Chemical Biology Program

The Heeseon An Lab

Heeseon An, PhD

The research in An lab centers around protein degradation processes in health and disease. We investigate protein degradation processes using chemical biology tools and unbiased proteomic approaches to discover previously unknown degradational pathways and molecular mechanisms. Specific research areas include 1) developing innovative chemical, biological, and proteomic tools to help advance protein degradation research, 2) identifying protein degradation pathways altered explicitly in disease and employing this information to develop small molecule probes with therapeutic potential, and 3) elucidating the fundamental role of ribosomal proteins and ribosome homeostasis using protein-degradation and chemical proteomics tools. Multidisciplinary and quantitative approaches are central to our research in addressing the questions mentioned above.

Publications Highlights

Pham BQ, Yi SA, Ordureau A, An H^* (2025) mTORC1 regulates the pyrimidine salvage pathway by controlling UCK2 turnover via the CTLH-WDR26 E3 ligase. Cell Reports , 44, 115179.

Yi SA, Sepic S, Schulman BA, Ordureau A, An H^* (2024) mTORC1-CTLH E3 ligase regulates the degradation of HMG-CoA synthase 1 through the Pro/N-degron pathway. Molecular Cell , 84, 1-19.

Jordan VN, Ordureau A, An H^* (2023) Identifying E3 ligase substrates with quantitative degradation proteomics. Chembiochem . 24(16):e202300108.

An H^#, Ordureau A^#, Koerner M, Paulo JA, Harper JW (2020) Systematic quantitative analysis of ribosome inventory during nutrient stress. Nature , 583, 303-309. # equal contribution

An H, Ordureau A, Paulo JA, Shoemaker CJ, Denic V, Harper JW (2019) TEX264 Is an Endoplasmic Reticulum-Resident ATG8-Interacting Protein Critical for ER Remodeling during Nutrient Stress. Molecular Cell , 74, 891-908.

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People

Heeseon An, PhD

Heeseon An’s lab studies protein degradation in health and disease using chemical, biological, and proteomics tools.
BS and MS, Chemistry, Seoul National University
PhD, Chemistry, Northwestern University
Postdoc, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

[email protected]: Email Address
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Members

Ersilia Barin
WCM Pharm graduate student

Victoria Jordan
TPCB graduate student (NSF Graduate Research Fellow)

Brittany Pham
WCM Pharm graduate student

Karl Lin
TPCB graduate student (NSF Graduate Research Fellow)

Deepika Nambiar
TPCB graduate student (NSF Graduate Research Fellow)

Pascale Presendor
Administrative Assistant

Michelle (Ruiyang) Guo
TPCB graduate student (joint with Huse lab)

Lab Alumni

Mel-Quann Hodge

Administrative Assistant

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Josie Robertson Investigator (2020-2025)

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