Current Research Interests
All biological processes of life are controlled by complex networks of chemical reactions between inorganic and organic materials and biological molecules, including nucleic acids and proteins. Among these, proteins play the most critical role as structural constituents and as functional regulators in virtually all aspects of biochemical events occurring in living organisms. Physicochemical and biochemical properties as well as physiological roles of proteins are determined by genetic information encoded in the genomes. Genomic structures and molecular mechanisms underlying genome function are being extensively studies in recent years. In particular, very recent studies on gene-protein relationships in eukaryotes have revealed that roles of the genes residing in the genomes are regulated at multiple steps through elaborate regulatory schemes. The newly emerging regulatory schemes include microRNA, small interfering peptides, and controlled protein degradations in addition to molecular interactions between diverse biomolecules, such as proteins, DNA and RNA, and lipids. Our researches are mainly focused on these postgenomic tools with an aim of elucidating molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying functional roles of genes and proteins in the regulation of growth, flowering, and stem cell proliferation. We have recently set out bioenergy researches in which the genomic and postgenomic tools are applied to engineer crop plants that can be used for production of bioenergy.
All biological processes of life are controlled by complex networks of chemical reactions between inorganic and organic materials and biological molecules, including nucleic acids and proteins. Among these, proteins play the most critical role as structural constituents and as functional regulators in virtually all aspects of biochemical events occurring in living organisms. Physicochemical and biochemical properties as well as physiological roles of proteins are determined by genetic information encoded in the genomes. Genomic structures and molecular mechanisms underlying genome function are being extensively studies in recent years. In particular, very recent studies on gene-protein relationships in eukaryotes have revealed that roles of the genes residing in the genomes are regulated at multiple steps through elaborate regulatory schemes. The newly emerging regulatory schemes include microRNA, small interfering peptides, and controlled protein degradations in addition to molecular interactions between diverse biomolecules, such as proteins, DNA and RNA, and lipids. Our researches are mainly focused on these postgenomic tools with an aim of elucidating molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying functional roles of genes and proteins in the regulation of growth, flowering, and stem cell proliferation. We have recently set out bioenergy researches in which the genomic and postgenomic tools are applied to engineer crop plants that can be used for production of bioenergy.
국가
대한민국
소속기관
서울대학교 (학교)
연락처
02-880-4360 http://hosting03.snu.ac.kr/~cmpark/
책임자
박충모 cmpark@snu.ac.kr