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Photo-controlled gene expression by fluorescein-labeled antisense oligonucleotides in combination with visible light irradiation

  • Ito, Atsushi;Kaneko, Tadashi;Miyamoto, Yuka;Ishii, Keiichiro;Fujita, Hitoshi;Hayashi, Tomonori;Sasaki, Masako
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.451-453
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    • 2002
  • A new concept of "photo" -antisense method has been evaluated, where the inhibition of gene expression by the conventional antisense method is enhanced by photochemical binding between antisense oligonucleotides conjugated with photo-reactive compound and target mRNA or DNA. Fluorescein labeled oligodeoxyribonucleotides (F-DNA) was delivered to cell nuclei in the encapsulated form in multilamellar lecithin liposomes with neutral charge. F-DNA was previously shown to photo-bind to the complementary stranded DNA, and the delivery system using neutral liposome to be effective in normal human keratinocytes. In the present study, we used human kidney cancer G401.2/6TG.1 cell line to be advantageous in reproducible experiments. p53 was adopted as a target gene since antisense sequence information has been accumulated. The nuclear localization ofF-DNA was identified by comparing the fluorescence ofF-DNA with that of Hoechst 33258 under fluorescence microscope. After 7hr incubation to accumulate p53 protein induced by UV -B, p53 protein was quantified by Western blot. After 2hrs from F-DNA application, about 30% of cell population incorporated F-DNA in their nuclei with some morphological change possibly due to liposomal toxicity. Irradiation of visible light longer than 400nm from solar simulator at this time enhanced the inhibitory action of antisense F-DNA. The present results suggest that photo-antisense method is promising to control gene expression in time and space dependent manner. Further improvement of F-DNA delivery to cancer cells in the stability and toxicity is in progress. progress.

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LIFECYCLE OF THE INTERSTELLAR DUST GRAINS IN OUR GALAXY VIEWED WITH AKARI/MIR ALL-SKY SURVEY

  • Ishihara, D.;Kaneda, H.;Mouri, A.;Kondo, T.;Suzuki, S.;Oyabu, S.;Onaka, T.;Ita, Y.;Matsuura, M.;Matsunaga, N.
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제27권4호
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2012
  • The interstellar dust grains are formed and supplied to interstellar space from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars or supernova remnants, and become constituents of the star- and planet-formation processes that lead to the next generation of stars. Both a qualitative, and a compositional study of this cycle are essential to understanding the origin of the pre-solar grains, the missing sources of the interstellar material, and the chemical evolution of our Galaxy. The AKARI/MIR all-sky survey was performed with two mid-infrared photometric bands centered at 9 and $18{\mu}m$. These data have advantages in detecting carbonaceous and silicate circumstellar dust of AGB stars, and the interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons separately from large grains of amorphous silicate. By using the AKARI/MIR All-Sky point source catalogue, we surveyed C-rich and O-rich AGB stars in our Galaxy, which are the dominant suppliers of carbonaceous and silicate grains, respectively. The C-rich stars are uniformly distributed across the Galactic disk, whereas O-rich stars are concentrated toward the Galactic center, following the metallicity gradient of the interstellar medium, and are presumably affected by the environment of their birth place. We will compare the distributions of the dust suppliers with the distributions of the interstellar grains themselves by using the AKARI/MIR All-Sky diffuse maps. To enable discussions on the faint diffuse interstellar radiation, we are developing an accurate AKARI/MIR All-Sky diffuse map by correcting artifacts such as the ionising radiation effects, scattered light from the moon, and stray light from bright sources.

Improved Photolysis of Water from Ti Incorporated Double Perovskite Sr2FeNbO6 Lattice

  • Borse, P.H.;Cho, C.R.;Yu, S.M.;Yoon, J.H.;Hong, T.E.;Bae, J.S.;Jeong, E.D.;Kim, H.G.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제33권10호
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    • pp.3407-3412
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    • 2012
  • The Ti incorporation at Fe-site in the double perovskite lattice of $Sr_2FeNbO_6$ (SFNO) system is studied. The Ti concentration optimization yielded an efficient photocatalyst. At an optimum composition of Ti as x = 0.07 in $Sr_2Fe_{1-x}Ti_xNbO_6$, the photocatalyst exhibited 2 times the quantum yield for photolysis of $H_2O$ in presence of $CH_3OH$, than its undoped counterpart under visible light (${\lambda}{\geq}420nm$). Heavily Ti-doped $Sr_2Fe_{1-x}Ti_xNbO_6$ lattice exhibited poor photochemical properties due to the existence of constituent impurity phases as observed in the structural characterization, as well as deteriorated optical absorption. The higher electron-density acquired by n-type doping seem to be responsible for the more efficient charge separation in $Sr_2Fe_{1-x}Ti_xNbO_6$ (0.05 < x < 0.4) and thus consequently displays higher photocatalytic activity. The Ti incorporated structure also found to yield stable photocatalyst.

낙동감 하구 사구의 갈대, 천일사초 및 갯잔디군락의 생산능력 (Production Dynamics of Phragmites longivalvis, Carex scabrifolia and Zoysia sinica Stand of a Sand Bar at the Negdong River Estuary)

  • Kim, Joon-Ho;Kyung-Je Cho;Hyeong-Tae Mun;Byeong Mee Min
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.59-71
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    • 1986
  • Net production, dead material increments were measured, and annual respiration loss was simulated through a year to determine the gross production at the Phragmites longivalvis, Carex scabrifolia and Zoysia sinica stand on Okryudeung, a sand bar of the Nagdong river estuary. The maximum live biomass for above-ground organs of the three stands occured in October, i.e., 1, 985, 744 and 1, 013g/m2, and belowground net productions were estimated to be 650, 440 and 412g/m2, respectively. Materials died or shedding from live aboveground organs during the growth season were estimated to be 167, 81 and 0 g/$m^2$. From the results of simulation, annual variation of respiratiion was primarily dependent on the annual variation of temperature through a year. For annual respiration loss in three stands, 21.893, 6.147 and 5.036kg $CO_2/m^2$ were calculated, respectively. Corresponding gross productions were 72, 203, 22, 109 and 19, 909kcal/$m^2$. Respiration of belowground organs corresponded to 65%, 66% and 37% of the total plant respiration, and annual respiration loss accounted for 85%, 78% and 71% of the annual gross production. In view of efficiency of solar energy utilization, 5.8%, 1.8% and 1.6% of incident light energy were converted to gross production of plants during a year. With incident light energy during the growth season from April to September, energy utilizations for net production were estimated to be 1.2%, 0.4% and 0.6% at the three stands.

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광합성 세균의 분리 동정 및 두부 유청 폐수에서의 배양조건 검토 (Isolation of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Cell Growth on Soybean-Curd Whey Wastes)

  • 지근억;이계호
    • 한국식품과학회지
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.142-147
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    • 1993
  • 일광 에너지를 고정하고 식품공장의 폐수를 이용할 목적으로 56점의 분리원으로부터 광합성 세균 179주를 분리하고 그중 두부유청에서 제일 잘 자라는 균주를 선정하여 동정하고 두부유청을 기질로 하여 배양 최적조건을 조사하였다. 선정균주 B-Ps-106은 Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides의 변종 또는 근연균으로 동정되었고 호기 배양보다 광혐기 배양에서 더 양호한 성장을 나타냈다. 최적 pH는 $8.5{\sim}9.0$이었고 최적온도는 $30^{\circ}C$ 이었고 최적광량은 $0.72\;ca1/cm^2/min$ 이상이었다. $K_2HPO_4$$(NH_4)_2SO_4$ 농도를 달리하여 각각 첨가한 결과 양쪽에서 모두 0.9 g/l 첨가했을 때 비교적 양호한 성장을 나타냈다.

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멀티코어 광섬유를 이용한 광에너지 전송에 관한 분석 연구 (Analysis of optical energy delivery through multi-core optical fibers)

  • 김성만
    • 한국전자통신학회논문지
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    • 제7권5호
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    • pp.1079-1085
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    • 2012
  • 현재 전 세계의 많은 과학자들이 지속 가능한 에너지원을 찾기 위하여 많은 노력을 하고 있지만, 태양광에너지가 궁극적인 해답이 될 것으로 받아들여지고 있다. 이러한 광 에너지는 조명용, 발열용, 통신용 등으로 사용될 수 있으며, 심지어 최근에는 광에너지로 동작하는 광자구동 모터에 대한 연구결과도 나오고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 광에너지를 광섬유를 통해 전송할 수 있는 기술에 대해 이론적인 분석을 수행하였다. 특히, 한 가닥의 광섬유에 여러 개의 코어(core)가 삽입된 멀티코어(multi-core) 광섬유를 이용한 광에너지 전송의 에너지 전송량에 대해 예측해 보았다. 본 논문의 분석 결과에 따르면, 한 가닥의 멀티코어 광섬유로 약 2 kW 의 광에너지 전송이 가능할 것으로 예측되었으며, 초고압선처럼 수 cm 의 직경으로 광섬유 다발을 묶을 경우에는 10 MW 이상의 광에너지 전송이 가능할 것으로 예측되었다. 이는 도체 전력선과 비교하여 절반수준의 에너지 전송량으로 충분한 경쟁력이 있을 것으로 생각된다.

N-type rear local emitter 태양전지의 시뮬레이션을 통한 구조 설계 및 제조 (The design and fabrication of n-type rear local emitter by calculation)

  • 김수민;배수현;김성탁;김현호;박효민;김영도;박성은;탁성주;김동환
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.107.1-107.1
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    • 2011
  • 현재 상용으로 많이 사용되는 p-type 태양전지는 Dopant로 사용된 Boron이 $O_2$와 결합하면서 Light induced degradation이 발생하여 태양 전지 효율의 감소를 불러일으키는 단점이 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 여러 가지 방법들이 제시되었는데 일반적으로 n-type wafer를 이용함으로써 Light induced degradation을 해결하는 방법이 주로 사용된다. n-type 태양전지를 제조함에 있어서 보다 높은 효율을 달성하기 위하여 태양전지 후면 구조에 local contact 개념을 도입하여 rear local emitter를 형성함으로써 전체적인 효율 증가를 도모하였다. 이러한 local contact을 제조하기 위해서는 전기적으로 구조적으로 고려할 사항들이 여러 가지 존재한다. 따라서 우리는 이러한 고려 사항들을 실험적인 방법으로 결정하는 것이 아니라, 정교한 변수 통제를 이용한 시뮬레이션으로 최종적인 효율 상승을 가져오는 조건을 찾으려고 한다. 이때 사용될 수 있는 시뮬레이션은 여러 가지 종류가 존재하는데 우선 상용 태양전지의 해석에 가장 많이 사용되는 PC1D프로그램이 있다. 그러나 PC1D의 경우에는 1차원의 해석만 가능하기 때문에 local contact의 2차원 이상의 구조 변화에 따른 최종적인 효율을 계산하는데 무리가 따르게 된다. 따라서 2차원 이상의 형상에 대한 분석이 가능한 프로그램을 이용하여 실제 셀에서 일어나는 현상을 더 정밀하게 모사함으로써 local contact에서 일어나는 전기적, 구조적 변화가 최종적인 효율에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지를 파악해볼 것이며, 어떤 구조를 선택하였을 때 가장 높은 효율을 달성할 수 있는지 알아보려고 한다.

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Forward Gene Mutation Assay of Seven Benzophenone-type UV Filters using L5178Y Mouse Lymphoma Cell

  • Jeon, Hee-Kyung;Sarma, Sailendra Nath;Kim, Youn-Jung;Ryu, Jae-Chun
    • Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2007
  • The effects of high energy short wave solar radiation on human skin have received much publicity as the major cause of accelerated skin ageing and of skin cancers. To meet public demand, the cosmetic industry has developed sun protection factor products, which contain a variety of so-called "UV filters", among others benzophenone (BP) and its metabolites are the widely used UV filters. UV filters are also used to prevent UV light from damaging scents and colors in a variety of cosmetics products and to protect of plastic products against light-induced degradation. There are many variants of BP in use. In this respect, to regulate and to evaluate the hazardous effect of BP-type UV filters will be important to environment and human health. The genotoxicity of 7 BP-type UV filters was evaluated in L5178Y $(tk^{+/-})$ mouse lymphoma cells in vitro. BP, benzhydrol, 4-hydroxybenzophenone 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone and 2, 4-dihydroxybenzophenone did not induce significant mutation frequencies both in the presence and absence of metabolic activation system. 2, 2'-Dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone appeared the positive results at the highest dose, i.e. 120.4 ${\mu}g/mL$ only in the absence of metabolic activation system. And also, 2, 3, 4-trihydroxybenzophenone revealed a significant increase of mutation frequencies in the range of 138.1-207.2 ${\mu}g/mL$ in the absence of metabolic activation system and 118.3-354.8 ${\mu}g/mL$ in the presence of metabolic activation system. Through the results of MLA with 7 BP-type UV filters in L5178Y cells in vitro, we may provide the important clues on the genotoxic potentials of these BP-type UV filters.

Effect of the oxygen flow ratio on the structural and electrical properties of indium zinc tin oxide (IZTO) films prepared by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering

  • Son, Dong-Jin;Nam, Eun-Kyoung;Jung, Dong-Geun;Ko, Yoon-Duk;Choi, Byung-Hyun;Kim, Young-Sung
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.168-168
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    • 2010
  • Transparent conduction oxides (TCOs) films is extensively reported for optoelectronic devices application such as touch panels, solar cells, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and organic light emitting diodes(OLEDs). Among the many TCO film, indium tin oxide(ITO) is in great demand due to the growth of flat panel display industry. However, indium is not only high cost but also its deposits dwindling. Therefore, many studies are being done on the transparent conductive oxides(TCOs). We fabricated a target of IZTO(In2O3:ZnO:SnO2=70:15:15 wt.%) reduced indium. Then, IZTO thin films were deposited on glass substrates by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering with various oxygen flow ratio. The substrate temperature was fixed at the room temperature. We investigated the electrical, optical, structural properties of IZTO thin films. The electrical properties of IZTO thin films were dependent on the oxygen partial pressure. As a result, the most excellent properties of IZTO thin films were obtained at the 3% of oxygen flow rate with the low resistivity of $7.236{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$. And also the optical properties of IZTO thin films were shown the good transmittance over 80%. These IZTO thin films were used to fabricated organic light emitting diodes(OLEDs) as anode and the device performances studied. The OLED with an IZTO anode deposited at optimized deposition condition showed good brightness properties. Therefore, IZTO has utility value of TCO electrode although it reduced indium and we expect it is possible for the IZTO to apply to flexible display due to the low processing temperature.

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광원자층증착법에 의한 glass 기판에 $TiO_2$ 박막 코팅 (Coating of $TiO_2$ Thin Films on Glass Substrate using Photo-assisted Atomic Layer Deposition)

  • 김혁종;김희규;김도형;강인구;최병호
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.382-382
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    • 2009
  • 염료감응형 태양전지의 구성체 중 전극으로 연구 되어 지고 있는 $TiO_2$는 기존에 대량 생산이 가능한 spin coating법, screen printing법, spray법의 연구가 이루어져 왔으나 고 효율 태양전지에 쓰이는 전극 시스템에 비해 고 분산성을 지닌 $TiO_2$페이스트를 제조 하는데 어려움이 있다. 그리고 플렉시블 디스플레이 소자의 응용을 위해서는 소자 공정 온도인 $250^{\circ}C$ 이하의 공정 온도가 요구 되어 지므로 고온공정인 CVD법은 이에 적합하지 않다. 이에 본 연구는 진공 증착 방법인 광원자층증착법을 이용하여 $150^{\circ}C$이하의 저온공정온도에서도 적용이 가능한 $TiO_2$ 박막을 185nm의 UV light를 조사하여 glass 기판위에 제조 하고 그에 따른 박막의 물성 분석을 하였다. Mo source로는 titanium tetraisopropoxide(TTIP)와 reactant gas 로는 $H_2O$를 사용하였으며 불활성 기체인 Ar 가스는 purge 가스로 각각 사용하였다. $100^{\circ}C{\sim}250^{\circ}C$ 공정온도를 변수로 $TiO_2$ 박막을 제조 하였으며 제조된 $TiO_2$ 박막의 물성 분석을 위해 FESEM, TEM을 이용하여 표면 및 두께를 분석하였다. 또한 $100^{\circ}C$ 400 cycles에서 약 12nm 막 두께를 관찰 할 수 있었으며 그 결과 박막의 성장률이 $0.3{\AA}$/cycle 임을 확인 할 수 있었다. 그리고 UV-VIS을 이용하여 박막의 좌외선에 대한 흡수도 및 투과도 분석을 하였다. 또한 XPS 성분 분석을 통하여 $100^{\circ}C$의 저온 공정에서 형성된 박막이 $TiO_2$임을 확인 하였다. 이러한 결과에서 185nm의 UV light에 의한 광원자층 증착법으로 $100^{\circ}C$의 저온에서도 $TiO_2$ 박막이 증착 되는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

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