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Human $\alpha_1$-Antitrypsin Variant with Enhanced Conformational Stability at the Cost of Activity

  • Seo, Eun-Joo;Hana Im;Yu, Myeong-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Biophysical Society Conference
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    • 1997.07a
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    • pp.39-39
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    • 1997
  • Native strain of inhibitory SERPINS (Serine protease inhibitors) is thought to be used in the facile conformational switch to play biological regulation. Many heat stable variants of $\alpha$$_1$-antitrypsin, a prototype of inhibitory serpins, increased their stability by reducing the native strain.(omitted)

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Effect of Cupric Ion on the PSII Activity in Isolated Chinese Cabbage Chloroplasts (배추 엽록체의 광계II 활성에 미치는 구리이온의 영향)

  • 박인호
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.181-187
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    • 1987
  • Copper inhibited PSII-mediated O2 evolution (H2OlongrightarrowDCIP, H2OlongrightarrowSiMo) but not PSImediated O2 uptake(DCIP. Asc.longrightarrowMV) in isolated Chinese cabbage chloroplasts. Copper toxicity on PSII-mediated O2 evolution was higher at alkaline condition than at acidic condition and was inhanced by light illumination after copper treatment. The increased toxicity by light illumination was not recovered by subsequent dark treatment. The inhibitory effect of copper on H2OlongrightarrowDCIP reaction was higher than that on H2OlongrightarrowSiMo reaction. This result suggests that there may be another inhibitory site of copper on PSII other than water oxidizing side of PSII.

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Phenolic Compounds from Barks of Pinus densiflora siebold et Zuccarini and Their NO Production Inhibitory Activities.

  • Kwon, Young-Min;Yeom, Seung-Hwan;Kim, Min-Ki;Lee, Jae-Hee;Lee, Min-Won
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.374.1-374.1
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    • 2002
  • The barks o.f Pinus densiflara representative Pinus species graws in Korea, have been used for oriental traditional medicine as the remedies for rheumatitis. hemorrhage and cancer. Water soluble fraction of 80% acetone extracts from the barks af Pinus densiflera (PDB) showed nitrogen monoxide(NO) production inhibitory activity in IFN-${\gamma}$. LPS stimulated RAW 264.7 cell. (omitted)

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Antiallergic Activities of Daidzein, a Metabolite of Puerarin and Daidzin Produced by Human Intestinal Microflora

  • Park, Eun-Kyung;Choo, Min-Kyung;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.225.1-225.1
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    • 2003
  • To evaluate the antiallergic activities of puerarin and daidzin from the rhizome of Pueraria lobata, in vitro and in vivo inhibitory activities of these compounds and their metabolite daidzein were measured. Daidzein exhibited potent inhibitory activity on the B-hexosaminidase release induced by DNP-HSA and potently inhibited the PCA reaction in mice. (omitted)

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Virus-cell fusion inhibitory compounds from Ailanthus altissima Swingle

  • Lee, Hyang-Hee;Chang, Young-Su;Moon, Young-Hee;Woo, Eun-Rhan
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.264.1-264.1
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    • 2003
  • In order to search for the anti-HIV agents from natural products, Eighty MeOH extracts of medicinal plants were applied to a syncytia formation inhibition assay which is based on the interaction between the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120/gp41 and the cellular membrane protein CD4 of T lymphocytes. Among them, Ailanthus altissima showed a potent virus-cell fusion inhibitory activity. (omitted)

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Antifungal Activity of Magnolol and Honokiol

  • Bang, Kyu-Ho;Kim, Yoon-Kwan;Min, Byung-Sun;Na, Min-Kyun;Rhee, Young-Ha;Lee, Jong-Pill;Bae, Ki-Hwan
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.46-49
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    • 2000
  • Two neolignan compound, magnolol $(5,5^{l}-diallyl-2,2^{l}-dihydroxybiphenyl, 1)$ and honokiol $(5,5^{l}-diallyl-2,4^{l}-dihydroxybiphenyl, 2)$ were isolated from the stem bark of Magnolia obovata and evaluated for antifungal activity against various human pathogenic fungi. Compound 1 and 2 showed significant inhibitory activities against Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporium gypseum, Epidermophyton floccosum, Aspergillus niger, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Candida albicans with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) in a range of $25-100{\mu}g/ml$. Therefore, compound 1 and 2 could be used as lead compounds for the development of novel antifungal agents.

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The Effect of ${\gamma}-Aminobutyric$ Acid on the Intestinal Motility of Rabbit (${\gamma}-Aminobutyric$ Acid가 토끼 장관운동에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Kae-Yurl;Lee, Myung-Hi;Jung, Hyung;Lim, Kyu-Parl
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 1967
  • In order to find out the effects of GABA on the rabbit's intestinal motility, the following experiments were carried out using Magnus method and the results obtained were as follows: 1. GABA inhibited the intestinal motility of rabbits initially. 2. GABA potentiated the inhibitory action of adrenaline and nor-adrenaline. 3. GABA inhibited the accelerating activity of acetylcholine on the intestinal motility by its anti acetylcholine effect. 4. The inhibitory action of GABA was unaffected with atropinization, strychnin, picrotoxin treatment, but the accelerating activity of GABA observed in some cases was only in the picrotoxin treatment.

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Selective Combination Effect of Anethole to the Antifungal Activities of Miconazole and Amphotericin B (Miconazole과 Amphotericin B의 항진균 활성에 대한 Anethole의 선택적 병용 효과)

  • 이상화;김창진
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.228-232
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    • 1999
  • The combination effect of anethole with amphotericin B, fluconazole, miconazole, or 5-fluorocytosine was investigated against Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When combined with $\frac{1}{2}$ minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) or $\frac{1}{2}$ minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC) of anethole, the antifungal activities of fluconazole and 5-fluorocytosine were not changed, but the fungistatic and the fungicidal activities of miconazole were increased 64-fold, respectively. In the case of amphotericin B, the fungistatic activity was increased 2-fold, while the fungicidal activity was decreased 2-fold. The combination effect of anethole with miconazole or amphotericin B was also investigated at the various concentrations using the macrobroth dilution checkerboard method. The fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) and the fractional fungicidal concentration (FFC) index between B exhibited the FIC index of 8.25 and the FFC of 32.06, respectively. Thus, it is analyzed that the combination of anethole with miconazole or amphotericin B on the antifungal action shows synergism and antagonism, respectively.

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Production of Dye-decolorizing Enzyme using Molasses-containing Medium

  • Lee, Tae-Ho;Shoda, Makoto
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.57-58
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    • 2000
  • Production of dye-decolorizing enzyme was investigated with the cultivation of Geotrichum candidum Dec1 (abbreviated to Dec1) using molasses as a cheap raw materials. Molasses was found to stimulate the enzyme production as well as a role of carbon source, because the production increased with molasses content up to 50 g/L. However, the severe inhibition of dye-decolorizing enzyme activity was observed even at low concentration of molasses 10 g/L when purified decolorizing peroxidase was used. Its inhibitory effect was reduced through the cultivation of Dec1. The fractions of molasses separated by a gel chromatography showed the different degrees of inhibition. As a way to reduce the inhibitory effect, the dilution of culture broth was examined, and the total decolorizing activity for Reactive blue 5 increased 7 times as much as that of original culture broth by 30 times dilution. On the basis of result, we proposed a process scheme which can fully utilize both positive and negative effect of molasses in dye-decolorizing process using molasses.

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Inhibitory Action of the Paraquat on Superoxide Dismutase of Excherichia coli (Paraquat에 의한 Escherichia coli의 Superoxide Dismutase 활성저해)

  • 김미림;최경호
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.849-855
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    • 1994
  • Actively growin Excherichia coli(KCTC 1039) cells were treated with paraquat (1, 1'-dimethyl-4, 4'-bipyridili-um dichloride) by cultivating them in the presence of 1.0mM paraquat. The treatment was carried out with or without shaking to understand the effect of oxygen on paraquat action to thebacterial superoxide dismutase (SOd). By the treatment with vigorous shaking , population growth of the organism almostly stopped and specific activities of SOD of the cells drastically decreased. On contrast ot it, the herbicide showed only l limited inhibitory action on bacterial growth and SOD activity by stationary treatment. Proteins prepared from parquat-treated cells divided into two peaks by Sephacryl column chormatogrpahy, while proteins from the intact cells formed a single peak. Cytoplasmic proteins and plasma membrane proteins of intact cells formed separated three peaks by Sephadex G-75 column chormatography. respectively. Among them the second peak disappeared by paraquat treatment , while the third peak became more apparent. Fractions from the first and the third peak showed SOD activity. Paraquat was detected from the same fractions.

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