• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.747-749
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• 2001

의약용 인간 단백질은 현재 여러 제약으로 인해 동물 세포에서 만들어지고 있다. 그렇지만 곤충세포 시스템의 문제점인 수율과 배양의 까다로움과 같은 단점들을 보완할 수 있는 곤충세포 시스템 개발의 필요성이 대두되고 있고 본 연구에서는 의약용으로 많이 생산되고 있는 erythropoietin (EPO)을 Drosophila S2 cell에서 발현하여 CHO cell 유래의 EPO와 비교하였다. 그 결과 CHO cell에서보다 더 작은 분자량을 갖는 EPO를 확인하였다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.153-158
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• 2003

The genome-wide program of gene expression during the cell division cycle response to serum free media in chinese hamster ovary(CHO) cells was characterized using cDNA microarrays. Many transcripts of genes showed variation during the cell cycle. Characterization is critical step toward understanding the basic cell cycle processes and serum-free media role in CHO cells

• KSBB Journal
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.306-311
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• 2006

세포의 보존은 세포의 배양에 있어서 필수 불가결한 요건으로서 세포주의 다양한 특성에 따라 적합한 방법이 확립되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 산업용 세포주인 CHO 세포의 단기간 저온보존 기술의 확립을 목표로 진행되었으며 다양한 조건을 통해 가장 안정적인 저온보존 방법을 수립하였다. 저온보존 방법에 있어서 가장 중요한 요인은 온도로서 $4^{\circ}C$ 저온보존이 세포 보존에 필수적인 조건으로 나타났으며 $20^{\circ}C$ 실온보존에서는 세포의 급격한 사멸이 관찰되었다. 보존형태는 용기를 눕힌 상태로 서서히 회전시켜 현탁 보존하는 방법이 용기를 세우거나 눕혀 보관하는 방법에 비해 높은 생존율을 나타내었다. 또한 저온보존 시 새로운 배지로 교환한 후 보존하는 방법이 배양에 사용된 배지를 그대로 사용한 보존 방법보다 세포의 성장 회복율에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 $4^{\circ}C$에서 rolling을 통한 현탁 보존을 할 경우에는 배지의 교환 없이도 안정적으로 세포보존이 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 저온보존에 가장 적합한 세포의 농도는 실험결과 $1.0{\times}10^6{\sim}5.0{\times}10^6cells/m{\ell}$ 범위로 나타났으며 혐기적인 상태로 보존하는 것이 공기가 존재하는 보존방법 보다 비교적 우수한 보존 결과를 나타내었다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 무혈청 배지의 저온보존액으로서의 안정성과 첨가물에 의한 보존효율의 향상을 평가하였다. 실험결과 저온보존 후 10일간은 높은 세포 생존율과 함께 정상적인 세포 성장 회복을 보이는 것으로 나타났으며 ${\alpha}$-tocopherol과 retinoic acid를 첨가한 저온보존액의 경우에는 더욱 우수한 세포 생존율을 보임을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 이렇게 확립된 방법을 이용하여 1 L 용량의 저온보존 실험을 수행한 결과, 앞선 실험에서와 유사한 경향의 세포 보존 능력을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과를 종합해 볼 때 산업용 세포주로 널리 사용되는 CHO 세포의 저온보존은 본 연구에서 확립된 방법을 통해 단기간 동안 안정적으로 수행될 수 있을 것으로 사료되며 대용량 저온보존의 적용 가능성도 확인하였다. 대용량 배양에서의 단기간 보존기술에 대한 연구가 앞으로 더 많이 수행된다면 실제 배양 공정에서도 저온보존 기술의 적용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2002년도 생물공학의 동향 (X)
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• pp.293-296
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• 2002

Hyperosmotic pressure increased specific antibody productivity ($q_{Ab}$) of recombinant CHO cells (SH2-0.32) while it depressed cell growth. Thus, the use of hyperosmolar medium did not increase the maximum antibody concentration substantially. To overcome this drawback, the feasibility of biphasic culture strategy was investigated. In the biphasic culture, cells were first cultivated in the standard medium with physiological osmolality(294 mOsm/kg) for cell growth. When cells reached the late exponential phase of growth, the spent standard medium was replaced with the fresh hyperosmolar medium (522 mOsm/kg) for antibody production. The ($q_{Ab}$) in growth phase with the standard medium was 2.1 ${\mu}g/10^6cell/day$ while the ($q_{Ab}$) in antibody production phase with the hyperosmolar medium (522 mOsm/kg) was 11.1 ${\mu}g/10^6cell/day$. Northern blot analysis showed a positive relationship between the relative contenet of Ig mRNA and ($q_{Ab}$), indicating that transcriptional regulation was involved in the response of rCHO cells to hyperosmotic pressure. Due to the enhanced ($q_{Ab}$) and increased cell concentration in biphasic culture, the maximum antibody concentration obtained in biphasic culture with 522 mOsm/kg medium exchange was 161% higher than that obtained in batch culture with the standard medium. Taken together, simple biphasic culture strategy based on hyperosmotic culture for improved foreign protein production from rCHO cells is effective in improving antibody production of rCHO cells.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.193-198
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• 2017

Sialylation is important in producing therapeutic proteins such as antibody, cytokine and fusion protein. Thus, enhancement of sialylation is usually performed in CHO cell cultures. ${\alpha}2,6$-Sialyltransferase (ST), which plays a key role in the attachment of ${\alpha}2,6-sialic$ acid, is present in human cells but not in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Overexpression of ${\alpha}2,6-ST$ can be used for enhancing the degree of sialylation and achieving human-like glycosylation. In this study, we constructed CHO cells producing human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen4-immunoglobulin (hCTLA4-Ig) as well as ${\alpha}2,6-ST$. Transfected CHO cells were selected using G418 and stable cell line was established. Profiles of viable cell density and hCTLA4-Ig titer in an overexpressed cell line were similar to those of a wild-type cell line. It was confirmed that the total amount of sialic acid was increased and ${\alpha}2,6-sialic$ acid was attached to the terminal residues of N-glycan of hCTLA4-Ig by ESI-LC-MS. Compared to 100% of ${\alpha}2,3-sialic$ acid in wild type cells, 70.9% of total sialylated N-glycans were composed of ${\alpha}2,6-sialic$ acid in transfected cells. In conclusion, overexpression of ${\alpha}2,6-ST$ in CHO cells led to the increase of both the amount of total sialylated N-glycan and the content of ${\alpha}2,6-sialic$ acid, which is more resemble to human-like structure of glycosylation.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.1176-1184
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• 2013

Anti-hepatocyte growth factor (anti-HGF) monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are potential therapeutics against various cancers. Screening for high-producer clones is a time-consuming and complex process and is a major hurdle in the development of therapeutic mAbs. Here, we describe an efficient approach that allows the selection of high-producer Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines producing the novel anti-HGF mAb SFN68, which was generated previously by immunizing HGF bound to its receptor c-Met. We selected an SFN68-producing parental cell line via transfection of the dihydrofolate reductase-deficient CHO cell line DG44, which was preadapted to serum-free suspension culture, with an SFN68-expression vector. Subsequent gene amplification via multiple passages of the parental cell line in a methotrexate-containing medium over 4 weeks, followed by clonal isolation, enabled us to isolate two cell lines, 2F7 and 2H4, with 3-fold higher specific productivity. We also screened 72 different media formulated with diverse feed and basal media to develop a suboptimized medium. In the established suboptimized medium, the highest anti-HGF mAb yields of the 2F7 and 2H4 clones were 842 and 861 mg/l, respectively, which were about 10.5-fold higher than that of the parental cell line in a non-optimized basal medium. The selected CHO cell lines secreting high titers of SFN68 would be useful for the production of sufficient amounts of antibodies for efficacy evaluation in preclinical and early clinical studies.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.549-550
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• 2006

Mobile fuel cell is highlighted in these days because mobile fuel cell can contain more energy than existing batteries. Nowadays mobile devices like cellular phone, PMP(portable multi-media player), notebook, and etc. need more energy, But existing batteries like Li-ion or Ni-MH batteries are not going to satisfy such demands. In this paper, mobile fuel cell is developed. Its size is 50*70*8mm and it is made of aluminium plates. The fuel cell type is PEM and the fuel is pure hydrogen and oxygen.

• 한국수의병리학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.79-80
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• 2001

A gingival mass was detected from a 1-year-old female Great Dane dog. After surgical removal, the lesions recurred in 2 weeks and died of septicemia. Characteristic histologic features were large numbers of multinucleated giant cells which were connected with capillary vessels. Neovascularization was prominent with mononuclear and polynuclear cell infiltration. Overall features of these lesions except for giant cell infiltration were similar to granuloma. From these results, a gingival mass excised from a dog was diagnosed to be a peripheral giant cell granuloma (PGCG). This is the first report of canine subcutaneous PGCG in Korea.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.37-40
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• 2008

Iron is an essential element for almost all living organisms. The possible role of iron for growth, adherence and cytotoxicity of Entamoeba histolytica was evaluated in this study. The absence of iron from TYI-S-33 medium stopped amebic growth in vitro. However, iron concentrations in the culture media of 21.4-285.6 ${\mu}M$ did not affect the growth of the amebae. Although growth was not retarded at these concentrations, the adhesive abilities of E. histolytica and their cytotoxicities to CHO cell monolayer were correlated with iron concentration. Amebic adhesion to CHO cell monolayers was significantly reduced by low-iron ($24.6{\pm}2.1%$) compared with $62.7{\pm}2.8\;and\;63.1{\pm}1.4%$ of amebae grown in a normal-iron and high-iron media, respectively. E. histolytica cultured in the normal- and high-iron media destroyed $69.1{\pm}4.3%\;and\;72.6{\pm}5.7%$ of cultured CHO cell monolayers, but amebae grown in the low-iron medium showed a significantly reduced level of cytotoxicity to CHO cells ($2.8{\pm}0.2%$). Addition of divalent cations other than iron to amebic trophozoites grown in the low-iron medium failed to restore levels of the cytotoxicity. However, when E. histolytica grown in low-iron medium were transferred to normal-iron medium, the amebae showed completely restored cytotoxicity within 7 days. The result suggests that iron is an important factor in the adherence and cytotoxicity of E. histolytica to CHO cell monolayer.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1036-1040
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• 2007

Sodium butyrate (NaBu) has been used to enhance protein expression levels in mammalian cell culture. To determine the clonal variability of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (rCHO) cells in response to NaBu addition regarding specific antibody productivity $(q_{Ab})$, three rCHO clones were subjected to different concentrations of NaBu. For all three clones, NaBu addition inhibited cell growth and decreased cell viability in a dose-dependent manner. On the other hand, the enhancing effect of NaBu on $q_{Ab}$ varied significantly among the clones. NaBu addition enhanced the antibody production of only one clone. RT-PCR analysis revealed that the changes in $q_{Ab}$ correlated linearly with those of the mRNA transcription level. Thus, it was concluded that the different enhancing effects of NaBu on protein expression in rCHO cell clones resulted from their different mRNA transcription levels.