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Identification Performance of Low-Molecular Compounds by Searching Tandem Mass Spectral Libraries with Simple Peak Matching

  • Milman, Boris L.;Zhurkovich, Inna K.
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.73-76
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    • 2018
  • The number of matched peaks (NMP) is estimated as the spectral similarity measure in tandem mass spectral library searches of small molecules. In the high resolution mode, NMP provides the same reliable identification as in the case of a common dot-product function. Corresponding true positive rates are ($94{\pm}3$) % and ($96{\pm}3$) %, respectively.

Identification of antigenic proteins of lymphocystis disease virus (LCDV) by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

  • Chung, Chang-Kyun;Kim, Byung-Gwan;Jung, Myung-Hwa;Jung, Sung-Ju
    • Journal of fish pathology
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.133-143
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    • 2015
  • The antigenic proteins of Lymphocystis disease virus (LCDV) from tumors of olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus, are described following characterization by mass spectrometry. In SDS-PAGE, predominant protein bands were observed at 114, 88, 70, 54, 52, 47, 42 and 24 kDa. Western blot analysis showed that antisera reacted strongly at molecular weights of 114, 67 and 54 kDa, and reacted weakly at molecular weights of 74, 70, 36, 24 and 22 kDa. In the identification of LCDV antigenic proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) TOF mass spectrometry, 10 of 14 excised bands consisted mostly of proteins with amino acid sequences that matched LCDV-C (lymphocystis disease virus isolate China) ORFs. Strong antigens with molecular weights of 114, 67 and 54 kDa were identified as LDVICp236 (chromosome segregation ATPase), LDVICp033 (membrane bound metallopeptidase) and LDVICp157 (hypothetical protein), respectively. Minor antigens with molecular weights of 70, 36, 24 and 22 kDa proteins were identified as LDVICp160 (acetyl-coA hydrolase), LDVICp213 (hypothetical protein), LDVICp039 (hypothetical protein) and LDVICp213 (hypothetical protein). However, the major capsid protein (LDVICp043) did not react with the polyclonal antibody.

Characterization of Streptomyces sp. AMLK-135 Producing Anti- MRSA Antibiotics

  • Lee, Min-Jeong;Lim, Dae-Seog;Lee, Myung-Sub;Yoon, Won-Ho;Kim, Chang-Han
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.397-401
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    • 1997
  • The present research program was conducted to characterize a strain of actinomycetes producing an anti methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) antibiotic. Soil samples were collected from various sites in Korea and a number of actinomycetes were isolated from the soil samples by applying selective agar for actinomycetes. Among over 400 isolates, a strain (AMLK-135) producing anti-MRSA antibiotic against S. aureus TK 784 was selected. According to the morphological and physiological characteristics, the strain AMLK-135 was confirmed to belong to the genus Streptomyces. From the results of species identification with the TAXON program, the strain AMLK-135 was shown to belong to major cluster 5 (Streptomyces exfoliatus), but it had a low simple matching coefficient ($S_{SM}$ SM/) value to member organisms of major cluster 5. Percentage ($\%$) of strain further away of the strain AMLK-135 was low (1.9400) and it was placed further away than the outer-most members in major cluster 5. Therefore, the strain AMLK-135 was identified as a new species of the genus Streptomyces.

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Future Prospects and Health Benefits of Functional Ingredients from Marine Bio-resources: A review

  • Samarakoon, Kalpa W.;Elvitigala, Don Anushka Sandaruwan;Lakmal, H.H. Chaminda;Kim, Young-Mog;Jeon, You-Jin
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.275-290
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    • 2014
  • The marine ecosystem represents a vast and dynamic array of bio-resources attributed with its huge diversity and considered as potential untapped reservoirs for the development of functional foods for future health markets. Basically, marine microorganisms, sponges, algae, invertebrates such as crustaceans and mollusks along with marine fish species can be considered as marine bio-resources, which can be utilized to obtain different health benefits for humans, directly or after processing. Most of the bio-molecular components, such as lipids and proteins from these marine bio-resources, which can be extracted in large scale using the modern and advanced biotechnological approaches, are suitable drug candidates for the pharmaceutical industry as well as functional food ingredients for the food industry. Moreover, the furtherance of high throughput molecular biological techniques has already been incorporated with identification, mining and extraction of molecular components from marine bio-resources. In this review, potential marine bio-resources with respect to their extractable bio-molecules were described in details, while explaining the present and prospective methods of identification and extraction, which are integrated with advanced techniques in modern biotechnology. In addition, this provides an overview of future trends in marine biotechnology.

Molecular Identification of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Spores Collected in Korea

  • Lee, Jai-Koo;Park, Sang-Hyeon;Eom, Ahn-Heum
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2006
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) have mutualistic symbiosis with plants and thus efforts have been placed on application of these symbiotic relationships to agricultural and environmental fields. In this study, AM fungi were collected from 25 sites growing with 16 host plant species in Korea and cultured with Sorghum bicolor in greenhouse condition. AM fungal spores were extracted and identified using both morphological and molecular methods. Using morphological characters, total 15 morpho-speices were identified. DNA was extracted from single spore of AM fungi and a partial region on 18S rDNA was amplified using nested PCR with AM fungal specific primers AML1/AML2. A total of 36 18S rDNA sequences were analyzed for phylogenetic analysis and 15 groups of AM fungi were identified using both morphological and molecular data of spores. Among the species, 4 species, Archaeospora leptoticha, Scutellospora castanea, S. cerradensis, S. weresubiae were described for the first time in Korea and two species in Glomus and a species in Gigaspora were not identified. Morphological and molecular identification of AM fungal spores in this study would help identify AM fungal community colonizing roots.