(Selected publications)
1. Park D, Chung WC, Gong S, Ravichandran S, Lee GM, Han M, Kim KK, Ahn JH. G-quadruplex as an essential structural element in cytomegalovirus replication origin. Nature Commun. 15:7353. (2024)
2. Chung WC, Ravichandran S, Park D, Lee GM, Kim YE, Choi Y, Song MJ, Kim KK, Ahn JH. G-quadruplexes formed by Varicella-Zoster virus reiteration sequences suppress expression of glycoprotein C and regulate viral cell-to-cell spread. PLoS Pathog. 19(1): e1011095. (2023)
3. Kwon K, Kim YE, Lee MK, Chung WC, Hyeon S, Han MJ, Lee D, Gong S, Ahn JH. Human cytomegalovirus UL48 deubiquitinase primarily targets innermost tegument proteins pp150 and itself to regulate their stability and protects virions from inclusion of ubiquitin conjugates. J. Virol. 95(23):e0099121. (2021)
4. Lee MK, Hyeon S, Ahn JH. The Human Cytomegalovirus Transmembrane Protein pUL50 Induces Loss of VCP/p97 and Is Regulated by a Small Isoform of pUL50. J. Virol. 94(13):e00110. (2020)
5. Ravichandran S, Kim YE, Bansal V, Ghosh A, Hur J, Subramani VK, Pradhan S, Lee MK, Kim KK*, Ahn JH*. Genome-wide analysis of regulatory G-quadruplexes affecting gene expression in human cytomegalovirus. PLoS Pathog. 14(9):e1007334. (2018)
6. Kwon KM, Oh SE, Kim YE, Han TH, Ahn JH. Cooperative inhibition of RIP1-mediated NF-kB signaling by cytomegalovirus-encoded deubiquitinase and inactive homolog of cellular ribonucleotide reductase large subunit. PLoS Pathog. 13(6):e1006423. (2017)