Members | Leducq Fellows
Dongwan Kim, PhD

Dongwan Kim, PhD (Kim) recently joined Hiro Nakauchi’s lab as a Post-doc at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University.  He has expertise as a molecular biologist and RNA biologist and changed his interest to xenogenic organ development.  As a Leducq Fellow, He focuses on the identifying the xenogenic barrier factors.  For that purpose, he adopts interspecies co-culture and blastocyst complementation to investigate cell-cell interaction molecules.

Representative publications include:

Lim J, Kim D, Lee YS, Ha M, Lee M, Yeo J, Chang H, Song J, Ahn K, Kim VN. Mixed tailing by TENT4A and TENT4B shields mRNA from rapid deadenylation. Science. 2018 Aug 17;361(6403):701-704. doi: 10.1126/science.aam5794. Epub 2018 Jul 19. PMID: 30026317. go to article

Kim D, Lee YS, Jung SJ, Yeo J, Seo JJ, Lee YY, Lim J, Chang H, Song J, Yang J, Kim JS, Jung G, Ahn K, Kim VN. Viral hijacking of the TENT4-ZCCHC14 complex protects viral RNAs via mixed tailing. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2020 Jun;27(6):581-588. doi: 10.1038/s41594-020-0427-3. Epub 2020 May 25. PMID: 32451488. go to article

Kim D, Lee JY, Yang JS, Kim JW, Kim VN, Chang H. The Architecture of SARS-CoV-2 Transcriptome. Cell. 2020 May 14;181(4):914-921.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.011. Epub 2020 Apr 23. PMID: 32330414; PMCID: PMC7179501. go to article

Hong A, Kim D, Kim VN, Chang H. Analyzing viral epitranscriptomes using nanopore direct RNA sequencing. J Microbiol. 2022 Sep;60(9):867-876. doi: 10.1007/s12275-022-2324-4. Epub 2022 Aug 24. PMID: 36001233; PMCID: PMC9400574. go to article