• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1995

Photoinhibition and its recovery of spectrally adapted Anacystis nidulans were studied. Phycocyanin and Chl content and phycocyanin/Chl ratio were increased in cells grown under blue-green light compared with those grown in white light. Photosynthetic activities of white light and blue-green light grown cells were reduced by 50% after 15 min and 10 min of photoinhibitory light treatment (1.2 mmol·m-2s-1), respectively, largely due to the decline of PSII activities. However, their activities were recovered fully after 30 min incubation under weak light. Treatment of rifampicin and chloramphenicol magnified the photoinhibitory effects and suppressed the recovery with disappearance of susceptibility to photoinhibition and delayed the recovery process, indicating no significant differences in phosphorylation, dephosphorylation and protease activity between two cells. Therefore, it is suggested that the increased sensitivity of blue-green adapted cells might be attributed to the decline of protein synthesis, and phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of protein and protease activity might be involved in the recovery process.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2000

Optimization of chemicals in the large scale sea water medium and inoculum for biomass and natural colourants production in the marine cyanobacteria, Phomidium tenue BDU 46241 (phycoerythrin producer) and P.valderianum BDU 30501 (phycocyanin producer) was carried out by experiments in L8 orthogonal array. Mathematical analysis revealed the significance of these factors. The factor(s) that critically control the yield varied with the organism and the end-product further, the desirable level of these factors between the normal and a higher level tested was identified and improved media were evolved. In both cyanobacteria, higher level of $K_2$$HPO_4$, $NaNO_3$ and inoculum with normal level of ferric ammonium citrate was found to be desirable for biomass production and additionally, higher level of $MgSO_4$ for pigment production. The level of other factors varied with the organism and the end-product. Confirmation experiments showed that the clues obtained based on mathematical experimentation are valid. In P.tenue, the medium optimized for biomass production increased the yield of biomass by 495% and the medium optimized for phycoerythrin production increased the yield of biomass by 408% with 30% increase in phycoerythrin content of the biomass. Similarly in P.valderianum, the medium optimized for biomass production increased the yield of biomass by 224% and the medium optimized for phycocyanin production increased the yield of biomass by 143% with 44% increase in phycocyanin content of the biomass.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.858-864
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• 2014

Recently, many researches have shown that even photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes can have quantum coherence in their excitonic energy transfer at cryogenic and physiological temperatures. Because the protein supplies such noisy environment around pigments that conventional wisdom expects very short lived quantum coherence, elucidating the mechanism and searching for an applicability of the coherence have become an interesting topic in both experiment and theory. We have previously studied the quantum coherence of a phycocyanin 645 complex in a marine algae harvesting light system, using Poisson mapping bracket equation (PBME). PBME is one of the applicable methods for solving quantum-classical Liouville equation, for following the dynamics of such pigment-protein complexes. However, it may suffer from many defects mostly from mapping quantum degrees of freedom into classical ones. To make improvements against such defects, benchmarking targets with more accurately described dynamics is highly needed. Here, we fall back to reduced hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM), for such a purpose. Even though HEOM is known to applicable only to simplified system that is coupled to a set of harmonic oscillators, it can provide ultimate accuracy within the regime of quantum-classical description, thus providing perfect benchmark targets for certain systems. We compare the evolution of the density matrix of pigment excited states by HEOM against the PBME results at physiological temperature, and observe more sophisticated changes of density matrix elements from HEOM. In PBME, the population of states with intermediate energies display only monotonically increasing behaviors. Most importantly, PBME suffers a serious issue of wrong population in the long time limit, likely generated by the zero-point energy leaking problem. Future prospects for developments are briefly discussed as a concluding remark.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.286-294
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• 2015

Temporal and spatial characteristics of cyanobacterial communities at the monitoring stations for Harmful Algal Bloom Alert System (HABAS) in Nakdong River and Lake Dukdong were investigated for two years (2013 to 2014). A total of 30 cyanobacterial species from 14 genera were found at the survey stations. Microcystis sp. showed maximum cell density in the total cyanobacterial community in August, 2014 at ND-2 and in September, 2013 at ND-3 station. Lynbya limnetica and Geitlerinema sp., non-target species for alert criteria showed maximum cell density at ND-1 (August, 2013) and Dam station of Lake Dukdong (September, 2014), respectively. Total cyanobacterial cell density and the relative abundance of four target genera (Microcystis, Anabaena, Aphanizomenon and Oscillatoria spp.) for alert criteria was relatively lower in the mesotrophic Lake Dukdong than at the eutrophic riverine stations of Nakdong River, indicating cyanobacterial density and the RA of target genera is affected by the trophic state of the monitoring stations. Simulating the alert system using phycocyanin concentration as an alert criterion resulted in the longer period of alert issued compared to the period of alert issued using the current criterion of harmful cyanobacterial cell density due to the influence of phycocyanin concentration from non-target cyanobacterial species.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.544-551
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• 2003

Interactive effects of UV-B and Cd on growth, pigment, photosynthesis, and lipid peroxidation have been studied in Anabaena, Microcystis, and Nostoc; all the tested cyanobacteria showed differential sensitivity to different dosage of UV-B and Cd alone as well as in combination. Phycocyanin was severely affected by UV-B and Cd by all the strains; the degree of pigment bleaching was most pronounced in Anabaena followed by Microcystis and Nostoc. $UV-B_2+Cd_2$ produced nearly 83, 78, and 65% inhibition of phycocyanin in Anabaena, Microcystis, and Nostoc, respectively. The above treatment also significantly decreased the contents of Chl ${\alpha}$ and carotenoid. Presence of capsule in Microcystis protected the phycocyanin bleaching as compared to decapsulated cells. Laboratory-grown Microcystis revealed about 75 and 80% inhibition, following $UV-B_2+Cd_2$ treatment, respectively. in capsulated and decapsulated cells. Damage caused by Cd was more pronounced than UV-B. Inhibition of photosynthesis did occur in all the test strains, being maximum in Anabaena. PS II was the most sensitive component of the electron transport chain, showing 84, 80, and 70% inhibition in Anabaena, Microcystis, and Nostoc, respectively. As compared to control, significant lipid peroxidation (6.5-fold higher) was observed in Anabaena with $UV-B_2+Cd_2$, $^{14}C-uptake$ was more susceptible to Cd and Uv-B than oxygen-evolution. Approximately 84, 80, and 76% inhibition of $^{14}C-uptake$ was observed in Anabaena, Microcystis, and Nostoc, respectively. Similarly, $UV-B_2+Cd_2$ inhibited APT content of Anabaena by 87%. This ,study suggests that inhibition of carbon fixation was due to decreased ATP content of the test cyanobacteria by UV-B+Cd, where Anabaena was the most sensitive and Nostoc the most tolerant.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.1249-1254
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• 2021

UV는 산화 스트레스를 유발하고 MMP(Matrix Metalloproteinase) 발현을 증가시켜 피부 노화를 발생시킨다. 따라서 자외선로 인한 피부 손상을 예방하면 피부 노화를 감소시킬 수 있다. 스피룰리나는 강력한 항산화제로 원핵생물로 구성되어 있다. 본 연구는 피부 섬유아세포를 사용하여 UVB 방사선에 대한 스피룰리나 유래 피코시아닌(PC)의 광보호 효과를 조사했다. 그 결과, PC는 섬유아세포 생존율 측면에서 5-40 ㎍/mL 농도에서 독성을 나타내지 않았다. UVB 조사된 섬유아세포의 생존율은 50.5%였으며 PC 처리로 73.5%로 증가했다. MMP-1 및 MMP-9 발현은 UVB 처리로 증가하는 반면 PC 처리한 군에서 감소했다. 이러한 결과를 종합해보면 PC는 UVB 조사로 인한 산화적 손상과 피부노화와 관련된 인자를 감소시켜 노화를 예방할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 공업화학
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.421-426
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• 2015

미세조류 Arthrospira platensis는 단백질 함량이 높고, 불포화 지방산 등을 다량함유하고 있어 건강보조식품 및 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 또한 phycocyanin, myxoxanthophyll, zeaxanthin 등의 색소를 함유하고 있어서 항산화물질, 식품 첨가물로도 이용되고 있다. 나노기포 수소수는 수소 기체를 나노기포 상태로 물속에 주입하여 포화용해도 이상으로 용해시킨 것이다. 이런 나노기포 수소수는 항산화능이 높고, 항암효과가 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. Arthrospira platensis를 일반 증류수 배지와 수소수로 제조한 배지에서 배양한 후 특성을 확인하였다. 배양 결과, 세포 성장 및 광합성으로 인한 색소인 chlorophyll과 carotenoid의 함량은 수소수 배지에서 배양하였을 경우 대조군에 비해 15% 정도 증가한 것으로 나타난다. 그리고 phycocyanin 역시 7% 정도 증가하였다. 하지만, 지질함량은 수소수 배지 배양과 일반 배지 배양 간에 큰 차이가 없는 것을 확인하였다. 항산화물질의 함량을 확인하기 위해 flavonoid 및 polyphenol의 함량을 측정하였다. Flavonoid는 수소수 배지에서 배양하였을 경우 대조군에 비해 70% 이상 증가함을 보이고 있다. 하지만 polyphenol은 대조군과 유사한 함량을 보이고 있다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제35권4호통권100호
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• pp.257-265
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• 2002

남조류에 의해 생성되는 anatoxin-a의 양과 환경요인과의 관계를 알아보기 위해 대청호에서 2001년 6월부터 2001년 11월까지 조류 및 물 시료를 채취하였다. 환경요인 중 물리적 요인은 현장에서 측정하였고, 생물${\cdot}$화학적 요인은 실험실에서 측정하였다. 조류 및 물 시료에 존재하는 anatoxin-a의 양은 fluorescence detector를 이용하여 HPLC로 측정하였고, 조류 시료와 물 시료의 경우 각각$0.61-8.68\;{\mu}g/g\;dry wt$,$0.01-0.08\;{\mu}g/L$로 측정되었다. 음용수의 안전을 고려한 anatoxin-a의 권고기준 농도는 $1\;{\mu}g/L$로 제안되고 있다. 조류세포와 물 시료에서 anatoxin-a농도가 가장 높게 검출된 시기는 7월이었다. 독소 생성에 중요한 요인을 확인하기 위해 환경요인과 anatoxin-a농도와의상호관계를 살펴보았다. 조류 시료내 anatoxin-a농도는 nitrate,총질소와 총인 비율, 총용존질소(P<0.05)및 총입자성질소와 총입자성인 비율(P<0.05)과 높은 상관관계를 나타내었고, 물 시료내anatoxin-a 농도는 수온, 전기전도도(P<0.01), 수소이온농도, phycocyanin, phycocyanin과 엽록소 a비율 (P<0.01)과 높은 상관관계를 나타내었다.

• 한국동물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물학회 2000년도 한국생물과학협회 학술발표대회
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• pp.109.1-109
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• 2000

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• KSBB Journal
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.172-176
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• 2012

In this study, microalgae Arthrospira platensis (A. platensis) mutants induced by ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) and further selection for resistance of cerulenin, a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase, were characterized. The mutants selected by $2{\mu}M$, $5{\mu}M$ and $10{\mu}M$ of cerulenin were designated EC2, EC5 and EC10, respectively. Under normal growth conditions, the mutants and parental strain exhibited similar growth pattern. The mutants of A. platensis showed enhanced lipid accumulation and phycobiliproteins (phycoerythrin, phycocyanin). The lipid content of mutants EC2 and EC5 was about 4.4 and 4.8-fold higher than wild type. The phycoerythrin and phycocyanin content of mutants EC2 and EC5 was increased about 1.5 and 6.9-fold and 1.4 and 3.8-fold, respectively, compared to the wild type. The chlorophyll and carotenoid content of mutants was slightly increased. The high lipid and pigment contents exhibited by A. platensis mutants would make an excellent candidate for the production of commercially interesting biologically active compounds.