Deog Su Hwang , Ph.D.

Major : Nucleic Acid Biochemistry

E-mail: dshwang@plaza.snu.ac.kr

Title : Associate Professor

Phone: 82-2-880-7524 (Office)

82-2-880-7524 (Lab.)

Fax: 82-2-874-1206

Address : Institute for Molecular Biology & Genetics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea

 

 

Education

 1983 - 1988: Ph.D. in Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry,

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI48824, USA.

 

1978 - 1981: M.S. in Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry,

College of Natural Science,

Yonsei University,

Seoul, Korea

 

1974 - 1978: B.S. in Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry,

College of Natural Science,

Yonsei University,

Seoul, Korea

 

Professional Experience

 1996 - present: Associate Professor

Institute for Molecular Biology & Genetics,

Seoul National University

 

1992 - 1996: Assistant Professor

Institute for Molecular Biology & Genetics,

Seoul National University

 

1988 - 1992: Post-Doc

Department of Biochmistry,

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA 94305-5307, USA.

Research Area

Nucleic Acid Biochemistry more

 

Selected Publications (since 1997)

 Han, J.S., Park, J.Y., Lee, Y.S. Thony, B., and Hwang, D.S. (1999) PhoB-dependent transcriptional activation of the iciA gene during phosphate starvation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 262, 448-452

Kang, S.H., Lee, H., Han, J.S., Hwang, D.S. (1999) Interaction of SeqA and Dam methylase on the hemimethylated origin of E. coli chromosomal DNA. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 11463-11468

Oh, S., T.K. Kim, Hwang, D.S. and Yim, J. (1999) Involvement of retinoblastoma protein in p27KIP1-induced apoptosis. Cancer Letters, 144, 1-6

Han, J.S., Kwon, H.S., Yim, J., and Hwang, D.S. (1998) Effect of IciA protein on the expression of the nrd gene encoding ribonucleotide reductase of E. coli, Mol. Gen. Genet. 259, 610-614.

Lee, Y.S., Lee, H., Yim, J., and Hwang, D.S. (1997) The Binding of IciA protein to the dnaA Promoter 1P Element Enhances the Binding of RNA Polymerase to the dnaA Promoter 1P. Nucl. Acid. Res., 25, 3486-3489

Lee, Y.S., and Hwang, D.S (1997) Occlusion of RNA polymerase by oligomerization of DnaA protein over the dnaA promoters of Escherichia coli.J. Biol. Chem., 272, 83-88.

Lee, H., Kang, S., Yim, J.-B., and Hwang, D.S. (1998) Identification of hemimethylated DNA binding activity in seqA mutant. Korean J. Biol. Sci. 2, 351-353

Han, S., Lee, Y.S., Yim, J.-B., and Hwang, D.S. (1998) Purification and cloning of a protein secreted from Lactobacillus acidophillus. Korean J. Biol. Sci. 2, 355-359

Rih, J.K., Oh, S.T., Hwang, D.S., and Yim, J. (1997) The Action of Hepatitis B Virus Enhancer 2-Core Gene Promoter in Nonviral and Retroviral Vectors for Hepatocyte-Specific Expression. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30, 269-273.

Oh, S., Rih, J., Kwon, S., Hwang, D.S., Kim, S., and Yim, J. (1997) Lactoferrin as a gene delivery vehicle to hepatocytes. Exp. Mol. Med., 29, 111-116.

 

Lab. members

 Postdoctoral fellow

Yong Sun Lee      relayer@snu.ac.kr

Doctor course

Ho Lee                hopbang@snu.ac.kr

Joo Suk Han         etbr@plaza1.snu.ac.kr

Sukhyun Kaang     neosukhy@snu.ac.kr

Hak Kyun Kim       callme2@snu.ac.kr

Master course

Yesu Jeon            ysjeon95@snu.ac.kr

Jonghoon Park     hoon609@snu.ac.kr

Ji-young Yoon      rose771228@hanmail.net

Home page of Lab.

 http://imbg.snu.ac.kr/DNA_Biochem/DNA_biochem.htm