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Development of thermo-sensor used liquid crystal-polymer composite films (온도센서로서 액정잉크의 개발)

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    • Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.25-38
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    • 1998
  • The developing agent is the materials which first acts on silver grain and make it into metallic silver by reducing reaction. There are several types in developing agent, and according to Lumiere-Andresen principle, substitution product which has amino or hydroxyl group in benzen nucleus has a developing power, but all reduing substances are not in used. In the developing effect, not only the role of developing agent but also that of assistant materials are important. But in this work, we have studied effect, change by lith developing agent which require high contrast image. We made an developing experiment after having manufactured developing solution used hydroquinone and another developing agents like chlorohydroquinone, pyrocatechol and pyrogallol as developing agent. And we added that did in addition of diethanolamine and ascorbic acid, and then we examined the possibility of use.

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Cyclic Oligopyrroles as Sensors for Absolute Configuration Determination of Carboxylic Acids

  • Lintuluoto Juha M.;Nakayama Kana;Setsune Jun-Ichiro
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.241-241
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    • 2006
  • Absolute configuration of carboxylic acids, including amino acids can be determined by circular dichroism (CD) exciton chirality method. This method employs cyclic oligopyrroles able to form stable complexes with carboxylic acids. Addition of carboxylic acids to the oligopyrroles induce CD spectrum at the macrocycle absorption region and in which the sign of the $1^{st}$ Cotton effect is determined solely by the absolute configuration of the carboxylic acid. The basicity of the pyrrole nitrogen can be controlled by macrocycle substitution thus yielding more sensitive chirality sensors.

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Substitution of Gly-224 Residue to Ile in Yeast Alcohol Dehydro-genase and Enzyme Reaction Mechamism

  • Lee, Kang-Man;Ryu, Ji-Won
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.231-236
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    • 1993
  • Gly-224 residue of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase was mutated by site-directed mufagenesis to isoleucine, which is the corresponding amino acid residue of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase. The mutated gene on M13 vector was subcloned in YEp13 and used to transform Saccharomyces cerevisiae 302-21 #2 strain, and the expressed protein was purified. The tumover numbers of mutant enzyme for ethanol and acetaldehyde were decreased copared to wild-type enzyme. The results of product inhibition studies indicated that the reaction mechanism was changed to Iso Theorell-Chance from Ordered Bi Bi. We supposed that Gly-224 was related to the enzyme reaction mechanism.

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Substitution of Asp-223 Residue to Leu in Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Coenzyme Specificity (효모 알코올 탈수소효소 아스파르트산-223 잔기의 루신으로 치환과 보조효소의 특이성)

  • Lee, Kang-Man;Ryu, Ji-Won
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.469-473
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    • 1992
  • Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (YADH) has an acidic residue that interacts with the 2'- and 3'-hydroxyl groups of the adenosine ribose of the $NAD^+$ coenzyme. The acidic residue of Asp-223 (according to horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase amino acid sequence) is supposed to determine the coenzyme specificity for $NAD^+$ rather than $NADP^+$. We mutated Asp-223 to leucine and the mutant YADH was expressed in yeast and characterized for the coenzyme specificity. The turnover numbers of mutant enzyme for $NAD^+$ and ethanol were decreased 3.5- and 4.8-fold compared to wild-type enzyme, respectively. Contrastively, catalytic specificity for $NADP^+$ was increased 13-fold. As a result, the mutant YADH also employed $NADP^+$ as a coenzyme.

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Generation of a cold-adapted PRRSV with a nucleotide substitution in the ORF5 and numerous mutations in the hypervariable region of NSP2

  • Do, Van Tan;Dao, Hoai Thu;Hahn, Tae-Wook
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.85.1-85.6
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    • 2020
  • A cold-adapted porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (CA-VR2332) was generated from the modified live virus strain VR2332. CA-VR2332 showed impaired growth when cultured at 37℃ with numerous mutations (S731F, E819D, G975E, and D1014N) in the hypervariable region of the NSP2, in which the mutation S731F might play a vital role in viral replication at 30℃. Conserved amino acid sequences of the GP5 protein suggests that CA-VR2332 is a promising candidate for producing an effective vaccine against PRRSV infection. Further studies on replication and immunogenicity in vivo are required to evaluate the properties of CA-VR2332.

Thermotropic and Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Behavior of N,O-Hydroxypropyl Chitosans (N,O-히드록시프로필 키토산들의 열방성과 유방성 액정 거동)

  • Kim, Hyo-Gap;Jung, Seung-Yong;Ma, Yung-Dae
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.380-392
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    • 2012
  • Four kinds of N,O-hydroxypropyl chitosans (HPCTOs) with degree of substitution(DS) and molar substitution (MS) ranging from 2.47 to 2.52 and 4.9 to 7.8, respectively were synthesized, and their molecular chracteristics and thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline properties were investigated. MS was exceedingly larger than DS, showing that in the later stages of reaction, propylene oxide was preferentially added to the side chains rather than the main chain. All the derivatives formed thermotropic cholesteric phases. The glass and clearing temperatures were decreased with increasing MS. The optical pitches (${\lambda}_m$'s) of the thermotropic cholesteric phases increased with temperature. However, the ${\lambda}_m$'s of the derivatives at the same temperature increased with increasing MS. Solutions of HPCTOs in water, methanol, ethanol, acetic acid, and formic acid containing more than 30 wt% polymer also formed cholesteic phases whose ${\lambda}_m$'s decreased exponentially with increasing polymer concentration. The concentration dependence of ${\lambda}_m$ of HPCTO solutions, however, highly depended on the nature of the solvent and MS. The thermotropic and lyotropic mesophase properties of HPCTOs were significantly different from those reported for hydroxypropyl celluloses. The results indicate that the secondary amino group in the C-2 position plays an important role on the formation, stabilization, and temperature and concentration dependencies of ${\lambda}_m$ of the cholesteric mesophase.

The Effects of Cellulose, Pectin and Starch on Standardized Ileal and Apparent Total Tract Amino Acid Digestibilities and Bacterial Contribution of Amino Acids in Feces of Growing Pigs

  • Ma, Q.G.;Metzler, B.U.;Eklund, M.;Ji, C.;Mosenthin, R.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.873-882
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    • 2008
  • Eight ileally cannulated pigs (BW $35.9{\pm}0.9kg$) were randomly allotted according to a $4{\times}3$ Latin square design to determine the effects of cellulose, pectin and starch on standardized ileal digestibility (SID) and apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA) as well as on the bacterial AA contribution in feces. The pigs were fed the control diet (20.2% CP, % dry matter (DM)) or one of the three experimental diets in which 25% of the control diet was substituted by cellulose, starch or pectin. Due to this substitution, dietary CP levels were lower in the cellulose (15.5% CP, % DM), pectin (15.4% CP, % DM) and starch diet (15.2% CP, % DM). Following a 15-d adaptation period, feces were collected for 5 d and ileal digesta for a total of 24 h. Starch increased SID of CP, while cellulose and pectin had no significant effect on the digestibility of CP. Overall, starch supplementation resulted in higher (p<0.05) SID values of histidine, isoleucine, threonine, alanine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glycine and serine compared with cellulose, while pectin decreased (p<0.05) SID of valine and proline compared with the starch and control diet. Both cellulose and pectin reduced (p<0.05) the ATTD of CP and AA, while starch decreased (p<0.05) ATTD of phenylalanine, alanine, proline and serine compared with the control. With regard to bacterial AA composition of the fecal mixed bacterial mass (MBM), cellulose supplementation increased (p<0.05) its content of N and almost all AA, except for valine, while pectin caused higher contents of arginine, histidine and proline compared with the control (p<0.05). The bacterial contribution of arginine in feces was higher (p<0.05) in the cellulose treatment, while pectin reduced (p<0.05) the bacterial contribution of leucine, alanine, glutamic acid and proline in feces compared with the control. In conclusion, the effects of cellulose, starch and pectin on SID were rather small. Bacterial activity in the large intestine can only explain the reduced ATTD values for arginine in the cellulose treatment, but not for the other AA in the cellulose and pectin treatments, suggesting higher endogenous losses of these AA in the large intestine.

The mechanism of quinolone resistance in staphylococcus aureus

  • Lee, Youn Yeong;Kong, Jaeyang;Youngha Rhee;Kim Eun Hee
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.360-365
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    • 1992
  • Clinical isolates of 8 ofloxacin resistant Staphylococcus auresu (ORSA) were subjected to MIC test, Southern analysis on gyrA locus and nucleotide sequence analysis of 290 bp of gyrA gene (gyrA-290) spanning amino acid 26 to 121 in order to understand the mechanism of quinolone resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. ORSAs showed highlevel resistance against quinolones (8-250 fold increase of MICs) and also significant resistance agianst ${\beta}-lactams$ (2-32 fold increase of MICs). However, ORSs did not show any change in sensitivity agianst vancomycin. Southern analysis of ORSAs with HindIII, PstI and AluI revealed RFLPs on gyrA locus. In order to further analyze the gyrA gene, gyrA-290 was amplified by PCR and cloned to pTZ vector. Subsequent nucleic acid sequence analysis of gyrA-290 demonstrated a point mutation of C to T resulting amino acid change of Ser-84 to Leu-84 in all 8 ORSA strains. The substitution at 84th amino acid of tyrase A might confer one mechanism of high level quinolone resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

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Biochemical Properties of Second Site Mutation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Integrase

  • Kim, Do-Jin;Oh, You-Take;Lee, Sang-Kwang;Shin, Cha-Gyun
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.599-604
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    • 1999
  • A highly conserved amino acid, glutamic acid (Glu), present at position 152 in the catalytic domain of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) integrase (IN) protein has been known to be critical for enzymatic function since substitution of Glu 152 with other residues results in a complete loss of enzymatic activities. In order to better understand the role of Glu 152 as a conserved residue in enzymatic action, intragenic second site mutations have been introduced around residue 152 of a mutant IN (E152A), and their biochemical properties were analyzed in terms of enzymatic activities. Disintegration activities were found to be significantly restored in several second site mutant INs, while integration activities were only recovered weakly. However, endonucleolytic activities were not discovered in all the mutant INs. These findings indicate that the second site mutations can partially restore that catalytic structure of the active site disturbed by the E152A mutation and lead to the regaining of integration and disintegration activities. In addition, it is also suggested that endonucleolytic activity requires a more accurate structure of the catalytic site than that for the integration and disintegration activities.

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The Glucoamylase Signal Sequence Directs the Efficient Secretion of Human $\alpha$1-Antitrypsin in Yeast Cells (효모에서 Glucoamylase 신호서열에 의한 인체 $\alpha$1-Antitrypsin의 분비 효율 향상)

  • Song, Moo-Young;Kwon, Ki-Sun;Kang, Dae-Ook;Yu, Myeong-Hee;Park, Hee-Moon;Kim, Jinmi
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.203-207
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    • 1993
  • Five different secretion vectors were constructed by varying the signal sequences and .alpha.-antitrypsin (.alpha.1-AT) a numan secretory protein, was produced from yeast cells. The signal sequences used are those of acid phosphatase (PH05) and .alpha.-factor (M f.alphal1) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, glucoamylase (STA1) of Saccharomyces diastaticus, and human .alpha.1-AT. Four vectors directed the efficient secretion of .alpha.1-AT ito the culture media. The secretion vector carrying the glucoamylase signal sequence (pGAT11) showed the highest efficiency of secretion. About 70% of .alpha.1-AT produce dwere secreted into the media. The endo H treatment of partially purified .alpha.1-AT indicates that the secreted .alpha.1-AT appeared to be glycosylated. This glycosylation pattern was altered when amino acid substitution mutations were introduced at the three glycosylation sites of .alpha.-AT.

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