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Dongchon Kang

Dongchon Kang

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
15913
World Ranking
10120
National Ranking
678

Overview

Dongchon Kang is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific work spans multiple specialized subfields including molecular biology, hematology, physiology, immunology, and genetics.

The scientist's research prominently addresses key topics such as mitochondrial function and pathology, blood coagulation and thrombosis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, metabolism and genetic disorders, tryptophan and brain disorders, adipose tissue and metabolism, and ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Dongchon Kang has authored numerous papers in various peer-reviewed venues. Recent publications include:

  • Kynurenic acid is a potential overlapped biomarker between diagnosis and treatment response for depression from metabolome analysis, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Mucosa-associated gut microbiota reflects clinical course of ulcerative colitis, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Mitochondrial translation deficiency impairs NAD + -mediated lysosomal acidification, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Are Essential for the Development of Psoriatic Inflammation, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Succinyl-CoA-based energy metabolism dysfunction in chronic heart failure, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their articles have appeared in frequently contributing venues such as Scientific Reports, Communications Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Life Science Alliance, and Bioscience Reports. Scientific Reports hosts the highest number of their publications.

Collaborations have been a component of their career, with frequent co-authors being Daiki Setoyama, Takeshi Uchiumi, Mikako Yagi, Kazuhito Gotoh, and Takahiro A. Kato.

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial DNA damage and dysfunction associated with oxidative stress in failing hearts after myocardial infarction.

    Tomomi Ide;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Shunji Hayashidani;Dongchon Kang

  • Mitochondrial Electron Transport Complex I Is a Potential Source of Oxygen Free Radicals in the Failing Myocardium

    Tomomi Ide;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Shintaro Kinugawa;Hideo Utsumi

  • Oxidative Stress Mediates Tumor Necrosis Factor-α–Induced Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Dysfunction in Cardiac Myocytes

    Nobuhiro Suematsu;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Jing Wen;Dongchon Kang

  • Human mitochondrial DNA is packaged with TFAM

    Tanfis Istiaq Alam;Tomotake Kanki;Tsuyoshi Muta;Koutarou Ukaji

  • Mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM): roles in maintenance of mtDNA and cellular functions.

    Dongchon Kang;Sang Ho Kim;Sang Ho Kim;Naotaka Hamasaki

  • Expression and Differential Intracellular Localization of Two Major Forms of Human 8-Oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase Encoded by Alternatively Spliced OGG1 mRNAs

    Kenichi Nishioka;Toshio Ohtsubo;Hisanobu Oda;Toshiyuki Fujiwara

  • Overexpression of Mitochondrial Transcription Factor A Ameliorates Mitochondrial Deficiencies and Cardiac Failure After Myocardial Infarction

    Masaki Ikeuchi;Hidenori Matsusaka;Dongchon Kang;Shouji Matsushima

  • Architectural role of mitochondrial transcription factor A in maintenance of human mitochondrial DNA.

    Tomotake Kanki;Kippei Ohgaki;Martina Gaspari;Claes M. Gustafsson

  • Mitophagy plays an essential role in reducing mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species and mutation of mitochondrial DNA by maintaining mitochondrial quantity and quality in yeast

    Yusuke Kurihara;Tomotake Kanki;Yoshimasa Aoki;Yuko Hirota

  • p32 Protein, a Splicing Factor 2-associated Protein, Is Localized in Mitochondrial Matrix and Is Functionally Important in Maintaining Oxidative Phosphorylation

    Tsuyoshi Muta;Dongchon Kang;Shigetaka Kitajima;Toshiyuki Fujiwara

  • Phosphorylation of Serine 114 on Atg32 mediates mitophagy

    Yoshimasa Aoki;Tomotake Kanki;Yuko Hirota;Yusuke Kurihara

  • Crystal structure of the anion exchanger domain of human erythrocyte band 3

    Takatoshi Arakawa;Takami Kobayashi-Yurugi;Yilmaz Alguel;Hiroko Iwanari

  • P53 physically interacts with mitochondrial transcription factor A and differentially regulates binding to damaged DNA.

    Yoichiro Yoshida;Hiroto Izumi;Takayuki Torigoe;Hiroshi Ishiguchi

  • Reverse of age-dependent memory impairment and mitochondrial DNA damage in microglia by an overexpression of human mitochondrial transcription factor a in mice.

    Yoshinori Hayashi;Masayoshi Yoshida;Mayumi Yamato;Tomomi Ide

  • Intracellular Localization of 8-Oxo-dGTPase in Human Cells, with Special Reference to the Role of the Enzyme in Mitochondria

    Dongchon Kang;Jun-ichi Nishida;Akihiro Iyama;Yusaku Nakabeppu

  • Regulation of mitochondrial D‐loops by transcription factor A and single‐stranded DNA‐binding protein

    Chihiro Takamatsu;Shuyo Umeda;Takashi Ohsato;Tetsuji Ohno

  • Mitophagy is primarily due to alternative autophagy and requires the MAPK1 and MAPK14 signaling pathways.

    Yuko Hirota;Shun ichi Yamashita;Yusuke Kurihara;Xiulian Jin

  • Suicide and Microglia: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives Based on Human Studies.

    Hisaomi Suzuki;Masahiro Ohgidani;Nobuki Kuwano;Fabrice Chrétien

  • Increased 8-oxo-dGTPase in the mitochondria of substantia nigral neurons in Parkinson's disease

    Hideki Shimura-Miura;Nobutaka Hattori;Dongchon Kang;Ken ichi Miyako

  • Mitochondrial oxidative stress and mitochondrial DNA.

    Dongchon Kang;Naotaka Hamasaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Uchiumi
Takeshi Uchiumi Kyushu University
Shouichi Ohga
Shouichi Ohga Kyushu University
Koichiro Takeshige
Koichiro Takeshige Kyushu University
Toshiro Hara
Toshiro Hara Kyushu University
Yusaku Nakabeppu
Yusaku Nakabeppu Kyushu University
Kenji Sunagawa
Kenji Sunagawa Kyushu University
Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kyushu University
Shigenobu Kanba
Shigenobu Kanba Kyushu University
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Nagoya University
Hiroyuki Sasaki
Hiroyuki Sasaki Kyushu University

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