• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.203-212
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• 2020

Promyelocytic leukemia (PML) gene, through alternative splicing of its C-terminal region, generates several PML isoforms that interact with specific partners and perform distinct functions. The PML protein is a tumor suppressor that plays an important role by interacting with various proteins. Herein, we investigated the effect of the PML isoforms on oncostatin M (OSM)-induced signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT-3) transcriptional activity. PML influenced OSM-induced STAT-3 activity in a cell type-specific manner, which was dependent on the p53 status of the cells but regardless of PML isoform. Interestingly, overexpression of PML exerted opposite effects on OSM-induced STAT-3 activity in p53 wild-type and mutant cells. Specifically, overexpression of PML in the cell lines bearing wild-type p53 (NIH3T3 and U87-MG cells) decreased OSM-induced STAT-3 transcriptional activity, whereas overexpression of PML increased OSM-induced STAT-3 transcriptional activity in mutant p53-bearing cell lines (HEK293T and U251-MG cells). When wild-type p53 cells were co-transfected with PML-IV and R273H-p53 mutant, OSM-mediated STAT-3 transcriptional activity was significantly enhanced, compared to that of cells which were transfected with PML-IV alone; however, when cells bearing mutant p53 were co-transfected with PML-IV and wild-type p53, OSM-induced STAT-3 transcriptional activity was significantly decreased, compared to that of transfected cells with PML-IV alone. In conclusion, PML acts together with wild-type or mutant p53 and influences OSM-mediated STAT-3 activity in a negative or positive manner, resulting in the aberrant activation of STAT-3 in cancer cells bearing mutant p53 probably might occur through the interaction of mutant p53 with PML.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.331-339
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• 1991

To elucidate the regulatory mechanism of virE operon from vir regions (virA, virB, virC, virD, virG, virE) of pTiA6 which have been known to be essential for efficient crown gall tumorigenesis in plants, the activity of the truncated virE, promoter was analyzed. pSM358cd, a recombinant plasmid in which virE :: Tn3-HoHo1 (Tn3-promoterless lacZ) was cloned into SalI site of pVK102, was digested with SalI, and virE :: Tn3-HoHo1 was seperated from pVK102. To construct the truncted virE recombinant plasmids (pJS031, pJS051, pJS102, pJS201, pJS301), 5'-end of vireE promoter was deleted with BAL31 and cloned into pVK102 and then transferred into a. tumefaciens A348(pTiA6). According to the activity of the truncated virE promoter in recombinant plasmids, they were classified into two groups, pJS031, pJS051, pJS101 and pJS201 belong to a functional group and pJS301 is a non-functional. The size of deleted nucleotides of pJS201 and pJS301 seemed to be about 130 nucleotides and about 250 nucleotides from 5'-end of virE promoter, respectively. Hence it was thought that the essential site of the virE promoter was located between about 130th nucleotide and 250th nucleotide from 5'-end of the virE promoter.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제20권A호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2000

A submerged cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum was carried out in an air-lift fermenter system, and the effects of different pH processes on extracellular branched ${\beta}$-1,3-glucan(EPS) production and mycelial growth(MDW) were investigated. The controlled pH process improved the production of branched ${\beta}$-1,3-glucan and biomass in comparison to the uncontrolled pH process. However, the maximum production of branched ${\beta}$-1,3-glucan were obtained by the bi-staged pH process. From these results, we confirmed that the bi-staged pH process was the most effective for improving the production of branched ${\beta}$-1,3-glucan from submerged culture of G. lucidum.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.367-372
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• 2019

Deactivation of aminoglycosides by their modifying enzymes, including a number of aminoglycoside O-phosphotransferases, is the most ubiquitous resistance mechanism in aminoglycoside-resistant pathogens. Nonetheless, in a couple of biosynthetic pathways for gentamicins, fortimicins, and istamycins, phosphorylation of aminoglycosides seems to be a unique and initial step for the creation of a natural defensive structural feature such as a 3',4'-dideoxy scaffold. Our aim was to elucidate the biochemical details on the beginning of these C3',4'-dideoxygenation biosynthetic steps for aminoglycosides. The biosynthesis of istamycins must surely involve these 3',4'-didehydroxylation steps, but much less has been reported in terms of characterization of istamycin biosynthetic genes, especially about the phosphotransferase-encoding gene. In the disruption and complementation experiments pointing to a putative gene, istP, in the genome of wild-type Streptomyces tenjimariensis, the function of the istP gene was proved here to be a phosphotransferase. Next, an in-frame deletion of a known phosphotransferase-encoding gene forP from the genome of wild-type Micromonospora olivasterospora resulted in the appearance of a hitherto unidentified fortimicin shunt product, namely 3-O-methyl-FOR-KK1, whereas complementation of forP restored the natural fortimicin metabolite profiles. The bilateral complementation of an istP gene (or forP) in the ${\Delta}forP$ mutant (or ${\Delta}istP$ mutant strain) successfully restored the biosynthesis of 3',4'-dideoxy fortimicins and istamycins, thus clearly indicating that they are interchangeable launchers of the biosynthesis of 3',4'-dideoxy types of 1,4-diaminocyclitol antibiotics.

• 충청수학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.339-349
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• 2020

Let P ⋊ ℕ^x be a semidirect product of an additive semigroup P = {0, 2, 3, ⋯ } by a multiplicative positive natural numbers semigroup ℕ^x. We consider a covariant semigroup C^∗-algebra 𝓣(P ⋊ ℕ^x) of the semigroup P ⋊ ℕ^x. We obtain the condition that a state on 𝓣(P ⋊ ℕ^x) can be a ground state of the natural C^∗-dynamical system (𝓣(P ⋊ ℕ^x), ℝ, σ).

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.791-800
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• 1997

교정치료를 목적으로 발거한 소구치 60개를 4군으로 나누고 치과용 저속 절삭기에서 $18,500{\pm}300rpm$으로 회전속도를 일정하게 하여 4가지 회전 마무리 기구(G1; No. 169L carbide fissure bur, G2; No.2 round bur, G3; No.4 round bur, G4; No.8 round bur)로 잔여 레진을 제거하고 러버컵과 pumice로 법랑질을 5초간 마무리하였을 때 법랑질 손상에 미치는 정도를 알아보기 위해 브라켓 부착전 러버컵과 pumice로 전처치한 후(P1), 각 군에 해당하는 방법으로 잔여 레진을 제거한 후(P2), 러버컵과 pumice로 마지막 마무리 후(P3)의 법랑질 표면거칠기를 표면거칠기 측정기에서 각각 측정하고 주사전자현미경하에서 관찰하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. P2에서 법랑질의 표면거칠기는 G1군의 경우 $2.60{\pm}0.55{\mu}m$으로 가장 매끄럽게 나타났고 G2군의 경우 $3.24{\pm}0.80{\mu}m$, G3군의 경우 $3.44{\pm}0.94{\mu}m$으로 나타났고 G4군의 경우 $3.89{\pm}0.54{\mu}m$으로 가장 거칠게 나타났으며 G2군과 G3군은 통계학적으로 유의성이 없었다(p>0.05). 2. P3에서 법랑질의 표면거칠기는 G1군의 경우 $2.29{\pm}0.47{\mu}m$으로 가장 매끄럽게 나타났고 G2군의 경우 $2.44{\pm}0.56{\mu}m$, G3군의 경우 $2.44{\pm}0.58{\mu}m$으로 나타났고 G4군의 경우 $2.92{\pm}0.43{\mu}m$으로 가장 거칠게 나타났으며 G1군은 G2군, G3군과, G2군은 G3군과 통계학적으로 유의성이 없었다(p>0.05). 3. 모든 군에서 P2, P3는 P1보다. P2는 P3보다 표면거칠기가 거칠게 나타났다(p<0.01). 4. 아무 처치도 하지 않은 정상 법랑질에 러버컵과 pumice로 5초간 전처치한 경우 주사전자현미경관찰에서 미세한 긁힘을 발견할 수 있었고 네군 모두에서 러버컵과 pumice로 연마 후에도 제거할 수 없는 흠을 남기며 러버컵과 pumice로 마무리 후 육안관찰시 잔여 레진을 발견할 수 없었으나 주사전자현미경하에서는 레진 잔사 등을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.179-184
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• 1996

The purpose of this study is to obtain the most efficient combination of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains and Ti plasmids for the construction of dicotyledonous plant vector system. Ti plasmid-curing A. tumefaciens A136 and KU12C3 were transformed with four kinds of Ti plasmids, pTiBo542, pTiA6, pTiKU12 and pTiAch5, respectively. The stems of 28 species of dicotyledonous plants were then inoculated with these transformants and examined for crown gall formation. The different combination of A. tumefaciens strains and Ti plasmids showed quite a difference in terms of the crown gall formation. Agrobacterium strins A136 and KU12C3 have a same plant host range in case that both strains harour the same kind of Ti plasmid, pTiBo542 or pTiAch5. However, the above-mentioned both strains have quite different host range in the event of containing the same Ti plasmid, pTiKU12 or pTiA6. In case that KU12C3 contains pTiA6 or pTiKU12, this strain has a wider plant host range than A136. The plant host range of pTiBo542 is the widest, followed by pTiA6, pTiKU12 and pTiAch5. Twelve plants among 28 tested plants are not transformed by any virulent Agrobacterium strains used in this study. In conclusion, A. tumefaciens KU12C3 and A136 harboring pTiBo542 showed the widest host range for transforming dicotyledonous plants. Also, it was acertained that the host range of Ti plasmids is affected by chromosomal level.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.314-321
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• 2014

CDK2 is a key regulator of cell cycle progression. In this study, we screened for miRNAs targeting CDK2 using a luciferase-3'-untranslated region reporter assay. Among 11 hit miRNAs, miR-509-3p reduced CDK2 protein levels and significantly inhibited cancer cell growth. Microarray, Western blotting, and luciferase reporter analyses revealed additional targets of miR-509-3p, including Rac1 and PIK3C2A. Overexpression of miR-509-3p induced G1 cell-cycle arrest and inhibited colony formation and migration. RNAi experiments indicated that the growth-inhibitory effects of miR-509-3p may occur through down-regulation of CDK2, Rac1, and PIK3C2A. Targeting of multiple growth regulatory genes by miR-509-3p may contribute to effective anti-cancer therapy.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.537-544
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• 1998

3-HV 몰분율이 증대된 P(3HB-3HV)의 고농도 생산을 위하여 재조합 phbC유전자를 모균주에 재도입시킨 형질전환 Alcaligenes eutrophus AER5의 배양공학적 연구를 수행하였다. 상기 형질전환균주를 전구물질인 valerate가 10.0g/L첨가된 최소배지에서 2단계 배양한 결과 P(3HB-3HV)내의 3-HV 몰분율이 52.2 mol%로 모균주 A. eutrophus H16의 30 mol%에 비해 현저히 증가하였다. 이와 같은 몰분율의 증가는 phbC 유전자의 산물인 PHB synthase의 증폭과 밀접한 관련이 있음을 확인하였다. 2단계 회분배양시 fructose의 보충첨가의 영향을 검토하였으며, 적정농도인 10.0g/L의 fructose를 valerate와 같이 첨가할 경우 총균체량, p(3HB-3HV)의 축적농도, 그리고 축적율은 현저히 증가한 반면, 3-HV 몰분율은 다소 감소하는 경향을 보였다. $Mg^{2+}$ 이온은 P(3HB-3HV) 축적 에 매우 민감한 영향을 미쳤으며, 적정 농도로 판단되는 0.1 g/L일 경우 P(3HB- 3HV) 축적농도는 6.1 g/L, 그리고 3-HV 몰분율은 71.3 %로 현저히 증가하였다. 또한 적정 pH 조절제의 선정을 위하여 NaOH, NaOH와 (NH$_4$)$_2$SO$_4$의 혼합액, 그리고 NH$_4$OH을 비교 검토하였다. 2단계 배양법의 번거로움을 극복하고저 1단계 간헐적 유가식배양법을 검토한 결과, 배양 72시간 후 총균체량 19.2g/L, P(3HB-3HV) 축적농도 10.4 g/L, 그리고 3-HV 몰분율 35 mol%로 2단계 회분 배양법보다 우수한 결과를 얻었다. 이는 형질전환균주를 이용한 3-HV 몰분율이 높은 P(3HB-3HV)의 고농도 생산을 위한 배양조건 확립을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 것이다.90배의 살충력을 보였다. SDS-PAGE와 Western blot 분석에서도 클론 pHLN2-72는 재조합 클론 pHLN2-80(-)보다 약간 높게 ICP가 생성이 되었었다. 이상의 결과는 과다발현에 Plac프로모터와 종결부위가 반드시 필요하며, -72 bp ICP 프로모터가 -80 bp 프로모터보다 과다발현률이 높았으며, ICP 유전자는 반드시 Plac프로모터의 전사 방향에 역방향으로 삽입이 되어야 하는 것으로 나타났다.사용함으로써 고품질의 전통주류 생산이 가능하다고 사료된다.noicacid, methylmalonic acid, 2-methyl-4-keto-pentan-2-ol 등과 지방산의 일종인 tetradecanoic acid, hexadecane, hept-adecanoic acid, octadecanoic acid 등이 확인되었다.er 7.6mm. Further rich management measure and investigation were recommended such as sapling protection, signboard construction, soil erosion controlling and regular monitoring within the community.ldom changed at level 1.will cause students to form the mathematical concepts correctly. 3. By visualizing the process of drawing the quadratic function graph, students understand the quadratic function graph structually. 4. Through the feedback, the recognition ability of the trigonometric function can be improved. 5. It is possible to change

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.830-841
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• 2018

Recent studies have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. In this study, we showed that miR-766-3p was decreased in approximately 72% of HCC tissues and cell lines, and its low expression level was significantly correlated with tumour size, TNM stage, metastasis, and poor prognosis in HCC. Ectopic miR-766-3p expression inhibited HCC cell proliferation, colony formation, migration and invasion. In addition, we showed that miR-766-3p repressed Wnt3a expression. A luciferase reporter assay revealed that Wnt3a was a direct target of miR-766-3p, and an inverse correlation between miR-766-3p and Wnt3a expression was observed. Moreover, Wnt3a up-regulation reversed the effects of miR766-3p on HCC progression. In addition, our study showed that miR-766-3p up-regulation decreased the nuclear ${\beta}-catenin$ level and expression of Wnt targets (TCF1 and Survivin) and reduced the level of MAP protein regulator of cytokinesis 1 (PRC1). However, these effects of miR-766-3p were reversed by Wnt3a up-regulation. In addition, PRC1 upregulation increased the nuclear ${\beta}-catenin$ level and protein expression of TCF1 and Survivin. iCRT3, which disrupts the ${\beta}-catenin-TCF4$ interaction, repressed the TCF1, Survivin and PRC1 protein levels. Taken together, our results suggest that miR-766-3p down-regulation promotes HCC cell progression, probably by targeting the Wnt3a/PRC1 pathway, and miR-766-3p may serve as a potential therapeutic target in HCC.