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Characterization of a Positive Regulatory cis-Element and Transacting Factors for the Hepatitis B Viral Pregenomic Promoter

  • Choi, Cheol-Yong;Park, Geon-Tae;Rho, Hyune-Mo
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.156-162
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    • 1996
  • Transcription of hepatitis B viral pregenomic promoter is known to be regulated mainly by the combined interaction of enhancers I, II and the intervening regulatory sequences between the two enhancers. A positive regulatory element was identified by serial deletion and measuring the linked chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activities, which overlapped with the 5' region of the X open reading frame. When the positive regulatory element was inserted upstream of the SV40 early promoter, it elevated SV40 promoter activity in HepG2 cells. Two cellular proteins of 110 (p110) and 33 (p33) kDa interacted with the positive element and both of them were present in the nucleus, but p110 also existed in the cytoplasm in phosphorylated form. Dephosphorylation of p110 by acid phosphatase enhanced the DNA-binding activity of p110. The p33 could bind to single-strand DNA specifically as well as to double-strand DNA.

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A Study on the Regulatory Technology for Lightning Protection and Grounding System in Nuclear Power Plants (원전낙뢰보호 및 접지계통에 대한 규제기술연구)

  • Lee, J.D.;Zhu, O.P.;Lee, S.K.;Kim, D.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.11b
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    • pp.66-68
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    • 2007
  • The regulatory guide, RG-1.204 and its underlying or confirmatory research, NUREG/CR-6866 were studied for Korean application to LPGS of NPPs. However they excluded the application to that of NPPs. So US-NRC approved selectively industrial standards to that of NPPs on Nov 2005. It is necessary to understand the basis of regulatory technology related regulatory positions on LPGS and important to implement the guidance on LPGS as a resonable standard. The paper is examined what and how state of the art of relevant technology applied to the LPGS as well as the trip-out events related to electrical system were involved with LPGS. We reviewed the relevant standards applicable to Korean NPPs. Following are concluded to recommend. (1) IEEE 510-1050 is recommended as a guide for I&C grounding against EMI and lighting transients (2) IEEE Std-665, 510-666, Std-C62.23 for electrical grounding against voltage surges and lighting transients (3) Inspection should be thoroughly be implemented a frequency of 3-5 year period according to NFPA780 or KSC-IEC 61024.

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Regulatory View of Point on Health Functional Foods in Korea, Japan, and China

  • Jeong, Jeong-Suk;Kim, Sung-Chull;Jeong, Choon-Sik
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.310-314
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    • 2004
  • This is the re-arrangement of the 2004 Asia Nutrition & Dietary Supplement Conference organized by ABF(The Asia Business Forum) in Singapore, especially regulatory view of point of health functional foods for Korea, Japan, and China. Foods that may have health benefits beyond the traditional nutrients that they contain are often called 'Functional Foods'. The concept of functional foods has become popular in recent years, first in Japan and later in other countries, including the USA. In USA, The functional foods was controlled by ACSH (the American Council on Science and Health). In Korea, 'Functional Foods'. was defined on the 'The Law for the Health Functional Foods'(Law No. 6727 : effective as of $26^{th}$, Aug. 2002). KFDA(Korea Food and Drug Administration) is the only authority body for approval, advertisement and claims for the Health Functional Foods in Korea. In Japan, the Japan Health Food and Nutrition Food Association controls the approval, regulate functional foods' advertisement and claims under the name of FOSHU (Foods for Specified Health Uses). In China, the State Food and Drug Administration(SFDA) is the only authoritative organization for the application, supervision and administration of health related products. Asia, especially Korea, Japan and China, is one of the leader in the vitamins and dietary supplement(VDS) market. Regulatory issues on restrictions are the most important how to tap into the health functional foods market including Korea.

Reviewing the Applications of Three Countries' Ground Water Flow Modeling Regulatory Guidelines to Nuclear Facilities in Korea

  • Lee, Chung-Mo;Hamm, Se-Yeong;Hyun, Seung Gyu;Cheong, Jae-Yeol;Wei, Ming Liang
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2017
  • The numerical analysis of groundwater flow is indispensable for predicting problems associated with water resource development, civil works, environmental hazards, and nuclear power plant construction. Korea lacks public regulatory procedures and guidelines for groundwater flow modeling, especially in nuclear facility sites, which makes adequate evaluation difficult. Feasible step-by-step guidelines are also unavailable. Consequently, reports on groundwater flow modeling have low-grade quality and often present controversial opinions. Additionally, without public guidelines, maintaining consistency in reviewing reports and enforcing laws is more challenging. In this study, the guidelines for groundwater flow modeling were reviewed for three countries - the United States (Documenting Groundwater Modeling at Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Substances), Canada (Guidelines for Groundwater Modelling to Assess Impacts of Proposed Natural Resource Development Activities), and Australia (Australian Groundwater Modelling Guidelines), with the aim of developing groundwater flow modeling regulatory guidelines that can be applied to nuclear facilities in Korea, in accordance with the Groundwater Act, Environmental Impact Assessment Act, and the Nuclear Safety Act.

Identification of Positive and Negative Regulatory Elements of the Human Cytochrome P4501A2 (CYP1A2) Gene

  • Chung, Injae;Jeong, Choonsik;Jung, Kihwa;Bresnick, Edward
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1997.04a
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    • pp.81-81
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    • 1997
  • We previously demonstrated an enhancer-like positive regulatory element within a 259-bp sequence (-2352 to-2094 bp) of the human CYP1A2 gene in HepG2 cells. Three protein binding sites were identified by DNase I footprint analyses within the 259-bp sequence: protected region A PRA ( -2283 to-2243 bp), PRB (-2218 to-2187 bp), and PRC (-2124 to-2098 bp) (I. Chung and E. Bresnick, Mol. Pharmacol. 47, 677-685, 1995). In the present study, the functional significance of those protected regions was examined. Transfection experiments with deletion and substitution mutants defined the PRB and PRC as containing positive and negative regulatory elements, respectively. Human breast carcinoma MCF-7 cells were cotransfected with a hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 (HNF-1) expression vector and CYP1A2 promoter-or thymidine kinase promoter-luciferase remoter gene constructs. HNF-1, which contributes to the liver specificity of genes, enhanced reporter gene activity in a PRC sequence-dependent manner. These results suggested that PRC could exist bound to a repressor which was displaceable by other transcription factors such as HNF-1. Results obtained by transfection of HepG2 hepatoma cells with various PRB substitution mutant-luciferase gene fusion constructs indicated that the entire sequence of PRB was necessary for promoter activity. Consequently, the regulation of CYP1A3 expression is very complex, requiring a number of both positive and negative regulatory factors.

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Effects of Message Framing on the Advertising Effectiveness: -Moderating Role of Regulatory Focus and Product Type- (메시지 프레이밍이 광고효과에 미치는 영향: -조절초점과 제품유형의 조절효과-)

  • Kim, Sung-Jae;Yu, Ming-Ji
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 2010
  • The effects of message framing have been major research themes in marketing and advertising field and several studies on these effects have been conducted. The purpose of this study is to analyze the direct effects of message framing on the ad and brand attitude, and the moderating effects of regulatory focus and product type in these direct effects. Results from experiments indicate that message framing have significant effects on ad and brand attitude. And consumers' regulatory focus plays a moderating role between message framing and ad, brand attitude. We did not found the moderating effects of product type between message framing and ad, brand attitude. Finally, we summarized these results, discussed contributions and limitations of this study.

Effect of Antibiotic Down-Regulatory Gene wblA Ortholog on Antifungal Polyene Production in Rare Actinomycetes Pseudonocardia autotrophica

  • Kim, Hye-Jin;Kim, Min-Kyung;Kim, Young-Woo;Kim, Eung-Soo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.1226-1231
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    • 2014
  • The rare actinomycete Pseudonocardia autotrophica was previously shown to produce a solubility-improved toxicity-reduced novel polyene compound named $\underline{N}ystatin$-like $\underline{P}seudonocardia$ $\underline{P}olyene$ (NPP). The low productivity of NPP in P. autotrophica implies that its biosynthetic pathway is tightly regulated. In this study, $wblA_{pau}$ was isolated and identified as a novel negative regulatory gene for NPP production in P. autotrophica, which showed approximately 49% amino acid identity with a global antibiotic down-regulatory gene, wblA, identified from various Streptomycetes species. Although no significant difference in NPP production was observed between P. autotrophica harboring empty vector and the S. coelicolor wblA under its native promoter, approximately 12% less NPP was produced in P. autotrophica expressing the wblA gene under the strong constitutive $ermE^*$ promoter. Furthermore, disruption of the $wblA_{pau}$ gene from P. autotrophica resulted in an approximately 80% increase in NPP productivity. These results strongly suggest that identification and inactivation of the global antibiotic down-regulatory gene wblA ortholog are a critical strategy for improving secondary metabolite overproduction in not only Streptomyces but also non-Streptomyces rare actinomycete species.

Identification and Functional Characterization of an afsR Homolog Regulatory Gene from Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 15439

  • Maharjan, Sushila;Oh, Tae-Jin;Lee, Hei-Chan;Sohng, Jae-Kyung
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2009
  • Sequencing analysis of a 5-kb DNA fragment from Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 15439 revealed the presence of one 3.1-kb open reading frame(ORF), designated as afsR-sv. The deduced product of afsR-sv(1,056 aa) was found to have high homology with the global regulatory protein AfsR. Homology-based analysis showed that aftR-sv represents a transcriptional activator belonging to the Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein(SARP) family that includes an N-terminal SARP domain containing a bacterial transcriptional activation domain(BTAD), an NB-ARC domain, and a C-terminal tetratricopeptide repeat domain. Gene expression analysis by reverse transcriptase PCR(RT-PCR) demonstrated the activation of transcription of genes belonging to pikromycin production, when aftR-sv was overexpressed in S. venezuelae. Heterologous expression of the aftR-sv in different Streptomyces strains resulted in increased production of the respective antibiotics, suggesting that afsR-sv is a positive regulator of antibiotics biosynthesis.

The Evaluation on EU′s Info-Communication Regulatory Policy in Preparation for Media Convergence (미디어 융합에 대응한 EU의 통신규제정책에 대한 평가)

  • Kim Pang-Ryong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.11B
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    • pp.1001-1011
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    • 2004
  • The structure of info-communications industry has been changing from vertical integration to horizontal layered disintegration as the Internet technology has been rapidly developed. Considering with this background, EU has decided to introduce new regulatory framework called 2003 framework and asked member states to shift to new framework by July 2003. The key words of the new framework is to be denoted by the following three characteristics: Introduction of cross-media regulatory framework Alleviation of entry regulation by general authorization, Transition from ex ante regulation to ex post regulation.

Factors influencing hope in female high school students (여고생의 희망에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Park, Myung-Hee;Gong, Su-Ja;Kim, Chang-Sook;Kim, Ran;Kim, Young-Jae;Park, In-Soon;Chung, Soon-Ah
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.90-101
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing hope in female high school students. The participants were 207 female high school students who were selected from 2 schools located at Province J. The data was collected from September, 2 to 24 in 2009, by self report questionnaires. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Duncan, Pearson's correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression, with the SPSS /WIN 13.0 program. Hope in female high school students differed by economic state and school record. Hope in female high school students positively correlated to task difficulty preference, self-regulatory efficacy, self-confidence, teacher support and peer support. Self-regulatory efficacy, peer support and self-confidence accounted for 34.7% of hope in female high school students. This study showed that self-regulatory efficacy, peer support and self-confidence should be considered in developing a practical nursing intervention program to increase hope in female high school students.