Seoul National University · 生化学・遺伝学・分子生物学
Professor Yong An's research lab focuses on advancing energy storage technologies, particularly solid-state polymer electrolytes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries, with an emphasis on enhancing ionic conductivity, lithium-ion transference number, and interfacial stability. The lab also investigates the molecular mechanisms of cancer progression, especially in pancreatic cancer, exploring the roles of non-coding RNAs, galectin-1, and metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironments. Additionally, the lab applies metabolomic approaches to diagnose central nervous system metastases, such as leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. These interdisciplinary efforts bridge materials science, cancer biology, and clinical metabolomics to address critical challenges in energy and oncology.
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Solid-state polymer electrolytes (SPEs) for high electrochemical performance lithium-ion batteries have received considerable attention due to their unique characteristics; they are not prone to leakage, and they exhibit low flammability, excellent processability, good flexibility, high safety levels, and superior thermal stability. However, current SPEs are far from commercialization, mainly due to the low ionic conductivity, low Li<sup>+</sup> transference number (t<sub>Li+</sub> ), poor elect
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Under malignant circumstances, PaSCs express and secret galectin-1, which could further promote the proliferation and invasion of cancer cells.
Pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive malignancies, ranks the fourth cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Aberrantly expressed long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) functioned as oncogenes or tumor suppressors in pancreatic cancer. This study aimed to determine the expression of lncRNA DLX6 antisense RNA 1 (DLX6-AS1) in pancreatic cancer tissues and to explore the DLX6-AS1-related pathway in pancreatic cancer. The gene expression levels were determined by quantitative real-time PCR, and pro
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Therefore, knockdown of USP39 is likely to provide a novel alternative to targeted therapy of MTC and deserves further investigation.
Zinc as a biomarker can be used to diagnose the early stage prostate cancer, while ZIP1 protein, a zinc transporter is significantly down-regulated in prostate cancer cells. This behavior leads to the apparent alteration of the enrichment ability for zinc between early prostate cancer tissues and healthy tissues. This difference inspires us to develop a novel Zn<sup>2+</sup> sensor that applies to the clinic diagnosis of early prostate cancer. We designed a tetrapeptide sensor <b>H<sub>2</sub>L<
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in a variety of tumours; however, their biological function and clinical significance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are still unclear. In the present study, the clinical significance, biological function and regulatory mechanisms of lncRNA DCST1-AS1 in HCC were investigated. Differential lncRNAs in HCC were identified based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. The biological function and mechanism of DCST1-AS1 were studied <i>in vitr
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