1. Yinan Jiang, Yichen Guo, Jinjin Hao, Rachael Guenter, Justin Lathia, Adam Beck, Reagan Hattaway, Douglas Hurst, Q Jane Wang, Yehe Liu, Qi Cao, Helen Krontiras, Herbert Chen, Roy Silverstein, Bin Ren*. Development of arteriolar niche and self-renewal of breast cancer stem cells by lysophosphatidic acid/protein kinase D signaling. Communications Biology (Nature), June, 2021; 4:780 (Featured discovery selected by UAB Heersink School of Medicine).
  2. Akil Abdellah, Ana K. Gutiérrez-García, Rachael Guenter, Bart J. Rose, Adam W. Beck, Herbert Chen, Bin Ren*. Notch signaling in vascular endothelial cells, angiogenesis and tumor progression: an update and prospective.Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 2021; doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.642352.
  3. Yichen Guo, Yinan Jiang, J. Bart Rose, Ganji Purnachandra Nagaraju, Renata Jaskula-Sztul, Anita B. Hjelmeland, Herbert Chen, Bin Ren*. Protein Kinase D1 Signaling in Cancer Stem Cells with Epithelial-mesenchymal Plasticity. Cells. 2022; 11(23):3885.
  4. Bin Ren*, Best Brad, Ramakrishnan D, Walcott B, Peter Storz, Roy Silverstein. LPA/PKD-1-FoxO1 signaling axis mediates endothelial cell CD36 transcriptional repression, proangiogenic and proarteriogenic reprogramming. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 2016; 36:1197-1208 (Chosen for cover).
  5. Bin Ren, Hale J, Srikanthan S, Roy Silverstein*. Lysophosphatidic acid suppresses endothelial cell CD36 expression and promotes angiogenesis via a PKD-1 dependent signaling pathway. Blood 2011; 117:6036-6045.
  6. Bin Ren, Deng Y, Mukhopadhyay A, Lanahan AA, Zhuang ZW, Moodie KL, Mulligan-Kehoe MJ, Byzova TV, Randall T. Peterson, Michael Simons*. Erk1/2-Akt1 cross-talk-dependent regulation of arteriogenesis. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2010; 120 (4):1217–1228.
  7. Bin Ren, Song K, Parangi S, Jin T, Ye M, Humphreys R, Duquette M, Zhang X, Benhaga N, Jack Lawler, Roya Khosravi-Far*. A double hit to kill tumor and endothelial cells by TRAIL and antiangiogenic 3TSR. Cancer Research 2009; 69 (9): 3856–65.
  8. Bin Ren, Yee KO, Jack Lawler, Roya Khosravi-Far*. Regulation of tumor angiogenesis by thrombospondin-1. Biochimca et Biophysica Acta Review in Cancer 2006; 1765 (2): 178-188 (invited review).