McCarthy LA, Way LE, Dai X, Ren Z, Fuller DEH, Dhiman I, Larkin L, Jurriaan J D, Sieben JJD, Westerlaken I, Abbondanzieri EA, Hardy GG, Meyer AS, Wang X, Biteen JS. (2026) Dps binds and protects DNA in starved Escherichia coli with minimal effect on chromosome accessibility, dynamics, and organization. Nucleic Acids Res.14;54
Ren Z*, Way LE*, Wang X. (2025) SMC translocation is unaffected by an excess of nucleoid associated proteins in vivo. Sci Rep. 15, 2447. (*co-first authors)
Liao Q, Brandão HB, Ren Z, Wang X. (2025) Replisomes restrict SMC translocation in vivo. Nat Commun. 16, 7151
Sanath-Kumar R, Rahman A, Ren Z, Reynolds IP, Augusta L, Fuqua CJ, Weisberg AJ, Wang X. (2025) Linear dicentric bacterial chromosomes in Agrobacterium tumefaciens natural isolates reveal common constraints for replicon fusion. mBio. 20:e0104625
Weisler EE, Liao Q, Ren Z, Zhang KF, Dai J, Ma Y, Hardy GG, Wang X. (2025) ComK-induced cell death is reversed by upregulating the SigB or Spx pathway in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiol. Spectr. 13:e01612-25.
Ren Z*, Takacs CN*, Brandão HB, Jacobs-Wagner C, Wang, X. (2023) Organization and replicon interactions within the highly segmented genome of Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS Genet. 19: e1010857. (*co-first authors)
Molina M, Way LE, Ren Z, Liao Q, Guerra B, Shields B, Wang X, Kim H. (2023) A framework to validate fluorescently labeled DNA-binding proteins for single-molecule experiments. Cell Reports Methods 3.
Barton IS, Ren Z, Cribb CB, Pitzer PE, Baglivo I, Martin DW, Wang X, Roop RM. (2023) Brucella MucR acts as an H-NS-like protein to silence virulence genes and structure the nucleoid. mBio.17:e0220123.
Ren Z, Liao Q, Karaboja X, Barton IS, Schantz EG, Mejia-Santana A, Fuqua C, Wang X. (2022) Conformation and dynamic interactions of the multipartite genome in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 119:e2115854119.
Ren Z, Liao Q, Barton S, Wiesler EE, Fuqua C, Wang X. (2022) Centromere interactions promote the maintenance of the multipartite genome in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. mBio. 28;13:e0050822.
Liao Q*, Ren Z*, Wiesler E, Fuqua C, Wang X. (2022) A dicentric bacterial chromosome requires XerC/D site-specific recombinases for resolution. Current Biology. 28:S0960-9822:01012-0. (*co-first authors)
Lamanna MM, Manzoor I, Joseph M, Ye A, Benedet M, Zanardi A, Ren Z, Wang X, Massidda O, Tsui HCT, Winkler ME. (2022) Roles of RodZ and Class A PBP1b in the Assembly and Regulation of the Peripheral Peptidoglycan Elongasome in Ovoid-Shaped Cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. Mol Microbiol. 118:336-368.
Takacs CN, Wachter J*, Xiang Y*, Ren Z*, Karaboja X, Scott M, Stoner MR, Irnov I, Jannetty N, Rosa PA, Wang X, Jacobs-Wagner C. (2022) Polyploidy, regular patterning of genome copies, and alternative control of DNA partitioning in the Lyme disease spirochete. Nat Commun. 13:7173. (*co-second authors)
Karaboja X, Ren Z, Brandão HB, Paul P, Rudner DZ, Wang X. (2021) XerD unloads bacterial SMC complexes at the replication terminus. Mol Cell. 81, 1–11.
Brandão HB*, Ren Z*, Karaboja X, Mirny LA, Wang X (2021) DNA-loop extruding SMC complexes can traverse one another in vivo. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 28: 642-651. (*co-first authors)
