Young Ho Kim

It has been about 10 years since the first intentional preparation of hyperbranched polymer was disclosed. Hyperbranched polymers, as well as dendrimers, may find utilities in the areas where the structural uniqueness of these polymers gives merit. There has been much progress in the structural understanding and the methods of synthesis of these polymers. However, functional understanding and utility of these polymers are still in infancy. Better understanding on physical properties of these pol

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTHyperbranched polyphenylenesYoung H. Kim and Owen W. WebsterCite this: Macromolecules 1992, 25, 21, 5561–5572Publication Date (Print):October 1, 1992Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 October 1992https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma00047a001https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00047a001research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views2542Altmetric-Citations556LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER

We studied 108 patients (116 hips) who were followed for a minimum of six years (73 to 89 months) after primary total hip arthroplasty using an uncemented porous-coated anatomic hip. The average age of the patients at operation was 48.4 years, and the diagnosis was avascular necrosis of the femoral head in 46 hips, neglected femoral neck fracture in 27, osteoarthritis secondary to childhood pyogenic arthritis in 24 and to childhood tuberculous arthritis in five, and miscellaneous in 14. The aver

A novel family of cofactors that differentially interact with homeoproteins have been identified via a yeast two-hybrid screen. The proteins contain a conserved protein kinase domain that is separated from a domain that interacts with homeoproteins and hence are termed homeodomain-interacting protein kinases (HIPKs): HIPK1, HIPK2, and HIPK3. We show that HIPKs are nuclear kinases using GFP-HIPK fusion constructs. The DNA binding activity of the NK-3 homeoprotein is greatly enhanced by HIPK2, but

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTLyotropic liquid crystalline hyperbranched aromatic polyamidesYoung H. KimCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 12, 4947–4948Publication Date (Print):June 1, 1992Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 June 1992https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja00038a093https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00038a093research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views858Altmetric-Citations158LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are

Posttranslational modifications such as ubiquitination and phosphorylation play an important role in the regulation of cellular protein function. Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2 (HIPK2) is a member of the recently identified family of nuclear protein kinases that act as corepressors for homeodomain transcription factors. Here, we show that HIPK2 is regulated by a ubiquitin-like protein, SUMO-1. We demonstrate that HIPK2 localizes to nuclear speckles (dots) by means of a speckle-retentio

Injury-initiated epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) depends on contextual signals from the extracellular matrix, suggesting a role for integrin signaling. Primary epithelial cells deficient in their prominent laminin receptor, alpha3beta1, were found to have a markedly blunted EMT response to TGF-beta1. A mechanism for this defect was explored in alpha3-null cells reconstituted with wild-type (wt) alpha3 or point mutants unable to engage laminin 5 (G163A) or epithelial cadherin (E-cadher

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRole of End Groups on the Glass Transition of Hyperbranched Polyphenylene and Triphenylbenzene DerivativesYoung H. Kim and Richard BeckerbauerCite this: Macromolecules 1994, 27, 7, 1968–1971Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1994Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1994https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma00085a048https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00085a048research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views950

We report here that the ginseng saponins induce the transcription of Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1), which is one of the major antioxidant enzymes. Total saponins and panaxatriol did not elevate the level of SOD1, but panaxadiol significantly increased SOD1. Among the panaxadiol fractions, ginsenoside Rb2 was a more specific and more remarkable inducer of the SOD1 gene than ginsenoside Rb1. Deletion analyses of the SOD1 promoter revealed that the proximal promoter is responsible for this