Yonsei University · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Professor Myeong Hee Moon's research lab specializes in advanced analytical methodologies for the separation, characterization, and proteomic analysis of biological nanoparticles and lipid species. The lab focuses on developing and applying innovative hyphenated techniques—such as field-flow fractionation (FlFFF), nanoflow liquid chromatography, ion mobility spectrometry, and tandem mass spectrometry—to study subcellular organelles, extracellular vesicles, and phospholipids with high resolution and sensitivity. Key research directions include the size-based separation of mitochondria and starch granules, the proteomic profiling of extracellular vesicles, and the structural characterization of phospholipids and lysophospholipids in complex biological matrices.
Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.
Flow field-flow fractionation (FlFFF) has been utilized for size-based separation of rat liver mitochondria. Collected fractions of mitochondria of various sizes were examined by confocal microscopy, and mitochondria of each fraction were lysed and analyzed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) for the comparison of protein patterns in differently sized mitochondria by densitometric measurements, and for protein characterization of some gel spots with nanoflow liquid ch
The efficiencies of four different methods for the extraction of phospholipids (PLs) and lysophospholipids (LPLs) from human plasma samples were examined by comparing extraction recovery values using nanoflow liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (nLC-ESI-MS). For recovery measurements, six PL and six LPL standards of different head groups were spiked into a human plasma sample, and the peak areas of each individual species after extraction were measured from the chroma
A prototype linear octopole ion trap/ion mobility/tandem mass spectrometer has been coupled with a nanoflow liquid chromatography separation approach and used to separate and characterize a complicated peptide mixture from digestion of soluble proteins extracted from human urine. In this approach, two dimensions of separation (nanoflow liquid chromatography and ion mobility) are followed by collision induced dissociation (CID) and mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. From a preliminary analysis of t
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived membrane-bound particles, including exosomes and microvesicles that differ in cellular origin, content, and lipid composition. This study reports that exosomes and microvesicles can be simultaneously separated by size using flow field-flow fractionation (FlFFF) employed with field programming and that the detection of low-concentration EV species can be significantly improved using multiangle light scattering (MALS). The efficiency of ultracentrifuga
ABSTRACT Sedimentation/steric field‐flow fractionation (Sd/StFFF) is introduced as a new technique for the size analysis of starch granules. Sd/StFFF provides both high speed and high resolution, and narrow size fractions of starch granules can be collected from the eluting stream for further characterization by microscopy or other techniques. The sedimentation FFF instrument was calibrated and applications were made to 12 starch samples derived from wheat, durum wheat, corn, oat, tapioca, and p
Open papers in the app to read, cite, and organize with AI.
