• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.1212-1220
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• 2019

The study of metabolomics in natural products using the diverse analytical instruments including GC-MS, LC-MS, and NMR is useful for the exploration of physiological and biological effects and the investigation of drug discovery and health functional foods. Cordyceps militaris has been very attractive to natural medicine as a traditional Chinese medicine, due to its various bioactive properties including anti-cancer and anti-oxidant effects. In this study, we analyzed the metabolite profile in 50% ethanol extracts of C. militaris fruit bodies from three development periods (growth period, matured period, and aging period) using $^1H-NMR$, and identified 44 metabolites, which are classified as 16 amino acids, 10 organic acids, 5 carbohydrates, 3 nucleotide derivatives, and 10 other compounds. Among the three development periods of the C. militaris fruit body, the aging period showed significantly higher levels of metabolites including cordycepin, mannitol (cordycepic acid), and ${\beta}-glucan$. Interestingly, these bioactive metabolites are positively correlated with antitumor growth effect; the extract of the aging period showed significant inhibition of HepG2 hepatic cancer cell proliferation. These results showed that the aging period during the development of C. militaris fruit bodies was more highly enriched with bioactive metabolites that are associated with cancer cell growth inhibition.

• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2023

Carthamus tinctorius L. (known as safflower) is a valuable oil plant whose importance is increasing rapidly in the world due to its high adaptation to arid regions. The seeds of this unique plant are especially used in edible oil, soap, paint, varnish and lacquer production. Its flowers are used in vegetable dye production and medicinal purposes beside its features as a coloring and flavoring in food. After the oil is removed, the remaining pulp and plant parts are used as animal feed, and dry straw residues are used as fuel. Beside all these features, its usage as a herbal medicinal plants for various diseases has gained importance on recent years. In this study, it was designed a plant metabolomic approach which transfers all the recent data processing strategies of untargeted metabolomics in clinical applications to the present study. Q-TOF LC/MS-based analysis of the extracts (70% ethanol, hexane, and chloroform) for both seed and flowers was performed using a C18 column (Agilent Zorbax 1.8 µM, 100 × 2.1 mm). Differences were observed in seed and fruit extracts and these differences were visualized using principal component analysis (PCA) plots. The total number and intersections of the peaks in the extracts were visualized using peak count comparison graph. Based on the experimental results, the number of the detected peaks for seeds was higher than the ones for the flowers for all solvent systems to extract the samples.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.289-289
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• 2022

Waterlogging tolerance of corn is one of the important factor for cultivate in paddy soil condition to increase cultivation area and self-sufficiency of corn in Korea. In order to develop elite waterlogging tolerance corn, the new corn lines bred by crossing wild corn, Teosinte, and cultivated corn inbred lines. Five accessions among the 2 species, Zea mays sub spp. mexicana and Zea mays spp. parviglumis, of 81 Teosinte were selected through the waterlogging treatment. The waterlogging treatments were implemented for 7 days at the seedling(V3) stage. The inbred lines were developed by crossing 5 teosinte accessions and cultivated corn lines and they were estimated waterlogging tolerance. It was screened and analyzed the metabolites extracted from roots of 19KT-32(KS141 × teosinte) that was treated waterlogging. We selected 8 of 180 metabolites like as γ-aminobutyric acid(GABA), putrescine, citrulline, Gly, and Ala that expression was remarkably changed over 2.5-times, 7 metabolites increased and 1 metabolite decreased in waterlogging, respectively. Glutamate decarboxylase(GAD) catalyzing GABA accumulation gene have 10 haplotypes, and exon1 was highly conserved, but identified to 135 SNPs after the first intron. Among the 135 SNPs, the number of transversion mutations (52) surpassed the number of transition mutations (38). Most of metabolites were related to abiotic stress in plant that it regulated to pH, osmotic pressure K⁺/Ca⁺⁺ and ATPase activity. We are analyzing the association using these results for increase breeding efficiency.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.260-267
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• 2024

Objective: This study investigated the metabolic status of the spent culture media from embryos of patients with repeated implantation failure (RIF) undergoing in vitro fertilization-intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles in comparison with the embryos from healthy fertile women. Methods: Metabolite levels in spent culture media were assessed and compared between embryos from RIF patients (n=35) and oocyte donors as controls (n=15). Protein levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) were determined using Western blotting. Concentrations of glucose, pyruvate, and lactate were measured using spectrophotometry. Ionic colorimetric assay kits were utilized to analyze the concentrations of sodium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium ions. High-performance liquid chromatography was employed to measure the concentrations of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, methionine, phenylalanine, and histidine. Results: Glucose consumption and lactate secretion were higher in the control group than in the RIF group. The magnesium concentration was significantly higher in the control group than in the RIF group, but glutamic acid and aspartic acid concentrations were lower in the control group than in the RIF patients (p<0.05). The levels of IGF-1, sodium, calcium, chloride, methionine, histidine, and phenylalanine did not show statistically significant differences between the two groups. Conclusion: The metabolic profile of the culture medium of the embryos in the RIF group differed from that of the control group. These findings suggest potential factors that may affect implantation capacity in RIF patients and provide a new perspective on embryo selection.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.186-195
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• 2015

Anthranilate synthase (AS)는 트립토판(Trp)과 indole-3-acetic acid, indole alkaloids의 생합성 경로에서 중요한 효소로 작용한다. 트립토판 생합성 상에서 feedback inhibition에 민감하게 반응하는 AS alpha-subunit 관련 OASA2 유전자 영역의 single (F124V) 및 double (S126F/L530D) 점돌연변이로 변형된 유전자의 재조합운반체를 작성하고 이들 유전자들을 Agrobacterium 방법으로 동진벼에 도입하여 형질전환체를 육성하였다. Single 및 double 돌연변이 OsASA2 유전자가 도입된 형질전환 벼 계통들은 nos gene probe를 이용한 TaqMan PCR 방법으로 single copy를 선발하였고, intergenic 계통을 선발하기 위해서 Bfa I 제한효소를 이용하여 RB와 LB 인접서열로부터 IPCR을 통한 FST 분석을 수행하여 4 개의 intergenic 계통을 선발하였다. 도입된 유전자의 발현으로 형질전환 벼는 Trp, IAN 및 IAA가 잎에 가장 많이 축적되었고, 종자의 트립토판 함량도 증가되었다. 후대에서 tryptophan 함량이 높은 S-TG와 D-TG의 두 호모 이벤트 계통을 육성하여 트립토판 함량을 분석한 결과 대조구에 비하여 13~30배 이상 높게 나타났으며, 유리아미노산의 함량도 증가하였다. 이벤트 계통을 이용하여 microarray 분석을 수행한 결과 세포 내 이온 수송, 영양분 공급 등에 영향을 주는 유전자군들이 up-regulation 되었고, 세포 내 기능유전자의 역할을 담당하는 조효소 등이 down-regulation 된 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 선발된 두개의 상동성 이벤트 계통들이 고함량의 유리 트립토판 생산 벼의 육종에 효과적으로 이용될 수 있음을 보여준 결과로 생각된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.814-824
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• 2018

거세한우 3두를 $3{\times}3$ Latin square design 시험방법에 적용하여 사료 적응 기간 10일 후 사료 급여 방식에 따른 반추위액 내 휘발성지방산과 단당류 비교 분석 및 대사산물 분석에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 연구 결과 HPLC와 HPAEC에서 측정되지 않은 휘발성지방산과 단당류들은 $^1H-NMR$에서는 측정이 가능 한 것을 알 수 있었다. $^1H-NMR$에서 측정된 대사산물 중, carbohydrate 계열 대사산물 pyruvate는 사료 급여 전 반추위액에서만 측정 되었으며, succinate는 사료 급여 전 후에서 모두 측정 되었다. Amino acid 계열 대사산물은 총 9가지가 측정 되었다. Lipid 계열 대사산물 ethylene glycol는 사료 급여 전 Con구에서 유의적(P<0.05)으로 높게 측정 되었다. Aiphatic acylic compounds 계열 대사산물 trimethylamine N-oxide는 유의적인 차이는 보이지 않았다. 이번 연구를 통해 $^1H-NMR$를 이용하여 반추위액 내 많은 대사산물 측정이 가능한 것을 알 수 있었으며 사료 급여 전 후 급여 방식에 따라 대사산물의 변화가 나타나는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.388-394
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• 2010

Metabolomics aims at the comprehensive, qualitative and quantitative analysis of wide arrays of endogenous metabolites in biological samples. It has shown particular promise in the area of toxicology and drug development, functional genomics, system biology and clinical diagnosis. In this study, analytical technique of MS instrument with high resolution mass measurement, such as time-of-flight (TOF) was validated for the purpose of investigation of amino acids, sugars and fatty acids. Rat urine and serum samples were extracted by selected each solvent (50% acetonitrile, 100% acetonitrile, acetone, methanol, water, ether) extraction method. We determined the optimized liquid chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC/TOFMS) system and selected appropriated columns, mobile phases, fragment energy and collision energy, which could search 17 metabolites. The spectral data collected from LC/TOFMS were tested by ANOVA. Obtained with the use of LC/TOFMS technique, our results indicated that (1) MS and MS/MS parameters were optimized and most abundant product ion of each metabolite were selected to be monitorized; (2) with design of experiment analysis, methanol yielded the optimal extraction efficiency. Therefore, the results of this study are expected to be useful in the endogenous metabolite fields according to validated SOP for endogenous amino acids, sugars and fatty acids.