·Yihua Chen, Min Yin, Geoff P. Horsman, and Ben Shen. (2011) Improvement of the Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotic C-1027 Production by Manipulating Its Biosynthetic Pathway Regulation in Streptomyces globisporus. Journal of Natural Products 74: 420-424.
·Yihua Chen, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski, Jianhua Ju, Shuangjun Lin, Scott R. Rajski, and Ben Shen. (2010) Characterization of FdmV as an amide synthetase for fredericamycin A biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseus ATCC 43944. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 38853-38860.
·Geoff P. Horsman*, Yihua Chen*, Jon S. Thorson, and Ben Shen. (2010) Polyketide synthase chemistry does not direct biosynthetic divergence between 9- and 10-membered enediynes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 11331-11335 (*co-first author)
·Yihua Chen, Min Yin, Geoff P. Horsman, Shengxiong Huang, and Ben Shen. (2010) Manipulation of pathway regulation in Streptomyces globisporus for overproduction of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027. The Journal of Antibiotics 63: 482-485.
·Yihua Chen*, Keqiang Fan*, Yongzhi He, Xinping Xu, Yanfeng Peng, Tingting Yu, Cuijuan Jia and Keqian Yang. (2010) Characterization of JadH as an FAD- and NAD(P)H-dependent bifunctional hydroxylase/dehydrase involved in jadomycin biosynthesis. ChemBioChem. 11: 1055-1060. (*co-first author)
·Yihua Chen, Micheal J Smanski, and Ben Shen. (2010) Improvement of secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces by manipulating pathway regulation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 86: 19-25.
·Yihua Chen, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkoski, Scott R. Rajski, and Ben Shen (2009) In vivo investigation of the roles of FdmM and FdmM1 in fredericamycin biosynthesis unveiling a new family of oxygenases. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 284: 24735-24743.
·Yihua Chen, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski, and Ben Shen (2008) Identification and utility of FdmR1 as a Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein activator for fredericamycin production in Streptomyces griseus ATCC 49344 and heterologous hosts. Journal of Bacteriology 190: 5587-5596.
·Yihua Chen, Yinggang Luo, Jianhua Ju, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski, Scott R. Rajski, and Ben Shen. (2008) Identification of fredericamycin E from Streptomyces griseus: insights into fredericamycin A biosynthesis highlighting carbaspirocycle formation. Journal of Natural Products 71: 431-437.
·Yi-hua Chen, Chen-chen Wang, Lisa Greenwell, Uwe Rix, Dirk Hoffmeister, Leo C. Vining, Jürgen Rohr, and Ke-qian Yang (2005) Functional analyses of oxygenases in jadomycin biosynthesis and identification of JadH as a bifunctional oxygenase/dehydrase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 280: 22508-22514.
·Xiang-Jing Wang, Yi-Jun Yan, Bo Zhang, Jing An, Ji-Jia Wang, Jun Tian, Ling Jiang, Yi-Hua Chen, et al. and Wen-Sheng Xiang (2010) Genome Sequence of the Milbemycins-producing Bacterium Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Journal of Bacteriology 192: 4526-4527.
·Shuangjun Lin, Geoffrey P. Horsman, Yihua Chen, Wenli Li, and Ben Shen (2009) Characterization of the SgcF epoxide hydrolase supporting a (R)-vicinal diol intermediate for enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 biosynthesis. Journal of American Chemical Society 131: 16410-16417.
·Si-Kyu Lim, Jianhua Ju, Emmanuel Zazopoulos, Hui Jiang, Jeong-Woo Seo, Yihua Chen, Zhiyang Feng, Scott R. Rajski, Chris M. Farnet, and Ben Shen (2009) Iso-migrastatin, migrastatin, and dorrigocin production in Streptomyces platensis NRRL 18993 is governed by a single biosynthetic machinery featuring an acyltransferase-less type I polyketide synthase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 284:29746-29756.
·Uwe Rix, Chenchen Wang, Yihua Chen, Fredilyn M. Lipata, Lily L. Remsing Rix, Lisa M. Greenwell, Leo C. Vining, Keqian Yang, and Jürgen Rohr (2005) The oxidative ring cleavage in jadomycin biosynthesis: a multistep oxygenation cascade in a biosynthetic black box. ChemBioChem 6: 1-8.