• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2019

세포기반 치료제에 사용되는 줄기세포는 재생능력과 다양한 세포로의 분화능력으로 인해 재생 의학 분야에서 광범위하게 관심을 끌었으며, 많은 불치병에 적용된다. 하지만, 이러한 줄기세포는 여전히 치료 전 세포증식 및 질병 투여부위에서의 낮은 생존률로 인해 충분한 치료효과가 나타나지 않는 단점이 있다. 이것을 해결하고자, 우리는 세포부착능과 항세포자살 기능을 가지고 있는 carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family의 하나인 CEACAM 6를 사용하였다. 이것을 줄기세포에 적용 전, 먼저 세포별로 이 단백질이 발현되는지를 확인하였고, 이 유전자가 발현되는 벡터를 줄기세포에 삽입시키기 위한 최적 조건을 선정하였다. 그 후, 도입된 CEACAM 6발현벡터로부터 줄기세포에서 이 유전자가 발현되는지를 확인하였다. 그리고 인체투여 시 발생되는 산화적 스트레스와 유사한 조건에서의 이 유전자의 기능을 평가하기 위해 과산화수소(H₂O₂)를 처리하였다. 산화적 스트레스 조건하에서 CEACAM 6가 발현되는 줄기세포는 그렇지 않은 세포에 비해 세포의 생존률이 현저히 증가하는 것을 확인하였다. 이를 통해, 이 CEACAM 6는 줄기세포의 치료효능과 세포증식을 강화시킬 수 있는 다른 선택지로서의 가능성이 있음을 확인하였다.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2013

본 시험은 한국 고추 육종에 사용되고 있는 교배친에 있어서의 개화소요일수에 관여하는 유전자의 유전가를 구명하기 위해 수행하였다. 조생계 '#2132'($P_1$)과 중만생계 '#1308'($P_2$)의 두 교배친과 이들의 $F_1$, $F_2$ 세대를 본 시험의 공시재료로 사용하였다. Thseng and Hosokawa(1971, 1972)의 partitioning method에 따라 $F_2$ 세대로부터 양친의 유효인자수를 추정하는 것이 가능하였는데, A:a와 B:b 두 인자에 의해 구분되었다. 공시한 교배친의 개화일 유전 특성은 $F_1$ 세대는 빠른 교배친보다 더 빠르고, $F_2$ 세대는 양친의 개화기보다 더 빠르거나 늦은 개체들이 출현하여 $F_1$ 세대는 초우성, $F_2$ 세대에서는 초월 분리가 나타났다. 유효 유전자에 의해 개화기가 단축되는 것은 A-a 유전자에 의해 13.81일, B-b 유전자에 의해 6.73일이 짧아졌다. 두 유전 인자간 간섭효과는 5.26일이 짧은 것으로 나타났다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2016

Bone matrix is properly maintained by osteoclasts and osteoblasts. In the tumor microenvironment, osteoclasts are increasingly differentiated by the various ligands and cytokines secreted from the metastasized cancer cells at the bone metastasis niche. The activated osteoclasts generate osteolytic lesions. For this reason, studies focusing on the differentiation of osteoclasts are important to reduce bone destruction by tumor metastasis. The N-myc downstream-regulated gene 2 (NDRG2) has been known to contribute to the suppression of tumor growth and metastasis, but the precise role of NDRG2 in osteoclast differentiation induced by cancer cells has not been elucidated. In this study, we demonstrate that NDRG2 expression in breast cancer cells has an inhibitory effect on osteoclast differentiation. RAW 264.7 cells, which are monocytic preosteoclast cells, treated with the conditioned media (CM) of murine breast cancer cells (4T1) expressing NDRG2 are less differentiated into the multinucleated osteoclast-like cells than those treated with the CM of 4T1-WT or 4T1-mock cells. Interestingly, 4T1 cells stably expressing NDRG2 showed a decreased mRNA and protein level of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM1), which is known to enhance osteoclast maturation. Osteoclast differentiation was also reduced by ICAM1 knockdown in 4T1 cells. In addition, blocking the interaction between soluble ICAM1 and ICAM1 receptors significantly decreased osteoclastogenesis of RAW 264.7 cells in the tumor environment. Collectively, these results suggest that the reduction of ICAM1 expression by NDRG2 in breast cancer cells decreases osteoclast differentiation, and demonstrate that excessive bone resorption could be inhibited via ICAM1 down-regulation by NDRG2 expression.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.335-339
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• 2006

The level of ${\beta}-glucan$ which is a major soluble dietary fiber found in the grain endosperm cell wall was highly variable among 25 barley genotypes grown at four locations including Suwon, Naju, Jinju, and Jeju. Statistically significant genotypic effects were observed for ${\beta}-glucan$ content at each or across growing sites (P<0.001). On average, 'Chalssalbori' showed the lowest percentage ${\beta}-glucan$ (4.04%) among genotypes in the grain, whereas 'Yonezawa Mochi' was highest in percentage ${\beta}-glucan$ (6.46%) compared to other genotypes. The significant difference between genotypes was approximately 1-2% across environments. The effects of location or interaction between locations and genotypes were not significant on the variation of ${\beta}-glucan$ contents. High ${\beta}-glucan$ content seemed to be greatly associated with such grain traits as waxiness and presence of husk except for 'Chalssalbori'. The waxy genotypes had a mean of 5.37% and values ranging from 5.28 to 5.47%, but normal genotypes had a mean of 4.78% and values ranging from 4.69 to 4.88% over environments. Hulless barley genotypes were also higher than hulled barley genotypes for the average ${\beta}-glucan$ content in both individual and over all environments. The difference between the hulled and hulless gene pools was on average of 0.37% with ranges from 0.19% to 0.56% at four environments. ${\beta}-glucan$ content measured from a mapping population of $F_5$-derived 107 lines derived from the cross between 'Yonezawa Mochi' and 'Neulssalbori' was not significantly associated with other agronomic traits except for 1,000-kernel weight at the '01 Suwon environment. Not too much information on the relationship of ${\beta}-glucan$ content to agronomic traits was available.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.717-723
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• 2014

Background: This study was carried out to investigate the interaction of p53 codon 72 polymorphism, dietary and tobacco habits with reference to risk of stomach cancer in Mizoram, India. A total of 105 histologically confirmed stomach cancer cases and 210 age, sex and ethnicity matched healthy population controls were included in this study. Materials and Methods: The p53 codon 72 polymorphism was detected by PCR-RFLP and sequencing. H. pylori infection status was determined by ELISA. Information on various dietary and tobacco related habits was recorded with a standard questionnaire. Results: This study revealed that overall, the Pro/Pro genotype was significantly associated with a higher risk of stomach cancer (OR, 2.54; 95%CI, 1.01-6.40) as compared to the Arg/Arg genotype. In gender stratified analysis, the Pro/Pro genotype showed higher risk (OR, 7.50; 95%CI, 1.20-47.0) than the Arg/Arg genotype among females. Similarly, the Pro/Pro genotype demonstrated higher risk of stomach cancer (OR, 6.30; 95%CI, 1.41-28.2) among older people (>60 years). However, no such associations were observed in males and in individuals <60 years of age. Smoke dried fish and preserved meat (smoke dried/sun dried) consumers were at increased risk of stomach cancer (OR, 4.85; 95%CI, 1.91-12.3 and OR, 4.22; 95%CI, 1.46-12.2 respectively) as compared to non-consumers. Significant gene-environment interactions exist in terms of p53 codon 72 polymorphism and stomach cancer in Mizoram. Tobacco smokers with Pro/Pro and Arg/Pro genotypes were at higher risk of stomach cancer (OR, 16.2; 95%CI, 1.72-153.4 and OR, 9.45; 95%CI, 1.09-81.7 respectively) than the non-smokers Arg/Arg genotype carriers. The combination of tuibur user and Arg/Pro genotype also demonstrated an elevated risk association (OR, 4.76; 95%CI, 1.40-16.21). Conclusions: In conclusion, this study revealed that p53 codon 72 polymorphism and dietary and tobacco habit interactions influence stomach cancer development in Mizoram, India.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2007

The term, "food safety", has traditionally been viewed as a practical science aimed at assuring the prevention acute illnesses caused by biological microorganisms, and only to a minor extent, chronic diseases cause by chronic low level exposures to natural and synthetic chemicals or pollutants. "food safety" meant to prevent microbiological agents/toxins in/on foods, due to contamination any where from "farm to Fork", from causing acute health effects, especially to the young, immune-compromised, genetically-predisposed and elderly. However, today a broader view must also include the fact that diet, perse (nutrients, vitamins/minerals, calories), as well as low level toxins and pollutant or supplemented synthetic chemicals, can alter gene expressions of stem/progenitor/terminally-differentiated cells, leading to chronic inflammation and other mal-functions that could lead to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, atherogenesis and possibly reproductive and neurological disorders. Understanding of the mechanisms by which natural or synthetic chemical toxins/toxicants, in/on food, interact with the pathogenesis of acute and chronic diseases, should lead to a "systems" approach to "food safety". Clearly, the interactions of diet/food with the genetic background, gender, and developmental state of the individual, together with (a) interactions of other endogenous/exogenous chemicals/drugs; (b) the specific biology of the cells being affected; (c) the mechanisms by which the presence or absence of toxins/toxicants and nutrients work to cause toxicities; and (d) how those mechanisms affect the pathogenesis of acute and/or chronic diseases, must be integrated into a "system" approach. Mechanisms of how toxins/toxicants cause cellular toxicities, such as mutagenesis; cytotoxicity and altered gene expression, must take into account (a) irreversible or reversal changes caused by these toxins or toxicants; (b)concepts of thresholds or no-thresholds of action; and (c) concepts of differential effects on stem cells, progenitor cells and terminally differentiated cells in different organs. This brief Commentary tries to illustrate this complex interaction between what is on/in foods with one disease, namely cancer. Since the understanding of cancer, while still incomplete, can shed light on the multiple ways that toxins/toxicants, as well as dietary modulation of nutrients/vitamins/metals/ calories, can either enhance or reduce the risk to cancer. In particular, diets that alter the embryo-fetal micro-environment might dramatically alter disease formation later in life. In effect "food safety" can not be assessed without understanding how food could be 'toxic', or how that mechanism of toxicity interacts with the pathogenesis of any disease.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제33권11호
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• pp.847-854
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• 2011

주요 신재생에너지인 바이오에너지의 일환으로 조류를 이용한 바이오에너지 및 자원화 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 조류는 영양염류 제거 능력을 활용해서 하수와 같은 오폐수 내 난분해성오염물질과 영양염류 제거의 고도처리도 가능하다. 조류와 박테리아 간의 생태적인 상호작용이 조류를 활용한 하수처리 및 하수자원화에 중요한 역할을 함에도 불구하고, 실지 하수 조건에서 조류와 박테리아간의 생태학적인 상호작용에 관한 과학적인 정보가 부족하다. 본 연구에서는 하수에서 배양이 잘 되고, 지질함량이 높다고 알려진 국내 조류 종인 Ankistrodesmus gracilis SAG 278-2의 하수오염물질 제거 특성과 조류 주입에 따른 하수 박테리아 군집의 반응을 실지 하수 조건에서 연구하였다. 하수 박테리아의 수가 증가는 조류의 성장 속도를 감소시켰으나, 반면 조류의 성장은 박테리아의 생존 및 내성호흡 생분해 속도에는 영향을 주지 않았다. 조류가 주입된 하수에서 난분해성 유기물질 및 총질소의 제거 향상이 관찰되었다. 박테리아 16S rRNA 유전자 T-RFLP 분석에 따르면 조류의 주입은 시간에 따라 박테리아 군집에 영향을 주었다. 박테리아 16S rRNA 유전자 PCR 증폭, clone 및 염기서열 분석 결과, 하수 내 조류의 성장은 박테리아 군집 구성을 변화시키며, 조류와 함께 공동 성장 가능한 박테리아는 Sediminibacterium, Sphingobacterium, Mucilaginibacter 속에 속하는 개체로 판명되었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.398-407
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• 2018

벼 자색 종자과피(Purple pericarp, Prp) 형질은 주요 생리활성물질인 안토시아닌 C3G 생성에 관여하며 흑미를 결정하는 주요 유전형질이다. Prp 유전형질을 가진 흑미와 종자과피에 색이 없는 벼를 교배할 경우 그 후대는 검정색, 갈색, 백색이 각각 9:3:4로 분리된다. 1921년 Nagai에 의하여 제시된 바 벼 종자 색의 9:3:4 유전분리비로 인하여 벼 Prp 형질은 유전자의 열성상위(recessive epistasis) 현상으로 해석되었다. 그러나 흑미를 결정하는 Prp 형질은 두 개의 상보적 유전자들의 상호관계(complementary gene interaction)에 의한 것이기도 하다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 논란이 발생되는 이유를 설명하기 위하여 두 유전자의 조성이 완전한 이형접합인 Pbpb Pppp 유전자형을 가진 $F_1$ 잡종을 만들었다. 이들의 자손은 진한자색(검정), 중간자색, 갈색, 백색 종자이며 각각 3:6:3:4로 분리되었다. 즉, 검정색, 갈색, 백색의 종자가 각각 9:3:4의 비율로 분리된다. 그러나 생화학적인 분석결과 이들은 안토시아닌 중 cyanidin 3-O-glucoside (C3G)가 축적된 검정색 종자와 C3G가 없는 갈색 또는 백색 종자인 두 개의 집단을 분리되며 정확히 9:7의 분리 비를 갖는다. 이 경우 벼 Prp 형질을 갖는 검정쌀 또는 흑미는 전형적인 상보적 유전자의 상호관계에 의한 유전현상이다. 즉, 흑미의 자색 종피 형질 발현에는 Pb 유전자와 Pp 유전자에서 각각 한 개 이상의 우성대립인자의 발현이 필요하다. 그러나 Pb 유전자만 우성대립인자가 존재하는 Pb_ pppp 유전자형의 벼는 C3G를 생성하지 못하고 갈색 종자과피(Brown pericarp, Brp) 형질을 갖게 된다. 즉 갈색쌀는 우성 Pb 유전자의 우성대립인자에 의하여 결정된다. 그러므로 종피색을 결정하는 Prp 형질의 유전양상은 열성상위 현상으로 보이나 흑미의 결정요소인 안토시아닌 C3G의 함유 여부에 관한 유전분석을 시행하면 9:7의 비율로서 전형적인 두 개의 유전자가 모두 관여하는 상보적 유전현상이다. 유전적 정의는 유전자의 최종산물에 의한 물리적 또는 화학적 결정이다. 그러므로 결론하여 검정 쌀의 주요 생리활성물질인 안토시아닌 C3G 생성에 관한 유전현상은 Pb와 Pp 유전자의 상보적 유전자의 상호에 의한 것이다.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.3-19
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• 2001

Recent basic and clinical studies demonstrate a major role for neural plasticity in the etiology and treatment of depression and stress-related illness. The neural plasticity is reflected both in the birth of new cell in the adult brain(neurogenesis) and the death of genetically healthy cells(apoptosis) in the response to the individual's interaction with the environment. The neural plasticity includes adaptations of intracellular signal transduction pathway and gene expression, as well as alterations in neuronal morphology and cell survival. At the cellular level, repeated stress causes shortening and debranching of dendrite in the CA3 region of hippocampus and suppress neurogenesis of dentate gyrus granule neurons. At the molecular level, both form of structural remodeling appear to be mediated by glucocorticoid hormone working in concert with glutamate and N-methyl-D-aspartate(NMDA) receptor, along with transmitters such as serotonin and GABA-benzodiazepine system. In addition, the decreased expression and reduced level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF) could contribute the atrophy and decreased function of stress-vulnerable hippocampal neurons. It is also suggested that atrophy and death of neurons in the hippocampus, as well as prefrontal cortex and possibly other regions, could contribute to the pathophysiology of depression. Antidepressant treatment could oppose these adverse cellular effects, which may be regarded as a loss of neural plasticity, by blocking or reversing the atrophy of hippocampal neurons and by increasing cell survival and function via up-regulation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element-binding proteins(CREB) and BDNF. In this article, the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie stress, depression, and action of antidepressant are precisely discussed.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.120-125
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• 2016

Two-dimensional cultivation is typically used for cell growth, but the method reduces the characteristics of chondrocytes and stem cells, and limits culture area. Therefore, development of three-dimensional culture method is needed to mimic in vivo environment, improve quality of cells and scale-up efficiently. Improving proliferation and chondrogenesis is available by co-culture of chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that leads to interaction between two kinds of cells. However, the co-culture has problems that permeability of sphere diminishes as aggregate size increased and ratio of two kinds of cells composing each spheres is different. In this work, co-cultivation method using controlled sphere composed of chondrocytes and MSCs was established and enhanced chondrogenesis. Periosteum-derived progenitor cells (PDPCs) that are appropriate for cell therapy source of articular cartilage were used as MSCs. Controlled spheres were formed in the hanging-drop plates and shifted for being induced chondrogenesis in 35-mm non-adhesive culture dishes at a rotation rate of 60 rpm. After inducing chondrogenesis, gene expressions related with chondrogenesis were found to be improved and it was apparent that the utilization of controlled spheres promoted chondrogenesis. As a result, available numbers of cells per unit area were increased and chondrogenic differentiation ability was improved compared to typical two-dimensional culture. This approach shows the potential in cartilage regeneration as it can provide sufficient numbers of chondrocytes.