• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.26-33
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• 1990

유전공학 제품을 생산하기 까지에는 여러 공정개발 단계를 거쳐야 하는데 크게 나누어 유전자 재조합기술 개발단계와 생물공정기술 개발단계로 나눌 수 있다. 유전자 재조합 기술에 의해 얻어진 생산균주로부터 발효및 분리&정제공정을 거쳐 대량생산에 이르기까지 필요한 기술을 생물공정기술이라 일컫고 있는데 본고에서는 유전자재조합 미생물의 발효공정에 촛점을 맞추어 재조합 미생물의 재조합 단백질의 분비기술, 고정화재조합 미생물을 이용한 생산기술 및 고농도 배양기술 등 재조합 미생물 발효공정기술의 최근 연구동향에 대해서도 고찰해 보고자 한다.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.96-100
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• 2009

One of the major drawbacks associated with the high-level expression of the recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli is the formation of insoluble inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm. Production of recombinant protein at reduced temperature has proven effective in improving the solubility of a number of structurally and functionally unrelated proteins, but a major limitation of using low temperatures for recombinant protein production in E. coli is the reduced rate of synthesis of the heterologous protein caused by the significant reduction of cell growth rate. Here we investigated the effect of co-expression of CspA, a cold-shock protein known to be RNA chaperone at low temperature, on the productivity of recombinant protein at various temperatures by using green fluorescence protein (GFP) as a model recombinant protein. We could observe that the co-expression of CspA enhanced the productivity of GFP at $15^{\circ}C$ by accelerating the growth of E. coli at the temperature. On the other hand, the CspA coexpression didn't affect the cell growth rate as well as the specific GFP production rate at other tested temperatures, $20^{\circ}C$, $25^{\circ}C$, and $37^{\circ}C$.

• Bioindustry News
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 1997

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.444-447
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• 2018

Baculovirus expression systems have many known advantages including fast and cost-effective methods to generate large amounts of recombinant proteins in comparison to bacterial expression systems, particularly those requiring complex post-translational modifications. Especially, recombinant baculoviruses can transfer their vectors and express their recombinant proteins in a wide range of mammalian cell types. In this study, baculoviral vectors which were reconstructed from pcDNA3.1 vector, were recombined with cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter,uroplakin II promoter, polyhedron promoter, vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSVG), enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), and protein transduction domain (PTD). These recombinant vectors were infected with various cells and cell lines. The baculovirus vector thus developed was analyzed by comparing the metastasis and expression of the recombinant genes with conventional vectors. These results suggest that the baculovirus vector has higher efficiency in metastasis and expression than the control vector.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.495-502
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• 2004

Intimin, the product of eae gene in EHEC O157:H7, is required for intimate adherence. In this study, the C-terminaI region(281 amino acids) of the EHEC OI57:H7 intimin were expressed as a protein fusion with (His)$_6$ which was used to raise antiserum in rabbits. The antiserum reacted in western blot with a 94kDa outer membrane protein of EHEC O157:H7. It was observed that the antibody titers both in egg yolk and serum appeared in 2${\sim}$4 weeks after immunization with fusion protein. At the time of 8 weeks, the titre of egg yolk was found to be higher than that of sera. According to the results of neutralization test, chicken egg-yolk antibody(lgY) against the recombinant intimin strongly reacted to EHEC O157:H7. We conclude that a truncated recombinant intimin could be used as an immunogen to elicit antibody(lgY) against O157:H7.

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.273-278
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• 2012

Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), which is a bacterial superantigen produced by Staphylococcus aureus, is associated with serious diseases, including food poisoning and atopic dermatitis. This study was performed to produce about 30 kDa of recombinant SEB protein and to immunize in chickens to acquire the specific egg yolk antibody (IgY) against the recombinant SEB. Chickens were immunized with the recombinant SEB intramuscularly in the breast muscle by injection 3 times at intervals of two weeks. Serum- and egg yolk-antibody titers of hens against SEB were highest at 4 weeks after first immunization. In western blot, anti-recombinant SEB IgY was reacted immunospecifically against the recombinant SEB and commercialized SEB. These results suggested that the recombinant SEB antigen could be used as an immunogen to elicit antibody (IgY) against SEB and the anti-recombinant SEB IgY could neutralized staphylococcal enterotoxin B effectively.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.142-149
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• 2000

It had been evaluated the recombinant Circumsporozoite(CS) protein of Plasmodium viva in serologic diagnosis of vivax malaria. Western blot was done to analyse the sera of malaria patients according to the days after onset. The sera which have the terms within 15 days were shown 43.8%(14/32) of positive rates and the sera over the 16 days were shown 94.4%(17/18) of positive rates. So the total positive rate was 62%(31/50). It was 22.6%(7/31) which was shown negative response in Western blot, even though they were shown positive response in Immuuofluorescent antibody test(1FAT) using whole blood stage antigens. The positive rate of non-epidemic area(Yechon-gun, Kyongsangbuk-do) was 10.7%(3/28), and epidemic area(Kangwha-gun, Inchon-shi) was 27.6%(13/47) in Western blot analysis using recombinant CS protein. In order to applicate the recombinant CS protein in seroepidemiological survey, blood samples of 422 inhabitants were collected who lived in malaria epidemic areas, Chosm-ri, Majeong-ri, Hyangyang-ri and Noejo-n in Paju-shi, Kyonggi-do. All of them were negative in microscopic examination and two(0.5%) of them were positive in Polymerase Chain Reaction. 42(10.0%) of them were seropositive in FAT using whole blood antigens and 71(16.8%) of them were seropositive in Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using recombinant CS protein. It was figured out the positive rates were much higher according to the distances of villages which were closed to the demilitalized zone(DMZ) in all kind of diagnostic methods, respectively.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.15 no.4 s.71
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• pp.542-547
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• 2005

Hypersensitivity of cells lacking Brcal to DNA interstrand .ross-link (ICL) agents such as cisplatin and mitomycin C(MMC) implicates the important role of Brcal in cellular response following ICL treatment. Brca1 plays an essential role in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair through homologous recombination (HR)-dependent and -independent process. Recently, our group has been reported that Brca1 involves in cellular ICL response through HR-dependent repair process (Yun J. et at., Oncogene 2005). In this report, the involvement of Brca1 protein in HR-independent repair process is examined using isogenic $p53^{-/-}\;and\;p53^{-/-}\;Brcal^{-/-}$ mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) and psoralen cross-linked reporter reactivation assay. Brcal-deficient MEFs showed significantly low HR-independent repair activity compare to Brca1-proficient MEFs. Hypersensitivity to MMC and ICL reporter repair activity were restored by the reconstitution of Brca1 expression. Interestingly, MEFs expressing exon 11-deleted isoform of Brca1 $(Brca1^{\Delta11/\Delta11})$ showed high resistance to MMC and ICL reporter repair activity comparable to Brca1-reconstituted MEFs. Taken together, these results suggest that Brca1 involves in ICL repair through not only HR-dependent process but also HR-independent process using N-terminal RINC finger domain or C-terminal BRCT domain rather than exon 11 region which mediate interaction with Rad50.

• Proceedings of the Korean Aquaculture Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.21-21
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• 2003

경골어류의 뇌하수체에서는 두 종류의 생식선자극호르몬 (FSH, LH)이 생산되며, 이 호르몬들은 공통적인 α 쇄와 특이적인 β 쇄를 가진다. 연어과 어종들에서, FSH는 난황형성과 정자형성의 역할을 하며, LH는 배우자의 최종성숙을 조절한다. 냉수성 고유어종인 열목어 (Brachymystax lenok)의 멸종을 방지하고 종묘생산을 원활히 하기 위하여 먼저 열목어의 GTHα, FSHβ 및 LHβ 쇄를 cloning하여 염기서열을 결정하였다. 열목어 GTHα, FSHβ 및 LHβ의 cDNA는 산천어의 해당 cDNA와 높은 상동성 (각각 84, 95, 98%)을 보였다. 다음으로 기능적인 생식선자극호르몬을 제작하기 위해서 2개의 쇄를 single-strand로 연결하여 진핵세포를 숙주로하는 시스템에서 생식선자극호르몬을 생산할 수 있는 구조체인 FSHβ-GTHα (235 amino acids) 와 LHβ-GTHα (240 amino acids)를 각각 재조합하였다. 또한 각각의 융합단백질 생산용 구조체의 3'-말단에는 단백질추출이 용이하도록 histidine×6 구조를 첨가하였다. 이상의 단일쇄 FSH와 LH 유전자재조합 산물을 포유동물 유래의 세포 (CHO-K1)에 liposome chemical을 사용하여 유전자도입 후 세포에서 분비되는 단백질을 모니터링하였다. 배지를 부분정제한 후 SDS-PACE로 조사한 결과, LH 재조합 유전자를 도입한 후 48-60 시간째에 약 25 kDa의 단백질로서 관찰되었다. 현재 FSH 재조합 유전자에 대해서도 조사중이며, 향후 이를 재료로 하여 기능형 생식선자극호르몬을 생산하고 추출하기 위한 연구가 계속적으로 수행 될 것이다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.61 no.3
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• pp.239-247
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• 2006

Background: Culture filtrate proteins secreted by mycobacteria are thought to play an important role in inducing protective immunity and to develop new methods for diagnosing tuberculosis. Methods: A culture filtrate protein of M. avium that was strongly reactive with goat antiserum against M. intracellulare was constructed. Its homologous protein (TB-14) in M. tuberculosis was cloned, expressed and purified. The inductions of IFN-${\gamma}$ stimulated with $10{\mu}g$ of TB-14 recombinant protein and $10{\mu}g$ PPD were estimated by using whole bloods from seven PPD (-) subjects, seven PPD (+) healthy volunteers and nine tuberculosis patients. Results: M. avium culture filtrate protein was confirmed as a hypothetical protein that was termed contig 116. A novel 14-kDa recombinant protein (TB-14) of M. tuberculosis was composed of 148 amino acids, including 30 amino acids of the signal peptide, and it showed 78% homology with M. avium. In the PPD (+) healthy volunteers, recombinant TB-14 protein strongly induced the secretion of IFN-${\gamma}$ in whole blood cultures. Conclusion: These results suggest that TB-14 recombinant protein might play an important role in inducing cell-mediated immunity against tuberculosis. Furthermore, TB-14 protein antigen and its antiserum will be available for the development of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis.