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Overview

Kyungjae Myung is affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea. Their research contributions are centered primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus also on Medicine. Their publications span various subfields, including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Genetics.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • PARP inhibition in cancer therapy
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kyungjae Myung are:

  • Byung-Gyu Kim
  • Jae Sun
  • Yoonsung Lee
  • Sukhyun Kang
  • Kyoo-young Lee

The following venues have published multiple studies by Myung, reflecting the primary forums for their research dissemination:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Experimental & Molecular Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among recent papers, some notable publications include:

  • "TonEBP recognizes R-loops and initiates m6A RNA methylation for R-loop resolution" (2020) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "O-GlcNAcylation regulates dopamine neuron function, survival and degeneration in Parkinson disease" (2020) published in Brain
  • "ATAD5 restricts R-loop formation through PCNA unloading and RNA helicase maintenance at the replication fork" (2020) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Crosstalk between different DNA repair pathways for DNA double strand break repairs" (2021) published in Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
  • "Precision targeting tumor cells using cancer-specific InDel mutations with CRISPR-Cas9" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Richard D. Kolodner;Christopher D. Putnam;Kyungjae Myung

  • Multiple pathways cooperate in the suppression of genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Kyungjae Myung;Clark Chen;Richard D. Kolodner

  • Suppression of Spontaneous Chromosomal Rearrangements by S Phase Checkpoint Functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Kyungjae Myung;Abhijit Datta;Richard D Kolodner

  • SGS1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologue of BLM and WRN, suppresses genome instability and homeologous recombination.

    Kyungjae Myung;Abhijit Datta;Clark Chen;Richard D. Kolodner

  • Polyubiquitination of proliferating cell nuclear antigen by HLTF and SHPRH prevents genomic instability from stalled replication forks

    Akira Motegi;Hung Jiun Liaw;Kyoo Young Lee;Henk P. Roest

  • A histone-fold complex and FANCM form a conserved DNA remodeling complex to maintain genome stability

    Zhijiang Yan;Mathieu Delannoy;Chen Ling;Danielle Daee

  • Evidence suggesting that Pif1 helicase functions in DNA replication with the Dna2 helicase/nuclease and DNA polymerase delta.

    Martin E. Budd;Clara C. Reis;Stephanie Smith;Kyungjae Myung

  • Smc5-Smc6 mediate DNA double-strand-break repair by promoting sister-chromatid recombination.

    Giacomo De Piccoli;Felipe Cortes-Ledesma;Gregory Ira;Gregory Ira;Jordi Torres-Rosell

  • Human SHPRH suppresses genomic instability through proliferating cell nuclear antigen polyubiquitination

    Akira Motegi;Raman Sood;Helen Moinova;Sanford D. Markowitz

  • The exon junction complex component Magoh controls brain size by regulating neural stem cell division.

    Debra L. Silver;Dawn E. Watkins-Chow;Karisa C. Schreck;Tarran J. Pierfelice

  • The complete spectrum of yeast chromosome instability genes identifies candidate CIN cancer genes and functional roles for ASTRA complex components.

    Peter C. Stirling;Michelle S. Bloom;Tejomayee Solanki-Patil;Stephanie Smith

  • Suppression of genome instability by redundant S-phase checkpoint pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Kyungjae Myung;Richard D. Kolodner

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromatin-assembly factors that act during DNA replication function in the maintenance of genome stability

    Kyungjae Myung;Vincent Pennaneach;Ellen S. Kats;Richard D. Kolodner

  • PCNA Ubiquitination Is Important, But Not Essential for Translesion DNA Synthesis in Mammalian Cells

    Ayal Hendel;Peter H. L. Krijger;Noam Diamant;Zohar Goren

  • Functional Analyses of Glycyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutations Suggest a Key Role for tRNA-Charging Enzymes in Peripheral Axons

    Anthony Antonellis;Shih Queen Lee-Lin;Amy Wasterlain;Paul Leo

  • PCNA modifications for regulation of post-replication repair pathways.

    Kyoo-young Lee;Kyungjae Myung

  • Human ELG1 Regulates the Level of Ubiquitinated Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) through Its Interactions with PCNA and USP1

    Kyoo-young Lee;Kailin Yang;Martin A. Cohn;Nilabja Sikdar

  • High-throughput genotoxicity assay identifies antioxidants as inducers of DNA damage response and cell death

    Jennifer T. Fox;Srilatha Sakamuru;Ruili Huang;Nedelina Teneva

  • Checkpoint-dependent activation of mutagenic repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pol3-01 mutants.

    Abhijit Datta;James L. Schmeits;Neelam S. Amin;Patrick J. Lau

  • Regulation of telomere length and suppression of genomic instability in human somatic cells by Ku86.

    Kyungjae Myung;Goutam Ghosh;Farjana J. Fattah;Gang Li;Gang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Kolodner
Richard D. Kolodner University of California, San Diego
Menghang Xia
Menghang Xia National Institutes of Health
Pann-Ghill Suh
Pann-Ghill Suh Korea Brain Research Institute
Alan D. D'Andrea
Alan D. D'Andrea Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ruili Huang
Ruili Huang National Institutes of Health
Shawn M. Burgess
Shawn M. Burgess National Institutes of Health
Philip Hieter
Philip Hieter University of British Columbia
Maria Jasin
Maria Jasin Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jang-Ung Park
Jang-Ung Park Yonsei University

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