Hong, Yaoqin, Qin, Jilong, Doyle, Matthew Thomas, and Reeves, Richard (2025) Sequestration of dead-end undecaprenyl phosphate-linked oligosaccharide intermediate. Microbiology, 171 (1). 001530.

Qin, Jilong, Hong, Yaoqin, Maczuga, Nicholas T., Morona, Renato, and Totsika, Makrina (2025) Tolerance mechanisms in polysaccharide biosynthesis: Implications for undecaprenol phosphate recycling in Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri. PLoS Genetics, 21 (1). e1011591.

Penning, Stephanie, Hong, Yaoqin, Cunliffe, Taylor, Hor, Lilian, Totsika, Makrina, Paxman, Jason J., and Heras, Begoña (2024) Unveiling the Versatility of the Thioredoxin Framework: Insights from the Structural Examination of Francisella tularensis DsbA1. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 23. pp. 4324-4336. (In Press)

Hong, Yaoqin, Qin, Jilong, Mitchell, Lachlan, Paxman, Jason J., Heras, Begoña, and Totsika, Makrina (2024) Bacterial suppressor-of-copper-sensitivity proteins exhibit diverse thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase cellular functions. iScience, 27. 111392.

Qin, Jilong, Hong, Yaoqin, and Totsika, Makrina (2024) Determining glycosyltransferase functional order via lethality due to accumulated O-antigen intermediates, exemplified with Shigella flexneri O-antigen biosynthesis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90 (6).

Hong, Yaoqin, Qin, Jilong, Forga, Xavier Bertran, and Totsika, Makrina (2023) Extensive Diversity in Escherichia coli Group 3 Capsules Is Driven by Recombination and Plasmid Transfer from Multiple Species. Microbiology Spectrum, 11 (4).

Qin, Jilong, Hong, Yaoqin, Morona, Renato, and Totsika, Makrina (2023) O antigen biogenesis sensitises Escherichia coli K-12 to bile salts, providing a plausible explanation for its evolutionary loss. PLoS Genetics, 19 (10). e1010996.

Hong, Yaoqin, Hu, Dalong, Verderosa, Anthony D., Qin, Jilong, Totsika, Makrina, and Reeves, Peter R. (2023) Repeat-Unit Elongations To Produce Bacterial Complex Long Polysaccharide Chains, an O-Antigen Perspective. EcoSal Plus, 11 (1). eesp-0020-2022.

Hong, Yaoqin, Qin, Jilong, and Totsika, Makrina (2023) A conditional nature for the synthetical lethality between defects in lipid and peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (52). e2318882120.

Qin, Jilong, Hong, Yaoqin, Morona, Renato, and Totsika, Makrina (2022) Cysteine-Dependent Conformational Heterogeneity of Shigella flexneri Autotransporter IcsA and Implications of Its Function. Microbiology Spectrum, 10 (6).

Hong, Yaoqin, Qin, Jilong, Verderosa, Anthony, Hawas, Sophia, Zhang, Bing, Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Cronan, John E., and Totsika, Makrina (2022) Loss of β-Ketoacyl Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase III Activity Restores Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Sensitivity to Previously Ineffective Antibiotics. mSphere, 7 (3). e00117-22.

Qin, Jilong, Hong, Yaoqin, Pullela, Karthik, Morona, Renato, Henderson, Ian R., and Totsika, Makrina (2022) A method for increasing electroporation competence of Gram-negative clinical isolates by polymyxin B nonapeptide. Scientific Reports, 12. 11629.

Petit, Guillaume A., Hong, Yaoqin, Djoko, Karrera Y., Whitten, Andrew E., Furlong, Emily J., McCoy, Airlie J., Gulbis, Jacqueline M., Totsika, Makrina, Martin, Jennifer L., and Halili, Maria A. (2022) The suppressor of copper sensitivity protein C from Caulobacter crescentus is a trimeric di­sulfide isomerase that binds copper(I) with subpicomolar affinity. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, 78 (3). pp. 337-352.

Dhouib, Rabeb, Vagenas, Dimitrios, Hong, Yaoqin, Verderosa, Anthony D., Martin, Jennifer L., Heras, Begoña, and Totsika, Makrina (2021) Antivirulence DsbA inhibitors attenuate Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium fitness without detectable resistance. FASEB BioAdvances, 3 (4). pp. 231-242.

Subedi, Pramod, Paxman, Jason J., Wang, Geqing, Hor, Lilian, Hong, Yaoqin, Verderosa, Anthony D., Whitten, Andrew E., Panjikar, Santosh, Santos-Martin, Carlos F., Martin, Jennifer L., Totsika, Makrina, and Heras, Begoña (2021) Salmonella enterica BcfH Is a Trimeric Thioredoxin-Like Bifunctional Enzyme with Both Thiol Oxidase and Disulfide Isomerase Activities. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 35 (1). pp. 21-39.

Verderosa, Anthony D., Dhouib, Rabeb, Hong, Yaoqin, Anderson, Taylah K., Heras, Begona, and Totsika, Makrina (2021) A high-throughput cell-based assay pipeline for the preclinical development of bacterial DsbA inhibitors as antivirulence therapeutics. Scientific Reports, 11. 1569.

Cao, Xinyun, Hong, Yaoqin, Zhu, Lei, Hu, Yuanyuan, and Cronan, John E. (2018) Development and retention of a primordial moonlighting pathway of protein modification in the absence of selection presents a puzzle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (4). pp. 647-655.

Zhang, Chengting, Ma, Yanli, Zhao, Yingxin, Hong, Yaoqin, Cai, Shengbao, and Pang, Mingjie (2018) Phenolic composition, antioxidant and pancreatic lipase inhibitory activities of Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis Mill.) fruits extracted by different solvents and interaction between myricetin-3-O-rhamnoside and quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside. International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 53. pp. 1045-1053.

Hong, Yaoqin, Liu, Michael A., and Reeves, Peter R. (2018) Progress in our understanding of Wzx flippase for translocation of bacterial membrane lipid-linked oligosaccharide. Journal of Bacteriology, 200 (1). e00154-17.

Hong, Yaoqin, and Reeves, Peter R. (2016) Model for the controlled synthesis of O-antigen repeat units involving the WaaL ligase. mSphere, 1 (1).

Liu, Michael A., Stent, Thomas L., Hong, Yaoqin, and Reeves, Peter R. (2015) Inefficient translocation of a truncated O unit by a Salmonella Wzx affects both O-antigen production and cell growth. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 362 (9). fnv053.

Hong, Yaoqin, Morcilla, Vincent A., Liu, Michael A., Russell, Elsa L.M., and Reeves, Peter R. (2015) Three Wzy polymerases are specific for particular forms of an internal linkage in otherwise identical O units. Microbiology, 161 (8). pp. 1639-1647.

Hong, Yaoqin, and Reeves, Peter R. (2014) Diversity of O-Antigen Repeat Unit Structures Can Account for the Substantial Sequence Variation of Wzx Translocases. Journal of Bacteriology, 196 (9). pp. 1713-1722.

Hong, Yaoqin, Duda, Katarzyna A., Cunneen, Monica M., Holst, Otto, and Reeves, Peter R. (2013) The WbaK acetyltransferase of Salmonella enterica group E gives insights into O antigen evolution. Microbiology, 159 (11). pp. 2316-2322.

Hong, Yaoqin, Cunneen, Monica M., and Reeves, Peter R. (2012) The Wzx translocases for Salmonella enterica O-antigen processing have unexpected serotype specificity. Molecular Microbiology, 84 (4). pp. 620-630.