• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1221-1227
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• 2008

The application of the cellulase gene (celA) as a selection marker of food-grade integration system was investigated in Lactobacillus (Lb.) casei, Lactococcus lactis, and Leuconostoc (Leu.) mesenteroides. The 6.0-kb vector pOC13 containing celA from Clostridium thermocellum with an integrase gene and a phage attachment site originating from bacteriophage A2 was used for site-specific recombination into chromosomal DNA of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). pOC13 was also equipped with a broad host range plus replication origin from the lactococcal plasmid pWV01, and a controllable promoter of nisA ($P_{nisA}$) for the production of foreign proteins. pOC13 was integrated successfully into Lb. casei EM116, and pOC13 integrants were easily detectable by the formation of halo zone on plates containing cellulose. Recombinant Lb. casei EM 116::pOC13 maintained these traits in the absence of selection pressure during 100 generations. pOC13 was integrated into the chromosome of L. lactis and Leu. mesenteroides, and celA acted as an efficient selection marker. These results show that celA can be used as a food-grade selection marker, and that the new integrative vector could be used for the production of foreign proteins in LAB.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.315-328
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• 2021

Fusarium and Rhizoctonia genera are important pathogens of many field crops worldwide. They are constantly evolving and expanding their host range. Selecting resistant cultivars is an effective strategy to break their infection cycles. To this end, we screened a collection of Medicago truncatula accessions against Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, and Rhizoctonia solani strains isolated from different plant species. Despite the small collection, a biodiversity in the disease response of M. truncatula accessions ranging from resistant phenotypes to highly susceptible ones was observed. A17 showed relative resistance to all fungal strains with the lowest disease incidence and ratings while TN1.11 was among the susceptible accessions. As an initiation of the characterization of resistance mechanisms, the antioxidant enzymes' activities, at the early stages of infections, were compared between these contrasting accessions. Our results showed an increment of the antioxidant activities within A17 plants in leaves and roots. We also analyzed the responses of a population of recombinant inbred lines derived from the crossing of A17 and TN1.11 to the infection with the same fungal strains. The broad-sense heritability of measured traits ranged from 0.87 to 0.95, from 0.72 to 0.96, and from 0.14 to 0.85 under control, F. oxysporum, and R. solani conditions, respectively. This high estimated heritability underlines the importance of further molecular analysis of the observed resistance to identify selection markers that could be incorporated into a breeding program and thus improving soil-borne pathogens resistance in crops.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.603-607
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• 2018

This study was carried out to determine the pathogen-causing diarrhoea in sheep Ovis aries in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Area, China. A trophozoite was identified as species of ciliate alveolates infecting the sheep based on morphological characteristics examined by microscope. It was mostly spherical, colourless and transparent, with many vesicles. Macronucleus and contractile vacuoles could not be distinguished. Size of the trophozoite was $80-180{\times}70-150{\mu}m$ and its surface was covered with cilia. Molecular analysis based on sequences of 18S rRNA and ITS genes confirmed the ciliate species as Balantidium coli. According to the literature, there have been many epidemiological investigations of B. coli infection in pigs, monkeys and humans. To our knowledge, this was the first report of B. coli infections in sheep in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Area of China, or eleswhere around the world. Importantly, the sheep case was rare but raised our concern that B. coli may spread across species and expand its host range.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.427-439
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• 2018

Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units have the advantages of their ability to provide storage and offloading capabilities which are not available in other types of floating production systems. In addition, FPSOs also provide a large deck area and substantial topsides payload capacity. They are in use in a variety of water depths and environments around the world. It is a good solution for offshore oil and gas development in fields where there is lack of an export pipeline system to shore. However due to their inherently high motions in waves, they are limited in the types of risers they can host. The Low Motion FPSO (LM-FPSO) is a novel design that is developed to maintain the advantages of the conventional FPSOs while offering significantly lower motion responses. The LM-FPSO design generally consists of a box-shape hull with large storage capacity, a free-hanging solid ballast tank (SBT) located certain distance below the hull keel, a few groups of tendons arranged to connect the SBT to the hull, a mooring system for station keeping, and a riser system. The addition of SBT to the floater results in a significant increase in heave, roll and pitch natural periods, mainly through the mass and added mass of the SBT, which significantly reduces motions in the wave frequency range. Model tests were performed at the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO) in the fall of 2016. An analytical model of the basin model (MOM) was created in Orcaflex and calibrated against the basin-model. Good agreement is achieved between global performance results from MOM's predictions and basin model measurements. The model test measurements have further verified the superior motion response of LM-FPSO. In this paper, numerical results are presented to demonstrate the comparison and correlation of the MOM results with model test measurements. The verification of the superior motion response through model test measurements is also presented in this paper.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.35.1-35.9
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• 2022

Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats are motifs of 1 to 6 nucleotides in length present in both coding and non-coding regions of DNA. These are found widely distributed in the whole genome of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, bacteria, and viruses and are used as molecular markers in studying DNA variations, gene regulation, genetic diversity and evolutionary studies, etc. However, in vitro microsatellite identification proves to be time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, the present research has been focused on using an in-house built java pipeline to identify, analyse, design primers and find related statistics of perfect and compound microsatellites in the seven complete genome sequences of coronavirus, including the genome of coronavirus disease 2019, where the host is Homo sapiens. Based on search criteria among seven genomic sequences, it was revealed that the total number of perfect simple sequence repeats (SSRs) found to be in the range of 76 to 118 and compound SSRs from 01 to10, thus reflecting the low conversion of perfect simple sequence to compound repeats. Furthermore, the incidence of SSRs was insignificant but positively correlated with genome size (R² = 0.45, p > 0.05), with simple sequence repeats relative abundance (R² = 0.18, p > 0.05) and relative density (R² = 0.23, p > 0.05). Dinucleotide repeats were the most abundant in the coding region of the genome, followed by tri, mono, and tetra. This comparative study would help us understand the evolutionary relationship, genetic diversity, and hypervariability in minimal time and cost.

• 식물병연구
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.98-107
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• 2022

The incidence of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) and biological and molecular characterization of the Palestinian isolates of ToBRFV are described in this study. Symptomatic leaf samples obtained from Solanum lycopersicum L. (tomatoes) and Nicotiana tabacum L. (cultivated tobacco) plants were tested for tobamoviruses infection by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Tomato leaf samples collected from Tulkarm and Qalqilia are infected with ToBRFV-PAL with an infection rate of 76% and 72.5%, respectively. Leaf samples collected from Jenin and Nablus were found to be mixed infected with ToBRFV-PAL and Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) (100%). Sequence analysis of the ToBRFV-PAL genome showed that the net average nucleotide divergence between ToBRFV/F48-PAL strain and the Israeli and Turkish strains was 0.0026398±0.0006638 (±standard error of mean), while it was 0.0033066±0.0007433 between ToBRFV/F42-PAL and these two isolates. In the phylogenetic tree constructed with the complete genomic sequence, all the ToBRFV isolates were clustered together and formed a sister branch with the TMV. The sequenced Palestinian isolates of ToBRFV-PAL shared the highest nucleotide identity with the Israeli ToBRFV isolate suggesting that the virus was introduced to Palestine from Israel. The findings of this study enhance our understanding of the biological and molecular characteristics of ToBRFV which would help in the management of the disease.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.65-76
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• 2006

난지형 잔디인 한국 안양잔디에서 달라스팟의 병원균인 Sclerotinia honoeocarpa의 isolate, Scz1이 최근 새롭게 동정되었다. Scz1은 한지형 잔디인 크리핑 벤트그래스에서 분리된 표준 균주인 Scb1과는 다른 균사의 색상, 균사간의 친밀도 그리고 병 기주 특이성을 가지는 것으로 알려졌다. 본 연구에서는, Scz1, Scz2(난지형 잔디에서 분리한 또 다른 달라스팟 병원균) 그리고 Scb1을 분자생물학적인 연구, internal transcribed spacer(ITS) 와 random amplified polymorphic DNA(RAPD) assays를 이용하여 동정 및 유전자적 차이를 알아보았다. ITS 실험의 결과, 3개의 isolates가 ITS 부분적 염기 서열 비교 BLAST에 등록되어 있는 S. homoeocarpa의 ITS 염기 서열과 $94{\sim}97%$의 동일성을 지니는 것으로 밝혀졌다. RAPD 실험 결과로는, Scz1과 Scb1의 similarity matrix 범위는 0.167이였고, Scz2와 Scb1은 0.139 그리고, Scz1과 Scz2은 0.713이였다. 계통수(系統樹) 결과는 Scb1과는 달리 Scz1과 Scz2는 유전적으로 높은 동일성을 지니고 있어, 같은 분류에 속한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 달라스팟 병원균 억제에 효과적인 농약인 프로피코나졸에 대한 $EC_{50}$은 Scz1은 0.012 ${\mu}g/ml$, Scz2은 0.003 ${\mu}g/ml$ 그리고 Scb1은 0.030 ${\mu}g/ml$이었다. 상기 결과로, 동일 병원 기주성과 유사한 유전적 친밀성을 보인 Scz1과 Scz2는 S. homoeocarpa의 동일 그룹에 속하였으나 농약 민감도에서는 차이점을 보였다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 향후, 보다 더 많은 한지형과 난지형 잔디에서 분리된 병원균들을 이용하여 유전적 다양성을 밝히는 연구가 진행되어야 할 것이다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.345-361
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• 1994

Lens shaped titanomagnetite ore bodies in the Soyeonpyeong iron mine are embedded in amphibolites, which were intruded into Precambrian metasediments such as garnet-mica schist, marble, mica schist, and quartz schist. Mineral chemistry, K-Ar dating and hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopic analysis for the amphibolites and titanomagnetite ores were conducted to interpret petrogenesis of amphibolite and ore genesis of titanomagnetite iron ore deposits. Amphibolites of igneous origin have unusually high content of $TiO_2$, ranging from 0.94 to 6.39 wt.% with an average value of 4.05 wt.%. REE patterns of the different lithology of the amphibolite show the similar trend with an enrichment of LREE. Amphiboles of amphibolites are consist mainly of calcic amphiboles such as ferro-hornblende, tschermakite, ferroan pargasite, and ferroan pargasitic hornblende. K-Ar ages of hornblende from amphibolite and gneissic amphibolite were determined as $440.04{\pm}6.39Ma$ and $351.03{\pm}5.21Ma$, respectively. This indicates two metamorphic events of Paleozoic age in the Korean peninsula which are correlated with Altin orogeny in China. The titanomagnetite mineralization seems to have occurred before Cambrian age based on occurrence of orebodies and ages of host amphibolites. The Soyeonpyeong iron ores are composed mainly of titanomagnetite, ilmenite, and secondary minerals such as ilmenite and hercynite exsolved in titanomagnetite. The temperature and the oxygen fugacity estimated by the titanomagnetite-ilmenite geothermometer are $500{\sim}600^{\circ}C$ (ave. $550^{\circ}C$) and about $2{\pm}10^{-23}bar$, respectively. Hornblendes from ores and amphibolites which responsible for magnetite ore mineralization, have a relatively homogeneous isotopic composition ranging from +0.8 to +3.9 ‰ in ${\delta}^{18}O$ and from -87.8 to -113.3 ‰ in ${\delta}D$. The calculated oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions of the fluids which were in equilibrium with hornblende at $550^{\circ}C$, range from 2.8 to 5.9‰ in ${\delta}^{18}O_{H2O}$ and from -60.41 to -81.31 ‰ in ${\delta}D_{H2O}$. The ${\delta}^{18}O_{H2O}$ value of magnetite ore fluids are in between +6.4 to + 7.9 ‰. All of these values fall in the range of primary magmatic water. A slight oxygen shift means that $^{18}O$-depleted meteoric water be acted with basic fluids during immiscible processes between silicate and titaniferous oxide melt. Mineral chemistry, isotopic compositions, and occurences of amphibolites and orebodies, suggest that the titanomagnetite melt be separated immisciblely from the titaniferous basic magma.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제62권3호
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• pp.287-292
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• 2019

Pseudomonas tolaasii는 느타리버섯에 갈반병을 일으키는 병원균주로, 다양한 변이균주들을 분리하여 $P1{\alpha}$와 $P1{\beta}$, $P1{\gamma}$ 세 가지 소그룹으로 분류하였다. 각 그룹별 균주들에 특이적인 박테리오파지를 이용한 파지테라피는 갈반병 방제에 매우 성공적이었다. 본 연구에서는, 박테리오파지들의 특성을 구명하기 위하여 소그룹별 대표균주을 이용하여 파지를 분리하였고, 이들의 다클론항체를 제작하여 파지들 사이에 유연관계를 조사하였다. 파지 준비물은 $10^{10}pfu/mL$ 이상으로 토끼의 다리 근육에 주사하였고, 3회의 반복주사에 의해 다클론항체가 얻어졌다. 파지 ${\phi}6264$에 대한 항체의 역가는 $2{\times}10^7Ab/mL$ 이상, 파지 ${\phi}HK2$에 대해서는 $1{\times}10^6Ab/mL$, 파지 ${\phi}HK19$와 ${\phi}HK23$에 대해서는 $1{\times}10^7Ab/mL$ 이상이었다. 항체와 이에 특이적인 파지 사이에는 매우 높은 반응특이성이 있었고, 소그룹이 다른 파지의 항체와 파지 사이에도 일부 교차반응성을 확인하였다. 파지 ${\phi}6264$에서 생성된 $Ab{\phi}6264$는 모든 $P1{\alpha}$ 소그룹의 파지들과 반응성을 보였으나, 파지 ${\phi}HK16$을 제외한 다른 소그룹의 파지들과는 반응하지 않았다. $P1{\gamma}$ 소그룹에서 생성된 $Ab{\phi}HK23$은 $P1{\beta}$ 소그룹의 모든 파지들을 불활성화시켜 가장 넓은 항체범위를 보였다. 항체와 파지를 이용한 숙주균과의 관계를 분석하였을 때, 16S rRNA 유전자 분석에 의한 숙주균의 근연관계와 항체를 이용한 숙주균의 파지들 사이의 구조적 근연관계는 상당히 차이가 있음을 확인하였다. 결론적으로, 박테리오파지의 숙주균 특이성과 항체를 이용해 측정한 파지의 껍질단백질 구조유사성 사이에는 약한 상관성을 보였다.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2015년도 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회
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• pp.55-55
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• 2015

Rust is one of the most destructive diseases on economically important plants such as agricultural and horticultural crops, as well as forest trees [1]. Chemical treatment is the most effective means to control rust, but use of the chemical fungicides involves inevitable risks to human health and environment [2]. Unfortunately, biocontrol is currently impracticable for rust disease management [3]. It is necessary to exploit biocontrol agents to help prevent rust diseases. As a fundamental research for future development of biocontrol agents for rusts, biodiversity of hyperparasites occurring on rust fungi was investigated. During 2006-2010, 197 fungal isolates of the rust hyperparasites were collected and isolated from various combinations of mycohosts and plant hosts in many regions of Korea. Based on morphological and molecular data, they were identified as 8 genera and 12 species. Besides, phylogenetic relationships between the hyperparasites and related taxa were inferred. A total of 114 isolates of Pseudovirgaria were obtained from rust pustules of Phragmidium spp. and Pucciniastrum agrimoniae infecting rosaceous plants. Phylogenetic analysis using multigene sequences revealed a high level of genetic variability among many isolates of Pseudovirgaria and close correlation between the isolates and mycohosts. Only two species of Pseudovirgaria, P. hyperparasitica and P. grisea are often difficult to distinguish by their morphological similarity, but on the molecular basis they were clearly differentiated from each other. There had been no previous record of P. grisea outside Europe, but the present study has proved its presence in Korea. Among six distinct groups (five of P. hyperparasitica and one of P. grisea) within the Pseudovirgaria isolates, each lineage of P. hyperparasitica was closely associated with specific mycohosts and thus might have cospeciated with their mycohosts, which probably led to coevolution. Although P. grisea possesses a host preference for Phragmidium species occurring on Rubus, it was not specific for a mycohost. P. grisea seems to evolve in the direction of having a broad mycohost range. Seventeen isolates of Verticillium-like fungi were isolated from rust sori. Based on morphological data and DNA sequence analysis, the isolates were identified as three Lecanicillium species, viz. L. attenuatum, Lecanicillium sp. 1, Lecanicillium sp. 2, and V. epiphytum. The unidenified two species of Lecanicillium appear to be previously unknown taxa. Sixty-six isolates of miscellaneous hyphomycetes belonging to 6 species of 5 genera were obtained from pustules of rust fungi. On the basis of morphological and molecular analyses, the miscellaneous hyphomycetes growing on rusts were identified as Acrodontium crateriforme, Cladophialophora pucciniophila, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Phacellium vossianum, Ramularia coleosporii, and R. uredinicola.