• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.190-193
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• 2001

Genipin, aglycone of geniposide isolated from fruits of Gardenia jasminoides, was transformed into blue pigments through reaction with glycine and methylamine. The blue pigments formed from glycine-reacted genipin were passed through Bio-Gel P-2 resin yielding fractions GG1 and GG2, and those from methylamine-reacted genipin were separated into fractions GM1-GM4. The first eluted higher molecular-weight fractions, GG1 and GM1, had higher tinctorial strength than the later eluted lower molecular-weight fractions, GG2 and GM2-GM4, respectively. $^1H-NMR$ spectra of GG1 and GM1 showed very broad peaks indicating that structures of the pigments were highly polymeric. $^1H-NMR$ spectra of GG2, GM3, and GM4 showed several sharp peaks at aliphatic and aromatic regions with accompanying broad peaks, although the spectrum of GM2 was rather simple. Determination of the structural and physical nature of the isolated pigments is in progress.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.329-333
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 형질전환된 N. tabacum 배양에 있어서 배양 중반 저온으로의 변환이 세포에 미치는 영향과 hGM-CSF의 생산성 변화를 관찰하였다. 배양 중반 저온으로의 변환은 DCW의 증가와 세포크기의 감소를 보였다. Ascorbic acid의 첨가는 배양초기 세포 생존율의 감소를 완화시켰으며, 배양 중반 저온으로의 변환은 약간의 세포생존율 감소를 보였다. 저온으로의 변환, 저온 배양에서의 betaine 첨가, ascorbic acid 첨가 모두 배양 후반 세포 lysis 억제에 효과가 있었다. 배양 중반 저온으로의 변환시 배지내 단백질 분해 효소의 활성을 측정한 결과, 대조구 세포에 비해 낮은 단백질 분해 효소 활성을 나타내었다. 그로인해 배양 중반 이후 단백질 분해 효소에 의한 급격한 hGM-CSF 분해를 감소시킴으로써 상대적으로 대조구 세포에 비해 높은 hGM-CSF 생산성을 유지시켰다. Ascorbic acid를 첨가한 후 배양 도중 betaine(1 mM)을 첨가하여 저온으로 온도를 변환시, hGM-CSF의 생산성 대조구 세포에 비하여 최대 2.1배 까지 높게 유지시켰다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.341-345
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• 2003

형질전환된 담배세포 배양을 이용한 hGM-CSF 생산에 있어 polyurethane foam 내 고정화법을 이용하여 연속배양의 가능성을 확인하였고 spinner flask에서의 배양에 따른 영향을 알아보았다. 16일 동안 3번의 배지교환에도 세포의 활성이 유지되어 hGM-CSF 생산량은 계속적으로 증가하였다. 온도와 교반속도를 동일하게 하였을 때 spinner flask에서의 hGM-CSF 생산량은 17.3 ${\mu}g/L$으로 100-mL flask의 9.8 ${\mu}g/L$보다 증가하였다. 따라서 최적의 배지교환 속도와 양을 결정하여 spinner flask에서 연속배양을 실시할 경우 세포 재사용이라는 경쟁력과 함께 높은 hGM-CSF 생산량이 얻어질 것으로 예상된다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.607-613
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• 2003

Dendritic cells (DCs) play an essential role in a variety of immune reactions involving $CD4^+$ T cells and have been used to enhance tumor-specific immune responses. Immunosuppression in patients with cancer includes the downregulation of function and number of DCs. Although DCs have been studied, the apoptosis of Des induced by anticancer drugs for chemotherapy remains largely uncharacterized. This study demonstrated that GM-CSF protects DCs from 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) or mitomycin C-induced apoptosis. After 6 - 10 days culture, DCs were characterized by specific surface marker, CD11c and MHC class II. MTT assay revealed that GM-CSF significantly enhanced the viability of DCs treated with 5-FU or mitomycin C. The percentage of dead cells of DCs was determined by cell size using FACScan and GM-CSF was clearly effective. However, GM-CSF did not increase the expression of MHC class II on viable DCs gated, suggesting that GM-CSF may differentially regulate critical factors involved in the function of DCs. For the quantitative analysis of apoptosis, annexin V-FITC staining was performed. 5-FU induced the apoptosis of DCs and GM-CSF significantly protects DCs from 5-FU-induced apoptosis. Taken together, the results in this study that GM-CSF has an anti-apoptosis effect on DCs may provide patients with cancer with clinical benefits to overcome the immunosuppression induced by the decrease of number and functional insufficiency of DCs.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.106-114
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• 2009

Genetic components introduced into approved GM crops are a key subject for safety assessment and provide a basis for the development of detection methods for GM crops. In order to understand the genetic components in approved GM crops comprehensively, we screened the genetic vector maps of GM crops that had been approved for commercialization around the world. A total of 64 varieties from 5 major GM crop species (maize, canola, cotton, soybean, and tomato) were subjected to analysis. The genetic components included genes, promoters, terminators, and selection marker. This survey may be useful for researchers who develop GM crops and methods for detecting GM crops.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 1999년도 제13회 식물생명공학심포지움 New Approaches to Understand Gene Function in Plants and Application to Plant Biotechnology
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• pp.45-49
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• 1999

Plant cell culture is emerging to express bioactive foreign proteins because it has several advantages in that it is safe, economical, genetically stable and eukaryotic expression system comparing with other expression systems. However several limitations such as slow growth rate, low expression level and lack of well established down stream process need to be answered. As a preliminary approach to produce the immunologically interested molecules through the plant cell culture, we tested if granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factors (GM-CSFs) from both murine (mGM-CSF) and human (hGM-CSF) are produced as a biologically active form through plant cell culture. The murine and human GM-CSF genes were cloned into the plant expression vector, pBI121, and Ti-plasmid mediated transformation of tobacco leaves was conducted using Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring both recombinant GM-CSF (rGM-CSF) genes. Cell suspension culture was established from the leaf-derived calli of transgenic tobacco plant. Northern blot analysis indicated the expression of the introduced mGM-CSF gene in both transgenic plant and cell suspension cultures. In addition, the biological activities of both murine and human GM-CSF from plant cell culture were confirmed by measuring the proliferation of the GM-CSF dependent FDC-PI and TF-1 cells, respectively.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.349-358
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• 1999

Thermodynamic cycle analysis has been performed to maximize the liquid amount for various hydrogen liquefaction systems using GM(Gifford-McMahon) refrigerator. Since the present authors' previous experiments showed that the liquefaction rate was approximately 5.1mg/s in a direct contact with a commercial GM refrigerator, the purpose of this study is to predict how much the liquefaction rate can be increased in different configurations and with improved heat exchanger performance. The optimal operating conditions have been analytically sought with real properties of normal hydrogen for the single-stage GM precooled L-H(Linde-Hampson) system, the two-stage GM direct contact system, the two-stage GM precooled L-H system and the two-stage helium GM-JT (Joule-Thomson) system. The maximum liquefaction rate has been predicted to be only about 7 times greater than the previous experiment, when the two-stage precooling is employed and the effectiveness of heat exchangers approaches to 99.0%. It is concluded that the liquefaction rate is limited mainly by the cooling capacity of the current GM refrigerators and a larger scale of hydrogen liquefaction is possible with a greater capacity of cryocooler at 60-70 K range.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 의료 기기용 401MHz - 406MHz MedRadio 대역에서 사용하는 저잡음 증폭기를 제안한다. 제안한 저잡음 증폭기는 전류 재사용 gm-boosting 기술을 이용한 공통 게이트 증폭기 구조를 채택하여 기존의 gm-boosted 공통 게이트 증폭기에 비해 동일한 전력소모에서 더 높은 전압 이득과 더 낮은 잡음 지수 특성을 얻었다. 제안한 전류 재사용 gm-boosted 저잡음 증폭기는 $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 설계하였고, 22 dB의 전압 이득, 2.95 dB의 잡음 지수, -17 dBm의 IIP3 특성을 보이며, 공급 전압 0.5 V에서 $170{\mu}W$의 전력을 소비한다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.189-192
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• 2002

우리나라 대부분의 어선은 침수 및 전복에 의해 야기되는 해양사고에 있어 그 빈도가 높으며, 특히 24m이하의 소형어선에서 두드러진다. 그럼에도 불구하고 소형어선에 대한 복원성 기준이 없을 뿐 아니라 소형어선의 복원성 자료를 찾기란 그리 쉽지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 90년 이후 표준어선으로 고시되어 건조 실적이 있는 실적선 10척에 대해 계측된 자료를 활용하여 이를 기초로 Genetic Programming을 이용한 GM 추정식을 도출하였다. 또한 국외 복원성 기준과 GP 추정식을 이용 각각에 대해서 GM을 평가하여, Genetic Programming에 의한 GM추정의 타당성을 보였다. 하지만, 이러한 결과값이 사용되기 위해서는 보다 많은 실적선 Data를 이용한 추론이 요구된다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.435-440
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• 2013

While the anti-apoptotic effect of paricalcitol has been demonstrated in various animal models, it is not yet clear whether paricalcitol attenuates the apoptosis in gentamicin (GM)-induced kidney injury. We investigated the effect of paricalcitol on apoptotic pathways in rat kidneys damaged by GM. Rats were randomly divided into three groups: 1) Control group (n=8), where only vehicle was delivered, 2) GM group (n=10), where rats were treated with GM (150 mg/kg/day) for 7 days, 3) PARI group (n=10), where rats were co-treated with paricalcitol (0.2 ${\mu}g/kg/day$) and GM for 7 days. Paricalcitol attenuated renal dysfunction by GM administration in biochemical profiles. In terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling staining, increased apoptosis was observed in GM group, which was reversed by paricalcitol co-treatment. Immunoblotting using protein samples from rat cortex/outer stripe of outer medulla showed increased Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and cleaved form of caspase-3 in GM group, both of which were reversed by paricalcitol. The phosphorylated Jun-N-terminal kinase (JNK) expression was increase in GM, which was counteracted by paricalcitol. The protein expression of p-Akt and nitro-tyrosine was also enhanced in GM-treated rats compared with control rats, which was reversed by paricalcitol co-treatment. Paricalcitol protects GM-induced renal injury by antiapoptotic mechanisms, including inhibition of intrinsic apoptosis pathway and JNK.