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Synergistic Interaction of Radiation with Pesticide on DNA Damage in Human Lymphocytes as Biological Information for Prevention of Environmental Disaster (환경재해 방지를 위한 생물정보로서의 사람 림프구 DNA 손상에 대한 방사선과 살충제의 상승작용)

  • 김진규
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2001
  • Agricultural pesticides may cause certain biological risks since they are widely used to eradicate pests. Agricultural disasters may arise even from the possibility of their synergistic interaction with other harmful enviromnetal factors. The effect of pesticide on radiation-induced DNA damage in human blood lymphocytes was evaluated by the single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE) assay. The lymphocytes, with or without pretreatment of the pesticide, were exposed to 0-2.0 Gy of $^60 CO$ gamma ray. Significantly increased tail moment, which was a marker of DNA strand breaks in SCGE assay, showed an excellent dose-response relationship. The present study confirms that the pesticide has the cytotoxic effect on lymphocytes and that it shows the synergistic interaction with radiation on DNA damage as well. The results may have a role of providing biological information necessary for the prevention of environmental disaster.

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Inhibitory Effects of Ginger and Garlic Extracts on the DNA Damage (마늘 및 생강추출물의 DNA 손상억제작용)

  • Kang, Jin-Hoon;Ahn, Bang-Weon;Lee, Dong-Ho;Byun, Han-Seok;Kim, Seon-Bong;Park, Yeung-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.287-292
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    • 1988
  • The inhibition mechanism of DNA damage by lipid peroxidation was studied through the reaction systems of plasmid pBR322 DNA, linoleic acid and the ethanol extracts obtained from ginger and garlic. The DNA damage was greatly inhibited by the addition of ginger and garlic extracts, and their scavenging effects of active oxygens were also great. It is considered that the inhibitory effects of these extracts on the DNA damage are mainly due to their scavenging effects of active oxygen radicals.

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Inhibitory Effect of Various Cereal and Bean Extracts on Carcinogenicity in vitro (곡류 및 두류 에탄올 추출물의 in vitro 발암 억제 효과 비교)

  • Choi, Yeong-Hee;Kang, Mi-Young;Nam, Seok-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.964-969
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    • 1998
  • To investigated the anticarcinogenic activity of 70% ethanol extracts from various cereal in vitro, antimutagenic activity, inhibitory effect of DNA strand scission and tumor promotion were examined. The antimutagenic activity of the beans such as black bean and small red bean was generally higher than that of cereals examined. However inhibitory activity of 70% ethanolic extracts against DNA strand scission induced mitomycin C showed that millet, job's tear, black bean and soy bean among cereals and beans tested in this study inhibited effectively the DNA strand scission. Antioxidative activity of some cereal extracts determined by using linoleic acid model system showed that Job's tear, millet and black bean were higher antioxidative activity than other cereals and beans. Conventional short-term antipromoter assay system using activation of Epstein Barr virus (EBV) clearly demonstrated that sorghum, buckwheat, black bean and small red bean have inhibitory effects on promotion in cellular carcinogenesis.

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Effect of forensic short wavelength UV on DNA (법과학 단파자외선이 DNA에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, A-Ram;Kim, Woo-Joong;Park, Hee-Yeon;Lim, Si-Keun
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2014
  • RUVIS(Reflective Ultraviolet Imaging System) is an effective equipment that detects the location of latent fingerprint at crime scene using short wavelength ultraviolet of 254 nm. In this study, the degree of DNA damage in biological samples was compared depending on the distance and time of processing using four commonly used RUVIS. 50% of DNA was damaged by treating 10 seconds at 10 cm distance in 3 types of RUVIS such as Police RUVIS, SIRCHIE mini light and SIRCHIE RUVIS. In addition, the degree of DNA damage was increased as the distance was closer and the treatment time was longer. It showed that short wavelength UV could cause DNA damage when used close to the samples at crime scene. Therefore, it was suggested to use RUVIS at a distance of at least 1 m. The degree of DNA damage was not significant by Polilight which used long wavelength ultraviolet of 350 nm. As a result, the choice and usage of which UV light and RUVIS were critical for detection of fingerprint and successful DNA typing.

Assessment of Nucleus-DNA Damage in Red Pepper Cells Treated with γ-Radiation through Comet Assay (Comet 분석을 통한 방사선처리 고추세포의 핵 DNA 손상평가)

  • An, Jung-Hee;Back, Myung-Hwa;Kim, Jae-Sung;Jeong, Jeong-Hag;Kwon, Soon-Tae
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2004
  • We employed single cell gel electrophoresis method (comet assay) to analyze the degree of nucleus-DNA damage in the leaves of red pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seedlings exposed to $^{60}$ CO v-radiation stress. Nucleus-DNA damage was measured as the ratio of tail length (T) to head length (H) in individual comet image isolated from pepper leaf cell. The T/H ratio of control-cells and treated-cells at 50 or 100 Gy were 1.28 and 3.54 or 3.39, respectively, suggesting that nuclei of pepper cells were severely damaged in the integrity of DNA strand by the treatment of enhanced v-radiation. The percentage of head-DNA in control-cells was 76.8%, whereas those of 50 and 100 Gy treated-cells were 55.9% and 59.9%, respectively. Pretreatment of low dose (4 to 20 Gy) radiation to seeds decreased DNA-damage in the leaves of seedlings treated with high dose radiation at 50 or 100 Gy. In this experiment, we developed a sensitive, reliable and rapid method for evaluating genotoxic effect in the nuclei of plant cells by employing comet assay.

Evaluation of DNA Damage by Mercury Chloride (II) and Ionizing Radiation in HeLa Cells (이온화 방사선 및 염화수은(II)에 의한 자궁경부암 세포의 DNA 손상 평가)

  • Woo Hyun-Jung;Kim Ji-Hyang;Antonina Cebulska-Wasilewska;Kim Jin-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.24 no.1 s.61
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 2006
  • The mercury is among the most highly bioconcentrated toxic trace metals. Many national and international agencies and organisations have targeted mercury for the possible emission control. The mercury toxicity depends on its chemical form, among which alkylmercury compounds are the most toxic. A human cervix uterus cancer cell line HeLa cells was employed to investigate the effect of the toxic heavy metal mercury (Hg) and ionizing radiation. In the in vitro comet assays for the genotoxicity in the HeLa cells, the group of Hg treatment after irradiation showed higher DNA breakage than the other groups. The tail extent moment and olive tail moment of the control group were $4.88{\pm}1.00\;and\;3.50{\pm}0.52$ while the values of the only Hg treatment group were $26.90{\pm}2.67\;and\;13.16{\pm}1.82$, respectively. The tail extent moment and olive tail moment of the only 0.001, 0.005, 0.01 Hg group were $12.24{\pm}1.82,\;8.20{\pm}2.15,\;20.30{\pm}1.30,\;12.26{\pm}0.52,\;40.65{\pm}2.94\;and \;20.38{\pm}1.49$, respectively. In the case of Hg treatment after irradiation, the tail extent moment and olive tail moment of the 0.001, 0.005, 0.01 Hg group were $56.50{\pm}3.93,\;32.69{\pm}2.48,\;62.03{\pm}5.14,\;31.56{\pm}1.97,\;72.73{\pm}3.70\;and \;39.44{\pm}3.23$, respectively. The results showed that Hg induced DNA single-strand breaks or alkali labile sites as assessed by the Comet assay. It is in good agreement with the reported results. The mercury inhibits the repair of DNA. The bacterial formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Epg protein) recognizes and removes some oxidative DNA base modifications. Enzyme inactivation by Hg (II) may therefore be due either to interactions with rysteine residues outside the metal binding domain or to very high-affinity binding of Hg (II) which readily removes Zn (II) from the zinc finger.

Protective Effect of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Extracts Prepared by Different Processing Methods on DNA Damage in Human Leukocytes (마늘의 조리방법에 따른 DNA 손상 보호 효과의 비교)

  • Kim, Jung-Mi;Jeon, Gyeong-Im;Park, Eun-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.805-812
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    • 2010
  • DNA damage including base modifications, loss of base and breaks in DNA strands can occur by exposure to irradiation, smoking and several components of food. Unrepaired DNA damage is known to lead to cellular dysfunction, cell death, cancer, and other diseases such as arteriosclerosis and diabetes. The protective effect of garlic on oxidative stress induced DNA damage has been reported recently. In this study, we investigated the protective effect of garlic extracts prepared by different processing methods (raw garlic extracts, RGE; grilled garlic extracts, GGE; pickled garlic extracts, PGE) on leukocytic DNA damage using comet assay. Human leukocytes were incubated with ethanol and methanol extract of garlic at various concentrations (1, 5, 10, 50 ${\mu}g$/mL), followed by oxidative stimuli (200 ${\mu}M$ $H_2O_2$ or 200 ${\mu}M$ 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE)). The methanol and ethanol extracts of RGE, GGE, and PGE showed inhibitory activities of DNA damage induced by $H_2O_2$ or HNE. Especially methanol extract of RGE ($ED_{50}$; 13.3 ${\mu}g$/mL) had a higher antigenotoxic effect on $H_2O_2$ induced DNA damage than those of GGE (23.5 ${\mu}g$/mL) or PGE (24.5 ${\mu}g$/mL). HNE induced DNA damage tended to be effectively inhibited by the lower concentration of all garlic extracts. Therefore, garlic might have protective effects against oxidative DNA damage regardless of processing methods (raw, grilled, pickled) which are the general consumed forms of garlic in Korea.

Analysis and Verification of Ancient DNA (고대 DNA의 분석과 검증)

  • Jee, Sang-hyun;Seo, Min-seok
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.40
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    • pp.387-411
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    • 2007
  • The analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) has become increasingly considerable anthropological, archaeological, biological and public interest. Although this approach is complicated by the natural damage and exogenous contamination of a DNA, archaeologists and biologists have attempted to understand issues such as human evolutionary history, migration and social organization, funeral custom and disease, and even evolutionary phylogeny of extinct animals. Polymerase chain reaction(PCR) is powerful technique that analyzes DNA sequences from a little extract of an ancient specimen. However, deamination and fragmentation are common molecular damages of aDNA and cause enzymatic inhibition in PCR for DNA amplification. Besides, the deamination of a cytosine residue yielded an uracil residue in the ancient template, and results in the misincorporation of an adenine residue in PCR. This promotes a consistent substitution (cytosine thymine, guanine adenine) to original nucleotide sequences. Contamination with exogenous DNA is a major problem in aDNA analysis, and causes oversight as erroneous conclusion. This report represents serious problems that DNA modification and contamination are the main issues in result validation of aDNA analysis. Now, we introduce several criterions suggested to authenticate reliance of aDNA analysis by many researchers in this field.