1.Chen, M.#, Sun, H. #, Boot, M., Shao, L., Chang, S.J., Wang, W., Lam, T.T., Lara-Tejero, M., Rego, E.H. and Galán, J.E. *, 2020. Itaconate is an effector of a Rab GTPase cell-autonomous host defense pathway against Salmonella. Science, 369(6502), pp.450-455.    

2.Lian, H. #, Park, D. #,Chen, M., Schueder, F., Lara-Tejero, M., Liu, J., & Galán, J. E*, 2023. Parkinson’s disease kinase LRRK2 coordinates a cell-intrinsic itaconate-dependent defence pathway against intracellular Salmonella. Nature Microbiology, 1-16.
These pubilications demonstrate that Rab32/LRRK2 facilitates the delivery of itaconate to the Salmonella-containing vacuoles, which allows itaconate to inhibit bacterial growth. Our results have been cited by the itaconate expert Luke O’Neil for several times in articles/reviews. The HHMI professor John D. MacMicking cited our publication in their Science paper revealing the important antibacterial protein APOL3. Karine Auclairp group has repeated our key results successfully and made some other discoveries.

3.Chen, M.#, Zhao, Z. #, Meng, Q. #, Liang, P. #, Su, Z., Wu, Y., Huang, J. and Cui, J. *, 2019. TRIM14 Promotes Noncanonical NF‐kB Activation by Modulating p100/p52 Stability via Selective Autophagy. Advanced Science, p.1901261.
This paper demonstrates that TRIM14 enhances p100/p52 processing in Noncanonical NF-kB signaling. It has been cited by many groups. Jiankun Wu group repeated our key results and made some other discoveries.

4.Chen, M.#, Meng, Q. #, Qin, Y. #, Liang, P., Tan, P., He, L., Zhou, Y., Chen, Y., Huang, J. *, Wang, R.F. * and Cui, J. *, 2016. TRIM14 inhibits cGAS degradation mediated by selective autophagy receptor p62 to promote innate immune responses. Molecular cell, 64(1), pp.105-119.
This paper firstly demonstrated the mechanical details of cGAS ubiquitination, which was important in autophagic degradation of cGAS and resisting virus infection in innate immunity. It has been cited by many groups in their research articles or reviews, including Katherine A. Fitzgerald and Beth Levine, who are experts in the field of innate immunity and autophagy.