• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2001

Nebulin is an approximately 700 kDa filamentous protein in vertebrate skeletal muscle. It binds to the Z line and also binds side-by-side to the entire thin actin filament in a sarcomere. The correlation of nebulin size with thin filament length have led to the suggestion that nebulin acts as a molecular ruler for the length of thin filaments. The C-terminal part of human nebulin is anchored in the sarcomeric Z-disk and contains an SH3 domain. SH3 domains have been identified in an ever-increasing number of proteins important for a wide range of cellular processes, from signal transduction to cytoskeleton assembly and membrane localization. However, the exact physiological role of SH3 domains remains, in many cases, unclear. To explore the role of nebulin SH3 in the cytoskeletal rearrangement that accompanies myoblast differentiation, we transfected sense and antisense nebulin SH3 domain fused to enhanced green fluorescent protein in myoblast. Cells expressing nebulin SH3 fragment showed decrease of cell-cell adhesion, and cells transfected with antisense nebulin SH3 gene showed a rounded cell morphology and loss of cell-matrix adhesion. No alteration in cell shape and differentiation were observed in control cells expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein. Perturbation of nebulin altered the cell shape and disrupted cell adhesion in myoblast, demonstrating that nebulin can affect cytoskeleton rearrangement.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2012

Apidaecin Ib had strong antimicrobial activity against several tested Gram-negative bacteria including Escherichia coli, Enterobacter cloacae, and Shigella flexneri (MECs; $0.3-1.5{\mu}g/mL$), but showed no activity against all the tested Gram-positive bacteria including Bacillus subtilis, Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus and one yeast, Candida albicans (MECs; > $125{\mu}g/mL$). Interestingly, this peptide showed potent antibacterial activity only against Edwardsiella species (MECs; $0.6-3.6{\mu}g/mL$) among the tested fish pathogenic bacteria through a bacteriostatic process and showed no significant hemolytic activity. Apidaecin Ib took an unordered structure in all environments and also had very weak membrane perturbation activity even at $25{\mu}M$. Anti-Edwardsiella activity of apidaecin Ib is stronger than those of other antimicrobial polypeptides or antibiotics, but its activity is salt-sensitive. These results suggest that apidaecin Ib has Edwardsiella speciesspecific antibacterial activity and could be applied as new preventive or control additives for Edwardsiella species infection in freshwater fish aquaculture.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.25-28
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• 2003

Ion channel inhibitors are widely used for pharmacological discrimination between the different channel types as well as for determination of their functional role. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) could affect the large conductance $Ca^{2+}$-activated $K^+$ channel ($BK_{Ca}$) currents using perforated-patch or cell-attached configuration of patch-clamp technique in the rabbit pulmonary arterial smooth muscle. Application of 4-AP reversibly inhibited the spontaneous transient outward currents (STOCs). The reversal potential and the sensitivity to charybdotoxin indicated that the STOCs were due to the activation of $BK_{Ca}$. The $BK_{Ca}$ currents were recorded in single channel resolution under the cell-attached mode of patch-clamp technique for minimal perturbation of intracellular environment. Application of 4-AP also inhibited the single $BK_{Ca}$ currents reversibly and dose-dependently. The membrane potential of rabbit pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells showed spontaneous transient hyperpolarizations (STHPs), presumably due to the STOC activities, which was also inhibited by 4-AP. These results suggest that 4-AP can inhibit $BK_{Ca}$ currentsin the intact rabbit vascular smooth muscle. The use of 4-AP as a selective voltage-dependent $K^+$ (KV) channel blocker in vascular smooth muscle, therefore, must be reevaluated.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.183-187
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• 2007

매실박 메탄을 추출물의 항균력을 조사한 결과, $500{\mu}g/mL$ 이상의 농도에서 뚜렷한 항균활성을 보였고, 광역의 변패성 미생물들에 대하여 항균활성을 나타내었다. 또한, 매실박 메탄올추출물의 항균물질은 높은 온도$(100^{\circ}C)$에서 30분 동안 안정하였으며, 넓은 범위의 pH(3-11)에서 안정성을 나타냈다. 따라서 매실박 메탄올 추출물의 항균물질은 항균활성이 높고, 항균s spectrum이 광범위할 뿐 아니라, 높은 온도 및 넓은 범위의 pH에 안정하여 이상적인 천연 항균제로서의 개발가능성을 제시하였다. 아울러, 매실박 메탄올 추출물의 주요 항균작용은 세포막 perturbation에 기인한 것으로 생각되었다.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 김치의 숙도를 조절하여 선도유지기간을 연장할 목적으로 천연항균소재로서 항균작용 및 항진균작용이 탁월한 식물성 천연항균소재(Botanical Antimicrobial Agent-Citrus fruits : BAAC)를 이용하여 김치의 변패에 관여하는 미생물들에 대한 생육억제효과를 관찰하였다. 김치의 산패에 관여하는 Lactobacillus plantarum, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pichia membranaefaciences 등에 대하여 뚜렷한 BAAC의 항균력을 확인할 수 있었으며, 항균력은 BAAC의 농도에 비례하여 증대하였다. $\beta-galactosidase$활성은 BAAC 처리 미생물 세포의 경우, 무처리구인 대조구 세포보다 훨씬 높게 나타나 BAAC처리에 의하여 미생물 세포막의 기능성이 크게 떨어짐을 확인할 수 있었으며, 전자현미경 촬영 사진의 결과 분석을 통하여 BAAC를 처리한 미생물 세포는 세포막 및 세포벽 기능이 파괴되어 세포내용물이 균체외부로 유출되어 사멸하는 미생물 균수가 크게 증가하였다. 발효김치 재료를 BAAC에 침지 또는 분무등의 전처리 과정을 거친 후, BAAC처리농도 및 저장기간별로 미생물학적, 화학분석적 및 관능검사 결과치를 중심으로 숙성된 김치제품의 품질변화를 검토하였다. 김치 숙성중 pH변화는 BAAC를 첨가한 처리구의 경우, 첨가량이 증가할수록 대조구에 비하여 pH저하가 억제되는 것으로 나타났으며, 산도의 증가도 같은 경향으로 억제되었다. 김치 숙성중 대조구의 경우, 숙성이 진행됨에 따라 미생물수가 급격히 증가한 반면, BAAC처리 농도가 증가할수록 미생물의 성장이 억제되었다. 숙성기간이 경과할수록 BAAC를 첨가한 시험구는 대조구에 비하여 vitamin C함량은 완만하게 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 관능검사결과 $0.01\%$이하의 BAAC를 첨가하여 김치를 제조할 경우, 대조구와 향미 및 색도면에서 손색이 없는 김치생산이 가능할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.687-691
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• 1993

Complexation of $Cd^{2+},\;Pb^{2+}\;and\;Hg^{2+}$ ions with four cryptands were studied by potentiometry and solution calorimetry in various weight percent methanol-aqueous solvent at 25${\circ}$C under $CO_2$free nitrogen atmosphere. The stabilities of the complexes were dependent on the cavity size of macrocycles. The $Hg^{2+}$ ion stability constants are higher than those of $Cd^{2+}\;and\;Pb^{2+}$ ion. All the cryptands formed complexes having 1 : 1 (metal to ligand) mole-ratio except for $Hg^{2+}-L_1$ (cryptand 1,2b: 3,5-benzo-9,14,17-trioxa-1,7-diazabicyclo-(8,5,5) heptadecane) and $Cd^{2+}-L_2$ (cryptand 2,2b: 3,5-benzo-10,13,18,21-tetraoxa-1,7-diazabicyclo (8,5,5) eicosane) complexes. $Hg^{2+}-L_1$ complex was a sandwitch type, and the $Cd^{2+}-L_2$ complex showed two stepwise reactions. Thermodynamic parameters of the $Cd^{2+}-L_2$ complex were $6.08(log\;K_1)$, -7.28 Kcal/mol $({\Delta}H_1)$, and $4.78\;(log\;K_2)$, -4.62 Kcal/mol $({\Delta}H_2)$, respectively, for 1 : 1 and 2: 1 mole-ratio. The sequences of the selectivity were increased in the order of $Hg^{2+}\;>Pb^{2+}\;>Cd^{2+}$ ion for $L_3\;and\;L_4$ macrocycles, and the $L_2$-macrocycle has a selectivity for $Cd^{2+}$ ion relative to $Zn^{2+},\;Ni^{2+},\;Pb^{2+}\;and\;Hg^{2+}$ ions. Thus, it is expected that the $L_2$ can be used as carrier for seperation of the post transition metals by macrocycles-mediated liquid membrane because $L_2$ is not soluble in water, and the difference of stability constants of the metal complexes with $L_2$ are large as compared with the other transition metal complexes. The $^1H\;and\;^{13}C-NMR studies indicated that the nitrogen atoms of cryptands have greater affinity to the post transition metal ions than the oxygen atoms, and that the planarities of the macrocycles were lost by complexation with the metal ions because of the perturbation of ring current of benzene molecule attached to macrocycles and counter-anions.