• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.13-13
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• 2014

Species belonging to the genus Fusarium are widely distributed and cause diseases in many plants. Isolation of fungal strains from air or cereals is necessary for disease forecasting, disease diagnosis, and population genetics [1]. Previously we showed that Fusarium species are resistant to toxoflavin produced by the bacterial rice pathogen Burkholderia glumae while other fungal genera are sensitive to the toxin, resulting in the development of a selective medium for Fusarium species using toxoflavin [2]. In this study, we have tried to elucidate the resistant mechanism of F. graminearum against toxoflavin and interaction between the two pathogens in nature. To test whether B. glumae affects the development of F. graminearum, the wild-type F. graminearum strains were incubated with either the bacterial strain or supernatant of the bacterial culture. Both conditions increased the conidial production five times more than when the fungus was incubated alone. While co-incubation resulted in dramatic increase of conidial production, conidia germination delayed by either the bacterial strain or supernatant. These results suggest that certain factors produced by B. glumae induce conidial production and delay conidial germination in F. graminearum. To identify genes related to toxoflavin resistance in F. graminearum, we screened the transcriptional factor mutant library previously generated in F. graminearum [3] and identified one mutant that is sensitive to toxoflavin. We analyzed transcriptomes of the wild-type strain and the mutant strain under either absence or presence of toxoflavin through RNAseq. Expression level of total genes of 13,820 was measured by reads per kilobase per million mapped reads (RPKM). Under the criteria with more than two-fold changes, 1,440 genes were upregulated and 1,267 genes were down-regulated in wild-type strain than mutant strain in response to toxoflavin treatment. A comparison of gene expression profiling between the wild type and mutant through gene ontology analysis showed that genes related to metabolic process and oxidation-reduction process were highly enriched in the mutant strain. The data analyses will focus on elucidating the resistance mechanism of F. graminearum against toxoflavin and the interaction between the two pathogens in rice. Further evolutionary history will be traced through figuring out the gene function in populations and in other filamentous fungi.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2012

Fenofibrate is a selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ${\alpha}$ ($PPAR{\alpha}$) activator and is prescribed to treat hyperlipidemia. The mechanism through which $PPAR{\alpha}$ agonists reduce food intake, body weight, and adiposity remains unclear. One explanation for the reduction of food intake is that fenofibrate promotes fatty acid oxidation and increases the production of ketone bodies upon a standard experimental dose of the drug (100~300 mg/kg/day). We observed that low-dose treatment of fenofibrate (30 mg/kg/day), which does not cause significant changes in ketone body synthesis, reduced food intake in Long-Evans Tokushima (LETO) rats. LETO rats are the physiologically normal controls for Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats, which are obese and cholecystokinin (CCK)-A receptor deficient. We hypothesized that the reduced food intake by fenofibrate-treated LETO rats may be associated with CCK production. To investigate the anorexic effects of fenofibrate in vivo and to determine whether CCK production may be involved, we examined the amount of food intake and CCK production. Fenofibrate-treated OLETF rats did not significantly change their food intake while LETO rats decreased their food intake. Treatment of fenofibrate increased CCK synthesis in the duodenal epithelial cells of both LETO and OLETF rats. The absence of a change in the food intake of OLETF rats, despite the increase in CCK production, may be explained by the absence of CCK-A receptors. Contrary to the OLETF rats, LETO rats, which have normal CCK receptors, presented a decrease in food intake and an increase in CCK production. These results suggest that reduced food intake by fenofibrate treatment may be associated with CCK production.

• 공업화학
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.188-194
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 비파괴적 표면 기능기화 통하여 단일벽 탄소나노튜브(SWCNT) 탄소소재의 특성 변화를 최소화 시킬 수 있는 대면적화 공법을 제안하고, 대면적화 된 SWNT 전자 필름 상에 효소를 집적하여 효소와 SWCNT 전자 필름 간 효율적 전자 전달을 연구하였다. p-terphenyl-4,4"-dithiol, dithiothreitol와 SWCNT의 혼합을 통해 SWCNT 전자 필름의 균일도 및 전하 전달 능력을 향상시키고, 분광학적 분석 및 전기화학적 특성을 평가하여 SWCNT 전자 필름의 향상된 전기화학적 특성을 확인하였다. 전자 필름 상에 고분자 전해질 및 포도당 산화환원 효소를 layer-by-layer 기법으로 효율적으로 집적하여, 최종적으로 음전압 범위에서 구동이 가능한 포도당(glucose) 바이오센서를 구현하였다. 개발된 포도당 바이오센서는 효소와 SWCNT 전자 필름과의 높은 전하 전달 효율을 바탕으로 -0.45 vs. Ag/AgCl 음전압 범위에서 높은 산화환원 신호를 보였을 뿐 아니라 0~1 mM의 낮은 글루코스 농도 변화에서 약 98 ㎂/mM·cm²의 높은 감도를 보였다. 또한 음전압 구동을 통하여, 산화 반응을 일으킬 수 있는 4종의 방해물질(요산, 아스코르빅산, 도파민, 아세타아미노펜) 환경에서 4% 이하의 변화를 보여 높은 선택성을 보였다.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.65-77
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• 2022

국내 바나듐 함유 티탄철석으로부터 직접 산 침출법에 의한 바나듐 및 유가금속의 침출거동과 회수가능성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에 사용된 국내 연천산 티탄철석 정광은 0.8% V₂O₅를 함유하고 있었으며 HSC 프로그램을 통해 magnetite와 ilmenite의 비율이 1.9:1로 계산되었다. 바나듐 함유 정광으로부터 황산농도 및 온도별 침출실험을 통해 바나듐의 침출율은 Fe의 침출거동과 매우 유사하였으며 ilmenite 내 Ti의 침출은 75℃ 이상에서 TiOSO₄의 형태로 침출 될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. VTM 정광 내 V, Fe, Ti의 침출율을 향상시키기 위해 황산산화 및 황산환원침출을 수행하였고 환원제로 Na₂SO₃를 사용할 시 바나듐의 침출율은 80% 였으나 Ti의 침출율은 황산침출과 비교하여 20% 상승한 55%까지 침출되었다. 반면 산화제로 Na₂S₂O₈을 첨가할 시, 바나듐은 거의 전량 침출되었으며 XRD 기기분석을 통해 잔사 내 주성분이 ilmenite임을 알 수 있었다. 산화 및 환원 침출용액으로부터 유가금속의 회수가능성에 대한 용매추출 연구를 통해 산화 침출용액에서는 그 어떤 금속도 선택성이 없었던 반면 환원침출용액에서는 Cyanex 923 용매화 추출제에 의해 Ti이 Fe와 V으로부터 선택적으로 추출될 수 있는 가능성을 보였다.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2014년도 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회
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• pp.27-28
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• 2014

Beauveria bassiana (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota) is an anamorphic fungus having a potential to be used as a biological control agent because it parasitizes a wide range of arthropod hosts including termites, aphids, beetles and many other insects. A number of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs) have been isolated from B. bassiana and functionally verified. Among them, beauvericin and bassianolide are cyclic depsipeptides with antibiotic and insecticidal effects belonging to the enniatin family. Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) play a crucial role in the synthesis of these secondary metabolites. NRPSs are modularly organized multienzyme complexes in which each module is responsible for the elongation of proteinogenic and non-protein amino acids, as well as carboxyl and hydroxyacids. A minimum of three domains are necessary for one NRPS elongation module: an adenylation (A) domain for substrate recognition and activation; a tholation (T) domain that tethers the growing peptide chain and the incoming aminoacyl unit; and a condensation (C) domain to catalyze peptide bond formation. Some of the optional domains include epimerization (E), heterocyclization (Cy) and oxidation (Ox) domains, which may modify the enzyme-bound precursors or intermediates. In the present study, we analyzed genomes of B. bassiana and its allied species in Hypocreales to verify the distribution of NRPS-encoding genes involving biosynthesis of beauvericin and bassianolide, and to unveil the evolutionary processes of the gene clusters. Initially, we retrieved completely or partially assembled genomic sequences of fungal species belonging to Hypocreales from public databases. SM biosynthesizing genes were predicted from the selected genomes using antiSMASH program. Adenylation (A) domains were extracted from the predicted NRPS, NRPS-like and NRPS-PKS hybrid genes, and used them to construct a phylogenetic tree. Based on the preliminary results of SM biosynthetic gene prediction in B. bassiana, we analyzed the conserved gene orders of beauvericin and bassianolide biosynthetic gene clusters among the hypocrealean fungi. Reciprocal best blast hit (RBH) approach was performed to identify the regions orthologous to the biosynthetic gene cluster in the selected fungal genomes. A clear recombination pattern was recognized in the inferred A-domain tree in which A-domains in the 1st and 2nd modules of beauvericin and bassianolide synthetases were grouped in CYCLO and EAS clades, respectively, suggesting that two modules of each synthetase have evolved independently. In addition, inferred topologies were congruent with the species phylogeny of Cordycipitaceae, indicating that the gene fusion event have occurred before the species divergence. Beauvericin and bassianolide synthetases turned out to possess identical domain organization as C-A-T-C-A-NM-T-T-C. We also predicted precursors of beauvericin and bassianolide synthetases based on the extracted signature residues in A-domain core motifs. The result showed that the A-domains in the 1st module of both synthetases select D-2-hydroxyisovalerate (D-Hiv), while A-domains in the 2nd modules specifically activate L-phenylalanine (Phe) in beauvericin synthetase and leucine (Leu) in bassianolide synthetase. antiSMASH ver. 2.0 predicted 15 genes in the beauvericin biosynthetic gene cluster of the B. bassiana genome dispersed across a total length of approximately 50kb. The beauvericin biosynthetic gene cluster contains beauvericin synthetase as well as kivr gene encoding NADPH-dependent ketoisovalerate reductase which is necessary to convert 2-ketoisovalarate to D-Hiv and a gene encoding a putative Gal4-like transcriptional regulator. Our syntenic comparison showed that species in Cordycipitaceae have almost conserved beauvericin biosynthetic gene cluster although the gene order and direction were sometimes variable. It is intriguing that there is no region orthologous to beauvericin synthetase gene in Cordyceps militaris genome. It is likely that beauvericin synthetase was present in common ancestor of Cordycipitaceae but selective gene loss has occurred in several species including C. militaris. Putative bassianolide biosynthetic gene cluster consisted of 16 genes including bassianolide synthetase, cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, and putative Gal4-like transcriptional regulator genes. Our synteny analysis found that only B. bassiana possessed a bassianolide synthetase gene among the studied fungi. This result is consistent with the groupings in A-domain tree in which bassianolide synthetase gene found in B. bassiana was not grouped with NRPS genes predicted in other species. We hypothesized that bassianolide biosynthesizing cluster genes in B. bassiana are possibly acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from distantly related fungi. The present study showed that B. bassiana is the only species capable of producing both beauvericin and bassianolide. This property led to B. bassiana infect multiple hosts and to be a potential biological control agent against agricultural pests.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2018

친환경자동차의 보급 확대를 위한 정책수립과 기술개발이 지속적으로 이루어지고 있는 실정이나 아직까지도 내연기관이 차지하는 비중은 약 95% 차지하고 있다. 화석연료를 기반으로 하는 내연기관의 엄격한 배기가스규제를 충족시키기 위해 자동차와 선박용 후처리장치의 비중이 점차로 증가하고 있다. 천연가스는 대기환경 오염물질을 거의 배출하지 않는 청정연료이며, 주로 시내버스의 연료로 사용되어져 왔다. CNG 버스의 보급률이 계속적으로 증가하고 있으며 이에 대한 엄격한 배기규제를 충족시키고 경제적인 후처리장치의 연구개발이 필요하다. 장기적인 연구로는, CNG 버스에서 배출되는 유독성가스인 $CH_4$와 NOx를 동시저감시키는 새로운 NGOC/LNT+NGOC/SCR 복합시스템을 개발하는 것이다. 이 연구는 복합시스템 후단에 장착되는 선택적인촉매환원(SCR)의 washcoat를 세라믹과 메탈 담체에 코팅하여 $de-CH_4/NOx$ 특성을 파악하는 것이다. V, Cu-SCR 촉매는 $CH_4$ 산화반응에는 영향을 미치지 않고, 이중층으로 코팅된 2, 4번 NGOC/SCR 촉매는 $400^{\circ}C$에서 $CH_4$가 산화되기 시작하여 약 $550^{\circ}C$에서는 약 20% 수준으로 $CH_4$가 저감되었다. NGOC/SCR처럼 two layer로 코팅된 2, 4번 SCR 촉매는 $350^{\circ}C$이상에서는 마이너스(-) NOx 전환률을 나타냈다. 이는 $ NH_4NO_3$(질산염)으로 흡장되어 있는 NOx가 촉매의 반응속도가 저하됨에 따라 $N_2$로 환원되지 못하고 $NO+NO_2$로 탈착되었기 때문이다. 세라믹 기반의 복합시스템은 $400^{\circ}C$에서 약 30%, $500^{\circ}C$에서 LOT50에 이르러 메탈 기반의 복합시스템보다 약 20% CH4 정화 성능이 높았고, NGOC/LNT+Cu-SCR 복합시스템 조합이 적합하다.