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Biology and Biochemistry
Korea
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
136
Citations
70952
World Ranking
337
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Sue Goo Rhee is affiliated with Ewha Womans University in South Korea and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work related to Medicine. Their scientific contributions emphasize molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, biochemistry, surgery, and genetics.

The research focus of Sue Goo Rhee includes several main topics, with a particular emphasis on redox biology and oxidative stress, mitochondrial function and pathology, trace elements in health, heat shock proteins research, glutathione transferases and polymorphisms, congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies, and craniofacial disorders and treatments.

The scientist has published work in several notable venues, including Antioxidants, Redox Biology, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Nature, and PubMed. Among their recent papers are:

  • Multiple functions of 2-Cys peroxiredoxins, I and II, and their regulations via post-translational modifications (2020, Free Radical Biology and Medicine)
  • Peroxiredoxin 3 deficiency induces cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction by impaired mitochondrial quality control (2022, Redox Biology)
  • Ablation of Peroxiredoxin V Exacerbates Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Kidney Injury in Mice (2020, Antioxidants)
  • Peroxiredoxin 3 Has Important Roles on Arsenic Trioxide Induced Apoptosis in Human Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Cell Line via Hyperoxidation of Mitochondrial Specific Reactive Oxygen Species (2020, PubMed)
  • The contribution of de novo coding mutations to meningomyelocele (2025, Nature)

The collaboration network of Sue Goo Rhee includes frequent coauthors such as Hyun Ae Woo, Jiyoung Park, Kit Sing Au, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, and Joan T. Le, with multiple joint publications across their scientific career.

Best Publications

  • Peroxiredoxins: a historical overview and speculative preview of novel mechanisms and emerging concepts in cell signaling.

    Sue Goo Rhee;Ho Zoon Chae;Kanghwa Kim

  • Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)-induced Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide ROLE IN EGF RECEPTOR-MEDIATED TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION

    Yun Soo Bae;Sang Won Kang;Min Seok Seo;I. C. Baines

  • Reversible inactivation of the tumor suppressor PTEN by H2O2.

    Seung-Rock Lee;Kap-Seok Yang;Jaeyul Kwon;Chunghee Lee

  • Reversible Inactivation of Protein-tyrosine Phosphatase 1B in A431 Cells Stimulated with Epidermal Growth Factor

    Seung-Rock Lee;Ki-Sun Kwon;Seung-Ryul Kim;Sue Goo Rhee

  • Studies of inositol phospholipid-specific phospholipase C.

    Sue Goo Rhee;Pann-Ghill Suh;Sung Ho Ryu;Sang Yeol Lee

  • Regulation of Phosphoinositide-specific Phospholipase C Isozymes

    Sue Goo Rhee;Yun Soo Bae

  • Thioredoxin-dependent peroxide reductase from yeast.

    Ho Zoon Chae;Sang Jin Chung;Sue Goo Rhee

  • Phospholipase C-γ is a substrate for the PDGF and EGF receptor protein-tyrosine kinases in vivo and in vitro

    Jill Meisenhelder;Pann-Ghill Suh;Sue Goo Rhee;Tony Hunter

  • Activation of the beta 1 isozyme of phospholipase C by alpha subunits of the Gq class of G proteins.

    Stephen J. Taylor;Ho Zoon Chae;Sue Goo Rhee;John H. Exton

  • Regulation of inositol phospholipid-specific phospholipase C isozymes.

    Sue Goo Rhee;Kang Duk Choi

  • Cloning and sequencing of thiol-specific antioxidant from mammalian brain: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase and thiol-specific antioxidant define a large family of antioxidant enzymes.

    Ho Zoon Chae;Keith Robison;Leslie B. Poole;George Church

  • Unraveling the biological roles of reactive oxygen species.

    Michael P. Murphy;Arne Holmgren;Nils Göran Larsson;Barry Halliwell

  • Redox-based regulation of signal transduction : Principles, pitfalls, and promises

    Yvonne M.W. Janssen-Heininger;Brooke T. Mossman;Nicholas H. Heintz;Henry J. Forman

  • Two Enzymes in One: Two Yeast Peroxiredoxins Display Oxidative Stress-Dependent Switching from a Peroxidase to a Molecular Chaperone Function

    Ho Hee Jang;Kyun Oh Lee;Yong Hun Chi;Bae Gyo Jung

  • Reversible oxidation and inactivation of the tumor suppressor PTEN in cells stimulated with peptide growth factors

    Jaeyul Kwon;Seung-Rock Lee;Kap-Seok Yang;Younghee Ahn

  • Intracellular messenger function of hydrogen peroxide and its regulation by peroxiredoxins

    Sue Goo Rhee;Sang Won Kang;Woojin Jeong;Tong Shin Chang

  • Increase of the catalytic activity of phospholipase C-gamma 1 by tyrosine phosphorylation.

    Shunzo Nishibe;Matthew I. Wahl;S. M. Hernandez-Sotomayor;Nicholas K. Tonks

  • EGF induces tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C-II: a potential mechanism for EGF receptor signaling.

    B. Margolis;S.G. Rhee;S. Felder;M. Mervic

  • Mammalian peroxiredoxin isoforms can reduce hydrogen peroxide generated in response to growth factors and tumor necrosis factor-alpha.

    Sang Won Kang;Ho Zoon Chae;Min Seok Seo;Kanghwa Kim

  • PDGF stimulation of inositol phospholipid hydrolysis requires PLC-γ1 phosphorylation on tyrosine residues 783 and 1254

    Ha Kun Kim;Jae Won Kim;Asher Zilberstein;Benjamin Margolis

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang Won Kang
Sang Won Kang Ewha Womans University
Earl R. Stadtman
Earl R. Stadtman National Institutes of Health
Pann-Ghill Suh
Pann-Ghill Suh Korea Brain Research Institute
Sung Ho Ryu
Sung Ho Ryu Pohang University of Science and Technology
Graham Carpenter
Graham Carpenter Vanderbilt University
Hanjoong Jo
Hanjoong Jo Emory University
Lucio Cocco
Lucio Cocco University of Bologna
Hsiang-Fu Kung
Hsiang-Fu Kung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tamas Balla
Tamas Balla National Institutes of Health
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia

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