• Elf, Johan; Li, Gene-Wei; Xie, X. Sunney

"Probing Transcription Factor Dynamics at the Single-Molecule Level in a Living Cell," Science, 316, 1191-1194 (2007).

• Yu, Ji; Xiao, Jie; Ren, Xiaojia; Lao, Kaiqin; Xie, X. Sunney

"Probing Gene Expression in Live Cells, One Protein Molecule at a Time," Science, 311, 1600-1603 (2006).

• Cai, Long; Friedman, Nir; Xie, X. Sunney

"Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level," Nature, 440, 358-362 (2006).

• English, Brian P.; Min, Wei; van Oijen, Antoine M.; Lee, Kang Taek; Luo, Guobin; Sun, Hongye; Cherayil, Binny J.; Kou, S.C.; Xie, X. Sunney

"Ever-fluctuating single enzyme molecules: Michaelis-Menten equation revisited," Nat. Chem. Bio., 2, 87 (2006).

• Evans, Conor L.; Potma, Eric O.; Puoris'haag, Mehron; Côté, Daniel; Lin, Charles P.; Xie, X. Sunney

"Chemical imaging of tissue in vivo with video-rate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," Proc. Natl. Aca. Sci. 102, 16807 (2005).

• Min, Wei; Luo, Guobin; Cherayil, Binny J.; Kou, S. C.; and Xie, X. Sunney

"Observation of a Power-Law Memory Kernel for Fluctuations within a Single Protein Molecule," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 198302 (2005).

• Yang, Haw; Luo, Guobin; Karnchanaphanurach, Pallop; Louie, Tai-Man; Rech, Ivan; Cova, Sergio; Xun, Luying; and Xie, X. Sunney

"Protein conformational dynamics probed by single-molecule electron transfer," Science 302, 262 (2003).

• van Oijen, Antoine M.; Blainey, Paul C.; Crampton, Donald J.; Richardson, Charles C.; Ellenberger, Tom and Xie, X. Sunney

"Single-Molecule Kinetics of l Exonuclease Reveal Base Dependence and Dynamic Disorder," Science 301, 1235 (2003).

• Zumbusch, Andreas; Holtom, Gary R.; Xie, X. Sunney

'Vibrational Microscopy Using Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4142 (1999).

• Sánchez, Erik J.; Novotny, Lukas; Xie, X. Sunney

"Near-field Fluorescence Microscopy Based on Two-photon Excitation with Metal Tips," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4014 (1999). 

• Lu, H. Peter; Xun, Luying; Xie, X. Sunney

"Single-Molecule Enzymatic Dynamics," Science 282, 1877 (1998).

• Xie, X. Sunney; Dunn, Robert C.

"Probing Single Molecule Dynamics," Science 265, 361 (1994).