• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.104-111
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• 2002

호열균 B. stearotheymophilus으로부터 단백질 고차구조 형성을 촉진하는 내열성 PPIase를 정제하기 위해, 이 균체를 대량으로 배양 집균, 파쇄하여 효소활성을 측정하였다. 효소의 활성측정은 N-succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe-p-nitroanilide(pAN)를 기질로 사용하였다. chymotrypsin은 기질 이성체(cis-trans 형)의 한쪽(trans)만을 특이적으로 분해하는 반응을 이용하여 PPIase 활성을 측정하였다. 호열균 추출시료로 부터 효소활성을 확인한 후, DEAE-sepharose CL-6B, Sephadex G-75로 정제 후, 최종적으로 Superose TM-12 (FPLC) gel-필트레이션으로 분자량 18kDa의 본 효소를 정제하였다. 정제한 효소의 화학적 특징을 조사한 결과 pH 7.5~8.0사이에 안정하였으며, 최적 pH는 8.0으로 나타났다. 그리고 $65^{\circ}C$에 30분간 열처리 후, 효소활성을 측정한 결과 50%이상의 잔존 활성을 갖는 내열성 효소임을 확인하였다. 정제 단백질의 N-말단 아미노산 분석은 Edman 분해법으로 39 아미노산 잔기를 결정하였다. 그리고 PPIase의 재구성(refolding) 반응은, 요소로 변성시킨 기질 RNase 1을 이용하여 이 단백질의 재구성 (refolding) 실험을 조사한 결과, PPIase는 변성 기질 RNase 1의 재구성(refolding)을 촉진하는데 높은 효과를 가지고 있었다. 호열균 유전자 라이브러리로부터 PPIase 유전자 약 3kb을 클로닝하였다. 재조합 플라스미드 cPI-40에서 프라이머(A-1, B-2)를 이용하여 PPIase N-말단을 코드하는 유전자를 PCR법으로 증폭하여, 염기배열을 결정한 결과 증폭된 단편은 165염기로 형성된 55 아미노산 잔기를 코드하는 open reading frame(ORF)가 연속되고 있었다. 그리고 Edman법으로 결정한 PPIase의 39아미노산 잔기가 이 배열내에 완전히 보존되어 있었다. 이 결과로부터 이 ORF는PPIase구조 유전자의 1/3에 해당하는 단편임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제38권sup2호
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• pp.343-354
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• 2008

Purpose: Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is associated with localized aggressive periodontitis. It produces cytolethal distending toxin (CDT), which induces cell cycle arrest in the G2/M phase. The CDT holotoxin is composed of CdtA, CdtB, and CdtC. CdtB has structural homology to human DNase I and is an active component of the CDT complex acting as a DNase. In particular, the pattern homology seen in the CdtB subunit has been associated with specific DNase I residues involved in enzyme catalysis, DNA binding, and metal ion binding. So, to study the functions and regulation of recombinant CdtB, we made up a quantity of functional recombinant CdtB and tested it in relation to the metal ion effect. Materials and Methods: We constructed the pET28a-cdtB plasmid from A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4 by genomic DNA PCR and expressed it in the BL21 (DE3) Escherichia coli system. We obtained the functional recombinant CdtB by the refolding system using the dialysis method and then analyzed the DNase activity and investigated the metal ion effect from plasmid digestion. Results: The recombinant CdtB subunit was expressed as the inclusion bodies. We were able to obtain functional recombinant CdtB subunit using refolding system. We confirmed that our refolded recombinant CdtB had DNase activity and was influenced by the metal ions $Mg^{2+}$ and $Ca^{2+}$. Conclusion: We suggest that the factors influencing recombinant CdtB may contribute to CDT associated diseases, such as periodontitis, endocarditic, meningitis, and osteomyelitis.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권9호
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• pp.2607-2612
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• 2010

Human tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) is a valuable thrombolytic agent used to successfully treat acute myocardial infarction, thromboembolic stroke, peripheral arterial occlusion, and venous thromboembolism. Recombinant tPA is accumulated as an inactive form in inclusion bodies of E. coli and is refolded in vitro, which is accompanied by extensive aggregation. In the present study, a tPA protease domain was expressed in an active soluble form in the cytosol of E. coli Rosetta-gami cells, which allowed disulfide bond formation and supplied the tRNA molecules required for six rarely used codons in E. coli. This strategy increased the amount of soluble protease domain protein and avoided the cumbersome refolding process. The purified protease domain not only degraded tPA substrate peptides but also formed a covalently bound complex with plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, as does full-length tPA. Soluble expression and purification of tPA domains may aid in functional analyses of this multi-domain protein, which has been implicated in many physiological and pathological processes.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.26-31
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• 2009

Heat shock proteins are a class of molecular chaperones that can be found in nearly all organisms from Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya domains. Heat shock proteins experience increased transcription during periods of heat induced osmotic stress and are involved in protein disaggregation and refolding as part of a cell's danger signaling cascade. Heat shock protein, Hsp20 is a small molecular chaperone that is approximately 20kDa in weight and is hypothesized to prevent aggregation and denaturation. Hsp20 can be found in several strains of Proteobacteria, which comprises the largest phyla of the Bacteria domain and also contains several medically significant bacterial strains. Genomic analyses were performed to determine a common evolutionary pattern among Hsp20 sequences in Proteobacteria. It was found that Hsp20 shared a common ancestor within and among the five subclasses of Proteobacteria. This is readily apparent from the amount of sequence similarities within and between Hsp20 protein sequences as well as phylogenetic analysis of sequences from proteobacterial and non-proteobacterial species.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.543-551
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• 2001

The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), or VEGF-A, is intimately involved in both physiological and pathological forms of angiogenesis. VEGF-A is now recognized as the founding member of a family of growth factors that has expanded to include VEGF-B, VEGF-C, VEGF-D, VEGF-E, and placental growth factor (PIGF). This family of cytokines binds differentially to at least three receptor tyrosine kinases, however, the extent to which family members other than VEGF-A contribute to physiological and pathological angiogenesis remains unclear. Issues that are of relevance include uncertainty regarding the consequences of signaling through VEGF - RI in particular, and the ability of some family members to heterodimerize, leading to the possibility ofheterodimeric receptor complexes. Structural characterization is one approach that can be used to address these issues, however, the vast majority of previous structure-function studies have only focused on VEGF-A. While these studies may provide some clues regarding the structural basis of the interaction of other family members with their receptors, studies using the ligands themselves are clearly required if highly specific interactions are to be revealed. With the recent progress toward refolding and purifying substantial' quantities of other VEGF family members, such structural studies are now possible. Here, these ~ssues are addressed with a particular emphasis on VEGF-B and its receptors.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.277-281
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• 1993

콜로이드 식품에서의 단백질의 구조적 안정성을 연구하기 위하여 7개의 BSA structural intermediates, succinylated ${\beta}-lactoglobulin$을 만든 후 CD, 이황화물 결합함량, hydrodynamic radius 등을 측정하여 그 구조적 특성을 규명했다. Refolding time이 길수록 BSA intermediates들은 native BSA 구조에 근접하는 것을 나타냈고 succinylation은 ${\beta}-lactoglobulin$의 순 음전하를 변화시켜 보다 aperiodic structure를 갖게하였다. Perchlorate 존재하 ${\beta}-casein$의 구조는 소수성 상호작용에 크게 영향 받는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.85-88
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• 2005

Hemoglobin is oxygen carrier protein within erythrocyte in blood. Apoprotein of this, globin, is synthesized in the cytosol but it's cofactor, heme, is synthesized in the mitochondria. It has not been known very well how globin receives the heme from mitochondria and folds to hemoglobin. In this folding process, the initial structure of globin seems to be very important. A small volume of globin at acid pH was added rapidly into the bulk of an egg phosphatidylcholine $60\%$ liposome, containing hemins, at neutral pH according to the Rapid Dilution method. It was observed that an acid-induced unfolding structure of globin is initially needed to receive hemins from the lipid bilayer of liposomes. Also, this conclusion was confirmed with the absorption spectrum of the refolded globin separated by centrifugation.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.728-735
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• 1995

The peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerase(PPlase, EC 5.2.2.8) from Bacillus stearothermophilus SIC1 was extracted from the cells treated with by lysozyme. PPlase was purified from the cell extracts by heat treatment, ammonium sulfate precipitation, ion exchange chromatography and finally gel filtration (FPLC). The purity of purified the enzyme after Superose 12 column chromatography was examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE). The molecular weight of the purified PPlase was estimated as 18,000 by SDS-PAGE. The 39 amino acid residues from the N-terminus were determined by the protein sequencer. The enzyme showed the optimum pH at 8.0 and was stable at the range of pH 7.0 to 8.0. The enzyme was considerably stable after heat treatment at $60^{\circ}C$ for 30 minutes, and the enzyme was quite stable up to $65^{\circ}C$. The presence of the PPlase in the refolding solution accelerated the isomerization rate of the assay peptide.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.1567-1572
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• 2009

Conformational change of ubiquitin variant with valine to alanine mutation at sequence position 26 was studied by varying solvent pH. Fluorescence emission spectra indicated that this variant ubiquitin has some residual structures in acidic and basic solution as compared to denaturant-induced unfolded state. Far-UV circular dichroic spectra indicated that the base-denatured state had more secondary structure than the acid-denatured state. Near-UV circular dichroic spectra indicated that the aromatic side-chains were in the relatively more rigid environment in the base-denatured state than those in the acid-denatured state. Although it appears that the more tertiary structure present in the base-denatured state, refolding reactions measured by stopped-flow fluorescence device suggest that both the acid- and base-denatured states occur before the major folding transition state. The acid- and base-denatured states are considered to reflect the early event of protein folding process.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.2877-2883
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• 2010

The folding kinetics of $WT^*$ ubiquitin variant with valine to alanine mutation at sequence position 26 (HubWA) was studied by stopped-flow fluorescence spectroscopy. While unfolding kinetics showed a single exponential phase, refolding reaction showed three exponential phases. The semi-logarithmic plot of urea concentration vs. rate constant for the first phase showed v-shape pattern while the second phase showed v-shape with roll-over effect at low urea concentration. The rate constant and the amplitude of the third phase were constant throughout the urea concentrations, suggesting that this phase represents parallel process due to the configurational isomerization. Interestingly, the first and second phases appeared to be coupled since the amplitude of the second phase increased at the expense of the amplitude of the first phase in increasing urea concentrations. This observation together with the roll-over effect in the second folding phase indicates the presence of intermediate state during the folding reaction of HubWA. Quantitative analysis of Hub-WA folding kinetics indicated that this intermediate state is on the folding pathway. Folding kinetics measurement of a mutant HubWA with hydrophobic core residue mutation, Val to Ala at residue position 17, suggested that the intermediate state has significant amount of native interactions, supporting the interpretation that the intermediate is on the folding pathway. It is considered that HubWA is a useful model protein to study the contribution of residues to protein folding process using folding kinetics measurements in conjunction with protein engineering.