Baek Kim
Academic Appointment
- Acting Professor of Pediatrics, Center for Drug Discovery, Emory University
- Visiting Professor of Nanotechnology, Kyung-Hee University
Education
Degrees
- PhD from University of Arizona
- M.S. from Yonsei University
- B. Pharm. from School of Pharmacy, Kyung-Hee University
Research
Focus
- The long-term research focus in my laboratory is to elucidate molecular mechanisms involved in HIV genomic hypermutability, which enables HIV to evolve and escape from various selective pressures including anti-retroviral therapy, during the course of infection. Our research path starts from biochemical and enzymological understanding of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, which provides us with hypotheses which are eventually tested in tissue culture based systems, or possibly in animal models.
Publications
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The immunogenicity and protection efficacy evaluation of mRNA vaccine candidate for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in mice.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis Volume: 19 Page(s): e0012999
04/01/2025 Authors: Jeong D-E; Yoon J; Kim B; Kang J-G -
NOS inhibition sensitizes metaplastic breast cancer to PI3K inhibition and taxane therapy via c-JUN repression.
Nat Commun Volume: 15 Page(s): 10737
12/30/2024 Authors: Reddy T; Puri A; Guzman-Rojas L; Thomas C; Qian W; Zhou J; Zhao H; Mahboubi B; Oo A; Cho Y-J -
Biochemical simulation of mutation synthesis and repair during SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerization.
Virology Volume: 600 Page(s): 110255
12/01/2024 Authors: Oo A; Chen Z; Cao D; Cho Y-J; Liang B; Schinazi RF; Kim B -
The structural and mechanistic bases for the viral resistance to allosteric HIV-1 integrase inhibitor pirmitegravir.
mBio Volume: 15 Page(s): e0046524
11/13/2024 Authors: Dinh T; Tber Z; Rey JS; Mengshetti S; Annamalai AS; Haney R; Briganti L; Amblard F; Fuchs JR; Cherepanov P -
Acetylation of SAMHD1 at lysine 580 is crucial for blocking HIV-1 infection.
mBio Volume: 15 Page(s): e0195824
09/11/2024 Authors: Bulnes-Ramos A; Schott K; Rabinowitz J; Luchsinger C; Bertelli C; Miyagi E; Yu CH; Persaud M; Shepard C; Knig R -
NSD2 drives t(4;14) myeloma cell dependence on adenylate kinase 2 by diverting one-carbon metabolism to the epigenome.
Blood Volume: 144 Page(s): 283 - 295
07/18/2024 Authors: Sobh A; Encinas E; Patel A; Surapaneni G; Bonilla E; Kaestner C; Poullard J; Clerio M; Vasan K; Freeman T -
E2F1-Associated Purine Synthesis Pathway Is a Major Component of the MET-DNA Damage Response Network.
Cancer Res Commun Volume: 4 Page(s): 1863 - 1880
07/01/2024 Authors: Poliakov Turan M; Riedo R; Medo M; Pozzato C; Friese-Hamim M; Koch JP; Coggins SA; Li Q; Kim B; Albers J -
The thioredoxin system determines CHK1 inhibitor sensitivity via redox-mediated regulation of ribonucleotide reductase activity.
Nat Commun Volume: 15 Page(s): 4667
05/31/2024 Authors: Prasad CB; Oo A; Liu Y; Qiu Z; Zhong Y; Li N; Singh D; Xin X; Cho Y-J; Li Z -
SOX11 is a novel binding partner and endogenous inhibitor of SAMHD1 ara-CTPase activity in mantle cell lymphoma.
Blood Volume: 143 Page(s): 1953 - 1964
05/09/2024 Authors: Abdelrazak Morsy MH; Lilienthal I; Lord M; Merrien M; Wasik AM; Sureda-Gmez M; Amador V; Johansson HJ; Lehti J; Garcia-Torre B -
SAMHD1 expression contributes to doxorubicin resistance and predicts survival outcomes in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients.
NAR Cancer Volume: 6 Page(s): zcae007
03/01/2024 Authors: Daddacha W; Monroe D; Schlafstein AJ; Withers AE; Thompson EB; Danelia D; Luong NC; Sesay F; Rath SK; Usoro ER