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Mechanisms for Maintaining Genomic Stability during Mitosis

Cell division is the fundamental process of life by which an organism is built. Deciphering the regulatory networks that govern cell division is therefore vital to understanding both normal cell division during development and the abnormal cell division such as development of cancer cells. The goals of this laboratory are to study the mechanisms that control the entry and exit of mitosis and how microtubule and actin cytoskeleton are coordinated with the phases of mitosis in yeast and human cells. To fulfill these goals, we address the following research questions :

  1. How is the coordination of actin and microtubule achieved for the mitotic spindle formation and the entry of mitosis?

  2. What is the full network of proteins for spindle orientation checkpoint and mitotic exit?

  3. How is the orientation of mitotic spindle controlled precisely during mitosis?

  4. How is the information of spindle orientation transmitted to the cell cycle regulatory machinery to control the spindle orientation checkpoint and the timing of mitotic exit network?

These studies will hopefully shed light on the causes of genomic instability during mitosis that leads to the transformation of normal cells to cancer and developmental defects. We believe that our research will have long-term practical benefits in revealing connections between chromosome instability (CIN) and cancer and in the generation of predictive models of mitosis that can be used for drug discovery.

Screen and Development of the Anti-proliferative Cancer Drugs with Small Molecules

Our laboratory applies chemical genetic approaches to screen and identify the small organic molecules (provided by Hanhwa Corp. and Dr. Injae Shin in the Dept. of Chemistry, Yonsei University) that are able to control cell cycle and proliferation. Our overall approach is to use budding yeast genome knock-out mutant library to discover the specific biological target(s) of small organic molecules and to apply to mammalian cells to verify the physiological effect. We have succeeded in isolating highly selective inhibitors against various kinases in the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways and a molecule selectively induces cell death in p53-deficient human cancer cells. Currently we are investigating the physiological mechanism of these molecules and trying to expand the screen of small molecules. We hope that our study on these anti-proliferative small molecules will provide practical candidates for anti-cancer drug research.