Kuglae Kim

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 874 citations indexed

About

Kuglae Kim is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuglae Kim has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 874 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Kuglae Kim's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers), Psychedelics and Drug Studies (3 papers) and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (3 papers). Kuglae Kim is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers), Psychedelics and Drug Studies (3 papers) and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (3 papers). Kuglae Kim collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Russia. Kuglae Kim's co-authors include B. Krumm, Bryan L. Roth, Jeffrey F. DiBerto, Tao Che, Hyun‐Soo Cho, Daniel Wacker, Michael J. Robertson, Ouliana Panova, David E. Nichols and Alpay B. Seven and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Kuglae Kim

22 papers receiving 867 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor

2020 306 citations Kuglae Kim, Tao Che et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuglae Kim South Korea	13	532	396	170	133	72	23	874
Barbara J. Ebersole United States	17	952 1.8×	745 1.9×	203 1.2×	119 0.9×	36 0.5×	28	1.6k
Katherine Lansu United States	8	718 1.3×	390 1.0×	48 0.3×	64 0.5×	72 1.0×	11	1.1k
Jonathan F. Fay United States	18	679 1.3×	454 1.1×	61 0.4×	46 0.3×	58 0.8×	30	913
Francois Marie Ngako Kadji Japan	12	880 1.7×	473 1.2×	34 0.2×	55 0.4×	143 2.0×	19	1.1k
L. Keith Henry United States	19	835 1.6×	644 1.6×	35 0.2×	62 0.5×	21 0.3×	32	1.4k
Meihua Chu United States	7	589 1.1×	346 0.9×	52 0.3×	67 0.5×	70 1.0×	10	894
Bernd Krämer Germany	17	433 0.8×	218 0.6×	28 0.2×	149 1.1×	41 0.6×	29	1.0k
Justin G. English United States	8	521 1.0×	269 0.7×	29 0.2×	35 0.3×	93 1.3×	10	626
Jonathan A. Coleman United States	16	1.3k 2.4×	529 1.3×	41 0.2×	86 0.6×	19 0.3×	26	1.8k
Shicheng Zhang China	13	399 0.8×	199 0.5×	35 0.2×	25 0.2×	52 0.7×	32	587

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuglae Kim

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Sung, Yulseung, Ya Chun Yu, Mirim Lee, et al.. (2025). Targeting cancer glutamine dependency with a first-in-class inhibitor of the mitochondrial glutamine transporter SLC1A5_var. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9690–9690.

Gumpper, Ryan H., Manish K. Jain, Kuglae Kim, et al.. (2025). The structural diversity of psychedelic drug actions revealed. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2734–2734. 10 indexed citations

Jeong, Jieun, Jordy Homing Lam, Xingyu Qiu, et al.. (2024). Constitutive activation mechanism of a class C GPCR. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(4). 678–687. 8 indexed citations

Lee, Hyesung, Hyunji Lee, Kuglae Kim, et al.. (2024). PLD1 is a key player in cancer stemness and chemoresistance: Therapeutic targeting of cross-talk between the PI3K/Akt and Wnt/β-catenin pathways. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 56(7). 1479–1487. 9 indexed citations

Kim, Kuglae, et al.. (2023). Structural studies of serotonin receptor family. BMB Reports. 56(10). 527–536. 10 indexed citations

Daibani, Amal El, Joseph M. Paggi, Kuglae Kim, et al.. (2023). Molecular mechanism of biased signaling at the kappa opioid receptor. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1338–1338. 56 indexed citations

Zhang, Shicheng, He Chen, Chengwei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Inactive and active state structures template selective tools for the human 5-HT5A receptor. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(7). 677–687. 18 indexed citations

Cao, Can, Ximena Barros-Álvarez, Shicheng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Signaling snapshots of a serotonin receptor activated by the prototypical psychedelic LSD. Neuron. 110(19). 3154–3167.e7. 99 indexed citations

Kim, Kuglae, Tao Che, Ouliana Panova, et al.. (2020). Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor. Cell. 182(6). 1574–1588.e19. 306 indexed citations breakdown →

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Che, Tao, Justin G. English, B. Krumm, et al.. (2020). Nanobody-enabled monitoring of kappa opioid receptor states. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1145–1145. 93 indexed citations

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Kim, Kuglae, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of GSK3β in complex with the flavonoid, morin. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 504(2). 519–524. 21 indexed citations

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Kim, Kuglae, et al.. (2018). Crystal Structure of Human Dual-Specificity Tyrosine-Regulated Kinase 3 Reveals New Structural Features and Insights into its Auto-phosphorylation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(10). 1521–1530. 10 indexed citations

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Kwon, Eun-Kyung, Chan-Ki Min, Yuri Kim, et al.. (2016). Constitutive activation of T cells by γ2-herpesviral GPCR through the interaction with cellular CXCR4. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1864(1). 1–11. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Kuglae, Soon-Kyeong Kwon, Sung‐Hoon Jun, et al.. (2016). Crystal structure and functional characterization of a light-driven chloride pump having an NTQ motif. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12677–12677. 46 indexed citations

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Kim, Jiyoon, Shin Hye Noh, Dong Hee Kim, et al.. (2016). Monomerization and ER Relocalization of GRASP Is a Requisite for Unconventional Secretion of CFTR. Traffic. 17(7). 733–753. 61 indexed citations

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Yun, Ji-Hye, Minsup Kim, Kuglae Kim, et al.. (2015). Solution structure of the transmembrane 2 domain of the human melanocortin-4 receptor in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles and the functional implication of the D90N mutant. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1848(6). 1294–1302. 6 indexed citations

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Cho, Yong‐Soon, et al.. (2015). The structures of the kinase domain and UBA domain of MPK38 suggest the activation mechanism for kinase activity. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 71(a1). s183–s183. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Gyongseon, Wei Zhu, Kuglae Kim, et al.. (2015). In Vitro and In Vivo Investigation of the Inhibition of Trypanosoma brucei Cell Growth by Lipophilic Bisphosphonates. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59(12). 7530–7539. 14 indexed citations

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Kim, Kuglae, et al.. (2014). The crystal structure of MPK38 in complex with OTSSP167, an orally administrative MELK selective inhibitor. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 447(1). 7–11. 20 indexed citations

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Yun, Ji-Hye, et al.. (2014). Co-expression of human agouti-related protein enhances expression and stability of human melanocortin-4 receptor. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 456(1). 116–121. 1 indexed citations

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