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1. Cui, C.; Song, D. Y.; Drennan, C. L.; Stubbe, J. A.*; Nocera, D. G.* Radical Transport Facilitated by a Proton Transfer Network at the Subunit Interface of Ribonucleotide Reductase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (9), 5145–5154.
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c11483
   
2. Meyer, A.; Kehl, A.; Cui, C.; Reichardt, F. A. K.; Hecker, F.; Funk, L. M.; Pan, K. T.; Urlaub, H.; Tittmann, K.; Stubbe, J.*; Bennati, M.* 19F Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance Reveals Interaction between Redox-Active Tyrosines across the α/β Interface of E. Coli Ribonucleotide Reductase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022. 144 (25), 11270–11282.
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c02906
   
3. Narasimhan, J.*; Letinski, S.; Jung, S. P.; Gerasyuto, A.; Wang, J.; Arnold, M.; Chen, G.; Hedrick, J.; Dumble, M.; Ravichandran, K.; Levitz, T.; Cui, C.; Drennan, C. L.*; Stubbe J.*; Karp, G.*; Branstrom, A.* Ribonucleotide Reductase, a Novel Drug Target for Gonorrhea. Elife 2022, 11, e67447.
   https://elifesciences.org/articles/67447
   
4. Cui, C.; Greene, B. L.*; Kang, G.; Drennan, C. L.; Stubbe, J.*; Nocera, D. G.* Gated Proton Release during Radical Transfer at the Subunit Interface of Ribonucleotide Reductase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 143 (1), 176–183.
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.0c07879
   
5. Greene, B. L.*; Kang, G.; Cui, C.; Bennati, M.; Nocera, D. G.; Drennan, C. L.; Stubbe, J. A. Ribonucleotide Reductases: Structure, Chemistry, and Metabolism Suggest New Therapeutic Targets. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2020, 89, 45–75.
   https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-biochem-013118-111843
   
6. Yu, S.-S.; Li, J.-J.; Cui, C.; Tian, S.; Chen, J.-J.; Yu, H.-Q.; Hou, C.; Nilges, M. J.; Lu, Y.* Structural Basis for a Quadratic Relationship between Electronic Absorption and Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance Parameters of Type 1 Copper Proteins. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59 (15), 10620–10627.
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01065
   
7. Cui, C.; Reed, J. R.; Mirts, E. N.; Lu, Y*. Design and Engineering of Heme Enzymes with O2-dependent Catalytic Activity. O2-dependent heme enzymes. ed. Dioxygen-dependent Heme Enzymes. Edited by Ikeda-Saito, M. and Raven, E. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2018.
   https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/chapter/bk9781782629917-00037/978-1-78262-991-7
   
8. Yu, Y.; Cui, C.; Wang, J.*; Lu, Y.* Biosynthetic Approach to Modeling and Understanding Metalloproteins Using Unnatural Amino Acids. Sci. China Chem. 2017, 60 (2), 188–200.
   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11426-016-0343-2
   
9. Yu, Y.; Cui, C. (co-first author); Liu, X.; Petrik, I. D.; Wang, J.*; Lu, Y.* A Designed Metalloenzyme Achieving the Catalytic Rate of a Native Enzyme. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (36), 11570–11573.
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.5b07119
   
10. Yu, Y.; Lv, X.; Li, J.; Zhou, Q.; Cui, C.; Hosseinzadeh, P.; Mukherjee, A.; Nilges, M. J.; Wang, J.*; Lu, Y.* Defining the Role of Tyrosine and Rational Tuning of Oxidase Activity by Genetic Incorporation of Unnatural Tyrosine Analogs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (14), 4594–4597.
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja5109936
    
11. Zhu, Y.-Y.; Cui, C.; Qian, K.; Yin, J.; Wang, B.-W.*; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.* A Family of Enantiopure FeIII4 Single Molecule Magnets: Fine Tuning of Energy Barrier by Remote Substituent. Dalt. Trans. 2014, 43 (31), 11897–11907.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/dt/c3dt53317d
    
12. Zhu, Y.; Cui, C.; Li, N.; Wang, B.*; Wang, Z.; Gao, S.* Constructing a Series of Azide-bridged CuII Magnetic Low-dimensional Coordination Polymers by Using Pybox Ligands. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 2013 (17), 3101–3111.
    https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejic.201300107
    
13. Zhu, Y.-Y.; Cui, C.; Zhang, Y.-Q.; Jia, J.-H.; Guo, X.; Gao, C.; Qian, K.; Jiang, S.-D.; Wang, B.-W.*; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.* Zero-Field Slow Magnetic Relaxation from Single Co (II) Ion: A Transition Metal Single-Molecule Magnet with High Anisotropy Barrier. Chem. Sci. 2013, 4 (4), 1802–1806.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/sc/c3sc21893g
    
14. Zhu, Y.-Y.; Guo, X.; Cui, C.; Wang, B.-W.*; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.* An Enantiopure FeIII4 Single-Molecule Magnet. Chem. Commun. 2011, 47 (28), 8049–8051.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/CC/C1CC12831K