• 제목/요약/키워드: Site-Specificity

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Current advances in adenovirus nanocomplexes: more specificity and less immunogenicity

  • Kang, Eun-Ah;Yun, Chae-Ok
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제43권12호
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    • pp.781-788
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    • 2010
  • An often overlooked issue in the field of adenovirus (Ad)-mediated cancer gene therapy is its limited capacity for effective systemic delivery. Although primary tumors can be treated effectively with intralesional injection of conventional Ad vectors, systemic metastasis is difficult to cure. Systemic administration of conventional naked Ads leads to acute accumulation of Ad particles in the liver, induction of neutralizing antibody, short blood circulation half-life, non-specific biodistribution in undesired organs, and low selective accumulation in the target disease site. Versatile strategies involving the modification of viral surfaces with polymers and nanomaterials have been designed for the purpose of maximizing Ad anti-tumor activity and specificity by systemic administration. Integration of viral and non-viral nanomaterials will substantially advance both fields, creating new concepts in gene therapeutics. This review focuses on current advances in the development of smart Ad hybrid nanocomplexes based on various design-based strategies for optimal Ad systemic administration.

Kinetic Study on Dephosphorylation of Myelin Basic Protein by Some Protein Phosphates

  • 황인성;김진한;최명운
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.428-432
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    • 1997
  • The dephosphorylation specificity of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), calcineurin (PP2B) and protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) were studied in vitro using myelin basic protein (MBP) as a model substrate which was fully phosphorylated at multiple sites by protein kinase C (PKC) or cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). In order to determine the site specificity of phosphates in myelin basic protein, the protein was digested with trypsin and the radioactive phosphopeptide fragments were isolated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) on reversed-phase column. Subsequent analysis and/or sequential manual Edman degradation of the purified phosphopeptides revealed that Thr-65 and Ser-115 were most extensively phophorylated by PKA and Ser-55 by PKC. For the dephosphorylation kinetics, the phosphorylated MBP was treated with calcineurin or PP2C with various time intervals and the reaction was terminated by direct tryptic digest. Both Thr-65 and Ser-115 residues were dephosphorylated more rapidly than any other ones by phosphatases. However it can be differentiated further by first-order kinetics that the PP2B dephosphorylated both Thr-65 and Ser-115 with almost same manner, whereas PP2C dephosphorylated somewhat preferentially the Ser-115.

개에서 Helicobacter균 감염을 검출하기 위한 urease 검사와 PCR 검사의 진단적 정확도 (Diagnostic Accuracy of Urease and Polymerase Chain Reaction to Detect Helicobacter Species Infection in Dogs)

  • Pak, Son-Il;Oh, Tae-Ho
    • 한국임상수의학회지
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.329-333
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    • 2001
  • 새로 개발되거나 혹은 기존의 어떤 진단검사를 다양한 임상상황에 적용하기 위해서는 먼저 이들 검사법의 진단적 정확도를 추정하는 연구가 반드시 선행되어야 한다. 진단의 정확도에 대한 추정치를 모른다면 검사결과를 해석하는 것이 불가능하기 때문이다. 특히 동일한 개체에서 감염부위별로 3개 이상의 시료를 얻어 진단검사를 적용하는 경우 각 시료의 검사결과는 독립적인 측정시료가 아니라 개체내에서 연관성이 매우 높은 종속적인 시료에 해당 한다. 즉 동일한 개체에서 얻은 시료일수록 검사결과에서 유사한 반응을 보이며 이 경우 분석의 단위는 각각의 개체가 아니라 검사부위가 되는데 이는 의학연구에서 매우 흔하다. 본 연구에서는 Helicobacter 균에 의한 감염을 검출하기 위하여 동일한 개로부터 위의 해부학적 구조상 pyloric antrum, body 및 cardia의 생검시료에 대하여 urease 검사와 PCR 검사를 적용하여 각 검사의 진단적 정확도를 추정하였다. urease 검사의 민감도와 특이도는 0.74 (95% 신뢰구간: 0.64-0.84)와 0.87 (95% 신뢰구간: 0.67-1.00)이었으며 PCR 검사의 민감도와 특이도는 0.95 (95% 신뢰구간: 0.89-1.00)와 0.90 (95% 신뢰구간: 0.70-1.00)로 두 검사의 특이도는 높은 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 PCR 검사에 비하여 urease 검사의 경우 가음성 (false negative)의 가능성이 높기 때문에 진단결과에 대한 신중한 해석이 요구된다.

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포스트모던시대 조형예술의 장소성과 환경 (Site-Specificity and Environment of Visual Art in the Postmodern Era)

  • 이봉순
    • 조형예술학연구
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.39-60
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    • 2008
  • Nature/Landscape is surrounding space in which we make living. It is considerably comprehensive tenn. but on the other hand, the site can be existence, experience, and certain circumstance with boundaries. Based on these places, through contemporary art criticism, this study is to contemplate how art since 1960s, especially, site-specific art in three-dimensional space intervene in the environment. Artists of today put more value on the process and act of art making founded on the external, and they tend to create the characteristic of site or to indicate linguistic documentation. Moreover, a large-scale tendency of contemporary sculpture and 'occupation of specific site' seems to accede spatial conception from architecture. The core that recognizes these artworks is with body, that is to say, the space in which Self becomes the subject by changing the structure of the work while moving around it. In particular, 'Site-specific Art (in situ)' sometimes determines the form inward or outward It also relates directly on viewer's five senses by looking, hearing, and feeling, touching, and interacting. For example, in Richard Serra's , the viewer who moves around the work has the role to manipulate the movement of the work by perception. Works of In situ and works that planned for specific site suggest 'occupation of site' as of the function of the work These sites are ideal and special as well as being independent. Ultimately, it seems that the creative process of contemporary artists is to carry those intended form on the structure of perception. Furthermore, law of nature such as entropy, and acceptance of contingency helped organic structure of artwork become more abundant. For Robert Smithson, entropy suggests of reaching to a state of equilibriumin which everything is the same. This means that any core is justifiable and any rank is possible. Because the world without a core is a labyrinth of boundless exploration.

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현대 공공 공간과 공공미술의 상호 작용에 관한 연구 - 다니엘 뷰렌의 작품을 중심으로 - (A study on the Interactive relationship between the public space and the public art - Focused on the Works of Daniel Buren -)

  • 김현정
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2007
  • This study places a great emphasis on the approaches to the space environment we inhabit, which I hope will contribute to generating a number of creative possibilities. Looking into 'site-specificity' which is characteristic by public art in public space method based on Daniel Buren's works 'in situ', this study analyze the relationship between the public space and works of art as a perspective of public art. The characteristics of his 'in situ' works that intervened works exist as space consisting of serial factors not simply art-object, and they suggest 'site Is a work'. The case study of Daniel Buren's public art project represented the results, the site marketing and serves as a guideline for the future of true Art/Space experiments. This study verifies the need for the arts and the space to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. This cooperation is the continuation of space design by other means.

The active site and substrate binding mode of 1-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate oxidase of Fuji apple (Malus domesticus L.) determined by site directed mutagenesis and comparative modeling studies

  • Ahrim Yoo;Seo, Young-Sam;Sung, Soon-Kee;Yang, Dae-Ryook;Kim, Woo-Tae-K;Lee, Weontae
    • 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물물리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 학술발표회
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    • pp.70-70
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    • 2003
  • Active sites and substrate bindings of 1-aminoxyclopropane-1-carboxylate oxidase (MD-ACO1) catalyzing the oxidative conversion of ACC to ethylene have been determined based on site-directed mutagenesis and comparative modeling methods. Molecular modeling based on the crystal structure of Isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) provided MD-ACO1 structure. MD-ACO1 protein folds into a compact jelly roll shape, consisting of 9 ${\alpha}$-helices, 10 ${\beta}$-strands and several long loops. The MD-ACO1/ACC/Fe(II)/Ascorbate complex conformation was determined from automated docking program, AUTODOCK. The MD-ACO1/Fell complex model was consistent with well known binding motif information (HIS177-ASP179-HIS234). The cosubstrate, ascorbate is placed between iron binding pocket and Arg244 of MD-ACO1 enzyme, supporting the critical role of Arg244 for generating reaction product. These findings are strongly supported by previous biochemical data as well as site-directed mutagenesis data. The structure of enzyme/substrate suggests the structural mechanism for the biochemical role as well as substrate specificity of MD-ACO1 enzyme.

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Site-directed Mutagenesis of Cysteine Residues in Phi-class Glutathione S-transferase F3 from Oryza sativa

  • Jo, Hyun-Joo;Lee, Ju-Won;Noh, Jin-Seok;Kong, Kwang-Hoon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제33권12호
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    • pp.4169-4172
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    • 2012
  • To elucidate the roles of cysteine residues in rice Phi-class GST F3, in this study, all three cysteine residues were replaced with alanine by site-directed mutagenesis in order to obtain mutants C22A, C73A and C77A. Three mutant enzymes were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to electrophoretic homogeneity by affinity chromatography on immobilized GSH. The substitutions of Cys73 and Cys77 residues in OsGSTF3 with alanine did not affect the glutathione conjugation activities, showing non-essentiality of these residues. On the other hand, the substitution of Cys22 residue with alanine resulted in approximately a 60% loss of specific activity toward ethacrynic acid. Moreover, the ${K_m}^{CDNB}$ value of the mutant C22A was approximately 2.2 fold larger than that of the wild type. From these results, the evolutionally conserved cysteine 22 residue seems to participate rather in the structural stability of the active site in OsGSTF3 by stabilizing the electrophilic substrates-binding site's conformation than in the substrate binding directly.

사용후핵연료 처분시설 부지조사를 위한 물리탐사 수행지침서 작성 사례 : 항공전자탐사와 탄성파 반사법탐사 중심으로 (Case of Geophysical Survey Guideline for Site Investigation of Spent Nuclear Fuel disposal: Focusing on airborne electromagnetic and seismic reflection survey)

  • 공남영;김학수;문윤섭;한만호
    • 지구물리와물리탐사
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.69-83
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    • 2024
  • 사용후핵연료 심층처분 부지조사는 그 중요성과 특수성을 고려할 때, 터널, 교량 등과 같은 일반적인 지반조사와는 달리 높은 수준의 품질관리가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 단계별 부지조사에 적용할 물리탐사 기법을 선정하고, 탐사방법별 물리탐사 수행지침서를 작성한 사례를 소개하고자 한다. 물리탐사 수행지침서는 탐사계획, 자료획득, 자료처리 및 해석의 수행 절차와 고려사항 및 품질관리에 대한 내용이 포함되어 있으며, 이 중 항공전자탐사와 탄성파 반사법탐사 내용을 간략히 정리하였다.

Recognition of DNA by IHF : Sequence Specifficity Mediated by Residues That Do Not Contact DNA

  • Read, Erik K.;Cho, Eun Hee;Gardner, Jeffrey F.
    • 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국미생물생명공학회 2001년도 Proceedings of 2001 International Symposium
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    • pp.35-39
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    • 2001
  • The Integration Host factor (IHF) of Escherichia coli is a small, basic protein that is required for a variety of functions including site-specific recombination, transposition, gene regulation, plasmid replication, and DNA packaging. It ,is composed of two subunits that are encoded by the ihfA ($\alpha$-subunit) and ihjB ($\beta$-subunit) genes. IHF binding sites are composed of three elements called the WATCAR, TTG, and poly (dAT) elements. We have characterized IHF binding to the H site of bacteriophage λ. We have isolated suppressors that bind to altered H' sites using a challenge phage selection. Two different suppressors were isolated that changed the adjacent $\alpha$P64 and $\alpha$K65 residues. The suppressors recognized both the wild-type site and a site with a change in the WATCAR element. Three suppressors were isolated at $\beta$-E44. These suppressors bound the wild-type and a mutant site with a T:A to A:T change (H44A) in the middle of the TIR element. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to make several additional changes at $\beta$E44. The wild-type and $\beta$E44D mutant could not bind the wild-type site but were able to bind the H44A mutant site. Other mutants with neutral, polar, or a positive charge at $\beta$E44 were able to repress both the wild-type and H44A sites. Examination of the IHF crystal structure suggests that the ability of the wild-type and $\beta$E44D proteins to discriminate between the T:A and A:T basepairs is due to indirect interactions. The $\beta$-E44 residue does not contact the DNA directly. It imposes binding specificity indirectly by interactions with residues that contact the DNA. Details of the proposed interactions are discussed.

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Purification of Aldose Reductase and Decolorization of Dye by the Enzyme

  • Jang, Mi;Kim, Kyung-Soon
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.358-361
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    • 2009
  • Aldose reductase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from porcine liver. The purified enzyme was a monomer of 36 kDa. The enzyme was strongly inhibited by $Cu^{2+}\;and\;Mg^{2+}$ ions. Incubation of the enzyme with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate led to complete inhibition of enzymatic activity, suggesting that lysine residue is involved at or near the active site of the enzyme. The enzyme exhibited a broad substrate specificity. Furthermore, the enzyme was capable of decolorizing Alizarin, an anthraquinone dye.