y, Brauner C, Yuan R, Ah Kioon MD, Chesi G, Barrat FJ, Ivashkiv LB. CXCL4 synergizes with TLR8 for TBK1-IRF5 activation, epigenomic remodeling and inflammatory response in human monocytes. Nat Commun. 2022, 13(1):3426. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31132-7. (IF=17.69, JCR Q1)
  5. Laurent P#, Yang C#, Rendeiro AF#, Nilsson-Payant BE, Carrau L, Chandar V, Bram Y, tenOever BR, Elemento O, Ivashkiv LB, Schwartz RE, Barrat FJ. Sensing of SARS-CoV-2 by pDCs and their subsequent production of IFN-I contribute to macrophage-induced cytokine storm during COVID-19. Sci Immunol. 2022, 7(75):eadd4906. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.add4906. (#co-first author, IF=30.63, JCR Q1)
  6. Yang C, McDermot DS, Pasricha S, Brown AS, Bedoui S, Lenz LL, van Driel IR, Hartland EL. IFNγ receptor down-regulation facilitates Legionella survival in alveolar macrophages. J Leukoc Biol. 2020, 107(2):273-284. doi: 10.1002/JLB.4MA1019-152R. (IF=6.011, JCR Q2)
  7. Yang Chao, Pan Liping, Zhang Li, Wu Xiaopan, Zhu Xilin, Yan Bingyu, Xu Aiqiang, Li Hui, and Liu Ying, BTNL2 associated with the immune response to hepatitis B vaccination in a Chinese Han population. J Med Virol. 2014, 86(7):1105-12. doi: 10.1002/jmv.23934. (IF=20.693, JCR Q1)
  8. Brown AS, Yang C, Hartland EL, van Driel IR. The regulation of acute immune responses to the bacterial lung pathogen Legionella pneumophila. J Leukoc Biol. 2017 Apr; 101(4): 875-886.
  9. Brown AS, Yang C, Fung KY, Bachem A, Bourges D, Bedoui S, Hartland EL, van Driel IR. Cooperation between Monocyte-Derived Cells and Lymphoid Cells in the Acute Response to a Bacterial Lung Pathogen. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Jun 14; 12(6): e1005691.
  10. leischmann M, Jarnicki AG, Brown AS, Yang C, Anderson GP, Garbi N, Hartland EL, van Driel IR, Ng GZ. Cigarette smoke depletes alveolar macrophages and delays clearance of Legionella pneumophila. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2023 Mar 1;324(3):L373-L384. 
  11. Elif Çakan, Marie Dominique Ah Kioon, Yolanda Garcia-Carmona, Salomé Glauzy, David Oliver, Natsuko Yamakawa, Andrea Vega Loza, Yong Du, Jean-Nicolas Schickel, Joshua M. Boeckers, Chao Yang, Alessia Baldo, Lionel B. Ivashkiv, Ryan M. Young, Louis M. Staudt, Krishna L. Moody, Kerstin Nündel, Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Caspar I. van der Made, Alexander Hoischen, Anthony Hayward, Marzia Rossato, Timothy R.D.J. Radstake, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, Changwan Ryu, Erica L. Herzog, Franck J. Barrat, Eric Meffre; TLR9 ligand sequestration by chemokine CXCL4 negatively affects central B cell tolerance. J Exp Med 4 December 2023; 220 (12): e20230944.
  12. Yong Du, Marie Dominique Ah Kioon, Paoline Laurent, Vidyanath Chaudhary, Michael Pierides, Chao Yang, David Oliver, Lionel B. Ivashkiv, Franck J. Barrat; Chemokines form nanoparticles with DNA and can superinduce TLR-driven immune inflammation. J Exp Med 4 July 2022; 219 (7): e20212142.
  13. Pan Liping, Zhang Li, Zhang Wei, Wu Xiaopan, Li Yuanfeng, Yan Bingyu, Zhu Xilin, Liu Xing, Yang Chao, Xu Jianfeng, Zhou Guangqiao, Xu Aiqiang, Li Hui, and Liu Ying, A genome-wide association study identifies polymorphisms in the HLA-DR region associated with non-response to hepatitis B vaccination in Chinese Han populations. Human Molecular Genetics, 2014. 23(8): p. 2210-9.
  14. Tang Li, Yang Chao, Yin Lei, bian Funing, Wang Xiaolu, Gao Zhiyong, Wang Aiguo, Establishment of An Efficient and Convenient Liver Regeneration Model in Mice. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 2012, (1):132-134, 138, cover 3.

Book chapters：

  1. Chao Yang and Ruoxi Yuan，TLRs and Other Molecules Signaling Crosstalk in Diseases，Book: Thirty Years since the Discovery of Toll-Like Receptors. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1003018.