People

Suk Namgoong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. 2001 - Korea University, Republic of Korea (Biochemistry)

E-mail: snamgoon at mail . med . upenn . edu
Phone: (215) 573-0983

Publications

Dominguez R & Namgoong S (2012) Actin Filament Nucleation and Elongation. In Egelman E (Ed.) Comprehensive Biophysics 4, Elsevier Inc. [in press]

Namgoong S, Boczkowska M, Glista MJ, Winkelman JD, Rebowski G, Kovar DR, Dominguez R. (2011) Mechanism of actin filament nucleation by Vibrio VopL and implications for tandem-W domain nucleation. Nature Struct Mol Biol 18:1060-1067

Rebowski G*, Namgoong S*, Boczkowska M, Leavis P, Navaza J & Dominguez R. (2010) Structure of a Longitudinal Actin Dimer Assembled by Tandem W Domains - Implications for Actin Filament Nucleation. J Mol Biol 403:11-23 (* Equal Contributions)

Namgoong S, Sheppard K, Sherrer R, Söll D. (2007) Co-evolution of Archaeal tRNA-dependent Amidotransferase GatCAB with tRNA(Asn). FEBS lett. 581:309-314

Baick J, Yoon J, Namgoong S, Söll D, Kim S., Eom SH, Hong K. (2004) Growth inhibition of Escherichia coli during heterologous expression of Bacillus subtilis glutamyl-tRNA synthetase that catalyzes the formation of mischarged glutamyl-tRNA (Gln). J. Microbiol. 42:111-116

Feng L, Sheppard K, Namgoong S, Ambrogelly A, Polycarpo C, Randau L, Tumbula-Hansen D, Söll D. (2004) Aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis by pre-translational amino acid modification. RNA Biol. 21:16-20

Min B, Kitabatake M, Polycarpo C, Pelaschier J, Raczniak G, Ruan B, Kobayashi H, Namgoong S, Söll D. (2003) Protein synthesis in Escherichia coli with mischarged tRNA. J. Bacteriol. 185:3524-3526

Namgoong S, Hong KW, Lee, SY. (2001) Cloning of the Glu-tRNA(Gln) amidotransferase (gatCAB) gene from Staphylococcus aureus. J. Microbiol. Biotech 11:251-258

Kim TH, Namgoong S, Kwak JH, Lee SY, Lee HS. (2000) Effects of tktA, aroF(FBR), and aroL expression in the tryptophan-producing Escherichia coli. J. Microbiol Biotechnol.10:789-796