• 대한유전성대사질환학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2021

프로피온산혈증은 PCCA 및 PCCB 유전자의 돌연변이로 발생하며 대사산물의 축적으로 신생아기부터 근긴장 저하, 구토, 케톤산증, 고암모니아혈증, 경련 등이 나타나 사망에 이를 수 있고, 비교적 후기에 신경학적 증상과 함께 발현하는 경과를 보이기도 한다. 저자들은 특별한 과거력 없이 지내던 중 확장성 심근병증이 확인된 16세 남아에서 유전자 검사로 프로피온산혈증이 진단된 1례를 보고하는 바이다.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2003

한국산 주걱송편버섯(Pycnoporus cinnabarinus) SCH-3로부터 배지 내로 분비된 laccase를 ultrafiltration과 anion exchange chromatography, adsorption chromatography를 이용하여 분리 정제하고 정제된 호소의 특성을 조사하였다. Laccase는 균주의 일차 대사 과정에서 주로 생산되는 세포외 페놀 산화효소였다. 주걱송편버섯을 기본 배지에서 배양하였을 때 생장은 배양 9일에 최대였고, laccase의 활성은 배양 7일에 최대활성을 나타냈으며 배양액에서 LiP, MnP 그리고 AAO의 활성은 측정되지 않았다. Laccase의 생산에 미치는 유도원의 영향을 조사하기 위하여 배양 중인 주걱 송편버섯에 몇몇 유도원을 첨가한결과, 2,5-xylidine은 대조구에 비하여 laccase의 생산을 25배 증가 시켰다. 정제된 laccase는 SDS 젤 전기영동에서 대략 66 kDa의 분자량을 가지는 단일 폴리펩타이드(single polypeptide)였고, 탄수화물 함량은 9%였다. ABTS [2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)]를 기질로 사용하며 정제된 laccase의 $K_{m}}$과$V_{max}$를 조사한 결과 각각 $44.4{\mu}M\;and\;56.0{\mu}mole$로 측정되었다. Laccase 활성의 최적 pH는 3.0이며, 이 효소는 $60{\circ}C$에서 1시간 동안 처리하였을 때 매우 안정적이었고 $80{\circ}C$에서 10분간 처리하였을 때 효소의 활성이 반감되었다. Laccase의 분광학적 특성을 조사한 결과 구리를 포함하는 단백질로 나타났다. 일반적으로 알려진 laccase의 기질들에 대한 특이성을 조사한 결과 5mM ABTS와 5mM hydroquinone에서 높은 활성을 나타내었으며 tyrosine에서는 laccase의 활성이 나타나지 않았다. 저해제의 영향을 조사한 결과, 일반적으로 구리를 포함하는 단백질의 저해제인 $NaN_{3}$, TGA, DDC를 일정농도로 처리한 실험구에서는 효소의 활성이 완전하게 억제되었으며, p-coumaric acid와 EDTA 처리구에서는 효소의 활성이 억제되지 않았다. 한국산 주걱송편버섯 SCH-3 균주로부터 생산되는 laccase의 N-말단의 아미노산의 서열은 P. coccineus의 laccase와 호주에서 분리 동정된 P.cinnabarinus PB의 laccase와 94%가 같았다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1614-1623
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• 2015

The objectives of the current experiment were to study the response of the growth performance of early finishing gilts to different net energy (NE) concentrations in diets, and to compare the NE values of diets between calculated NE values and measured NE values using French and Dutch CVB (Centraal Veevoederbureau; Central Bureau for Livestock Feeding) NE systems. In a metabolism trail, the NE concentrations in five diets used for the growth trial were determined based on digestible nutrient concentrations, digestible energy, and metabolizable energy using a replicated $5{\times}5$ Latin square design with 10 barrows (initial body weight [BW], $39.2{\pm}2.2kg$). In a growth trial, a total of 60 early finishing gilts (Landrace${\times}$Yorkshire; initial BW, $47.7{\pm}3.5kg$) were allotted to five dietary treatments of 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, and 12.0 MJ NE/kg (calculated, as-is basis) with 12 replicate pens and one pig per pen in a 42-d feeding experiment. The NE and amino acid (AA) concentrations in all diets were calculated based on the values from NRC (2012). Ratios between standardized ileal digestible AA and NE concentrations in all diets were closely maintained. Pigs were allowed ad libitum access to feed and water. Results indicated that calculated NE concentrations in diets (i.e., five dietary treatments) were close to measured NE concentrations using French NE system in diets. The final BW was increased (linear and quadratic, p<0.05) with increasing NE concentrations in diets. Furthermore, average daily gain (ADG) was increased (linear and quadratic, p<0.01) with increasing NE concentrations in diets. There was a quadratic relationship (p<0.01) between average daily feed intake and NE concentrations in diets. Feed efficiency (G:F) was also increased (linear, p<0.01) as NE concentrations in diets were increased. The NE intake per BW gain (kcal NE/kg of BWG) was increased (linear, p<0.01) with increasing NE concentrations in diets that were predicted from both French and Dutch CVB NE systems. Linear regression indicated that predictability of daily NE intake from the BW of pigs was very low for both French ($R^2$, 0.366) and Dutch CVB ($R^2$, 0.374) NE systems. In conclusion, increasing NE concentrations in diets increase BW, ADG, G:F, and NE intake per BW gain of early finishing gilts. The BW of early finishing gilts is not a good sole variable for the prediction of daily NE intake.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.199-209
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• 2018

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are increasingly been recognized as the chemical mediators of mold interactions, shaping their community dynamics, growth, and metabolism. Herein, we selectively examined the time-correlated (0 D-11 D, where D = incubation days) effects of intraspecies VOC-mediated interactions (VMI) on Aspergillus oryzae KCCM 60345 (S1), following co-cultivation with partner strain A. oryzae KACC 44967 (S2), in a specially designed twin plate assembly. The comparative evaluation of $S1_{VMI}$ (S1 subjected to VMI with S2) and its control ($S1_{Con}$) showed a notable disparity in their radial growth ($S1_{VMI}$ < $S1_{Con}$) at 5 D, protease activity ($S1_{VMI}$ > $S1_{Con}$) at 3-5 D, amylase activity ($S1_{VMI}$ < $S1_{Con}$) at 3-5 D, and antioxidant levels ($S1_{VMI}$ > $S1_{Con}$) at 3 D. Furthermore, we observed a distinct clustering pattern for gas chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry datasets from 5 D extracts of $S1_{VMI}$ and $S1_{Con}$ in principle component analysis (PC1: 30.85%; PC2: 10.31%) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) (PLS1: 30.77; PLS2: 10.15%). Overall, 43 significantly discriminant metabolites were determined for engendering the metabolic variance based on the PLS-DA model (VIP > 0.7, p < 0.05). In general, a marked disparity in the relative abundance of amino acids ($S1_{VMI}$ > $S1_{Con}$) at 5 D, organic acids ($S1_{VMI}$ > $S1_{Con}$) at 5 D, and kojic acid ($S1_{VMI}$ < $S1_{Con}$) at 5-7 D were observed. Examining the headspace VOCs shared between S1 and S2 in the twin plate for 5 D incubated samples, we observed the relatively higher abundance of C-8 VOCs (1-octen-3-ol, (5Z)-octa-1,5-dien-3-ol, 3-octanone, 1-octen-3-ol acetate) having known semiochemical functions. The present study potentially illuminates the effects of VMI on commercially important A. oryzae's growth and biochemical phenotypes with subtle details of altered metabolomes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1883-1895
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• 2018

Alcohol dependence is a global public health problem, yet the mechanisms of alcohol dependence are incompletely understood. The traditional view has been that ethanol alters various neurotransmitters and their receptors in the brain and causes the addiction. However, an increasing amount of experimental evidence suggests that gut microbiota also influence brain functions via gut-to-brain interactions, and may therefore induce the development of alcohol use disorders. In this study, a rat model of alcohol dependence and withdrawal was employed, the gut microbiota composition was analyzed by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and the metagenome function was predicted by PICRUSt software. The results suggested that chronic alcohol consumption did not significantly alter the diversity and richness of gut microbiota in the jejunum and colon, but rather markedly changed the microbiota composition structure in the colon. The phyla Bacteroidetes and eight genera including Bacteroidales S24-7, Ruminococcaceae, Parabacteroides, Butyricimonas, et al were drastically increased, however the genus Lactobacillus and gauvreauii in the colon were significantly decreased in the alcohol dependence group compared with the withdrawal and control groups. The microbial functional prediction analysis revealed that the proportions of amino acid metabolism, polyketide sugar unit biosynthesis and peroxisome were significantly increased in the AD group. This study demonstrated that chronic alcohol consumption has a dramatic effect on the microbiota composition structure in the colon but few effects on the jejunum. Inducement of colonic microbiota dysbiosis due to alcohol abuse seems to be a factor of alcohol dependence, which suggests that modulating colonic microbiota composition might be a potentially new target for treating alcohol addiction.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.3101-3109
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• 2015

Background: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is involved in amino acid synthesis and DNA function. Two common polymorphisms are reported, C677T and A1298C, that are implicated in a number of human diseases, including cancer. Objective: The association between MTHFR C677T and A1298C genotype and haplotype frequencies in risk for lung cancer (LC) was investigated in the Jordanian population. Materials and Methods: A total of 98 LC cases were studied for MTHFR C677T and A1298C polymorphisms, compared to 89 controls taken from the general population, employing the PCR-RFLP technique. Results: The frequency of the genotypes of MTHFR C677T among Jordanians was: CC, 59.6%, CT, 33%; and TT, 7.4% among LC cases and 49.4%, 40.2% and 10.3% among controls. No significant association was detected between genetic polymorphism at this site and LC. At MTHFR A12987C, the genotype distribution was AA, 29.5%; AC, 45.3%, and CC 25.3% among LC cases and 36.8%, 50.6% and 12.6% among controls. Carriers of the CC genotype were more likely to have LC (OR=2.5; 95%CI: 1.04-6; p=0.039) as compared to AA carriers. Smokers and males with the CC genotype were 9.9 and 6.7 times more likely to have LC, respectively ($OR_{smokers}=9.9$; 95%CI: 1.2-84.5, p=0.018; $OR_{men}=6.6$; 95%CI: 1.7-26.2, p=0.005). Haplotype analysis of MTHFR polymorphism at the two loci showed differential distribution of the CC haplotype (677C-1298C) between cases and controls. The CC haplotype was associated with an increased risk for lung cancer (OR=1.6; 95% CI: 1.03-2.4, p=0.037). Conclusions: The genetic polymorphism of MTHFR at 1298 and the CC haplotype (risk is apparently lower with the C allele at position 677) may modulate the risk for LC development among the Jordanian population. Risk associated with the 1298C allele is increased in smokers and in males. The results indicate that a critical gene involved in folate metabolism plays a modifying role in lung cancer risk, at least in the Jordanian population.

• 대한유전성대사질환학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.186-190
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• 2014

시트룰린혈증 2형은 SLC25A13 유전자 결함으로 인한 시트린 결핍에 의한 상염색체 열성 유전질환이다. 시트룰린혈증 2형은 임상적으로 '시트린 결핍증에 의한 신생아 간내 담즙정체(NICCD)'와 '성인기 발병형 시트룰린혈증 2형'의 두 가지 형태로 나타난다. NICCD는 영아기 간내 담즙정체, 지방간, 간기능 장애, 저단백혈증과, 혈액 응고장애, 저혈당증, 성장부진 등의 증상이 나타나며 임상증상과 생화학적 검사 결과를 바탕으로 질환을 의심하에 SLC25A13 유전자 검사를 통해 확진할 수 있다. 또한 최근에는 무증상 상태에서 신생아 대사이상 선별검사를 통해 진단되기도 한다. 저자들은 신생아 대사이상 선별검사는 정상이었으나 지속되는 황달로 입원한 3개월 남아에서 SLC25A13 유전자 검사로 확진된 NICCD 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다. 환아는 지속적 황달과 경도의 고암모니아 혈증과 간효소 수치의 상승, 직접 빌리루빈의 상승을 보이고, 혈장 아미노산 분석 결과 시트룰린과 메티오닌, 트레오닌 상승을 보였다. 시트룰린 혈증 2형 의심 하에 시행한 SLC25A13 유전자 염기서열 분석 결과, c.[852_855delTATG](p.Met285Profs*2)과 c. [1180+1G>A] 이형접합 변이가 발견되었다. 신생아 대사이상 선별검사 결과가 정상이었다고 하더라고 간내 담즙정체가 있는 영아는 NICCD를 감별진단 중 하나로 고려하여 암모니아 및 혈장 아미노산 분석을 포함하여 검사를 시행하는 것이 감별진단에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.616-625
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• 2005

It is likely that maltose could provide a good substrate for the bacteria in the intestine, when the pathogenic bacteria invade and colonize in human gut. For better understanding of this organism's maltose metabolism, a mutant that was not able to grow with maltose as a sole carbon source was screened from a library of mutants constructed by a random transposon mutagenesis. By a transposon-tagging method, malPQ genes encoding a maltodextrin phosphorylase and a 4-${\alpha}$-glucanotransferase, were identified and cloned from Vibrio vulnificus. The deduced amino acid sequences of malPQ from V. vulnificus were 48 to $91\%$ similar to those of MalP and MalQ reported from other Enterobacteriaceae. Functions of malPQ genes were assessed by the construction of mutants whose malPQ genes were inactivated by allelic exchanges. When maltose was used as the sole carbon source, neither malP nor malQ mutant was able to grow to a substantial level, revealing that the MalP and MalQ are the only enzymes for metabolic utilization of maltose. The malQ mutant exhibited decreased adherence toward intestinal epithelial cells in vitro, but there was no difference in the $LD_{50}s$ of the wild-type and the malQ mutant in mice. Therefore, it appears that MalQ is less important in the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus than would have been predicted by considering maltose as a most common sugar in the intestine, but not completely dispensable for virulence in mice.

• 고려인삼학회:학술대회논문집
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• 고려인삼학회 2004년도 춘계 총회 및 학술대회
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• pp.17-28
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• 2004

현재 재배되고 있는 고려인삼은 혼계상태로서 개체간의 형질변이가 대단히 심하며, 종자채취를 4년 후에 하기 때문에 신품종육성을 위해서는 매우 오랜 기간이 필요하다. 그러나 식물형질전환기술의 발달로 목적하는 유전자를 식물체에 재도입하여 새로운 품종을 육성할 수 있는 기술이 보급되어 유용유전자만 있다면 단시간에 고기능성 신품종을 육성할 수 있을 것이다. 본 과제에서는 인삼의 유용유전자를 대량으로 발굴하기 위하여 인삼의 조직별, 종간 및 처리간에 의한 cDNA library 총 10종 이상을 제작하고 이들 cDNA library로부터 인삼의 유용유전자원을 확보하기 위하여 EST 20,000개를 5' 한쪽 방향에서 분석하고 이들 분석된 EST clone의 데이터는 data base화 하여 많은 연구자들이 연구정보를 공유한 수 있게 하였다. 그리고 EST clone 중에서 완전한 단백질의 유전정보를 포함하고 있는 clone을100개 선발하여 전장의 염기서열(full length sequence)을 분석하고 data base를 구축하고parental clone을 선발하여 cDNA chip을 제작하였다. 특히 257 clone 주에서 기능성 및 내재해성 유용유전자를 선발하여 전염기서열분석(full length sequencing)을 한 후 인상에 재도입하여 고기능성 및 내재해성 인삼의 분자육종을 비교적 단시간내에 할 수 있는 형질전환 및 재분화 시스템을 개발하고 토양순화 시스템을 확립하고자 하였다.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.157-162
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 인간 부자상선 호르몬의 발현을 유도적으로 조절할 수 있는 retrocvirus vector system을 확립하고자 하였다. 이에 tetracycline계 물질로 발현을 유도적으로 조절할 수 있는 one vector 형태의 Tet-On system을 이용하였으며 WPRE 서열을 도입하여 유도적 조건에서 외래 유전자의 발현을 증가시켰다. 구축한 각각의 표적세포에서 RT-PCR과 ELISA를 이용하여 hPTH유전자의 발현 정도를 비교 측정한 결과, WPRE가 hPTH의 3' 위치에 도입된 $RevTRE-PTH-WPRE-CMVp-rtTA2^sM2$ virus를 이용하여 유전자를 전이시킨 경우에 hPTH의 발현량이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났고, 또한 유도율도 가장 큰 것으로 확인되었다. 이 system을 이용하여 생산한 고감염가의 virus는 인간의 부갑상선 호르몬을 생산하기 위한 동물세포주의 구축이나 형질전환 동물의 생산에 있어서 매우 효율적인 유전자 전이 수단이 될 것으로 사료된다.