1. Yang YM*, Kim J*, Wang Z, Kim J, Kim SY, Cho GJ, Lee JH, Kim SM, Tsuchiya T, Matsuda M, Pandyarajan V, Pandol SJ, Lewis MS, Gangi A, Noble PW, Jiang D, Merchant A, Posadas EM, Bhowmick NA, Lu SC, You S, Xu AM, Seki E. (2025) Metastatic Tumor Growth in Steatotic Liver is Promoted by HAS2-Mediated Fibrotic Tumor Microenvironment. J Clin Invest 135(7):e180802 (*co-first authors)

2. Park JS, Lee J, Wang F, Ma H, Zhou Z, Lee YS, Oh K, Lee H, Sui G, Lee S, Yang YM, Lee JW, Ji YH, Park CW, Yoo HS, Hwang BY, Han SB, Song N, Oh S, Kim B, Seki E, Hong JT, Roh YS. (2025) A1AT dysregulation of metabolically stressed hepatocytes by Kupffer cells drives MASH and fibrosis. Exp Mol Med 57(2):450-465

3. Kim NH, Kim MY, Yang YM, Jeong WI, Lee HW, Kim W, Kang SG, Han YH. (2025) Bacterial components-driven intrahepatic CXCR5^hi B cells are important population for MASH progression through inducing inflammation. FASEB J 31;39(2):e70322

4. Song GY, Kim SM, Back S, Yang SB*, Yang YM*. (2024) Atractylodes Lancea and Its Constituent, Atractylodin, Ameliorates Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease via AMPK Activation. Biomol Ther 32(6):778-792 (*co-corresponding authors)

5. Kim MY, Jeong B, Lee GS, Jeon H, Yang YM, Yang H, Han YH. (2024) Panaxydol extracted from Panax ginseng inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome activation to ameliorate NASH-induced liver injury. Int Immunopharmacol 128:111565

6. Wang Z, Kim SY, Tu W, Kim J, Xu A, Yang YM, Matsuda M, Reolizo L, Tsuchiya T, Billet S, Gangi A, Noureddin M, Falk BA, Kim S, Fan W, Tighiouart M, You S, Lewis MS, Pandol SJ, Di Vizio D, Merchant A, Posadas EM, Bhowmick NA, Lu SC, Seki E. (2023) Extracellular vesicles in fatty liver promote a metastatic tumor microenvironment. Cell Metab 35(7):1209-1226.e13

7. Jeong H, Hong EH, Ahn JH, Cho J, Jeong JH, Kim CW, Yoon BI, Koo JH, Park YY, Yang YM, Iwawaki T, Vallance BA, Chang SY, Ko HJ. (2023) ERdj5 protects goblet cells from endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated apoptosis under inflammatory conditions. Exp Mol Med 55(2):401-412

8. Lee KJ, An S, Kim MY, Kim SM, Jeong WI, Ko HJ, Yang YM, Noh M, Han YH. (2022) Hepatic TREM2⁺ macrophages express matrix metalloproteinases to control fibrotic scar formation. Immunol Cell Biol 101(3):216-230

9. Kim SM, Song GY, Shim A, Lee JH, Eom CB, Liu C, Yang YM*, Seki E*. (2022) Hyaluronan synthase 2, a target of miR-200c, promotes carbon tetrachloride-induced acute and chronic liver inflammation via regulation of CCL3 and CCL4. Exp Mol Med 54(6):739-752 (*co-corresponding authors)

10. Hong DG, Song GY, Eom CB, Ahn JH, Kim SM, Shim A, Han YH, Roh YS, Han CY, Bae EJ, Ko HJ, Yang YM. (2022) Loss of ERdj5 exacerbates oxidative stress in mice with alcoholic liver disease via suppressing Nrf2. Free Radic Biol Med 184:42-52 (corresponding author)