First or co-first author
1.Zhou, L. #, Zhou, W., Joseph, A.M., Chu, C., Putzel, G.G., Fang, B., Teng, F., Lyu, M., et al. (2022). Group 3 innate lymphoid cells produce the growth factor HB-EGF to protect the intestine from TNF-mediated inflammation. Nat Immunol 23, 251-261. (This work was highlighted by Nature Reviews Immunology)
2.Zhou, L. #, Lin, Q., and Sonnenberg, G.F. (2022). Metabolic control of innate lymphoid cells in health and disease. Nat Metab 4, 1650-1659.
3.Zhou, L., and Sonnenberg, G.F. (2020). In Situ Support of ILC Precursors. Immunity 52, 207-209.
4.Zhou, L., Chu, C., Teng, F., Bessman, N.J., Goc, J., Santosa, E.K., Putzel, G.G., Kabata, H., Kelsen, J.R., Baldassano, R.N., et al. (2019). Innate lymphoid cells support regulatory T cells in the intestine through interleukin-2. Nature 568, 405-409. (This work was highlighted by Nature Reviews Immunology)
5.Zhou, L*., Yao, L*., Zhang, Q*., Xie, W., Wang, X., Zhang, H., Xu, J., Lin, Q., Li, Q., Xuan, Y., et al. (2019). REGgamma controls Th17 cell differentiation and autoimmune inflammation by regulating dendritic cells. Cell Mol Immunol 17, 1136-1147.
6.Yao, L.*, Zhou, L.*, Xuan, Y.*, Zhang, P.*, Wang, X., Wang, T., Meng, T., Xue, Y., Ma, X., Shah, A.S., et al. (2019). The proteasome activator REGgamma counteracts immunoproteasome expression and autoimmunity. J Autoimmun 103, 102282.
7.Zhou, L., and Sonnenberg, G.F. (2018). Essential immunologic orchestrators of intestinal homeostasis. Sci Immunol 3.
8.Xu, J.*, Zhou, L.*, Ji, L.*, Chen, F.*, Fortmann, K., Zhang, K., Liu, Q., Li, K., Wang, W., Wang, H., et al. (2016). The REGgamma-proteasome forms a regulatory circuit with IkappaBvarepsilon and NFkappaB in experimental colitis. Nat Commun 7, 10761.
Contributing author (Selected)
1.Zhou, W., Zhou, L., Zhou, J., Bank, J.R.I.L.C., Chu, C., Zhang, C., Sockolow, R.E., Eberl, G., and Sonnenberg, G.F. (2022). ZBTB46 defines and regulates ILC3s that protect the intestine. Nature 609, 159-165.
2.Lyu, M., Suzuki, H., Kang, L., Gaspal, F., Zhou, W., Goc, J., Zhou, L., Zhou, J., Zhang, W., Bank, J.R.I.L.C., et al. (2022). ILC3s select microbiota-specific regulatory T cells to establish tolerance in the gut. Nature 610, 744-751.
3.Zhang, W., Lyu, M., Bessman, N.J., Xie, Z., Arifuzzaman, M., Yano, H., Parkhurst, C.N., Chu, C., Zhou, L., Putzel, G.G., et al. (2022). Gut-innervating nociceptors regulate the intestinal microbiota to promote tissue protection. Cell 185, 4170-4189 e4120.
4.Chu, C., Parkhurst, C.N., Zhang, W., Zhou, L., Yano, H., Arifuzzaman, M., and Artis, D. (2021). The ChAT-acetylcholine pathway promotes group 2 innate lymphoid cell responses and anti-helminth immunity. Sci Immunol 6.
5.Bessman, N.J., Mathieu, J.R.R., Renassia, C., Zhou, L., Fung, T.C., Fernandez, K.C., Austin, C., Moeller, J.B., Zumerle, S., Louis, S., et al. (2020). Dendritic cell-derived hepcidin sequesters iron from the microbiota to promote mucosal healing. Science 368, 186-189.
6.Chu, C., Murdock, M.H., Jing, D., Won, T.H., Chung, H., Kressel, A.M., Tsaava, T., Addorisio, M.E., Putzel, G.G., Zhou, L., et al. (2019). The microbiota regulate neuronal function and fear extinction learning. Nature 574, 543-548.
7.Teng, F., Goc, J., Zhou, L., Chu, C., Shah, M.A., Eberl, G., and Sonnenberg, G.F. (2019). A circadian clock is essential for homeostasis of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in the gut. Sci Immunol 4.