• Journal of Life Science
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.10-13
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• 2000

To develope the genetic source of oak wild silkworm, Antheraea yamamai, the cDNA library was constructed with poly A+ mRNA isolated from posterial silk gland of fifth instar larvae. Titer of the cDNA library was about 5.1$\times$105 pfu in total. We presumed that the titer covered almost all transcripts existed in Antherea yamamai. From cDNA library of Antheraea yamamai, fibroin heavy chain gene, which is specifically expressed from posterial silk gland of Antheraea yamamai, was screened using oligonuclotide probe specific to alanine rich motif of fibrin heavy chain gene of Antheraea pernyi. As a result, fibroin clones isolated from 5$\times$104 plaques showed the highest homolgy (95%) with that of Antherea pernyi in nucleotide of Anthereaea yamamai and Bombyx mori shows that there is no homologous sequence in the 3+ partial 채야후 region Genomic southern hybridization suggested that one copy is present. Northern hybridization showed that fibroin transcript was approximateely 9 kb in length.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.74-76
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• 2007

천잠 견단백질 가수분해 분말의 생리활성을 검토하여 비의류용 소재개발을 위한 기초 자료로 삼기 위하여 우선 항산화 및 항당뇨 활성을 탐색하였다. 1. 천잠 고치를 가수분해하여 제조한 분말은 항산화제인 비타민 C 대비 75% 내외의 항산화 활성을 나타내었다. 2. 천잠 견단백질 가수분해 분말은 혈당강하 효과도 나타내어 기능성 식품소재 적용 가능 물질로 사료된다.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.163-167
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• 2010

[ $\alpha$ ]Glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) is a glycosidase that hydrolyzes disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides resulting in the release of α-D-glucose. In this study, $\alpha$-glucosidase activity in the hemolymph and midgut of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori and Japanese oak silkmoth Antheraea yamamai was measured using maltose, sucrose, trehalose, and p-nitrophenyl $\alpha$-D-glucopyranoside as substrates. In general, hemolymph $\alpha$-glucosidase activity was higher in B. mori than in A. yamamai. In contrast, midgut $\alpha$-glucosidase activity was higher in A. yamamai than in B. mori for all of the substrates tested. $\alpha$-Glucosidase activity in the midgut of both B. mori and A. yamamai showed similar responses to changes in pH and temperature for all of the substrates tested. Native (7.5%) PAGE of hemolymph and midgut proteins from B. mori and A. yamamai followed by staining with 4-methylumbelliferyl $\alpha$-D-glucoside (MUG) indicated that the $\alpha$-glucosidases of these related lepidopterans are functionally similar but structurally different. In comparison to $\alpha$-glucosidase activity from A. yamamai, $\alpha$-glucosidase activity from B. mori was generally less sensitive to the $\alpha$-glucosidase inhibitors, 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), acarbose, and voglibose when the activity was determined using maltose, sucrose, and trehalose.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.127-131
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• 2015

Oak silkworm, Antheraea yamamai (A. yamamai), has been used for clothing and surgical suture and considered as biomaterial due to RGD tripeptide. This paper reported the degumming conditions of A. yamamai using sodium oleate, high pressure and temperature, and sodium carbonate. Degumming ratio of A. yamamai cocoon using sodium oleate was less than 10%. High pressure and temperature treatment induced 30% weight loss of A. yamamai cocoon. The concentration, treatment temperature and time using sodium carbonate was examined and revealed the following conditions for degumming; 5% owf, 60 min at 100℃. The degummed solution was confirmed using UV and FT-IR spectrometer. Our results can be used to handle A. yamamai silkworm cocoon for further application including material processing.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2022

The present study aimed to determine whether a hemolymph prepared from Antheraea yamamai larvae had the same biological activities using a Bombyx mori hemolymph prior to exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in order to induce an inflammatory response. The effects of the hemolymph were determined using a reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction to assess the expression of pro-inflammatory molecules. The A. yamamai hemolymph exerted anti-inflammatory effects on LPS-activated human monocytic leukemia cells via Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4-mediated suppression, similar to the B. mori hemocyte extract. Treatment with the A. yamamai hemolymph significantly suppressed LPS-induced upregulated inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) mRNA expression at all tested concentrations compared with the control, similar to the B. mori immune-challenged hemolymph. Finally, the A. yamamai hemolymph, like the B. mori immune-challenged hemolymph, suppressed all of these concentrations in a dose-independent manner. These results demonstrate that the hemolymph of A. yamamai exhibited important biologically active substances. Further in-depth functional studies are required to fully understand the mechanisms underlying the biological activities of wild-type silkworm hemolymphs.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2017

Dissolution of Antheraea yamamai silkworm cocoon was carried out in various solvent systems with various dissolving conditions including dissolution salts, salt concentration, dissolving temperature, and time. General chaotropic salt for Bombyx mori silk fibroin does not work for A. yamamai silkworm cocoon. Lithium bromide 9.3 M at $100^{\circ}C$ also does not work to dissolve wild silkworm cocoon. However, 9 M of lithium thiocyanate treatment at $100^{\circ}C$ induced 100% dissolution of wild silkworm cocoon. But it could not be dissolved lower than $60^{\circ}C$. Like lithium thiocyanate, less than $60^{\circ}C$ treatment with molten calcium nitrate 4 hydrate could not dissolve wild silkworm cocoon. As the dissolution temperature increased up to $100^{\circ}C$, the solubility of wild one was reached over 90%. SDS-PAGE showed broad tailing stream pattern that means the molecule of wild silk was depolymerized with dissolution temperature and time. From the above results, the best chaotropic salt for A.yamamai silkworm cocoon is calcium nitrate 4 hydrate.

• 한국잠사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국잠사학회 2003년도 International Symposium of Silkworm/Insect Biotechnology and Annual Meeting of Korea Society of Sericultural Science
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• pp.151-152
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• 2003

To understand the relationship between DDC activity and diapause or other biological events in Antheraea yamamai, we have determined a complete cDNA sequence of DDC homologue from Antheraea yamamai and have examined expression patterns in various tissues by Northern blot analysis. (omitted)

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2022

The wild silkmoth Antheraea yamamai Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) is an important producer of silk that is superior to the silk produced by traditional domesticated silkworm. In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of An. yamamai collected from Jeju Island, which is the southernmost island approximately 100 km offshore southward from the Korean Peninsula. Determining this sequence will be necessary for tracing the biogeographic history of the species and developing molecular markers for identifying the origin of commercial products. Comparison of the sequence divergence among two available and the current mitogenomes revealed a low but substantial number of substitutions, totaling 23 nucleotides in the whole genome. CytB and ND5 showed the highest variability with five and four variations, respectively, suggesting that these regions will be prior regions to target for subsequent biogeographic and diagnosis study. Phylogenetic reconstruction based on all available sequences of Saturniidae showed that An. yamamai is a sister to the congeneric species An. pernyi, corroborating that Antheraea is a highly supported monophyletic group. The tribe Saturniini was clearly non-monophyletic and interrupted by Attacini and Bunaeini.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.72-81
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• 1989

천잠의 알에서 난황 주단백질인 vitellin을 분리·정제하고 가잠 및 상잠의 vitellin과 첨잠 nitellin과의 면역학적 특성을 비교하였으며 천잠의 배자발생에 따른 난내 vitellin의 변동을 조사하였다. 1. 전잠의 체액 vitellogenin은 유충기의 토사말기부터 검출되었다. 2. 점잠의 vitellinm은 가잠 및 상잠의 vitellin과 저기영동상의 이동도는 같았으나 면역학적인 특성에 있어서는 비동질성이었다. 3. 천잠 vitellin은 함량은 전체 가용성 난단백질의 46.0%였으며, 배자발생에 따른 vitellin의 변동은 산난후 8일까지는 같은 수준이었나, 10일 이후부터는 감소되는 경향을 보이다가 5개월된 난과 17개월된 난에서는 상당히 미량만이 검출되었다.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.138-146
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• 1994

야잠사, Antheraea pernyi와 Antheraea yamamai의 구조특성을 살폅기 위하여 x-ray 회절 분석, IR 분광법, 편광현미경 관찰, 아미노산 분석을 행하였으며 섬유밀도, 열적 성질 및 동점탄성 성질을 살펴보았다. 그들의 구조 및 물리적 성질에 대한 결과를 가잠사(Bombyx mori)의 특성과 비교하여 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 작잠견사와 천잠견사의 아미노산 조성에는 큰 차이가 없었으나 천잠견사의 경우 반응성이 높은 극성아미노산이 다소 많은 것으로 나타났으며 가잠견사의 경우 glycine, 야잠사는 alanine 함량이 가장 많으므로 이들의 견사의 결정구조 특성에 관여되었다고 할 수 있다. 2. 섬유밀도 측정결과 천잠사(1.265~1.301g/㎤), 작잠사(1.308~1.311g/㎤), 가잠사(1.355~1.356g/㎤) 순으로 나타났으며 계산된 결정화도 값도 천잠사(51%), 작잠사(52%), 가잠사(64%) 순으로 나타났다. 3. 작잠사와 천잠사의 x-ray 회절곡선은 차이점이 없이 2$\theta$기호 16.7。와 20.5。에서 (002)면과 (201)면의 특징적인 double peak이 관찰되었으며 가잠사의 경우 2$\theta$기호 20.5。 부근에서 강한 회절 peak이 나타나 결정 구조가 서로 다른 것으로 나타났다. 4. IR spectrum 관찰결과 작잠사와 천잠사는 공히 alanine-alanine sequence에 관계되는 흡수 peak이 나타나며 가잠사는 glycine-alanine sequence에 관련된 group의 흡수 peak이 나타났다. IR 결정화도는 밀도측정에 의한 결과와 동일하게 천잠사(53.9%), 작잠사(54.3%), 가잠사(70.4%) 순으로 계산되었다. 5. 복굴절률은 가잠사의 경우 0.0556에 비하여 야잠사는 0.0216으로 낮은 값을 나타내며 광학배향도값도 가잠사가 2배 정도 높은 것으로 나타났다. 편광현미경에 의한 표면특성은 야잠사의 경우 섬유축방향으로 microfibril들이 줄무늬 모양으로 뚜렷하게 관찰되었다. 6. DSC 및 TGA 분석에 의하여 열분해특성을 살펴본 결과 열분해온도는 가잠사, 작잠사, 천잠사 순으로 350。 부근에서 나타났으며 각각의 구조특성에 따라 열분해가 진행되는 단계가 달리 나타나는 것으로 관찰되어 열안정성의 차이를 보여주었다. 7. Dynamic storage modulus와 loss modulus를 측정하여 얻은 유리전이온도는 가잠사 22$0^{\circ}C$, 천잠사, 24$0^{\circ}C$ 및 작잠사 255$^{\circ}C$의 값을 나타냈으며 이것은 비결정영역의 전이형상이 각 견사의 구조특성에 따라 다른 거동을 하고 있음을 의미한다.