“他是聞名世界的結構生物學家,曾是美國普林斯頓大學分子生物學系建系以來最年輕的終身教授。2013年,他的科研小組研究進展不斷:首次在RNA剪接通路中取得重大進展,為揭示生命現象的基本原理奠定了紮實的理論基礎;他運用X-射線晶體學手段在細胞凋亡研究領域做出突出貢獻,為開發新型抗癌、預防老年痴呆的藥物提供了重要線索……2013年也是他收穫榮譽的一年,他當選為中國科學院院士和美國科學院、美國藝術與科學院雙院外籍院士。他在科研中不忘育人之心,他深受學生愛戴。他就是清華大學生命學院院長施一公。”
Shiqian Qi, Yuxun Pang, Qi Hu, Qun Liu, Hua Li, Yulian Zhou, Tianxi He, Qionglin Liang, Yexing Liu, Xiaoqiu Yuan, Guoan Luo, Huilin Li, Jiawei Wang, Nieng Yan, and Yigong Shi (2010). Crystal structure of the Caenorhabditis elegans apoptosome reveals an octameric assembly of CED-4. Cell 141, 446-457.
Jong W. Yu, Philip D. Jeffrey, and Yigong Shi (2009). Mechanism of procaspase-8 activation by c-FLIPL. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106, 8169-8174. Epub 2009 May 4.
Nieng Yan, Jijie Chai, Eui Seung Lee, Lichuan Gu, Qun Liu, Jiaqing He, Jia-Wei Wu, David Kokel, Huilin Li, Quan Hao, Ding Xue, and Yigong Shi (2005). Structure of the CED-4/CED-9 complex provides insights into programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 437, 831–837.
Stefan J. Riedl, Wenyu Li, Yang Chao, Robert Schwarzenbacher, and Yigong Shi (2005). Structure of the apoptotic protease activating factor 1 (Apaf-1) bound to ADP.
Nature 434, 926–933.
Nieng Yan, Lichuan Gu, David Kokel, Jijie Chai, Wenyu Li, Aidong Han, Lin Chen, Ding Xue, and Yigong Shi (2004). Structural, Biochemical and Functional Analyses of CED-9 Recognition by the Pro-apoptotic Proteins EGL-1 and CED-4.Mol. Cell 15, 999–1006.
Stefan J. Riedl and Yigong Shi (2004). Molecular mechanisms of caspase regulation during apoptosis.Nature Review – Mol. Cell. Biol. 5, 897–907.
Nieng Yan, Jia-Wei Wu, Jun R. Huh, Jijie Chai, Wenyu Li, Bruce A. Hay, and Yigong Shi (2004). Molecular mechanisms of DrICE inhibition by DIAP1 and removal of inhibition by Reaper, Hid, and Grim. Nature-Structural & Molecular Biology 11 (5), 420–428.
Yigong Shi (2004). Caspase Activation: Revisiting the Induced Proximity model.Cell 117, 855–858.
Jijie Chai, Nieng Yan, Jun R. Huh, Jia-Wei Wu, Wenyu Li, Bruce A. Hay, and Yigong Shi (2003). Molecular mechanism of Reaper/Grim/Hid-mediated suppression of DIAP1-dependent Dronc ubiquitination. Nature-Structural Biology 10, 892-898.
Eric N. Shiozaki, Jijie Chai, Daniel J. Rigotti, Stefan J. Riedl, Pingwei Li, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Emad S. Alnemri, Robert Fairman, and YigongShi (2003). Mechanism of XIAP-mediated Inhibition of Caspase-9. Mol. Cell 11, 519-527.
Yigong Shi (2002).Mechanisms of Caspase Activation and Inhibition During Apoptosis (commissioned review article).Mol Cell 9, 459-470.
Jijie Chai Qi Wu, Eric Shiozaki, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Emad S. Alnemri, and YigongShi (2001). Crystal Structure of a Caspase Zymogen: Mechanisms of Activation and Substrate Binding. Cell107, 399-407.
Jia-Wei Wu, Amy Cocina, Jijie Chai, Bruce Hay, and Yigong Shi (2001). Structural Analysis of a Functional DIAP1 Fragment Bound to Grim and Hid Peptides.Mol. Cell 8, 95-104.
Jijie Chai, Eric Shiozaki, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Qi Wu, Pinaki Datta, Emad S. Alnemri, and Yigong Shi (2001).Structural Basis of Caspase-7 Inhibition by XIAP. Cell 104, 769-780.
Stephen W. Fesik and Yigong Shi (2001).Controlling the Caspases.Science 294, 1477-1478.
Geng Wu, Jijie Chai, Tomeka Suber, Jia-Wei Wu, Chunying Du, Xiaodong Wang, and Yigong Shi (2000).Structural Basis of IAP Recognition by Smac/DIABLO. Nature408, 1008-1012.
Jijie Chai, Chunying Du, Jia-Wei Wu, Saw Kyin, Xiaodong Wang, and Yigong Shi (2000).Structural and Biochemical Basis of Apoptotic Activation by Smac/DIABLO. Nature 406, 855-862.
Hongxu Qin, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Geng Wu, Emad S. Alnemri, Yigong Shi (1999). Structural Basis of Procaspase-9 Recruitment by the Apoptotic Protease Activating Factor 1. Nature 399, 549-557.