• 농업과학연구
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.105-109
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• 2015

Andean potato latent virus (APLV)는 Group IV (+) sense ssRNA viruses, Tymovirus속으로 분류되는 식물 병원성 바이러스로, 주로 감자에 감염되며 국내 관리급 검역바이러스로 지정되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 검역현장에서 APLV를 신속 정확하게 진단할 수 있는 2개의 RT-PCR 프라이머 조합[조합 2 (404 bp)와 23 (501 bp)]과 각각의 nested PCR 조합($404{\rightarrow}259bp$ 및 $501{\rightarrow}349bp$)을 선발하였다. 또한, 진단에 양성대조군으로 활용할 수 있는 유전자변형 양성대조구를 개발하여 실험실 오염에 대한 검증이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 PCR 기반 진단시스템은 향후 검역 현장에서 APLV를 검출하여 우리나라 식물검역에 기여할 것이라고 기대된다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2007

REOviruses (Respiratory Enteric Orphan viruses) are ubiquitous, non-enveloped viruses containing 10 segments of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) as their genome. They are common isolates of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract of humans but are not associated with severe disease and are therefore considered relatively benign. An intriguing characteristic of reovirus is its innate oncolytic potential, which is linked to the transformed state of the cell. When immortalized cells are transfected in vitro with activated oncogenes such as Ras, Sos, v-erbB, or c-myc, they became susceptible to reovirus infection and subsequent cellular lysis, indicating that oncogene signaling pathways are exploited by reovirus. This observation has led to the use of the virus in clinical trials as an anti-cancer agent against oncogenic tumors. In addition to the exploitation of oncogene signaling, reovirus may further utilize host immune responses to enhance its antitumor activity in vivo due to its innate interferon induction ability. Reovirus is, however, not entirely benign to immunocompromised animal models. Reovirus causes so-called "black feet syndrome" in immunodeficient mice and can also harm neonatal animals. Because cancer patients often undergo immunosuppression due to heavy chemo/radiation-treatments or advanced tumor progression, this pathogenic response may be a hurdle in virus-based anticancer therapies. However, a genetically attenuated reovirus variant derived from persistent reovirus infection of cells in vitro is able to exert potent anti-tumor activity with significantly reduced viral pathogenesis in immunocompromised animals. Importantly, in this instance the attenuated, reovirus maintains its oncolytic potential while significantly reducing viral pathogenesis in vivo.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2020

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and avian influenza (AI) are highly pathogenic viral disease which affects the livestock industry worldwide. Outbreak of these viruses causes great impact in the livestock industry; thus, disease infected animals were immediately disposed. Burial is the commonly used disposal method for deceased animals. However, there is potential for secondary environmental contamination, as well as the risk that infectious agents persisting in the environment due to the limited environmental controls in livestock burial sites during the decomposition of the carcasses. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the detection of FMD and AI viruses from animal carcass disposal sites using real-time reverse transcription PCR. Soil samples of more than three years post-burial from livestock carcass disposal sites were collected and processed RNA isolation using a commercial extraction kit. The isolated RNA of the samples was used for the detection of FMDV and AIV using qRT-PCR. Based on the qPCR assay result, no viral particle was detected in the soil samples collected from the animal disposal sites. This indicates that 3 years of burial and their carcass disposal method is efficient for the control or at least reduction of spread infections in the surrounding environment.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제65권5호
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• pp.230-238
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• 2022

Myocarditis was previously attributed to an epidemic viral infection. Additional harmful reagents, in addition to viruses, play a role in its etiology. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine-induced myocarditis has recently been described, drawing attention to vaccine-induced myocarditis in children and adolescents. Its pathology is based on a series of complex immune responses, including initial innate immune responses in response to viral entry, adaptive immune responses leading to the development of antigen-specific antibodies, and autoimmune responses to cellular injury caused by cardiomyocyte rupture that releases antigens. Chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the myocardium eventually result in cardiac failure. Recent advancements in molecular biology have remarkably increased our understanding of myocarditis. In particular, microRNAs (miRNAs) are a hot topic in terms of the role of new biomarkers and the pathophysiology of myocarditis. Myocarditis has been linked with microRNA-221/222 (miR-221/222), miR-155, miR-10a^*, and miR-590. Despite the lack of clinical trials of miRNA intervention in myocarditis yet, multiple clinical trials of miRNAs in other cardiac diseases have been aggressively conducted to help pave the way for future research, which is bolstered by the success of recently U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved small-RNA medications. This review presents basic information and recent research that focuses on myocarditis and related miRNAs as a potential novel biomarker and the therapeutics.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.150-156
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• 2020

Weeds play an important role in the survival of viruses and are potential inoculum sources of viral diseases for crop plants. In this study, specimens of Pseudostellaria heterophylla exhibiting symptoms of the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) were collected in Bonghwa, Korea. The characteristics of the disease were described and leaf RNA was extracted and sequenced to identify the virus. Three CMV contigs were obtained and PCR was performed using specific primer pairs. RNA from positive samples exhibiting CMV leaf symptoms was amplified to determine the coat protein. A sequence comparison of the coat protein gene from the CMV BH isolate shared the highest nucleotide identity (99.2%) with the CMV ZM isolate. Phylogenetic analysis showed that CMV-BH belonged to subgroup IA and that the most closely-related isolate was CMV-ZM. All test plants used for the biological assay were successfully infected with CMV and exhibited CMV disease symptoms such as blistering, mosaic, and vein yellowing. To our knowledge, this is the first report of CMV infection in P. heterophylla from Korea.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.253-257
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• 1992

Potyvirus group에 속하는 것으로 알려진 마늘 모자이크 바이러스 (GMV)가 식물에서 병을 유도하는 메카니즘을 이해하기 위하여, 마늘에 존재하는 GMV에 대한 cDNA clone인 clone 29-6을 분리하였다. Northern blot 분석에 의해 이 바이러스의 genome size는 약 9 kb이고, 또한 clone 29-6은 GLV genome과 유사성이 없었으며, 마늘잎으로부터 분리된 $poly(A)^{+}$ RNA와 강하게 hybridization되었다. 이러한 사실은 이 cDNA clone이 마늘에 감염하여 모자이크 병반을 유도하는 GMV에 대한 cDNA clone 중의 하나인 것으로 생각되었다. Clone 29-6을 probe으로 사용하여 마늘 바이러스의 cDNA 은행을 탐색하여 이와 중첩되는 clone을 선별하여 염기서열을 결정한 결과 이들의 염기서열이 중첩부위에서 서로 일치하지 않았는데 이는 마늘은 여러 형태의 GMV에 의해 감염되어 있음을 암시한다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2021

With the recent isolation of a new betanodavirus in shellfish, Korean Shellfish Nervous Necrosis Virus (KSNNV), it has also been identified the reassortant KSNNV of two RNA segments, in which one segment is KSNNV genotype but the other one is known genotype. In this study, we confirmed that the ressortant KSNNVs obtained in previous screening study of our laboratory for betanodaviruses in shellfish were KS/RGNNV and RG/KSNNV type by performing two consecutive multiplex RT-PCR on each RNA1 and RNA2 segment (R1- and R2-discriminative multiplex two-step RT-PCR, respectively) to determine the genotype of each segment based on the size of amplicon. In the pathogenicity analysis, none of the reassortants induced specific external symptoms or mortality of VNN, but viruses of 2 × 10⁴~10⁵ copies/mg or more were detected at 14 days after injection (10⁷ copies/fish) in brain tissues of 4 species except for crucian carp and common carp among the 6 species of juvenile fish used. In addition, the histopathological features of weak but distinct vacuole formation were also found in the brain of these infected fish, but no difference was found between the two reassortants KS/RGNNV-KG and RG/KSNNV-CM.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.625-629
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• 2020

바다는 바이러스를 포함하는 다양한 생물체의 풍부한 자원을 제공한다. 본 연구에서는 계절에 따른 제주 바다의 해양 미생물 군집을 확인하기 위해 3월과 12월에 해수 샘플을 수집하여 total RNA를 추출, HiSeq2000 및 de novo 전사체 어셈블리를 사용한 NGS를 실시하였다. 그 결과, 3월 및 12월 시료에서 각각 652,984 및 163,759 개의 전사체를 확인하였다. 3월 샘플에서는 해양 박테리아가 우점하였으나 12월 샘플에서는 진핵생물이 우점하였다. 박테리아 군집은 두 샘플간에 상이하였으며, 이는 계절 변화 동안 박테리아 군집이 변화하였음을 보여주었다. 또한, 해양바이러스를 확인하기 위하여, Megablast를 사용하여 바이러스 참조 데이터베이스에 전사체를 검색하였다. 해양박테리아를 감염시키는 박테리오파지가 두 샘플에서 우점하는 것을 확인하였다. 그러나, 우리는 두 개의 전사체에서 다양한 헤르페스바이러스와 관련된 transcripts가 풍부함을 확인하였으며, 이는 제주도 인근 바다에서 물고기를 감염시키는 헤르페스바이러스의 위협 가능성을 나타낸다. 종합하면, 우리의 데이터는 해양 커뮤니티 연구 및 가능한 해양 바이러스 병원체를 식별하는 데 유용할 것이다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.415-422
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• 2022

이기종인 온주감귤 유전자(A=20.57, C=32.71, G=30.01, U=16.71%)와 커피 유전자(A=20.66, C=31.76, G=30.187, U=16.71%)는 95%이상이 유전자비가 동일하다. 이기종이면 일반적으로 유전자 결합이 안 되는 것으로 알려졌다. 그러나 유전자 기능적-유사성이 95%이상에서 Chargaff 룰과 Shannon Entropy 조건을 만족하면 접목이 가능하며, 새품종인 Coffrange가 된다. 우리는 DNA-RNA를 세계최초 BCJM 행렬로 풀어 미국특허 및 국제저널에 발표했다. 모든 동식물과 바이러스도 사람이 유전자와 비슷하다. 이점에 착안, 코로나-19와 인체의 유전자 특성을 풀어 영국 행렬교재에 6월 발표했다. 식물에서는 유전자 위치를 쉽게 바꾸는 기법인 BCJM-Transposon으로 처리한다. 시뮬레션에서는 행렬이 Cut & Paste와 Transpose로 성공할 수 있음을 예측했다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.286-294
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• 2023

Biological and molecular characterization of a Korean isolate of Orthotospovirus chrysanthinecrocaulis (formerly known as chrysanthemum stem necrosis virus, CSNV) isolated from Chrysanthemum morifolium was determined using host range and sequence analysis in this study. Twenty-three species of indicator plants inoculated mechanically CSNV-Kr was investigated for determination of host range. CSNV-Kr induced various local and systemic symptoms in the inoculated plant species. CSNV-Kr could not infect three plant species and induced symptomless in systemic leaves in Nicotiana tabacum cultivars, though the plant samples reacted positively with the antiserum to CSNV by double-antibody sandwich-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The complete genome sequence of CSNV-Kr was determined. The L RNA of CSNV-Kr consists of 8,959 nucleotides (nt) and encodes a putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The M RNA of CSNV-Kr consists of 4,835 nt and encodes the movement protein (NSm) and the glycoprotein precursor (Gn/Gc protein). The S RNA of CNSV-Kr consists of 2,836 nt and encodes NSs protein and N protein. The Gn/Gc and N sequence of CSNV-Kr were compared with those of previously published CSNV isolates originating from different countries at nucleotide and amino acid levels. The Gn/GC sequence of CSNV-Kr shared 98.8-99.5% identity with CSNV isolated from other countries and the N sequence of CSNV-Kr shared 98.8-99.6% identity. No particular region of variability could be found in either grouping of viruses. All of the CSNV isolates did not show any relationship according to geographical origins and isolation hosts, suggesting no distinct segregation of the CSNV isolates.