Publications

Wenqing Zhou, Jordan Z. Zhou, Anees Ahmed, Myeong Joon Kim, JRI Live Cell Bank, Chun-Jun Guo, Gregory F. Sonnenberg: ILC3s sense gut microbiota through STING to initiate immune tolerance. Immunity (2025), Volume 58, Issue 7, 1762 - 1777.e7.


Mengze Lyu, Hiroaki Suzuki, Lan Kang, Fabrina Gaspal, Wenqing Zhou, Jeremy Goc, Lei Zhou, Jordan Zhou, Wen Zhang; JRI Live Cell Bank; Zeli Shen, James G Fox, Robbyn E Sockolow, Terri M Laufer, Yong Fan, Gerard Eberl, David R Withers, Gregory F Sonnenberg: ILC3s select microbiota-specific regulatory T cells to establish tolerance in the gut. Nature 610, 744–751 (2022).


Wenqing Zhou, Lei Zhou, Jordan Zhou; JRI Live Cell Bank; Coco Chu, Chao Zhang, Robbyn E Sockolow, Gerard Eberl, Gregory F Sonnenberg: ZBTB46 defines and regulates ILC3s that protect the intestine. Nature 609, 159–165 (2022).


Lei Zhou, Wenqing Zhou, Ann M Joseph, Coco Chu, Gregory G Putzel, Beibei Fang, Fei Teng, Mengze Lyu, Hiroshi Yano, Katrin I Andreasson, Eisuke Mekada, Gerard Eberl, Gregory F Sonnenberg: Group 3 innate lymphoid cells produce the growth factor HB-EGF to protect the intestine from TNF-mediated inflammation. Nat Immunol 23, 251–261 (2022).


Yueyang Wang, Alan Y Hsu, Eric M Walton, Sung Jun Park, Ramizah Syahirah, Tianqi Wang, Wenqing Zhou, Chang Ding, Abby Pei Lemke, GuangJun Zhang, David M Tobin, Qing Deng: A robust and flexible CRISPR/Cas9-based system for neutrophil-specific gene inactivation in zebrafish. J Cell Sci (2021) 134 (8): jcs258574.


Wenqing Zhou, Gregory F Sonnenberg: Activation and Suppression of Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells in the Gut. Trends in Immunology, Volume 41, Issue 8, 721 – 733 (2020).


Wenqing Zhou, Alan Y Hsu, Yueyang Wang, Ramizah Syahirah, Tianqi Wang, Jacob Jeffries, Xu Wang, Haroon Mohammad, Mohamed N Seleem, David Umulis, Qing Deng: Mitofusin 2 regulates neutrophil adhesive migration and the actin cytoskeleton. J Cell Sci (2020) 133 (17): jcs248880.


Jacob Jeffries, Wenqing Zhou, Alan Y Hsu, Qing Deng: miRNA-223 at the crossroads of inflammation and cancer. Cancer Lett (2019) Jun 1:451:136-141.


Wenqing Zhou, Lingyan Cao, Jacob Jeffries, Xiaoguang Zhu, Christopher J Staiger, Qing Deng: Neutrophil-specific knockout demonstrates a role for mitochondria in regulating neutrophil motility in zebrafish. Dis Model Mech (2018) 11 (3): dmm033027.


Wenqing Zhou, Arpita S Pal, Alan Yi-Hui Hsu, Theodore Gurol, Xiaoguang Zhu, Sara E Wirbisky-Hershberger, Jennifer L Freeman, Andrea L Kasinski, Qing Deng: MicroRNA-223 Suppresses the Canonical NF-κB Pathway in Basal Keratinocytes to Dampen Neutrophilic Inflammation. Cell Reports (2018), Volume 22, Issue 7, 1810 – 1823.


Alan Y. Hsu, Decheng Wang, Theodore Gurol, Wenqing Zhou, Xiaoguang Zhu, Hsiu-Yi Lu, Qing Deng: Overexpression of microRNA-722 fine-tunes neutrophilic inflammation by inhibiting Rac2 in zebrafish. Dis Model Mech (2017) 10 (11): 1323–1332.


Theodore Gurol, Wenqing Zhou, Qing Deng: MicroRNAs in neutrophils: potential next generation therapeutics for inflammatory ailments. Immunol Rev (2016) Sep;273(1):29-47.


Wenqing Zhou, Kaihu Yao, Gang Zhang, Yonghong Yang, Yun Li, Yuan Lv, Jie Feng: Mechanism for transfer of transposon Tn2010 carrying macrolide resistance genes in Streptococcus pneumoniae and its effects on genome evolution. J Antimicrob Chemother (2014) Jun;69(6):1470-3.


Zhihai Sui, Wenqing Zhou, Kaihu Yao, Li Liu, Gang Zhang, Yonghong Yang, Jie Feng: Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain A026, a Clinical Multidrug-Resistant Isolate Carrying Tn2010. Genome Announc (2013) Dec 12;1(6):e01034-13.


*:Co-first;#:Co-corresponding.