• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.2379-2386
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• 2020

This paper presents the results of the first intercomparison exercise performed by the Korea retrospective dosimetry (KREDOS) working group using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The intercomparison employed the alanine dosimeter, which is commonly used as the standard dosimeter in EPR methods. Four laboratories participated in the dose assessment of blind samples, and one laboratory carried out irradiation of blind samples. Two types of alanine dosimeters (Bruker and Magnettech) with different geometries were used. Both dosimeters were blindly irradiated at three dose levels (0.60, 2.70, and 8.00 Gy) and four samples per dose were distributed to the participating laboratories. Assessments of blind doses by the laboratories were performed using their own measurement protocols. One laboratory did not participate in the measurements of Magnettech alanine dosimeter samples. Intercomparison results were analyzed by calculating the relative bias, E_n value, and z-score. The results reported by participating laboratories were overall satisfactory for doses of 2.70 and 8.00 Gy but were considerably overestimated with a relative bias range of 10-95% for 0.60 Gy, which is lower than the minimum detectable dose (MDD) of the alanine dosimeter. After the first intercomparison, participating laboratories are working to improve their alanine-EPR dosimetry systems through continuous meetings and are preparing a second intercomparison exercise for other materials.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 1988

Propylene glycol 용매계에서 0.5M DL-alanine(${\alpha}-amino-propionic acid$) 와 0.5M D-glucose 를 $100^{\circ}C,\;120^{\circ}C$ 및 $140^{\circ}C$에서 각각 20분, 2시간 반응시켜 생성되는 휘발성 화합물을 분석하고 반응온도와 시간이 갈색화반응 및 휘발성 화합물생성에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 갈색화반응 및 휘발성 화합물생성에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 갈색화반응은 반응온도와 시간이 증가함에 따라 급격히 증가 하였다. 휘발성 화합물은 7종의 alkylpyrazine, 4종의 pyrrole, 3종의 furan, 1종의 furanone 그리고 기타성분으로 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one을 포함하여 11종이 확인되었으며 pyrazine, pyrrole 및 furan화합물의 생성량은 반응온도가 높아지고 반응시간이 길어짐에 따라 급격히 증가하였다. 또한 alanine과 glucose의 마이야르 반응에 의해 생성되는 구수한 카라멜냄새 및 설탕 탄냄새(burnt sugar-like)는 주로 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one, 2, 5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone과 같은 함 산소화합물과 pyrazine, pyrrole과 같은 함 질소화합물에 의해 생성되는 것으로 추정되었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.468-473
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• 1999

Nuclear Factor 1 (NF1) proteins are a family of transcriptional factors consisting of four different types: NF1-A, -B, -C, and -X. Some NF1 transcription factors contain a heptasequence motif, SPTSPSY, which is found as a repeat sequence in the carboxy terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II. A similar heptasequence, SPTSPTY, is contained in rat liver NF1-A at a position between residues 469 and 475. In order to investigate the roles of the individual amino acids of the heptasequence of rat liver NF1-A in transcriptional activation, we systematically substituted single and multiple amino acid residues with alanine residue(s) and evaluated the transcriptional activities of the mutated NF1-A. Substitution of a single amino acid reduced transcriptional activity by 10 to 30%, except for the proline residue at position 473, whose substitution with alanine did not affect transcriptional activity. However, changes of all four serine and threonine residues to alanine or of the tyrosine residue along with the serine residue at position 469 to alanine reduced the activity to almost background levels. Our results indicate that multiple serine and threonine residues, rather than a single residue, may be involved in the modulation of the transcriptional activities of the factor. Involvement of the tyrosine residue is also implicated.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.619-622
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• 1993

Rumen bacterial amino acids in sheep on urea diet were monitored to assess a possible change in amino acid synthesis as a long term response to high rumen ammonia environment. A sheep was fed a semipurified diet with soybean meal, followed by a diet with urea as a main nitrogen source. Mixed rumen bacteria were harvested from ruminal fluid taken 3 h after feeding (twice in soybean meal feeding and 6 times in urea feeding) and fractionated as cell wall, proteins and protein-free cell supernatant of monitor amino acids in each fraction. Ruminal ammonia concentration at the sampling ranged from 5.7 to 39.5 mgN/dl. Cell wall and protein fractions of mixed rumen bacteria were stable in their amino acid composition regardless of nitrogen sources of diet and the feeding duration. However, protein-free cell supernatant fraction showed a higher alanine proportion with urea feeding (18.6 and 28.2 molar % of alanine for samples from sheep fed soybean meal and urea, respectively) and its duration (20.6 and 32.9 molar % for samples from sheep on urea diet for 1 and 65 days, respectively). Total free amino acid level of bacteria was depressed in the initial period of urea feeding but restored on 65th day of the feeding. These results suggest that an alanine synthesizing system may develop in rumen bacteria as urea feeding becomes longer.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.355-360
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• 2012

A simple, sensitive and reproducible high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method has been validated for determining concentrations of glutamate, glycine, and alanine in human plasma. Proteins in plasma were precipitated with perchloric acid, followed by derivatization with 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate (AQC). Simultaneous analysis of glutamate, glycine, and alanine is achieved using reversed-phase HPLC conditions and ultraviolet detection. Excellent linearity was observed for these three amino acids over their concentration ranges with correlation coefficients (r)>0.999. The intra- and inter-day precision were below 10%. This method utilizes quality control samples and demonstrates excellent plasma recovery and accuracy. The developed method has been successfully applied to measure plasma glutamate, glycine, and alanine in twenty volunteers.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.20-24
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• 1961

The present experiment was conducted to investigate the rate of oxygen consumption in relation to the several amino acids in the Mang-Kong frog ,Gallula tornieri VOGT. 1. When the liver tissue was suspended in the Ringer's solution (0.85% NaCl), the amount of oxygen consumption per hour was 0.043$\mu$l/mg , whereas when it was suspended in M/15, pH 5.8 phosphate buffer the oxygen consumption reached 0.93$\mu$l/mg. 2. When 0.5ml of 1% alanine and 0.5ml of 0.5% arginine were used as respiratory material the amount of oxygen consumption increased remarkably, while on the other hand glycine showed little influence on the amount of oxygen consumption. 3. When 0.5ml of 0.1% , 0.5% alanine-arginine mixture, 0.5ml of 0.1% , 0.5% alanine-glycine mixture and 0.5ml of 1 % arginine-glycine were added the oxygen consumption in the liver tissue increased somewhat in comparison to the case in which single amino acid was used. 4. Glycine appeared to have influence on the respiration of the liver tissue but the amount of oxygen consumption increased as the concentration of arginine-glycine mixture increased, whereas the rate of oxygen consumption increased remarkably as alaninie-glycine mixture decreased. It was evidenced that in the combination of alanine-arginine the rate of oxygen consumption increased as the concentration of the mixture decreased and vice versa.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 1992

In hypoxic tissue conditions, pyruvate can not enter the Krebs cycle and lactic acid, produced from pyruvate, accumulates to induce lactic acidosis. Pyruvate, However, can also be converted to alanine by glutamate pyruvate transaminase, that could be enhanced by glutamate. Therefore, it would be a fundamental measure to treat the lactic acidosis in tissue hypoxic conditions when one can convert the accumulated lactic acid, through pyruvate, to alanine. To test the above hypothesis, we induced a lactic acidosis in cats and the effect of glutamate on recovery of acid base state and removal of the lactic acid from blood were assessed and the results were compared with those of bicarbonate administration, which is one of the most frequently used conventional measure for correction of the acid base state during lactic acidosis. The results were that glutamate and combined glutamate bicarbonate solutions not only restored the acid base status completely from the lactic acidosis in an hour or two, but also restored the blood level of lactate partially. We concluded that administration of glutamate solution to convert pyruvate into alanine is effective in preventing lactic acid accumulation and treating lactic acidosis.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.74-77
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• 1969

In this study, three kinds of Korean snake wine (50 V% alcohol extracts) were determined by amino acid analyzer and were discussed as follows. 1. Salmosa Ju and Nungsa Ju were composed of 22 free amino acids: cysteic acid, aspartic acid, threonine, serine, glutamic acid, proline, glycine, alanine, cystine, valine, methionine, iso-leucine, allo-iso-leucine, leucine, nor-leucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, ${\beta}-alanine$, lysine, arginine, histidine, trytophan. 2. Doksa Ju were composed of 21 free amino acids which were all same as above except missing histidine. 3. The free amino acid composition were almost identical in Doksa Ju, Salmosa Ju and Nungsa Ju quantitatively. 4. The contents of cysteic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine and lysine were relatively high, on the other hand, methionine, allo-iso-leucine, nor-leucine, and tryptophan were trace amount in every snake wine. 5. Eleven unknowns of ninhydrin positives were identified in the every snake wine. 6. The free amino acids in snake wines were various in kind as compared with in beer, Japanese sake and Korean Tack Ju. Especially cysteic acid, allo-iso-leucine, nor-leucine and ${\beta}-alanine$ in snake wines were missed in every cereal wine.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.173-176
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• 1982

느릅나무근(根) 점액(粘液)은 단백질(蛋白質)을 함유(含有)하며 그 함량(含量)은 황촉규근(黃蜀葵根) 점액(粘液)의 단백질(蛋白質) 함량(含量)보다 크다. 점액(粘液)에서 alanine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, hydroxyproline, isoleucine, leucine, proline, phenylalanine 및 tyrsine 등(等) 아미노산(酸_이 검출(檢出)되고 또 이 점액(粘液)에 무수(無水) ethanol을 가(加)하여 얻은 점질물(粘質物)의 가수분해(加水分解) 생성물(生成物)에서는 alanine, aspargine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, hydroxyproline, isoleucine, leucine, methionine, proline, phenylalanine, serine, tyrosine 그리고 valine등(等) 여러 종류(種類)의 아미노산(酸)이 검출(檢出)되었다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제42권8호
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• pp.732-739
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• 2009

Metabolic syndrome has been strongly associated with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT), a surrogate of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. We investigated the relationship between metabolic syndrome and elevated ALT in the general Korean population. The study sample was comprised of 4,781 Korean adults who had participated in the 2005 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Metabolic syndrome was defined by National Cholesterol Education Program for Adult Treatment Panel III. Elevated ALT was defined as an enzyme activity > 40 IU/L for men, and > 31 IU/L for women. ALT was measured by enzymatic methods. Among participants, 425 (8.9%) subjects displayed elevated ALT. The odds ratios (ORs) for elevated ALT increased in subjects with obesity or one of components of metabolic syndrome such as abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high fasting glucose, high triglyceride, and low HDL cholesterol after adjusting for age and sex. The unadjusted OR for elevated ALT increased according to the number of components of metabolic syndrome (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 0.96-2.32 for 1 component; OR = 3.0, 95% CI: 1.98-4.61 for 2 components; OR = 6.3, 95% CI: 4.29-9.35 for ${\geq}3$ components; p for trend < 0.0001). This trend did not differ after adjustments for putative risk factors including age, sex, BMI, smoking status, and alcohol intake. Metabolic syndrome is implicated as a strong risk factor of elevated ALT in Korean adults.