Min Cho

Min Cho

Alumni Research Technician

min@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Scientific Interest

Cancer biology, drug resistance, cellular stress responses, protein-protein interactions, synergistic gene activation, genome wide and sub-genome wide genetic interaction screening platforms

Current Research Interests

Sub-genome wide shRNA screening of multiple myeloma; dissection of potential drug protection and sensitization pathways in lymphoid cancers

Former Lab Affiliations

2008-2009 Cammie Lesser, M.D., Ph.D. – Undergraduate Researcher, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases
2009-2011 Frank Naya, Ph.D. – Graduate Researcher, Boston University, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology
2011-2012 Mark Schlissel, M.D., Ph.D. – Lab Manager/Staff Research Associate , University of California at Berkeley, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
2012-2013 – Research Associate II, Bio Architecture Lab

Education

2011 B.A. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology – Boston University, USA
2011 M.A. Biotechnology – Boston University, USA

Links

LinkedIn

Selected Publications

Boone M, Wang L, Lawrence R, Frost A, Walter P, Schoof MA point mutation in the nucleotide exchange factor eIF2B constitutively activates the integrated stress response by allosteric modulation. eLife 11:e76171, 2022
(PMID: 35416150) (PDF)

Schoof M, Wang L, Cogan JZ, Lawrence RE, Boone M, Wuerth JD, Frost A, Walter PViral evasion of the integrated stress response through antagonism of eIF2-P binding to eIF2B. Nat Comms (2021) 12:7103, 2021
(PMID: not available) (PDF)

Schoof M, Wang L, Cogan JZ, Lawrence R, Boone M, Wuerth JD, Frost A, Walter PViral Evasion of the Integrated Stress Response Through Antagonistic eIF2-P Mimicry. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.07.447473, 2021
(PMID: not available) (PDF)

Schoof M, Boone M, Wang L, Lawrence R, Frost A, Walter PeIF2B conformation and assembly state regulate the integrated stress response. eLife 10:e65703, 2021
(PMID: 33688831) (PDF)

Schoof M, Faust B, Saunders RA, Sangwan S, Rezelj V, Hoppe N, Boone M, Billesbølle CB, Puchades C, Azumaya CM, Kratochvil HT, Zimanyi M, Deshpande I, Liang J, Dickinson S, Nguyen HC, Chio CM, Merz GE, Thompson MC, Diwanji D, Schaefer K, Anand AA, Dobzinski N, Zha BS, Simoneau CR, Leon K, White KM, Chio US, Gupta M, Jin M, Li F, Liu Y, Zhang K, Bulkley D, Sun M, Smith AM, Rizo AN, Moss F, Brilot AF, Pourmal S, Trenker R, Pospiech T, Gupta S, Barsi-Rhyne B, Belyy V, Barile-Hill AW, Nock S, Liu Y, Krogan NJ, Ralston CY, Swaney DL, García-Sastre A, Ott M, Vignuzzi M, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Walter P, Manglik A. An ultra-potent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike. Science. 10.1126/science.abe3255, 2020
(PMID: 33154106) (PDF)

Chou A, Krukowski K, Jopson T, Zhu PJ, Costa-Mattioli M, Walter P, Rosi S. Inhibition of the integrated stress response reverses cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury. Proc Natl Acad Sci E6420–E6426, 2017
(PMID: 28696288) (PDF)

Rao M, Okreglak V, Chio US, Cho H, Walter P, Shan SO. Multiple selection filters ensure accurate tail-anchored membrane protein targeting. eLife 5:e21301, 2016
(PMID: 27925580) (PDF)

Li X, Colvin T, Rauch JN, Acosta-Alvear D, Kampmann M, Dunyak B, Hann B, Aftab BT, Murnane M, Cho M, Walter P, Weissman JS, Sherman MY, Gestwicki JE. Validation of the Hsp70-Bag3 protein-protein interaction as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 14:642-8, 2015
(PMID: 25564440) (PDF)

Acosta-Alvear D, Cho M, Wild T, Buchholz TJ, Lerner AG, Simakova O, Hahn J, Korde N, Landgren O, Maric I, Choudhary C, Walter P, Weissman JS, Kampmann M. Paradoxical resistance of multiple myeloma to proteasome inhibitors by decreased levels of 19S proteasomal subunits. eLife 4:e08153, 2015
(PMID: 26327686) (PDF)