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Kyeong Sook Choi

Kyeong Sook Choi

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
18626
World Ranking
11743
National Ranking
131

Overview

Kyeong Sook Choi is affiliated with Ajou University in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, cell biology, epidemiology, oncology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist has focused on several main research topics:

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Redox biology and oxidative stress
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of topics and publication venues as follows:

  • Intracellular Ca2 + Imbalance Critically Contributes to Paraptosis, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Curcumin inhibits the cancer-associated fibroblast-derived chemoresistance of gastric cancer through the suppression of the JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway, 2022, International Journal of Oncology
  • Screening of Drug-Induced Steatosis and Phospholipidosis Using Lipid Droplet-Selective Two-Photon Probes, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Dual inhibition of thioredoxin reductase and proteasome is required for auranofin-induced paraptosis in breast cancer cells, 2023, Cell Death and Disease
  • Mitochondrial Respiratory Defect Enhances Hepatoma Cell Invasiveness via STAT3/NFE2L1/STX12 Axis, 2020, Cancers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kyeong Sook Choi include:

  • Dong Min Lee
  • Min Ji Seo
  • In Young Kim
  • Hyo Joon Jin

Their work has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Research Square
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • International Journal of Oncology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Methylation-dependent loss of RIP3 expression in cancer represses programmed necrosis in response to chemotherapeutics

    Gi Bang Koo;Michael J. Morgan;Da Gyum Lee;Woo Jung Kim

  • Two distinct modes of cell death induced by doxorubicin: apoptosis and cell death through mitotic catastrophe accompanied by senescence-like phenotype.

    Young-Woo Eom;Mi Ae Kim;Seok Soon Park;Mi Jin Goo

  • Autophagy and cancer.

    Kyeong Sook Choi

  • Curcumin sensitizes tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced apoptosis through reactive oxygen species-mediated upregulation of death receptor 5 (DR5)

    Eun Mi Jung;Jun Hee Lim;Tae Jin Lee;Jong-Wook Park

  • Sodium selenite induces superoxide-mediated mitochondrial damage and subsequent autophagic cell death in malignant glioma cells.

    Eun Hee Kim;Seonghyang Sohn;Hyuk Jae Kwon;Seung U. Kim

  • Targeting cancer cells with reactive oxygen and nitrogen species generated by atmospheric-pressure air plasma.

    Hak Jun Ahn;Kang Il Kim;Nguyen Ngoc Hoan;Churl Ho Kim

  • Sulforaphane sensitizes tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-resistant hepatoma cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis through reactive oxygen species-mediated up-regulation of DR5

    Heesue Kim;Eun Hee Kim;Young Woo Eom;Wook-Hwan Kim

  • Inhibition of p53 Transactivation Function by the Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Tax Protein

    Cynthia A. Pise-Masison;Kyeong-Sook Choi;Michael Radonovich;Jürgen Dittmer

  • Paraptosis in the anti-cancer arsenal of natural products.

    Dongjoo Lee;In Young Kim;Sharmistha Saha;Kyeong Sook Choi

  • Targeting interleukin-6 as a strategy to overcome stroma-induced resistance to chemotherapy in gastric cancer

    In Hye Ham;Hye Jeong Oh;Hyejin Jin;Cheong A. Bae

  • TGF beta1 induces prolonged mitochondrial ROS generation through decreased complex IV activity with senescent arrest in Mv1Lu cells.

    Young-Sil Yoon;Jae-Ho Lee;Sung-Chul Hwang;Kyeong Sook Choi

  • Roscovitine sensitizes glioma cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis by downregulation of survivin and XIAP

    Eun Hee Kim;Seung U Kim;Deug Y Shin;Kyeong Sook Choi

  • Sanguinarine‐induced apoptosis: Generation of ROS, down‐regulation of Bcl‐2, c‐FLIP, and synergy with TRAIL

    Shin Kim;Tae-Jin Lee;Jaechan Leem;Kyeong Sook Choi

  • Transforming Growth Factor β1 Induces Apoptosis through Cleavage of BAD in a Smad3-Dependent Mechanism in FaO Hepatoma Cells

    Byung-Chul Kim;Mizuko Mamura;Kyeong Sook Choi;Bruno Calabretta

  • Silibinin Sensitizes Human Glioma Cells to TRAIL-Mediated Apoptosis via DR5 Up-regulation and Down-regulation of c-FLIP and Survivin

    Yong-gyu Son;Eun Hee Kim;Jin Yeop Kim;Seung U. Kim

  • The IE2 regulatory protein of human cytomegalovirus induces expression of the human transforming growth factor beta1 gene through an Egr-1 binding site.

    Young Do Yoo;Chuang Jiun Chiou;Kyeong Sook Choi;Kyeong Sook Choi;Youngsuk Yi

  • Superoxide anion and proteasomal dysfunction contribute to curcumin-induced paraptosis of malignant breast cancer cells.

    Mi Jin Yoon;Eun Hee Kim;Jun Hee Lim;Taeg Kyu Kwon

  • Interleukin-13 and -4 induce death of activated microglia.

    Myung-Soon Yang;Eun Jung Park;Seonghyang Sohn;Hyuk Jae Kwon

  • Withaferin A sensitizes TRAIL-induced apoptosis through reactive oxygen species-mediated up-regulation of death receptor 5 and down-regulation of c-FLIP.

    Tae Jin Lee;Hee Jung Um;Do Sik Min;Jong Wook Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Taeg Kyu Kwon
Taeg Kyu Kwon Keimyung University
Seong-Jin Kim
Seong-Jin Kim Seoul National University
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Do Sik Min
Do Sik Min Yonsei University
Jong-Wook Park
Jong-Wook Park Keimyung University
Hwan Myung Kim
Hwan Myung Kim Ajou University
John N. Brady
John N. Brady National Institutes of Health
Ji-Won Yoon
Ji-Won Yoon Chung-Ang University
Bruno Calabretta
Bruno Calabretta Thomas Jefferson University
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine

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