• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.145-149
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• 2004

The expression of a fusion protein comprised of the B. thuringiensis crystal protein, Cry1Ac, and enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) in Escherichia coli XLl-blue was examined. Three recombinant plasmids were transformed into E. coli XL1-blue and named as ProAc/Ec, MuEGFP/Ec and ProMu-EGFP/Ec, respectively. All transformants were observed by light and fluorescence microscopy at mid-log phase. The expression in E. coli transformants, ProMu-EGFP/Ec and MuEGFP/Ec, exhibited bright enough fluorescence to be observed. Furthermore, ProMu-EGFP/Ec produced fluorescent inclusions, which may have been recombinant crystals between EGFP and Cry1Ac while MuEGFP/Ec expressed soluble EGFP in cell. In SDS-PAGE, ProAc/Ec had 130 kDa crystal protein band and MuEGFP/Ec had thick 27 kDa EGFP band. However, ProMu-EGFP/Ec had about 150 kDa fusion protein band. Accordingly, these results indicated that a fusion protein between the B. thuringiensis crystal protein and a foreign protein under the lacZ promoter was successfully expressed as granular structure in E. coli. It is suggested that the E. coli expression system by N-terminal fusion of B. thuringiensis crystal protein may be useful as excellent means for fusion expression and characterization of B. thuringiensis fusion crystal protein.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2004

Expression of a fusion protein between B. thuringiensis crystal protein, Cry1Ac1 and a scorpion insect toxin (AaIT, Androctonus australis Hector insect toxin) in acrystalliferous B. thuringiensis strain (Cry-B strain) was examined. The cry 1Ac1 gene was cloned in B. thuringiensis-E coli shuttle vector, pHT3101, under the control of the native cry 1Ac1 gene promoter (pProAc) and a gene encoding AaIT was inserted in XhoI site in the middle of the cry 1Ac1 gene (pProAc-ScoR). B. thuringiensis Cry-B strain carrying pProAc-ScoR (PyoAc-ScoR/CB) produced an inclusion body of irregular shape and the expressed fusion protein is approximately 65 kDa in size. Sporulated cells and spore-crystal mixtures of ProAc-ScoR/CB had insecticidal activity against Plutella xylostella larvae, showing $LT_50$ of ProAc-ScoR/CB (22.59 hrs) lower than that of ProAc/CB (30.06 hrs) at $1{\times}{10^7} {CEU/cm^2}$. These results suggest that the fusion protein including a B. thuringiensis crystal protein and an AaIT may be functionally expressed in B. thupingiensis. Moreover, we verified the additive toxicity of AaIT, which is a new feasible candidate for insect control.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.340-345
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• 2004

To investigate the co-expression and crystallization of a fusion gene between the Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein and a foreign protein in B. thuringiensis, the expression of the Cry1Ac fused with green fluorescent protein (GFP) genes in a B. thuringiensis $Cry^-B$ strain was examined. The cry1Ac gene was cloned in the B. thuringiensis-E. coli shuttle vector, pHT3101, under the control of the native cry1Ac gene promoter, while the GFP gene was inserted into the XhoI site upstream of the proteolytic cleavage site, in the middle region of the crylAc gene (pProAc-GFP). The B. thuringiensis $Cry^-B$ strain carrying pProAc-GFP (ProAc-GFP/CB) did not produce any inclusion bodies. However, the transformed strain expressed fusion protein forms although the expression level was relatively low. Furthermore, an immu­noblot analysis using GFP and Cry1Ac antibodies showed that the fusion protein was not a single spe­cies, but rather multiple forms. In addition, the N-terminal fragment of Cry1Ac and a non-fused GFP were also found in the B. thuringiensis $Cry^-B$ strain after autolysis. The sporulated cells before autolysis and the spore-crystal mixture after autolysis of ProAc-GFP/CB exhibited insecticidal activities against Plutella xylostella larvae. Accordingly, the current results suggest that a fusion crystal protein produced by the transfomant, ProAc-GFP/CB, can be functionally expressed but easily degraded in B. thuring­iensis.

• BMB Reports
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.396-403
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• 2007

Proline accumulation has been shown to correlate with tolerance to drought and salt stresses in plants. We attempt to introduce the wild-type, mutant, and fusion proBA genes derived from Bacillus subtilis into Arabidopsis thaliana under the control of a strong promoter cauliflower mosaic virus 35S (CaMV35S). The transgenic plants produced higher level of free proline than control and the overproduction of proline resulted in the increased tolerance to osmotic stress in transgenic plants. Besides, the mutation in proBA genes, which were proved to lead $\alpha$-glutamyl kinase ($\alpha$-GK) reduces sensitivity to the end-product inhibition and the fusion of proB and proA also result in increasing proline production and confer osmotolerance in transgenic lines.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권8호통권197호
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• pp.122-129
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• 2007

To evaluate the effect of artificial disc implantation and fusion on the biomechanics of adjacent motion segment, a nonlinear three-dimensional finite element model of whole lumbar spine (L1-S1) was developed. Biomechanical analysis was performed for two different types of artificial disc, ProDisc and SB $Charit{\acute{e}}$ III model, inserted at L4-L5 level and these results were also compared with fusion case. Angular motion of vertebral body, forces on the spinal ligaments and facet joint under sagittal plane loading with a compressive preload of 150 N at a nonlinear three-dimensional finite element model of Ll-S1 were compared. The implant did not significantly alter the kinematics of the motion segment adjacent to the instrumented level. However, $Charit{\acute{e}}$ III model tend to decrease its motion on the adjacent levels, especially in extension motion. Contrast to motion and ligament force changes, facet contact forces were increased in the adjacent levels as well as implanted level for constrained instantaneous center of rotation model, i.e. ProDisc model.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.903-912
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• 2016

Hagfish which belongs to the chordate contact cyclostomata, is important phylogenetic relationship between vertebrate and invertebrate. Cathepsins of the cysteine protease family have traditionally been thought to play a major role in intracellular protein degradation and turnover in lysosomes. In this study, Catepsin L was cloned from Inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri), the cDNA encoding ORF of the Eptatretus burgeri Cathepsin L (EbCtL) is 978 bp. The cDNA encoding proEbCtL was expressed in Escherichia coli strain BL21(DE3) using the pGEX-4T-1 expression vector system. The recombinant proEbCtL protein was overexpressed as a approximately 55 kDa fusion protein. The overproduced soluble GST-fusion protein was then applied to glutathione-Sepharose 4B column chromatography; the sample harboring the fusion protein evidenced a high degree of purity when analyzed via SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis. Its activity was quantied by cleaving the synthetic peptide Z-FR-AMC, Z-LLE-AMC, and Suc-AAF-AMC, and the optimal pH for the protease activity was 8, 9.5, and 9, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.1207-1210
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• 2009

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.237-247
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• 2023

In middle- and long-distance imaging systems, due to the atmospheric turbulence caused by temperature, wind speed, humidity, and so on, light waves propagating in the air are distorted, resulting in image-quality degradation such as geometric deformation and fuzziness. In remote sensing, astronomical observation, and traffic monitoring, image information loss due to degradation causes huge losses, so effective restoration of degraded images is very important. To restore images degraded by atmospheric turbulence, an image-restoration method based on improved compound multibranch feature fusion (CMFNetPro) was proposed. Based on the CMFNet network, an efficient channel-attention mechanism was used to replace the channel-attention mechanism to improve image quality and network efficiency. In the experiment, two-dimensional random distortion vector fields were used to construct two turbulent datasets with different degrees of distortion, based on the Google Landmarks Dataset v2 dataset. The experimental results showed that compared to the CMFNet, DeblurGAN-v2, and MIMO-UNet models, the proposed CMFNetPro network achieves better performance in both quality and training cost of turbulent-image restoration. In the mixed training, CMFNetPro was 1.2391 dB (weak turbulence), 0.8602 dB (strong turbulence) respectively higher in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio and 0.0015 (weak turbulence), 0.0136 (strong turbulence) respectively higher in terms of structure similarity compared to CMFNet. CMFNetPro was 14.4 hours faster compared to the CMFNet. This provides a feasible scheme for turbulent-image restoration based on deep learning.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.200-211
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• 1993

사철느타리버섯 Pleurotus florida 균주와 느타리버섯 P. ostreatus 2균주의 영양요구주로 원형질체 융합하여 체세포 잡종을 얻어 자실체의 특성과 후대의 유전자 재조합을 조사하였다. 사철느타리 ASI 2016의 ASI 2-3-rib와 느타리 ASI 2018의 ASI 2-1-arg의 원형질체 융합으로 40개의 체세포잡종($P1{\sim}P40$)을 얻어 그중 P5에서 얻은 유전자 재조합주 P5-M43-arg rib를 다시 느타리 ASI 2001의 ASI 2-13-pro orn과 융합하여 38개 체세포잡종 ($P41{\sim}P78$)을 얻었는데 생산력이 높고 품질이 우수한 P72를 "원형느타리버섯 Wonhyeongneutaribeosus"으로 명명하여 1990년에 보급하였다. 자실체의 갓 색택이 yellowish white인 사철느타리 ASI 2016과 bluish grey인 느타리 ASI 2018의 원형질체 융합주는 중간색인 brownish grey를 나타내었고, P5에 다시 violet grey인 느타리 ASI 2001을 융합한 것은 bluish grey를 나타내었다. 40균주($P1{\sim}P40$)의 자실체 생산량에 있어서 10%만이 양친보다 높았고 40%는 낮았으며 나머지는 양친과 유사하였는데 친주 ASI 2018의 수량지수를 100으로 할 때 융합주는 $27.0{\sim}155.2$로 나타났으며, 체세포 잡종 38균주($P41{\sim}P78$)에 있어서 21.0%는 양친보다 높았고 26.3%는 낮았으며 나머지는 양친과 유사하였는데 ASI 2001을 100으로 할 때 체세포 잡종은 $40.5{\sim}141.3$으로 잡종강세 현상이 나타났다. 수량에 영향을 주는 7 개 형질에 관한 특성에 있어서 P5는 양친주보다 유효경수와 대의 길이는 증가하나 갓의 크기, 대직경, 개체중은 감소하였고, 다발무게와 갓 두께는 유사하였으며, P49는 갓의 크기는 양친과 유사하나 나머지 6개 형질이 모두 증가하였으며 P72는 다발 유효경수와 갓의 크기는 양친과 유사하나 나머지 5개 형질은 모두 증가하였다. esterase 동위효소 분석 결과 P5는 양친의 밴드를 대부분 가지면서 새로운 밴드양상이 형성되었으며 융합주 P48, P49, P72의 상호간에는 밴드의 차이가 없었으나 양친인 ASI 2001과 P5의 밴드를 대부분 가지는 양상을 나타내었다. 사철느타리 ASI 2016과 느타리 ASI 2018의 4개 융합조합 7개 융합주의 유전형질 분리에 있어서 분리되는 유전자형은 원영양형 prototroph, 양친의 한쪽 편친형, 양친의 다른 편친형, 영양요구성 유전자 재조합형으로 나타나며 그 기대치는 1 : 1 : 1 : 1이나 원영양형이 가장 많았으며 2개 융합주를 제외하고는 양친 중 사철느타리 형질만 분리되었으며 양친형과 유전자 재조합형이 거의 1 : 1로 분리되었다. P5 유전자 재조합주 arg rib와 ASI 2001의 pro orn의 체세포 잡종 P48, P49, P72의 분리에 있어서 pro orn 친은 분리되지 않았으며 각 유전형질 arg, rib, pro, orn의 비가 P49, P72는 거의 4 : 1 : 1 : 1로 나타났으나 P48은 pro, orn형질이 훨씬 적게 나타났으며 유전자 재조합형의 비율이 아주 높은 91%이상이었다.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.719-720
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• 2004

A multi-megawatt long pulse ion source (LPIS) of neutral beam injector was developed for the KSTAR. Beam extraction experiments of the LPIS were carried out at the neutral beam test stand (NBTS). Design requirements for the ion source were 120 kV/65 A deuterium beam and a 300 s pulse length. A maximum ion density of $9.1310^{11}$ $cm^{-3}$ was measured by using electric probes, and an optimum arc efficiency of 0.46 A/kW was estimated with ion saturation current of the probes, arc power, and total beam area. An arcing problem, caused by the structural defect of decelerating grid supporter, in the third gap was solved by the blocking of backstream ion particles, originated from the plasma in the neutralizer duct, through the unnecessary spaces on the side of grid supporter. A maximum drain power of 1.5 MW (i.e. 70 kV/21 A) with hydrogen was measured for a pulse duration of 0.5 s. Optimum beam perveance was ranged from 0.75 to 0.85. An improved design of accelerator for the effective control of beam particle trajectory should provide higher beam perveance.