• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.282-287
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• 2006

A Caulobacter crescentus epoxide hydrolase(CCEH) from a recombinant Escherichia coli was purified to homogeneity using a three-step procedure. The CCEH protein was purified 7.3-fold with a 22.9% yield in overalll activity. The optimal reaction temperature and pH were determined to be $37^{\circ}C$ and pH 8.0, respectively. The addition of 10%(v/v) dimethylsulfoxide as a cosolvent improved the enantioselectivity of CCEH for a batch kinetic resolution of racemic indene oxide.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1983

On the basis of the facts found in the previous report that chlorine destroyed cell membrane and stalk of Caulobacter crescentus and that the damaged cells abonrmally differentiated to elongate their stalks when the chlorinated cells were reincubated in fresh medium, it was suggested that there might be some ecological correlations between the level of water pollution and morphology and phsiology of Caulobacter cells. In order to determine such correlations in this study, 18 isolates of caulobacters were isolated from three sites of Musimcheon River which were gradually polluted by domestic sewages and 6 species were identified. Four cell types of bacteroid, vibroid, subvibroid, and fusiform is were isolated from the least polluted water at the rate of 43%, whereas only two cell types of bacteroid and vibroid were isolated from the more polluted waters at the rates of 7 and 10%, respectively. There was no significant difference in each species of Caulobacter isolateed from the gradually polluted river waters, except that abnormally long filamentous cells were occasionally observed in C. crescentus isolated from the most polluted water. Each species showed various responces to chlorine. The resistances of C. crescentus isolates to chlorine were proportionally correlated with the level of water pollution. When they were compared to C. crescentus CB 13 which had been adapted to laboratory enviroment, the C. cresucentus isolated from the most polluted water was more resistant to chlorine.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.32-36
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• 2006

The genome sequences from several microbes have led to the discovery of numerous open reading frames of unknown functionality. The putative bacterial epoxide hydrolase (EH) genes selected from the genome databases were examined for their activities toward various epoxides. Among the nine open reading frames (ORFs) from four microbial species, the ORF from Caulobacter crescentus showed an epoxide hydrolase activity. The kinetic resolution, using C. crescentus EH (CCEH) of the aryl epoxides such as styrene oxide, could be performed more efficiently than short aliphatic epoxides. The resolution of racemic indene oxide, which could previously be resolved only by fungal epoxide hydrolases, was effectively accomplished by CCEH.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2007

대장균 BL21(DE3)에 Caulobacter crescentus epoxide hydrolase (CcEH)를 발현시킨 제조합균주를 이용하여 광학수렴 가수분해(enantioconvergent hydrolysis) 반응을 수행하였으며 라세믹 에폭사이드 기질로부터 광학활성 diol을 생합성하는 조건을 최적화하였다. 반응최적화를 위하여, 계면활성제의 첨가와 반응온도가 생성물인 diol의 광학순도 및 수율에 미치는 영향을 분석하였으며 또한 생성물인 diol에 의한 EH의 가수분해활성 저해효과를 측정하였다. 재조합 CcEH를 생촉매로 사용한 광학수렴 반응에서 Tween 80을 2%(w/v)첨가하여 $10^{\circ}C$로 반응시켰을 때 20 mM 라세믹 styrene oxide로부터 광학순도 92%의 (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediot을 수율 56%로 얻을 수 있었다. 기질인 라세믹 styrene oxide를 50 mM 농도로 사용한 경우, 광학순도 87% (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol을 77% 얻을 수 있었다. 생성물인 diol의 저해효과를 실험한 경우, 라세믹 phenyl-1,2-ethanediol, (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol 및 (S)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol은 10 mM 농도에서부터 재조합 CcEH의 가수분해활성을 현저하게 저해하는 것으로 나타났다. 위의 결과들로 볼 때 CcEH를 사용하여 높은 광학순도의 (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol을 생성하기 위해서는 (R)-styrene oxide의 린치를 선택적으로 공격하는 동시에 생성물에 의해 저해를 받지 않는 partner EH를 개발하는 것이 중요할 것이다.

• 공업화학
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.279-283
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• 2007

한 종류의 epoxide hydrolase (EH) 효소 자체가 광학수렴 가수분해(enantioconvergent hydrolysis) 활성을 가지는 Caulobacter crescentus의 epoxide hydrolase (CcEH) 유전자를 PCR로 클로닝하여 재조합시킨 Escherichia coli 생촉매를 개발하였다. 재조합 E. coli 세포 10 mg을 10 mM styrene oxide와 반응시킨 다음 기질과 반응생성물을 chiral GC와 HPLC로 각각 분석 한 결과, (S)-styrene oxide 기질에 대해서는 위치 선택적으로 에폭사이드 링의 ${\alpha}$-탄소를 공격하여 (R)-diol로 전환시켰다. 반면에 (R)-styrene oxide에 대하여는 ${\beta}$-탄소를 공격하여 (R)-diol로 전환시키는 위치선택성을 가지고 있었다. 재조합 CcEH를 단일 생촉매로 사용한 광학수렴 가수분해반응을 통해 20 mM racemic styrene oxide에 대하여 광학순도 85%의 (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol을 수율 69%로 생합성 할 수 있었다

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2008

A putative ${\omega}$-aminotransferase gene, cc3143 (aptA), from Caulobacter crescentus was screened by bioinformatical tools and overexpressed in E. coli, and the substrate specificity of the ${\omega}$-aminotransferase was investigated. AptA showed high activity for short-chain ${\beta}$-amino acids. It showed the highest activity for 3-amino-n-butyric acid. It showed higher activity toward aromatic amines than aliphatic amines. The 3D model of the ${\omega}$-aminotransferase was constructed by homology modeling using a dialkylglycine decarboxylase (PDB ID: 1DGE) as a template. Then, the ${\omega}$-aminotransferase was rationally redesigned to increase the activity for 3-amino-3-phenylpropionic acid. The mutants N285A and V227G increased the relative activity for 3-amino-3-phenylpropionic acid to 3-amino-n-butyric acid by 11-fold and 3-fold, respectively, over that of wild type.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2005년도 생물공학의 동향(XVII)
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• pp.625-625
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• 2005

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2005년도 제45회 학술심포지움 및 추계학술대회
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• pp.88-88
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• 2005

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.476-476
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• 2003

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2005년도 BIOINFO 2005
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• pp.339-343
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• 2005

Boolean networks(BN) construction is one of the commonly used methods for building gene networks from time series microarray data. However, BN has two major drawbacks. First, it requires heavy computing times. Second, the binary transformation of the microarray data may cause a loss of information. This paper propose two methods using liner regression to construct gene regulatory networks. The first proposed method uses regression based BN variable selection method, which reduces the computing time significantly in the BN construction. The second method is the regression based network method that can flexibly incorporate the interaction of the genes using continuous gene expression data. We construct the network structure from the simulated data to compare the computing times between Boolean networks and the proposed method. The regression based network method is evaluated using a microarray data of cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus.