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An Oligonucleotide Microarray Bait for Isolation of Target Gene Fragments

  • Shi, Rong;Ma, Wen-li;Liu, Cui-Hua;Song, Yan-Bin;Mao, Xiang-Ming;Zheng, Wen-Ling
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.148-152
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    • 2004
  • A new molecular-baiting method was studied by retrieving targeted gene fragments from an oligonucleotide microarray bait after hybridization. To make the microarray bait, 70-mer oligonucleotides that were designed to specifically represent the SSA1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were printed on the slide. Samples of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mRNA were extracted and labeled by the RD-PCR (Restriction Display PCR) method using the Cy5-labelled universal primer, then applied for hybridization. The sample fragments that hybridized to the microarray were stripped, and the eluted cDNAs were retrieved and cloned into the pMD 18-T vector for transformation, plasmid preparation, and sequencing. BLAST searching of the GenBank database identified the retrieved fragments as being identical to the SSA1 gene (from 2057-2541bp). A new method is being established that can retrieve the sample fragments using an oligo-microarray-bait.

Detailed Investigation on Factors Governing Liquid Crystal Alignment on Rubbed Polystyrene Films

  • Hahm, Seok-Gyu;Lee, Taek-Joon;Lee, Seung-Woo;Yoon, Jin-Hwan;Kim, Gha-Hee;Chang, Tai-Hyun;Ree, Moon-Hor
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.899-902
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    • 2004
  • The molecular reorientations and surface morphologies of rubbed films formed from atactic polystyrene (PS) samples with various molecular weights were investigated in detail. Previously unknown surface topography features were newly discovered in rubbed films, depending on molecular weights: submicroscale groove-like meandering structures composed of fine-grooves like pebbles in tens nanometers are present, oriented perpendicular to the rubbing direction. The vinyl main chains, however, were preferentially reoriented along the rubbing direction and the planes of the phenyl side groups were preferentially reoriented perpendicular to the rubbing direction with para-directions that were positioned nearly normal to the film plane. Nematic liquid crystal (LC) molecules were found to always align on the rubbed PS surfaces along the orientation direction of the submicroscale grooves generated by rubbing.

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LC Alignment Behaviors at Rubbed Films of Brush Polyimides;Perpendicular LC Alignment versus Parallel LC Alignment

  • Lee, Taek-Joon;Hahm, Seok-Gyu;Lee, Seung-Woo;Chae, Bok-Nam;Lee, Seong-June;Kim, Seung-Bin;Jung, Jin-Chul;Ree, Moon-Hor
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.766-768
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    • 2004
  • Rubbed films of a series of poly(p-phenylene 3,6-bis(4-(n-alkyloxy)phenyloxy)pyromellitimide)s (Cn-PMDA-PDA PIs), which are well-defined brush PIs composed of two aromatic-aliphatic bristles per repeat unit of a fully rodlike backbone, were investigated in detail using atomic force microscopy (AFM), optical retardation analysis and linearly polarized infrared (IR) spectroscopy in order to elucidate their surface morphology and molecular orientation. The liquid crystal (LC) alignment behavior and the anchoring energy of LC molecules on the rubbed films were also determined.

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An Easy-to-Use Three-Dimensional Molecular Visualization and Analysis Program: POSMOL

  • Lee, Sang-Joo;Chung, Hae-Yong;Kim, Kwang S.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.1061-1064
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    • 2004
  • Molecular visualization software has the common objective of manipulation and interpretation of data from numerical simulations. They visualize many complicated molecular structures with personal computer and workstation, to help analyze a large quantity of data produced by various computational methods. However, users are often discouraged from using these tools for visualization and analysis due to the difficult and complicated user interface. In this regard, we have developed an easy-to-use three-dimensional molecular visualization and analysis program named POSMOL. This has been developed on the Microsoft Windows platform for the easy and convenient user environment, as a compact program which reads outputs from various computational chemistry software without editing or changing data. The program animates vibration modes which are needed for locating minima and transition states in computational chemistry, draws two and three dimensional (2D and 3D) views of molecular orbitals (including their atomic orbital components and these partial sums) together with molecular systems, measures various geometrical parameters, and edits molecules and molecular structures.

Introduction To Basic Molecular Biologic Techniques for Molecular Imaging Researches (분자영상연구를 위한 분자생물학 기법 소개)

  • Kang, Joo-Hyun
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2004
  • Molecular imaging is a rapidly growing field due to the advances in molecular biology and imaging technologies. With the introduction of imaging reporter genes into the cell, diverse cellular processes can be monitored, quantified and imaged non-invasively in vivo. These precesses include the gene expression, protein-protein interactions, signal transduction pathways, and monitoring of cells such as cancer cells, immune cells, and stem cells. In the near future, molecular imaging analysis will allow us to observe the incipience and progression of the disease. These will make us easier to give a diagnosis in the early stage of intractable diseases such as canter, neuro-degenerative disease, and immunological disorders. Additionally, molecular imaging method will be a valuable tool for the real-time evaluation of cells in molecular biology and the basic biological studies. As newer and more powerful molecular imaging tools become available, it will be necessary to corporate clinicians, molecular biologists and biochemists for the planning, interpretation, and application of these techniques to their fullest potential. in order for such a multidisciplinary team to be effective, it is essential that a common understanding of basic biochemical and molecular biologic techniques is achieved. Basic molecular techniques for molecular imaging methods are presented in this paper.