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A Study on Cloud Network and Security System Analysis for Enhanced Security of Legislative Authority (입법기관의 보안강화를 위한 Cloud 네트워크 분석 및 보안 시스템 연구)

  • Nam, Won-Hee;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1320-1326
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    • 2011
  • National institutions on the importance of information security is being recognized, information security laws are being discussed in Congress 3.4 DDoS incident and Nonghyup hacking, etc. However, National Assembly Secretariat when the results of the Information Security Consulting has been assessed very low 61.2 points, evaluation of hardware and software in secure areas were vulnerable. This paper, the legislative support agencies National Assembly and National Assembly Secretariat on the network and computer systems, and managerial, technical and physical security elements are analyzed for the status. And network should have the legislative support agencies and system for the physical network separation, DDoS attack response, Virus attack response, hacking attacks response, and Cyber Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center for Cyber infringing design and research through the confidentiality, integrity, availability, access control, authentication and security analysis is based on the evaluation criteria. Through this study, the legislative support agencies to strengthen the security of data and security laws enacted to provide the basis for.

Morphology and Intracellular Appearance of Euonymus Vein Clear Virus (사철나무 엽맥 바이러스의 형상과 세포내출현)

  • Chang Moo Ung
    • Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1986
  • Negatively stained dip preparations from Euonymus showing vein clear symptoms revealed bacilliform particles. The particles tentatively referred to as the Euonymus vein clear virus(EVCV) have a relatively complex structure, measuring 230-280nm in length and 70-80nm in diameter. They have an envelope, 8-10nm thick, provided with evenly spaced beadlike projection about 5-6nm long. The inner tubular core which had no envelope showed helical structures, 200-220nm long, and 50-55nm in diameter. This inner tubular core is interpreted as the virus nucleocapsid. A striking association of virus particles with the nuclei of infected cells was apparent from sections which showed numberous virus particles at the nuclear periphery and in what appeared to be intranuclear virus particle inclusions. Careful examination of these apparent inclusions revealed the presence of the nuclear envelope surrounding them, in addition to cytoplasmic organelles within them. Such profiles were interpreted as having arisen when the sections passed through invaginations of the cytoplasm into the nucleus. In all the sections showing virus particles associated with the nucleus, large number of virus particles were found to be present in expanded areas between the two lamellae of the nuclear envelope. This location is suggested as a possible site of virus assembly. Serveal micrographs of particles found in this location suggested incorporation of the inner lamella of the nuclear envelope into the viral envelope. Various micrographs indicated a possible helical arrangement of certain components present in the virus core.

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Present Status and Future Management Strategies for Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus: A Major Constraint to the Global Sugarcane Production

  • Holkar, Somnath Kadappa;Balasubramaniam, Parameswari;Kumar, Atul;Kadirvel, Nithya;Shingote, Prashant Raghunath;Chhabra, Manohar Lal;Kumar, Shubham;Kumar, Praveen;Viswanathan, Rasappa;Jain, Rakesh Kumar;Pathak, Ashwini Dutt
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.536-557
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    • 2020
  • Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) is a distinct member of the Polerovirus genus of the Luteoviridae family. SCYLV is the major limitation to sugarcane production worldwide and presently occurring in most of the sugarcane growing countries. SCYLV having high genetic diversity within the species and presently ten genotypes are known to occur based on the complete genome sequence information. SCYLV is present in almost all the states of India where sugarcane is grown. Virion comprises of 180 coat protein units and are 24-29 nm in diameter. The genome of SCYLV is a monopartite and comprised of single-stranded (ss) positive-sense (+) linear RNA of about 6 kb in size. Virus genome consists of six open reading frames (ORFs) that are expressed by sub-genomic RNAs. The SCYLV is phloem-limited and transmitted by sugarcane aphid Melanaphis sacchari in a circulative and non-propagative manner. The other aphid species namely, Ceratovacuna lanigera, Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominalis, and R. maidis also been reported to transmit the virus. The virus is not transmitted mechanically, therefore, its transmission by M. sacchari has been studied in different countries. SCYLV has a limited natural host range and mainly infect sugarcane (Sachharum hybrid), grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), and Columbus grass (Sorghum almum). Recent insights in the protein-protein interactions of Polerovirus through protein interaction reporter (PIR) technology enable us to understand viral encoded proteins during virus replication, assembly, plant defence mechanism, short and long-distance travel of the virus. This review presents the recent understandings on virus biology, diagnosis, genetic diversity, virus-vector and host-virus interactions and conventional and next generation management approaches.

Poxvirus under the eyes of electron microscope

  • Jaekyung Hyun
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.52
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    • pp.11.1-11.9
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    • 2022
  • Zoonotic poxvirus infections pose significant threat to human health as we have witnessed recent spread of monkeypox. Therefore, insights into molecular mechanism behind poxvirus replication cycle are needed for the development of efficient antiviral strategies. Virion assembly is one of the key steps that determine the fate of replicating poxviruses. However, in-depth understanding of poxvirus assembly is challenging due to the complex nature of multi-step morphogenesis and heterogeneous virion structures. Despite these challenges, decades of research have revealed virion morphologies at various maturation stages, critical protein components and interactions with host cell compartments. Transmission electron microscopy has been employed as an indispensable tool for the examination of virion morphology, and more recently for the structure determination of protein complexes. In this review, we describe some of the major findings in poxvirus morphogenesis and the contributions of continuously advancing electron microscopy techniques.

Silencing of NbNAP1 Encoding a Plastidic SufB-like Protein Affects Chloroplast Development in Nicotiana benthamiana

  • Ahn, Chang Sook;Lee, Jeong Hee;Pai, Hyun-Sook
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.112-118
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    • 2005
  • It was previously shown that AtNAP1 is a plastidic SufB protein involved in Fe-S cluster assembly in Arabidopsis. In this study, we investigated the effects of depleting SufB protein from plant cells using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). VIGS of NbNAP1 encoding a Nicotiana benthamiana homolog of AtNAP1 resulted in a leaf yellowing phenotype. NbNAP1 was expressed ubiquitously in plant tissues with the highest level in roots. A GFP fusion protein of the N-terminal region (M1-V103) of NbNAP1 was targeted to chloroplasts. Depletion of NbNAP1 resulted in reduced numbers of chloroplasts of reduced size. Mitochondria also seemed to be affected. Despite the reduced number and size of the chloroplasts in the NbNAP1 VIGS lines, the expression of many nuclear genes encoding chloroplast-targeted proteins and chlorophyll biosynthesis genes remained unchanged.

Identification of a Cellular Protein Interacting with Murine Retrovirus Gag Polyproteins

  • Choi, Wonja
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.311-315
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    • 1996
  • The retroviral Gag polyprotein directs the assembly of virion particles and plays an important role in some events after entry into a host cell. The Gag polyprotein of a virus mixture is responsible for inducing murine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (MAIDS) when injected into susceptible strains of mice. In order to identify the host cellular proteins which interact with the MAIDS virus Gag proteins and possibly mediate the function of the Gag proteins, mouse T-cell leukemic cDNA expression library was screened using the yeast GAL4 two hybrid system. Of 11 individual positive clones, the clone Y1 was selected for the study of protein-protein interaction. Its DNA sequence revealed that it was an exact match to the murine SH3 domain-containing protein SH3P8. It is expressed as 2.4 kbp transcripts in testis at higher levels and in various tissues tested at lower levels. Glutathione S-transferase-Y1 fusion protein binds tightly to $Pr60^{def-gag}$ as well as $Pr65^{eco-gag}$.

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PAIVS: prediction of avian influenza virus subtype

  • Park, Hyeon-Chun;Shin, Juyoun;Cho, Sung-Min;Kang, Shinseok;Chung, Yeun-Jun;Jung, Seung-Hyun
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.5.1-5.5
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    • 2020
  • Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses have caused severe respiratory disease and death in poultry and human beings. Although most of the avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are of low pathogenicity and cause mild infections in birds, some subtypes including hemagglutinin H5 and H7 subtype cause HPAI. Therefore, sensitive and accurate subtyping of AIV is important to prepare and prevent for the spread of HPAI. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) can analyze the full-length sequence information of entire AIV genome at once, so this technology is becoming a more common in detecting AIVs and predicting subtypes. However, an analysis pipeline of NGS-based AIV sequencing data, including AIV subtyping, has not yet been established. Here, in order to support the pre-processing of NGS data and its interpretation, we developed a user-friendly tool, named prediction of avian influenza virus subtype (PAIVS). PAIVS has multiple functions that support the pre-processing of NGS data, reference-guided AIV subtyping, de novo assembly, variant calling and identifying the closest full-length sequences by BLAST, and provide the graphical summary to the end users.

Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Structural Proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • LEE JONG-SOO;YU JUNG;SHIN HYUN-JIN;KIM YOUNG-SANG;AHN JEONG-KEUN;LEE CHONG-KIL;POO HARYOUNG;KIM CHUL-JOONG
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.767-771
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    • 2005
  • Expression in yeast may prove more amenable to generating large amounts of viral antigens for a vaccine candidate. We, therefore, cloned the gene encoding the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) structural proteins (C-El-E2, c740) fused in-frame with, and immediately 3' to, the chicken-lysozyme signal peptide (C-SIG) gene and under the control of the yeast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene promoter. In yeast, the HCV structural proteins were expressed in two different forms: a processed and a nonprocessed aggregated form. Biophysical characterization by sucrose linear gradient centrifugation revealed that both forms were present in the same fractions with a buoyant density of 1.127-1.176 g/$cm^3$. These findings suggest that the efficient synthesis of HCV structural proteins in yeast may be an important tool to study virus assembly and may lead to the development of an HCV vaccine.

RNA-RNA Interactions between RNA Elements at the 5' end and at the Upstream of sgRNA of RNA Genome are Required for Potato virus X RNA Replication

  • Park, Mi-Ri;Park, Sang-Ho;Cho, Sang-Yun;Hemenway, Cynthia L.;Choi, Hong-Soo;Sohn, Seong-Han;Kim, Kook-Hyung
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.289-295
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    • 2008
  • RNA-RNA interactions and the dynamic RNA conformations are important regulators in virus replication in several RNA virus systems and may also involved in the regulation of many important virus life cycle phases, including translation, replication, assembly, and switches in these important stages. The 5' non-translated region of Potato virus X(PVX) contains multiple cis-acting elements that facilitate various viral processes. It has previously been proposed that RNA-RNA interactions between various RNA elements present in PVX RNA genome are required for PVX RNA accumulation(Hu et al., 2007; Kim and Hemenway, 1999). This model was based on the potential base-pairing between conserved sequence elements at the upstream of subgenomic RNAs(sgRNAs) and at the 5' and 3' end of RNA genome. We now provide more evidence that RNA-RNA base-pairing between elements present at the 5' end and upstream of each sgRNA is required for efficient replication of genomic and subgenomic plus-strand RNA accumulation. Site-directed mutations introduced at the 5' end of plus-strand RNA replication defective mutant(${\Delta}12$) increasing base-pairing possibility with conserved sequence elements located upstream of each sgRNAs restored genomic and subgenomic plus-strand RNA accumulation and caused symptom development in inoculated Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Serial passage of a deletion mutant(${\Delta}8$) caused more severe symptoms and restored wild type sequences and thus retained possible RNA-RNA base-pairing. Altogether, these results indicate that the RNA element located at the 5' end of PVX genome involved in RNA-RNA interactions and play a key role in high-level accumulation of plus-strand RNA in vivo.

Cloning and Characterization of a new tobamovirus infecting Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

  • Srinivasan, L.K.G.;Wong, S.M.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.125.3-126
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    • 2003
  • A near full-length sequence of a new tobamovirus infecting Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. was determined. The genome consists of 58 nucleotides (nt) 5' UTR, followed by a 4.9 kb ORF which methyl transferase helicase domain (128 kDa), readthrough protein RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) 185 kDa and a 52 kDa protein. The 128 kDa protein had a maximum homology of 51.4 % to TMGMV and amino acids (an) were 54.3 % identical to TMV- vulgare strain. The 185 kDa RdRp had a maximum homology of 53.5% to TMV-Ob and KGMMV-Y and a 59.6% homology at the an level to CGMMV-SH. The MP gene encodes 282 aa and its theoretical molecular weight is 30.4 kDa. The nt and an sequence identities of MP ranged from 38.8% to 43.9% and 30.9% to 37.9%, respectively. The CP gene encodes 163 residues and with a theoretical molecular weight of 18.2 kDa The (nt) and aa sequences of the CP were 46.9 % to 51.6% and 45.3% to 57.1% identical to other tobamoviruses, respectively. The predicted virion origin of assembly (OAS) was located in the CP gene. Phylogenetic trees generated based on the nt and as sequences of RdRp, MP and CP genes indicated that this new virus clustered with subgroup II tobamoviruses. Although the CP ORF of this virus shared a high nt and aa sequence identity with Sunn-hemp mosaic virus (SHMV), Western analysis showed that it is serologically unrelated to SHMV. We propose the name Hibiscus virus S (HVS) for this Singapore isolate. This is the first report on a near full-length sequence of a Tobamovirus that infects hibiscus.

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