• Molecules and Cells
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.232-238
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• 2005

Corneal endothelial cells play an important role in maintaining the transparency and ionic balance of the cornea. Inflammation causes many changes in the intracellular and extracellular environment of the cornea, including acidosis. We examined the relationship between changes in extracellular pH and expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in cultured bovine corneal endothelial cells. When extracellular pH ($[pH]_o$) was reduced to pH 6.4, COX-2 mRNA increased, with a peak at 2 h. This was blocked by pretreatment with actinomycin D and incubation with spermine NONOate (SPER/NO, a nitric oxide donor). Exposure to the $H^+$ ionophore, carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), also raised COX-2 mRNA levels. CCCP-induced COX-2 mRNA expression was also reduced by SPER/NO. These results were confirmed immuno-cytochemically. These data demonstrate that COX-2 expression is stimulated by the lowering of extracellular pH that could result from bacterial infection, and that this is countered by over-production of nitric oxide, which could also result from bacterial infection.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.169-178
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• 1987

Kluyveromyces marxianus로 부터 inulase를 생산하고 정제하며 intra 및 extracellular inulase의 성질을 조사하였다. 본 균주는 stationary phase인 24시간째 intra 및 extracelullar enzyme의 생산이 최고에 달했으며 유기 질소원으로 YNB를 사용하고 배양 중 pH를 조절해 줌으로써 효소 생산을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 조효소는 DEAE-cellulose에 의해 intra 및 extracellular inulase 모두 2개의 fraction으로 분리되었고 각 fraction의 전기영동 양상은 비슷하여 주 band를 비롯 모두 3개의 glycoprotein band가 관찰되었으며 이중 주 band만 inulase 및 invertase activity를 보유하고 있었다. 정제 효소의 inulase 및 invertase의 최적 pH는 각각 5.0과 4.5였고 intra가 extracellular enzyme 에 비해 다소 넓은 범위의 pH에서 높은 활성을 나타내었다. 모든 fraction의 최적 온도는 inulase가 $40^{\circ}C$, invertase가 $50^{\circ}C$였으며 intracellular enzyme이 더 넓은 범위의 온도에서 안정하였고 열에 대한 안정성도 intracellular inulase가 extracellular inulase보다 높게 나타났다. Km value는 intra가 $16{\sim}19mM$, extracellular inulase가 $9{\sim}11mM$로써 extracellular inulase가 inulin에 대한 친화력이 더 높았으나 모두 exo-type의 inulase로 판명되었다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.255-260
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• 2002

The effects of intracellular and extracellular pH on the inwardly rectifying $K^+$ (IRK) channel of the bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) were examined using whole-cell patch-clamp technique. The IRK current, efficiently blocked by $Ba^{2+}\;(200{\mu}M),$ is the most prominent membrane current in BAECs, which mainly determines the resting membrane potential. The expression of Kir2.1 was observed in BAECs using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis. Intracellular alkalinization, elicited by the extracellular substitution of NaCl with $NH_4Cl$ (30 mM), significantly augmented the amplitude of IRK current. On the contrary, the amplitude of IRK current was attenuated by the Na-acetate (30 mM)-induced intracellular acidification. The changes in extracellular pH also closely modulated the amplitude of IRK current, which was decreased to $40.2{\pm}1.3%$ of control upon switching the extracellular pH to 4.0 from 7.4. The extracellular pH value for half-maximal inhibition (pK) of IRK current was 5.11. These results demonstrate that the activity of IRK channel in BAECs, probably Kir2.1, was suppressed by proton at both sides of plasma membrane.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.395-402
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• 1979

Intracellular pH was determined by distribution of 5.5-dimethyl-2,4-oxazolidlnedione [DMO]in the skeletal muscle of dogs before and after lactic acidosis induced by intravenous infusion of lactic acid solution. After infusion of lactic acid solution arterial pH decreased from 7.40 to around 7.12 [P<0.001]and metabolic acidosis was induced. However, dose-pH change response was not proportional as in the case of hydrochloric acid infusion. During lactic acidosis, intracellular pH changed very little except when venous blood $pCO_2$ increased significantly. The decrease of intracellular pH in lactic acidosis might be due primarily to the increase of intracellular $pCO_2$. And during lactic acidosis, change of extracellular pH was larger than that of intracellular pH, and this was also the case of change In hydrogen Ion concentration in extracellular and intracellular fluid. The fact was estimated that exogenous lactic acid transported into the cell does not contribute to pH change by the participation in the metabolism. Change in plasma potassium Ion concentration was not eminent as metabolic acid-base disturbances by other origin, and changing pattern of Hi/He ratio was not same as Ki/Ke ratio. In spite of no changes in extracellular potassium ion concentration after exogenous lactic acidosis total amount of potassium ion in extracellular fluid increased from 12.62mEg to 18.26mEg [P< 0.05].

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.321-324
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• 2000

Monascus purpureus ATCC 16365에 의한 5-liter 배양기에서 pH 조절을 통하여 세포외로 이차대사물인 수용성 적색소의 생산 증가 현상 와 황색소 보다 적색소로의 대사과정을 촉진시켜 적색소의 생산성을 향상시킬수 있는지의 가능성에 대하여 실험을 수행하였다. 황색소와 적색소의 분석은 UV-Vis spectrophotometer를 이용하여 각각 385nm 와 495nm에서 측정하였다. 실험결과 곰팡이의 최대균체량과 황${\cdot}$적색소를 포함한 총 색소 생산양은 pH 8보다 pH 4.0-5.5인 산성조건에서 2배 및 4배정도 증가하였다. 적색소 및 황색소의 전구물질인 홍색소는 pH 4.0에서 많이 생성되며 또한 홍색소에서 적색소로의 대사과정도 산성 조건 하에서 촉진된다고 보고되었다. 본 실험에서도 같은 경향을 보였으며 또한, 산성 조건 하에서 특히 수용성 적색소가 곰팡이 세포 외로 유출되는 양이 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.849-854
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• 2006

The effects of Haematococcus pluvialis extracellular products on microbial growth and bacteriocin production were investigated to improve bacteriocin synthesis during the growth cycle of Lactobacilli. Lactobacillus pentosus KJ-108, L. plantarum KJ-10311, and L. sakei KJ-2008 were cultured in MRS and enriched medium (ERM) with or without supplement of the extracellular products obtained from a late exponential phase culture of Haematococcus pluvialis in modified Bold's basal medium (MBBM). In both MRS and ERM, the extracellular products strongly enhanced the growth as well as the bacteriocin production of all the lactic acid bacteria tested. The enhancing effect was observed in ERM with pH adjusted at 5 and 6. In addition, some difference in growth effects with the extracellular products of H. pluvialis was observed between pH 5 and 6 in ERM, but no effect was observed in the minimal medium. The final biomass and the final concentration of bacteriocin activity were associated with the cell growth that was promoted by the extracellular products of H. pluvialis, and the enhanced cell growth of the three lactic acid bacterial strains induced the increase of the specific bacteriocin production. Therefore, bacteriocin production and activity were influenced by the addition of the extracellular products of H. pluvialis in the culture medium.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.449-454
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• 1996

곤충 병원성 곰팡이 Beauveria bassiana(ATCC7159)로부터 곤충 cuticle 분해 효소인 extracellular protease의 최적 생산 조건을 gelatin, vine serum albumin(BSA), casein 및 polypeptone 등을 첨가하여 조사하였다. 이 효소의 최적 생산 배양 조건은 미량원소를 함유한 0.5% Polypeptone, 50mM potassium phosphate pH 6.0이었다. 이 조건에서 pretense의 생산은 배양 1일 후부터 급격히 상승하여 배양 3일 이후 최대로 생산되었으며 배양액의 pH가 7.0 이상이 되면 효소 생산효과가 거의 없었다. 이 pretenses는 phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF)에 저해받는다. 효소 활성은 pH 8.5와 11.5에서 높게 나타났다. 또한 비변성 isoeletricfocusing gel 전기영동 후 각 gel 절편의 활성을 측정한 결과 protease활성이 세부분에서 나타났다. 따라서 탄소원 및 질소원으로 polypeptone을 이용하여 생산되는 pretense는 세종류 이상인 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.306-311
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• 1987

황산암모늄 분획, 2차례의 DEAE-Cellulose, DEAE-Sephadex A-50 및 Sephacryl S-200 superfine gel filtration으로 정제한 결과 Streptomyces sp. J-350P의 세포외 adenine deaminase는 0.3%의 수율로서 1764배로 정제되었다. Streptomyces sp. J-350P의 세포외 adenine deaminase는 pH6.5~8.5 사이에서 안정하였고, pH7.0에서 10분간 열처리하였을 때 5$0^{\circ}C$까지는 안정하였다. 효소 활성 최적 pH와 온도는 pH6.5와 35$^{\circ}C$ 였다. Sephacryl S-200 superfine gel filtration 의한 분자량의 측정 결과 본 효소의 분자량은 약 36,000이었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.902-906
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• 2010

고온성 균주로 알려진 Geobacillus 속의 다양한 균주로부터 내열성 extracellular lipase를 생산하는 G. kaustophilus DSM 7263를 선별하였다. 우리는 본 균주로부터 lipase를 대량생산하기 위한 최적 조건을 조사하였다. 배양 배지에 다양한 천연오일을 첨가한 결과, lipase의 최적 생장을 위한 탄소원으로는 0.5% 올리브 오일이 최적 조건으로 확인되었다. 본 균주의 생장을 위한 최적온도와 pH는 각각 $55^{\circ}C$와 8.0인 반면, lipase 생산을 위한 최적 온도와 pH는 각각 $50^{\circ}C$와 6.0을 나타내어 최적생육조건과는 다른 양상을 나타내었다. 금속이온에 대한 영향에 대해서는 배지에 $Mg^{2+}$과 $Mn^{2+}$을 첨가한 경우 각각 247%와 157%의 효소 생산이 증가한 반면, $Co^{2+}$, $Fe^{2+}$, $Ni^{2+}$, $Cu^{2+}$는 효소 생산을 저해 하였다. 또한 0.1% (v/v) triton X-100을 첨가하면 대조구에 비해 효소생산과 균의 생장이 모두 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.161-170
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• 1990

The effects of $H^{+}$ on the arterial contraction and their mechanisms were investigated in the renal artery of a rabbit. The helical strips of isolated renal artery were immersed in the HEPES-buffered or $CO_{2}/HCO_{3}^{-}$-buffered Tyrode's solution. The contractions induced by agonists (norepinephrine, histamine, serotonin and angiotensin II) or high $K^{+}$ were observed with change of extracellular or intracellular $H^{+}$ concentration. The contractions induced by norepinephrine, histamine, serotonin, angiotensin II or high $K^{+}$ in HEPES-buffered Tyrode's solution were inhibited by increase in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration and potentiated by decrease in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration. The degrees of these effects were most evident in the contraction induced by serotonin and angiotensin II, moderate in those by histamine and high $K^{+}$, and least in those by norepinephrine. Maximal contraction by norepinephrine, histamine and high $K^{+}$ were not influenced by change in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration, but influenced in those contration by serotonin and angiotensin II. The attenuated contractions by an acidic pH were not returned to the level of contraction at normal pH (7.4) by elevation of extracellular $Ca{2+}$ concentration. The agonists (norepinephrine, histamine and serotonin)-induced contractions in $Ca{2+}$-free Tyrode's solution were also attenuated by increase in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration and potentiated by decrease in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration. Elevation of $Pco_{2}$ in the $CO_{2}/HCO_{3}^{-}$-buffered Tyrode's solution, which increase the intracellular $H^{+}$ concentration, at constant extracellular pH (7.4), increased the contraction by 30 mM $K^{+}$. From the above results, it is suggested that the decrease in contractions by increase in extracellular $H^{+}$ concentration may be resulted from that $H^{+}$ make the receptors less sensitive to agonists and cell membrane hyperpolarize and then inhibit the $Ca{2+}$ influx as well as $Ca{2+}$ release from intracellular $Ca{2+}$ storage site.