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Combined Masters and Doctoral course
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Yim Chewon

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  • 504-406 / +82-2-880-4441
Education / Career
2012.02. Bachelor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University
2021.08. Ph.D., School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University
Research Interests
My research aims to reveal the function of proteins mediating intracellular protein transport and biogenesis, which includes the investigation on the function of the subunits of Signal Peptidase Complex on the recognition of translocating substrates and their biogenesis and processing.
Publications
  1. Johannes H. Reithinger, Chewon Yim, Sungmin Kim, Hunsang Lee, and Hyun Kim,, "Structural and functional profiling of the lateral gate of the Sec61 translocon," J. Biol. Chem., 289(22), 15845-15855(2014).
  2. Johannes H. Reithinger, Chewon Yim, Kwangjin Park, Patrik Björkholm, Gunnar von Heijne, and Hyun Kim, "A short C-terminal tail prevents mis-targeting of hydrophobic mitochondrial membrane proteins to the ER," FEBS Lett., 587(21), 3480-3486(2013).