1. Shi, L., Cui, S., Engel, J.D., and Tanabe, O. (2013). Lysine-specific demethylase 1 is a therapeutic target for fetal hemoglobin induction. Nature medicine 19, 291-294. Highlighted by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2. Jinhua Liu#, Yapu Li#, Jingyuan Tong#, Jie Gao, Qing Guo, Lingling Zhang, Bingrui Wang, Hui Zhao, Hongtao Wang, Erlie Jiang, Ryo Kurita, Yukio Nakamura, Osamu Tanabe, James Douglas Engel, Emery H. Bresnick, Jiaxi Zhou* & Lihong Shi*. Long non-coding RNA-dependent mechanism to regulate heme biosynthesis and erythrocyte development. Nature Communications.2018. （Co-corresponding author）
3. Hongtao Wang, Mengge Wang, Yuqi Wen, Changlu Xu, Xiaoyuan Chen, Dan Wu, Pei Su, Wen Zhou, Tao Cheng, Lihong Shi*, Jiaxi Zhou* Biphasic Regulation of Mesenchymal Genes Controls Fate Switches During Hematopoietic Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Advanced Science, 2020. （Co-corresponding author）
4. Zhang Y, Zhang J, An W, Wan Y, Ma S, Yin J, Shi, L. et al. Intron 1 GATA site enhances ALAS2 expression indispensably during erythroid differentiation. Nucleic acids research 2017, 45(2): 657-671. （Co-corresponding author）

5. Mengge Wang, Hongtao Wang, Yuqi Wen, Xiaoyuan Chen, Xin Liu, Jie Gao, Pei Su, Yuanfu Xu, Wen Zhou, Lihong Shi* and Jiaxi Zhou*. MEIS2 regulates endothelial to hematopoietic transition of human embryonic stem cells by targeting TAL1. Stem Cell Research & Therapy.2018,（Co-corresponding author）

6. Sun T, Ju M, Dai X, Dong H, Gu W, Gao Y, Fu R, Liu X, Huang Y, Liu W, Ch Y, Wang W, Li H, Zhou Y, Shi L*, Yang R*, Zhang L*. Multilevel defects in the hematopoietic niche in essential thrombocythemia. Haematologica. 2020 Mar;105(3):661-673. （Co-corresponding author）

7. Gao J, Liu J, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Guo Q, Li Y, Tong J, Wang H, Zhou J, Zhu F, Shi L*, Zhao H*.Heat shock transcription factor 1 regulates the fetal γ-globin expression in a stress-dependent and independent manner during erythroid differentiation. Exp Cell Res. 2020 Feb 15;387(2):111780. （Co-corresponding author）

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