• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2007

The release of genetically modified organisms ($GMO_{s}$) into the environment has the potential risks regarding the possibility of gene transfer from $GMO_{s}$ to natural organisms and this needs to be evaluated. This study was conducted to monitor the possible horizontal gene transfer from herbicide-resistant zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.) to indigenous microorganisms. We have first examined the effect of field-released GM zoysiagrass on the microbial flora in the gut of locust (Locusts mlgratoria). The microbial flora was analyzed through determining the 165 rDHA sequences of microorganisms. The comparison of the microbial flora in the gut of locusts that were captured at the field of GM zoysiagrass and of wild-type revealed that there is no noticeable difference between these two groups. This result indicates that the GM zoysiagrass does not have negative impact on microbial flora in the gut of locust. We then investigated whether the horizontal gene transfer occurred from GM zoysiagrass to microbes in soil, rhizosphere and faecal pellets from locusts by utilizing molecular tools such as Southern hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). When the total DNAs isolated from microbes in GM zoysiagrass and in wild-type zoysiagrass fields were hybridized with probes for bar or hpt gene, no hybridization signal was detected from both field isolates, while the probes were hybridized with DNA from the positive control. Absence of these genes in the FNAs of soil microorganisms as well as microbes in the gut of locust was further confirmed by PCR. Taken together, our data showed that horizontal gene transfer did not occur in this system. These results further indicate that frequencies of transfer of engineered plant DNA to bacteria are likely to be negligible.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2010

프로바이오틱스는 위장관에서 고유의 생리활성을 발휘하기 때문에 섭취 후 최대한 장까지 사멸하지 않고 도달하도록 하는 코팅이나 encapsulation 기술이 개발되어 왔다. 이와 함께 제품의 형태도 여러 종류의 유산균이 포함된 multispecies probiotics가 선호되는 추세이며 높은 생균수를 가지는 제품들이 개발되고 있다. 프로바이오토틱 시장은 현재까지 생균 중심의 제품들이 대부분을 차지하고 있으나 사균체 제품 또는 박테리오신과 같은 항균물질을 포함하는 제품 또한 다양한 분야에 적용될 수 있고 생균제와 비교하여 여러가지 장점을 가지고 있어 관련 제품개발이 이루어져야 할 것으로 보인다. 프로바이오틱 제품들은 살아 있는 생균제로서 질환특이적 효능을 바탕으로 개발되고 있으나 질환개선 효능 표시에 대한 규제가 강화되고 있어 이에 대한 대비가 필요하다. 이를 위해 제품에 사용된 strain의 동정, 안전성 및 기능성에 대한 과학적 증거가 제시되어야 할 것이며 임상을 통한 안전성과 효능에 대한 검증 자료가 필요할 것으로 보인다. 이와 같은 프로바이오틱스 제품의 헬스클레임에 대한 엄격해진 검증은 앞으로 프로바이오틱 시장에 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 1994년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF PLANT DISEASES Korean Society of Plant Pathology
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• pp.11-26
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• 1994

Crown gall of stonefruit and nut trees is one of the very few plant diseases subject to efficient biological control. The disease is caused by the soil-inhabiting bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes and the original control organism was a non-pathogenic isolate of A. rhizogenes strain K84. Control is achieved by dipping planting material in a cell suspension of strain K84 which specifically inhibits pathogenic strains containing a nopaline Ti plasmid. Because the agrocin 84-encoding plasmid (pAgK84) is conjugative, it can be transmitted from the control strain to pathogenic strains which, as a result, become immune to agrocin 84 and cannot be controlled. To prevent this happening, the transfer genes on pAgK84 were located and then largely eliminated by recombinant DNA technology. The resulting construct, strain K1026, is transfer deficient but controls crown gall just as effectively as does strain K84. Field data from Spain confirm that pAgK84 can transfer to pathogenic recipients from strain K84 but not from strain K1026. The latter has been registered in Australia as a pesticide and is the first genetically engineered organism in the world to be released fro commercial use. It is recommended as a replacement for strain K84 to prevent a breakdown in the effectiveness of biological control of crown gall. Several reports indicate that both strains K84 and K1026 sometimes control crown gall pathogens that are resistant to agrocin 84. A possible reason for this is that both strains produce a second antibiotic called 434 which inhibits growth of nearly all isolates of A. rhizogenes, both pathogens and non-pathogens. Crown gall of grapevine is caused by another species, Agrobacterium vitis. It is resistant to agrocin 84 and cannot be controlled by strains K84 or K1026. It is different from other crown gall pathogens in several characteristics, including the fact that, although a rhizosphere coloniser, its also lives systemically in the vascular tissue of grapevine. Pathogen free propagating material can be obtained from tissue culture or, less surely, by heat therapy of dormant cuttings. A number of laboratories are searching for a biocontrol strain that will prevent, or at least delay, reinfection. A non-pathogenic A. vitis strain F/25 from South Africa looks very promising in this regard.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.210-218
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• 1990

Bacillus subtilis를 재료로 하여 아미노산 합성에 관련된 유전자와 항생제 내성에 관련된 유전자를 균주들 간의 토양환경에서의 생존기간과 유전자전이 빈도를 측정하였다. 손수배양시 각 균주의 vegetative cell의 수는 일주일 내에 $10^{-1}$-$10^{-1.5}$배로 감소하였으나 각 포자의 수는 이보다 적게 감소하였다. 멸균된 토양에서는 각 균주의 vegetative cell과 포자의 감소는 2-4일 이내에 최초 접종할 균체수의 $10^{-15}$ - $10^{-3}$배 수준까지는 감소하였으나 그 이후로는 뚜렷한 감소 경향을 나타내지 않았다. In vitro에서 각 아미노산 합성에 관련된 두 개의 아미노산에 관련된 유전자들의 transformation frequency(형질전환빈도)는 각각 $1.3{\pm}0.6{\times}10^{-6}$ - $6.0{\pm}2.36{\times}10^{-6}$, $8.53{\pm}0.2{\times}10^{-8}$ - $1.4{\pm}0.4{\times}10^{-5}$의 범주에서 변화하였으며, 항생제 내성에 관련된 유전자들의 형질전환 빈도는 $1.5{\pm}0.2{\times}10^{-7}$ - $1.4{\pm}0.4{\times}10^{-5}$ 범주에서 변화하였다. 멸균된 토양에서는 각 아미노산 합성에 관련된 유전자들가 항생제 내성에 관련된 유전자들의 형질전환 빈도는 각각 $2.0{\times}10^{-7}$ - $2.0{\times}10^{-5}$, $2.0{\times}10^{-7}$ - $9.4{\pm}4.7{\times}10^{-6}$ 이었다 한편 두 개의 아미노산에 관련된 유전자들의 형질전환 빈도는 $2.0{\times}10^{-6}$ - $4.5{\times}10^{-6}$의 범주에서 측정되었다. 멸균되지 않는 토양에서의 항생제 내성에 관련된 유전자들의 형질변환 빈도는 멸균된 토양에서와 유사하였다. 이상의 결과로 토양에서의 유전자 전이는 transformation에 의해 이루어질 수 있음을 보여준다.