Ke Y, Cronshaw DG, Nie Y, Guan J, Zou Y-R. (in preparation) FAK coordinates TCR signaling for generation and homeostasis of T effector cells.

Cronshaw DG, Waite J, Nie Y, Zou Y-R. (submitted) An essential role of the cytoplasmic tail of CXCR4 in G-protein signaling and organogenesis.

Leng Q, Nie Y, Zou Y-R, Chen J. (2008) Elevated CXCL12 expression in the bone marrow of NOD mice is associated with altered T cell and stem cell trafficking and diabetes development. BMC Immunol. 9: 51.

Bhattacharyya BJ, Banisadr G, Jung H, Ren D, Cronshaw DG, Zou Y-R, Miller RJ. (2008) The chemokine stromal cell-derived factor-1 regulates GABAergic inputs to neural progenitors in the postnatal dentate gyrus. J Neurosci. 28: 6720-6730.

Nie Y, Han, YC, Zou Y-R. (2008) CXCR4 is required for quiescence of primitive hematopoietic cells. J Exp Med. 205: 777-783.

Nie Y, Waite J, Brewer F, Sunshine, M-J, Littman DR, Zou Y-R. (2004) The Role of CXCR4 in Maintaining Peripheral B cell Compartments and Humoral Immunity. J Exp Med. 200: 1145-1156.

Bagri A, Gurney T, He X, Zou Y-R, Littman DR, Tessier-Lavigne M, Pleasure, SJ. (2002) The chemokine SDF1 regulates migration of dentate granule cells. Development. 129: 4249-4260.

Zou, Y-R, Sunshine MJ, Taniuchi I, Hatam F, Killeen N, Littman DR. (2001) Epigenetic silencing of CD4 in T cells committed to the cytotoxic lineage. Nat Genet. 29: 332-336.

Hargreaves DC, Hyman PL, Lu TT, Ngo VN, Bidgol A, Suzuki G, Zou Y-R, Littman DR, Cyster JG. (2001) A coordinated change in chemokine responsiveness guides plasma cell movements. J Exp Med. 194: 45-56.

Sun Z, Unutmaz D, Zou Y-R, Sunshine MJ, Pierani A, Brenner-Morton S, Mebius RE, Littman DR. (2000) Requirement for RORg in thymocyte survival and lymphoid organ development. Science. 288: 2369-73.

Littman DR, Sun Z, Unutmaz D, Sunshine MJ, Petrie HT, Zou Y-R. (1999) Role of the nuclear hormone receptor RORg in transcriptional regulation, thymocyte survival, and lymphoid organogenesis. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 64: 373-81.

Zou Y-R, Kottmann AH, Kuroda M, Taniuchi I, Littman DR. (1998) Function of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in haematopoiesis and in cerebellar development. Nature. 393: 595-9.

Zou Y-R, Muller W, Gu H, Rajewsky K. (1994) Cre-loxP-mediated gene replacement: a mouse strain producing humanized antibodies. Curr Biol. 4: 1099-1103.

Loffert D, Schaal S, Ehlich A, Hardy RR, Zou Y-R, Muller W, Rajewsky K. (1994). Early B-cell development in the mouse: insights from mutations introduced by gene targeting. Immunol Rev. 137: 135-153.

Zou Y-R, Gu H, Rajewsky K. (1993) Generation of a mouse strain that produces immunoglobulin kappa chains with human constant regions. Science. 262: 1271-4.

Gu H, Zou Y-R, Rajewsky K. (1993) Independent control of immunoglobulin switch recombination at individual switch regions evidenced through Cre-loxP-mediated gene targeting. Cell. 73: 1155-64.

Takeda S, Zou Y-R, Bluethmann H, Kitamura D, Muller U, Rajewsky K. (1993) Deletion of the immunoglobulin kappa chain intron enhancer abolishes kappa chain gene rearrangement in cis but not lambda chain gene rearrangement in trans. EMBO J. 12: 2329-36.

Zou Y-R, Takeda S, Rajewsk, K. (1993) Gene targeting in the Ig kappa locus: efficient generation of lambda chain-expressing B cells, independent of gene rearrangements in Ig kappa. EMBO J. 12: 811-20.