• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.105-111
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• 2016

${\beta}-carotene$ is present in carrots, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes. It suppresses many types of cancers by regulating cellular proliferation and apoptosis through a variety of mechanisms. However, the effects of ${\beta}-carotene$ on oral cancer cells have not been clearly established. The main goal of this study was to investigate the effects of ${\beta}-carotene$ on cell growth and apoptosis in oral cancer cells. Our results demonstrate that treatment with ${\beta}-carotene$ induced inhibition of cell growth, and that the effect was dependent on ${\beta}-carotene$ treatment time and concentration in KB cells. Furthermore, treatment with ${\beta}-carotene$ induced nuclear condensation and fragmentation in KB cells. ${\beta}-carotene$ promoted proteolytic cleavage of procaspase-3, -7, -8 and -9 with associated increases in the concentration of cleaved caspase-3, -7, -8 and -9. In addition, the level of cleaved PARP was increased by ${\beta}-carotene$ treatment in KB cells. These results suggest that ${\beta}-carotene$ can suppress cell growth and induce apoptosis in KB human oral cancer cells, and that it may have potential usefulness in anti-cancer drug discovery efforts.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.495-500
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• 1998

D-type G1 cyclins are known to be crucial for the progression of mitotic cell cycle in mammals. Although many studies have been performed to elucidate the roles of D-type cyclins, it is largely unknown whether D-type cyclins are directly involved in the regulation of meiotic germ cell development. In the present study, we examined the expression patterns of D-type cyclins (cyclin D1 and D3) during male germ cell development by northern blot and in situ Hybridization analyses. In the adult testes, we detected a 4.2 kb cyclin D1 mRNA and two different sizes (2.3 kb and 1.8 kb) of cyclinD3 mRNAs. The short form of the cyclin D3 transcript was testis-specific. Along with the testicular development, expression of cyclin D3 mRNA was increased whereas cyclin D1 mRNA was gradually decreased. in situ hybridization study also revealed that the expression of cyclin D3 was restricted to the postmeiotic germ cells. Furthermore, the 2.3 kb transcript was highly expressed in the round spermatids and decreased in the elongated spermatids/residual bodies, while the 1.8 kb transcript was expressed in elongated spermatids/residual bodies more abundantly. Sucrose-gradient separation of polysomal RNA fractions demonstrated that some portions of the 2.3 kb transcript are translationally active, while the 1.8 kb transcript is likely to be inactive. Taken together, the present data suggest a functional importance of cyclin D3 expression in the differentiated postmeiotic male germ cells.

• 치과방사선
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.59-71
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• 1998

The radiation-induced apoptosis was studied for two human cancer cell lines (KB cells, RPMI 2650 cells) and the human gingival fibroblast cell line (HGF-1 cells). The single irradiation of 2, 10, 20Gy was done with 241.5 cGylmin dose rate using the /sup 137/Cs MK cell irradiator. The cells were stained with propidium iodide and examined under the fluoro-microscope and assayed with the flow cytometry a day after irradiation. Also, the LDH assay was done to determine the amount of necrotic cells. The obtained results were as follows: 1. On the fluoro-microscope, many fragmented nuclei were detected in the KB, RPMI 2650, and HGF-1 cells after irradiation. 2. On the DNA content histogram obtained from the flow cytometry, the percentages of the pre-Gl peak of the control and 2, 10 and 20Gy irradiation group were 4.5, 55.0, 52.3, and 66.6％ on KB cells, 2.7, 3.3, 31.8, and 32.6％ on RPMI 2650 cells and 2.8, 21.8, 30.4, and 40.2％ on HGF-1 cells respectively. 3. The number of Gl-stage cells was abruptly decreased after 2Gy irradiation on KB cells and 10Gy irradiation on RPMI 2650 cells, But there was a slight decrease without regard to irradiation dose on HGF-1 cells. 4. There was no significantly different absorbance in extracellular LDH assay along the experimental cell lines.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.491-494
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• 1994

Antibiotic HS-2 was purified from the culture broth of Streptomyces plicatosporus which was isolated from soil, by solvent extraction, silica gel column chromatography and gel filtration. Through the analysis of UV, $^{1}$H-NMR, $^{13}$C-NMR spectrum, HS-2 was identified as rubiginone B$_{2}$. It was confirmed that HS-2 enhanced the cytotoxicity of colchicine against multidrug-resistant tumor cells.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2012

The shortage of human organs for transplantation has induced the research on the possibility of using animal as porcine. However, pig to human transplantation as known as xeno-transplantation has major problem as immunorejection. Recently, the solutions of pig to human xenotransplantation are commonly mentioned as having a genetically modification which include alpha 1, 3 galatosyl transferase knockout (GTKO) and immune-suppressing gene transgenic model. Unfortunately, the expression level of transgenic gene is very low activity. Therefore, development of gene overexpression system is the most urgent issue. Also, the tissue specific overexpression system is very important. Because most blood vessels are endothelial cells, establishment of the endothelial-specific promoter is attractive candidates for the introduction of suppressing immunorejection. In this study, we focus the ICAM2 promoter which has endothelial-specific regulatory region. To detect the regulatory region of ICAM2 promoter, we cloned 3.7 kb size mini-pig ICAM2 promoter. We conduct serial deletion of 5' flanking region of mini-pig ICAM2 promoter then selected promoter size as 1 kb, 1.5 kb, 2 kb, 2.5 kb, and 3 kb. To analyze promoter activity, luciferase assay system was conducted among these vectors and compare endothelial activity with epithelial cells. The reporter gene assay revealed that ICAM2 promoter has critical activity in endothelial cells (CPAE) and 1 kb size of ICAM2 promoter activity was significantly increased. Taken together, our studies suggest that mini-pig ICMA2 promoter is endothelial cell specific overexpression promoter and among above all size of promoters, 1 kb size promoter is optimal candidate to overcome the vascular immunorejection in pig to human xenotransplantation.

• 생약학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.174-178
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• 1997

Methanol extracts from 450 plants were screened for muttidrug-resistance reversing activity using drug sensitive KB-3-1 and multidrug-resistant KB-Vl cells. Among them, the extracts of Cynanchum wilfordii, Torilis japonica, Celastrus orbiculatus, Melia toosendan and Teminialia chebula strongly potentiated vinblastine cytotoxicity in KB-Vl cells. But their cytotoxicities to both sensitive KB-3-1 and resistant KB-Vl cells were in the same order of magnitude. These results indicate that the above samples would contain the active principles which do not exert their ativity solely by cytotoxicity.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2007

Anti-proliferation of methanol extract of Curcuma rhizome on oral squamous cell carcinoma (KB) and osteosarcoma (HOS) cells were investigated. In order to elucidate the involvement of telomerase inhibitory activity as a part of anti-proliferative effect of Curcuma rhizome on cancer cells, we measured telomerase activity in Curcuma rhizome extract-treated cancer cells. The concentration inhibited cell proliferation to 50% $(IC_{50})$ of the methanol extract of Curcuma rhizome against oral squamous cell carcinoma (KB) cells and osteosarcoma (HOS) cells were 21.30 ${\mu}g/ml$ and 39.3${\mu}g/ml$, respectively. The methanol extract of Curcuma rhizome showed inhibitory telomerase inhibitory effect which is required for cancer cell immortality. Therefore, it seems that the anticancer effect of methanol extract of Curcuma rhizome is at least partially due to telomerase inhibitory effect. Five fraction samples were prepared according to its polarity differences and analyzed anti-proliferative effects of each fraction samples on oral squamous cell carcinoma and osteosarcoma cells. Anticancer effect was observed in dichloromethane, and ethylacetate fractions. The highest anticancer effect was found in dichloromethane fraction which had $IC_{50}$ value of 23.3 ${\mu}g/ml$ and 10.5${\mu}g/ml$ against oral squamous cell carcinoma (KB) cells and osteosarcoma (HOS) cells, respectively.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2019

본 연구는 오브알부민 프로모터의 최적 크기를 결정하기 위해 수행하였고, 이를 위해 2.8, 5.5, 그리고 Mut-4.4 kb의 오브알부민 프로모터를 리포터 벡터에 클로닝하여 다양한 세포들에서 프로모터의 활성을 검증하였다. Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 HeLa, MES-SA, 그리고 LMH/2A에서 높은 수준의 프로모터 활성을 유도하였으나, cEF 세포에서는 낮은 활성을 보였다. 한편, Mut-4.4kb-pOV/pGL4.11 벡터가 도입된 HeLa, MES-SA, LMH/2A, 그리고 cEF 세포에서 에스트로겐 처리에 의한 반응성을 검증한 결과, cEF 세포를 제외한 나머지 세포들은 에스트로겐을 처리했을 때 리포터 유전자의 발현량이 증가하였다. 또한 LMH/2A 세포에 500 nM 에스트로겐 처리 결과, Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 에스트로겐 처리 후에도 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 높은 수준의 프로모터 활성을 유도하였다. 더불어 ERE 영역이 없는 2.8kb-pOV는 LMH/2A 세포에서 500 nM 에스트로겐 처리 후 프로모터의 활성에 효과가 없었으나, ERE 영역을 포함하는 5.5 그리고 Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 에스트로겐 처리에 의해 프로모터의 활성이 증가한 결과를 보였다. 이상의 결과는 Mut-4.4kb-pOV가 형질전환 암탉을 생산하기 위한 재조합바이러스 벡터의 프로모터 영역으로 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 보다 효율적인 크기임을 보여주는 결과이다.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.15-19
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• 2002

고삼 추출물의 암세포에 대한 세포독성을 파악하기 위하여 고삼의 에틸 아세테이트 소분획으로 MTT 정량분석을 실시하였다. 고삼의 에틸 아세테이트 소분획은 암세포인 KB 세포, B16 세포, HeLa 세포와 MCF-7 세포에 대하여 $6.25{\mu}g/ml$ 농도부터 세포독성이 나타났으며, 12.5, 25, 50 및 $100{\mu}g/ml$까지 각각의 농도별로 세포독성은 증가하였고, 통계적으로 유의성이 인정되었다(p<0.05). KB 세포에 대한 $IC_{50}$는 $56.58{\mu}g/ml$, B16 세포에 대한 $IC_{50}$는 $65.43{\mu}g/ml$, HeLa 세포에 대한 $IC_{50}$는 $83.95{\mu}g/ml$, MCF-7 세포에 대한 $IC_{50}$는 $106.65{\mu}g/ml$로 나타났다. 고삼의 에틸 아세테이트 소분획은 암세포의 성장을 억제하였고, 세포독성의 강도는 B16 세포, HeLa세포, MCF-7 세포, KB 세포 순서로 높게 나타났다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.75-79
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• 1991

The yeast L-A virus (4.6 kb dsRNA genome) encodes the major coat protein and a "gag-pol" fusion minor coat protein that separately encapsidate itself and $M_{1}$, a 1.8 kb dsRNA satellite virus encoding a secreted protein toxin (the killer toxin). The teast chromosomal SKI genes prevent viral cytopathology by lowering the virus copy number. Thus, $ski^{-}$ mutants are ts and cs for growth. We transformed a ski2-2 virus-infested mutant with a yeast bank in a high copy cloning vector and selected the rare healthy transformants for analysis. One type of transformant segregated M-O L-A-O cells with high frequency. Elimination of the DNA clone from the ski2-2 strain eliminated this phinotype and introduction of the DNA clone recovered from such transformants into the parent ski2-2 strain, or into ski3 or ski6 mutants gave the same phenotype. This killer-curing phenotype was due to the curing of the helper L-A dsRNA virus. The 6.5 kb insert only had this activity when carried on a high copy vector and in $ski^{-}$ cells (not in $SKI^{+}$ cells). This 6.5 kb insert acts as a mutagen on L-A dsRNA producing a high rate of deletion mutations.mutations.