[Selected publications]
Jae Won Roh†, Kyung Seok Oh†, Jiahn Lee, Yujin Choi, Soomin Kim, Ji Won Hong, Hei Yeun Koo, Haiyue Lin, Yelim Kim, Hogun Lew, Seung Hyun Jang, Hae-Sol Shin, Jiyeon Ohk, Hosung Jung, Kyoung Yul Seo, Jinsei Jung, Jinwoong Bok*, Chul Hoon Kim*, Heon Yung Gee* (2025) TMEM145 is a key stererociliary component in the link structures of outer hair cells and mediates the secretion of stereocilin and tubby. Nat Commun In Press
Han Seul Choi, Hyeyoung Park, Hyehyun Min, Kwan Soo Kim, Soo Min Kim, Jinan Li, Chang Liu, Hyuk Wan Ko, Min Goo Lee, Lei Song, Bo Zhao, Jinwoong Bok (2025) SHANK2 establishes auditory hair bundle architecture essential for mammalian hearing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 122 (28) e2426646122
Hei Yeun Koo, Min-A Kim, Hyehyun Min, Jae Yeon Hwang, Meenakshi Prajapati-DiNubila, Kwan Soo Kim, Martin M. Matzuk, Juw Won Park, Angelika Doetzlhofer, Un-Kyung Kim, Jinwoong Bok (2023) Follistatin regulates the specification of the apical cochlea responsible for low-frequency hearing in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(1):e2213099120
Kyeong-Hye Moon, Ji-Hyun Ma, Hyehyun Min, Heiyeun Koo, HongKyung Kim, Hyuk Wan Ko*, Jinwoong Bok* (2020) Dysregulation of sonic hedgehog signaling causes hearing loss in ciliopathy mouse models. eLife 9:e5655
Woongsu Han†, Jeong-Oh Shin†, Ji-Hyun Ma†, Hyehyun Min, Jinsei Jung, Jinu Lee, Un-Kyung Kim, Jae Young Choi, Seok Jun Moon, Dae Won Moon*, Jinwoong Bok*, and Chul Hoon Kim* (2020) Distinct roles of stereociliary links in the nonlinear sound processing and noise resistance of cochlear outer hair cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117(20):11109-11117
Jae Yeon Hwang†, Sungbo Jung†, Tae Lim Kook, Eric C. Rouchka, Jinwoong Bok*, Juw Won Park* (2020) rMAPS2: an update of the RNA map analysis and plotting server for alternative splicing regulation. Nucleic Acids Res 48(W1):W300-W306
Eun Jin Son†, Ji-Hyun Ma†, Harinarayana Ankamreddy, Jeong-Oh Shin, Jae Young Choi, Doris K. Wu, Jinwoong Bok (2015) Conserved role of Sonic Hedgehog in tonotopic organization of the avian basilar papilla and mammalian cochlea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(12): 3746-51
Heejung Moon†, Jieun Song†, Jeong-Oh Shin, Hankyu Lee, Hong-Kyung Kim, Jonathan T. Eggenschwiller, Jinwoong Bok*, Hyuk Wan Ko* (2014) Intestinal cell kinase, a protein associated with endocrine-cerebro-osteodysplasia syndrome, is a key regulator of cilia length and Hedgehog signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(23): 8541-46
Jinwoong Bok*, Colleen Zenczak, Chan Ho Hwang, Doris K. Wu* (2013) Auditory ganglion source of Sonic hedgehog regulates timing of cell cycle exit and differentiation of mammalian cochlear hair cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110 (34): 13869-13874
Jinwoong Bok*, Steven Raft, Kyoung-Ah Kong, Soo Kyung Koo, Ursula C. Dräger, Doris K. Wu* (2011) Transient retinoic acid signaling confers anterior-posterior polarity to the inner ear. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(1): 161-166