• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2005년도 BIOINFO 2005
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• pp.383-387
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• 2005

One of the most important issues in post-genome era is identifying functions of genes and understanding the interaction among them. Such interactions from complex biochemical pathways, which are very useful to understand the organism system. We present an integrated biochemical pathway database system with a set of software tools for reconstruction, visualization, and simulation of the pathways from the database. The novel features of the presented system include: (a) automatic integration of the heterogeneous biochemical pathway databases, (b) gene ontology for high quality of database in the integration and query (c) various biochemical simulations on the pathway database, (d) dynamic pathway reconstruction for the gene list or sequence data, (e) graphical tools which enable users to view the reconstructed pathways in a dynamic form, (f) importing/exporting SBML documents, a data exchange standard for systems biology.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.76-91
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• 2020

최근에 한국 고유종인 미선나무 (Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai; Oleaceae) 품종 옥황1호의 유전체가 성공적으로 해독되었다. Acteoside는 다양한 활성을 가지는 물질이며, 여러개의 생화학합성과정이 제시되어왔고, 이들을 통합 검토하여 정확한 생화학합성과정을 완성하였다. 유전체 데이터로부터 2차대사산물을 예측할 수 있는 MetaPre-AI^TM와 정확한 acteoside 생화학합성과정, InfoBoss Pathway Database를 활용하여, acteoside에 관여하는 모든 효소의 유전자를 옥황1호 유전체로부터 성공적으로 확인하였다. 이는 옥황1호는 acteoside 물질을 생산할 수 있는 가능성이 있음을 의미한다. 이에 고성능액체크로마토그래피를 사용하여 옥황1호의 캘러스 세포를 분석하여 acteoside과 이의 유도체인 isoacteoside를 확인하였다. 본 연구는 MetaPre-AI^TM은 유전체로부터 2차대사산물을 성공적으로 예측하였다. 이 방법은 화학물질보다 안정적인 DNA를 분석하여 2차 대사산물을 예측하는 효율적인 방법이 될 것이다.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2005년도 BIOINFO 2005
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• pp.415-420
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• 2005

Mathematical modeling and simulation of biochemical reaction networks gained a lot of attention recently since it can provide valuable insights into the interrelationships and interactions of genes, proteins and metabolites in a reaction network. A number of attempts have been made for modeling and storing biochemical reaction networks without their dynamical properties but unfortunately storing and efficiently querying of the dynamic (mathematical) models are not yet studied extensively. In this paper, we present a novel nested relational data schema to store a pathway with its dynamic properties. We then show how to make the mapping between this dynamic pathway schema with the corresponding static pathway representation.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.573-584
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• 2003

최근 유전체학과 단백질체학 분야에서 생성되는 방대한 분량의 데이타로부터 생물학적 의미를 추출해내기 위한 생물정보학적인 도구들에 대한 필요성이 크게 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 세포 신호전달 경로에 관한 정보를 효율적으로 표현, 저장함은 물론 저장된 데이타로부터 생물학적 의미를 추출할 수 있도록 하기 위한 다양한 요구 조건들을 생물학자의 관점에서 분석하고, 이들 요구조건을 체계적으로 반영하여 설계한 ROSPath 데이타베이스 시스템을 제안한다. ROSPath 데이타 모델에서는 향후의 확장성을 고려하여 불완전한 지식의 표현이 가능하도록 하며 인터넷상에서 기존의 다른 생화학 데이타베이스를 공유할 수 있는 연결성을 제공한다. 또한, 객체지향 모델을 이용하여 계층적인 구성을 제공함으로써 효율적인 검색을 지원한다. ROSPath 데이타 모델은 두 가지 주요 데이타 요소인 ‘바이오 개체’와 ‘상호작용’으로 정의된다. 바이오 개체는 세포 신호전달 경로에 관여하는 단백질과 단백질 상태 등과 같은 개개의 생화학적인 개체를 의미하고, 상호작용은 단백질 상태 전이나 화학 반응, 단백질-단백질 상호작용 등과 같은 바이오 개체들 간의 다양한 관계 및 신호전달과정을 설명한다. 제안된 ROSPath 데이타 모델을 이용하여 구성되는 복잡한 정보 네트워크는 다양한 생화학 프로세스들을 기술하고 분석하는 데에 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2009

In the present work, the metabolic network of primary metabolism of the slow-growing myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum was reconstructed from the annotated genome sequence of the type strain So ce56. During growth on glucose as the carbon source and asparagine as the nitrogen source, So ce56 showed a very low growth rate of $0.23\;d^{-1}$, equivalent to a doubling time of 3 days. Based on a complete stoichiometric and isotopomer model of the central metabolism, $^{13}C$ metabolic flux analysis was carried out for growth with glucose as carbon and asparagine as nitrogen sources. Normalized to the uptake flux for glucose (100%), cells recruited glycolysis (51%) and the pentose phosphate pathway (48%) as major catabolic pathways. The Entner-Doudoroff pathway and glyoxylate shunt were not active. A high flux through the TCA cycle (118%) enabled a strong formation of ATP, but cells revealed a rather low yield for biomass. Inspection of fluxes linked to energy metabolism revealed that S. cellulosum utilized only 10% of the ATP formed for growth, whereas 90% is required for maintenance. This explains the apparent discrepancy between the relatively low biomass yield and the high flux through the energy-delivering TCA cycle. The total flux of NADPH supply (216%) was higher than the demand for anabolism (156%), indicating additional reactions for balancing of NADPH. The cells further exhibited a highly active metabolic cycle, interconverting $C_3$ and $C_4$ metabolites of glycolysis and the TCA cycle. The present work provides the first insight into fluxes of the primary metabolism of myxobacteria, especially for future investigation on the supply of cofactors, building blocks, and energy in myxobacteria, producing natural compounds of biotechnological interest.

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2002년도 제37회 국제학술심포지움 및 추계학술대회
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• pp.9-17
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• 2002

Renaturation of Lysozyme by size exclusion chromatography(SEC) to improve yield as well as the initial and final protein concentration has been studied in detail, Although urea decreases the rate of proteins refolding, it can suppress protein aggregation to sustain pathway of correct refolding at high protein concentration, and there existed an optimum urea concentration in renaturation buffer. Lysozyme was successfully refolded from initial protein concentration of up to 100mg/m1 by SEC, the yield was more than 40%. And the refolding of Interferon-${\gamma}$ was further investigated.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.398-403
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• 2020

Rhamnose is a naturally occurring deoxysugar present as a glycogenic component of plant and microbial natural products. A recombinant mutant Escherichia coli strain was developed by overexpressing genes involved in the TDP-ʟ-rhamnose biosynthesis pathway of different bacterial strains and Saccharothrix espanaensis rhamnosyl transferase to conjugate intrinsic cytosolic TDP-ʟ-rhamnose with anthraquinones supplemented exogenously. Among the five anthraquinones (alizarin, emodin, chrysazin, anthrarufin, and quinizarin) tested, quinizarin was biotransformed into a rhamoside derivative with the highest conversion ratio by whole cells of engineered E. coli. The quinizarin glycoside was identified by various chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses. The anti-proliferative property of the newly synthesized rhamnoside, quinizarin-4-O-α-ʟ-rhamnoside, was assayed in various cancer cells.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.467-470
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• 2004

해당 작용의 중간체를 에너지원으로 이용한 무세포 단백질 발현 반응에서의 낮은 재현성 및 단백질 생산성은 반응액의 pH 및 NAD의 존재에 의해 크게 영향을 받는다는 사실을 밝혀내었다. 기존의 PEP를 사용하는 표준반응 용액에서 PEP를 G-6-P로 대체하고 동시에 반응액의 pH 및 NAD 농도를 최적화 함으로써 반응액 1 mL당 약 $300{\mu}g$에 이르는 단백질을 회분식 반응으로 발현할 수 있었다. ATP 재생 방법의 개선을 통한 회분식 무세포 단백질 발현의 생산성 향상은 다종 유전자의 고속 번역을 통한 기능 규명에 있어서 유용한 도구로서 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.131-134
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• 1993

Panaxadiol (PD) from Korean red ginseng C.A. Meyer did not control the concentration of cytosolic free $Ca^{2+}$ influxes by thrombin (5 $\mu$/ml). However, PD strongly inhibited the synthesis of thromboxane. $A_2$ (TX$A_2$) in the aggregation of human platelets induced by thrombin (5 $\mu$/ml). These rexults suggest that PD blocks the any Pathway transforming to TX$A_2$ from arachidonic acid (AA) which release out of plasma membrane phospholipids by $Ca^{2+}$-dependent phospholipase C or phospholipase $A_2$. It may be also concluded that PD has the antiplatelet function by inhibiting the synthesis of TX$A_2$, which known to be the potent stimulator of the aggregation of human platelet.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.967-974
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• 2016

Zearalenone (ZEA) is an estrogenic mycotoxin that is produced by several Fusarium species, including Fusarium graminearum. One of the ZEA biosynthetic genes, ZEB2, encodes two isoforms of Zeb2 by alternative transcription, forming an activator (Zeb2L-Zeb2L homooligomer) and an inhibitor (Zeb2L-Zeb2S heterodimer) that directly regulate the ZEA biosynthetic genes in F. graminearum. Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) signaling regulates secondary metabolic processes in several filamentous fungi. In this study, we investigated the effects of the PKA signaling pathway on ZEA biosynthesis. Through functional analyses of PKA catalytic and regulatory subunits (CPKs and PKR), we found that the PKA pathway negatively regulates ZEA production. Genetic and biochemical evidence further demonstrated that the PKA pathway specifically represses ZEB2L transcription and also takes part in posttranscriptional regulation of ZEB2L during ZEA production. Our findings reveal the intriguing mechanism that the PKA pathway regulates secondary metabolite production by reprograming alternative transcription.