1. Uk-Jae Lee, Martina Wecera, Serena Lelouch-ferdinand, Simone Bionda, Heydar Moravej, Taha Rakhshandehroo, Ali Nili, Shreya Mantri, Yoon Ho Lee, Sina Djafari Rouhani, Ali Vafaei, Radia Khan, Benjamin B.V. Louis, Harris Allen, Lea Berland, Mohammad Rashidian “IL-21 CAR-Enhancer Enables Long-Lived, Effective CAR-T Cells through CD4⁻CD8⁻ and CD8⁺ Reprogramming”, Manuscript in Preparation.
2. Heydar Moravej*, Taha Rakhshandehroo*, Radia M. M. Khan#, Victoria M. Rivet#, Elodie Marcandalli#, Shreya R. Mantri#, Pegah Taklifi#, Uk-Jae Lee#, Benjamin B.V. Louis, , Leila A. Munaretto, Kathryn Regan, Zoe Farkash, Lea Berland, Zeina Gabr, Alexandra Wolff, Antonia Kowalewski, Harris Allen, Ali Nili, Jessika Baral, Dayna Mercadante, Mariateresa Fulciniti, Caron A. Jocobson, Adam S. Sperling, Omar Nadeem, Hadi Nia, Michael Hemann, Nikhil C. Munshim, Mohammad Rashidian, “Antigen–IL-2 CAR-Enhancer drives CAR-T fate and stemness, enhancing anti-tumor efficacy across models independent of IL-2Rα”, Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, (2026): e013665.
3. Junghyeon Ko, Hyeon-Jin Kim, Jeong-Uk Kim, Seh Ri Oh, Tae Hoon Kang, Junghwan Byun, Uk-Jae Lee, Minglin Ma, Su-Hwan Kim, Byung-Gee Kim, Nathaniel S. Hwang. "Light‐Responsive Enzyme‐Loaded Nanoparticles for Tunable Adhesion and Mechanical Wound Contraction." Advanced Functional Materials (2025): e14917.
4. Taha Rakhshandehroo, Shreya R. Mantri, Heydar Moravej, Benjamin B.V. Louis, Ali Salehi Farid, Leila Munaretto, Kathryn Regan, Radia Khan, Alexandra Wolff, Zoe Farkash, Min Cong, Adrien Kuhnast, Ali Nili, Uk-Jae Lee, Harris Allen, Lea Berland, Ester Simkova, Safak Uslu, Soheil Tavakolpour, Jennifer Rowley, Elisabeth Codet, Haneyeh Shahbazian, Jessika Baral, Jason Pyrdol, Caron Jacobson, Omar Nadeem, Hadi Nia, Kai Wucherpfennig, Mohammad Rashidian, "A CAR enhancer increases the activity and persistence of CAR T cells." Nature Biotechnology (2024): 1-12.
5. Safak Uslua, Uk-Jae Lee, Soheil Tavakolpour, Omar Abousaway, Ali Nili, Lily Bass, Pragallabh Purwar, Edward Lacson, Lea Berland, Adrien Kuhnast, Louise Clark, Delia Picard, Taha Rakhshandehroo, Shreya Mantri, Heydar Moravej, and Mohammad Rashidian, “Development of a stable peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) via sortase and click chemistry”, ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science (2024).
6. Hwaseok Hong*, Uk-Jae Lee*, Seul Hoo Lee, Hyun Kim, Gyu-Min Lim, Sang-Hyuk Lee, Hyeoncheol Francis Son, Byung-Gee Kim, and Kyung-Jin Kim, “Highly Efficient Site-Specific Protein Modification using Tyrosinase from Streptomyces avermitilis: Structural Insight”, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (2024): 128313.
7. Jung Hun Kim*, QuanZhe Liu*, Uk-Jae Lee*, Arun Kumar Rajendrane, MinJoon Cho, Sivashanmugam Amirthalingam, Tae Hoon Kang, Beom Seok Kim, Gyeong-Guk Park, Byung-Gee Kim, Jae Hyup Lee, and Nathaniel S. Hwang, “"Antioxidant-Coated multifunctional whitlockite scaffold for the treatment of Steroid-Induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head." Chemical Engineering Journal (2023): 145362.
8. Uk-Jae Lee, Jae Kyung Sohng, Byung-Gee Kim, and Kwon-Young Choi, “Recent Trends in the Modification of Polyphenolic Compounds Using Hydroxylation and Glycosylation”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology 80 (2023): 102914.
9. Junghyeon Ko*, Min Jeong Lee*, Woojin Jeong, Subin Choi, Eunhye Shin, Young-Hyeon An, Hyeon-Jin Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Byung-Gee Kim, Seon-Yeong Kwak, and Nathaniel S. Hwang, “Skin penetrating tyrosinase conjugated SWNT nanoneedle for alleviating photo-induced damage”, ACS nano 17.20 (2023): 20473-20491.
10. Hyun Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Gyu-Min Lim, Jin-Young Kim, Jeongchan Lee, Hanbit Song, Eun-jung Kim, Jungbae Kim, Nathaniel S Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim, "Stability Enhancement of Target Enzymes via Tyrosinase-Mediated Site-Specific Polysaccharide Coating." Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 28.5 (2023): 862-873.
11. Yong Yuk*, Ji-Hwan Jang*, SeoA. Park, HyunA. Park, Jung-Oh Ahn, Yung-Hun Yang, Sion Ham, See-Hyoung Park, Kyungmoon Park, Su Young Kim, Young Soo Kim, Jeongchan Lee, Uk-Jae Lee, Byung-Gee Kim, Kwon-Young Choi, “Production of bio-indigo dye by surmounting its physical and chemical insoluble nature”, Dyes and Pigments 218 (2023): 111466.
12. Uk-Jae Lee*, Junghyeon Ko*, Su-Hwan Kim*, Pyung-Gang Lee, Young-Hyeon An, Hyungdon Yun, Dillon T. Flood, Philip E. Dawson, Nathaniel S. Hwang, and Byung-Gee Kim, “Light-Triggered In Situ Biosynthesis of Artificial Melanin for Skin Protection”, Advanced Science, 9.7 (2022): 2103503. [Inside Back Cover] (Top 5 % in Material Science, Top 6% in Chemistry, 2021 Impact Factor: 17.521)
13. Hyun Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Han-Bit Song, Jeongchan Lee, Won-Suk Song, Heewon Nho, Minho Kang, Beom-Seok Kim, Jungwon Park, Nathaniel Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim, “Synthesis of soluble melanin nanoparticles under acidic condition using Burkholderia cepacia tyrosinase and their characterization”, RSC Advances, 12.27: 17434-17442, 2022.
14. Jinkyung Choi, Eun-Mi Kim, Byung Joon Ko, Uk-Jae Lee, Joo-Hyun Seo & Byung-Gee Kim "Production of Theasinensin A Using Laccase as Antioxidant and Antiaging Agent", Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 12.27 (2022): 17434-17442.
15. Hanbit Song*, Pyung-Gang Lee*, Junyeob Kim, Joonwon Kim, Sang-Hyuk Lee, Hyun Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Jin Young Kim, Eun-Jung Kim, Byung-Gee Kim, "Regioselective One-pot Synthesis of Hydroxy-(S)-equols Using Isoflavonoid Reductases and Monooxygenases, and Evaluation of the Hydroxyequol Derivatives as Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators and Antioxidants" Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 10 (2022): 830712.
16. Uk-Jae Lee*, Se-Ra Shin*, Heewon Noh*, Han-Bit Song, Junyeob Kim, Dai-Soo Lee, Byung-Gee Kim, "Rationally Designed Eugenol-Based Chain Extender for Self-Healing Polyurethane Elastomers", ACS Omega 6.43 (2021): 28848-28858.
17. Minji Kim*, Hyunbum Kim*, Young-sun Lee*, Sangjun Lee, Seong-Eun Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Sungwon Jung, Chung-Gyu Park, Jinkee Hong, Junsang Doh, Dong Yun Lee, Byung-Gee Kim, Nathaniel S. Hwang, "Novel enzymatic cross-linking–based hydrogel nanofilm caging system on pancreatic cell spheroid for long-term blood glucose regulation", Science Advances 7.26 (2021): eabf7832
18. Somin Lee, Hyunwoo Jeon, Pritam Giri, Uk-Jae Lee, Hyunsang Jung, Seonga Lim, Sharad Sarak, Taresh P. Khobragade, Byung-Gee Kim, and Hyungdon Yun, "The Reductive Amination of Carbonyl Compounds Using Native Amine Dehydrogenase from Laribacter hongkongensis", Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 26 (2021): 384-391.
19. Hanbit Song*, Pyung-Gang Lee*, Hyun Kim, Uk-Jae Lee, Sang-Hyuk Lee, Joonwon Kim, Byung-Gee Kim, "Polyphenol-Hydroxylating Tyrosinase Activity under Acidic pH Enables Efficient Synthesis of Plant Catechols and Gallols", Microorganisms 9.9 (2021): 1866.
20. Su-Hwan Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Beom Seok Kim, Young-Hyeon An, Uk-Jae Lee, Sang-Hyuk Lee, Seunghyun L. Kim, Byung-Gee Kim, Nathaniel S. Hwang, "Fabrication of polyphenol-incorporated anti-inflammatory hydrogel via high-affinity enzymatic crosslinking for wet tissue adhesion", Biomaterials 242 (2020): 119905.
21. Pyung-Gang Lee, Uk-Jae Lee, Hanbit Song, Kwon-Young Choi, Byung-Gee Kim, "Recent advances in the microbial hydroxylation and reduction of soy isoflavones", FEMS Microbiology Letters 365.19 (2018): fny195.
22. Hyeoncheol Francis Son*, Sang-Hyuk Lee*, Seul Hoo Lee, Hyun Kim, Hwaseok Hong, Uk-Jae Lee, Pyung-Gang Lee, Byung-Gee Kim, Kyung-Jin Kim, "Structural basis for highly efficient production of catechol derivatives at acidic pH by tyrosinase from Burkholderia thailandensis", ACS Catalysis, 8.11 (2018): 10375-10382.