• BMB Reports
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2002

Many components that are derived from medicinal or dietary plants possess potential chemopreventive properties. Curcumin, a yellow coloring agent from turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn, Zingiberaceae), possesses strong antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic activities. In this study, we have found that curcumin inhibits the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced nuclear factor ${\kappa}B$ (NF-${\kappa}B$) activation by preventing the degradation of the inhibitory protein $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ and the subsequent translocation of the p65 subunit in cultured human promyelocytic leukemia (HL-60) cells. Alternatively, curcumin repressed the TPA-induced activation of NF-${\kappa}B$ through direct interruption of the binding of NF-${\kappa}B$ to its consensus DNA sequences. Likewise, the TPA-induced DNA binding of the activator protein-1 (AP-1) was inhibited by curcumin pretreatment.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2002

We have cloned and characterized the complete fibroin light chain gene from the silkworm Baekok-Jam, Bombyx mori, a recommended variety in Korea. It consists of seven exons and six introns. It consists of 14,663 nucleotides long with an open reading frame of 786 nucleotides that encodes a protein of 262 amino acid residues with a molecular mass of approximately 26,000 dalton. The amino acid alignment revealed that the Baekok-Jam fibroin light chain had 98.5 % protein sequence identity to J139 strain: differed at four amino acid positions (11, 46, 80 and 123). The Northern hybridization analysis showed that the Baekok-Jam fibroin light chain gene was specifically expressed in the posterior silk gland.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.239-244
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• 2005

A cDNA clone for a wound- and pathogen-induced gene in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) was isolated and characterized. The cabbage gene, designated BrPR4, encodes a pathogenesis-related protein 4 (PR4) of 140 amino acids. The BrPR4 protein shows high similarity with wound-inducible antifungal proteins of tobacco, potato, barley, and wheat. The BrPR4 gene is locally induced by a nonhost pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, that elicits a hypersensitive response in Chinese cabbage. Treatment of the cabbage leaves with benzothiadiazole (BTH), methyl jasmonate or ethephon showed that the BrPR4 gene expression is strongly induced by ethylene, but not by methyl jasmonate or BTH. The BrPR4 gene is also activated by wounding. Interestingly, however, the wound-inducible BrPR4 gene expression is repressed by salicylic acid or BTH, suggesting that there is cross-talk between salicylate-dependent and -independent signaling pathways.

• 약학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.395-402
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• 1998

Mori Cortex Radicis, the root bark of mulberry tree, has been used in the treatment of bronchial asthma and other lung diseases in traditional medicine. There was a recent repor t that the water soluble part with molecular weight of above 10,000 has anti-allergic activity. Therefore, we intended to isolate and purify the anti-allergic compound from hot water extract of the Mori Cortex Radicis. Crude extract of Mori Cortex Radicis was prepared by hot-water extraction, and anti-allergic compound was further purified by alcohol precipitation, successive ultrafiltration, anion exchange chromatography and gel filtration chromatography. This compound had homogeneity which was shown by the sharp single peak in HPLC chromatogram (TSK-GEL G400OPW column, RI detector). The molecular weight of the compound was estimated as 23Kda on the basis of calibration curve plotted against protein standards. This compound was identified as complex of sugar, protein and lignin (19.2: 5.9: 72.7), and proteolysis could not decrease the anti-allergic activity but mild delignification decreased the activity remarkably. Therefore, we concluded that the anti-allergic compound of Mori Cortex Radicis was a lignin-carbohydrate complex.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2013

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide. Recently anticancer agents have been developed using natural substances. To evaluate the anticancer effect of hydrolysates of silk fibroin (HSF), we investigated the effect of HSF on cell viability and apoptosis of a breast cancer cell line, MCF-7, induced through the mitochondrial pathway. The result showed that HSF decreased cell viability in MCF-7 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner, resulting in an increase in the sub-G1 phase cell population. HSF increased the level of the pro-apoptotic Bax protein and decreased the levels of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein. In addition, HSF induced apoptosis in MCF-7 cells through a mitochondria-dependent pathway by increasing levels of cytochtome c, and cleavage of PARP. Taken together, these findings suggest that HSF inhibits the proliferation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells through a mitochondria and caspase dependent apoptotic pathway.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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• pp.321.2-321.2
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• 2002

Possible role of anti-inflammatory effects of a new iridoids, patridoid I. II and II-A which were isolated from Patrinia saniculaefolia. examined by assessing their effects on tumor necrosis factor $\alpha$ (TN F$\alpha$) and 2 enzymes, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in the lipopolysaccaride (LPS)-stimulated murine macrophage-like cell line RAW 264.7. Among them. patridoid II consistently inhibited the production of TNF$\alpha$ and NO production in a dose dependent manner. But patridoid I and patrioid ll isomer palrioid ll-A. these compounds very weakly inhibited NO producion. Moreover. treatment of macrophage with these compounds, the decrease in NO products was accompanied by a decrease in iNOS protein level as assessed by Western Blot. But these compounds did not affect COX-2 protein expression in LPS-stimulated macrophage. Our results suggest that patridoid ll could become a leading compound for developing a novel of anti-inflammalory drugs.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제17권2호통권82호
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• pp.298-304
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• 2007

Salmoenella는 대표적인 intracellular pathogen으로 숙주의 면역 세포인 macrophage 내에서 살아남아 이들을 매개로 숙주의 몸 전체를 이동해 가면서 전신성 감염을 일으킨다. 살모넬라는 숙주 세포 내부의 이러한 극한 환경을 극복하기 위해서 다양한 방어 기작을 가진다. 본 연구에서는 복합적인 스트레스가 작용하는 정지기 Salmonella에서 특이적으로 발현되는 단백질에 주목하였다. 정지기 상태의 Salmonella에서 약 20 kDa의 단백질이 특이적으로 많이 발현되었으며, 세포질 분획을 통해 이 단백질이 세포질 부분에 존재함을 알 수 있었다. MALDI-TOF 분석을 통해 이 단백질이 $\b{D}NA$ binding $\b{p}rotein$ in $\b{s}tationary$ phase (Dps) 단백질임을 확인하였다. Dps 단백질은 스트레스가 주어진 상황에서 DNA에 비특이적으로 결합하여 DNA가 안정한 형태를 유지하도록 하여 스트레스로부터 염색체를 보호하는 역할을 하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 이후의 연구를 위하여 과발현하여 정제한 Dps 단백질을 토끼에 주사하여 Dps 특이적인 항체를 제조하였다. dps 발현에 영향을 미치는 조절자 단백질을 알기 위하여 다양한 S. typhimrium 돌연변이주들 내에서의 Dps 단백질양을 조사하였다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.142-154
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• 2010

Inonotus obliquus 균사체의 액상배양을 통한 항당뇨효능의 단백다당체 대량생산 배양공정을 개발하기 위한 첫 단계로 고생산성 균주의 개발을 신속하게 수행하기 위한 방법을 개발하였다. I. obliquus는 균사체로 성장할 때 포자를 형성하지 못하므로 단일 세포를 획득하기 위해서는 원형질체들을 회수하여 이로부터 성장 능력과 단백다당체의 생산성이 높은 우량균주를 선별하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 균주개량 공정 중 특별히 장기간의 배양 시간이 요구되어 신속한 균주개발 시 가장 큰 장애 요인으로 작용하는 고체성장배양 단계의 문제점을 극복하고자, 고체배양 환경의 최적화에 대한 연구를 중점적으로 수행하였다. 고체성장배양 시 균사체 성장에 효능이 탁월한 배지성분을 선별하기 위해 우선 Plackett-Burman design 실험을 통해서 유의성 높은 배지성분을 찾아내었고, 이에 근거한 부분요인설계법 fractional factorial design, FFD) 실험을 통해 배지성분 상호간의 관계를 분석 할 수 있었다. 또한 이 FFD 실험결과에 근거해서 설계한 최급상승법 (steepest ascent method, SAM) 실험방법을 적용한 결과, 고체성장배양 시 균사체 성장환의 직경이 기존의 MA 배지와 비교해서 약 41% 증가했을 뿐만 아니라 균사체의 밀도도 크게 향상된 배지조성을 확립 할 수 있었다. 또한 SAM 연구결과를 바탕으로 최적의 배지조성을 확립하고자 각 배지성분의 최적농도를 통계적으로 더욱 정밀하게 조사하는 반응표면분석법 (response surface method, RSM) 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 최적고체성장배지의 성분과 농도는 glucose 25.61 g/L, brown rice 12.53 g/L, soytone peptone 12.53 g/L, $MgSO_4$ 5.53 g/L, agar 20 g/L인 것으로 최종 결정되었으며, 이 조건에서 13일 동안 배양시 균사체의 직경이 약 82 mm 정도에 이르는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 상기의 SAM 실험에서 최적농도로 제시한 배지조성과 매우 유사한 것으로 확인되었는데, 이로부터 최종적인 RSM 실험을 수행하기 전에 최적 농도의 근사치를 추정하기 위해서 수행한 SAM 실험이 매우 효율적이었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 배지 최적화 결과 고체성장배양에서의 성장속도의 증가로 인해 배양기간을 기존의 15~20일에서 8일로 획기적으로 줄일 수 있게 되어, 짧은 시간 내에 대규모 균주 선별과 각 균주의 단백다당체의 생산성 확인이 가능하게 되었다.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2000

This experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of application levels of food waste compost andmineral nitrogen in 3 cuttings per annurn on the nutritive value and nutrient yields of orchardgrass (Dactylisglomerata L.). Annual food waste compost (FWC) and mineral nitrogen were applied at levels of 0, 10, 20,40 and 60 ton ha-', and 0, 90, 180 and 270 kg ha-', respectively. The contents of crude protein (CP, %) oforchardgrass were significantly higher at the application levels of 40 ton ha-' yr-' by FWC than those atapplication levels of 0 ton ha-' yr-' (p<0.05), the contents of neutral detergent fiber (NDF, %), acid detergentfiber (ADF, %) and hemicellulose were also higher in FWC applied plots, except for the FWC levels of 10and 60 ton ha-' yr-'. The contents of total digestible nutrient (TDN, %) and relative feed value (RFV) oforchardgrass were significantly higher at FWC levels of 10 and 60 ton ha-' yr-' than at levels of 0 ton ha"yr-'. Annual yields of CP and TDN were increased with increase the FWC levels. The highest contents ofCP of orchardgrass were obtained at 1st cut, NDF and ADF at 2nd cut. As the mineral nitrogen fertilizationwas increased, the contents of CP, NDF, ADF and hemicellulose of orchardgrass were significantly increased,but TDN and RFV were decreased. .Annual yields of CP and TDN of orchardgrass were significantlyincreased with increase the mineral nitrogen fertilization.(Key words : Food waste compost, Mineral nitrogen, Crude protein, Neutral detergent fiber, Acid detergentfiber)rgent fiber, Acid detergent fiber)

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1640-1647
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• 2015

We recently reported that the antimicrobial peptide Lumbricusin (NH₂-RNRRWCIDQQA), isolated from the earthworm, increases cell proliferation in neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Here, we investigated whether Lumbricusin has neurotropic activity in mouse neural stem cells (MNSCs) and a protective effect in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease (PD). In MNSCs isolated from mouse brains, Lumbricusin treatment significantly increased cell proliferation (up to 12%) and reduced the protein expression of p27^Kip1 through proteasomal protein degradation but not transcriptional regulation. Lumbricusin inhibited the 6-OHDA-induced apoptosis of MNSCs, and also showed neuroprotective effects in a mouse PD model, ameliorating the motor impairments seen in the pole, elevated body swing, and rotation tests. These results suggest that the Lumbricusin-induced promotion of neural cell proliferation via p27^Kip1 degradation has a protective effect in an experimental PD model. Thus, the antimicrobial peptide Lumbricusin could possibly be developed as a potential therapeutic agent for the treatment of PD.