代表性论文：

1. Li Z#, Duan S#, Hua X, Xu X, Li Y, Menolfi D, Zhou H, Lu C, Zha S, Goff S, Zhang Z*. Asymmetric distribution of parental H3K9me3 in S phase silences L1 elements. Nature. 2023. 623 (7987), 643-651. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06711-3

2. Li Z, Zhang Z*. A tale of two strands: decoding chromatin replication through strand-specific sequencing. Molecular Cell. 2025. 85 (2): 238-261. https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(24)00875-X

3. Li Z, Zhang Z*. Histone chaperones: A multinodal highway network inside the cell. Molecular Cell. 2023. 83 (7), 1024-1026. https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00161-2

4. Du W#, Shi G#, Shan CM#, Li Z#, Zhu B*, Jia S*, Li Q*, Zhang Z*. Mechanisms of chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. Science China-life Sciences, 2022. 65(11): 2162-2190. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11427-022-2120-1

5. Li Z#, Hua X#, Serra-Cardona A, Xu X, Zhang Z*. Efficient and strand-specific profiling of replicating chromatin with eSPAN in mammalian cells. Nature Protocols. 2021. 16 (5), 2698-2721. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-021-00520-6

6. Li Z#, Hua X#, Serra-Cardona A#, Xu X#, Gan S, Zhou H, Yang WS, Chen CL, Xu RM, Zhang Z*. DNA polymerase α interacts with H3-H4 and facilitates the transfer of parental histones to lagging strands. Science Advances. 2020. 6 (35), eabb5820. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb5820

7. Tang M#, Li Z#, Zhang C, Lu X, Tu B, Cao Z, Li Y, Chen Y, Jiang L, Wang H, Wang L, Wang J, Liu B, Xu X, Wang H, Zhu WG*. SIRT7-mediated ATM deacetylation is essential for its deactivation and DNA damage repair. Science Advances. 2019. 5 (3), eaav1118. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aav1118

8. Li Z#, Li Y#, Tang M, Peng B, Lu X, Yang Q, Zhu Q, Hou T, Li M, Liu C, Wang L, Xu X, Zhao Y, Wang H, Yang Y, Zhu WG*. Destabilization of linker histone H1.2 is essential for ATM activation and DNA damage repair. Cell Research. 2018. 28 (7), 756-770. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-018-0048-0

9. Li Y#, Li Z#, Dong L, Tang M, Zhang P, Zhang C, Cao Z, Zhu Q, Chen Y, Wang H, Wang T, Lv D, Wang L, Zhao Y, Yang Y, Wang H, Zhang H, Roeder RG, Zhu WG*. Histone H1 acetylation at lysine 85 regulates chromatin condensation and genome stability upon DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Research. 2018. 46 (15), 7716-7730. https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/15/7716/5047268

10. Li Y#, Li Z#, Zhu WG*. Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulators as activatable targets in cancer theranostics. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 2019. 26(8), 1328-1350. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28933282/