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Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) are chemical modifications on proteins.PTMs play a key role in many cellular processes by influencing the structure of proteins and dynamically regulating their functions.Therefore,characterizing PTMs at proteome level is critical to provide invaluable insight into the functions of proteins underlying different biological processes.Advances in modern proteomics technologies including sample preparation,chromatography separation as well as mass spectrometry have propelled the PTMs proteome to further depths.During the past decade,to better examine the PTMs with high sensitivity and selectivity,our group have developed a series of MS-based novel analytical approaches to study the protein PTMs.Herein,we mainly introduce these approaches developed by our group and discuss how to overcome the technical obstacles of studying various protein PTMs with mass spectrometry.