1. Yang K*, Li S, Li B, Richards DM, Dong K, Seneviratne U, Lee W, Iannetta A, Xu H, Gygi P, Qing Y*. Analysis of Confounding Factors in Reactive Cysteine Profiling Reveals Enhanced Chromatin Protein Binding via CDK7 Inhibition by THZ1. ACS Chem. Biol. 2026 (Published ASAP)

2. Li W^§, Dasgupta A^§, Yang K^§, …, Peng J^⁎, Liu Y^⁎. Turnover atlas of proteome and phosphoproteome across mouse tissues and brain regions. Cell. 2025. 188:1

3. Yarbro JM^§, Han X^§, Dasgupta A^§, Yang K^§, …, Peng J^⁎. Human and mouse proteomics reveals the shared pathways in Alzheimer’s disease and delayed protein turnover in the amyloidome. Nature Communication. 2025. 16:1533

4. Yang K, Paulo JA, Gygi SP, Yu Q^⁎. Enhanced Sample Multiplexing-Based Targeted Proteomics with Intelligent Data Acquisition. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 2024. 35: 2420

5. Yang K, Whitehouse RL, Dawson SL, Zhang L, Martin JG, Johnson DS, Paulo JA, Gygi SP^⁎, Yu Q^⁎. Accelerating multiplexed profiling of protein-ligand interactions: High-throughput plate-based reactive cysteine profiling with minimal input. Cell Chemical Biology. 2024. 31:565. Highlighted by Nature Review Drug Discovery. 2024. 23:103.

6. Xie H^§, Yang K^§, Winston-McPherson G, Stapleton D, Keller M, Attie A, Smith K, Tang W^⁎. From Methylene Bridged Diindole to Carbonyl Linked Benzimidazoleindole: Development of Potent and Metabolically Stable PCSK9 Modulators. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2020. 206: 112678

7. Yang K^§, Zhao Y^§, Nie X, Wu H, Wang B, Almodovar-Rivera CM, Xie H^⁎, Tang W^⁎. Development of a Cell-based Target Engagement Assay for the Identification of Cell-Permeable Cereblon E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Ligands and Their Application in Targeted Protein Degradation. Cell Chem. Biol. 2020. 27: 866-876

8. Yang K^§, Wu, H^§, Zhang, Z, Leisten ED, Nie X, Liu B, Wen Z, Zhang J, Cunningham MD, Tang W^⁎. Development of Selective Histone Deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) Degrad-ers Recruiting Von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) E3 Ubiquitin Ligase. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 4: 575-581

9. Wu H^§, Yang K^§, Zhang Z, Leisten ED, Li Z, Xie H, Liu J, Tang W^⁎. Development of Multi-Functional HDAC6 Degraders with Potent Anti-Myeloma Activity. J. Med. Chem. 2019, 621: 7042-7057.

10. Yang K, Song Y, Xie H, Wu H, Wu YT, Leisten ED, Tang W^⁎. Development of The First Small Molecule Histone Deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) Degraders. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2018. 28(14): 2493-2497.