• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.182-185
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• 2002

There are 3 UV DNA repair endonuclease activities in mammalian cells that cleave UV -irradiated DNA. Interestingly, mammalian UV endonuclease III with MW of 26.7kD has a lyase activity on AP sites. It also cleaves the phosphodiester bond within a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer. Genomic analysis of human repair endonuclease III gene revealed that this gene has 100% sequence identity with ribosomal protein S3 (rpS3). Therefore, rpS3 seems to function both in translation and in DNA repair. This gene of about 6.1 kb contains 6 introns and 7 exons, and the first and fifth introns of human rpS3 gene contain functional U15 small nucleolar (sno) RNAs which appear to be involved in ribosome assembly. It is to be noted that the column profile of the endonuclease activity of rpS3 appears to be altered in Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) group D cells compared to normal cells indicating that this protein is involved in XP disease as well. XP is a human disease characterized by high sensitivity of skin by UV- or sun-light irradiation and by high frequency of developing skin cancers. We also report here that rpS3 protein is involved in other cellular functions.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.300-312
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• 2018

Whole-genome sequencing of the wood-rotting fungus, Flammulina fennae, was carried out to identify carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). De novo genome assembly (31 kmer) of short reads by next-generation sequencing revealed a total genome length of 32,423,623 base pairs (39% GC). A total of 11,591 gene models in the assembled genome sequence of F. fennae were predicted by ab initio gene prediction using the AUGUSTUS tool. In a genome-wide comparison, 6,715 orthologous groups shared at least one gene with F. fennae and 10,667 (92%) of 11,591 genes for F. fennae proteins had orthologs among the Dikarya. Additionally, F. fennae contained 23 species-specific genes, of which 16 were paralogous. CAZyme identification and annotation revealed 513 CAZymes, including 82 auxiliary activities, 220 glycoside hydrolases, 85 glycosyltransferases, 20 polysaccharide lyases, 57 carbohydrate esterases, and 45 carbohydrate binding-modules in the F. fennae genome. The genome information of F. fennae increases the understanding of this basidiomycete fungus. CAZyme gene information will be useful for detailed studies of lignocellulosic biomass degradation for biotechnological and industrial applications.

• 대한바이러스학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2000

The nonstructural protein NSP4, encoded by gene 10 of rotavirus, has been shown to playa role in viral assembly and known to be an enterotoxin, causing diarrhea in mouse pups. NSP4 gene was cloned from CBNU-2 (virulent bovine rotavirus/diarrheic fecal sample) and CBNU-1 (cell-culture adapted bovine rotavirus/isolated from CBNU-2 and 75 times passaged on MA104 cells), respectively, by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and sequenced and compared. The sequence data indicated that the NSP4 genes of bovine rotavirus (BRV) were 751 bases in length and encoded one open reading frame of 175 amino acids beginning at base 42 and terminating at base 569. Differences in nucleotide sequence between CBNU-2 and CBNU-1 were observed at 6 positions (base 274, 296, 391, 394, 396 and 579). NSP4 gene of BRV exhibited a high degree of nucleotide (90% and 94%) and amino acid sequence (91% and 97%) homology with those of SA11 and UK but a low degree of nucleotide (77% and 79%) and amino acids sequence (81% and 85%) homology with those of Wa and OSU.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.537-545
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 메밀의 발아초기에 발현되는 전사체의 다양한 정보 수집을 위해 양절메밀과 대관 3-3호의 RNA를 추출하여 전사체 분석을 수행하였다. 제주산 양절메밀과 대관3-3호의 종자 및 발아 후 12, 24, 36시간별로 total RNA를 추출하고, llumina Hiseq 2000 플랫폼을 사용하여 시퀀싱 하였다. SolexaQA package의 DynamicTrim과 LengthsORT 프로그램으로 이용하여 raw 데이터 분석을 실시한 후, 어셈블리(assembly)와 annotation을 수행하였다. RNA-seq raw 데이터로부터 약 84.2%, 81.5%에 해당하는 16.5Gb, 16.2Gb의 transcriptome 데이터를 확보하였다. 47Mb에 해당하는 43,494개의 대표적인 전사체(representative transcripts)를 확보하였고, 그 중에서 annotation DB와 서열 유사도를 갖는 서열은 23,165개로 확인되었다. 메밀의 representative transcripts 유전자의 유전자 온톨로지(gene ontology) 분석결과, biological process는 metabolic process (49.49%)에서, cellular components는 cell (46.12%)에서, molecular function은 catalyltic activity (80.43%)에서 유전자가 많이 분포되어 있는 것을 확인하였다. 종자의 발아에 관련된 gibberellin receptor GID1C의 경우에는 양절메밀, 대관 3-3호의 발현양이 모두 시간이 지남에 따라 증가되는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, gibberellin 20-oxidase1의 경우에는 양절메밀에서는 발아 후 12 시간이내에 증가되었으나, 대관 3-3호에서는 36시간까지 유전자 발현양 증가하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 제주산 메밀의 발아초기 단계별 전사체 분석 데이터는 종간의 기능적, 형태학적 차이를 일으키는 메커니즘 규명에 도움을 줄 것으로 사료된다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2014

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a dominantly inherited connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding fibrillin-1 (FBN1) and is characterized by aortic dilatation and dissection, which is the primary cause of death in untreated MFS patients. However, disease progression-associated changes in gene expression in the aortic lesions of MFS patients remained unknown. Using a mouse model of MFS, FBN1 hypomorphic mouse (mgR/mgR), we characterized the aortic gene expression profiles during the progression of the MFS. Homozygous mgR mice exhibited MFS-like phenotypic features, such as fragmentation of elastic fibers throughout the vessel wall and were graded into mgR1-4 based on the pathological severity in aortic walls. Comparative gene expression profiling of WT and four mgR mice using microarrays revealed that the changes in the transcriptome were a direct reflection of the severity of aortic pathological features. Gene ontology analysis showed that genes related to oxidation/reduction, myofibril assembly, cytoskeleton organization, and cell adhesion were differentially expressed in the mgR mice. Further analysis of differentially expressed genes identified several candidate genes whose known roles were suggestive of their involvement in the progressive destruction of aorta during MFS. This study is the first genome-wide analysis of the aortic gene expression profiles associated with the progression of MFS. Our findings provide valuable information regarding the molecular pathogenesis during MFS progression and contribute to the development of new biomarkers as well as improved therapeutic strategies.

• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2003년도 식물바이오벤처 페스티발
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• pp.126-126
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• 2003

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.175-177
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• 2005

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2018년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.319-320
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• 2018

여러 단계를 걸쳐 이루어지는 RNA-seq 분석 과정을 한 번에 처리할 수 있는 shell script 파이프라인을 구축하였다. 연구자들로 하여금 trimming, quality control, mapping, assembly, quantification 등 개별 과정을 거치지 않고, 한 줄의 커맨드 라인(command line) 만으로 유전자 발현량과 상대적 발현량 차이를 확인할 수 있는 fold change(FC) 값까지 얻을 수 있도록 하였다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.311-315
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• 1995

The K. aerogenes ureal gene product was previously shown to facilitate assembly of the crease metallocenter (Lee, M. H., Mulrooney, S. B., Renner, M. J., Markowicz, Y., and Hausinger, R. P. (1992) J. Bacteriol. 174, 4324-4330). UreG protein has now been purified and characterized. Although the protein is predicted to possess a putative NTP-binding P-loop motif, equilibrium dialysis studies showed negative results. Immunogold electron microscopic studies using polyclonal antibodies directed against UreG protein confirm that UreG is located in the cytoplasm as predicted in the DNA sequence.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2005

It was previously shown that AtNAP1 is a plastidic SufB protein involved in Fe-S cluster assembly in Arabidopsis. In this study, we investigated the effects of depleting SufB protein from plant cells using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). VIGS of NbNAP1 encoding a Nicotiana benthamiana homolog of AtNAP1 resulted in a leaf yellowing phenotype. NbNAP1 was expressed ubiquitously in plant tissues with the highest level in roots. A GFP fusion protein of the N-terminal region (M1-V103) of NbNAP1 was targeted to chloroplasts. Depletion of NbNAP1 resulted in reduced numbers of chloroplasts of reduced size. Mitochondria also seemed to be affected. Despite the reduced number and size of the chloroplasts in the NbNAP1 VIGS lines, the expression of many nuclear genes encoding chloroplast-targeted proteins and chlorophyll biosynthesis genes remained unchanged.