• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.316-326
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• 2016

Development and discovery of efficient, cost-effective, and robust electrocatalysts are imperative for practical and widespread implementation of water electrolysis and fuel cell techniques in the anticipated hydrogen economy. The electrochemical reactions involved in water electrolysis, i.e., hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, are complex inner-sphere reactions with slow multi-electron transfer kinetics. To develop active electrocatalysts for water electrolysis, the physicochemical properties of the electrode surfaces in electrolyte solutions should be investigated and understood in detail. When electrocatalysis is conducted using nanoparticles with large surface areas and active surface states, analytical techniques with sub-nanometer resolution are required, along with material development. Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is an electrochemical technique for studying the surface reactions and properties of various types of electrodes using a very small tip electrode. Recently, the morphological and chemical characteristics of single nanoparticles and bio-enzymes for catalytic reactions were studied with nanometer resolution by combining SECM with atomic force microscopy (AFM). Herein, SECM techniques are briefly reviewed, including the AFM-SECM technique, to facilitate further development and discovery of highly active, cost-effective, and robust electrode materials for efficient electrolysis and photolysis.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.232-236
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• 1999

In this study, we present evidence that cotreatment of aloesin and arbutin inhibits tyrosinase activity in a synergistic manner by acting through a different action mechanism. Aloesin or arbutin similarly inhibited enzyme activity of human- and mushroom-tyrosinases with an IC50 value of 0.1 or 0.04 mM, respectively. Lineweaver-Burk plots of the enzyme kinetics data showed that aloesin inhibited tyrosinase activity noncompetitively with a Ki value of 5.3 mM, whereas arbutin did it competitively (Maeda, 1996). We then examined whether cotreatment of these agents inhibits the tyrosinase activity in a synergistic manner. The results showed that 0.01 mM aloesin in the presence of 0.03 mM arbutin inhibited activity of mushroom by 80% of the control value and the reverse was also true. The inhibitory effects were calculated to be synergistic according to the B rgi method. Taken together, we suggest that aloesin along with arbutin inhibits in synergy melanin production by combined mechanisms of noncompetitive and competitive inhibitions of tyrosinase activity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제33권11호
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• pp.1475-1483
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• 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the cholesterol-lowering and antioxidant activities of soymilk fermented with probiotic Lactobacillaceae strains and to investigate the production of related bioactive compounds. Lactiplantibacillus plantarum KML06 (KML06) was selected for the fermentation of soymilk because it has the highest antioxidant, cholesterol-lowering, and β-glucosidase activities among the 10 Lactobacillaceae strains isolated from kimchi. The genomic information of strain KML06 was analyzed. Moreover, soymilk fermented with KML06 was evaluated for growth kinetics, metabolism, and functional characteristics during the fermentation period. The number of viable cells, which was similar to the results of radical scavenging activities and cholesterol assimilation, as well as the amount of soy isoflavone aglycones, daidzein, and genistein, was the highest at 12 h of fermentation. These results indicate that soymilk fermented with KML06 can prevent oxidative stress and cholesterol-related problems through the production of soy isoflavone aglycones.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1426-1431
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 재조합 Bacillus subtilis에서 발현된 Streptomyces albus KSM-35유래의 amylase를 정제하고 특성을 구명하였다. 정제된 효소는 SDS-PAGE를 통하여 분자량이 약 50 kD인 것으로 밝혀졌으며, isoelectric focusing을 통하여 측정된 pI값은 약 4.3이었다. 효소의 최적 반응온도는 $45^{\circ}C$이었으며 최적의 pH는 6.0이었다. D-value는 45, $55^{\circ}C$에서 각각 279분, 191분이었고 D-value로부터 계산된 Z-value는 $17.7^{\circ}C$였다. 수용성 전분용액을 기질로 사용한 효소반응의 초기에는 maltotriose, maltopentaose와 maltotetraose가 주로 생성되었지만 시간이 경과함에 따라 이들의 농도는 감소하였고 maltose의 농도가 점차 증가하였다. 이러한 반응 생성물의 분해는 Thin layer chromatography를 통하여 확인할 수 있었다. 기질에 의한 저해가 없다고 가정하고 Michaelis-Menten kinetics를 이용하여 속도상수를 추정하였을 때 최대 반응속도는 0.37 mM/min, Michaelis-Menten 상수는 0.13% (w/v)로 나타났다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2008

Purpose: Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is a potent differentiating agent for cells of the osteoblastic lineage. It has been used in the oral cavity under a variety of indications and with different carriers. However, the optimal carrier for each indication is not known. This study evaluated the bone regenerative effect of rhBMP-2 delivered with different carrier systems. Materials and Methods: 8 mm critical-sized rat calvarial defects were used in 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats. The animals were divided into 6 groups containing 10 animals each. Two groups were controls that had no treatment and absorbable collagen membrane only. 4 groups were experimentals that contained rhBMP-2 only and applied with absorbable collagen sponge($Collatape^{(R)}$), $MBCP^{(R)}$, Bio-$Oss^{(R)}$ each. The histological and histometric parameters were used to evaluate the defects after 2- or 8-week healing period. The shape and total augmented area were stable in all groups over the healing time. Results: New bone formation was significantly greater in the rhBMP-2 with carrier group than control group. rhBMP-2/ACS was the highest in bone density but gained less new bone area than rhBMP-2/$MBCP^{(R)}$ and rhBMP-2/Bio-$Oss^{(R)}$. The bone density after 8 weeks was greater than that after 2 weeks in all groups. However, rhBMP-2 alone failed to show the statistically significant difference in new bone area and bone density compared to control group. Also $MBCP^{(R)}$ and Bio-$Oss^{(R)}$ particles remained after 8 weeks healing period. Conclusion: These results suggest that rhBMP-2 with carrier system is an excellent inductive agent for bone formation and we can use it as the predictable bone tissue engieering technique. Future study will likely focus on the kinetics of BMP release and development of carriers that is ideal for it.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.739-746
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• 2017

As alternatives to antibiotics in livestocks, probiotics have been used, although most of them in the form of liquid or semisolid formulations, which show low cell viability after oral administration. Therefore, suitable dry dosage forms should be developed for livestocks to protect probiotics against the low pH in the stomach such that the products have higher probiotics survivability. Here, in order to develop a dry dosage forms of probiotics for poultry, we used hydroxypropyl methylcellulose phthalate 55 (HPMCP 55) as a tablet-forming matrix to develop probiotics in a tablet form for poultry. Here, we made three different kinds of probiotics-loaded tablet under different compression forces and investigated their characteristics based on their survivability, morphology, disintegration time, and kinetics in simulated gastrointestinal fluid. The results indicated that the probiotics formulated in the tablets displayed higher survival rates in acidic gastric conditions than probiotics in solution. Rapid release of the probiotics from the tablets occurred in simulated intestinal fluid because of fast swelling of the tablets in neutral pH. As a matrix of tablet, HPMCP 55 provided good viability of probiotics after 6 months under refrigeration. Moreover, after oral administration of probiotics-loaded tablets to chicken, more viable probiotics were observed, than with solution type, through several digestive areas of chicken by the tablets.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

ANOVA 분석을 통해 건조온도와 건조시간이 열풍건조와 냉풍건조의 중요변수임을 알 수 있었으며 복분자의 반건조를 위해서는 열풍건조의 경우 $65.8^{\circ}C$, 4.3시간이 적당하였고 냉풍건조의 경우 비슷한 정도의 건조수분함량까지 28.2시간이 걸렸다. 그러나 건조온도가 높아지면 vitamin C와 ellagic acid의 함량이 줄어드는 등 품질적 열화가 심하게 나타났다. 또한 생리활성물질들은 냉풍건조에서 전반적으로 더 잘 보존 되었으며 총폴리페놀의 함량에서는 더욱 그러하였다. 따라서 냉풍건조방법은 고품질의 반건조 복분자 제조에 적합한 건조방법이며 최적 건조조건은 $21.3^{\circ}C$, 28.2시간으로 나타났다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.1279-1284
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• 2014

The binding of TATA-binding protein (TBP) to the TATA-box containing promoter region is aided by many other transcriptional factors including TFIIA and TFIIB. The mechanistic insight into the assembly of RNA polymerase II preinitation complex (PIC) has been gained by either directly altering a function of target protein or perturbing molecular interactions using drugs, RNAi, or aptamers. Aptamers have been found particularly useful for studying a role of a subset of PIC on transcription for their ability to inhibit specific molecular interactions. One major hurdle to the wide use of aptamers as specific inhibitors arises from the difficulty with traditional assays to validate and determine specificity, affinity, and binding epitopes for aptamers against targets. Here, using a technique called the bio-layer interferometry (BLI) designed for a label-free, real-time, and multiplexed detection of molecular interactions, we studied the assembly of a subset of PIC, TBP binding to TATA DNA, and two distinct classes of aptamers against TPB in regard to their ability to inhibit TBP binding to TFIIA or TATA DNA. Using BLI, we measured not only equilibrium binding constants ($K_D$), which were overall in close agreement with those obtained by electrophoretic mobility shift assay, but also kinetic constants of binding ($k_{on}$ and $k_{off}$), differentiating aptamers of comparable KDs by their difference in binding kinetics. The assay developed in this study can readily be adopted for high throughput validation of candidate aptamers for specificity, affinity, and epitopes, providing both equilibrium and kinetic information for aptamer interaction with targets.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.251-262
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• 1986

High-molecular-weight ${\beta}-glucosidase$ (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified from the culture filtrate of Trichoderma koningii through a four-step procedure including chromatography on Bio-Gel P-150, DEAE-Sephadex A-50 and SP-Sephadex C-50; and chromatofocusing on Polybuffer exchanger PBE 94. The molecular weight of the enzyme was determined to be about 101,000 by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses, and the isoelectric point was estimated to be 4.96 by analytical isoelectric focusing. The temperature optimum for activity was about $55^{\circ}C$, and the pH optimumwas 3.5. The enzyme was considerably thermostable, for no loss of activity was observed when the enzyme was preincubated at $60^{\circ}C$ for 5h. Km values for cellobiose, gentiobiose, sophorose, salicin and $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ were 99.2, 14.7, 7.09, 3.15 and 0.70 mM, respectively, which indicates that the enzyme has much higher affinity towards $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ than towards the other substrates, especially cellobiose. Substrate inhibition by $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ and salicin was observed at the conecntrations exceeding 5mM. Gluconolactone was a powerful inhibitor against the action of the enzyme on $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside\;(K_i\;37.9\;{\mu}M)$, wherease glucose was much less effective ($K_i$ 1.95 mM). Inhibition was of the competitive type in each case. Transglucosylation activity was detected shen the readtion products formed from $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ by the enzyme were analysed using high-performance liquid chromatography.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 원위치 생물학적 처리 과정에서 공대사 기작에 의해 분해되는 유기오염물질의 성상과 거동을 모의하기 위한 수학적 모델을 제기하였다. 토양구조 내에서 부동유역의 존재가 처리 과정에 미치는 영향을 고려하기 위하여 이중공극 개념을 적용하였으며, 유기오염물질의 거동과 생물학적 처리에 미치는 미생물의 영향을 수학적으로 표현하기 위하여 수정된 Monod식과 토양상 미생물의 미소군집모형이 적용되었다. 가상의 원위치 생물학적 처리 과정에 대한 모델의 적용을 통하여 공극내 생체축적으로 인한 투수능의 감소가 지하수 흐름에 미치는 영향이 예시되었다. 가상의 생물학적 처리 과정에 대한 모델의 모의결과는 부동유역의 존재가 유기오염물질의 생물학적 가용성을 저감시키며, 생물벽체의 형성 및 처리과정에 있어 외부로부터의 미생물 및 영양물질 주입정의 위치가 효과적인 처리 계획의 수립을 위해 중요하다는 것을 보여 주었다.