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Suk Min Kim*, So Yeon Kong, Jingu Kang, Jeong Seok Ji, Sung Heuck Kang, Hye-Jin Yoon, Hyunwoo Kim, Jungki Ryu, Hyung Ho Lee*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Fortification of FeS clusters reshapes anaerobic CO dehydrogenase into an air-viable enzyme through multilayered sealing of O2 tunnels", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. e202508565 (2025).π; Back Cover Featureπ; Top 10% 'Hot Papers' in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2025)π
Suk Min Kim*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Streamlined aromatic ester process via tunnel engineering", Nat. Chem. Eng. 1: 728β730 (2024).π β News & Views
Joo Yeong Park, Seunghyun Han, Doa Kim, Trang Vu Thien Nguyen, Youhyun Nam, Suk Min Kim*, Rakwoo Chang*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Enhancing the thermostability of lignin peroxidase: Heme as a keystone cofactor driving stability changes in heme enzymes", Heliyon 10(17): e37235 (2024).π
Suk Min Kim*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Enzymatic method for the conversion of carbon monoxide from industrial off-gases into formate", Nat. Chem. Eng. 1: 338-339 (2024).π β Research Briefing
Jinhee Lee, Suk Min Kim*, Byoung Wook Jeon, Ho Won Hwang, Eleni G. Poloniataki, Jingu Kang, Sanghyung Lee, Ho Won Ra, Jonggeol Na, Jeong-Geol Na, Jinwon Lee, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Molar-scale formate production via enzymatic hydration of industrial off-gases", Nat. Chem. Eng. 1: 354-364 (2024).π
Suk Min Kim*, Sung Heuck Kang, Jinhee Lee, Yoonyoung Heo, Eleni G. Poloniataki, Jingu Kang, Hye-Jin Yoon, So Yeon Kong, Yaejin Yun, Hyunwoo Kim, Jungki Ryu, Hyung Ho Lee*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Identifying a key spot for electron mediator-interaction to tailor CO dehydrogenaseβs affinity", Nat. Commun. 15: 2732 (2024).π
Suk Min Kim*, Sung Heuck Kang, Byoung Wook Jeon, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Tunnel engineering of gas-converting enzymes for inhibitor retardation and substrate acceleration", Bioresour. Technol. 394: 130248 (2023).π
Chandran Sathesh-Prabu, Jihoon Woo, Yuchan Kim, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee, Che Ok Jeon*, Donghyuk Kim*, Sung Kuk Lee*, "Comparative genomic analysis and BTEX degradation pathways of a thermotolerant Cupriavidus cauae PHS1", J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 33(7): 875-885 (2023).π
Suk Min Kim, Jinhee Lee, Sung Heuck Kang, Yoonyoung Heo, Hye-Jin Yoon, Ji-Sook Hahn, Hyung Ho Lee*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "O2-tolerant CO dehydrogenase via tunnel redesign for the removal of CO from industrial flue gas", Nat. Catal. 5: 807-817 (2022).π Journal Cover featureπ; Research Highlight in Nature 609, 657 (2022)π; Collection in Nat. Chem. Eng. (2023)π
Haewon Son, Hogyun Seo, Seunghyun Han, Suk Min Kim, Le Thanh Mai Pham, Mohd Faheem Khan, Ho Joon Sung, Sung-Heuck Kang, Kyung-Jin Kim*, Yong Hwan Kim*, "Extra disulfide and ionic salt bridge improves the thermostability of lignin peroxidase H8 under acidic condition", Enzyme and Microb. Technol. 148: 109803 (2021).π
Previous publications (before 2021)
Suk Min Kim, Hyun Seung Lim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Discovery of a RuBisCO-like protein that functions as an oxygenase in the novel D-hamamelose pathway", Biotechnol. Bioproc. Eng. 23: 490β499 (2018).π
Suk Min Kim, Bae Young Choi, Young Shin Ryu, Sung Hun Jung, Jung Min Park, Goo-Hee Kim, Sung Kuk Lee*, "Simultaneous utilization of glucose and xylose by novel mechanisms in an engineered Escherichia coli", Metab. Eng. 30: 141-148 (2015).π
Jungdon Bae, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Identification and characterization of 2-keto-3-deoxy-L-rhamnonate dehydrogenase belonging to the MDR superfamily from the thermoacidophilic bacterium Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans: implications to L-rhamnose metabolism in archaea", Extremophiles 19: 469β478 (2015).π
Sun Bok Lee*, Sun Ja Cho, Jeong Ah Kim, Shin Youp Lee, Suk Min Kim, Hyun Seung Lim, "Metabolic pathway of 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose in agar-degrading microorganisms", Biotechnol. Bioproc. Eng. 19: 866β878 (2014).π
Young Shin Ryu, Rajesh Kumar Biswas, Kwangsu Shin, Vinuselvi Parisutham, Suk Min Kim, Sung Kuk Lee*, "A simple and effective method for construction of Escherichia coli strains proficient for genome engineering", PLoS ONE, 9(4): e94266 (2014).π
Dong-Heon Lee, Sun Ja Cho, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Sagittula marina sp. nov., isolated from seawater and emended description of the genus Sagittula", Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 63(6): 2101-2107 (2013).π
Dong-Heon Lee, Sun Ja Cho, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Psychroserpens damuponensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater", Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 63(2): 703-708 (2013).π
Dong-Heon Lee, Sun Ja Cho, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Winogradskyella damuponensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater", Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 63(1): 321-326 (2013).π
Suk Min Kim, Kwang Hyun Paek, Sun Bok Lee*, "Characterization of NADPβΊ-specific L-rhamnose dehydrogenase from the thermoacidophilic Archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum", Extremophiles 16: 447β454 (2012).π
Suk Min Kim, Sun Ja Cho, Sun Bok Lee*, "Genome sequence of the unclassified marine Gammaproteobacterium BDW918", J. Bacteriol. 194(14): 3753β3754 (2012).π
Jae-Woo Ahn, Shin Youp Lee, Sangwoo Kim, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, Kyung-Jin Kim*, "Crystal structure of glucuronic acid dehydrogenase from Chromohalobacter salexigens", Proteins: Struct. Funct. Bioinf. 80(1): 314-318 (2012).π
Hyeong Jin Hwang, Suk Min Kim, Jin Hwa Chang, Sun Bok Lee*, "Lactic acid production from seaweed hydrolysate of Enteromorpha prolifera (Chlorophyta)", J. Appl. Phycol. 24: 935β940 (2012).π
Dong-Heon Lee, Sun Ja Cho, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Postechiella marina gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from seawater", Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 62(7): 1528-1535 (2013).π
Hyeong Jin Hwang, Shin Youp Lee, Suk Min Kim, Sun Bok Lee*, "Fermentation of seaweed sugars by Lactobacillus species and the potential of seaweed as a biomass feedstock", Biotechnol. Bioproc. Eng. 16: 1231β1239 (2011).π