Chen, M.*, Galvao, R.M., Li, M., Burger, B., Bugea, J., Bolado, J., Chory, J.* (2010). Arabidopsis HEMERA initiates photomorphogenesis by phytochromes. Cell, 141(7), 1230-40. (* Corresponding authors).

Fankhauser C., Chen, M. (2008). Transposing phytochrome into the nucleus. Trans Plant Sci, 13(11):596-601.

Chen, M. (2008). Phytochrome nuclear body: an emerging model to study interphase nuclear dynamics and signaling. Curr Opin Plant Biol, 11(5):503-8.

Chen, M., Tao, Y., Lim, J., Shaw, A., Chory, J. (2005). Regulation of phytochrome B nuclear localization through light-dependent unmasking of nuclear localization signals. Curr. Biol., 15(7): 637-42.

Chen, M., Chory, J., Fankhauser, C. (2004). Light signal transduction in higher plants. Annu. Rev. Genet., 38: 87-117.

Chen, M., Schwab, R., and Chory, J. (2003). Characterization of requirements for localization of phytochrome B to nuclear bodies. PNAS, 100(24): 14493-14498.

Wang, Z.Y., Nakano, T., Gendron, J., He, J., Chen, M., Vafeados, D., Yang, Y., Fujioka, S., Yoshida, S., Asami, T., Chory, J. (2002). Nuclear-localized BZR1 mediates brassinosteroid-induced growth and feedback suppression of brassinosteroid biosynthesis. Dev. Cell, 2(4): 505-513.

The Arabidopsis genome initiative (Chen, M. and Chory, J.). (2000). Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana”, Nature, 408: 796-815.

Chen M., Choi, Y., Voytas, D.F., Rodermel, S. (2000). Mutations in the Arabidopsis VAR2 locus cause leaf variegation due to the loss of a chloroplast FtsH protease, Plant J., 22(4): 303-313.

Chen, M., Jensen, M., Rodermel, S. (1999). The yellow variegated mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana is plastid autonomous and delayed in chloroplast biogenesis. J Hered., 90: 207-14.

Martin, B.L., Luo, S., Kintanar, A., Chen, M., and Graves, D. J. (1998). Effect of citrulline for arginine replacement on the structure and turnover of phosphopeptide substrates of protein phosphatase-1. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 359: 179-191.

Chen, M., Chen, L., and Fromm, H.J. (1994). Replacement of glutamic acid 29 with glutamine leads to a loss of cooperativity for AMP with porcine fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. J. Biol. Chem., 269: 5554-5558.

Chen, L., Hegde, R., Chen, M., and Fromm, H.J. (1993). Site-specific mutagenesis of the metal binding sites of porcine fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 307: 350-354.