• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.59-71
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• 2014

We investigated soil contamination depending on the land use by examining the contamination levels and distribution characteristics of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the national soil. Total PAHs (the sum of 16 PAH concentrations) and carcinogenic PAHs (the sum of seven carcinogenic PAH concentrations) were $8.50{\sim}3,437.16{\mu}g/kg$ and $2.94{\sim}2,136.96{\mu}g/kg$, respectively. The concentration of benzo(a)pyrene, one of the contaminants regulated by the soil quality standard in the nation, was $ND{\sim}924.73{\mu}g/kg$. Its maximum value of $924.73{\mu}g/kg$ was detected in railroad (Region 3) and is approximately 13% of the standard value for Region 3 (i.e., 7 mg/kg). We also investigated the characteristics of contamination sources of PAHs in soil of the upland, forests, roads, and railroads, examining the fraction distribution of PAHs concentration by the number of benzene rings against the total PAHs concentration. The results demonstrate that the mean fraction of 4~6-ring PAHs against total PAHs concentration in soil was in the range of 51.8~80.7% with relative abundance of high-molecular PAHs, showing that the origin of contamination is under the category of combustion sources. When the molecular indices (Flu/(Flu/Pyr), Ant/(Ant+Phe), InP/(InP+BP), and BaA/(BaA+Chr)) were applied, they were also categorized as petroleum-based combustion sources. The individual PAH concentrations in soil by the land use were grouped into Regions 1, 2, and 3, which are statistically treated and are the parts of the national category system of soil quality standard. As a result, the concentration level of 16 PAHs was $0.02{\sim}2.63{\mu}g/kg$ in Region 1, $0.05{\sim}4.26{\mu}g/kg$ in Region 2, and $2.36{\sim}178.27{\mu}g/kg$ in Region 3. The concentration level of 6 carcinogenic PAHs was 14.2~320.4% against that of benzo(a)pyrene in Region 3 and sites of recycling waste sleepers. Considering that there were similarities among PAHs in terms of structures and toxicities, it would be recommended to review other types of carcinogenic PAHs together with benzo(a)pyrene when developing the soil quality standards in the nation.

• 생약학회지
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.170-180
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• 2022

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) contents were analyzed by measuring benz(a)anthracene(BaA), chrysene(Chr), benzo(b)fluoranthene(BbF) and benzo(a)pyrene(BaP), and the related risk characterization was conducted for 113 samples out of 14 different agricultural products used for food and medicine. Detection rate of PAHs was 90.3% as a whole, and the highest one was 80.5% for BaP. The detection rate of BaP exceeding the maximum permitted concentration of Rehmanniae Radix Preparata and Rehmanniae Radix, 5.0 ㎍/kg was 1.8%, and the detection rates of BaA, Chr and BbF were within the range of 2.7~10.6%. The highest average concentration of BaA was 3.41 ㎍/kg detected from Lycii Fructus, while those of Chr, BbF, BaP and PAH4(sum of detected BaA, Chr, BbF and BaP) were 5.00, 1.79, 2.36, 12.36 ㎍/kg, respectively, detected from Rehmanniae Radix Preparata. As for the risk characterization on PAHs, the overall MOE(Margin of Exposure) values were measured within the range of 10⁵~10⁷, which is unlikely to cause direct health concerns, but the worring values of MOE were measured 6.57×10⁴ for BaP and 6.10×10⁴ for PAH4 from Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, which may require an improvement plan to reduce BaP contents.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.999-1010
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• 2021

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in the environment. They are highly toxigenic and carcinogenic. Probiotic bacteria isolated from fermented foods were tested to check their ability to degrade and/or detoxify PAHs. Five probiotic bacteria with distinct morphologies were isolated from a mixture of 26 fermented foods co-cultured with benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) containing Bushnell Haas minimal broth. Among them, B. velezensis (PMC10) significantly reduced the abundance of BaP in the broth. PMC10 completely degraded BaP presented at a lower concentration in broth culture. B. velezensis also showed a clear zone of degradation on a BaP-coated Bushnell Haas agar plate. Gene expression profiling showed significant increases of PAH ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases and 4-hydroxybenzoate 3-monooxygenase genes in B. velezensis in response to BaP treatment. In addtion, both live and heat-killed B. velezensis removed BaP and naphthalene (Nap) from phosphate buffer solution. Live B. velezensis did not show any cytotoxicity to macrophage or human dermal fibroblast cells. Live-cell and cell-free supernatant of B. velezensis showed potential anti-inflammatory effects. Cell-free supernatant and extract of B. velezensis also showed free radical scavenging effects. These results highlight the prospective ability of B. velezensis to biodegrade and remove toxic PAHs from the human body and suggest that the biodegradation of BaP might be regulated by ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase-initiated metabolic pathway.

• 한국환경독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경독성학회 2003년도 추계국제학술대회
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• pp.159-159
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• 2003

Comet assay is a potential monitoring tool because DNA strand breakage may be produced by a wide range of agents. The comet assay, also called the single-cell gell electrophoresis (SCGE) assay, is rapid and sensitive method for the detection of DNA damage in cells. This study was performed for the identification of DNA damage in the cells from flounders and clams exposed to PAHs. As a control experiments, flounder and clam cells were exposed to $H_2O$$_2$. The cells exposed to $H_2O$$_2$ were displayed a typical nuclei movement DNA damage of cells were significantly increased when the isolated cells from the blood of flounders and the tissue of clams were in vitro exposed to the different concentrations (5, 10, 50, 100 ppb) of five kinds of PAHs (benzo[a]pyrene, pyrene, fluoranthene, anthrancene, and phenanthrene). For the in vivo test, flounders and clams were exposed to the different concentrations of BaP for 4 days. The results showed that DNA strand breakage was effected by the concentration of BaP and the duration of exposure. In high concentration of BaP, the mean tail lengths of nuclei was longer than it In low concentration, while the mean size of head DNA decreased. In this research, both in vitro and in vivo genotoxicity of PAHs could be biomonitored by the comet assay. Especially, clams and flounders seem to be useful as materials for monitoring genotoxic damage by comet assay.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs)의 인체에 대한 위해성 정도를 판단하기 위해 PAHs의 대표독성물질인 benzo(a)pyrene의 독성을 기준으로 하는 TEFs를 적용하여, PAHs의 주요노출식품에 의한 위해성 평가를 수행하였다. 숯불구이쇠고기, 숯불구이돼지고기, 숯불구이닭고기, 햄, 베이컨, 및 식용유지 등을 대상으로 PAHs 오염도를 모니터링 한 결과 숯불구이닭고기에서 총 PAMs농도가 9.3ppb로 가장 높게 검출되었으며 각각의 congener들 모두 다른 식품에서 보다 높게 나타났다. 반면에 숯불구이쇠고기, 베이컨, 숯불구이돼지고기, 햄 및 식용유지의 총 PAHs는 각각 0.2ppb, 0.3ppb, 0.7ppb, 0.8ppb 및 1.2ppb로 비교적 낮은 값을 나타냈다. TEFs값을 적용하여 환산된 오염도 값의 경우에서도 숯불구이닭고기가 가장 높은 값을 보였고, congener들의 농도를 비교했을 때 숯불구이닭고기, 숯불구이돼지고기, 베이컨, 숯불구이쇠고기 및 햄에서 모두 BaP의 농도가 각각 1.88 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg, 0.19 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg, 0.08 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg, 0.04 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg 및 0.02 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg로 congener들 중 가장 높게 나타났고 식용유지에서는 dibenzo(a,h)anthracene의 농도가 0.21 $\mu\textrm{g}$-TEQ$_{BaP}$/kg으로 가장 높은 값을 나타냈다. 우리나라 사람들의 PHAs 주요노출식품 섭취로 인한 만성1일 인체 노출량은 4.32${\times}$$10^{-4}$ $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg/day으로 산출되었으며 선정된 식품 중에서 숯불구이 닭고기의 노출기여도가 가장 높았다. PAMs의 초과발암 위해도는 만성1일 인체노출량과 BaP의 발암력인 7.3 (mg/kg/day)$^{-1}$을 고려하였을 때 3.44${\times}$$10^{-6}$ , 백만명당 3∼4명 수준이었다. 우리나라 대표식단을 통한 PAMs 노출량을 반영할 수 있는 위해성 평가가 추후 계속되어야 할 것으로 사료된다. 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2001

Recently, single cell gel electrophoresis, also known as comet assay, is widely used for the detection and measurement of DNA strand breaks in vitro and in vivo in many toxicological fields such as radiation exposure, human monitoring and toxicity evaluation. As well defined, comet assay is a sensitive, rapid and visual method for the detection of DNA strand breaks in individual cells. Briefly, a small number of damaged cells suspended in a thin agarose gel on a microscope slide were lysed, unwinded, electrophoresed, and stained with a fluorescent DNA binding dye. The electric current pulled the charged DNA from the nucleus such that relaxed and broken DNA fragments migrated further. The resulting images which were subsequently named for their appearance as comets, were measured to determine the extent of DNA damages. However, some variations could be occurred in procedures, laboratories's conditions and kind of cells used. Hence, to overcome and to harmonize these matters in comet assay, International Workshop on Genotoxicity Test Procedure (IWGTP) was held with several topics including comet assay at Washington D.C. on March, 1999. In spite of some consensus in procedures and conditions in IWGTP, there are some problems still remained to be solved. In this respect, we attempted to set the practical optimal conditions in the experimental procedures such as lysis, unwinding, electrophoresis and neutralization conditions and so on. First of all, we determined optimal lysis and unwinding time by using 150 $\mu$M methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) which is usually used concentration. And then, we determined optimal positive control concentrations of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and MMS in the presence and absence of S9 metabolic activation system, respectively.

• 분석과학
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2010

허베이 스피리트호 유류유출 사고 후 지역주민들의 수산물 섭취로 인한 건강 위해도를 평가하기 위하여, 가스크로마토그래피-질량분석기(GC-MSD)를 이용하여 유류유출 지역 주민들이 직접 채취 및 구입한 수산물 중 다환방향족탄화수소류(PAHs) 16종을 분석하였다. 시료는 KOH로 가수분해하여 Methylene chloride로 추출하였다. 추출액 중의 16개의 PAHs는 실리카/플로리실 정제컬럼을 이용하여 Methylene chloride : n-헥산(1:9) 혼합용액으로 용출하였고 GC-MSD의 SIM을 이용하여 분석하였다. 16 개의 PAHs의 평균 회수율은 79~85%이었으며, 126개의 시료에서 $0.17\sim6.04\;{\mu}g/kg$ 수준으로 검출되었고, Benzo(a)pyrene의 독성등가계수(TEF)를 적용한 Benzo(a)pyrene 독성등가량($TEQ_{BaP}$)은 $0\sim0.91\;{\mu}gTEQ$/kg 수준이었다. 또한 유류유출 지역 주민들의 벤조피렌의 일일 평균 노출량은 $5.5{\times}10^{-8}\;mg/kg$ bw/day 이었고, PAHs 일일 평균 만성노출량은 $1.3{\times}10^{-5}\;mgTEQ$/kg bw/day이었다. 그리고 안전마진(MOE)과 초과발암위해도는 각각 $1.8{\times}10^6$, $9.8{\times}10^{-8}$으로 사람에게 위해영향발생 우려가 낮은 수준이었다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.151-158
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• 1996

Antimutagenic effect of Doenjang (Korean soy paste) on various carcinogens in Salmonella typhimurium strains of TA98 and TA100 were studied. By the addition of methanol extract of Doenjang to aflatoxin B₁(AFB₁)in the experimental system, the mutagenicity of AFB₁ on the strains of TA98 and TA100 was com-pletely inhibited. The methenol extract of the Doenjang also inhibited the mutagencities induced by direct mutagens such as N-methy1-N'-nitro-N-nitroguanidine(MNNG)and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide(4-NQO), and another indirect mutagens of benzo(a) pyrene(BaP) and dimethylnitrosamine(DMN). From the solvents and thin layer chromatographic(TLC) fractionations, free fatty acid(s), especially linoleic acid in Doenjang seemed to be one of the active antimutagenic compounds.

• 분석과학
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.339-348
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 동시 형광분광법과 GC/FID법을 이용하여 폐윤활유 시료 중의 PAHs를 acetonitrile 용매로 추출하여 정량분석 하였다. 동시 형광분광법을 이용하여 7종의 PAHs, 즉 acenaphthene (Ace), anthracene (Anth), benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), chrysene (Chry), phenanthrene (Phen), fluoranthrene (Fl) 및 perlyrene (Per)을 분석하였다. 이들 성분의 검정선은 모두 0.4~166 ppb(상관계수; 0.9985~0.9999)의 범위에서 직선을 보였다. 다른 8종의 PAHs를 GC법으로 분석하기 위한 검량선은 10.0 ppm 표준용액을 사용하였고, split ratio를 10에서부터 100까지 변화시킬 때에 발생되는 peak 면적을 이용하여 작성하였다. 검출감도는 동시 형광분광법이 GC법보다 적어도 100배 이상 우수하였다. 폐윤활유 시료 중의 총 PAHs 함량은 LNG(버스)와 LPG(택시)의 폐윤활유에서 각각 5.5 ng/g과 10.5 ng/g의 수준으로 검출되었으며, 가솔린을 사용하는 일반승용차, 경유를 사용하는 승합차 및 트레일러의 폐윤활에서 각각 92.2 ng/g, 92.6 ng/g 및 130.3 ng/g 등이 측정되어 경유를 사용하는 대형트레일러에서 가장 많은 양이 발생됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 분석과학
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.296-303
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 유류 오염 토양 중에 함유 되어 있는 다환방향족탄화수소류(PAHs)의 시험방법을 확립하고자 수행되었다. 토양 중 PAHs 시험방법으로 미국 EPA 및 ISO 시험방법 등을 비교검토하고 국내 오염 토양에 대한 적용성을 검토한 결과, 유류 오염토양의 분석을 위해서는 알루미나 전처리 방법이 보다 효율적인 것으로 나타났으며, 휘발성이 큰 naphthalene, acenaphthene, acenaphthylene, fluorene 등 4종을 제외한 PAHs 12종에 대한 회수율이 67~107%범위로 나타나 이들 물질에 대한 시험방법을 마련하였다. 또한, 유류로 오염된 토양 5점을 선정하여 시험방법에 대한 적용성 시험 결과, 분석대상 12종 PAHs는 모든 시료에서 $78.68{\sim}275.57{\mu}g/kg$로 검출되었으며, 이중 phenanthrene, pyrene, chrysene 등은 전체 농도의 약 70%로 대부분의 비율을 차지하였다. 특히 BaP의 경우 농도범위는 $1.76{\sim}24.65{\mu}g/kg$으로 나타났다.