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Jongkyeong Chung

Jongkyeong Chung

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
64
Citations
19556
World Ranking
1716
National Ranking
6

Overview

Jongkyeong Chung is a scientist affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. Their work involves subfields such as Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Neurology, Cell Biology, and Genetics.

Chung has contributed extensively to topics including Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Recent significant papers by Chung include "Decision between mitophagy and apoptosis by Parkin via VDAC1 ubiquitination" published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Lysosomal control of senescence and inflammation through cholesterol partitioning" published in 2023 in Nature Metabolism, and "Characterization of altered molecular mechanisms in Parkinson's disease through cell type-resolved multiomics analyses" published in 2023 in Science Advances.

Other notable publications are "Loss of UCHL1 rescues the defects related to Parkinson's disease by suppressing glycolysis" from 2021 and "Peroxiredoxin 3 deficiency induces cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction by impaired mitochondrial quality control" from 2022, both published in Science Advances and Redox Biology respectively.

Chung frequently publishes in venues such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, PubMed, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The highest number of their publications are found in Science Advances.

Collaborations have been established with a number of coauthors including Su Jin Ham, Kyoungho Jun, D. S. Lee, Heesuk Yoo, and Sun Ju Chung, with Su Jin Ham being the most frequent collaborator.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction in Drosophila PINK1 mutants is complemented by parkin

    Jeehye Park;Sung Bae Lee;Sungkyu Lee;Yongsung Kim

  • Rapamycin-FKBP specifically blocks growth-dependent activation of and signaling by the 70 kd S6 protein kinases.

    Jongkyeong Chung;Calvin J. Kuo;Gerald R. Crabtree;John Blenis

  • PDGF- and insulin-dependent pp70S6k activation mediated by phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase

    Jongkyeong Chung;T. C. Grammer;K. P. Lemon;A. Kazlauskas

  • STAT3 serine phosphorylation by ERK-dependent and -independent pathways negatively modulates its tyrosine phosphorylation.

    Jongkyeong Chung;Eriko Uchida;Timothy C. Grammer;John Blenis

  • Rapamycin selectively inhibits interleukin-2 activation of p70 S6 kinase

    Calvin J. Kuo;Jongkyeong Chung;Jongkyeong Chung;David F. Fiorentino;W. Michael Flanagan

  • Akt/PKB promotes cancer cell invasion via increased motility and metalloproteinase production

    Dohoon Kim;Sunhong Kim;Hyongjong Koh;Sang-Oh Yoon

  • Energy-dependent regulation of cell structure by AMP-activated protein kinase

    Jun Hee Lee;Hyongjong Koh;Myungjin Kim;Yongsung Kim

  • PINK1 controls mitochondrial localization of Parkin through direct phosphorylation.

    Yongsung Kim;Jeehye Park;Sunhong Kim;Saera Song

  • Conserved MicroRNA miR-8/miR-200 and Its Target USH/FOG2 Control Growth by Regulating PI3K

    Seogang Hyun;Jung Hyun Lee;Hua Jin;Jin Wu Nam

  • Parkin negatively regulates JNK pathway in the dopaminergic neurons of Drosophila

    Guang Ho Cha;Sunhong Kim;Jeehye Park;Eunji Lee

  • Host Cell Autophagy Activated by Antibiotics Is Required for Their Effective Antimycobacterial Drug Action

    Jwa Jin Kim;Hye Mi Lee;Dong Min Shin;Wonho Kim

  • Akt: versatile mediator of cell survival and beyond.

    Dohoon Kim;Jongkyeong Chung

  • Drosophila DJ-1 mutants show oxidative stress-sensitive locomotive dysfunction

    Jeehye Park;Sung Yun Kim;Guang-Ho Cha;Sung Bae Lee

  • Cyclic AMP inhibits Akt activity by blocking the membrane localization of PDK1.

    Sunhong Kim;Kwangho Jee;Dohoon Kim;Hyongjong Koh

  • p53 negatively regulates cdc2 transcription via the CCAAT-binding NF-Y transcription factor.

    Jean Ho Yun;Hee Don Chae;Hyon E Choy;Jong Kyeong Chung

  • The PINK1–Parkin pathway is involved in the regulation of mitochondrial remodeling process

    Jeehye Park;Gina Lee;Jongkyeong Chung

  • Activation of pp70/85 S6 kinases in interleukin-2-responsive lymphoid cells is mediated by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and inhibited by cyclic AMP.

    M. Monfar;K. P. Lemon;T. C. Grammer;L. Cheatham

  • Akt (protein kinase B) negatively regulates SEK1 by means of protein phosphorylation.

    Hee Sae Park;Mi Sung Kim;Sung Ho Huh;Jihyun Park

  • ATG1, an autophagy regulator, inhibits cell growth by negatively regulating S6 kinase.

    Sung Bae Lee;Sunhong Kim;Jiwoon Lee;Jeehye Park

Frequent Co-Authors

John Blenis
John Blenis Cornell University
Minho Shong
Minho Shong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Won Ho Kim
Won Ho Kim Yonsei University
Jin-Man Kim
Jin-Man Kim Seoul National University
Jae U. Jung
Jae U. Jung Cleveland Clinic
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Calvin J. Kuo
Calvin J. Kuo Stanford University
Sung Hee Baek
Sung Hee Baek Seoul National University
Young-Yun Kong
Young-Yun Kong Seoul National University
Howard T. Jacobs
Howard T. Jacobs Tampere University

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