• BMB Reports
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.106-110
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• 1998

We have employed a DNA-native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (DNA-native-PAGE) assay system to characterize the enzyme activity of the endonuclease secreted by human B lymphoblastic IM9 cells. Experimental results clearly demonstrated that the endonuclease activity of IM9 cell culture medium is distinct from that of DNase I in the DNA-native-PAGE assay system. Immunoprecipitation analysis using anti-DNase I antibody showed that the secreted endonuclease is not recognized by the antibody. The secreted endonuclease was estimated using supercoiled plasmid DNA as a substrate. The pH optimum required for the catalytic activity was determined to be in the range of pH 6.6-7.4. No significant difference in the endonuclease secretion was observed by stimulation of the IM9 cells with interferon-${\gamma}$ or interleukin-$1{\beta}$.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.467-471
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• 2009

돼지 6품종(Landrace, Duroc, Large White, 한국재래돼지, Berkshire, Hampshire)을 대상으로 기존에 보고된 서열을 바탕으로 제작한 primer를 이용하여 mtDNA D-loop 전체영역을 증폭하였다. 증폭된 PCR product를 cloning 및 DNA sequencing, 다중염기서열비교를 통하여 분석한 결과, mtDNA에서 heteroplasmy가 나타나는 D-loop 내 tandem repeat region 이후에 11-bp 중복이 존재하는 것을 확인하였다. 이런 중복현상은 일본재래돼지와 Duroc에서 보고되었지만, 이를 이용한 돼지 품종별 중복현상의 빈도 및 분포에 관한 연구는 이루어져있지 않다. 품종별 11-bp 중복현상을 분석하기 위해서 6품종을 대상으로 중복지역을 포함한 약 150 bp 절편을 증폭하였으며, PAGE 방법을 통하여 분석하였다. 그 결과 본 연구에서 사용한 품종들 중 모든 Large White에서 중복현상이 발생하는 것을 확인하였으며, Duroc인 경우 11.2% (9/80)에서 중복현상이 확인되었다. 반면에 Landrace, 한국재래돼지, Berkshire 및 Hampshire에서는 전혀 발견되지 않았다. 이런 결과로서, 11-bp 중복현상의 분석은 현재 구별이 불가능한 Landrace와 Large White를 구별할 수 있는 유용한 DNA marker로서 사용이 가능할 것이다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.520-523
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• 2003

The proliferation and differentiation signals of myelogeneous U937 cells are provided by extracellular stimuli, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). In a DNA-native-polyacrylamide gel assay system, we demonstrated that a particular nuclease activity is expressed in PMA-stimulated U937 cells and secreted into the culture medium. The nuclease activity was induced in U937 cells by LPS treatment, while the secretion of the enzyme was undetected in the culture medium. Therefore, it is likely that the expression and secretion of the particular nuclease in U937 cells are controlled by extracellular stimulations, such as PMA and LPS treatment.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.28-35
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• 1998

전국에서 분리한 세균으로부터 항균력이 있는 길항세균들을 먼저 분리한 다음 그중 배양배지 속으로 강력한 항균력을 나타내는 peptide를 분비하는 A405균주를 선발, Biolog System 및 rDNA 염기서열을 이용하여 Bacillus subtilis로 동정하고 이 균주가 생성하는 항균 peptide의 항균력을 조사한 바 Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora sp., Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium digitatum, Celletotrichum gloeosporioides, Rhizoctonia solani, Pythium ultimum, Pyricularia oryzae등의 식물병원균과 Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas spp. 등의 세균 및 효모인 Candida albicans의 성장도 억제하는 강력한 항균력을 보였다. 또한 이 균주가 생산하는 항균 peptide는 알콜, 아세톤과 같은 유기용매에 내성을 가지고 있었으며 proteinase K와 phenol 처리시에는 항균력이 감소되거나 소실되는 특성을 가지고 있었다. 이 항균 peptide를 SDS-PAGE, Native-PAGE 및 Tris-Tricine 전기영동으로 분자량이 3kDa인 작은 peptide임을 확인하였고 aspartic acid, glycine, serine, glutamine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, proline, tyrocine 등의 9가지 아미노산으로 구성되어 있음을 Amino Acid Analyzer로 확인하였으며 냉동건조한 항균 peptide 50 ug/ml을 체리토마토에 처리하여 과일의 선도유지를 조사한 결과 대조구에 비하여 월등한 선도유지 효과가 있음을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.234-242
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• 1999

To obtain the recombinant circumsporozoite (CS) protein for the diagnosis of patients and seroepidemiology of Plasmodium vivax malaria which have been prevalent in northern part of Kyonggido, the CS protein gene was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from genomic DNA of the Korean vivax malaria patient. The gene consists of 1,123 nucleotides except signal peptide sequences and had an uninterrupted reading frame encoding a protein of 374 amino acids with a central region of 20 tandem repeats of the nonapeptide. The CS protein gene was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified, the molecular weight of recombinant CS protein was about 44 kDa (monomer) under denaturing purification and about 65 kDa (dimer) under native purification by SDS-PAGE. The purified recombinant CS protein which has antigenicity to malaria patients in Western blot analysis and Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, reacted only with the serum of P. vivax (PV210) infected malaria patients with no cross reaction to the P. falciparum malaria patient. The recombinant CS protein purified in this study will serve as a useful antigen to support the diagnosis of malaria patients and seroepidemiology.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.313-319
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• 1995

본 실험은 알팔파(Medicago sativa) 근류균인 Rhizobium meliloti TAL1372 균주에서 섬유소분해효소의 활성을 확인하고 이 유전자를 크로닝하기 위해 코스미드 벡타인 pLAFR3를 사용하여 유전자 은행을 만들었다. 이 유전자 은행으로 부터 분리한 1,000개의 형질 도입체에서 CM-cellulase(carboxymethylcellulase) 활성이 있는 클론(pRC8-71) 하나를 분리하였으며 30kb 크기의 R. meliloti DNA 단편을 함유하고 있는 것을 확인하였다. 이 CM-cellulase 유전자의 발현 산물을 native PAGE 법에 의하여 분자량을 측정한 결과 약 45kD 정도의 크기로 추정되었으며 pRC8-71로 부터 Tn5 변이법에 의해 조사한 결과 30kb 단편 내에서 CM-cellulase 유전자의 위치는 제한효소 KpnI에 의해 절단되는 약 3kb 단편에 존재하였다. 표시교환 변이법에 의해 야생균주 R. meliloti TAL1372로부터 cellulase 무생산 변이체를 얻어 근류형성 정도를 실험한 결과 CM-cellulase유전자가 근류형성에 관련될 것으로 추정되었다.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1994년도 춘계학술대회 and 제3회 신약개발 연구발표회
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• pp.261-261
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• 1994

Bovine milk xanthine oxidase (E.C.1.1.3.22, XO) purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. had the three protein fragments below 150 kDa on 7.5％ SDS-PAGE, which did not show enzyme activity. To remove these fragments, the enzyme preparation was further purified through Sephadex G-200 column chromatography. Two peaks exhibiting enzymatic activity were separated very closely to the void volume, which were revealed as two different enzyme forms, dimeric and monomeric, confirmed by activity staining on native PAGE. Anti sera-against each of the two enzyme forms were raised by subcutaneous injection at multiple sites on the back of rabbits during 4 weeks. On the immunodiffusion test, it was found that both of the antisera of the two forms could react with each other, which implied that their epitopes were identical In the Western blot analysis of mouse liver cytosol fraction, it was found that rabbit anti-XO antibody bound well with the protein band of monomeric mouse liver XO of about 150kDa. Based on this result, mouse liver cDNA 1 ibrary was screened by in situ hybridizat ion wi th rabbi t anti -XO antibody as probe. Through the immunological screening, recombinant phages giving positive signal by the production of XO were selected and further purified. To validate these clones, purified phages were lysogenized in E. coli Y1089 and their lysates were analysed for enzyme activity and immunoreactivity, It was verified that lysates of the purified recombinant phage lysogens exhibited the enzymatic activity as well as bound wi th XO antibody, when induced by IPTG. The above results assert that selected recombinant phage carries mouse liver XO gene.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.255-259
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• 1999

A 6.9-kb DNA fragment including the minimal Bacillus pasteurii urease gene cluster was subcloned into a high-copy-number plasmid vector, pUC19, and the recombinant B. pasteurii urease was overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant urease was purified 25.9-fold by using combinations of anion-exchange and gel-filtration chromatography followed by Mono-Q chromatography on a FPLC. N-terminal peptide sequencing analyses revealed that two distinct smaller peptide bands resolved on a 10-18％ gradient SDS-PAGE corresponded to UreA and UreB peptides, respectively. It was also shown that the ureB gene was translated from a GUG codon and the first methionine residue was post-translationally cleaved off. The native molecular weight of the recombinant urease was 176,000 and 2 nickel atoms were present per catalytic unit. pH stability studies of the purified enzyme showed that the recombinant Bacillus pasteurii urease is stable in alkaline pH range, which is similar to the enzyme of the evolutionarily related bacterium, Sporosarcina ureae.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.291-297
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• 1998

Cop protein has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli using a T7 RNA polymerase system. Purification to apparent homogeneity was achieved by the sequential chromatography on ion exchange, affinity chromatography, and reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography system. The molecular weight of the purified Cop was estimated as 6.1 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). But the molecular mass of the native state Cop was shown to be 19 kDa by an analytical high performance size exclusion chromatography, suggesting a trimer-like structure in 50 mM Tris-HCI buffer (pH 7.5) containing 100 mM NaCl. Cop protein Was calculated to contain $39.1% {\alpha}-helix, 16.8% {\beta}-sheet$, 17.4% turn, and 26.8% random structure. The DNA binding property of Cop protein expressed in E. coli Was preserved during the expression and purification process. The isoelectric point of Cop was determined to be 9.0. The results of amino acid composition analysis and N-terminal amino acid sequencing of Cop showed that it has the same amino acid composition and N-terminal amino acid sequence as those deduced from its DNA sequence analysis, except for the partial removal of N-terminal methionine residue by methionyl-aminopeptidase in E. coli.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2006

Ferritin is a major eukaryotic protein and in humans is the protein of iron storage. A partial gene fragment of ferritin (255 bp) taken from the total RNA of Periserrula leucophryna, was amplified by RT-PCR using oligonucleotide primers designed from the conserved metal binding domain of eukaryotic ferritin and confirmed by DNA sequencing. Using the $^{32}P-labeled$ partial ferritin cDNA fragment, 28 different clones were obtained by the screening of the P. leucophryna cDNA library prepared in the Uni-ZAP XR vector, sequenced and characterized. The longest clone was named the PLF (Periserrula leucophryna ferritin) gene and the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of this novel gene were deposited in the GenBank databases with accession numbers DQ207752 and ABA55730, respectively. The entire cDNA of PLF clone was 1109 bp (CDS: 129-653), including a coding nucleotide sequence of 525 bp, a 5' -untranslated region of 128 bp, and a 3'-noncoding region of 456 bp. The 5'-UTR contains a putative iron responsive element (IRE) sequence. Ferritin has an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 174 amino acids including a hydrophobic signal peptide of 17 amino acids. The predicted molecular weights of the immature and mature ferritin were calculated to be 20.3 kDa and 18.2 kDa, respectively. The region encoding the mature ferritin was subcloned into the pT7-7 expression vector after PCR amplification using the designed primers and included the initiation and termination codons; the recombinant clones were expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3) or E. coli BL21(DE3)pLysE. SDS-PAGE and western blot analysis showed that a ferritin of approximately 18 kDa (mature form) was produced and that by iron staining in native PAGE, it is likely that the recombinant ferritin is correctly folded and assembled into a homopolymer composed of a single subunit.