Publications

2025 ​

Ju-Young Kim, Yeon-Ju Jeong, Min-Ju Seo, Soo-Jin Yeom, Sustainable Conversion of Methanol: A One-Pot Renewable Platform Using Novel Alcohol Oxidase and Pyruvate Aldolase, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, in preparation

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Sun-Yong Jeong, Yeon-Ju Jeong, Min-Ju Seo and Soo-Jin Yeom, Elucidating the Biochemical Properties of a Novel Limonene Synthase from Agastache rugosa, BMC Plant Biology, in preparation

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Ye-Bin Kim,  Seongmin Cheon, Seung-Do Yun, Seongmin Kim, Min-Ju Seo, Won Seok Chi, Chul-Ho Yun, Bong Hyun Sung, Chungoo Park, Soo-Jin Yeom, Elucidating the Polyethylene Biodegradation Mechanism of Pseudomonas  fluorescens  JNU01:  A  Comparative  Genomic  and 
Functional Analysis of AlkB, Chemosphere, in preparation

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Min-Ju Seo, Yeon-Ju Jeong, Thien-Kim Le, Da-Mi Kim, Bong Hyun Sung, Seung Jae Lee, Eun Yeol Lee, Chul-Ho Yun, Soo-Jin Yeom, Biocatalytic methane oxidation, Science, in preparation

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Min-Ju Seo, Yeon-Ju Jeong, Su-Bin Ju, Da-Mi Kim, Hye-Rim Seo, Bong Hyun Sung, Hyeoncheol Francis Son, Jin-Byung Park, and Soo-Jin Yeom, Enzymatic Cascade Transformation of Renewable C1 and C2 Alcohols Into 3-Hydroxypropionaldehyde with a High Conversion Rate, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, in preparation

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2024

​Jungyeon Kim†, Ye-Bin Kim†, Ju-Young Kim, Min-Ju Seo, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Bong Hyun Sung*, Investigation of bottleneck enzyme through flux balance analysis to improve glycolic acid production in Escherichia coli, journal of Microbiology, 2024, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12275-024-00175-4

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Ye-Bin Kim†, Seongmin Kim†, Chungoo Park* and Soo-Jin Yeom*, Biodegradation of polystyrene and systems biology-based approaches to the development of new biocatalysts for plastic degradation, Curr. Opin. Syst. Biol., 2024, 37:100505, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2024.100505

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Yeon‑Ju Jeong†, Min‑Ju Seo†, Bong Hyun Sung*, Jeong‑Sun Kim* and Soo‑Jin Yeom*, Biotransformation of 2-keto-4-hydroxybutyrate via aldol condensation using an efficient and thermostable carboligase from Deinococcus radiodurans, Bioresour. Bioprocess., 2024, 11:9, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40643-024-00727-x

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2023

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Min-Ju Seo,  Tae-Eui Lee, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Deok-Kun Oh*, Kyung-Chul Shin*, Biotransformation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids to Trioxilins by Lipoxygenase from Pleurotus sajor-caju, Chembiochem, 2023,24,  e2023005, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300556

Seung-Do Yun†, Chang Oh Lee†, Hyun-Woo Kim, Seong Jin An, Seongmin Kim, Min-Ju Seo, Chungoo Park, Chul-Ho Yun*, Won Seok Chi*, and Soo-Jin Yeom*, Exploring a New Biocatalyst from Bacillus thuringiensis JNU01 for Polyethylene Biodegradation, Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 2023, 10(6), 485-492, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00189

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Min-Ju Seo, Seung-Do Yun, Hyun-Woo Kim, and Soo-Jin Yeom*, Polyethylene-biodegrading Microbes and Their Future Directions, Biotechnol. Bioprocess. Eng., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-022-0264-9

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Yeon-Ju Jeong†, Pil-Won Seo†, Min-Ju Seo†, Su-bin Ju, Jeong-Sun Kim*, Soo-Jin Yeom*, One-Pot Biosynthesis of 2-Keto-4-hydroxybutyrate from Cheap C1 Compounds Using Rationally Designed Pyruvate Aldolase and Methanol Dehydrogenase, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2023, 71(10), 4328-4336, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.2c09108

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2022

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Kyung-Chul Shin, Min-Ju Seo*, Yeong-Su Kim* and Soo-Jin Yeom*, Molecular Properties of β-Carotene Oxygenases and Their Potential in Industrial Production of Vitamin A and Its Derivatives, Antioxidant, 2022, 11(6), 1180, https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11061180

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Su-Bin Ju†, Min-Ju Seo†, and Soo-Jin Yeom*, In Vitro One-Pot 3-Hydroxypropanal Production from Cheap C1 and C2 Compounds, Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2022, 23(7), 3990, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23073990

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Soo-Jin Yeom*, Thien-Kim Le, Chul-Ho Yun*, P450-driven plastic-degrading synthetic bacteria, Trends Biotechnol., 2022, 40(2), 166-179, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.06.003

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Soo-Jin Yeom, Kil Koang Kwon, Jung-Ung An, Sung Hyun Park, Jin-Young Lee, Eugene Rha, Hyewon Lee, Haseong Kim, Dae-Hee Lee, and Seung-Goo Lee*, Single-Cell-Based Screening and Engineering of d-Amino Acid Amidohydrolases Using Artificial Amidophenol Substrates and Microbial Biosensors, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2022, 70(4), 1203-1211, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05834

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2021

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Thien-Kim Le†, Yu-Jin Lee†, Gui Hwan Han*, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Methanol Dehydrogenases as a Key Biocatalysts for Synthetic Methylotrophy, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2021, 9, 787791, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.787791

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Seon-Hwa Lee, Soo-Jin Yeom, Seong-Eun Kim, and Deok-Kun Oh*, Development of aldolase-based catalysts for the synthesis of organic chemicals, Trends Biotechnol., 2021, 40(3), 306-319, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.08.001

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Hyeong-Woo Kim†, Jin Hui Jo†, Ye-Bin Kim†, Thien-Kim Le, Chul-Woong Cho, Chul-Ho Yun,   Won Seok Chi*, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Biodegradation of polystyrene by bacteria from the soil in common environments, J. Hazard. Mater., 2021, 416, 126239, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126239

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Sung-Hyun Park, Hogyun Seo, Jihye Seok, Haseong Kim, Kil Koang Kwon, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Seung-Goo Lee,* and Kyung-Jin Kim*, Cβ-Selective Aldol Addition of d-Threonine Aldolase by Spatial Constraint of Aldehyde Binding, ACS catal., 2021, 11(12), 6892-6899, https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c01348

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Thien-Kim Le†, Su-Bin Ju†, Hyewon Lee†, Jin-Young Lee, So-Hyung Oh, Kil-Koang Kwon, Bong-Hyun Sung, Seung-Goo Lee*, and Soo-Jin Yeom*, Biosensor-Based Directed Evolution of Methanol Dehydrogenase from Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus, Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2021, 22(3), 1471, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22031471

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Kil Koang Kwon, Haseong Kim, Soo-Jin Yeom, Eugene Rha, Jinju Lee, Hyewon Lee, Dae-Hee Lee, Seung-Goo Lee*, Antagonistic Control of Genetic Circuit Performance for Rapid Analysis of Targeted Enzyme Activity in Living Cells, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2021, 7, 599878, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2020.599878

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2020

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Thi Huong Ha Nguyen†, Su-Min Woo † , Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Gun-Su Cha, Soo-Jin Yeom, Hyung-Sik Kang* and Chul-Ho Yun*, Regioselective Hydroxylation of Naringin Dihydrochalcone to Produce Neoeriocitrin Dihydrochalcone by CYP102A1 (BM3) Mutants, Catalysts, 2020, 10(8), 823, https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10080823

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Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Jin Jang, Thien-Kim Le, Thi Huong Ha Nguyen, Su-Min Woo, Su-Kyoung Yoo, Young Ju Lee, Ki Deok Park,  Soo-Jin Yeom, Geun-Joong Kim, Hyung-Sik Kang*, and Chul-Ho Yun*, Biocatalytic Production of a Potent Inhibitor of Adipocyte Differentiation from Phloretin Using Engineered CYP102A1, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2020, 68(24), 6683-6691, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.0c03156

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Soo-Jung Kim, Yeong-Su Kim*, Soo-Jin Yeom*, Phosphate sugar isomerases and their potential for rare sugar bioconversion, J. Microbiol, 2020, 58(9), 725-733, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-020-0226-x

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Hyewon Lee, Ji In Baek, Su Jin Kim, Kil Koang Kwon, Eugene Rha, Soo-Jin Yeom, Haseong Kim, Dae-Hee Lee, Dong-Myung Kim, Seung-Goo Lee*, Sensitive and Rapid Phenotyping of Microbes With Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Using a Droplet-Based Assay, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2020, 8 358, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00358

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Kil Koang Kwon, Soo-Jin Yeom, Su-Lim Choi, Eugene Rha, Hyewon Lee, Haseong Kim, Dae-Hee Lee, Seung-Goo Lee*, Acclimation of bacterial cell state for high-throughput enzyme engineering using a DmpRdependent transcriptional activation system, Sci. Rep., 2020, 10, 6091, | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62892-1

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Jin-Young Lee, Sung-Hyun Park, So-Hyung Oh, Jin-Ju Lee, Kil Koang Kwon, Su-Jin Kim, Minjeong Choi, Eugene Rha, Hyewon Lee, Dae-Hee Lee, Bong Hyun Sung, Soo-Jin Yeom* and Seung-Goo Lee*, Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Methanol Dehydrogenase From Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2020, 8 67, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00067