• KSBB Journal
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.287-290
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• 2009

최근 미생물을 이용하여 기존에 화학산업을 통하여 생산되어지던 여러 화학물질 혹은 대사산물을 생산하려는 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 연구를 통하여 미생물의 대사특성을 개량하기 위하여는, 미생물의 대사 특성을 분석하는 연구가 일차적으로 수행되어져야 한다. 본 연구에서는 대사network간의 기능적 연관성을 분석하기 위하여 transcriptome 연구에 주로 활용되던 ARACNE 기법이 활용되었다. 특정 대사 subpathway들이 미생물 균주들 사이에 존재하는 패턴이 유사하다면 그 대사 subpathway들이 서로 기능적 상관관계를 가지고 있을 가능성이 높다는 가정 하에, ARACNE를 활용하여 미생물들의 subrathway들의 존재 패턴을 분석함으로서 각 subpathway 사이의 기능적 상관관계를 분석하여 보았다. 본 연구에 활용된 새로운 대사network 분석기법을 활용한다면 더욱 효율적인 대사network 분석연구가 수행될 수 있을 것이라 기대된다.

• Bioinformatics and Biosystems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2007

DNA repair means a collection of processes that a cell identifies and corrects damage to genome sequence. The DNA repair processes are important because a genome would not be able to maintain its essential cellular functions without the processes. In this research, we make some gene regulatory networks of DNA repair in S. cerevisiae to know how each gene interacts with others. Two approaches are adapted to make the networks; Bayesian Network and ARACNE. After construction of gene regulatory networks based on the two approaches, the two networks are compared to each other to predict which genes have important roles in the DNA repair processes by finding conserved interactions and looking for hubs. In addition, each interaction between genes in the networks is validated with interaction information in S. cerevisiae genome database to support the meaning of predicted interactions in the networks.

• Bioinformatics and Biosystems
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.71-74
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• 2007

Cell phenotypes are determined by groups of functionally related genes. Microarray profiling of gene expression provides us response of cellular state to its perturbation. Several methods for uncovering a cellular network show reliable network reconstruction. In this study, we present reconstruction of genetic regulatory network of inflammation bowel disease in human peripheral blood mononuclear cell. The microarray based on Affymetrix Gene Chip Human Genome U133 Array Set HG-U133A is processed and applied network reconstruction algorithm, ARACNe. As a result, we will show that inferred network composed of 450 nodes and 2017 edges is roughly scale-free network and hierarchical organization. The major hub, CCNL2 (cyclin A2), in inferred network is shown to be associated with inflammatory function as well as apoptotic function.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1301-1305
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• 2009

The evolution of living organisms occurs via a combination of highly complicated processes that involve modification of various features such as appearance, metabolism and sensing systems. To understand the evolution of life, it is necessary to understand how each biological feature has been optimized in response to new environmental conditions and interrelated with other features through evolution. To accomplish this, we constructed contents-based trees for a two-component system (TCS) and metabolic network to determine how the environmental communication mechanism and the intracellular metabolism have evolved, respectively. We then conducted a comparative analysis of the two trees using ARACNE to evaluate the evolutionary and functional relationship between TCS and metabolism. The results showed that such integrated analysis can give new insight into the study of bacterial evolution.