• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2018

에뮬랩 소프트웨어는 미국 유타주립대학교에서 개발되어 전 세계 십여 개 사이트에 설치 구축되었다. 우리나라 국가과학기술연구망에서 구축한 KREONET-에뮬랩은 네트워크 프로토콜, TCP성능 테스트 등 네트워크 기술 연구는 물론 분산시스템, 보안 및 융합연구 분야의 연구자들에게 맞춤형 네트워크 토폴로지와 시스템 노드를 제공하고 있다. 테스트베드는 실험연구에 있어 가장 중요한 역할을 하며, 실제로 연구자들은 테스트베드에서 지원 가능한 실험만을 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 지난 10년간 유타-에뮬랩을 활용한 프로젝트 목록을 토대로, 테스트베드를 활용한 연구 형태를 확인하고 연구자의 분포를 분석하여, 우리나라 KREONET-에뮬랩의 활용 동향과 비교하였다. 또한 서비스화된 테스트베드(Testbed-As-a-Service)를 통한 차세대 테스트베드의 융합 연구 커뮤니티 서비스방안을 제시하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권13호
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• pp.5205-5210
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• 2015

Background: Acute leukaemia is characterized by fast growth of abnormal clones of haemopoietic precursor cells inside bone marrow leading to undue accumulation in the bone marrow. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common form of childhood cancer. Materials and Methods: The study concerned 50 children diagnosed with ALL (mean age, $8.55{\pm}2.54$) compared to 40 healthy controls (mean age, $8.00{\pm}1.85$). The Hb, serum copper, ceruloplasmin oxidase, advanced oxidation protein products (AOPPs), total antioxidant activity (TAA) and protein were measured in all groups.One proteinous component was isolated by gel filtration chromatography from the precipitate produced by polyethylene glycol. Results: Significantly higher levels of AOPP, copper and decrease in total antioxidant activity were noted in the cases. Statistical analysis also showed a significant increase (p<0.01) in the activity of serum ceruloplasmin oxidase in patients with ALL compared to normal subjects .The maximum velocity (Vmax) and Michaelis constant had values of 104.2 U/L and 11.7 mM, respectively. The ${\Delta}H^*$ values for ceruloplasmin oxidase in ALL patients were positive, confirming the reaction to be endothermic. Conclusions: The results from this study showed a significant increase in AOPP, ceruloplasmine oxidase and decrease in total antioxidant activity .These parameters may play a role in development of DNA damage in childhood patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).The ${\Delta}S^*$ and ${\Delta}G^*$ values were negative, these refer that the reaction of ES formation is spontaneous, but needs energy in a so-called endergonic reaction. Also the negative ${\Delta}S^*$ value of ceruloplasmin oxidase indicates that the complex [$ES^*$] is further modulated through increasing structure arrangement.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.611-616
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• 2014

Objectives: Dendritic cell (DC)-based tumor immunotherapy needs an immunogenic tumor associated antigen (TAA) and an effective approach for its presentation to lymphocytes. In this study we explored whether transduction of DCs with lentiviruses (LVs) expressing the human interleukin-12 gene could stimulate antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) against human lung cancer cells in vitro. Methods: Peripheral blood monocyte-derived DCs were transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding human IL-12 gene (LV-12). The anticipated target of the human IL-12 gene was detected by RT-PCR. The concentration of IL-12 in the culture supernatant of DCs was measured by ELISA.Transduction efficiencies and CD83 phenotypes of DCs were assessed by flow cytometry. DCs were pulsed with tumor antigen of lung cancer cells (DC+Ag) and transduced with LV-12 (DC-LV-12+Ag). Stimulation of T lymphocyte proliferation by DCs and activation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) stimulated by LV-12 transduced DCs pulsed with tumor antigen against A549 lung cancer cells were assessed with methyl thiazolyltetrazolium (MTT). Results: A recombinant lentivirus expressing the IL-12 gene was successfully constructed. DC transduced with LV-12 produced higher levels of IL-12 and expressed higher levels of CD83 than non-transduced. The DC modified by interleukin -12 gene and pulsed with tumor antigen demonstrated good stimulation of lymphocyte proliferation, induction of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and antitumor effects. Conclusions: Dendritic cells transduced with a lentivirus-mediated interleukin-12 gene have an enhanced ability to kill lung cancer cells through promoting T lymphocyte proliferation and cytotoxicity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.214-221
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• 1998

A Brevibacterium ammoniagenes gene coding for glucose/mannose-specific enzyme II ($EII^{Glc}$) of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS) was cloned by complementing an Escherichia coli mutation affecting a ptsG gene, and the complete DNA nucleotide sequence was determined. The cloned gene was identified to be a ptsG, which enables the E. coli transportment to use glucose more efficiently than mannose as the sole carbon source in an M9 minimal medium. The ptsG gene of B. ammoniagenes consists of an open reading frame of 1,983 nucleotides putatively encoding a polypeptide of 661 amino acid residues and a TAA stop codon. The deduced amino acid sequence of the B. ammoniagenes $EII^{Glc}$ shows, at $46\%$, the highest degree of sequence similarity with the Corynebacterium glutamicum EII specific for both glucose and mannose. In addition, the $EII^{Glc}$ shares approximately $30\%$ sequence similarities with sucrose-specific and ${\beta}$-glucoside-specific EIIs of the several bacteria belonging to the glucose-PTS class. The 161-amino-acid C-terminal sequence of $EII^{Glc}$ is also similar to that of E. coli enzyme $IIA^{Glc}$, specific for glucose ($EIIA^{Glc}$). The B. ammoniagenes $EII^{Glc}$ consists of three domains; a hydrophobic region (EIIC) and two hydrophilic regions (EIIA, EIIB). The arrangement of structural domains, IIBCA, of the $EII^{Glc}$ is identical to those of EIIs specific for sucrose or ${\beta}$-glucoside. While the domain IIA was removed from the B. ammoniagenes $EII^{Glc}$ the remaining domains IIBC were found to restore the glucose and mannose-utilizing capacity of E. coli mutant lacking $EII^{Glc}$ activity with $EIIA^{Glc}$ of the E. coli mutant. $EII^{Glc}$ contains a histidine residue and a cysteine residue which are putative phosphorylation sites for the protein.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2000

장티푸스는 Salmonella typhi에 의해 유발되는 장감염성 질환으로 사람과 동물에 공통되는 질병이다. 본 연구에서는 국립보건원과 공동연구를 수행하여 한국형 장티푸스 유발균인 S. typhi KNIH100을 분리하였다. 분리된 S. typhi KNIH100의 염색체 DNA로부터 방향족 아미노산의 생합성에 관여하는 효소인 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthetase를 암호화하는 aroA 유전자를 포함하는 약 5.0 kb의 SalI절편을 pBluescriptII SK(+) vector와 aroA 돌연변이주인 E. coli CGSC2829를 이용하여 클로닝하였다. 그리고 이 클론을 pSAL80이라 명명하였다. 클로닝된 재조합 plasmid인 pSAL80에는 ATG 개시코돈과 TGA 종결코돈을 포함하는 1,284 염기로 구성된 aroA 유전자가 위치하고 있었으며, 다른 장내세균과 마찬가지로 serC와 하나의 오페론을 구성하고 있음을 밝혔다. 또한 S. typhi Ty2, S. typhimurium, 그리고 E. coli 등 다른 장내세균의 aroA 유전자와 상동성을 비교하여 본 결과 각각 99%, 95%, 77%의 상동성을 나타내었다.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2013

IL-12 is a secretory heterodimeric cytokine composed of p35 and p40 subunits. IL-12 p35 and p40 subunits are sometimes produced as monomers or homodimers. IL-12 is also produced as a membrane-bound form in some cases. In this study, we hypothesized that the membrane-bound form of IL-12 subunits may function as a costimulatory signal for selective activation of TAA-specific CTL through direct priming without involving antigen presenting cells and helper T cells. MethA fibrosarcoma cells were transfected with expression vectors of membrane-bound form of IL-12p35 (mbIL-12p35) or IL-12p40 subunit (mbIL-12p40) and were selected under G418-containing medium. The tumor cell clones were analyzed for the expression of mbIL-12p35 or p40 subunit and for their stimulatory effects on macrophages. The responsible T-cell subpopulation for antitumor activity of mbIL-12p35 expressing tumor clone was also analyzed in T cell subset-depleted mice. Expression of transfected membranebound form of IL-12 subunits was stable during more than 3 months of in vitro culture, and the chimeric molecules were not released into culture supernatants. Neither the mbIL-12p35-expressing tumor clones nor mbIL-12p40-expressing tumor clones activated macrophages to secrete TNF-${\alpha}$. Growth of mbIL-12p35-expressing tumor clones was more accelerated in the $CD8^+$ T cell-depleted mice than in $CD4^+$ T cell-depleted or normal mice. These results suggest that $CD8^+$ T cells could be responsible for the rejection of mbIL-12p35-expressing tumor clone, which may bypass activation of antigen presenting cells and $CD4^+$ helper T cells.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.582-588
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• 1999

A Brevibacterium lactofermentum gene coding for a glucose-specific permease of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS) was cloned, by complementing an Escherichia coli mutation affecting a ptsG gene with the B. lactofermentum genomic library, and completely sequenced. The gene was identified as a ptsG, which enables an E. coli transformant to transport non-metabolizable glucose analogue 2-deoxyglucose (2DG). The ptsG gene of B. lactofermentum consists of an open reading frame of 2,025 nucleotides encoding a polypeptide of 674 amino acid residues and a TAA stop codon. The 3' flanking region contains two stem-loop structures which may be involved in transcriptional termination. The deduced amino acid sequence of the B. lactofermentum enzyme $II^{GIe}$ specific to glucose ($EII^{GIe}$) has a high homology with the Corynebacterium glutamicum enzyme $II^{Man}$ specific to glucose and mannose ($EII^{Man}$), and the Brevibacterium ammoniagenes enzyme $II^{GIc}$ specific to glucose ($EII^{GIc}$). The 171-amino-acid C-terminal sequence of the $EII^{Glc}$ is also similar to the Escherichia coli enzyme $IIA^{GIc}$ specific to glucose ($IIA^{GIc}$). It is interesting that the arrangement of the structural domains, IIBCA, of the B. lactofermentum $EII^{GIc}$ protein is identical to that of EIIs specific to sucrose or $\beta$-glucoside. Several in vivo complementation studies indicated that the B. lactofermentum $EII^{Glc}$ protein could replace both $EII^{ Glc}$ and $EIIA^{Glc}$ in an E. coli ptsG mutant or crr mutant, respectively.

• 한국육종학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

Low temperature stress is one of the major negative factors affecting vegetative and reproductive growth of rice. To better understand responses of rice plants to low temperature we analyzed transcriptome expression patterns in glumous flower of cold-tolerant japonica rice variety, Stejaree45, and cold-susceptible variety, HR19621-AC6 at booting stage under cold water irrigation. A total of 2,411 probes were differentially expressed by low temperature in glumous flowers of the two varieties. Some important genes involved in hormone biosynthesis showed variety-specific regulation. Expression of GA20ox3 and GA2ox, among the genes involved in GA biosynthesis, was regulated differentially in the two varieties. Among the genes involved in IAA biosynthesis, YUCCA1 and TAA1:1 showed variety-specific regulation. Among the genes involved in cytokinin biosynthsis and signaling, expression of LOG, HK1 and HK3 was significantly down-regulated only in the cold-susceptible variety. Among the genes involved in ABA biosynthesis, NSY and AAO3 were down-regulated only in the cold-tolerant variety. In general, genes involved in GA, IAA and cytokinin biosynthesis responded to cold temperature in such a way that capacity of those bioactive hormones is maintained at relatively higher levels under cold temperature in the cold-tolerant variety, which can help minimize cold stress imposed to developing reproductive organs in the cold-tolerant variety.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.546-552
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• 2022

Epidermal cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a tumor-associated antigen (TAA), which has been considered as a cancer vaccine candidate. The EpCAM protein fused to the fragment crystallizable region of immunoglobulin G (IgG) tagged with KDEL endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention signal (EpCAM-FcK) has been successfully expressed in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi) and purified from the plant leaf. In this study, we investigated the ability of the plant-derived EpCAM-FcK (EpCAM-FcK^P) to elicit an immune response in vivo. The animal group injected with the EpCAM-FcK^P showed a higher differentiated germinal center (GC) B cell population (~9%) compared with the animal group injected with the recombinant rhEpCAM-Fc chimera (EpCAM-Fc^M). The animal group injected with EpCAM-FcK^P (~42%) had more differentiated T follicular helper cells (Tfh) than the animal group injected with EpCAM-Fc^M (~7%). This study demonstrated that the plant-derived EpCAM-FcK fusion antigenic protein induced a humoral immune response in mice.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제44권8호
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• pp.1186-1193
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• 2015

발아 온도와 기간에 따른 발아현미 홍국배양물의 홍국색소, monacolin K, citrinin 및 페놀 화합물 생성량과 항산화 활성 변화를 조사하였다. 발아 기간이 증가함에 따라 명도는 증가하였으나 적색도와 황색도는 감소하였고, 적색($A_{500}$), 오렌지색($A_{470}$) 및 황색($A_{400}$) 색소 생성량도 동일한 경향이었다. 총 monacolin K는 현미(215.85 mg/kg)가 백미(40.41 mg/kg)보다 높았으며, $32^{\circ}C$에서 1일간 발아시킨 발아현미 (1,263.04 mg/kg)에서 가장 높은 함량을 보였으나 발아 기간이 증가함에 따라 감소하였다. 곰팡이 독소인 citrinin은 모든 처리구에서 검출되지 않았다. 총 폴리페놀과 플라보노이드 함량은 발아 온도와 기간이 증가함에 따라 유의적으로 증가하여 $37^{\circ}C$에서 4일간 발아시킨 발아현미에서 13.80 mg/g과 1.30 mg/g으로 가장 높았다. 전자공여능과 총 항산 화력은 발아에 의해 증가되어 $32^{\circ}C$에서 1일간 발아시킨 발아 현미에서 각각 22.16 mg TE/g과 62.27 mg AAE/g으로 가장 높았으나 발아 기간이 증가함에 따라 감소하였다. 이상의 결과로부터 홍국색소와 monacolin K 생성량을 증가시키기 위한 기질로 발아현미가 유용하며, 배양에 사용된 Monascus pilosus 305-9는 citrinin을 생성하지 않고 monacolin K 생성량을 증가시켜 식품의 기능성 증진용 소재 및 균주로서의 활용이 기대된다.