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Bifuntional Derivatives of the Monoterpene Odorants and Olfaction - The Structure-Activity-Relationships between Odorants and Olfaction - (Monoterpene 향료의 화학구조와 Olfaction과의 구조활성 상관작용)

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    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 1987
  • Bifunctional monoterpene 유도체의 향의 유무는 분자내에 존재하는 두 개의 관능기인, proton donor(AH)와 proton acceptor(B)가 olfaction과 구조활성 상호작용(SAR)과 밀접한 관계가 있다. 일반적으로 Ohloff가설에 의하면, p-menthane monoterpene 분자내의 AH와 B의 입체배위적 최소거리가 3${\AA}$ 이하인 경우 향을 갖고, 3${\AA}$ 이상인 경우는 향을 갖지 않는다. Bifunctional pinanone, thujane, carane, carvomenthone 및 기타 menthone 유도체 등을 이용하여 이 가설을 확대 연구하였다. Bifunctional monoterpene인 (원문이미지참조) 등은 분자내에 각각 AH (OH 혹은 COOH)와 B (C=O)의 입체배위적 최소 거리가 항상 3${\AA}$ 이하여서 향을 가지며, 이들은 olfactory three point attachment에 의한 구조활성 상관관계를 가지는 것으로 사료된다. 상기 화합물의 proton donor인 OH, 혹은 COOH가 각각 acetylation이나 methylation되는 경우에는 proton donor로서의 기능 상실로 향이 사라지게 되었다.

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Immobilization and Characterization of a Liposome-Mediated Reconstituted Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

  • Suh, Jeong-Ihn;Palk, Bo-Hyun;Oh, Se-Zu;Suh, Jung-Hun;Cho, Key-Seung;Palk, Young-Ki
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 1995
  • A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAchR) isolated from the electric tissues of Torpedo californica has been reconstituted into a vesicle comprising a bifunctional azo-ligand (Bae 1) compound, and a liposome containing phospholipids and cholesterol (1 : 1, w/w). The liposome-mediated reconstituted receptor showed a concentration-dependent response to cholinergic drugs in a lithium ion flux assay. This liposome-mediated reconstituted nAchR was immobilized onto an electrode using various synthetic polymers which were tested for their response to the cholinergic ligands. The immobilized nAchR not only exhibited a linear response to a wide range of cholinergic ligand concentrations but also retained an operational stability which lasted for longer than 6 days. Thus, this result provides a basis for application of the immobilized nAchR-based biosensor in detecting cholinergic ligands in vitro.

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Identification of Interleukin-l Like Material in Streptornyces Culture Supernatant (Streptomyces 배양액에서의 Interleukin-1 유사물질의 동정)

  • 남명수;배윤수;윤도영;남경수;최인성;정태화
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.144-149
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    • 1993
  • We have identified a T cell-activating material in the culture supernatant of Streptomyces species. The factor in microbial culture supernatant (MCS) induced thymocyte proliferation in a does dependent fashion and it could be detected by immunoblot analysis using anti-interleukin-1(IL-1) antibody. The factor in MCS was slightly larger(about 21 kd) in its molecular weight than IL-1 on SDS-PAGE. When 125I-MCS was covalently coupled with homo-bifunctional cross-linking agent, disuccinimidyl-propionate to IL-1 receptor(IL-1R) on mouse thymoma cell(EL-4) and immunoprecipitated with anti-IL-1R antibody the molecular weight of this complex of 110 kd was observed.

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The development of anti-DR4 single-chain Fv (ScFv) antibody fused to Streptavidin (Streptavidin이 융합된 DR4 항원에 특이적인 single-chain Fv 항체의 개발)

  • Kim, Seo Woo;Wu, Sangwook;Kim, Jin-Kyoo
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.330-342
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    • 2018
  • The Streptavidin and Biotin system has been studied most extensively as the high affinity non-covalent binding of Biotin to STR ($K_D=10^{-14}M$) and four Biotin binding sites in tetrameric Streptavidin makes this system useful for the production of multivalent antibody. For the application of this system, we cloned Streptavidin amplified from Streptomyces avidinii chromosome by PCR and fused to gene of hAY4 single-chain Fv antibody specific to death receptor 4 (DR4) which is a receptor for tumor necrosis factor ${\alpha}$ related apoptosis induced ligand. The hAY4 single-chain Fv antibody fused to Streptavidin expressed in Escherichia coli showed 43 kDa monomer in heated SDS-PAGE. However, this fusion protein shown in both non-heated SDS-PAGE and Size-exclusion chromatography exhibited 172 kDa as a tetramer suggesting that natural tetramerization of Streptavidin by non-covalent association induced hAY4 single-chain Fv tetramerization. This fusion protein retained a Biotin binding activity similar to natural Streptavidin as shown in Ouchterlony assay and ELISA. Death receptor 4 antigen binding activity of purified hAY4 single-chain Fv fused to Streptavidin was also confirmed by ELISA and Westernblot. In addition, surface plasmon resonance analysis showed 60-fold higher antigen binding affinity of the hAY4-STR than monomeric hAY4 ScFv due to tetramerization. In summary, hAY4 single-chain Fv fused to Streptavidin fusion protein was successfully expressed and purified as a soluble tetramer in E. coli and showed both Biotin and DR4 antigen binding activity suggesting possible production of bifunctional and tetrameric ScFv antibody.

Inhibition of Transient Receptor Potential Melastain 7 Enhances Apoptosis Induced by TRAIL in PC-3 cells

  • Lin, Chang-Ming;Ma, Ji-Min;Zhang, Li;Hao, Zong-Yao;Zhou, Jun;Zhou, Zhen-Yu;Shi, Hao-Qiang;Zhang, Yi-Fei;Shao, En-Ming;Liang, Chao-Zhao
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.4469-4475
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    • 2015
  • Transient receptor potential melastain 7 (TRPM7) is a bifunctional protein with dual structure of both ion channel and protein kinase, participating in a wide variety of diseases including cancer. Recent researches have reported the mechanism of TRPM7 in human cancers. However, the correlation between TRPM7 and prostate cancer (PCa) has not been well studied. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential the role of TRPM7 in the apoptosis of PC-3 cells, which is the key cell of advanced metastatic PCa. In this study, we demonstrated the influence and potential function of TRPM7 on the PC-3 cells apoptosis induced by TNF-related apoptosis inducing-ligand (TRAIL). The study also found a novel up-regulated expression of TRPM7 in PC-3 cells after treating with TRAIL. Suppression of TRPM7 by TRPM7 non-specific inhibitors ($Gd^{3+}$ or 2-aminoethoxy diphenylborate (2-APB) ) not only markedly eliminated TRPM7 expression level, but also increased the apoptosis of TRAIL-treated PC-3 cells, which may be regulated by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT) signaling pathway accompany with up-regulated expression of cleaved Caspase-3, (TRAIL-receptor 1, death receptors 4) DR4, and (TRAIL-receptor 2, death receptors 5) DR5. Taken together, our findings strongly suggested that TRPM7 was involved in the apoptosis of PC-3 cells induced by TRAIL, indicating that TRPM7 may be applied as a therapeutic target for PCa.

Synthesis and Evaluation of a Ligand Targeting the Somatostatin Receptor for Drug Delivery to Tumor Cell (암세포 내로의 약물 전달 증진 목적의 신규 소마토스타틴 수용체 타겟리간드 합성 및 평가)

  • Choi, SunJu;Hong, YoungDon;Lee, SoYoung;Jung, SungHee
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2015
  • Most of targeted therapies block the action of certain enzymes, proteins, or other molecules involved in the growth and spread of cancer cells to produce its cytotoxic effect. Either small molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies are mostly used in targeted therapies. Unfortunately, targeted therapy has a certain degree of unwanted side effect like other cytotoxicity inducing chemotherapies. To overcome and to reduce unwanted side effects during a cancer therapy, recently radiopeptide therapies has got the worlds' attraction for the tumor targeting modalities due to its beneficial effect on less side effect compared to cytotoxic chemotherapies. Among radiopeptide therapies, $^{177}Lu$-DOTATATE is a major modality as an effective one invented so far in treating neuroendocrine tumor (NET) and it has been in clinical trials at least one decade. Although it does have rather effective therapeutic effect on NET, it has less effective in rather large solid tumor. There are many ways to improve or increase therapeutic effect of radiopeptide are a finding the potent small molecules to target the tumor site selectively, or a labeling with radioisotope of emitting high energy, or an improving its biological half-life by introducing different moieties to increase lipophilicity. Present study was focus to increase a biological half-life of radio somatostatin which will target the somatostatin receptor by altering the bifunctional chelator (BFCA) by introducing lipophilic moiety to the somatostatin, which would make the labeled peptide stay longer in the tumor site and thus it can intensify the therapeutic effect on tumor cell itself and around tissues.