Yulseung Sung

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 769 citations indexed

About

Yulseung Sung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yulseung Sung has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 769 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yulseung Sung's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Yulseung Sung is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Yulseung Sung collaborates with scholars based in South Korea and United States. Yulseung Sung's co-authors include Jung Min Han, Ya Chun Yu, Hee Chan Yoo, Sung‐Hoon Kim, Ina Yoon, Seung Joon Park, Junjeong Choi, Hee Seung Lee, Byung‐Gyu Kim and Kwang Yeon Hwang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Cancer Research and International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

In The Last Decade

Yulseung Sung

6 papers receiving 759 citations

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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.

Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism

2020 655 citations Hee Chan Yoo, Ya Chun Yu et al. Experimental & Molecular Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yulseung Sung South Korea	5	448	347	98	82	78	7	769
Ya Chun Yu South Korea	5	448 1.0×	354 1.0×	99 1.0×	82 1.0×	79 1.0×	6	782
Mahya Mehrmohamadi United States	9	714 1.6×	324 0.9×	71 0.7×	79 1.0×	77 1.0×	17	918
Jun‐Kyu Byun South Korea	13	568 1.3×	443 1.3×	164 1.7×	143 1.7×	65 0.8×	25	965
Bookyung Ko United States	8	503 1.1×	347 1.0×	63 0.6×	51 0.6×	105 1.3×	9	738
Hee Chan Yoo South Korea	7	635 1.4×	545 1.6×	125 1.3×	140 1.7×	96 1.2×	10	1.1k
Niranjan Venkateswaran United States	9	513 1.1×	291 0.8×	62 0.6×	131 1.6×	47 0.6×	11	723
Geng Li China	20	707 1.6×	424 1.2×	53 0.5×	111 1.4×	27 0.3×	44	1.0k
Xiaowei Liu China	12	774 1.7×	649 1.9×	146 1.5×	114 1.4×	46 0.6×	27	1.1k
Alice C. Newman United Kingdom	9	541 1.2×	319 0.9×	93 0.9×	110 1.3×	35 0.4×	10	818

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yulseung Sung

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7 of 7 papers shown

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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.

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Lee, Jong‐Ju, et al.. (2024). Polysaccharide-based emulsion gels for the prevention of postoperative adhesions and as a drug delivery system using 5-fluorouracil. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 661. 124386–124386. 3 indexed citations

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Sung, Yulseung, Ya Chun Yu, & Jung Min Han. (2023). Nutrient sensors and their crosstalk. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 55(6). 1076–1089. 26 indexed citations

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Park, Seung Joon, Hee Chan Yoo, Yulseung Sung, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Glutaminolysis Drives Hypoxia-Induced Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Research. 83(5). 735–752. 34 indexed citations

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Yoo, Hee Chan, Byung‐Gyu Kim, Yulseung Sung, et al.. (2022). O-GlcNAc modification of leucyl-tRNA synthetase 1 integrates leucine and glucose availability to regulate mTORC1 and the metabolic fate of leucine. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2904–2904. 20 indexed citations

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Sung, Yulseung, Ina Yoon, Jung Min Han, & Sung‐Hoon Kim. (2022). Functional and pathologic association of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases with cancer. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 54(5). 553–566. 31 indexed citations

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Yoo, Hee Chan, Ya Chun Yu, Yulseung Sung, & Jung Min Han. (2020). Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 52(9). 1496–1516. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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