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Overview

Yeonseok Chung is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has a research focus primarily in immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions also in medicine. Their work extensively covers the fields of immunology, oncology, and molecular biology, alongside interests in physiology and epidemiology.

Their main research topics revolve around immune cell function and interaction, immunotherapy and immune responses, and T-cell and B-cell immunology. Specific areas of focus include CAR-T cell therapy research, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, and psoriasis treatment and pathogenesis.

Yeonseok Chung's recent publications include:

  • "CD8 T-cell subsets: heterogeneity, functions, and therapeutic potential," 2023, Experimental & Molecular Medicine
  • "IL-17-Producing Cells in Tumor Immunity: Friends or Foes?", 2020, Immune Network
  • "Nanovesicle-Mediated Targeted Delivery of Immune Checkpoint Blockades to Potentiate Therapeutic Efficacy and Prevent Side Effects," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "A unique population of neutrophils generated by air pollutant-induced lung damage exacerbates airway inflammation," 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • "A Therapeutic Nanovaccine that Generates Anti-Amyloid Antibodies and Amyloid-specific Regulatory T Cells for Alzheimer's Disease," 2022, Advanced Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yeonseok Chung include Garam Choi, Byung-Seok Kim, Choong-Hyun Koh, Byung-Soo Kim, and Chang-Yuil Kang.

Their work has been regularly published in venues such as Experimental & Molecular Medicine, Immune Network, Advanced Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

Best Publications

  • T Helper 17 Lineage Differentiation Is Programmed by Orphan Nuclear Receptors RORα and RORγ

    Xuexian O. Yang;Bhanu P. Pappu;Roza Nurieva;Askar Akimzhanov

  • Bcl6 Mediates the Development of T Follicular Helper Cells

    Roza I. Nurieva;Yeonseok Chung;Gustavo J. Martinez;Xuexian O. Yang

  • Critical Regulation of Early Th17 Cell Differentiation by Interleukin-1 Signaling

    Yeonseok Chung;Seon Hee Chang;Gustavo J. Martinez;Xuexian O. Yang

  • Generation of T Follicular Helper Cells Is Mediated by Interleukin-21 but Independent of T Helper 1, 2, or 17 Cell Lineages

    Roza I. Nurieva;Yeonseok Chung;Daehee Hwang;Xuexian O. Yang

  • Molecular Antagonism and Plasticity of Regulatory and Inflammatory T Cell Programs

    Xuexian O. Yang;Roza Nurieva;Gustavo J. Martinez;Hong Soon Kang

  • Follicular regulatory T cells expressing Foxp3 and Bcl-6 suppress germinal center reactions

    Yeonseok Chung;Yeonseok Chung;Shinya Tanaka;Fuliang Chu;Roza I. Nurieva

  • T Helper 17 Cells Promote Cytotoxic T Cell Activation in Tumor Immunity

    Natalia Martin-Orozco;Pawel Muranski;Yeonseok Chung;Xuexian O. Yang

  • CCR6 regulates the migration of inflammatory and regulatory T cells.

    Tomohide Yamazaki;Xuexian O. Yang;Yeonseok Chung;Atsushi Fukunaga

  • Th17 cells promote pancreatic inflammation but only induce diabetes efficiently in lymphopenic hosts after conversion into Th1 cells

    Natalia Martin-Orozco;Yeonseok Chung;Seon Hee Chang;Yi Hong Wang

  • Toll-like Receptor 2 Signaling in CD4+ T Lymphocytes Promotes T Helper 17 Responses and Regulates the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Disease

    Joseph M. Reynolds;Bhanu P. Pappu;Juan Peng;Gustavo J. Martinez;Gustavo J. Martinez

  • Expression and regulation of IL-22 in the IL-17-producing CD4+ T lymphocytes.

    Yeonseok Chung;Xuexian Yang;Seon Hee Chang;Li Ma

  • Toll-like receptor 4 signaling in T cells promotes autoimmune inflammation

    Joseph M. Reynolds;Gustavo J. Martinez;Gustavo J. Martinez;Yeonseok Chung;Chen Dong

  • CD8 T-cell subsets: heterogeneity, functions, and therapeutic potential

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  • Vitamin D Suppresses Th17 Cytokine Production by Inducing C/EBP Homologous Protein (CHOP) Expression *

    Seon Hee Chang;Yeonseok Chung;Chen Dong

  • Regulation of T cell activation and tolerance by PDL2

    Yongliang Zhang;Yeonseok Chung;Caroline Bishop;Betsy Daugherty

  • Future prospects of immune checkpoint blockade in cancer: from response prediction to overcoming resistance

    Young-Jun Park;Da-Sol Kuen;Yeonseok Chung

  • Glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor-related protein co-stimulation facilitates tumor regression by inducing IL-9-producing helper T cells

    Il Kyu Kim;Byung Seok Kim;Choong Hyun Koh;Jae Won Seok

  • IL-21-mediated reversal of NK cell exhaustion facilitates anti-tumour immunity in MHC class I-deficient tumours.

    Hyungseok Seo;Insu Jeon;Byung-Seok Kim;Myunghwan Park

  • The E3 ubiquitin ligase GRAIL regulates T cell tolerance and regulatory T cell function by mediating T cell receptor-CD3 degradation.

    Roza I. Nurieva;Shuling Zheng;Wei Jin;Yeonseok Chung

  • Understanding the development and function of T follicular helper cells

    Roza I Nurieva;Yeonseok Chung

  • Smad3 Differentially Regulates the Induction of Regulatory and Inflammatory T Cell Differentiation

    Gustavo J. Martinez;Gustavo J. Martinez;Zhengmao Zhang;Yeonseok Chung;Joseph M. Reynolds

  • Generation of T Follicular Helper Cells Is Mediated by Interleukin-21 but Independent of T Helper 1, 2, or 17 Cell Lineages (DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2008.05.009)

    Roza I. Nurieva;Yeonseok Chung;Daehee Hwang;Xuexian O. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Chen Dong
Chen Dong Tsinghua University
Chang-Yuil Kang
Chang-Yuil Kang Seoul National University
Roza Nurieva
Roza Nurieva The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Anton M. Jetten
Anton M. Jetten National Institutes of Health
Shinya Tanaka
Shinya Tanaka Hokkaido University
Stephanie S. Watowich
Stephanie S. Watowich The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tomohiro Kurosaki
Tomohiro Kurosaki Osaka University
Xin-Hua Feng
Xin-Hua Feng Zhejiang University
Rick A. Wetsel
Rick A. Wetsel The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Wan-Uk Kim
Wan-Uk Kim Catholic University of Korea

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