• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 1991

진핵세포 유전자의 기초대사발현의 조절계를 밝히기 위한 일환으로, 효모의 histidine생합성계 효소의 구조유전자 HIS5를 이용하였다. HIS5 유전자는 충분한 아미노산 조건하에서는 발현이 억제되어 비교적 높은 기초발현만을 하나, 어떤 아미노산이 결핍되면 탈억제되어 높은 발현량을 보이며 탈억제는 cis의 작용인자인 promoter상의 5'-TGACTC-3' 및 trans 작용인자 GCN4와 GCD17 GCN2등이 관여한다. trans 작용인자들에 의한 HIS5 유전자의 발현량의 변화를 간단하게 측정하기 위하여, HIS5 promoter와 repressible acid phoshates(APase)의 구조유전자중 promoter를 제거한 DNA단편을 연결시켜 HIS5-PHO5 융합유전자를 이용하였다. gcn2 및 gcn4 변이주의 APase 활성은 야생주와 비교하여 3내지 4배 낮았으며, gcn2변이주와 gcn2 gcn4 이중변이주의 APase 활성은 유사하였다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.266-269
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• 2013

Hox genes encode transcription factors important for anterior-posterior body patterning at early stages of embryonic development. However, the precise mechanisms by which signal pathways are stimulated to regulate Hox gene expression are not clear. In the previous study, protein kinase B alpha (Akt1) has been identified as a putative upstream regulator of Hox genes, and Akt1 has shown to regulate Gcn5, a prototypical histone acetyltransferase (HAT), in a negative way in mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. Since the activity of HAT such as the CBP/p300, and PCAF (a Gcn5 homolog), was down-regulated by Akt through a phosphorylation at the Akt consensus substrate motif (RXRXXS/T), the amino acid sequence of Gcn5 protein was analyzed. Mouse Gcn5 contains an Akt consensus substrate motif as RQRSQS sequence while human Gcn5 does not have it. In order to see whether Akt1 directly binds to Gcn5, immunoprecipitation with anti-Akt1 antibody was carried out in wild-type (WT) mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells, and then western blot analysis was performed with anti-Akt1 and anti-Gcn5 antibodies. Gcn5 protein was detected in the Akt1 immunoprecipitated samples of MEFs. This result demonstrates that Akt1 directly binds to Gcn5, which might have contributed the down regulation of the 5' Hoxc gene expressions in wild type MEF cells.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.165-168
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• 2012

Hox proteins containing DNA-binding homedomain act as transcription factors important for anteroposterior body patterning during vertebrate embryogenesis. However, the precise mechanisms by which signal pathways are transduced to regulate the Hox gene expression are not clear. In the course of an attempt to isolate an upstream regulatory factor(s) controlling Hox genes, protein kinase B alpha (Akt1) has been identified as a putative regulator of Hox genes through in silico analysis (GEO profile). In the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset GDS1784 at the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) site, Hox genes were differentially expressed depending on the presence or absence of Akt1. Since it was not well known how Akt1 regulates the specific Hox genes, whose transcription was reported to be regulated by epigenetic modifications such as histone acetylation, methylation etc., the expression of Gcn5, a histone acetyltransferase (HAT), was analyzed in wild type (WT) as well as in $Akt1^{-/-}$ mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. RT-PCR analysis revealed that the amount of Gcn5 mRNA was similar in both WT and $Akt1^{-/-}$ MEFs. However, the protein level of Gcn5 was significantly increased in $Akt1^{-/-}$ MEF cells. The half life of Gcn5 was 1 hour in wild type whereas 8 hours in $Akt1^{-/-}$ MEF. These data all together, indicate that Gcn5 is post-transcriptionally down-regulated and the protein stability is negatively regulated by Akt1 in MEF cells.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.801-808
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• 2022

대규모 링크드 데이터에 어떻게 지식을 임베딩하고, 엔티티 매칭을 위해 어떻게 신경망 모델을 적용할 것인가에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 많이 부족한 상황이다. 이에 대한 가장 근본적인 문제는 서로 다른 레이블이 어휘 이질성을 초래한다는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 어휘 이질성 문제를 해결하기 위해 재정렬 구조를 결합한 확장된 GCN(Graph Convolutional Network) 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델은 기존 임베디드 기반 MTransE 및 BootEA 모델과 비교하여 각각 53% 및 40% 성능이 향상되었으며, GCN 기반 RDGCN 모델과 비교하여 성능이 5.1% 향상되었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1909-1928
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• 2020

Predicting human mobility has always been an important task in Location-based Social Network. Previous efforts fail to capture spatial dependence effectively, mainly reflected in weakening the location topology information. In this paper, we propose a neural network-based method which can capture spatial-temporal dependence to predict the next location of a person. Specifically, we involve a graph convolutional network (GCN) based on a seq2seq framework to capture the location topology information and temporal dependence, respectively. The encoder of the seq2seq framework first generates the hidden state and cell state of the historical trajectories. The GCN is then used to generate graph embeddings of the location topology graph. Finally, we predict future trajectories by aggregated temporal dependence and graph embeddings in the decoder. For evaluation, we leverage two real-world datasets, Foursquare and Gowalla. The experimental results demonstrate that our model has a better performance than the compared models.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.1037-1043
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• 2015

The TAZ activator 2-butyl-5-methyl-6-(pyridine-3-yl)-3-[2'-(1H-tetrazole-5-yl)-biphenyl-4-ylmethyl]-3H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine] (TM-25659) inhibits adipocyte differentiation by interacting with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma. 1 TM-25659 was previously shown to decrease weight gain in a high fat (HF) diet-induced obesity (DIO) mouse model. However, the fundamental mechanisms underlying the effects of TM-25659 remain unknown. Therefore, we investigated the effects of TM-25659 on skeletal muscle functions in C2 myotubes and C57BL/6J mice. We studied the molecular mechanisms underlying the contribution of TM-25659 to palmitate (PA)-induced insulin resistance in C2 myotubes. TM-25659 improved PA-induced insulin resistance and inflammation in C2 myotubes. In addition, TM-25659 increased FGF21 mRNA expression, protein levels, and FGF21 secretion in C2 myotubes via activation of GCN2 pathways (GCN2-$phosphoelF2{\alpha}$-ATF4 and FGF21). This beneficial effect of TM-25659 was diminished by FGF21 siRNA. C57BL/6J mice were fed a HF diet for 30 weeks. The HF-diet group was randomly divided into two groups for the next 14 days: the HF-diet and HF-diet + TM-25659 groups. The HF diet + TM-25659-treated mice showed improvements in their fasting blood glucose levels, insulin sensitivity, insulin-stimulated Akt phosphorylation, and inflammation, but neither body weight nor food intake was affected. The HF diet + TM-25659-treated mice also exhibited increased expression of both FGF21 mRNA and protein. These data indicate that TM-25659 may be beneficial for treating insulin resistance by inducing FGF21 in models of PA-induced insulin resistance and HF diet-induced insulin resistance.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.113-124
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• 2023

5G 및 B5G(Beyond 5G) 네트워크의 등장으로 기존 네트워크 한계를 극복할 수 있는 네트워크 가상화 기술이 주목받고 있다. 네트워크 가상화의 목적은 효율적 네트워크 자원의 활용과 다양한 전송요구 서비스에 대한 솔루션을 제공하기 위함이다. 이와 관련하여 여러 가지 휴리스틱 기반의 VNE 기법이 연구되고 있으나 네트워크 자원할당 및 서비스의 유연성이 제한되는 문제점을 지니고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 응용의 서비스 요구사항을 충족하기 위해 GNN 기반의 네트워크 슬라이싱 분류 기법과 최적의 자원할당을 위한 RL 기반 VNE 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 Actor-Critic 네트워크를 이용하여 최적의 VNE를 수행한다. 또한 성능 평가를 위해 제안된 기법과 기존의 Node Rank, MCST-VNE, GCN-VNE 기법과의 성능을 비교분석하고 서비스 수용률 제고 및 효율적 자원 할당 측면에서 성능이 향상됨을 보인다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2019

Objective: An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary glutamine (Gln) and arginine (Arg) supplementation on performance, intestinal morphology and ascites mortality in broilers. Methods: A total of 675 day old chicks were randomly allocated to 9 experimental groups in a $3{\times}3$ factorial arrangement based on a completely randomized design with 5 replicates of 15 chicks. Three levels of dietary Gln (0%, 0.5%, and 1%) and Arg (100%, 130%, and 160% of Ross recommendation) supplementation were used in ascites inducing condition ($15^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$) from 7 to 42 days of age. Results: Dietary supplementation of Gln increased body weight gain during grower, finisher and total periods (p<0.05) and increased feed intake during total period. Ascites mortality was decreased by Gln supplementation (p<0.05). Gln supplementation increased the villus height (VH) and crypt depth (CD) in duodenum and jejunum (p<0.05). Arg supplementation decreased CD in duodenum and jejunum, and increased ileum villus width (VW) and also VH/CD ratio in duodenum and jejunum (p<0.05). Both Gln and Arg increased the goblet cell number (GCN) in duodenum whereas Gln supplementation decreased GCN in jejunum and ileum (p<0.05). The $Gln{\times}Arg$ interaction were observed for right ventricle (RV)/total ventricular (TV) ratio, VH, VW, CD, VH/CD. Conclusion: It was concluded that dietary 0.5% Gln alone or along with 130% Arg of Ross requirement, improve the intestinal morphology and performance and hence decrease the ascites mortality in broiler chickens with cold induced ascites.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.410-417
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• 2016

During the lactation cycle of the bovine mammary gland, autophagy is induced in bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMECs) as a cellular homeostasis and survival mechanism. Interferon gamma ($IFN-{\gamma}$) is an important antiproliferative and apoptogenic factor that has been shown to induce autophagy in multiple cell lines in vitro. However, it remains unclear whether $IFN-{\gamma}$ can induce autophagy and whether autophagy affects milk synthesis in BMECs. To understand whether $IFN-{\gamma}$ affects milk synthesis, we isolated and purified primary BMECs and investigated the effect of $IFN-{\gamma}$ on milk synthesis in primary BMECs in vitro. The results showed that $IFN-{\gamma}$ significantly inhibits milk synthesis and that autophagy was clearly induced in primary BMECs in vitro within 24 h. Interestingly, autophagy was observed following $IFN-{\gamma}$ treatment, and the inhibition of autophagy can improve milk protein and milk fat synthesis. Conversely, upregulation of autophagy decreased milk synthesis. Furthermore, mechanistic analysis confirmed that $IFN-{\gamma}$ mediated autophagy by depleting arginine and inhibiting the general control nonderepressible-2 kinase (GCN2)/eukaryotic initiation factor $2{\alpha}$ ($eIF2{\alpha}$) signaling pathway in BMECs. Then, it was found that arginine supplementation could attenuate $IFN-{\gamma}$-induced autophagy and recover milk synthesis to some extent. These findings may not only provide a novel measure for preventing the $IFN-{\gamma}$-induced decrease in milk quality but also a useful therapeutic approach for $IFN-{\gamma}$-associated breast diseases in other animals and humans.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.203-208
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• 2009

Lunasin is a unique 43-amino acid peptide which has shown a chemopreventive in mammalian cells and in a skin cancer mouse model. In search for new sources of lunasin and the role of cereals in cancer prevention, we report here the properties of lunasin purified from millet. Stability of millet lunasin was measured by in vitro digestibility assay using pepsin and pancreatin. Inhibition of HAT (histone acetyltransferase) and nuclear localization in mammalian cells were used to measure lunasin bioactivity as the cancer chemopreventive agent. Lunasin present in millet crude protein was stable to pepsin and pancreatin in in vitro digestion and inhibited the activities of HATs. When added exogenously, lunasin purified from millet internalized in the nuclei of mouse fibroblast cells. On the base of this result, we conclude that lunasin in millet is bioactive and consumption of millet may play an important role on cancer prevention in millet-consuming populations.