Nano Bio Dynamics Laboratory

나노 바이오 동역학 연구실

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나노 바이오 동역학 연구실

We study membrane protein science at single-molecule resolution, hopefully contributing to pertinent areas of pharmacy and medicine. Proteins classified as membrane proteins are the key targets of commercial drugs (~50% of drugs), and thus better understanding of their hidden chemistry and physics cannot be more emphasized to develop effective strategies of therapeutic intervention. However, the progress is relatively slow due to the technical challenges in handling the recalcitrant membrane proteins. The vision of our laboratory is not only to understand their fundamental bio-physico-chemical principles such as misfolding disease mechanisms at single-molecule level, but also to develop new methods tackling the notorious.

Major research field

Desired field of research

Research Keywords and Topics

Single-molecule force and fluorescence methods
Membrane protein folding
Protein-protein interaction
Protein oxidation and damage
Single-molecule enzyme kinetics
Development of new single-molecule tools
Molecular dynamics simulation

Research Publications
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Nature Chemical Biology, Unfolding of a ClC chloride transporter retains memory of its evolutionary history, Min, D. et al. (2018)
Nature Chemical Biology, Mapping the energy landscape for second-stage folding of a single membrane protein, Min, D. et al. (2015)
Science, Watching helical membrane proteins fold reveals a common N- to C-terminal folding pathway, Choi, H.-K.*, Min, D.* et al. (2019)

국가과학기술표준분류

  • NC. 화학
  • NC01. 물리화학
  • NC0107. 생물리화학

국가기술지도분류

  • 건강한 생명사회 지향
  • 021700. 생체기능 모니터링 기술

6T분류

  • BT 분야
  • 기초/기반기술
  • 020114. 생명현상 및 기능연구