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  • Li, Qingling, and Guo-Fang Zhang. “Identification of n-hydroxy acid metabolites in electron impact ionization mass spectrometry.” Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 26, no. 11 (June 15, 2012): 1355–62. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6233.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Rafael A. Ibarra, Stephanie M. Lauden, Chia-Ying Chuang, Sophia Sushailo, Priya Chatterjee, Vernon E. Anderson, Gregory P. Tochtrop, and Henri Brunengraber. “Metabolism of γ-hydroxybutyrate in perfused rat livers.” Biochem J 444, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 333–41. https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20112046.
  • Li, Qingling, Kristyen Tomcik, Shenghui Zhang, Michelle A. Puchowicz, and Guo-Fang Zhang. “Dietary regulation of catabolic disposal of 4-hydroxynonenal analogs in rat liver.” Free Radic Biol Med 52, no. 6 (March 15, 2012): 1043–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.12.022.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Gregory P. Tochtrop, and Henri Brunengraber. “Metabolomics, pathway regulation, and pathway discovery.” J Biol Chem 286, no. 27 (July 8, 2011): 23631–35. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.R110.171405.
  • Ogwang, Sam, Hoa T. Nguyen, Marissa Sherman, Saralee Bajaksouzian, Michael R. Jacobs, W Henry Boom, Guo-Fang Zhang, and Liem Nguyen. “Bacterial conversion of folinic acid is required for antifolate resistance.” J Biol Chem 286, no. 17 (April 29, 2011): 15377–90. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M111.231076.
  • Tomcik, Kristyen, Rafael A. Ibarra, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Yong Han, Gregory P. Tochtrop, and Guo-Fang Zhang. “Isotopomer enrichment assay for very short chain fatty acids and its metabolic applications.” Anal Biochem 410, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 110–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2010.11.030.
  • Harris, Stephanie R., Guo-Fang Zhang, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Anne M. Murphy, Kristyen A. Tomcik, Edwin J. Vazquez, Vernon E. Anderson, Gregory P. Tochtrop, and Henri Brunengraber. “Metabolism of levulinate in perfused rat livers and live rats: conversion to the drug of abuse 4-hydroxypentanoate.” J Biol Chem 286, no. 7 (February 18, 2011): 5895–5904. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M110.196808.
  • Andres Ibarra, Rafael, R. Abbas, R. S. Kombu, Guo-Fang Zhang, G. Jacobs, Z. Lee, H. Brunengraber, and J. R. Sanabria. “Disturbances in the glutathione/ophthalmate redox buffer system in the woodchuck model of hepatitis virus-induced hepatocellular carcinoma.” HPB Surg 2011 (2011): 789323. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/789323.
  • Sadhukhan, Sushabhan, Yong Han, Guo-Fang Zhang, Henri Brunengraber, and Gregory P. Tochtrop. “Using isotopic tools to dissect and quantitate parallel metabolic pathways.” J Am Chem Soc 132, no. 18 (May 12, 2010): 6309–11. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja100399m.
  • Gu, Lei, Guo-Fang Zhang, Rajan S. Kombu, Frederick Allen, Gerd Kutz, Wolf-Ulrich Brewer, Charles R. Roe, and Henri Brunengraber. “Parenteral and enteral metabolism of anaplerotic triheptanoin in normal rats. II. Effects on lipolysis, glucose production, and liver acyl-CoA profile.” Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 298, no. 2 (February 2010): E362–71. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00384.2009.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Rajan S. Kombu, Takhar Kasumov, Yong Han, Sushabhan Sadhukhan, Jianye Zhang, Lawrence M. Sayre, et al. “Catabolism of 4-hydroxyacids and 4-hydroxynonenal via 4-hydroxy-4-phosphoacyl-CoAs.” J Biol Chem 284, no. 48 (November 27, 2009): 33521–34. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M109.055665.
  • Deng, Shuang, Guo-Fang Zhang, Takhar Kasumov, Charles R. Roe, and Henri Brunengraber. “Interrelations between C4 ketogenesis, C5 ketogenesis, and anaplerosis in the perfused rat liver.” J Biol Chem 284, no. 41 (October 9, 2009): 27799–807. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M109.048744.
  • Kombu, Rajan S., Guo-Fang Zhang, Rime Abbas, John J. Mieyal, Vernon E. Anderson, Joanne K. Kelleher, Juan R. Sanabria, and Henri Brunengraber. “Dynamics of glutathione and ophthalmate traced with 2H-enriched body water in rats and humans.” Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 297, no. 1 (July 2009): E260–69. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00080.2009.
  • Storozhenko, Sergei, Veerle De Brouwer, Maarten Volckaert, Oscar Navarrete, Dieter Blancquaert, Guo-Fang Zhang, Willy Lambert, and Dominique Van Der Straeten. “Folate fortification of rice by metabolic engineering.” Nat Biotechnol 25, no. 11 (November 2007): 1277–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1351.
  • Loizeau, Karen, Bernadette Gambonnet, Guo-Fang Zhang, Gilles Curien, Samuel Jabrin, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Willy E. Lambert, Fabrice Rébeillé, and Stéphane Ravanel. “Regulation of one-carbon metabolism in Arabidopsis: the N-terminal regulatory domain of cystathionine gamma-synthase is cleaved in response to folate starvation.” Plant Physiol 145, no. 2 (October 2007): 491–503. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.107.105379.
  • Storozhenko, Sergei, Oscar Navarrete, Stéphane Ravanel, Veerle De Brouwer, Peter Chaerle, Guo-Fang Zhang, Olivier Bastien, Willy Lambert, Fabrice Rébeillé, and Dominique Van Der Straeten. “Cytosolic hydroxymethyldihydropterin pyrophosphokinase/dihydropteroate synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana: a specific role in early development and stress response.” J Biol Chem 282, no. 14 (April 6, 2007): 10749–61. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M701158200.
  • De Brouwer, Veerle, Guo-Fang Zhang, Sergei Storozhenko, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Willy E. Lambert. “pH stability of individual folates during critical sample preparation steps in prevision of the analysis of plant folates.” Phytochem Anal 18, no. 6 (2007): 496–508. https://doi.org/10.1002/pca.1006.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Sergei Storozhenko, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Willy E. Lambert. “Investigation of the extraction behavior of the main monoglutamate folates from spinach by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.” J Chromatogr A 1078, no. 1–2 (June 17, 2005): 59–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2005.04.085.
  • Storozhenko, S., S. Ravanel, G. F. Zhang, F. Rébeillé, W. Lambert, and D. Van Der Straeten. “Folate enhancement in staple crops by metabolic engineering.” Trends in Food Science and Technology 16, no. 6–7 (January 1, 2005): 271–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2005.03.007.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Kjell A. Mortier, Sergei Storozhenko, Jet Van De Steene, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Willy E. Lambert. “Free and total para-aminobenzoic acid analysis in plants with high-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.” Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 19, no. 8 (2005): 963–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.1878.
  • Maudens, Kristof E., Guo-Fang Zhang, and Willy E. Lambert. “Quantitative analysis of twelve sulfonamides in honey after acidic hydrolysis by high-performance liquid chromatography with post-column derivatization and fluorescence detection.” J Chromatogr A 1047, no. 1 (August 20, 2004): 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2004.07.007.
  • Mortier, Kjell A., Alain G. Verstraete, Guo-Fang Zhang, and Willy E. Lambert. “Enhanced method performance due to a shorter chromatographic run-time in a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for paclitaxel.” J Chromatogr A 1041, no. 1–2 (July 2, 2004): 235–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2004.04.026.
  • Mortier, Kjell A., Guo-Fang Zhang, Carlos H. van Peteghem, and Willy E. Lambert. “Adduct formation in quantitative bioanalysis: effect of ionization conditions on paclitaxel.” J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 15, no. 4 (April 2004): 585–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2003.12.013.
  • Zhang, Guo-Fang, Kristof E. Maudens, Sergei Storozhenko, Kjell A. Mortier, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Willy E. Lambert. “Determination of total folate in plant material by chemical conversion into para-aminobenzoic acid followed by high performance liquid chromatography combined with on-line postcolumn derivatization and fluorescence detection.” J Agric Food Chem 51, no. 27 (December 31, 2003): 7872–78. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf034808p.
  • Zhou, G. J., G. F. Zhang, and H. Y. Chen. “Development of integrated chemiluminescence flow sensor for the determination of adrenaline and isoprenaline.” Analytica Chimica Acta 463, no. 2 (July 22, 2002): 257–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-2670(02)00418-X.
  • Zhang, G. F., and H. Y. Chen. “Studies of polyluminol modified electrode and its application in electrochemiluminescence analysis with flow system.” Analytica Chimica Acta 419, no. 1 (August 15, 2000): 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-2670(00)00983-1.
  • Zhang, G. F., and H. Y. Chen. “Studies of micelle and trace non-polar organic solvent on a new chemiluminescence system and its application to flow injection analysis.” Analytica Chimica Acta 409, no. 1–2 (March 23, 2000): 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-2670(99)00856-9.
  • Ye, L., G. F. Zhang, and H. Y. Chen. “Studies of the New Chemiluminescence System-NaIO4-H2O2-Trace Cyclohexane-Polyhydrophenols and Its Application.” Kao Teng Hsueh Hsiao Hua Heush Hsueh Pao Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities 21, no. 1 (January 10, 2000): 61.
  • Zhang, G. F., and H. Y. Chen. “Chemiluminescence studies of the oxidation of ascorbic acid with copper(II) catalyzed by halide anions and its application to the determination of halide anions and ascorbic acid.” Analytical Sciences 16, no. 12 (January 1, 2000): 1317–21. https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.16.1317.
  • Zhang, G. F., and H. Y. Chen. “A sensitive photoinduced chemiluminescence method for the determination of riboflavin with flow injection analysis.” Analytical Letters 33, no. 15 (January 1, 2000): 3285–3302. https://doi.org/10.1080/00032719.2000.10399501.
  • Feng, M., G. Zhang, and Z. Zhang. “FIA determination of pyruvate in serum based on direct chemiluminescence oxidation.” Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry 363, no. 3 (January 1, 1999): 320–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160051197.
  • Fan, X., G. Zhang, and C. Zhu. “Synthesis of 2-[2-(5-methylbenzothiazolyl)azo]-5-dimethylaminobenzoic acid and its application to the spectrophotometric determination of nickel.” In Analyst, 123:109–12, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1039/a705268e.
  • Feng, M., G. Zhang, and Z. Zhang. “Chemiluminescence method for cinchona alkaloids.” Analytical Letters 31, no. 14 (January 1, 1998): 2537–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/00032719808005323.