• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 1999

There are epidemiological evidences that the population with high fecal ${\beta}-glucuronidase$ activity has greater risk of colon cancer than the population with low fecal ${\beta}-glucuronidase$. This relationship was investigated by using the mouse-dimethylhydrazine colon carcinogenesis model and the extract of antler which was a ${\beta}-glucuronidase$ inhibitor. Mice with low fecal ${\beta}-glucuronidase$ activity induced by administration of water and Folch's fraction of antler had significantly fewer aberrant crypts after injections of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) than mice treated with DMH alone. The result supports the hypothesis that the inhibitor of ${\beta}-glucuronidase$ such as antler extract can protect an animal against the induction of colon cancer.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.7-9
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• 2003

The antioxidative constituents isolated from Hedyotis diffusa were identified as quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-rutinoside (1) and quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-glucoside (2). We also isolated asperuloside (3) from this plant. Identification was done based on spectroscopic analysis. Quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-rutinoside was the stronger antioxidant than quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-glycoside while asperuloside was inactive.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.332-336
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• 2007

Five steroids and two norsesquiterpene glycosides were isolated from the methanol extract of H. japonicus. Their structures were determined by means of physio-chemical and spectral data to be friedelin (1), stigmast-5-en-3-${\beta}$-ol (${\beta}$-sitosterol) (2), 7-keto-${\beta}$-sitosterol (3), 6${\beta}$-hydroxy-4-stigmasten-3-one (4), 7${\alpha}$-hydroxy-${\beta}$-sitosterol (5), 3-hydroxy-4,4-dimethyl-4-butyrolactone (6), daucosterol (7), (6S, 9S)-roseoside (8), and (9S)-drummondol-9-O-${\beta}$-D-glucopyranoside (spinoside B) (9). The compounds 1, 3, 4, and 6 - 9 were first isolated from this plant source.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.1159-1165
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• 2016

The nutritional value of feed proteins and their utilization by livestock are related not only to the chemical composition but also to the structure of feed proteins, but few studies thus far have investigated the relationship between the structure of feed proteins and their solubility as well as digestibility in monogastric animals. To address this question we analyzed soybean meal, fish meal, corn distiller's dried grains with solubles, corn gluten meal, and feather meal by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to determine the protein molecular spectral band characteristics for amides I and II as well as ${\alpha}$-helices and ${\beta}$-sheets and their ratios. Protein solubility and in vitro digestibility were measured with the Kjeldahl method using 0.2% KOH solution and the pepsin-pancreatin two-step enzymatic method, respectively. We found that all measured spectral band intensities (height and area) of feed proteins were correlated with their the in vitro digestibility and solubility ($p{\leq}0.003$); moreover, the relatively quantitative amounts of ${\alpha}$-helices, random coils, and ${\alpha}$-helix to ${\beta}$-sheet ratio in protein secondary structures were positively correlated with protein in vitro digestibility and solubility ($p{\leq}0.004$). On the other hand, the percentage of ${\beta}$-sheet structures was negatively correlated with protein in vitro digestibility (p<0.001) and solubility (p = 0.002). These results demonstrate that the molecular structure characteristics of feed proteins are closely related to their in vitro digestibility at 28 h and solubility. Furthermore, the ${\alpha}$-helix-to-${\beta}$-sheet ratio can be used to predict the nutritional value of feed proteins.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2004

Amyloid ${\beta}-peptide\;(A{\beta})$ contributes to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), causing neuronal death through apoptosis. In this study, the neuroprotective role of BF-7, extracted form sericultural product, was examined against $A{\beta}-induced$ toxicity in cultured human neuronal cell SKN-SH. In order to know if the BF-7 has positive role on the cognition and memory in human, the mixture of BF-7, DHA and EPA (BDE) was examined using Rey Kim and K-WAIS test with 50 healthy high school student. We report here that BDE significantly attenuated $A{\beta}-induced$ apoptosis through the reduction of ROS accumulation, and diminished caspase-like protease activity. Moreover, the memory index and memory preservation, and attentative concentration of BDE treated group for 1 month were significantly improved, in contrast to the case of placebo control treated with DHA and EPA. This result represent that the BF-7 play significant positive role on learning memory. Taken together, our result suggested the natural product BF-7 is a good substance for the brain functionally and physiologically.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.2016-2022
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• 2013

Ionically modified ${\beta}$-cyclodextrins, which have excellent water-solubility, have been interested in purification technology as well as drug carrier system. The present study summarizes the synthesis and characterization of cationic and anionic ${\beta}$-cyclodextrin (${\beta}$-CyD) products using by polycondensation. The oligo (${\beta}$-CyD)s are synthesized from ${\beta}$-CyD, epichlorohydrin (EP) and choline chloride (CC; for cationic polymer) or chloroacetic acid (CAA; for anionic polymer) through one step polycondenstaion process. Unlike the previous studies, we successfully purified the ionic ${\beta}$-CyD condensation products from the ${\beta}$-CyD reaction mixtures and accomplished a great level of structural analysis. The detailed structural analysis of these ionic ${\beta}$-CyD compounds is done by $^1H$ NMR, MALDI-TOF as well as GPC analysis and confirms the formation of oligomers with a few units of ${\beta}$-CyD. We found that the sequence of reactant addition also could effect on the molecular weight of the resulting product as well as the molar ratio of the reactants. Finally, we used the cationic and anionic ${\beta}$-CyD oligomers for fabricating multilayer films by layer-layer process.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.331-335
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• 1996

The second $\beta$-Xylosidase gene (xylB) from Bacillus stearothermophilus was isolated from the genomic library, cloned into pBR322, and subsequently transferred into Escherichia coli HB101. Six out of 10, 000 transformants were selected from the selective LB medium supplemented with p-nitrophenyl-$\alpha$-L-arabinofuranoside (pNPAf) and ampicillin ($50\mu g$/ml) based on their ability to form a yellow ring around the colony. One of the clones was found to harbor the recombinant plasmid with 5.0 kb foreign DNA, which was identical to the $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidase gene (arfI) previously cloned in this lab, while the other five had 3.5 kb of the foreign DNA. Southern blotting experiments confirmed that the 3.5 kb insert DNA was from B. stearothermophilus chromosomal DNA. A zymogram with 4-methylumbelliferyl-$\alpha$-L-arabinofuranoside as the enzyme substrate revealed that the cloned gene product was one of the mutiple $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidases produced by B. stearothermophilus. Unlike the arfI gene product, the product of the gene on the insert DNA (xylB) showed an activity not only on pNPAf but also on oNPX suggesting that the cloned gene product could be a bifunctional enzyme having both $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidase and $\beta$-xylosidase activities.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.147-151
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• 2005

양귀비의 성분중 하나인 $(-)-\alpha-narcotine$은 ethyl chloroformate와 가온반응시 diastereomeric chloro-carbamate 혼한물과 Z/E-enol lactone혼합물을 생성하였는데 이 중에서 Z/E-isomer의 생성비를 HPLC로 측정한 결과 Z:E=1:1.12로 나타나 열역학적으로 불안정한 E-isomer가 다소 많이 생성되었다. 그러나 이 isomer 혼합물을 chromatography로 각각 분리 한 결과, 그 생성 비는 Z:E=7:1로 나타나 분리도중에 column 내 에서 E-isomer가 보다 안정한 Z-isomer로 대부분 변하였음을 알 수 있었다. Z/E-isomer의 생성비가 유사한 구조의 화합물에서 어떻게 변하는지를 관찰하기 위하여 $\beta-narcotine$, deuterated $\beta-narcotine$ 및 $\beta-hydrastine$을 대상으로 동일한 조건하에 반응시킨 결과, 이들의 isomer 생성비율이 구조에 따라 크게 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었으며 그 이유를 설명하였다. 한편, 일반적인 보고와는 달리, narcotine에서 생성된 안정한 Z-isomer는 광화학반응에 의해 불안정한 E-isomer로 쉽게 변한다는 사실도 확인하였다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.267-272
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• 1984

미생물 세포를 효소 고정화 담체로 사용하여 ${\beta}-fructofuranosidase$를 고정화 시켰다. Penicillium spp. "K-8"로 명명된 곰팡이를 배양한 뒤 균체의 세포벽에 존재하는 다당체를 periodate와 반응시켜 활성화된 알데히드기를 얻을 수 있었다. 이 때 건조 세포 g당 periodate, 1.2g이 최적 농도이었고, 이 농도하에서 온도가 알데히드 형성에 미치는 영향은 거의 없었다. 활성화된 균체에 ${\beta}-fructofuranosidase$를 공유결합에 의하여 고정화시켰다. 더 높은 효소의 고정화를 위하여 이를 glutaraldehyde를 처리한 바 0.5%의 농도와 1시간의 반응조건에서 최대 효소 고정화율 26%를 나타내었다. 이 조건에 의해 제조한 고정화 효소는 kinetic parameters로서 최적온도가 $55^{\circ}C$, 최적 pH가 5, Km값이 55mM. Ea가 19kJ $mol^{-1}$이었다. 회분식 반응조내에서는 6번의 반복된 반응기간동안 고정화 효소 활성에 약간의 감소가 있었으나 비교적 좋은 역가의 안정성을 보여주었다.

• 생약학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

Phytochemical investigation of the twigs of Corylopsis coreana afforded 10 phenolic compounds, bergenin (1), 6'-O-galloylbergenin (2), 3'-O-galloylbergenin (3), (-)-catechin (4), (-)-epicatechin (5), (-)-epicatechin-3-O-galloyl ester (6), 4-methoxy-3,-5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (7), gallic acid (8), 2,4,6-trimethoxyphenol-1-O-${\beta}-\small{D}$-glucopyranoside (9), and 2,4,6-trimethoxyphenol-1-O-${\beta}-\small{D}$-(6-O-galloyl)-glucopyranoside (10). Their structures were characterized by spectroscopic data and identified by comparing these data with those in the literatures. The compounds 3, 9 and 10 were isolated for the first time from this source. All the isolates (1-10) were tested for their cytotoxic activity against A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, and HCT15 cell lines in vitro using the SRB bioassay. The compounds 5, 7 and 8 exhibited selective cytotoxic activity against SK-MEL-2 cell line.