• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.399-404
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• 2004

새로운 Gly-His-Lys (약자로 GHK)가 결합된 키토산을 $N^{\alpha}-Fmoc$ 아미노산과 BOP 커플링 시약을 사용한 고상법에 의해 제조하였다. 이를 위해 키토산 마이크로 비드를 W/O 에멀젼 상분리법으로 평균 입자크기 70 마이크로미터로 얻었다. GHK 펩타이드는 순차적으로 고상법에 의해 키토산 마이크로비드 위에 커플링 하였다. 아미노산 분석을 실시한 결과 Gly, His, kys의 비율이 1.02:1.13:0.96의 비율로 나타나 이론치와 거의 일치함을 확인할 수 있었다. GHK 펩타이드가 결합된 마이크로비드의 세포증식 효과는 MTT 분석으로 측정하였다. 측정결과 GHK 펩타이드가 결합된 키토산 마이크로비드는 대조군인 펩타이드가 결합되지 않은 키토산 마이크로비드 자체에 비해 높은 세포증식 효과를 보였다.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.713-721
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• 2011

Korean cabbage (Brassica campestris L.ssp.pekinensis) is one of the major cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables contain a rare series of secondary metabolites of amino acids called glucosinolates, as well as carotenoids, tocopherol, vitamin C and fibers. This study evaluated the effect of common cooking methods (boiling, microwaving, steaming and frying) on the phytochemical content (lutein, ${\beta}$-carotene, ${\gamma}$-tocopherol, and ${\alpha}$-tocopherol), and total antioxidant capacity of Korean cabbages, determined by DPPH assay and ABTS assay. Boiling caused a decrease in carotenoids, lutein and tocopherols. Microwaving and steaming were relatively good cooking methods for maintaining lutein, ${\beta}$-carotene, ${\gamma}$-tocopherol, and ${\alpha}$-tocopherol. The overall results of this study demonstrate that some domestic cooking procedures, specifically microwave and steaming, increased the bioaccessibility of carotenoids and tocopherol, highlighting the positive role of the nutritional properties of Korean cabbage.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1416-1423
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• 2013

The metabolomic profile of the anaerobic fungus Piromyces sp. F1, isolated from the rumen of goats, and how this is affected by the presence of naturally associated methanogens, was analyzed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The major metabolites in the fungal monoculture were formate, lactate, ethanol, acetate, succinate, sugars/amino acids and ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate, whereas the co-cultures of anaerobic fungi and associated methanogens produced citrate. This is the first report of citrate as a major metabolite of anaerobic fungi. Univariate analysis showed that the mean values of formate, lactate, ethanol, citrate, succinate and acetate in co-cultures were significantly higher than those in the fungal monoculture, while the mean values of glucose and ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate were significantly reduced in co-cultures. Unsupervised principal components analysis revealed separation of metabolite profiles of the fungal mono-culture and co-cultures. In conclusion, the novel finding of citrate as one of the major metabolites of anaerobic fungi associated with methanogens may suggest a new yet to be identified pathway exists in co-culture. Anaerobic fungal metabolism was shifted by associated methanogens, indicating that anaerobic fungi are important providers of substrates for methanogens in the rumen and thus play a key role in ruminal methanogenesis.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2004

소톨론은 호로파(fenugreek)라는 콩과식물을 원료 물질로 하여 여러 가지 전환반응에 의해 생산될 수 있는 천연향미소재로서 본 연구에서는 생물 전환율을 높이기 위한 미생물이나 효소원을 탐색하였다. 원료로부터 소톨론을 추출하기 위한 유기용매로서 dichloromethane이 선별되었다. 효소원으로 사용될 수 있는 유산균, 효모, 사상균 등의 여러가지 미생물에 대한 스크리닝 결과 신령버섯(Agaricus blazei)이 높은 전환율을 보였다. 다양한 첨가물 및 전처리 조건에 따른 전환율을 조사한 결과 호로파 현탁액에 isoleucine, ${\alpha}-ketoglutaric$ acid, ascorbate, $FeSO_4$ 등의 첨가물을 첨가한 후 신령버섯의 균사체 배양액을 혼합하여 반응시키는 공정을 통하여 원료의 초기 소톨론 함량을 대략 77배 수준으로 높일 수 있었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.4021-4026
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• 2011

Functions of the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) and its induced release by divalent metal ions have received great attention because this neurotransmitter subsequently regulates the secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH). Metal-LHRH complexes were synthesized by addition of various Cu(II),Ni(II),Zn(II) ions into LHRH in order to understand how the induced release of LHRH is possible. The degree of complexation was monitored by $^1H$, $^{13}C$-NMR chemical shifts, and final products were identified by Mass spectrometry. Solutionstate structure determination of Zn(II)-LHRH out of metal-complexes was accomplished by using NMR and NMR-based distance geometry (DG). Interproton distance information from nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy was utilized for structure determination. Structure obtained in this study has a cyclic conformation exhibiting a specific ${\alpha}$-helical turn with residue numbers His[2]-Leu[7] out of 10 amino acids. Comparison of chemical shifts and EPR studies of Ni(II),Cu(II)-LHRH complexes exhibit that these metal complexes have 4-coordination geometry.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.3367-3371
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• 2011

An easy and convenient synthetic route to (S)-2-hydroxy-2'-(3-phenyluryl-benzyl)-1,1'-binaphthyl-3-carboxaldehyde (1), capable of recognizing tryptophan by fluorescence has been developed. The binol carboxaldehyde 1 exhibited a high selectivity to L-tryptophan over other examined L-${\alpha}$-amino acids such as alanine, phenylalanine, glutamine, arginine, lysine, serine, threonine, aspartat, valine, histidine and cysteine, with a fluorescence "turn-on" signal. In addition, 1 displayed chiral discrimination with good enantioselectivity toward L-tryptophan over D-tryptophan through different fluorescence enhancement factors.

• BMB Reports
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2000

A homologous gene to alanine racemase was cloned from a hyperthermophilic bacterium, Aquifex pyrophilus. The cloned gene encodes a protein of 341 amino acids, which has a significant homology to alanine racemase of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Lactobacillus brevis, and E. coli. When the gene was expressed in Escherichia coli, it produced a 40 kDa protein. The purified protein contains one mole pyridoxal 5-phosphate per one mole of protein, which is essential for catalytic activity of alanine racemase. The purified protein catalyzed racemization of L-alanine to D-alanine, or vice versa, indicating that the cloned gene encoded alanine racemase. It also showed significant racemization activity against L-serine and ${\alpha}-aminobutylic$ acid. The A. pyrophilus alanine racemase showed strong thermostability, and it maintained catalytic activity in the presence of organic solvents.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제12권1_2호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2003

A method is proposed to predict the distances between given residue pairs (between C$\sub$${\alpha}$/ atoms) of a protein using a sequence to structure mapping by indefinite quadratic approximation. The prediction technique requires a data fitting in three dimensional space with coordinates of the residues of known structured proteins and leads to a numerical ref resentation of 20 amino acids by minimizing a large least norm iteratively. These approximations are used in distance prediction for given residue pairs. Some computational experience on a test set of small proteins from Brookhaven Protein Data Bank are given.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.627-634
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• 2009

Recently, the general contour Monte Carlo has been proposed by Liang (2004) as a space annealing version(ACMC) for optimization problems. The algorithm can be applied successfully to determine the ground configurations for the prediction of protein folding. In this approach, we use the distances between the consecutive $C_{\alpha}$ atoms along the peptide chain and the mapping sequences between the 20-letter amino acids and a coarse-grained three-letter code. The algorithm was tested on the real proteins. The comparison showed that the algorithm made a significant improvement over the simulated annealing(SA) and the Metropolis Monte Carlo method in determining the ground configurations.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.1441-1447
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• 2006

The light perception and phototransformation of phytochromes are the first process of the phytochrome-mediated light signal transduction. The chromophore ligation and its photochromism of various site-specific and deletion mutants of pea phytochrome A and bacterial phytochrome-like protein (Cph1) were analyzed in vitro. Serial truncation mutants from the N-terminus and C-terminus indicated that the minimal N-terminal domain for the chromophore ligation spans from the residue 78 to 399 of pea phytochrome A. Site-specific mutants indicated that several residues are critical for the chromophore ligation and/or photochromism. Histidine-324 appears to serve as an anchimeric residue for photochromism through its H-bonding function. Isoleucine-80 and arginine-383 playa critical role for the chromophore ligation and photochromism. Arginine-383 is presumably involved in the stabilization of the Pfr form of pea phytochrome A. Apparently, the amphiphilic ${\alpha}$-helix centered around the residue-391 is in the chromophore pocket and critical for the chromophore ligation.