Selected Publications

Elife (2024)

Integrative analysis of DNA replication origins and ORC-/MCM-binding sites in human cells reveals a lack of overlap  Link to the article 

Mengxue Tian, Zhenjia Wang, Zhangli Su, Etsuko Shibata, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Anindya Dutta, Chongzhi Zang

iScience (2024)

sRNA-Effector: A tool to expedite discovery of small RNA regulators  Link to the article 

Briana Wilson, Fatemeh Esmaeili, Matthew Parsons, Wafa Salah, Zhangli Su, Anindya Dutta

PLOS Genetics (2023)

XRN2 suppresses aberrant entry of tRNA trailers into argonaute in humans and Arabidopsis  Link to the article 

Briana Wilson, Zhangli Su, Pankaj Kumar, Anindya Dutta

Nature Communications (2022)

TRMT6/61A-dependent base methylation of tRNA-derived fragments regulates gene-silencing activity and the unfolded protein response in bladder cancer Link to the article 

Zhangli Su, Ida Monshaugen, Briana Wilson, Fengbin Wang, Arne Klungland, Rune Ougland, Anindya Dutta

NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics (2022)

tRForest: a novel random forest-based algorithm for tRNA-derived fragment target prediction Link to the article 

Rohan Parikh, Briana Wilson, Laine Marrah, Zhangli Su, Shekhar Saha, Pankaj Kumar, Fenix Huang, Anindya Dutta

Front. Mol. Biosci. (2022)

Characterization of novel small non-coding RNAs and their modifications in bladder cancer using an updated small RNA-seq workflow Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, Ida Monshaugen, Arne Klungland, Rune Ougland, Anindya Dutta

Science (2021)

De-stressing the T cells in need  Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, Anindya Dutta

Genome Medicine (2020)

The pan-cancer landscape of prognostic germline variants in 10,582 patients  Link to the article 


Ajay Chatrath, Roza Przanowska, Shashi Kiran, Zhangli Su, Shekhar Saha, Briana Wilson, Takaaki Tsunematsu, Ji-Hye Ahn, Kyung Yong Lee, Teressa Paulsen, Ewelina Sobierajska, Manjari Kiran, Xiwei Tang, Tianxi Li, Pankaj Kumar, Aakrosh Ratan,  Anindya Dutta

Annual Review of Genetics (2020)

Non-canonical roles of tRNAs: tRNA fragments and beyond 

Link to the article 



Zhangli Su, Briana Wilson, Pankaj Kumar, Anindya Dutta

FASEB Journal (2020)

miR‐206 family is important for mitochondrial and muscle function, but not essential for myogenesis in vitro  Link to the article 



Roza K. Przanowska, Ewelina Sobierajska, Zhangli Su, Kate Jensen, Piotr Przanowski, Sarbajeet Nagdas, Jennifer A. Kashatus, David F. Kashatus, Sanchita Bhatnagar, John R. Lukens, Anindya Dutta

Science Advances (2020)

ATAC-seq identifies thousands of extrachromosomal circular DNA in cancer and cell lines  

Link to the article 



Pankaj Kumar, Shashi Kiran, Shekhar Saha, Zhangli Su, Teressa Paulsen, Ajay Chatrath, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Etsuko Shibata, Anindya Dutta

Journal of Biological Chemistry (2019)

Angiogenin generates specific stress-induced tRNA halves and is not involved in tRF-3 mediated gene silencing Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, Canan Kuscu, Asrar Malik, Etsuko Shibata, Anindya Dutta

PNAS (2019)

A packing for A-form DNA in an icosahedral virus Link to the article 


Fengbin Wang, Ying Liu, Zhangli Su, Tomasz Osinski, Guilherme AP de Oliveira, James F Conway, Stefan Schouten, Mart Krupovic, David Prangishvili, Edward H Egelman

RNA (2018)

tRNA fragments (tRFs) guide Ago to regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in a Dicer-independent manner Link to the article 


Canan Kuscu, Pankaj Kumar, Manjari Kiran, Zhangli Su, Asrar Malik and Anindya Dutta

Nature Communications (2016)

Reader domain specificity and lysine demethylase-4 family function Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, Fengbin Wang, Jin-Hee Lee, Kimberly E. Stephens, Romeo Papazyan, Ekaterina Voronina, Kimberly A. Krautkramer, Ana Raman, Jeremy J. Thorpe, Melissa D. Boersma, Vyacheslav I. Kuznetsov, Mitchell D. Miller, Sean D. Taverna, George N. Phillips Jr, John M. Denu

ACS Chemical Biology (2016)

Reading the combinatorial histone language Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, John M Denu

Current protocols in molecular biology (2015)

MARCC (Matrix‐Assisted Reader Chromatin Capture): An Antibody‐Free Method to Enrich and Analyze Combinatorial Nucleosome Modifications Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, John M Denu

Epigenetics & Chromatin (2014)

ChIP-less analysis of chromatin states Link to the article 


Zhangli Su, Melissa D Boersma, Jin-Hee Lee, Samuel S Oliver, Shichong Liu, Benjamin A Garcia, John M Denu

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."


- Claude Bernard