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Bok Luel Lee is affiliated with Pusan National University in South Korea and works primarily in the field of medicine with a focus on infectious diseases. Their research spans multiple subfields including infectious diseases, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and microbiology.

The scientist's work emphasizes antimicrobial resistance, particularly concerning Staphylococcus species, and explores vaccine development and immunoinformatics approaches. Key research topics include antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus, streptococcal infections and treatments, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, biochemical and structural characterization, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and bacterial infections and vaccines.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Bok Luel Lee include Xinrui Mao, Taeok Bae, Tingting Jiang, Dong Ho Ahn, and Yunjin Jung.

Publications appear in several specialized venues such as:

  • Journal of Immunological Methods
  • The Journal of Biochemistry
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research

Recent published papers include:

  • Protective effects of immunization with a novel 4 recombinant pore-forming toxoid combination vaccine in a rabbit model of systemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, 2024, Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
  • In silico designed Staphylococcus aureus B-cell multi-epitope vaccine did not elicit antibodies against target antigens suggesting multi-domain approach, 2022, Journal of Immunological Methods
  • The N2N3 domains of ClfA, FnbpA and FnbpB in Staphylococcus aureus bind to human complement factor H, and their antibodies enhance the bactericidal capability of human blood, 2020, The Journal of Biochemistry
  • Development of Combination Vaccine Conferring Optimal Protection against Six Pore-Forming Toxins of Staphylococcus aureus, 2021, Infection and Immunity

Best Publications

  • The proPO-system: pros and cons for its role in invertebrate immunity.

    Lage Cerenius;Bok Luel Lee;Kenneth Söderhäll

  • Recent advances in the innate immunity of invertebrate animals.

    Sadaaki Iwanaga;Bok Luel Lee

  • Cell-mediated immunity in arthropods: hematopoiesis, coagulation, melanization and opsonization.

    Pikul Jiravanichpaisal;Bok Luel Lee;Kenneth Söderhäll

  • Proteolytic cascades and their involvement in invertebrate immunity

    Lage Cerenius;Shun-ichiro Kawabata;Bok Luel Lee;Masaru Nonaka

  • Processing of an Antibacterial Peptide from Hemocyanin of the Freshwater Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus

    So Young Lee;Bok Luel Lee;Kenneth Söderhäll

  • Phenoloxidase is an important component of the Defense against Aeromonas hydrophila infection in a crustacean, Pacifastacus leniusculus

    Haipeng Liu;Pikul Jiravanichpaisal;Pikul Jiravanichpaisal;Lage Cerenius;Bok Luel Lee

  • Molecular control of phenoloxidase-induced melanin synthesis in an insect.

    Hongnan Kan;Chan-Hee Kim;Hyun-Mi Kwon;Ji-Won Park

  • Lipoproteins in bacteria: structures and biosynthetic pathways.

    Hiroshi Nakayama;Kenji Kurokawa;Bok Luel Lee

  • A masquerade-like serine proteinase homologue is necessary for phenoloxidase activity in the coleopteran insect, Holotrichia diomphalia larvae

    Tae Hyuk Kwon;Moon Suk Kim;Hye Won Choi;Chang Hun Joo

  • Pleiotropic Roles of Polyglycerolphosphate Synthase of Lipoteichoic Acid in Growth of Staphylococcus aureus Cells

    Yusuke Oku;Kenji Kurokawa;Kenji Kurokawa;Miki Matsuo;Sakuo Yamada;Sakuo Yamada

  • Human mannose-binding lectin and L-ficolin function as specific pattern recognition proteins in the lectin activation pathway of complement.

    Young Gerl Ma;Mi Yhang Cho;Mingyi Zhao;Ji Won Park

  • PTEN status switches cell fate between premature senescence and apoptosis in glioma exposed to ionizing radiation

    Lee Jj;Kim Bc;Park Mj;Lee Ys

  • A single modular serine protease integrates signals from pattern-recognition receptors upstream of the Drosophila Toll pathway.

    Nicolas Buchon;Mickael Poidevin;Hyun-Mi Kwon;Aurélien Guillou

  • Two hevein homologs isolated from the seed of Pharbitis nil L. exhibit potent antifungal activity.

    Ja Choon Koo;So Young Lee;Hyun Jin Chun;Yong Hwa Cheong

  • A new easter-type serine protease cleaves a masquerade-like protein during prophenoloxidase activation in Holotrichia diomphalia larvae

    Moon Suk Kim;Min Ji Baek;Mi Hee Lee;Ji Won Park

  • In vitro activation of pro-phenol-oxidase by two kinds of pro-phenol-oxidase-activating factors isolated from hemolymph of coleopteran, Holotrichia diomphalia larvae

    So Young Lee;So Young Lee;Tae Hyuk Kwon;Ji Hoon Hyun;Jae Sue Choi

  • Insect’s intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

    Tsubasa Ohbayashi;Kazutaka Takeshita;Kazutaka Takeshita;Wataru Kitagawa;Wataru Kitagawa;Naruo Nikoh

  • Clustering of peptidoglycan recognition protein-SA is required for sensing lysine-type peptidoglycan in insects.

    Ji-Won Park;Chan-Hee Kim;Jung-Hyun Kim;Byung-Rok Je

  • Processing of crayfish hemocyanin subunits into phenoloxidase.

    So Young Lee;Bok Luel Lee;Kenneth Söderhäll

  • Molecular cloning of cDNA for pro-phenol-oxidase-activating factor I, a serine protease is induced by lipopolysaccharide or 1,3-β-glucan in coleopteran insect, Holotrichia diomphalia larvae

    So Young Lee;So Young Lee;Mi Young Cho;Ji Hoon Hyun;Kwang Moon Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Nam-Chul Ha
Nam-Chul Ha Seoul National University
Kenneth Söderhäll
Kenneth Söderhäll Uppsala University
Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Yoshitomo Kikuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Takema Fukatsu
Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Shun-ichiro Kawabata
Shun-ichiro Kawabata Kyushu University
Kazuhisa Sekimizu
Kazuhisa Sekimizu University of Tokyo
Misao Matsushita
Misao Matsushita Tokai University
Yoshinobu Nakanishi
Yoshinobu Nakanishi Kanazawa University
Andreas Peschel
Andreas Peschel University of Tübingen

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