• 미생물학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.316-322
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• 2011

김치로부터 분리한 유산균 Lactobacillus sakei OPK2-59는 ${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid (GABA) 생성능력과 glutamate decarboxylase(GAD) 활성을 보유하고 있음이 확인되었다. Lactobacillus sakei OPK2-59를 59.13 mM과 177.40 mM monosodium glutamate (MSG)가 함유된 MRS 배지에서 배양하면 균주의 성장을 위한 최적 온도범위와 pH는 각각 $25-37^{\circ}C$와 6.5였다. 59.13 mM과 177.40 mM MSG 함유 MRS 배지에서 배양온도 $25^{\circ}C$ 조건에서, 48시간 배양하였을 경우 MSG의 GABA 전환율은 각각 99.58%와 31.00%였다. 또한 Lactobacillus sakei OPK2-59 세포추출액을 이용하여 MSG를 GABA로 전환할 수 있었으며, 추출물에 의한 GABA 전환율은 $30^{\circ}C$, pH 5 조건에서 78.51%로 가장 높았다. 세포추출액에 의한 MSG의 GABA 전환에 미치는 무기염의 영향을 조사한 결과 $CaCl_2$, $FeCl_3$, $MgCl_2$를 첨가한 반응액에서 염을 넣지 않고 반응한 control보다 GABA 전환율이 2-3배 증진되는 것으로 조사되었다. 이러한 결과들은 김치 유산균 Lactobacillus sakei OPK2-59의 GABA 생성능은 유산균 세포 내에 존재하는 GAD에 의한 것이며, GAD에 의한 GABA 전환율은 무기염에 의하여 증진될 수 있음을 제안해 주는 것이다.

• Mycobiology
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.199-203
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• 2017

This study was done to produce ${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid (GABA) from wild yeast as well as investigate its anti-hyperglycemic effects. Among ten GABA-producing yeast strains, Pichia silvicola UL6-1 and Sporobolomyces carnicolor 402-JB-1 produced high GABA concentration of $134.4{\mu}g/mL$ and $179.2{\mu}g/mL$, respectively. P. silvicola UL6-1 showed a maximum GABA yield of $136.5{\mu}g/mL$ and $200.8{\mu}g/mL$ from S. carnicolor 402-JB-1 when they were cultured for 30 hr at $30^{\circ}C$ in yeast extract-peptone-dextrose medium. The cell-free extract from P. silvicola UL6-1 and S. carnicolor 402-JB-1 showed very high anti-hyperglycemic ${\alpha}$-glucosidase inhibitory activity of 72.3% and 69.9%, respectively. Additionally, their cell-free extract-containing GABA showed the anti-hyperglycemic effect in streptozotocin-induced diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.171-185
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• 2017

GABA는 glutamic acid decarboxylase에 의해서 L-glutamic acid가 탈탄산화되어 생합성된 비단백질 아미노산이다. GABA는 식물에서 스트레스에 대항한 대응반응으로 생성된다. 사람의 중추신경계에서는 주요 억제성 신경전달물질 중 하나로 항고혈압, 항당뇨 효능이 있다고 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서 우리는 보리 잎과 옥수수 수염을 유산균과 함께 발효함으로써 GABA 생성을 증진시키고자 하였다. 보리 잎과 옥수수 수염을 다양한 무게 비율로 조합하여 혼합하였고, $30^{\circ}C$에서 48시간 동안 배양기 안에서 L. plantarium과 함께 발효시켰다. 발효된 혼합물을 열수 추출한 후, thin layer chromatography와 GABase assay를 이용하여 GABA의 생산을 분석하였다. 우리는 9:1 혼합발효추출물이 다른 비율의 추출물 보다 GABA 함량이 높은 것을 확인하였는데 이것은 혼합과 발효기술이 보리 잎과 옥수수 수염 내 GABA 양 증진에 효과가 있음을 의미한다. 또한 몇 가지 생리활성을 분석한 결과 혼합발효추출물의 항산화 효능이 비발효 추출물에 비하여 증진되었고 세포독성은 나타나지 않음을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 보리 잎과 옥수수 수염의 조합과 이것을 유산균과 함께 발효시키는 방법이 고함량의 GABA와 증진된 생리 활성을 지닌 기능성 식품으로서의 개발 가능성이 있음을 의미한다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.58-64
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• 2004

This study investigated the effects of carnitine and/or ${\gamma}$ -aminobutyric acid (GABA) supplementation on lipid profiles and some immune related nutrient in mice. Balb/c male mice were orally treated with either an AIN-76 diet (Con), a control diet plus carnitine (CS, 0.5 g/kg bw), a control diet plus GABA (GS, 0.5 g/kg bw) or a control diet plus carnitine plus GABA (CGS, 0.25 g/kg bw, respectively) for 6 weeks. There were no significant differences in feed consumption, energy intake, body weight gain or feed efficiency ratio among the groups during the experimental period. However, abdominal fat deposits were smaller in CS, GS and CGS groups compared with the Con group. Serum and liver triglycerides also were lower in CS, GS and CGS and serum total cholesterol was significantly lower in the CGS group compared with the Con group. Serum LDL cholesterol was lower in the CGS group and liver HDL cholesterol was significantly higher in the CS group compared with Con group. In serum, stearic acid and selecholeic acid were lower, but arachidic acid was higher in the CS group. Liver stearic acid was higher but oleic acid lower in CGS group compared with Con group. In carnitine supplemented groups, serum and liver nonesterified carnitine (NEC), acidsoluble acylcarnitine (ASAC), total carnitine (TCNE) concentrations were higher in only the CS group, not CGS group. Serum vitamin A and E concentrations were not different among the groups. These results may suggest that carnitine and/or GABA supplementation improves lipid profiles in mice, but did not affect the immune-related nutrients that we measured under the experimental conditions of this study.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2013

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) aminotransferase (gabT) and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (gabD) genes from Pseudomonas fluorescens KCCM 12537 were cloned into a single pETDuet-1 vector and co-expressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) simultaneously. The mixture of both enzymes, called GABase, is the key enzyme for the enzymatic analysis of GABA. The molecular mass of the GABA aminotransferase and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase were determined to be 52.8 and 46.7 kDa following computations performed with the pI/Mw program, respectively. The GABase activity between pH 6.0 and 9.0 for 24 h at $4^{\circ}C$ remained over 75%, but under pH 6.0 decreased rapidly. The GABase activity between 25 and $35^{\circ}C$ by the treatment at pH 8.6 for 30 min remained over 80%, but over $35^{\circ}C$ decreased rapidly. When the activity against GABA was defined as 100%, the purified GABase activity against 5-aminovaleric acid having a similar structure to GABA showed 47.7% and GABase activity against ${\beta}$-alanine, ${\varepsilon}$-amino-n-caproic acid, $_L$-ornithine, $_L$-lysine, and $_L$-aspartic acid showed between 0.3 to 2.3%. The GABA content was analyzed with this co-expressed GABase, compared with the other GABase which was available commercially. As a result, the content of GABA extracted from brown rice, dark brown rice, and black rice were $26.4{\pm}3.5$, $40.5{\pm}4.7$ and $94.7{\pm}9.3{\mu}g/g$, which were similar data of other GABase in the error ranges.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.34-38
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• 2000

과채류에 대한 키토산 유기농업의 효과를 알아보기 위한 시도의 일환으로 배추의 생장 및 배추 중의 ${\gamma}-aminobutyric$ acid(GABA) 함량에 미치는 키토산비료의 시비효과를 조사하였다. 육묘상태에서 대조구에는 물을, 실험구에는 3% 키토산액을 500배 희석하여 2일에 1회 처리하였고, 본 밭에 정식후 대조구에는 물을, 실험구에는 동일한 키토산 희석액을 7일 1회 간격으로 엽면시비 하였다. 키토산비료의 시비는 물 처리구에 비하여 육묘상태에서 배추묘의 잎 길이를 증가시켰고, 어린묘 중의 GABA함량도 증진시켰다. 키토산비료의 시비는 본밭 토양의 물리화학적 특성을 크게 변화 시키지 않으면서 본밭에서의 배추의 평균 둘레 및 무게를 대조구에 비하여 증가시켰으며, GABA 함량도 증진시키는 것으로 조사되었다. 이들 결과들은 키토산비료의 시비가 배추의 생산량과 품질을 일부 향상시킬 수 있음을 제안해 주는 것이다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.933-943
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• 2019

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-producing strains were isolated from four edible insects and subjected to 16S rRNA sequence analysis. Among the four GABA-producing bacteria, Enterococcus avium JS-N6B4 exhibited the highest GABA-production, while cultivation temperature, initial pH, aerobic condition, and mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) feeding were found to be the key factors affecting GABA production rate. The culture condition was optimized in terms of glucose, yeast extract, and MSG concentrations using response surface methodology (RSM). GABA production up to 16.64 g/l was obtained under the conditions of 7 g/l glucose, 45 g/l yeast extract, and 62 g/l MSG through the optimization of medium composition by RSM. Experimental GABA production was 13.68 g/l, which was close to the predicted value (16.64 g/l) calculated from the analysis of variance, and 2.79-fold higher than the production achieved with basic medium. Therefore, GABA-producing strains may help improve the GABA production in edible insects, and provide a new approach to the use of edible insects as effective food biomaterials.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1005-1011
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• 2010

$\gamma$-aminobutyric acid (GABA)는 중추신경계에서 억제성으로 작용하는 주요한 신경전달물질이다. GABA 수송체(GAT)는 연접간격에 존재하는 GABA를 세포 내로 재 흡수하여 GABA의 농도를 조절한다. 그런데 GABA 수송체가 어떻게 조절되는지는 아직 밝혀지지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 효모 two-hybrid system을 사용하여 뇌의 주요 GABA 수송체인 GAT1의 C-말단과 특이적으로 결합하는 ubiquitin-specific protease 14 (Usp14)를 분리하였다. Usp14는 GABA 수송체 GAT1및 GAT2와는 결합하지만, 다른 GAT isoform과는 결합하지 않았다. GAT1과의 결합에는 Usp14의 C-말단부위가 필수적으로 관여함을 확인하였다. 또한 이 단백질간의 결합을 GST pull-down assay로 확인하였으며, 생쥐 뇌 균질액의 co-immunoprecipitation을 통하여 in vivo에서도 GAT1과 Usp14가 결합함을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과들은 Usp14가 GAT1과 결합하여 세포막에 존재하는 GAT1의 수를 조절하는 역할을 할 가능성을 시사한다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2000

In order to understand the biological role of calmodulin in plants, transgenic plants expressing a mutant calmodulin (VU-4, Iys to ile-115) have been analyzed. We found that tobacco plants expressing VU-4 calmodulin have approximately twofold higher $\gamma$-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels than the control plants. Cell suspension cultures established from the stem explants of the transgenic tobacco seedlings also have higher levels of GABA than the control cell cultures. Specific activity of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), which catalyzes the decarboxylation of glutamate to $CO_2$ and GABA, of the transgenic tobacco cell extracts was about twofold higher than the activity of the control cell extracts. Western-blot analysis showed that the GAD is highly expressed in the transgenic tobacco plants. GAD partially purified from tobacco cell extracts showed approximately threefold $Ca^{2+}$/calmodulin-dependent activation. These data suggest that GABA synthesis in the transgenic tobacco plants is elevated, possibly due to higher levels of the calmodulin-dependent GAD enzyme and/or as a result of enhanced activation due to increased levels of the foreign calmodulin.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권9호
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• pp.1497-1506
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• 2020

Objective: Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and piperine (PIP) are both nutritional supplements with potential use in animal diets. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of GABA and/or PIP treatment on the gene expression pattern of a pig kidney epithelial cell line. Methods: LLCPK1 cells were treated with GABA, PIP, or both, and then the gene expression pattern was analyzed using microarray. Gene ontology analysis was done using GeneOntology (Geneontology.org), and validation was performed using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results: Gene ontology enrichment analysis was used to identify key pathway(s) of genes whose expression levels were regulated by these treatments. Microarray results showed that GABA had a positive effect on the transcription of genes related to regulation of erythrocyte differentiation and that GABA and PIP in combination had a synergistic effect on genes related to immune systems and processes. Furthermore, we found that effects of GABA and/or PIP on these selected genes were controlled by JNK/p38 MAPK pathway. Conclusion: These results can improve our understanding of mechanisms involved in the effect of GABA and/or PIP treatment on pig kidney epithelial cells. They can also help us evaluate their potential as a clinical diagnosis and treatment.