• 분석과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.75-79
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• 1999

봄무우 유식물의 자엽과 하배축에서 저온처리동안 변화하는 polyamine(PA)의 농도를 분석하고, PA이 저온 스트레스와 관련이 있는지를 분석하였다. 자엽에서 저온 스트레스동안 putrescine(PUT)의 농도가 증가되었고, 전반적으로 PUT와 spermidine(SPD) 농도의 변화가 심하였다. 따라서 PUT와 SPD는 저온 스트레스의 조건하에서 합성되거나 또는 유리된 것이다. 그러나 spermine(SPM)의 농도에는 거의 변화가 없었다. 하배축의 대조구에는 SPD만이 존재하고, 저온 스트레스를 주면, 유리된 PA의 농다가 증가되었고, 지속된 저온 스트레스동안 PA의 농도가 급속히 감소되었다. 하배축은 일반적으로 저온처리에 매우 예민성을 나타내는 것으로보아, 자엽과 비교해서 세포내에 PA의 농도가 낮기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 자엽에서 PUT과 SPD가 저온 스트레스의 저항력에 관여하고, 하배축에서는 PA이 저온 스트레스에 대한 저항력의 증대와 아무 관련이 없는 것으로 사료된다. 이상의 결과로 PUT와 SPD는 저온 스트레스에 대항하여 저항력을 증대시키는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2009

This study was conducted to investigate the hygienic quality of commercial Kwamegi, a Korean traditional food, made from semi-dried Pacific saury. The hygienic qualities of 10 Kwamegi samples were examined from the 15 commercially available types. Samples with code 3, 4, 6, 11 and 12 were acceptable based on criteria suggested by Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (i.e. moisture below 50%, total mercury below 0.5 ppm, lead below 2.0 ppm, viable cells below $1.0{\times}10^5$ CFU/g and coliform count below $1.0{\times}10^3$ MPN/100g. Peroxide value of commercial Kwamegi ranged from 15.3-104.1 meq/kg. Agmatine sulfate, cadaverine, histamine, tyramine, spermidine, dopamine and spermine were found in all of the 15 commercially available Kwamegi, while tryptamine and 2-phenylethylamine were not detected. Putrescine dihydrochloride was only detected in 7 samples. The histamine content of commercial Kwamegi ranged from 33-124mg/kg, which is believed to be an acceptable limit according to guidelines from other countries. Cadaverine can be used as a potential index for freshness of commercial Kwamegi as there is a good correlation between volatile basic nitrogen and biogenic amine contents.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.135-145
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• 2008

Biogenic amines are naturally occurring anti-nutrition factors. They are causative agents in food poising episodes and act as catalysts to allergic reactions. The most commonly occurring biogenic amines in foods are: Histamine, tyramine, putrescine, cadaverine, tryptamine, ${\beta}$-phenylethylamine, spermine, spermidine and agmatine. The objective of this study was to identify changes and content levels of specific biogenic amines at selected storage temperatures $20{^{\circ}C}$, $4{^{\circ}C}$, and $-25{^{\circ}C}$, respectively. This study will focus on histamine, cadaverine, and putrescine concentrations in the following dark-fleshed fishes: Mackerel (Scomber japonicus), Horse Mackerel (Trachurus japonicus), Mackerel Pike (Cololabis saira), and Spanish Mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius). Biogenic amines were determined using a method based on an extraction procedure described in the derivatisation and HPLC(High Performance Liquid Chromatography). The the recovery rate of individual amines was higher than those found in ion exchange chromatography. The results from the dark fleshed fish stability trial showed that high content of histamine (cadaverine and putrescine) were produced within a short period of time at $20{^{\circ}C}$. Fish stored at lower temperatures $4{^{\circ}C}$, showed lower content of biogenic amines. At $-25{^{\circ}C}$ the production of histamine, cadaverine and putrescine did not initiate until after day 100. All fish recorded the content of histamine below 1 mg/kg with the exception of the Horse Mackerel.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2011년도 임시총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.14-14
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• 2011

Polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) play pivotal roles in plant defense to different abiotic and biotic stresses. In order to understand the function of ginseng spermidine synthase gene, a key gene involved in biosynthesis of polyamines, transgenic plant was generated in Arabidopsis. The transgenic plants exhibited high levels of polyamines compared to the untransformed control plants. We investigated the tolerance capacity of transgenic plants to abiotic stresses such as salinity and copper stress. In addition, transgenic plants also showed increased resistance against one of the important fungal pathogens of ginseng, the wilt causing Fusarium oxysporum and one of important bacteria, bacterial blight causing Pseudomonas syringae. However, an activity of the polyamine catabolic enzyme, diamine oxidase (DAO) was increased significantly in F. oxysporum and P. syringae infected transgenic plant. Polyamine catabolic enzymes which may trigger the hypersensitive response (HR) by producing hydrogen peroxide ($H_2O_2$) seem act as an inducer of PR proteins, peroxidase and phenyl ammonium lyase activity. The transgenic plants also contained higher antioxidant enzyme activities, less MDA and $H_2O_2$ under salt and copper stress than the wild type, implying it suffered from less injury. These results strongly suggest an important role of spermidine as a signaling regulator in stress signaling pathways, leading to build-up of stress tolerance mechanisms.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.575-581
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• 2009

Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines, which are essential for cell growth, differentiation, and proliferation. This report presents the characterization of an ODC-encoding cDNA (SlitODC) isolated from a moth species, the tobacco cutworm, Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera); its expression in a polyamine-deficient strain of yeast, S. cerevisiae; and the recovery in polyamine levels and proliferation rate with the introduction of the insect enzyme. SlitODC encodes 448 amino acid residues, 4 amino acids longer than B. mori ODC that has 71% identity, and has a longer C-terminus, consistent with B. mori ODC, than the reported dipteran enzymes. The null mutant yeast strain in the ODC gene, SPE1, showed remarkably depleted polyamine levels; in putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, the levels were > 7, > 1, and > 4%, respectively, of the levels in the wild-type strain. This consequently caused a significant arrest in cell proliferation of > 4% of the wild-type strain in polyamine-free media. The transformed strain, with the substituted SlitODC for the deleted endogenous ODC, grew and proliferated rapidly at even a higher rate than the wild-type strain. Furthermore, its polyamine content was significantly higher than even that in the wild-type strain as well as the spe1-null mutant, particularly with a very continuously enhanced putrescine level, reflecting no inhibition mechanism operating in the putrescine synthesis step by any corresponding insect ODC antizymes to SlitODC in this yeast system.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.84-90
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• 2005

The effects of UV-B radiation on the seedling growth, carbohydrate metabolism and antioxidants activities of rice (Oryza sativa L.) were investigated under environmentally controlled chamber. Supplementary UV­B radiation reduced dry matter as well as leaf area, there­fore, relative growth rates (RGR) of seedlings were decreased by up to half compared to control. Photosynthetic products such as soluble sugars and starch were rapidly and significantly reduced by within 1 day of enhanced UV-B radiation due to the inhibition and degradation of photosynthetic processes and thylakoid membrane integrity. In our study, nonstructural carbohydrate levels were proved to be a main indicator on UV-B­induced stress. The behavior of SOD, CAT, APX and POD activities was monitored in the leaves of rice seedlings subjected to UV-B radiation. Under UV-B treatments, SOD activity was initially increased, whereas CAT and POD activities were slowly and slightly increased. However, APX activity showed no presumable results with an increase of UV-B dose. In leaves of rice seedlings, supplementary UV-B radiation caused an increase in free putrescine and spermidine, however spermine remained unaltered, although 24-hrs UV-B treatment slightly increased. This result presumes that an excess UV-B dose may induce ethylene biosynthesis (senescence) rather than polyamine biosynthesis (defense).

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.439-445
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• 2012

The chitinase producing Lysobacter enzymogenes C-3 has previously been shown to suppress plant pathogens in vitro and in the field, but little is known of the regulation of chitinase production, or its role in antimicrobial activity and biocontrol. In this study, we isolated and characterized chitinase-defective mutants by screening the transposon mutants of L. enzymogenes C-3. These mutations disrupted genes involved in diverse functions: glucose-galactose transpoter (gluP), disulfide bond formation protein B (dsbB), Clp protease (clp), and polyamine synthase (speD). The chitinase production of the SpeD mutant was restored by the addition of exogenous spermidine or spermine to the bacterial cultures. The speD and clp mutants lost in vitro antifungal activities against plant fungal pathogens. However, the gluP and dsbB mutants showed similar antifungal activities to that of the wild-type. The growth of the mutants in nutrient rich conditions containing chitin was similar with that of the wild-type. However, growth of the speD and gluP mutants was defective in chitin minimal medium, but was observed no growth retardation in the clp and dsbB mutant on chitin minimal medium. In this study, we identified the four genes might be involved and play different role in the production of extracellular chitinase and antifungal activity in L. enzymogenes C-3.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2010

UV-B 처리가 봉선화 식물에 미치는 영향과 식물의 생화학적 방어반응을 조사하고자 3주간 UV-B (11.34 kJ $m^{-2}$) 조사 실험을 수행하였다. UV-B 처리에 의해 봉선화의 엽면적 및 건물중이 약 40% 정도 감소하였으며, MDA 함량은 50% 정도 증가한 것으로 나타났다. Glutathione 및 ascorbate acid 함량은 UV-B에 의해 산화형이 증가하고 환원형이 감소하였다. 봉선화 잎에는 주로 3종류의 polyamine이 존재하였으며, 3종류 모두 UV-B에 의해 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 항산화효소인 SOD, AP, GR 및 GP의 활성이 UV-B 처리에 의해 크게 증가하였다. 이상의 결과로 볼 때 UV-B 증가는 식물체내 산화스트레스를 일으키며, 이에 대해 식물의 생화학적 방어반응이 작용하는 것으로 사료된다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.516-521
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• 2021

Although arginase primarily participates in the last reaction of the urea cycle, we have previously demonstrated that arginase II is an important cytosolic calcium regulator through spermine production in a p32-dependent manner. Here, we demonstrated that rhaponticin (RPT) is a novel medicinal-plant arginase inhibitor and investigated its mechanism of action on Ca²⁺-dependent endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) activation. RPT was uncompetitively inhibited for both arginases I and II prepared from mouse liver and kidney. It also inhibited arginase activity in both aorta and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Using both microscope and FACS analyses, RPT treatments induced increases in cytosolic Ca²⁺ levels using Fluo-4 AM as a calcium indicator. Increased cytosolic Ca²⁺ elicited the phosphorylations of both CaMKII and eNOS Ser1177 in a time-dependent manner. RPT incubations also increased intracellular L-arginine (L-Arg) levels and activated the CaMKII/AMPK/Akt/eNOS signaling cascade in HUVECs. Treatment of L-Arg and ABH, arginase inhibitor, increased intracellular Ca²⁺ concentrations and activated CaMKII-dependent eNOS activation in ECs of WT mice, but, the effects were not observed in ECs of inositol triphosphate receptor type 1 knockout (IP3R1^-/-) mice. In the aortic endothelium of WT mice, RPT also augmented nitric oxide (NO) production and attenuated reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. In a vascular tension assay using RPT-treated aortic tissue, cumulative vasorelaxant responses to acetylcholine (Ach) were enhanced, and phenylephrine (PE)-dependent vasoconstrictive responses were retarded, although sodium nitroprusside and KCl responses were not different. In this study, we present a novel mechanism for RPT, as an arginase inhibitor, to increase cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration in a L-Arg-dependent manner and enhance endothelial function through eNOS activation.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.667-672
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• 2018

We investigated the quality of 12 commercial salted and fermented anchovy Engraulis japonicas sauces by measuring their chemical compositions, bacteria concentrations, and biogenic amine contents. The sauces had a moisture content of 67.13-69.83% (mean: 68.17%), salinity of 20.00-25.84% (mean: 22.29%), pH of 5.14-6.28 (mean: 5.63), volatile basic nitrogen content of 119.12-273.37 mg/100 g (mean: 199.19 mg/100 g), total nitrogen content of 0.82-1.50% (mean: 1.30%) and amino nitrogen content of 550.17-1,086.62 mg/100 g (mean: 774.99 mg/100 g). The viable cell counts ranged from not detected to $1.6{\times}10^3CFU/mL$, and the number of biogenic amine-forming bacteria was very low or undetectable. The tested samples contained 372.32-2,111,61 mg/kg (mean 813.48 mg/kg) histamine, 29.62-144.29 mg/kg (mean 98.14 mg/kg) cadaverine, 87.89-530.84 mg/kg (mean 329.91 mg/kg) tryptamine, 20.89-127.17 mg/kg (mean 60.49 mg/kg) putrescine, and 13.08-109.91 mg/kg (mean 57.74 mg/kg) tyramine. Whereas no spermidine or spermine was detected in any sample. These results strongly suggest the necessary of monitoring the biogenic amine contents of commercial salted and fermented anchovy sauces carefully to ensure consumer health.