2021

• Guobin Song, Fang Tian, Huaxing Liu, Guoqiang Li,  Peng Zheng*, Pioglitazone Inhibits Metal Cluster Transfer of mitoNEET by Stabilizing the Labile Fe–N Bond Revealed at Single-Bond Level, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, XXX, 3860–38674 (2021) Link 






• Shengchao Shi, Ziyi Wang, Yibing Deng, Fang Tian, Qingsong Wu, Peng Zheng*, Combination of SPAAC Click Chemistry and Enzymatic Ligation for Stable and Efficient Protein Immobilization for Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy, CCS Chemistry 2021:1-14 (2021) Link 

2020

• Guobin Song, Xuan Ding, Huaxing Liu, Guodong Yuan, Fang Tian, Shengchao Shi, Yang Yang, Guoqiang Li, Peng Zheng*, Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals that the Fe–N Bond Enables Multiple Rupture Pathways of the 2Fe2S Cluster in a MitoNEET Monomer, Analytical Chemistry 92:14783-14789 (2020)  Link 






• Fang Tian, Guoqiang Li, Bin Zheng, Yutong Liu, Shengchao Shi, Yibing Deng, Peng Zheng*, Verification of Sortase for Protein Conjugation by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Chemical Communications 56:3943-3946 (2020)  Link 

• Yibing Deng, Bin Zheng, Yutong Liu, Shengchao Shi, Jingyuan Nie, Tao Wu, Peng Zheng*, OaAEP1-Mediated Enzymatic Synthesis and Immobilization of Polymerized Protein for Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy, Journal of Visualized Experiments (2020) Link

2019

• Yibing Deng, Tao Wu, Mengdi Wang, Shengchao Shi, Guodong Yuan, Xi Li, Hanchung Chong, Bin Wu, Peng Zheng*, Enzymatic Biosynthesis and Immobilization of Polyprotein Verified at the Single-Molecule Level, Nature Communications 10:2775 (2019) Link

• Guodong Yuan, Qun Ma, Tao Wu, Mengdi Wang, Xi Li, Jinglin Zuo, Peng Zheng*, Multistep Protein Unfolding Scenarios from the Rupture of a Complex Metal Cluster Cd₃S_9, Scientific Reports 9: 10518 (2019) Link 

• Guodong Yuan, Huaxing Liu, Qun Ma, Xi Li, Jingyuan Nie, Jinglin Zuo, Peng Zheng*, Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Iron-ligand Bonds Modulate Protein in Different Modes, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10:5428-5433 (2019) Link

• Zihe Yin, Guobin Song, Yang Jiao, Peng Zheng, Jiangfei Xu, Xi Zhang, Dissipative Supramolecular Polymerization Powered by Light, CCS Chemistry 1:335-342 (2019) Link

• Jiancheng Lai, Xiaoyang Jia, Dapeng Wang, Yibing Deng, Peng Zheng, Chenghui Li, Jinglin Zuo, Zhenan Bao, Thermodynamically Stable Whilst Kinetically Labile Coordination Bonds Lead to Strong and Tough Self-healing Polymers, Nature Communications 10: 1164 (2019) Link

• Zhemin Zhang, Qi Huang, Xuan Tao, Guobin Song, Peng Zheng, Hongyan Li, Hongzhe Sun, Wei Xia, The Unique Trimeric Assembly of the Virulence Factor HtrA from Helicobacter Pylori Occurs via N-terminal Domain Swapping, Journal of Biological Chemistry 294: 7990-8000 (2019) Link

2018

• Hongbin Li, Peng Zheng, Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: a New Tool for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 43:58-67 (2018) Link

2016

• ChengHui Li, Chao Wang, Christoph Keplinger, JingLin Zuo, Lihua Jin, Yang Sun, Peng Zheng, Yi Cao, Franziska Lissel, Christian Linder, XiaoZeng You, Zhenan Bao, A Highly Stretchable Autonomous Self-Healing Elastomer, Nature Chemistry 8:618-624 (2016)  Link

2015

• Peng Zheng, Guilherme M. Arantes, Martin J. Field, Hongbin Li, Force-induced Chemical Reactions on the Metal Centre in a Single Metalloprotein Molecule, Nature Communications 6:7569 (2015) Link

2014 and Before

• P. Zheng, Y. Wang, H. Li, Reversible Unfolding–Refolding of Rubredoxin: A Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Study, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed 53(51):14060-14063 (2014) Link

• P. Zheng, C. Chou, Y. Guo, Y. Wang, H. Li, Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals the Molecular Mechanical Anisotropy of  the FeS4 Metal Center in Rubredoxin, Journal of American Chemistry Society  135(47):17783-17792 (2013) Link

• P. Zheng, S.J. Takayama, A.G. Mauk, H. Li, Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals that Iron is Released from the Active Site of Rubredoxin by a Stochastic Mechanism, Journal of American Chemistry Society 135(21):7992-8000 (2013) Link

• Y.N. Li, G. Lamour, J. Gsponer, P.  Zheng, H. Li, The Molecular Mechanism Underlying Mechanical Anisotropy of the Protein GB1, Biophysical Journal 103(11):2361-2368 (2012) Link

• P. Zheng, S.J. Takayama, A.G. Mauk, H. Li, Hydrogen Bond Strength Modulates the Mechanical Strength of Ferric-Thiolate Bonds in Rubredoxin, Journal of American Chemistry Society 134(9):4124-4131 (2012) Link

• P. Zheng, H. Li, Highly Covalent Ferric-thiolate Bonds Exhibit Surprisingly Low Mechanical Stability, Journal of American Chemistry Society 133(17): 6791-6798 (2011) Link

• P. Zheng, Y. Cao, T. Bu, S.K. Straus, H. Li, Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals that Electrostatic Interactions Affect the Mechanical Stability of Proteins, Biophysical Journal 100(6):1534-1541 (2011) Link

• P. Zheng, Y. Cao, H. Li, Direct Measurements of the Mechanical Stability of Zinc-Thiolate Bonds in Rubredoxin by Single-molecule Atomic Force Microscopy, Biophysical Journal 101(6):1467-1473 (2011) Link

• P. Zheng, H. Li, Facile Method of Constructing Polyproteins for Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Studies, Langmuir 27(10):5713-5718 (2011) Link