• 한국해양바이오학회지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.209-223
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• 2007

Nature is one of the most important sources of pharmacologically active compounds in the search for drugs against life threatening diseases. Even though plants and terrestrial microorganisms have played as an important source for the new drug candidates from nature, marine organisms such as tunicates, sponges, soft corals, sea horses, sea snakes, marine mollusks, seaweeds, nudibranches, sea slugs and marine microorganisms are increasingly attracting attention in recent years. Marine organisms also have the potential to develop into future drugs against important diseases, such as cancer, a range of bacterial and viral diseases, malaria, and inflammations. Even though the mechanism of action in the molecular level of most metabolites is still unclear, the mechanisms by which they interfere with the pathogenesis of a wide range of diseases have been reported. The knowledge of this is one of the key factors necessary to develop bioactive compounds into medicines. This is due to their structurally unique and pharmacologically active compounds. The potential pharmaceutical, medicinal and research applications of some of these compounds are discussed in hundreds of scientific papers, and are reviewed here.

• 생약학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.100-102
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• 1990

Brine shrimp bioassay has been frequently utilized as a basic screening method for detecting a broad range of bioactive compounds from natural products. Each methanol, chloroform, and water extract of thirty-eight crude drugs were screened in the brine shrimp bioassay, and a number of crude drugs exhibited toxicity against brine shrimp nauplii.

• 생약학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 1986

For the immunoassay of ginseng sapogenins, the ligands with which panaxadiol and panaxatriol could be determined together and separately were synthesized. For the total assay of panaxadiol and panaxatriol, panaxatriol-6-hemisuccinate was synthesized. For the separate assay, panaxadiol-3-hemisuccinate and panaxatriol-3-hemisuccinate were also synthesized.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2000년도 NEW STRATEGY FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN POST-GENOMIC ERA(대한약학회)
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• pp.113-115
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• 2000

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2010

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode array detector (DAD) and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) was established for the simultaneous determination of five representative metabolites of the iridoid and phenolic classes from Rehmannia glutinosa. The optimal chromatographic conditions were obtained on an ODS column (5 mm, $4.6{\times}250\;mm$) with the column temperature at $25^{\circ}C$. The mobile phase was composed of water and acetonitrile using a gradient elution with the flow rate 0.3 mL/min. Detection wavelength was set at 205 nm. All calibration curves showed good linear regression ($r^2$ > 0.997) within test ranges. Limits of detection (LOD) and quantitation (LOQ) values were lower than 0.123 and $0.373\;{\mu}g/mL$, respectively. The developed method provided satisfactory precision and accuracy with overall intra-day and inter-day variations of 0.09 - 0.76% and 0.16 - 1.41%, respectively, and the overall recoveries of 99.03 - 102.67% for all of the compounds analyzed. In addition, effectiveness of diverse extraction methods was compared to each other for the development of standard analytic method. The verified method was successfully applied to the quantitative determination of five representative metabolites in twenty-one commercial Rehmannia glutinosa samples from different markets in Korea and China. The analytical results showed that the contents of the five analytes vary significantly with sources.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.226-234
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• 2021

Two species, P. pyrifolia and P. ussuriensis, of the genus Pyrus native to Korea, are valuable genetic resources that can be used for food, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics. Bioactive compounds of the plant leaves are the main components that are used for the products. Farmers had cultivated a few individuals from the wild to produce fruits or leaves for traditional remedy or tea; however, bioactive components of their leaves are not tested. We selected some trees from the natural stand that have distinct traits for the improvement program. We investigated the bioassay on the extracts' bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacity from the selected accessions and other accessions, including newly developed cultivars. The contents of the phenolic compounds and flavonoids from the leaf extracts of the selected accessions were higher than the commonly cultivated trees in both species but lower than 'Sanhyang' in P. ussuriensis. The antioxidant capacity was measured using two assay methods, DPPH and ABST. The selected cultivars also had higher inhibitory activity than common trees. The selected accession 'Cultivar 3' in P. pyrifolia had the highest radical scavenging activity than others. Although leaves of the accessions were used only in this study, all three selected individuals have the potential for cultivar in containing high bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacity.

• 공업화학
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.132-138
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• 2021

본 리뷰에서는 대한민국에서 자생하고 있는 소나무와 잣나무들로부터 분리·추출되는 생리활성 물질의 종류, 그리고 그 효과성에 대한 연구 현황 및 산업적 활용에 대해 조사하였다. 소나무와 잣나무에는 정유, 폴리페놀, 레진, 스틸벤 유도체를 비롯한 다양한 생리활성 물질들이 함유되어 있다. 최근 국내 연구진들은 소나무와 잣나무의 추출물들로부터 항산화, 항염증, 항균, 백내장 예방, 신경보호 등의 생리활성을 규명하였다. 그 추출물들은 식품, 건강기능식품, 화장품, 생활용품 등의 다양한 산업 분야에서 활용되고 있으나, 산업적으로 높은 비중을 차지하고 있는 것은 외래종을 원료로 한 것이다. 그러므로 과학적으로 규명되고 있는 효과에 비해 생리활성을 실제 제품에 응용한 사례들이 부족하여 산업적 활용성에 대한 다양한 연구가 필요하다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.124-132
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• 2017

오늘날 해양생물로부터 얻어진 미생물유래의 이차대사물질은 구조적, 생물학적으로 새로운 화합물의 주요한 자원이다. 그 중에서 해면동물과 미생물 관계는 생리활성 물질을 탐색하는데 가장 흥미있는 자원 중 하나로서 주목받아 왔다. 본 연구에서는 서해안 조간대에서 채집된 주황해변해면(Hymeniacidon sinapium)으로부터 분리된 세균 균주(Microbulbifer sp., 127CP-12)를 검토하였다. 배양된 세균은 자주색 색소를 생산하였으며, 색소생산의 최적 배양조건을 조사하였다. 최대 색소생산을 위한 미생물 배양조건은 $25^{\circ}C$, pH 6.0, 3% NaCl임을 알 수 있었다. 추출용매는 에탄올과 메탄올에 비해 아세톤이 더 적절한 것으로 나타났다. 추출된 색소의 주요성분은 HLPC, NMR, MS, 그리고 UV 스펙트럼의 구조 분석을 통해 유용한 생리활성물질인 비올라세인으로 밝혀졌다. 본 연구는 해양미생물이 관여한 대사물질로부터 생리활성물질을 조사하는 연구기법을 서술함과 동시에 오늘날 변화하는 해양환경에서 해면동물과 미생물 관계의 생태학적 의의를 제시하고 있다.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.617-623
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• 2006

In our ongoing search for bioactive compounds originating from the endemic species in Korea, we found that the hexane and EtOAc fractions of the MeOH extract from the root of Dystaenia takeshimana (Nakai) Kitagawa (Umbelliferae) showed cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 5- lipoxygenase (5-LOX) dual inhibitory activity by assessing their effects on the production of prostaglandin $D_2\;(PGD_2)$ and leukotriene $C_4\;(LTC_4)$ in mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells. By activity-guided fractionation, five coumarins, viz. psoralen (2), xanthotoxin (3), scopoletin (4), umbelliferone (5), and (+)-marmesin (6), together with ${\beta}-sitosterol$ (1), were isolated from the hexane fraction, and two phenethyl alcohol derivatives, viz. 2-methoxy-2-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol (7) and 2-hydroxy-2-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol (8), three flavonoids, viz. apigenin (9), luteolin (10), and cynaroside (11), as well as daucosterol (12) were isolated from the EtOAc fraction using silica gel column chromatography. In addition, D-mannitol (13) was isolated from the BuOH fraction by recrystallization. Two of the coumarins, scopoletin (4) and (+)- marmesin (6), the two phenethyl alcohol derivatives (7, 8) and the three flavonoids (9-11) were isolated for the first time from this plant. Among the compounds isolated from this plant, the five coumarins as well as the three flavonoids showed COX-2/5-LOX dual inhibitory activity. These results suggest that the anti-inflammatory activity of D. takeshimana might in part occur via the inhibition of the generation of eicosanoids.

• 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.