Selected publications. For a complete and up-to-date list, see the PubMed bibliography ↗

* Co-first author  ·  # Corresponding author

2026

2025

Extrachromosomal DNA replication and maintenance couple with DNA damage pathway in tumors.
Kang X, Li X, Zhou J, Zhang Y, Qiu L, Tian C, Deng Z, Liang X, Zhang Z, Du S, Hu S, Wang N, Yue Z, Xu Y, Gao Y, Dai J, Wang Z, Yu C, Chen J, Wu Y, Chen L, Yao Y, Yao S, Yang X, Yan L, Wen Q, Depies OM, Chan K, Liang X, Li G, Zi Z, Liu X, Gan H.
Cell·2025
Proximal proteomics analysis reveals DNA polymerase delta subunit 3 is a new MCM2 binding partner and promotes parental histones inheritance in mammalian cells.
Sun Y, Liang X, Liu F, Zhao W, Zhou J, Li Y, Yao Y, Zhang Z, Li G, Chan K, Zhang D, Wang Z, Gao Y, Yu C, Wu Y, Kang X, Qiu L, Li N, Gan H.
Cell Death & Differentiation·2025
Aberrant heterochromatin silences immune response genes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Depies OM, Guo Q, Gao Y, Sinha S, Ye Z, Han W, Rabe KG, Hoel MS, Darby HC, Yu C, Braggio E, Parikh SA, Slager SL, Kay NE, Wang Z.
Blood Neoplasia·2025

2024

Therapeutic index of targeting select chromatin complexes in human cancer patients.
Gao, Y., Vakoc CR.
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development·2024
Chronic stress increases metastasis via neutrophil-mediated changes to the microenvironment.
He XY, Gao, Y., Ng D, Michalopoulou E, George S, Adrover JM, Sun L, Albrengues J, Daßler-Plenker J, Han X, Wan L, Wu XS, Shui LS, Huang YH, Liu B, Su C, Spector DL, Vakoc CR, Aelst LV, Egeblad M.#
Cancer Cell·2024
Symmetric inheritance of parental histones safeguards the fate of mouse embryonic stem cells during differentiation.
Wen Q*, Zhou J*, Tian C*, Li X*, Song G*, Gao, Y., …, Gan H.#
Nature Genetics·2024
DNA polymerase delta governs parental histone transfer to DNA replication lagging strand.
Tian C, Zhang Q, Jia J, Zhou J, Zhang Z, Karri S, Jiang J, Dickinson Q, Yao Y, Tang X, Huang Y, Guo T, He Z, Liu Z, Gao, Y., Yang X, Wu Y, Chan KM, Zhang D, Han J, Yu C, Gan H.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A·2024
Interaction between MED12 and ΔNp63 activates basal identity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Maia-Silva D, Cunniff PJ, Schier AC, Skopelitis D, Trousdell MC, Moresco P, Gao, Y., Kechejian V, He XY, Sahin Y, Wan L, Alpsoy A, Liverpool J, Krainer AR, Egeblad M, Spector DL, Fearon DT, Dos Santos CO, Taatjes DJ, Vakoc CR.
Nature Genetics·2024

2023

ETV6 dependency in Ewing sarcoma by antagonism of EWS-FLI1-mediated enhancer activation.
Gao, Y., He XY, Wu X, Huang Y, Toneyan S, Ipsaro J, Ha T, Koo P, Joshua-Tor L, Bailey K, Egeblad M, Vakoc C.#
Nature Cell Biology·2023
Featured as the Cover Story for the February issue of Nature Cell Biology. Highlighted by Prof. Elizabeth R. Lawlor in Nature Cell Biology.
Impaired histone inheritance promotes tumor progression.
Tian C*, Zhou J*, Li X*, Gao, Y., Wen Q, Kang X, Wang N, Yao Y, Jiang J, Song G, Zhang T, Hu S, Liao J, Yu C, Wang Z, Liu X, Pei X, Chan K, Liu Z, Gan H.#
Nature Communications·2023

2022

Defining the proximity proteome of histone modifications by antibody-mediated Protein A-APEX2 labeling.
Li X, Zhou J, Zhao W, Wen Q, Wang W, Peng H, Gao, Y., Bouchonville KJ, Offer SM, Chan K, Wang Z, Li N, Gan H.
Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics·2022

2018

2016

A DNA binding winged helix domain in CAF-1 functions with PCNA to stabilize CAF-1 at replication forks.
Zhang K*, Gao, Y.*, Li J, Burgess R, Han J, Liang H, Zhang Z, Liu Y.
Nucleic Acids Research·2016

2011