• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.215-218
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• 2001

To examine the expression of foreign protein in Polygonum tinctorium cells, plasmid pCAMBIA1302 encoding Green Fluorescent Protein(GFP) was used to transform the cells and the expression was confirmed using Western blot analysis. When the effect of sodium buryrate on the formation of GFP was examined, cell growth was retarded at the addition of 10 mM and was stalled at more than 15 mM. The amount of GFP production was increased by 15% when 5 mM of sodium butyrate was added at three-days after inoculation as compared to at 0-day. Moreover, when sodium butyrate was added at three-days after inoculation, the amount of GFP was increased by 50% at the addition of 5 mM of sodium butyrate as compared to 10 mM.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.2 s.82
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• pp.293-297
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• 2007

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is an attractive reporter for bioprocess monitoring. A fluorescence-based method was developed to quantify GFP levels in transgenic plants and protein extracts. In this study, GFP was produced and secreted from suspension cells derived from transgenic rice. The RAmy3E promoter placed before the GFP gene controlled by sugars such as sucrose. The effects of sucrose concentration on the secretion of GFP and total protein into the medium were investigated in batch suspension culture. It was possible, therefore, to induce the expression of the GFP by removing sucrose from the cultured media or by allowing the rice suspension cells to deplete sucrose catabolically. The dry cell weight (7.06 g/L) and GFP level were detected as highest at 12%, 3% sucrose after 20 day culture, respectively. However secreted GFP fluorescence at the other sucrose concentrations (6%, 12%, 18% and 24%) were a little amount in media.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.482-487
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• 2014

This study is to investigate the effects of testosterone on adipogenesis and its molecular mechanism using RT-PCR analysis and transient transfection assays. Castrated(CAST) mice treated with testosterone had lower white adipose tissue weights and expression of adipocyte-specific genes($PPAR{\gamma}$ and aP2) than CAST control mice. Consistent with the in vivo data, testosterone treatment inhibited triglyceride accumulation and expression of adipocyte-specific genes($PPAR{\gamma}$ and aP2) in differentiated 3T3-L1 cells compared with control group. Testosterone-activated androgen receptor(AR) repressed the luciferase reporter gene activity induced by $PPAR{\gamma}$ transfection. Thus, these results suggest that testosterone downregulates the actions of $PPAR{\gamma}$ on adipogenesis through AR.

• Horticultural Science & Technology
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 2014

To improve the breeding efficiency of oriental pear, the inheritance of major fruit traits were analyzed using 4,035 seedlings of 15 cross combinations combined with 13 cultivars. Yearly variation of parental cultivars, broad-sense heritability of the traits, and frequency of seedlings with commercially acceptable characteristics by the mid-parent values were studied. Despite the heritabilities of traits related with pear the fruit texture were different depending on cross combination, the average narrow-sense heritability ($h^2$) for firmness, flesh hardness, flesh density and grit were over 0.6, a relatively high value. However fruit firmness showed different heritability among the cross combination and its value of cross combination between 'Niitaka' and 'Choju' was very low as 0.11. Positive correlation was not observed on fresh hardness, fresh density and grit but observed on firmness between mid-parent value and average value of offspring. Regression of offspring on firmness, fresh hardness, fresh density and grit between mid-parent value and average value of offspring were 0.778, 0.343, -0.273, 0.313, respectively. Frequency distributions of fruit texture in 15 cross combinations of pear seedling was influenced by parental characteristics. When fruit firmness was estimated as low, low ${\times}$ high and high ${\times}$ high values in parental fruits, firmness in their offspring exhibited low, medium and high, respectively. In addition, when parental grit by sensory evaluation were light ${\times}$ light and light-medium ${\times}$ medium-heavy, most of offsprings showed light and medium grit, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Poultry Science Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.70-71
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• 2005

본 연구는 1세포기 닭 수정란에 retrovirus vector (RSV-GFP)를 도입하여 외래유전자의 핵 전이 효율을 높이고자 하였다. 실험은 polybrene과 retrovirus 혼합물을 1세포기 또는 배반엽 단계의 수정란 세포질에 미세주입하고 배양 3 또는 4일차에 GFP의 발현 양상들을관찰하였다. 실험의 결과는 배반엽 수정란에서 GFP발현을 관찰할 수 있었으나, 1세포기 수정란에서는 GFP의 발현을 관찰할 수 없었다. 연구결과는 형질전환닭 생산에 있어서 가장 효율적인 방법은 배반엽 단계에 retrovirus를 미세주입하는 방법임을 보여주고 있다.

• Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.419-428
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• 2000

Leptin, the product of obese (ob) gene, is an adipocyte-derived satiety factor that plays a major role in the regulation of food intake, energy homeostasis, body weight, reproductive physiology and neuropeptide secretion. The present study was designed to generate transgenic mice expressing antisense mouse ob (mob) gene. Total RNA was extracted from the adipose tissues of mouse, then reverse transcription was performed. The 303 and 635 bp fragments of anti I and II cDNAs were amplified from mob cDNAs by PCR. The two mob cDNAs were reversely ligated into between adipose tissue specific aP2 promote and SV40 poly(A) site. Transgenic mice carrying two different kinds of antisense mob transgenes were generated by DNA microinjection into pronucleus. Total 14 transgenic mice were born, and the 4 and 5 founder lines of the transgenic mice with anti I and II transgenes were respectively established. Antisense mRNA expression was detected in transgenic F$_1$ mice by RT-PCR analysis. This result suggests that the transgenic mice expressing antisense mob mRNA may be useful as an animal disease model to be obesity caused by decreased amount of leptin secretion.

• Proceedings of the KSAR Conference
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• 2001.03a
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• pp.55-55
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• 2001

Erythropoietin(EPO)는 적혈구 세포 증식, 분화 및 생존에 있어서 가장 중요한 요인이다. 또한, 빈혈성저산소증에 있어서도 EPO가 중요한 역할을 한다고 알려져 있다. 태아에서 EPO 생산부위는 간이라고 알려져 있으나, 임신 120-140일에 신장으로 이동하기 시작하여 출생 후 약 40일경 이후에는 완전히 신장에서만 분비한다 EPO단백질의 분비는 오전 8시에 가장 낮고 오후 8시에 가장 높은 2중 리듬의 형태로 발현되어진다. EPO는 27개의 leader sequence와 165개의 아미노산으로 총 193개의 아미노산으로부터 분비된다. EPO단백질의 분자량은 18 kDa이나, 약 40%의 당쇄가 첨가되어있는 당단백질으로서 분자량은 30 kDa이다 N-linked 당쇄 3개(Asn-24, 38 및 83)와 O-linked 당쇄 1개(Ser 126)의 첨가부위가 존재하며, 2개의 disulfide bridges(7-161번, 29-33번)를 형성하고 있다. 이러한 당쇄의 수식은 EPO의 대사에 있어서 매우 중요하다. EPO를 가축의 소변으로부터 생산하기 위하여 생쥐의 3.6 kb UII promoter 하류에 genome hEPO와 SV 40 poly A를 연결하여 형질전환용 발현 벡터를 구축하였으며, 과배란 유기로 채란되어진 돼지의 1-세포기 수정란의 웅성전핵에 유전자를 미세주입기로 주입 후 즉시 대리모에 이식하였다. 66두에 미세주입된 1572개의 수정란을 외과적 방법으로 이식, 평균 23개의 수정란을 이식하였다. 생산된 자돈 112두중 2두(3-5, 3-15번)에서 PCR양성반응(304, 567bp)을 나타내어, 2두의 돼지로부터 소변을 회수하였다. 회수된 소변을 이용 Elisa방법으로 EPO를 분석한 결과 3-5번 돼지에서만 분만 후 지속적으로 EPO농도가 증가되었다. EPO의 최고농도는 1.1 IU/$m\ell$였으며, 이러한 결과는 CHO 세포에서의 500-1000 IU/$m\ell$의 생산량보다도 약 500-1000배정도 낮은 수준이었다. 이상을 종합하여 보면, 1) 가축에서도 생리활성물질을 소변에서 생산할 수 있는 UII promoter의 활용가능성을 제시하였으며, 2) 현재로서는 EPO의 발현량이 너무 낮아, 사용된 생쥐의 promoter를 보완할 필요성이 있다고 사료된다. 그러나, UII promoter를 이용하여 생리활성 물질을 생산할 수 있는 형질전환 돼지 생산의 성공은, 앞으로 형질전환 가축을 이용하는 활용 면에서도 더욱 더 활발할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.496-503
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• 2002

To develop a yeast strain of Pichia pastoris producing an antibacterial peptide, we have attempted the expression and secretion of an insect defensin. The nucleotide sequences corresponding to mature defensin were chemically synthesized by 6 oligomers, assembled in vitro and the synthesized gene was identified by nucleotide sequencing. The prepro sequence of yeast mating factor $\alpha$1 and the defensin gene were recombined into a Pichia expression vector, pPIC9K. The resulting plasmid, pPIDE, was transformed into P. pastoris GSl15 and transformants selected on histidine-deficient minimal plates were tested for antibacterial activity against Micrococcus luteus. Four strains with different antibacterial activity were selected for further analysis. Southern hybridization and RT-PCR verified the defensin gene was maintained and transcribed in a host. Four strains were cultivated in YPD broth for 96 hours to compare cell growth and antibacterial activity, They showed no difference in cell growth, however, each strain showed different antibacterial activity pattern with culture time. The maximal activity was about 550 AU/ $m\ell$.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.247-253
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• 1990

These studies were carried out to obtain the transformant from carrot cells by using binary vector pGA472 with NPT II gene to confer kanamycin resistance in the plant cells. The binary vector pGA472 was mobilized from E. coli MC1000 into A. tumefaciens strains isolated in the Korea, C23-1. K29-1, and disarmed Ti-plasmid PC2760, and A28l using a tri-parental mating method with E. coli HB101/pRK2013. Transconjugants, C23-1/pGA472, K29-1/pGA472, PC2 760/pGA472 and A28l/pGA472 were obtaind on the minimum AB media containing tetracycline and kanamycin, were comfirmed to hold the Ti-plasmid and pGA472 binary vector on the 0.7% agarose gel. Transformed carrot calli were initiated on the MS media supplemented with l00$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml kanamycin and 250$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml carbenicillin after co-cultivation of carrot explant and transconjugant Agrobacteria. Selected callus was grown vigouousley for subculture on the medium containing 100$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml kanamycin, thus indication that the selected callus was transformed with NPT II gene.

• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.29-31
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• 1991

B 세포이 가장 중요한 기능은 항체를 생산하여 체액성 면역반응을 조절하는 일이다. B 세포가 항체를 생산해 내는 형질세포(plasma cell)로 분화하기 위해서는 다음의 몇 가지 단계를 거쳐야 한다. 즉 resting 상태에서 mitogen이나 항원의 자극에 의한 활성화(activation)가 첫번째 단계이고 두번째로는 증식(proliferation)이며 마지막 단계가 분화(differentiation)이다. B 세포가 일단 mitogen이나 항원에 의해 활성화가 되면 활성화 된 clone의 증식과 분화는 T 세포에서 생산되는 여러 종류의 림포카인(lymphokine)의 영향하에서 이루어진다. 따라서 B 세포 기능에 영향을 미치는 림포카인의 종류를 알아내고 최근 새롭게 발견되는 림포카인의 B 세포에 대한 영향을 연구함이 중요하리라 생각된다. 여기에서는 B 세포 기능에 영향을 미치는 여러 림포카인의 종류의 그 기능에 관해서 간략하게 기술하고자 한다.