• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2017

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary leucine supplementation on mitochondrial biogenesis and energy metabolism in the liver of normal birth weight (NBW) and intrauterine growth-retarded (IUGR) weanling piglets. MATERIALS/METHODS: A total of sixteen pairs of NBW and IUGR piglets from sixteen sows were selected according to their birth weight. At postnatal day 14, all piglets were weaned and fed either a control diet or a leucine-supplemented diet for 21 d. Thereafter, a $2{\times}2$ factorial experimental design was used. Each treatment consisted of eight replications with one piglet per replication. RESULTS: Compared with NBW piglets, IUGR piglets had a decreased (P < 0.05) hepatic adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content. Also, IUGR piglets exhibited reductions (P < 0.05) in the activities of hepatic mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), citrate synthase (CS), ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (${\alpha}$-KGDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), and complexes I and V, along with decreases (P < 0.05) in the concentration of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the protein expression of hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-${\gamma}$ coactivator $1{\alpha}$ (PGC-$1{\alpha}$). Dietary leucine supplementation increased (P < 0.05) the content of ATP, and the activities of CS, ${\alpha}$-KGDH, MDH, and complex V in the liver of piglets. Furthermore, compared to those fed a control diet, piglets given a leucine-supplemented diet exhibited increases (P < 0.05) in the mtDNA content and in the mRNA expressions of sirtuin 1, PGC-$1{\alpha}$, nuclear respiratory factor 1, mitochondrial transcription factor A, and ATP synthase, $H^+$ transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex, ${\beta}$ polypeptide in liver. CONCLUSIONS: Dietary leucine supplementation may exert beneficial effects on mitochondrial biogenesis and energy metabolism in NBW and IUGR weanling piglets.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.964-973
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• 2020

Recent studies have highlighted that early enhancement of the glycolytic pathway is a mode of maintaining the proinflammatory status of immune cells. Thiamine, a wellknown co-activator of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a gatekeeping enzyme, shifts energy utilization of glucose from glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation. Thus, we hypothesized that thiamine may modulate inflammation by alleviating metabolic shifts during immune cell activation. First, using allithiamine, which showed the most potent anti-inflammatory capacity among thiamine derivatives, we confirmed the inhibitory effects of allithiamine on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine production and maturation process in dendritic cells. We applied the LPS-induced sepsis model to examine whether allithiamine has a protective role in hyper-inflammatory status. We observed that allithiamine attenuated tissue damage and organ dysfunction during endotoxemia, even when the treatment was given after the early cytokine release. We assessed the changes in glucose metabolites during LPS-induced dendritic cell activation and found that allithiamine significantly inhibited glucose-driven citrate accumulation. We then examined the clinical implication of regulating metabolites during sepsis by performing a tail bleeding assay upon allithiamine treatment, which expands its capacity to hamper the coagulation process. Finally, we confirmed that the role of allithiamine in metabolic regulation is critical in exerting anti-inflammatory action by demonstrating its inhibitory effect upon mitochondrial citrate transporter activity. In conclusion, thiamine could be used as an alternative approach for controlling the immune response in patients with sepsis.

• BMB Reports
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.244-249
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• 2011

The quality of a phage-displayed antibody library deteriorates with clonal variations, which are caused by differentially expressed Escherichia coli antibody genes. Using the human Fab SP114 against the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-E2 (PDCE2), we created four E. coli TOP10F' clones with a pCMTG phagemid encoding Fab-pIII (pCMTG-Fab), Fd ($V_H+C_{H1}$)-pIII (pCMTG-Fd), or light chain (L) (pCMTG-L), or the vector only (pCMTG-${\Delta}Fab$) to investigate the effect of clonal variations in a defined manner. Compared to the others, the E. coli clone with pCMTG-Fab was growth retarded in liquid culture, but efficiently produced phage progenies by Ex12 helper phage superinfection. Our results suggest that an antibody library must be cultured for a short duration before helper phage superinfection, and that the Ex12 helper phage helped to alleviate the detrimental effect of clonal variation, at least in part, by preferentially increasing functional phage antibodies during phage amplification.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2010

Background: Expression of recombinant antibodies and their derivatives fused with other functional molecules such as alkaline phosphatase in Escherichia coli is important in the development of molecular diagnostic reagents for biomedical research. Methods: We investigated the possibility of applying a well-known Fos-Jun zipper to dimerize $V_H$ and $V_L$ fragments originated from the Fab clone (SP 112) that recognizes pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-E2 (PDC-E2), and demonstrated that the functional zipFv-112 and its alkaline phosphatase fusion molecules (zipFv-AP) can be produced in the cytoplasm of Origami(DE3) trxB gor mutant E. coli strain. Results: The zipFv-AP fusion molecules exhibited higher antigen-binding signals than the zipFv up to a 10-fold under the same experimental conditions. However, conformation of the zipFv-AP seemed to be influenced by the location of an AP domain at the C-terminus of $V_H$ or $V_L$ domain [zipFv-112(H-AP) or zipFv-112(L-AP)], and inclusion of an AraC DNA binding domain at the C-terminus of VH of the zipFv-112(L-AP), termed zipFv-112(H-AD/L-AP), was also beneficial. Cytoplasmic co-expression of disulfide-binding isomerase C (DsbC) helped proper folding of the zipFv-112(H-AD/L-AP) but not significantly. Conclusion: We believe that our zipFv constructs may serve as an excellent antibody format bi-functional antibody fragments that can be produced stably in the cytoplasm of E. coli.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.199-204
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• 2009

목 적 : 발열을 동반한 발작은 소아기에 흔한 문제이며, 단순 열성경련은 간질로 진행되는 경우는 거의 없고 예후가 매우 좋다. 그러나 복합 열성경련과 신경학적인 이상이 동반된 경우, 간질의 가족력이 있는 경우 및 1시간이내의 짧은 발열에 동반된 경우 등은 간질로 진행될 위험이 높고 선천성 대사 질환과 같은 기저 질환이 있을 가능성이 높다. 따라서 본 연구는 복합 열성경련의 환아의 유기산 분석을 통하여 어떠한 대사 질환들이 있는지 알아보고자 시행되었다. 방 법 : 1997년 7월부터 2005년 6월까지의 8년 동안 발작을 주소로 유기산 분석이 의뢰되었던 환아 중에서 복합 열성경련으로 진단되었으며 정맥혈 가스 분석, 암모니아, 간 기능 검사, 소변 검사 등의 통상적인 검사를 시행한 정보가 있었던 278명을 후향적으로 분석하였다. 결 과 : 정보가 있었던 278명의 환자 중에서 기본 검사가 모두 정상인 경우는 132명이었고, 한 가지라도 비정상소견을 보였던 환자는 146명이었다. 가장 흔한 비정상소견은 산혈증으로 58명이었고, 고 암모니아혈증(55명), 저혈당(21명), 케톤산혈증(12명) 등의 순이었다. 통상적인 검사가 정상인 군에서 유기산분석이 비정상소견을 보인 경우는 26명으로 19.7%였으며, 호흡연쇄효소의 이상이 대부분을 차지하였다(23명). 통상적인 검사가 비정상소견을 보였던 146명 중 유기산 분석에서 비정상소견을 보인 경우는 104명으로 71.2%였으며, 통계적으로 의미 있게 높았다(P<0.05). 원인질환으로는 사립체호흡연쇄효소의 이상이 29명, 케톤분해장애가 27명, 피루브산탈수소효소 결핍증과 제2형 글루타르산혈증이 각각 9명의 순이었으며, 제3형 3-메칠글루타콘산혈증 6명, 비오틴분해효소 결핍증 5명, 프로피온산혈증 4명 등이 뒤를 잇고 있으며, 그 외 다양한 질환들이 1-2명씩 진단되었다. 결 론 : 복합 열성경련의 경우에는 정맥혈 가스 분석, 암모니아, 간 기능 검사, 소변 검사 등의 통상적인 검사를 반드시 시행하여야 하며, 비정상소견을 보이는 경우에는 반드시 소변 유기산 분석을 시행하여야 할 것으로 판단된다. 검사소견이 정상일지라도 상당수의 환자에서 호흡연쇄효소의 이상 환자들이 진단되고 있으므로 단순 열성경련이 아니라고 판단된 경우에는 유기산 분석을 시행하여야 된다고 판단된다.