• Molecules and Cells
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2015

The correction of disease-causing mutations by single-strand oligonucleotide-templated DNA repair (ssOR) is an attractive approach to gene therapy, but major improvements in ssOR efficiency and consistency are needed. The mechanism of ssOR is poorly understood but may involve annealing of oligonucleotides to transiently exposed single-stranded regions in the target duplex. In bacteria and yeast it has been shown that ssOR is promoted by expression of $Red{\beta}$, a single-strand DNA annealing protein from bacteriophage lambda. Here we show that $Red{\beta}$ expression is well tolerated in a human cell line where it consistently promotes ssOR. By use of short interfering RNA, we also show that ssOR is stimulated by the transient depletion of the endogenous DNA mismatch repair protein MSH2. Furthermore, we find that the effects of $Red{\beta}$ expression and MSH2 depletion on ssOR can be combined with a degree of cooperativity. These results suggest that oligonucleotide annealing and mismatch recognition are distinct but interdependent events in ssOR that can be usefully modulated in gene correction strategies.

• 대한비뇨기종양학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2017

Cancer is the tissue complex consisted with heterogeneous cellular compositions, and microenvironmental cues. During the various stages of cancer initiation, development, and metastasis, cell-cell interactions as well as cell-extracellular matrix play major roles. Conventional cancer models both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional (3D) present numerous limitations, which restrict their use as biomimetic models for drug screening and fundamental cancer biology studies. Recently, bioprinting biofabrication platform enables the creation of high-resolution 3D structures. Moreover this platform has been extensively used to model multiple organs and diseases, and this versatile technique has further found its creation of accurate models that figure out the complexity of the cancer microenvironment. In this review we will focus on cancer biology and limitations with current cancer models and we discuss vascular structures bioprinting that are critical to the construction of complex 3D cancer organoids. We finally conclude with current literature on bioprinting cancer models and propose future perspectives.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.313-319
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• 1993

다공성 실리카표변에 폴리에틸렌이민과 글루타르 알데히드로 전화당 효소를 고정화시키고 자당과 에 탄올로부터 메틸 프룩토시드를 합성한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 다공성 설리카를 폴리에틸렌이 민으로 표면처리하여 얻어진 고정화 담체는 그 다공 성 구조와 표면화학적 특성이 효소의 고정화에 적합 하여 전화당 효소에 대한 고정화 함량 120mg/g, 활 성도 lOOD/mg을 얻어 배당체의 합성반응에서 필요 로 하는 고정화 촉매를 제조할 수 었었으며 고정화 담체 표변에 형성된 폴리에틸렌이민 피막은 효소 부근에 친수성 분위기를 유지하여 높은 효소활성을 나 타내었고 에틸 프룩토시드가 효소에 접근하여 가수 분해되는 반응을 억제하여 메틸 프룩토시드의 수율 과 농도를 크게 증가시켰다. 자당과 메탄올 수용액 으로부터 메틸 프룩토시드를 합성한 결과, 자당 농도 O.291mol/l , 메탄올 농도 30%(v/v), 반응온도 $25^{\circ}C$, pH 4.8, 효소활성도 2U/ml일 때 자당의 전화 율 91.2%, 에틸 프룩토사드 농도 27.0g/l , 그 평균 수율 55.9%을 얻었으며, 위의 연구결과로부터 고정화 효소에 의한 배당체의 합성반응이 연속생산공정 으로 연구개발 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.