Publications

150. Tao Zhang, Jinghua Cai, Muyun Xu, Xinrui Ma, Hui Wang, Mengzhe Wang, Zhaoguo Han, Jason Wang, Eric Smith, Zibo Li*, and Zhanhong Wu.* Development of ¹⁸F-labeled Vinyl Sulfone-PSMAi Conjugates as New PET Agents for Prostate Cancer Imaging. Mol. Pharmaceutics 2022, 19, 2, 720–727.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00743

149. Wei Chen, Hui Wang, Nicholas E. S. Tay, Vincent A. Pistritto, Kang-Po Li, Tao Zhang, Zhanhong Wu, David A. Nicewicz*, Zibo Li.* Arene Radiofluorination Enabled by Photoredox-Mediated Halide Interconversion. Nature Chem, 2022, 14, 216–223. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-021-00835-7

148. Wang, C.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, T.; Zou, X.; Wang, H.; Rosenberger, J.; Vannam, R.; Trout, W.; Jia, X.;* Li, Z.;* Fox, J.M.* Enabling in vivo Photocatalytic Activation of Rapid Bioorthogonal Chemistry by Repurposing Si-Rhodamine Fluorophores as Cytocompatible Far-Red Photocatalysts,  J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2021, 143, 28, 10793–10803. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c05547

147. Xinyi Zhang, Li Wang, Wenhui Fu, Yue Feng, Chengrun Zeng, Tingting Xu, Jianpeng Cao, Zibo Li^* and Yue Chen^*, ¹⁸F-PEG1-Vinyl Sulfone-labeled Red Blood Cells as Positron Emission Tomography Agent to Image Intra-abdominal Bleeding. Frontiers in Medicine-Nuclear Medicine, 2021, in press. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.646862.

146. Valerie Lynn Jewells, Hong Yuan, Joseph R Merrill, Jonathan Edward Frank, Akhil Patel, Stephanie M cohen, Ben Giglio, Nana N Feinberg, Glenn K Matsushima, Zibo Li. Assessment of ¹⁸F-PBR-111 in the Cuprizone Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis. Diagnostics, 2021, 11(5):786. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11050786 

145. Li Wang, Hui Wang, Kun Shen, Hyejin Park, Tao Zhang, Xuedan Wu, Mei Hu, Hong Yuan, Yue Chen, Zhanhong Wu,*, Qiu Wang,* Zibo Li. Development of novel ¹⁸F-PET agents for tumor hypoxia imaging. J Med Chem, 2021, 64(9):5593-5602.

144. Chaebin Lee, Xiangji Liu,   Weizhong Zhang, Michael A. Duncan, Fangchao Jiang, Christine Kim, Xuefeng Yan, Yong Teng, Hui Wang, Wen Jiang, Zibo Li,* Jin Xie*. Ultrasmall Gd@Cdots as a radiosensitizing agent for non-small cell lung cancer. Nanoscale, 2021, 13(20):9252-9263.

143. Zürcher, N.R.^#, Walsh, E.C.^#, Phillips, R.D., Cernasov, P.M., Tseng, C.-E.J., Dharanikota, A., Smith, E., Li, Z., Kinard, J.L., Bizzell, J.C., Greene, R.K., Dillon, D., Pizzagalli, D., Izquierdo-Garcia, D., Lalush, D., Truong, K., Hooker, J.M., and Dichter, G.S. (in press). A Simultaneous [¹¹C]Raclopride Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Striatal Dopamine Binding in Autism; Translational Psychiatry, 2021, 11:33

142. Douglas J. Hermes^1#, Ian R. Jacobs^1#, Megan C. Key¹, Alexis F. League¹, Barkha J. Yadav-Samudrala¹, Changqing Xu¹, Virginia D. McLane², Sara R. Nass², Rick B. Meeker³, Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska⁴, Aron H. Lichtman², Zibo Li⁵, Zhanhong Wu⁵, Hong Yuan⁵, Pamela E. Knapp^2,6, Kurt F. Hauser^2,6, and Sylvia Fitting¹. Escalating morphine dosing in HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice with sustained Tat exposure reveals an allostatic shift in neuroinflammatory regulation accompanied by increased neuroprotective non-endocannabinoid lipid signaling molecules and amino acids. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2020, 17:345

141. Lin Bai; Fangchao Jiang; Renjie Wang; Chaebin Lee; Hui Wang; Weizhong Zhang; Wen Jiang; Dandan Li; Bin Ji; Zibo Li; Shi Gao; Jin Xie, Qingjie Ma. Ultrathin Gold Nanowires to Enhance Radiation Therapy. Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2020, 18(1):131.

140. Zhang T, Cai J, Wang H, Wang M, Yuan H, Wu Z, Ma X,* Li Z*. RXH-Reactive ¹⁸F-Vinyl Sulfones as Versatile Agents for PET Probe Construction. Bioconjug Chem. 2020, doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00487.

139. Wang L, White AR, Chen W, Wu Z, Nicewicz DA,* Li Z*. Direct Radiofluorination of Arene C-H Bonds via Photoredox Catalysis Using a Peroxide as the Terminal Oxidant. Org Lett. 2020 22(20):7971-7975.

138.  Nicholas E. S. Tay, Wei Chen, Alison Levens, Vincent A. Pistritto, Zeng Huang, Zhanhong Wu, Zibo Li*, David A. Nicewicz*. Polarity-Reversed Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: ¹⁹F and ¹⁸F Arene Deoxyfluorination via Organic Photoredox Catalysis. Nature Catalysis, 2020, DOI:1038/s41929-020-0495-0.

137.  Matthew J. Haney, Yuling Zhao, Jimmy Fay, Hwang Duhyeong, Mengzhe Wang, Hui Wang, Zibo Li, Yueh Z. Lee, Mohan Kumar Muthu Karuppan, Nazira El-Hage, and Elena V. Batrakova. Genetically-modified Macrophages Accomplish Targeted Gene Delivery to the Inflamed Brain in Transgenic Parkin Q311X(A) Mice. Scientific Reports, 2020 Jul 16;10(1):11818. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68874-7..

136.  Wang M, Wang H, Niu CQ, Zhang T, Wu Z, Li Z. Tetrazine-TCO Ligation: A Potential Simple Approach to Improve Tumor Uptake through Enhanced Blood Circulation. Bioconjug Chem. 2020. 31(7):1795-1803.

135.  Wang R, Cao Z, Wei L, Bai L, Wang H, Zhou S, Zhan S, Ji B, Li Z, Gao S, Xie J, Ma Q. Barium tungstate nanoparticles to enhance radiation therapy against cancer. 2020:102230. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2020.102230. Online ahead of print.

134.  Huijuan Feng, He Zhang, Mengzhe Wang, Raghu Vannam, Hui Wang, Xuefeng Yan, Wei Ouyang,^* Xinqiao Jia, Joseph Fox,^* Zibo Li.^* Improving Tumor-to-Background contrast through hydrophilic tetrazines: the construction of ¹⁸F labeled PET agents targeting non-small cell lung carcinoma. Chemistry – A European Journal. 2020, 26(21):4690-4694.

133.  Amar M. Singh, Liang Zhang, John Avery, Amelia Yin, Yuhong Du, Hui Wang, Zibo Li, Haian Fu, Hang Yin, Stephen Dalton. Human beige adipocytes generated from adipose-derived stem cells have utility for therapeutic development. Nature Communications, 2020, in press.

132.  Giulia Fragola, Angela M. Mabb, Bonnie Taylor-Blake, Jesse K. Niehaus, William D. Chronister, Hanqian Mao, Jeremy M. Simon, Hong Yuan, Zibo Li, Michael J. McConnell, Mark J. Zylka. Deletion of Topoisomerase 1 in excitatory neurons causes genomic instability and early onset neurodegeneration. Nature Communications, 2020, in press.

131.  Yuxiao Xia, Chengrun Zeng, Yanhong Zhao, Xinyi Zhang, Zibo Li,^* Yue Chen.^* Comparative evaluation of ⁶⁸Ga-labelled TATEs: the impact of chelators on imaging. EJNMMI Research. 2020, doi: 10.1186/s13550-020-00620-6.

130.  Lauren M. Slosky, Yushi Bai, Krisztian Toth, Caroline Ray, Lauren K. Rochelle, Alexandra Badea, Rahul Chandrasekhar, Vladimir M. Pogorelov, Dennis M. Abraham, Namratha Atluri, Satyamaheshwar Peddibhotla, Michael P. Hedrick, Paul Hershberger, Patrick Maloney, Hong Yuan, Zibo Li, William C. Wetsel, Anthony B. Pinkerton, Lawrence S. Barak, Marc G. Caron. β-arrestin Biased Allosteric Modulator of NTSR1 Selectively Attenuates Addictive Behaviors. Cell, 2020, 181:1364-1379.

129.  Wei Chen, Zeng Huang, Nicholas E. S. Tay, Benjamin Giglio, Mengzhe Wang, Hui Wang, Zhanhong Wu, David A. Nicewicz ,* Zibo Li*. Direct Arene C-H Fluorination with ¹⁸F^– via Metal-free Organic Photoredox Catalysis. Science, 2019, 364(6446):1170-1174.

128.  Tingting He, Mengzhe Wang, Hui Wang, Hongpei Tan, Yongxiang Tang, Eric Smith, Zhanhong Wu, Weihua Liao*, Shuo Hu*, Zibo Li*. Evaluation of Neurotensin Receptor 1 as potential biomarker for prostate cancer theranostic use. EJNMMI, 2019, 46:2199-2207.

127.  Xiaofen Ma, Mengzhe Wang, Hui Wang, Tao Zhang, Zhanhong Wu, Mariia V. Sutton, Vladimir V. Popik, Guihua Jiang,* Zibo Li*. Development of ¹⁸F-labeled NT-PSMA heterodimer for prostate cancer Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2019, doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00252.

126.  Benjamin C. Giglio, Hui Wang, Xuefeng Yan, Zibo Li. Synthesis and Initial Evaluation of Radioactive 5-I-α-Methyl-Tryptophan: A Trp Based Agent Targeting IDO-1. MedChemComm, 2019, 10(5):814-816.

125.  Jiang W, Yin L, Chen H, Paschall AV, Zhang L, Fu W, Zhang W, Todd T, Yu KS, Zhou S, Zhen Z, Butler M, Yao L, Zhang F, Shen Y, Li Z, Yin A, Yin H, Wang X, Avci FY, Yu X, Xie J. NaCl Nanoparticles as a Cancer Therapeutic. Adv Mater. 2019;31(46):e1904058. doi: 10.1002/adma.201904058.

124.  Wang H, Wang M, Chansaenpak K, Liu Y, Yuan H, Xie J, Yin H, Branca RT, Li Z, Wu Z. A Novel PET Probe for Brown Adipose Tissue Imaging in Rodents. Mol Imaging Biol. 2019. doi: 10.1007/s11307-019-01426-2.

123.  Long T, Yang N, Zhou M, Chen D, Li Y, Li J, Tang Y, Liu Z, Li Z, Hu S. Clinical Application of 18F-AlF-NOTA-Octreotide PET/CT in Combination With ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT for Imaging Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. Clin Nucl Med. 2019: 44(6):452-458.

122.  Huamin Hu, Xuefeng Yan, Hui Wang, Joji Tanaka, Mengzhe Wang, Wei You,* Zibo Li* Perfluorocarbon-based O2 nanocarrier for efficient photodynamic therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2019, 7,1116-1123. (the most popular articles published in Journal of Materials Chemistry B in 2019)

121.  Wang M, Vannam R, Lambert WD, Xie Y, Wang H, Giglio B, Ma X, Wu Z, Fox J,* Li Z.* Hydrophilic 18F-labeled trans-5-oxocene (oxoTCO) for efficient construction of PET agents with improved tumor-to-background ratios in neurotensin receptor (NTR) imaging. Chem Commun (Camb). 2019;55(17):2485-2488.