• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.219-229
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• 2020

Objective: Considering the physiological and clinical importance of leptin receptor (LEPR) in regulating obesity and the fact that porcine LEPR expression is not known to be controlled by lncRNAs and miRNAs, we aim to characterize this gene as a potential target of SSC-miR-323 and the lncRNA TCONS_00010987. Methods: Bioinformatics analyses revealed that lncRNA TCONS_00010987 and LEPR have SSC-miR-323-binding sites and that LEPR might be a target of lncRNA TCONS_00010987 based on cis prediction. Wild-type and mutant TCONS_00010987-target sequence fragments and wild-type and mutant LEPR 3'-UTR fragments were generated and cloned into pmiRRB-REPORT^TM-Control vectors to construct respective recombinant plasmids. HEK293T cells were co-transfected with the SSC-miR-323 mimics or a negative control with constructs harboring the corresponding binding sites and relative luciferase activities were determined. Tissue expression patterns of lncRNA TCONS_00010987, SSC-miR-323, and LEPR in Anqing six-end-white (AQ, the obese breed) and Large White (LW, the lean breed) pigs were detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction; backfat expression of LEPR protein was detected by western blotting. Results: Target gene fragments were successfully cloned, and the four recombinant vectors were constructed. Compared to the negative control, SSC-miR-323 mimics significantly inhibited luciferase activity from the wild-type TCONS_00010987-target sequence and wild-type LEPR-3'-UTR (p<0.01 for both) but not from the mutant TCONS_00010987-target sequence and mutant LEPR-3'-UTR (p>0.05 for both). Backfat expression levels of TCONS_00010987 and LEPR in AQ pigs were significantly higher than those in LW pigs (p<0.01), whereas levels of SSC-miR-323 in AQ pigs were significantly lower than those in LW pigs (p<0.05). LEPR protein levels in the backfat tissues of AQ pigs were markedly higher than those in LW pigs (p<0.01). Conclusion: LEPR is a potential target of SSC-miR-323, and TCONS_00010987 might act as a sponge for SSC-miR-323 to regulate LEPR expression.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2007

항생제 내성 세균의 출현으로 새로운 항생물질의 개발에 대한 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 새로운 항균활성물질을 개발하고자 강원도 대암산 용늪 토양으로부터 새로운 항균물질을 생산하는 균을 분리하였고, 이를 동정하였다. 생화학적인 시험과 16S ribosomal DNA 염기서열 분석결과 Paenibacillus polymyxa균과 가장 높은 상동성을 보여주었다. 지방산 조성의 분석에서도 이 균주는 Paenibacillus polymyxa와 가장 가까웠다. 이 균주가 생산하는 항균물질은 1군 법정 전염병을 일으키는 Samonella enterica serovar Typhi와 Shigella dysentery, enterohaemorrhagic Eschelichia coli, 그리고 Vibrio cholera등의 병원성 세균에 성장억제 효과를 나타냈으며, 다른 일반 식중독 장내세균에서도 성장억제 효과를 나타냈다. 이 균주가 생산하는 항균활성 물질은 과거에 보고된 것과 다른 새로운 것으로 보이며, 광범위한 항균활성으로 인하여 새로운 항생물질 개발 후보로 많은 잠재력을 가진 것으로 평가된다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.77-81
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• 2005

The monocyte chemotactic protein-3 (MCP3), on chromosome 17q11.2-q12, is a secreted chemokine, which attracts macrophages during inflammation and metastasis. In an effort to discover additional polymorphism(s) in genes whose variant(s) have been implicated in asthma, we scrutinized the genetic polymorphisms in MCP3 to evaluate it as a potential candidate gene for asthma host genetic study. By direct DNA sequencing in twenty-four individuals, we identified four sequence variants within the 3 kb full genome including 1,000bp promoter region of MCP3; one in promoter region (-420T>C), three in intron (+136C>G, +563C>T, +984G>A) respectively. The frequencies of those four SNPs were 0.020 (-420T>C), 0.038 (+136C>G), 0.080 (+563C>T), 0.035 (+984G>A), respectively, in Korean population (n = 598). Haplotypes, their frequencies and linkage disequilibrium coefficients (|D'|) between SNP pairs were estimated. The associations with the risk of asthma, skin-test reactivity and total serum IgE levels were analyzed. Using statistical analyses for association of MCP3 polymorphisms with asthma development and asthma-related phenotypes, no significant signals were detected. In conclusion, we identified four genetic polymorphisms in the important MCP3 gene, but no significant associations of MCP3 variants with asthma phenotypes were detected. MCP3 variation/haplotype information identified in this study will provide valuable information for future association studies of other allergic diseases.

• 식물병연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.36-39
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• 2015

2012년과 2013년 6월 하순 강원도 횡성과 평창의 곰취(Ligularia fischeri) 재배포장에서 포기가 서서히 시들어 말라 죽는 이상 증상이 발생하였다. 발병정도는 30-80%로 병든 식물체를 조사한 결과, 줄기가 수침상으로 물러지고 썩으면서 흰색의 곰팡이와 갈색의 작고 둥근 균핵이 관찰되었다. 병원균을 순수 분리하여 병원균의 균학적 특징을 조사한 결과, 감자한천배지에서 균총은 흰색으로 잘 자라며 갈색의 작고 둥근 균핵을 많이 형성하였다. 균핵의 크기는 1-3 mm이며, 균사의 폭은 $4-10{\mu}m$였다. 균사생육과 균핵 형성 적온은 $25-30^{\circ}C$이었으며, 균사특유의 clamp connection이 관찰되었다. 또한, 병원균의 염기서열 분석결과 695 bp로 Sclerotium rolfsii와 같은 계통군으로 확인되었으며, 99% 이상의 상동성을 보였다. 이와 같이 곰취에 발생한 병징, 병원균의 균학적 특징 및 염기서열 분석 등을 종합한 결과 S. rolfsii Saccardo로 동정되어 곰취 흰비단병으로 명명하고자 한다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.323-334
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• 2020

Lysin motif (LysM) proteins are reported to be necessary for the virulence and immune response suppression in many herbaceous plant pathogens, while far less is documented in woody plant pathogens. In this study, we preliminarily characterized the molecular function of a LysM protein LtLysM1 in woody plant pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae. Transcriptional profiles revealed that LtLysM1 is highly expressed at infectious stages, especially at 36 and 48 hours post inoculation. Amino acid sequence analyses revealed that LtLysM1 was a putative glycoprotein with 10 predicted N-glycosylation sites and one LysM domain. Pathogenicity tests showed that overexpressed transformants of LtLysM1 displayed increased virulence on grapevine shoots in comparison with that of wild type CSS-01s, and RNAi transformants of LtLysM1 exhibited significantly decreased lesion length when compared with that of wild type CSS-01s. Moreover, LtLysM1 was confirmed to be a secreted protein by a yeast signal peptide trap assay. Transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana together with protein immunoblotting confirmed that LtLysM1 was an N-glycosylated protein. In contrast to previously reported LysM protein Slp1 and OsCEBiP, LtLysM1 molecule did not interact with itself based on yeast two hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation assays. These results indicate that LtLysM1 is a secreted protein and functions as a critical virulence factor during the disease symptom development in woody plants.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.135-135
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• 2017

The Gramene database (http://www.gramene.org) is a powerful online resource for agricultural researchers, plant breeders and educators that provides easy access to reference data, visualizations and analytical tools for conducting cross-species comparisons. Learn the benefits of using Gramene to enrich your lectures, accelerate your research goals, and respond to your organismal community needs. Gramene's genomes portal hosts browsers for 44 complete reference genomes, including crops and model organisms, each displaying functional annotations, gene-trees with orthologous and paralogous gene classification, and whole-genome alignments. SNP and structural diversity data, available for 11 species, are displayed in the context of gene annotation, protein domains and functional consequences on transcript structure (e.g., missense variant). Browsers from multiple species can be viewed simultaneously with links to community-driven organismal databases. Thus, while hosting the underlying data for comparative studies, the portal also provides unified access to diverse plant community resources, and the ability for communities to upload and display private data sets in multiple standard formats. Our BioMart data mining interface enable complex queries and bulk download of sequence, annotation, homology and variation data. Gramene's pathway portal, the Plant Reactome, hosts over 240 pathways curated in rice and inferred in 66 additional plant species by orthology projection. Users may compare pathways across species, query and visualize curated expression data from EMBL-EBI's Expression Atlas in the context of pathways, analyze genome-scale expression data, and conduct pathway enrichment analysis. Our integrated search database and modern user interface leverage these diverse annotations to facilitate finding genes through selecting auto-suggested filters with interactive views of the results.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2013

The presence of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) has previously been reported in citrus growing regions of Turkey. All serologically and biologically characterized isolates including I$\breve{g}$d${\i}$r, which was the first identified CTV isolates from Turkey, were considered mild isolates. In this study, molecular characteristics of the I d r isolate were determined by different methods. Analysis of the I$\breve{g}$d${\i}$r isolate by western blot and BD-RT-PCR assays showed the presence of MCA13 epitope, predominantly found in severe isolates, in the I$\breve{g}$d${\i}$r isolate revealing that it contains a severe component. For further characterization, the coat protein (CP) and the RNA-depen-dent RNA polymerase (RdRp) genes representing the 3' and 5' half of CTV genome, respectively, were amplified from dsRNA by RT-PCR. Both genes were cloned separately and two clones for each gene were sequenced. Comparisons of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences showed that while two CP gene sequences were identical, two RdRp clones showed only 90% and 91% sequence identity in their nucleotide and amino acid sequences, respectively, suggesting a mixed infection with different strains. Phylogenetic analyses of the CP and RdRp genes of I$\breve{g}$d${\i}$r isolate with previously characterized CTV isolates from different citrus growing regions showed that the CP gene was clustered with NZRB-TH30, a resistance breaking isolate from New Zealand, clearly showing the presence of severe component. Furthermore, two different clones of the RdRp gene were clustered separately with different CTV isolates with a diverse biological activity. While the RdRp-1 was clustered with T30 and T385, two well-characterized mild isolates from Florida and Spain, respectively, the RdRp-2 was most closely related to NZRB-G90 and NZRB-TH30, two well-characterized resistance breaking and stem pitting (SP) isolates from New Zealand confirming the mixed infection. These results clearly demonstrated that the I$\breve{g}$d${\i}$r isolate, which was previously described as biologically a mild isolate, actually contains a mixture of mild and severe strains.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.91-101
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• 2017

한국에서 가지 흰가루병균으로 Erysiphe cichoracearum, Leveillula taurica, Sphaerotheca fusca 모두 3종이 기록되어 있다. E. cichoracearum은 1969년에 기록된 이후 한국에서 발생하는 가지 흰가루병균으로 여긴다. 1998년에는 L. taurica가 가지 뒷면흰가루병균으로 기록되었으나, 이후에 추가적인 발생기록은 없었다. 2002년에는 S. fusca가 가지 흰가루병균으로 보고되었다. 필자들은 총22점의 가지 흰가루병균 시료를 채집하여 현미경 관찰 및 염기서열 분석을 실시하였으며, 그 결과 모두 Podosphaera xanthii로 동정하였다. 따라서 한국에서 가지흰가루병균은 P. xanthii로 표기하는 것이 옳으며, 시설재배에서 드물게 발견되는 L. taurica는 뒷면흰가루병균으로 구별하는 것이 맞다. 반면에, E. cichoracearum (= Golovinomyces cichoracearum)은 가지 흰가루병균으로 표본이 보존되지 않았으며 이후에 채집되지도 않았다. 더구나 가지에서 기록한 E. cichoracearum의 기재는 일반적인 형태적 변이의 폭을 크게 벗어난다. 따라서 E. cichoracearum 흰가루병균의 존재에 대한 과거의 기록은 오류로 생각된다. 결국 P. xanthii가 한국의 가지에서 발병하는 흰가루병의 주요 병원균으로 판단되며, L. taurica는 드물게 발생되었던 것으로 판단된다. 이 총설에서는 가지 흰가루병균의 역사와 최신 분류체계에 대하여 자세히 기록하였다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2009

The molecular genetic characterization of Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) Yangsan strain (ADVYS), a Korean isolate, was investigated by analyzing the electrophoresis patterns and the physical maps of the viral DNA digested with various endonucleases. To establish DNA library for ADV-YS, twelve major BamHI restricted segments were cloned. Each location of the segments in the ADV genome was determined by sequence comparison with the sequences reported in Genbank and those sequences of the both termini of the segments. Physical maps were constructed based on the electrophoresis patterns of the digested viral DNA by restriction endonuclease and the results of Southern blot analyses with various DIG labeled probes originated from those of enzyme restricted segments of virulent (Shope) and avirulent (Bartha) strain. Comparing ADV-YS with a standard strain of Kaplan in the maps of restriction enzymes, following major respects were identified: (i) disappearance of BamHI restriction site between the first and second BamHI segments, (ii) creation of the BamHI restriction site in the fifth segment, and (iii) generation of the BglII site in the unique short (US) region. The genome of ADV-YS also contains a type 2 herpesvirus DNA molecule (in which the US region only inverts itself relative to the unique longregion) like all other ADV strains except Norden strain(type3), analyzed up to date. The size of the ADV genome estimated from the sizes of the restriction enzyme fragments, was approximately 145.3 kb (BamHI) or 145.4 kb (BglII). BamHI enzyme cleavage patterns were compared among the five Korean ADV isolates: Yangsan, Yongin, Dangjin, Jincheon and Iksan strains. Difference either in the number or in the size of the DNA fragments, suspected regions of termini of IR and TR, could be detected among all five strains.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2007

락토페린 cDNA 유전자를 도입시킨 누에 형질전환 실험을 수행한 결과, 다음과 같은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 1. 사람 GI-101 세포주의 mRNA로부터 클로닝 된 락토페린 cDNA 유전자의 개시코돈 ATG와 종결코돈 TAA를 포함하는 open reading frame(2,136 bp) 영역을 확인하였다. 2. Sf9 배양세포의 조추출물 시료에 의한 Western blot 분석 결과, 락토페린으로 추정되는 약 80kDa의 단백질 발현을 확인하였다. 3. 누에 형질전환에 높은 전이효율과 활성을 나타내는 트랜스포존을 이용한 전이벡터 pPIGA3GFP를 개조하여 락토페린 cDNA를 삽입시킨 전이벡터 pPT-HLf를 구축하였다. 4. DNA 미량 주사법에 의한 누에 형질전환 개체의 발현 비율은 약 6.7% 정도를 나타냈다. 5. 형질전환 누에(G0) 동일한 세대간 교배 및 처리하지 않은 성충간의 역교배에 의한 차세대(G1) 개체로부터 락토페린 유전자와 동일한 크기의 2.1 kb DNA 단편을 확인 할 수 있었으며, 형질전환 G1 세대의 조추출물 시료에 의한 Western blot 분석 결과, 표준 락토페린 항체와 반응하는 약 80 kDa의 단백질 발현을 확인할 수 있었다.