• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 1994

A yeast strain secreting glucoamylase was transformed with an expression vector (pMS12) containing the promoter of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase I gene ADC1, mouse salivary $\alpha$-amylase cDNA, and a segment of yeast $21\mu m$ plasmid. The transformed strain could produce ethanol from starch (4%, w/v) through a direct one-step process with the conversion efficiency of 93.2%, during 5 days of fermentation, while the original, untransformed strain exhibited a conversion efficiency of 38.1% under the same condition. When the regulatory site of the ADC1 promoter region was removed, the production of ethanol increased to 29~37% in the presence of exogenous 3%(v/v) ethanol in the fermentation medium.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.267-273
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• 1988

Transformed, hybrid strains of the yeast Saccharomyces capable of simultaneous secretion of both glucoamylase and ${\alpha}-amylase$ have been produced. These strains can carry out direct, one-step assimilation of starch with conversion efficiency greater than 93% during a 5 day growth period. One of the transformants converts 92.8% of available starch into reducing sugars in only 2 days. Glucoamylase secretion by these strains results from expression of one or more chromosomal STA genes derived from Saccharomyces diastaticus. The strains were transformed by a plasmid(pMS12) containing mouse salivary ${\alpha}-amylase$ cDNA in an expression vector containing yeast alcohol dehydrogenase promoter and a segment of yeast $2{\mu}$ plasmid. The major starch hydrolysis product produced by crude amylases found in culture broths is glucose, indicating that ${\alpha}-amylase$ and glucoamylase act cooperatively.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.443-453
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• 2002

본 연구의 목적은 다양한 교정용 브라켓의 표면에 형성되는 타액성 피막의 조성을 확인하고, 전타액, 악하선타액 및 이 하선타액에서 유래하는 타액성 피막의 성분을 비교하는 것이다. 네 가지 서로 다른 종류의 교정용 브라켓을 본 연구에 사용하였다. 이들은 $022{\times}028$ Roth Prescription의 상악 소구치 브라켓으로 조성은 다음과 같다: 스테인레스 스틸, 단결정 사파이어, 다결정 알루미나 및 플라스틱 브라켓. 교정용 브라켓을 각각 전타액, 이하선타액 및 악하선타액에 2시간 배양하여 타액성 피막을 형성시켰다 브라켓 피막의 타액성분은 sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Western transfer method 및 면역검출법을 통해 확인하였다. 이 결과 low-molecular weight salivary mucin, ${\alpha}-amylase$, secretory IgA (sIgA), acidic proline-rich proteins, cystatins 등이 모든 브라켓의 타액성 피막에 존재하였으며, 치아우식증의 원인균인 Streptococcus mutans의 부착을 촉진시키는 타액단백질인 high-molecular weight mucin은 어떤 브라켓에도 부착하지 않았다. 그러나, 비록 동일한 타액단백질이 모든 브라켓에서 발견되었지만, 타액단백질 부착 양상은 타액의 종류 및 브라켓의 종류에 따라 양적 및 질적으로 다르게 나타났다. 특히 sIgA는 이하선타액에서 유래한 브라켓 피막에 더 많이 부착하였고, cystatins의 경우는 플라스틱 브라켓에서 유래한 브라켓 피막에 더 많이 존재하였다 본 연구는 다양한 타액단백질이 교정용 브라켓에 부착하며, 타액단백질이 타액의 출처 및 브라켓의 종류에 따라 교정용 브라켓의 표면에 선택적으로 부착함을 나타내었다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.661-668
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• 1997

종양세포에 의한 hyperamylasemia는 드물게 보고되고 있으며 주로 폐암에 의하고 조직형은 선암으로 보고되어 있다. 이때 생성되는 아밀라제는 타액형으로 췌장질환에 의한 것과는 구별이 되며 hyperamylasemia에 의한 임상적인 증상은 없다. 저자등은 소세포성 폐암으로 진단받은 54세 남자 환자에서 아밀라제 농도가 상승되어 있음을 발견하고, 임상경과 및 검사결과 아밀라제를 분비하는 소세포성 폐암으로 진단하고 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.271-279
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• 1994

${\alpha}$-Amylase와 glucoamylase를 동시에 안정하게 분비하여 전분을 일단계로 직접 에탄올로 발효시킬수 있는 효모 균주를 개발하기 위하여 glucoamylase를 분비하는 Saccharomyces diastaticus hybrid 균주에 쥐의 침샘 유래의 ${\alpha}$-amylase cDNA 유전자를 plasmid vector를 이용하여 도입하였다. 이 균주로부터 효소생산에 필요한 유전자를 잃어버림이 없이 안정하게 분비할 수 있도록 하기 위하여 $\alpha$-amylase 유전자를 효모의 염색체에 삽입시키기 위한 integrating plasmid vector인 YIpMS$\Delta$R(LEU2)를 제작하였다. 이 vector의 효모형질전환에 있어 원형(circular)상태와 제한 효소 XbaI으로 처리된 직선화된(linearized) 상태의 두가지 형태를 비교한 결과 형질전환 효율에서나 형질전환체내의 $\alpha$-amylase 유전자 보유정도가 모두 직선화된 형태의 경우가 원형상태의 경우보다 높았다. Linearized vecotr를 가진 효모 형질전환체에서의 유전자 발현 안정도는 세포분열을 거듭할수록 episomal vecotr에 의한 효모 형질전환체에서의 발현 안정도보다 우수하게 나타났다. 또한 이 linearized vector를 가진 형질전환체는 $\alpha$-amylase와 glucoamylase를 동시에 분비하여 glucoamylase만 분비하는 원균주보다 2배 이상의 전분분해력을 보였다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.82-87
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• 2016

As contemporary society has become more complicated, specialized, and segmented, people are experiencing more diverse types of stress. In particular, while several factors associated with job stress have been examined among nurses, who belong to a professional group, the existing research has made no quantitative assessments of stress that reflect temporal differences in individuals. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand the effects of job stress on alpha-amylase with regard to the working hours of nurses, to assess the variations in jobs stress over time, and provide basic data to improve the quality of nursing services. Ninety nurses working in three shifts in general, emergency, and intensive care wards of a university hospital in D City participated in this study. Salivary alpha-amylase (SAA) was extracted and analyzed at two-hour intervals from 07:00 to 15:00 from nurses on the day shift and from 23:00 to 07:00 from those working the night shift. The SAA level was highest between 23:00 and 01:00 for nurses in general wards ($mean{\pm}S.D.\;39.00{\pm}14.88$) and between 11:00 and 13:00 for those in both intensive care units and emergency wards ($mean{\pm}S.D.\;67.50{\pm}62.93$ and $mean{\pm}S.D.\;39.67{\pm}35.96$, respectively). The characteristic variation in SAA was significant between 23:00 and 01:00 (p < 0.01) and for those in their fifties or older (p < 0.01). The activation ratio of alpha-amylase, a stress reactant, showed an increase when the sympathetic nervous system was activated by mental stress; in addition, job stress was manifested with the effect of awakening at different time segments and at different ages among the nurses. With the aim of raising the level of service based on the nurses maintaining their mental health, it is necessary to focus sharply on the time segment for critical control and to conduct repetitive studies to determine the divisions of eustress critical values as well as to expand the population.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.203-212
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• 1985

전국 각지 토양으로 부터 채취한 토양균을 screening하여 ${\alpha}-amylase$를 저해하는 물질을 생성하는 균주인 Streptomyces DMC-72를 선발하였다. 이 균주가 생성하는 저해제를 acetone 침전 및 이온 교환 수지인 Amberlite IRC-50, Amberlite CG-50과 SP-Sephadex C-25를 이용하여 분리하였다. 이 물질은 ${\alpha}-amylase$ 뿐만아니라 다른 amylase와 기타 효소에 대해서도 억제작용을 나타내었다. 이 물질은 기질인 soluble starch의 가수분해에 대해서 non-competitive하게 저해작용을 보이주고 있으며 열 및 넓은 범위의 pH에서 안정한 물질이었다. 이 물질은 anthrone 시험과 IR spectrum에 의해서 oligosaccharide계 화합물임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.691-703
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• 1998

Saliva is obviously potential medium to protect the dental caries by not only physical clearing effect, but aggregating action of protein with bacteria. Nevertheless, we still do not understand how the dental caries occur and what brings the individual difference in caries prevalence. In the regards of dental caries prevalence, we hypothesized that the composition of salivary protein might be different from caries susceptible group to caries resistant group. The purposes of this experiment were focused on the molecular analysis of salivary proteins from the subjects who were involved in multiple caries. Electrophoretic analysis was done on the whole saliva collected from the children with and without multiple caries. We found 86.2% of subjects with multiple caries has approximately 120 KDa protein band while 30.4% in the healthy subjects. And the concentration of the total protein on the subjects with multiple caries is significantly higher than that of the healthy group. However, it turned out that the difference of the salivary composition does not affect the bacterial adhesion to hydroxyapatite bead. With regards of enzymes in saliva, the activity of ${\alpha}-amylase$ and lactate dehydrogenase does not have any significant difference between both groups. However, the concentrations of $Na^+\;and\;Cl^-$ in saliva from multiple caries group is higher than that of the control group. Taken all together, it may be concluded that 120 KDa protein in saliva may be associated with the process of dental caries, also the high concentration of protein and $Na^+,\;Cl^-$ in saliva may be linked to dental caries development as a cofactors.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.674-678
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• 2005

원발성 폐암에서 아밀라제가 증가하는 기전은 정확히 밝혀져 있지 않으나 대부분 타액형이며, 조직학적으로 거의 대부분이 선암이었으며, 일부 소세포폐암에서 부종양증후군으로 고아밀라제 혈증을 동반한 경우가 보고되고 있으나, 편평상피세포 폐암과 동반된 예는 국내에서 보고된 바가 없어 이를 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.58-63
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• 2020

The salivary glands secrete saliva, which plays a role in the maintenance of a healthy oral environment. Under physiological conditions, saliva secretion within the acinar cells of the gland is regulated by stimulation of specific calcium (Ca²⁺) signaling mechanisms such as increases in the intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration ([Ca²⁺]_i) via storeoperated Ca²⁺ entry, which involves components such as Orai1, transient receptor potential (TRP) canonical 1, stromal interaction molecules, and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP₃) receptors (IP₃Rs). Homer proteins are scaffold proteins that bind to G protein-coupled receptors, IP₃Rs, ryanodine receptors, and TRP channels. However, their exact role in Ca²⁺ signaling in the salivary glands remains unknown. In the present study, we investigated the role of Homer2 in Ca²⁺ signaling and saliva secretion in parotid gland acinar cells under physiological conditions. Deletion of Homer2 (Homer2^-/-) markedly decreased the amplitude of [Ca²⁺]_i oscillations via the stimulation of carbachol, which is physiologically concentrated in parotid acinar cells, whereas the frequency of [Ca²⁺]_i oscillations showed no difference between wild-type and Homer2^-/- mice. Homer2^-/- mice also showed a significant decrease in amylase release by carbachol in the parotid gland in a dose-dependent manner. These results suggest that Homer2 plays a critical role in maintaining [Ca²⁺]_i concentration and secretion of saliva in mouse parotid gland acinar cells.