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Cloning of the 5'-end and Amplification of Full-Length cDNA of Genomic RNA of Lily symptomless virus

  • Park, Seon-Ah;Ryu, Ki-Hyun
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.187-191
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes the cloning and sequence analysis of the 5'-terminal region and full-length cDNA production of genomic RNA of Lily symptomless virus (LSV), a Species Of the genus Carlavirus. A sing1e DNA band about 600 bp harboring the 5'-end of genomic RNA of the virus was successfully amplified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE), and was cloned for nucleotide sequence determination. Sequence analysis of selected RACE cDNA clones revealed that the LSV 5'non-translated region consists of 67 nucleotides long of AT rich stretch followed GC rich from the 5'-end. To produce full-length cDNA products for the viral genomic RNA, a set of LSV-specific primers could be designed based on the obtained sequence in this study and the known sequences of 3'-terminal region for the virus. Full-length cDNA copies of LSV, an 8.4 kb long, were directly amplified by the long-template RT-PCR technique from the purified viral genomic RNA samples. This full-length cDNA copies were analyzed by restriction mapping. The molecules produced in this study can be useful for the production of in vitro infectious cDNA clone, as well as, for the completion of genomic RNA sequence and genome structure for the virus.

Effect of Sputter Parameters on Crystal Structure and Optical Properties of $TiO_2$/Ag Films (스퍼터 조건에 따라 $TiO_2$/Ag 계 박막의 결정구조 및 광학특성)

  • Cha, Yeong-Won;Lee, Gyeong-Jun;Kim, Yeong-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 1996
  • TiO2/Ag 계 적층형 투명 열절연 박막의 최적 제작조건 설정을 위한 기초 연구로써, 스퍼터조건에 따른 결정구조 및 광학특성 변화거동을 관찰하였다. 반응성 스퍼터링에 의한 TiO2박막 제작조건에 따른 결정구조 및 광학특성 변화거동을 관찰하였다. 반응성 스퍼터링에 의한 TiO2 박막 제작시 Po2/PAr$\leq$0.2에서는 $\alpha$-TiO2 의 결정구조였으나, Po2/PAr$\leq$0.2에서는 기판 온도(RT-37$0^{\circ}C$) 및 열처리 온도(100-80$0^{\circ}C$)에 관계없이 non-stoichiometric 화합물로 판명되어, 산소 분압비가 TiO2 의 조성제어에 가장 중요한 변수로 나타났다. TiO2 박막은 열처리 온도의 증가(100-80$0^{\circ}C$)에 따라 굴절률이 증가(2.19-2.37)하는 경향이었는데, 이는 박막의 밀도증가에서 기인하는 것으로 판단된다. Ag 박막은(111)면과 (200)면이 우세한 결정립으로, 기판 온도(RT-37$0^{\circ}C$) 및 열처리(100-80$0^{\circ}C$)에 따라 등축상의 결정립 성장을 관찰할 수 있었다.

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A CASE OF SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR SYMPTOMATIC ELONGATED STYLOID PROCESS (이상경상돌기증의 치험례)

  • Kim, Chang-Hwan;Kim, Eun-Goan;Park, Hyo-Sang;Park, No-Boo;Lee, Yong-Oh
    • Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.348-355
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    • 1994
  • Styloid process is a slender pointed bone of variable length, which project downward, forward, and slightly medialward from the posteroinferior portion of the tympanic part of the temporal bone. Embryologically, the styloid process is derived from Reichert's cartilage, a structure of second branchial arch origin. Most patients with elongated styloid process remain asymptomatic, but some patients complain pain and sensation of foreign body in the throat, dysphagia, dysphonia, referred otalgia. Recently, we have experienced a case of elongated styloid process in a fifty-nine year old man. He had been suffered from Rt. side sore throat, headache and pharyngeal discomfort during head movement. Through various X-ray examination, Xeroradiography, and palpation of tonsillar fossa, elongated styloid process on Rt. side was confirmed. Under the general anesthesia, it was successfully removed out via transoral approach technique, described by Eagle. The resected styloid process was 2.5cm in it's length and he was freed from the symptoms without further complication.

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Chrysanthemum Chlorotic Mottle Viroid-Mediated Trafficking of Foreign mRNA into Chloroplasts

  • Baek, Eseul;Park, Minju;Yoon, Ju-Yeon;Palukaitis, Peter
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.288-293
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    • 2017
  • Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid (CChMVd) fused to the leader sequence of a reporter gene (mRFP) expressed transiently in agroinfiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana, was used to show that CChMVd can traffic into chloroplasts, thought to be the site of its replication. Fluorescence from mRFP was detected in chloroplasts, but only if the viroid transcription fusions were present, either from the full-length 400-nt CChMVd, or each of two partial fragments (nucleotides 125 to 2 and 231 to 372). The mRFP and its mRNA were detected by western blotting and RT-PCR, respectively, in tissue extracts of plants infiltrated by each fusion construct. Isolated chloroplasts were shown by RT-PCR to contain the RNA sequences of both CChMVd and mRFP, if both were present, but not the mRFP sequence in the absence of the viroid sequences. The results suggest that RNA trafficking was probably due to an RNA structure, and not a particular sequence, as discussed.

Effects of Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi on $IL-1{\beta}-induced$ GnT-III and V in Melanoma B-16 (Melanoma B-16에서 $IL-1{\beta}$ 유발 GnT-III, V 활성에 대한 과루인(瓜蔞仁), 황금(黃芩) 추출물의 영향(影響))

  • Seo, Woon-Gyo;Jeong, Ji-Cheon
    • THE JOURNAL OF KOREAN ORIENTAL ONCOLOGY
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.103-118
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    • 1999
  • The activity of N-acetylglucosamitnyltransferase(GnT) III and V on a Melanoma B-16 was examined after incubation with interleukin 1 (IL-1). While augumenting cell proliferation, IL-1 resulted in a decrease of GnT-III activity and an increase of GnT-V activities. Consistant with this, Melanoma B-16 cultured with IL-1 showed increased affinlity to Daturam stramonium lectin, which recognizes asialo-tri- and asialeo-tetra-antenery N-linked oligosaccharides. These results indicate that IL-1 modulate glycosyltransferase activity and the oligosaccharide structure of target cells. On the other hand, to investigate whether or not TKM-SG affect GnT-V gene expression in lung metastatic carcinoma, we used RT-PCR methods. TKM-SG treated cell lines showed low levels of secretion of GnT-V mRNA transcription as elucidated by RT-PCR. Thus, with together lower GnT-V activity levels in the medium, TKM-SG was highly effective for lung cancer metastasis treatment and it was concluded that the medicine can be used as a potent anti-lung cancer metastasis medicine.

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Expression of Luteinizing Hormone (LH) Gene in Rat Uterus and Epididymis (흰쥐 자궁과 부정소에서의 Luteinizing Hormone (LH) 유전자 발현)

  • Lee, Sung-Ho;Lee, Young-Ki
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.157-161
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    • 1999
  • Recent studies clearly demonstrated that the novel expression of LH gene in the rat testis, and suggested the local action of the LH-like molecule. The present study was performed to analyze the expression of LH genes in the rat accessory reproductive organs. Expression of LH subunit genes in the rat uterus and epididymis was demonstrated by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and specific LH radioimmunoassay (RIA). The $LH_{beta}$ transcripts in these organs contained the published cDNA structure, the pituitary type exons 1-3, which encoded the entire $LH_{beta}$ polypeptide. Presence of the transcripts for the ${\alpha}$-subunit in the rat reproductive tissues were also confirmed by RT-PCR. In the LH RIA, significant levels of LH were detected in crude extracts from the rat ovary, uterus and epididymis. The competition curves with increasing amount of tissue extracts were parallel with those of standard peptide, indicating that the immunoreactive LH-like materials in these tissues are similar to authentic pituitary LH molecule. In rat epididymis, the highest amount of immunoreactive LH was detected in corpus area. Our findings demonstrated that the genes for LH subunits are expressed in the rat accessory reproductive organs, and suggested that these extrapituitary LH may act as a local regulator with auto and/or paracrine manner.

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Temperature Control Improvement of Pressure Heating Roller for Flexible Flat Cable Production (Flexible Flat Cable 생산성 향상을 위한 가압용 히팅롤러의 온도제어개선)

  • Kim Jae Hak;Lee Ho Jung;Chun Keyoung Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.7 s.172
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    • pp.155-163
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    • 2005
  • Pressure heating rollers with temperature control were mounted to a flat cable laminating machine (FCLM). Pressure heating rollers should be heated up to the setting temperature $(175^{\circ}C)$ and kept on to producing good quality flexible flat cables (FFC). Existing Pressure heating rollers took more than 70minutes to the setting temperature and did not keep on the setting temperature in production. Temperature controller, electric power controller, material and diameter of rollers and heat capacities were changed to improve the temperature control of the pressure heat rollers for better production of the FFC. Thus, the reaching time to the setting temperature (RT), temperature stability time (TST) and temperature hunting (TH) were measured and compared with the existing pressure rollers case. The RT of A roller was shortened by 50minutes, and B roller was shortened by 15minutes. The TST of A roller was shortened by 13minutes, and B roller was shortened by 15minutes. The THs of both A and B rollers were settled up to ${\pm}5^{\circ}C$. Finally, the productivity of the FCLM and the quality of the FFC were increased.

Structural and Quantitative Expression Analyses of HERV Gene Family in Human Tissues

  • Ahn, Kung;Kim, Heui-Soo
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.99-103
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    • 2009
  • Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several human diseases as multi-copy members in the human genome. Their gene expression profiling could provide us with important insights into the pathogenic relationship between HERVs and cancer. In this study, we have evaluated the genomic structure and quantitatively determined the expression patterns in the env gene of a variety of HERV family members located on six specific loci by the RetroTector 10 program, as well as real-time RT-PCR amplification. The env gene transcripts evidenced significant differences in the human tumor/normal adjacent tissues (colon, liver, uterus, lung and testis). As compared to the adjacent normal tissues, high levels of expression were noted in testis tumor tissues for HERV-K, in liver and lung tumor tissues for HERV-R, in liver, lung, and testis tumor tissues for HERV-H, and in colon and liver tumor tissues for HERV-P. These data warrant further studies with larger groups of patients to develop biomarkers for specific human cancers.

The study of damage regions on the aging conditions of the silk dyeing traditional pigment (전통 염색견의 열화조건에 따른 손상원인 연구)

  • Lee, Hye-Yun;Han, Min-Su;Chung, Yong-Jea;Song, Jeoung-Ju
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.26
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    • pp.77-101
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    • 2005
  • In ancient times, many kinds of difference inorganic and organic pigment were used as colorants for making objects. This study has proved the damage regions on the aging conditions of the silk dyeing traditional pigment. so whiteness, tensile strength and digital-microscope were measured to examine the state of silk dyeing traditional pigments pretreated under each aging condition. From the result examining the state, all the silk dyeing traditional pigments were best condition at low temperature(-20/RT)and normal condition and damaged at high temperature($60^{\circ}C$) and 2ppm $SO_2$condition and UV condition. As a result of X-ray diffraction analysis of crystalline structure for the silk dyeing traditional pigments, most of specimens have nearly changed crystalline structure despite specimens had each other different conditions and times. Especially, specimens which was passing of 4-8 months have not changed in its crystalline structure. But some specimens like a Unghwang and Seokcheong have a little changed in its intensity in the XRD peak. Consequently, If we want to find out alteration of crystalline structure for the silk dyeing traditional pigments using scientific method according to change of environmental conditions, we must guarantee of equal state and strengthen of environmental conditions in specimen. Additionally, the term of experiment need to belong, and specimens which was experimented and analyzed must be same.

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Regeneration of Intervertebral Disc Using Gellan Sponge Loading PLGA Microspheres (PLGA 미립구가 함유된 젤란검 스폰지를 이용한 추간판 조직 재생)

  • Park, Hyunwoo;Kim, Hye Yun;Kwon, Soon Yong;Khang, Gilson;Kim, Yong-Sik
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.144-150
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    • 2015
  • Gellan gum as a natural polysaccharide has good heat resistance, acid resistance and enzymes resistance. However, one of the drawbacks of gellan gum might be the lower mechanical strength. In this work, gellan gum scaffolds were mixed with poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microsphere in order to improve mechanical properties. The gellan gum scaffolds with various contents of PLGA microsphere were prepared for the regeneration of disc tissues. To evaluate the mechanical strength of hybrid structure of gellan gum and PLGA microsphere, compression strength of the fabricated scaffolds was measured. MTT analysis, SEM observation, histological evaluation and RT-PCR were performed to confirm the effect on the cell growth and extracellular matrix secretion. As a result, it showed the best cell proliferation and extracellular matrix secretion in gellan gum sponge containing 50% PLGA microspheres. In conclusion, this study confirmed that the hybrid structure of gellan gum and PLGA microspheres was found suitable in regeneration of the intervertebral disc.