• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.293-298
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• 2007

Robinia pseudoacacia var. umbraculifera, commonly called umbrella black locust were regenerated after co-cultivation of internode segments with Agrobacterium tumefaciens which included yeast cadmium factor 1 (YCF 1) gene. The tolerance to cadmium and lead for plants can be increased by the YCF1 gene expression. Moreover, the recent studies have shown that YCF1 gene transgenic plants increase the accumulation of cadmium and lead into plant vacuoles. The effect of plant growth regulator such as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), ${\alpha}$-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), 6-benzyladenine (BA), and thidiazuron (TDZ) were studied to evaluate the propagation of plants through internode explants. The efficient induction of multiple adventitious shoots and callus were observed on a medium supplemented with 0.1 mg/L TDZ + 0.2 mg/L BA. To induce shoot elongation and rooting, regenerated shoots were transferred into basal MS medium without any plant growth regulator. Successful Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation was obtained by 20 min vacuum-infiltration with $50{\mu}M$ acetosyringone on the optimal multiple shoot induction medium with 30 mg/L hygromycin and 300 mg/L cefotaxime. To confirm the integration and expression of transgene, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Reverse Transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) were performed with specific primers. The frequency of transformation was approximately 18.94%. This study can be used to genetic engineering of phytoremediator.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.633-643
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• 2017

To examine the pro-apoptotic role of the human ortholog (YPEL5) of the Drosophila Yippee protein, the cell viability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant strain with deleted MOH1, the yeast ortholog, was compared with that of the wild-type (WT)-MOH1 strain after exposure to different apoptogenic stimulants, including UV irradiation, methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), camptothecin (CPT), heat shock, and hyperosmotic shock. The $moh1{\Delta}$ mutant exhibited enhanced cell viability compared with the WT-MOH1 strain when treated with lethal UV irradiation, 1.8 mM MMS, $100{\mu}M$ CPT, heat shock at $50^{\circ}C$, or 1.2 M KCl. At the same time, the level of Moh1 protein was commonly up-regulated in the WT-MOH1 strain as was that of Ynk1 protein, which is known as a marker for DNA damage. Although the enhanced UV resistance of the $moh1{\Delta}$ mutant largely disappeared following transformation with the yeast MOH1 gene or one of the human YPEL1-YPEL5 genes, the transformant bearing pYES2-YPEL5 was more sensitive to lethal UV irradiation and its UV sensitivity was similar to that of the WT-MOH1 strain. Under these conditions, the UV irradiation-induced apoptotic events, such as FITC-Annexin V stainability, mitochondrial membrane potential (${\Delta}{\psi}m$) loss, and metacaspase activation, occurred to a much lesser extent in the $moh1{\Delta}$ mutant compared with the WT-MOH1 strain and the mutant strain bearing pYES2-MOH1 or pYES2-YPEL5. These results demonstrate the functional conservation between yeast Moh1 and human YPEL5, and their involvement in mitochondria-dependent apoptosis induced by DNA damage.

• Mycobiology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.256-261
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• 2014

A ${\beta}$-glucosidase producing yeast strain was isolated from Korean traditional rice wine. Based on the sequence of the YCL008c gene and analysis of the fatty acid composition, the isolate was identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain HJ-014. S. cerevisiae HJ-014 produced ginsenoside Rd, $F_2$, and compound K from the ethanol extract of red ginseng. The production was increased by shaking culture, where the bioconversion efficiency was increased 2-fold compared to standing culture. The production of ginsenoside $F_2$ and compound K was time-dependent and thought to proceed by the transformation pathway of: red ginseng extract ${\rightarrow}Rd{\rightarrow}F_2{\rightarrow}$ compound K. The optimum incubation time and concentration of red ginseng extract for the production of compound K was 96 hr and 4.5% (w/v), respectively.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2005

Transformation-associated recombination (TAR) 클로닝 법은 복잡한 게놈으로부터 염색체 내의 특정부위나 유전자를 선택적으로 분리할 수 있다. 이 방법은 목적 유전자에 근접한 작은 게놈DNA 염기서열 정보를 필요로 한다. 이 기술은 효모의 spheroplast transformation을 시키는 동안 목적으로 하는 유전자의 5' 또는 3' 서열을 포함하고 있는 TAR vector와 게놈DNA사이에서 일어나는 상동성재조합에 의해 이루어진다. 본 연구에서는 plasmid 모델시스템을 이용하여 target hooks 내에 존재하는 비상동성 염기서 열이 상동성재조합에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. plasmid에 존재하는HIS3유전자와 변형시킨 his3-TRP1-his3 단편 사이의 상동성재조합의 효율은 $Ura^+$ 형질전환체의 형질분석에 의해 이루어졌다. $Ura^+$ 형질전환체의 수는 7종류의 서로 달리 변형된 his3-TRP1-his3 단편들을 사용하였을 매 거의 동일하게 나타났다. 그러나 $Trp^+His^+$ positive recombinants의 빈도는 변형된 his3-TRP1-his3 단편 내에 비상동성 영역에 부정확한 간격을 지닐 때 현저한 감소를 나타내었다. 이러한 결과로서, 부정확한 간격이 target hook과 substrate DNA 사이에 일어나는 상동성재조합을 방해하는 것으로 사료된다. 그러므로 이종간의 상동유전자를 클로닝 할 때에는 target hook내의 비상동성 염기서열이 존재한다면 이것이 정확한 간격을 지니는지 여부를 중요란 요인으로 고려해야 한다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2002

The cloning and expression of $\beta-glucosidase$ II, encoded by the gene ${\beta}glu2$, from thermotolerant yeast Pichia etchellsii into Escherichia coli is described. Cloning of the 7.3 kb BamHI/SalI yeast insert containing ${\beta}glu2$ in pUC18, which allowed for reverse orientation of the insert, resulted in better enzyme expression. Transformation of this plasmid into E. coli JM109 resulted in accumulation of the enzyme in periplasmic space. At $50^{\circ}C$, the highest hydrolytic activity of 1686 IU/g protein was obtained on sophorose. Batch and fed-batch techniques were employed for enzyme production in a 14 L bioreactor. Exponential feeding rates were determined from mass balance equations and these were employed to control specific growth rate and in turn maximize cell growth and enzyme production. Media optimization coupled with this strategy resulted in increased enzyme units of 1.2 kU/L at a stabilized growth rate of $0.14\;h^{-l}$. Increased enzyme production in bioreactor was accompanied by formation of inclusion bodies.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.536-543
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• 1995

Multicopy integration vector is a very useful vector system in that they can be integrated into chromosomal DNA in several copies and stably maintained under non-selective conditions. To develop a multicopy integration vector system in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, P-type ribosomal DNA was cloned from Y lipolytica. A HindIII-BglII fragment of the cloned rDNA and a promoterless URA3 gene were inserted into pGEM1, generating multicopy integration vectors, pMIYL-1 and pMIYL-2. The rDNA fragment is for targeted homologous recombination between the vector and the chromosomal DNA of Y. lipolytica, and the promoterless URA3 gene is a defective selection marker for inducing multicopy integration. pMIYL-1 and pMIYL-2 have an unique restriction enzyme site, KpnI, and two unique restriction enzyme sites, KpnI and EcoRI, repectively, which can be used for targeting of the vectors into the rDNA of Y. lipolytica chromosomal DNA. After transformation of the vectors into Y. lipolytica, copy number and stability were analyzed by Southern hybridization. The vectors were found to be present in less than 5 copies per cell and were stably maintained during growth in non-selective media.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.181-187
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• 1990

전분 분해능력을 갖는 알콜생산용 효모를 만들기 위해 Saccharomyces cerevisiae에 glucoamylase 유전자인 STA를 도입하였다. 도입된 형질의 발현증대를 위해 STA 유전자의 promoter 부위를 alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzyme I 유전자의 promoter 부위와 치환 시켜준 재조합 플라스미드를 재조하였으며 안정성을 증진시키기 위해 centrometer 부위를 치환시킨 결과 glucoamylase의 발현이 증가하였으며, STA 유전자와 centromere를 갖고 있는 재조합 플라스미드는 여러세대가 거듭되어도 비교적 안정하게 유지되었으나 낮은 copy 수로 인해 형질전환체의 효소 역가와 형질전환 빈도는 낮아졌다. STA 유전자가 도입되어 형질전환된 다배체 산업용 효모는 액화 과정만을 거친 주정생산 배지(액화액)에서 원래의 알콜 생산용 효모에 비해 훨씬 많은 양의 알콜을 생산해 내었다. 그러나 centromere를 보유하는 플라스미드에의한 산업용 효모의 형질전환에는 실패하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2000

A strain producing high levels of compaction was isolated from soil and identified as Penicillium sp. Y-8515 based on the morphological characteristics and ribosomal RNA sequence analysis. Optimization of several different carbon and nitrogen sources for the effective production of compaction was performed resulting in the medium compositions containing 5%(w/v) glucose, 1.0 % soybean meal, 0.5% yeast extract, 0.5%(NH$_4$)$_2$$SO_4$, 0.25%,$ NaH_2$$PO_4$, 0.25% $CaCO_3$. The fixed con-centration of glucose(5%, w/v) and relatively lower concentrations(less than 2.5%, w/v) of soybean meal stimu-lated the transformation of the growth morphology from filamentous to pellet form. Comparing to that by filamentous form, the production of compactin by pellet form increased up to 1.5 folds. In a fed-batch fermentation, continuous feeding of the mixture of glucose and nitrogen source at the ratio of 10:1 showed 3.5-fold more produc-tion yield of compaction comparing to the batch mode.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제23권2호통권73호
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• pp.129-138
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• 1995

비허용온도인 $37^{\circ}C$에서 삼투감수성을 보이며 베타-1,3-글루칸 합성능이 현저히 손상된 Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant(LP353)를 YCp50으로 제조한 yeast genomic library로 형질전환시킨 후, 콜로니 자기방사법으로 형질전환체의 선별을 시도한 결과, LP353의 베타-1,3-글루칸 합성능을 부분적으로 회복시켜 주는 약 8.5-kb 크기의 DNA 절편을 클로닝하는데 성공하였다. 클로닝된 8.5-kb의 DNA 절편은 copy 수에 무관하게 LP353의 또 다른 표현형질인 온도의존적 삼투감수성은 회복시켜 주지 못하였으나, 세포벽의 베타-1,3-글루칸 함량과 베타-1,3-글루칸 분해효소인 ${\beta}-glucanase$에 대한 내성은 copy수에 무관하게 증가시켜 주었다. 한편, 8.5-kb의 DNA 절편은 $37^{\circ}C$의 삼투안정제가 첨가된 액체배지에서 잘 자라지 못하는 LP353의 돌연변이 형질을 회복시켜 야생형의 수준에 근접하는 생장양상을 보여 주었다. 이상의 결과로 클로닝된 8.5-kb 크기의 DNA 절편은 S. cerevisiae의 베타-1,3-글루칸 생합성에 관여하는 유전자의 하나인 BGS2를 포함하고 있는 것으로 보여지며, subcloning을 통한 기능부위 분석 결과, 4.8-kb 크기의 BglII-KpnI DNA 절편에 BGS2가 존재하는 것으로 추정되었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2008

$\beta$-Amylase를 생산하여 전분 분해능을 갖는 산업용 효모를 개발하기 위해 산업용 Saccharomyces cerevisiae에서 Achlya bisexualis $\beta$-amylase (BAMY)유전자를 ADC1 promoter에 연결하여 구성적으로 발현시켰다. 효모의 형질전환은 $\delta$-서열을 재조합 부위로 하는integration 시스템을 이용하였다. Integration 시스템의 세균 유전자 부분은 제거되고 BAMY 유전자와 $\delta$-서열을 갖고 있는 짧은integrative cassette를 제조하였다. BAMY 유전자를 발현하는 재조합 S. cerevisiae 형질전환체는 세포외 배지로 45 kDa의 $\beta$-amylase를 분비하였고, $\beta$-amylase 활성은 A. bisexualis에 비해 약 18.5배 높았다. 형질전환체에 다중도입된 BAMY 유전자는 비선택배지에서 100세대 생장 후에도 안정되게 유지되었다. 각종전분을 기질로 했을 매 $\beta$-amylase의 활성은soluble starch를 기질로 했을 경우와 유사하게 높았고, 가수분해산물 분석 결과 maltose가 주 분해산물이었다.