Publications:
Zou, Z., Cironi, P., Lin, A. J., Xu, Y., Hrvatin, S., Golan, D. E., Silver, P. A., Walsh, C. T., & Yin, J. "Genetically encoded short peptide tags for orthogonal protein labeling by Sfp and AcpS phosphopantetheinyl transferases" ACS Chemical Biology, 2, 347-356 (2007).
Yin, J., Straight, P. D., Hrvatin, S., Dorrestein, P. C., Bumpus, S., Jao, C., Kelleher, N. L., Kolter, R., and Walsh, C. T. "Genome-wide high throughput mining of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters by phage display," Chem. Biol., 14, 303 (2007).
This paper was featured in Research Highlights in Nature Methods, 4, 470-471 (2007).
Singh, G. M., Vaillancourt, F. H., Yin, J., and Walsh, C. T. "Characterization of SyrC, an Aminoacyltransferase Shuttling Threonyl and Chlorothreonyl Residues in the Syringomycin Biosynthetic Assembly Line," Chem. Biol., 14, 31-40 (2007).
Yin, J., Lin, A. J., Golan, D. E. & Walsh, C. T. "Site-specific protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase," Nature Protocols, 1, 280-285 (2006).
McLoughlin, S. M., Mazur, M. T., Miller, L. M., Yin, J., Liu, F., Walsh, C. T., Kelleher, N. L. "Chemoenzymatic approaches for streamlined detection of active site modifications on thiotemplate assembly lines using mass spectrometry," Biochemistry, 44, 14159-69 (2005).
Yin, J., Straight, P. D., McLoughlin, S. M., Zhou, Z., Lin, A. J., Golan, D. E., Kelleher, N. L., Kolter, R., Walsh, C. T. "Genetically encoded short peptide tag for versatile protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 102, 15815-20 (2005).
Yin, J., Lin, A. J., Buckett, P. D., Wessling-Resnick, M., Golan, D. E., Walsh, C. T. "Single-cell FRET imaging of transferrin receptor trafficking dynamics by Sfp-catalyzed, site-specific protein labeling," Chem. Biol., 12, 999-1006 (2005).
Vaillancourt, F. H., Yin, J., Walsh, C. T. "SyrB2 in syringomycin E biosynthesis is a nonheme FeII a-ketoglutarate- and O2-dependent halogenase," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 102, 10111-6 (2005).
Venkateshrao, S., Yin, J., Jarzecki, A. A., Schultz, P. G., Spiro, T. G. "Porphyrin distortion during affinity maturation of a ferrochelatase antibody, monitored by Resonance Raman spectroscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 16361-7 (2004).
Yin, J., Liu, F., Schinke, M., Daly, C., Walsh, C. T. "Phagemid encoded small molecules for high throughput screening of chemical libraries," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 13570-1 (2004).
Yin, J., Liu, F., Li, X., Walsh, C. T "Labeling proteins with small molecules by site-specific posttranslational modification," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 7754-5 (2004).
Yin, J., Mills, J. H.,Schultz, P. G. "A catalysis-based selection for peroxidase antibodies with increased activity," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 3006-7 (2004).
Jimenez, R., Salazar, G., Yin, J., Joo, T., Romesberg, F. E. "Protein dynamics and the immunological evolution of molecular recognition," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 101, 3803-8 (2004).
Yin J., Schultz P. G. "Immunological evolution of antibody catalysis," In "Catalytic Antibodies" (Keinan, E. ed), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp. 1-29 (2004).
Yin, J., Beuscher, A. E. t., Andryski, S. E., Stevens, R. C.,Schultz, P. G. "Structural plasticity and the evolution of antibody affinity and specificity," J. Mol. Biol., 330, 651-6 (2003).
Yin, J., Andryski, S. E., Beuscher, A. E. t., Stevens, R. C., Schultz, P. G. "Structural evidence for substrate strain in antibody catalysis," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 100,856-61 (2003).
Schultz, P. G., Yin, J., Lerner, R. A. "The chemistry of the antibody molecule," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 41, 4427-37 (2002).
Yin, J., Mundorff, E. C., Yang, P. L., Wendt, K. U., Hanway, D., Stevens, R. C., Schultz, P. G. "A comparative analysis of the immunological evolution of antibody 28B4," Biochemistry, 40, 10764-73 (2001).
Romesberg, F. E., Santarsiero, B. D., Spiller, B., Yin, J., Barnes, D., Schultz, P. G., Stevens, R. C. "Structural and kinetic evidence for strain in biological catalysis," Biochemistry, 37, 14404-9 (1998).
Yin, J., Wang, B. H., Li, Z. F., Zhang Y. M., Zhou, X. H., Gu, Z. N. "Enthalpies of dissolution of C60 and C70 in o-xylene, toluene, and carbon disufide at temperatures from 293.15 K to 313.15 K," J. Chem. Thermodynamics, 28, 1145-51 (1996).

Patents:
Yin, J., Walsh, C. T., Straight, P. D., Kolter, R., Zhou, Z. (2005) Genetically encoded short peptide tag for versatile protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase. United States provisional patent.