• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.61-64
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• 2005

General and specific combining ability effects of six bivoltine breeds of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) were evaluated for six quantitative characters through diallel method wherein parents, $F_{1}s$ and reciprocals are involved. The breeds $APS_{11}\;and\;APS_{2}$ were found to be the best general combiners for most of the traits studied. The high estimates of specific combining ability (sca) variance (${\sigma}^{2}s$) compared to general combining ability (gca) variance (${\sigma}^{2}g$) indicated the predominant role of non-additive gene action in the control of all the characters. Positive sca effects for majority of the traits were expressed by the combinations $APS_{13}{\times}APS_6,\;APS_{13}{\times}APS_2,\;APS_{11}{\times}APS_6\;and\;APS_5{\times}APS_2$ out of 15 crosses. Among the 15 reciprocal crosses studied, the combination $APS_8{\times}APS_{13}$ showed positive reciprocal effects for all the six traits. With both the parents $APS_5\;and\;APS_2$ being good general combiners the hybrid $APS_5{\times}APS_2$ showing high sca effects is recommended for commercial use.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2000

Evidence suggested that atypical antipsychotics (APs) such as clozapine show less side effects than those of typical APs such as haloperidol and sulpiride. However, little is known about chronic effects of these drugs on changes in gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) mRNA expression and luteinizing hormone (LH) immunoreactivity. Male rats were divided into water-, haloperidol-, sulpiride-, and clozapine-treated groups, and these drugs were administered orally for 4 weeks. The changes in the expression of GnRH mRNA and the LH immunoreactivity were determined in the hypothalamus and pituitary, respectively, using in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. GnRH mRNAs were clearly expressed in the water-treated control vats. This was significantly reduced by the chronic treatments with the typical APs, especially with haloperidol, but not with atypical APs clozapine. Likewise, LH immunoreactivity was clearly stained in the control group. While its immunoreativity was significantly reduced by the chronic APs treatments, clozapine treatment showed only slight attenuation. The results show that the atypical APs clozapine has less side effects in the gonadal function than the typical APs haloperidol and the sulpiride. These results suggest that clozapine is a safer drug than the typical APs, at least in the reproductive system.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.184-189
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• 2012

Keloid disease is a fibroproliferative dermal tumor with an unknown etiology that occurs after a skin injury in genetically susceptible individuals. Increased familial aggregation, a higher prevalence in certain races, parallelism in identical twins, and alteration in gene expression all favor a remarkable genetic contribution to keloid pathology. It seems that the environment triggers the disease in genetically susceptible individuals. Several genes have been implicated in the etiology of keloid disease, but no single gene mutation has thus far been found to be responsible. Therefore, a combination of methods such as association, gene-gene interaction, epigenetics, linkage, gene expression, and protein analysis should be applied to determine keloid etiology.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.5-14
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• 2008

The deep subseafloor rock in oil reservoirs represents a unique environment in which a high oil contamination and a very low biomass can be observed. Sampling this environment has been a challenge owing to the techniques used for drilling and coring. In this study, the facilities developed by the Brazilian oil company PETROBRAS for accessing deep subsurface oil reservoirs were used to obtain rock samples at 2,822-2,828 m below the ocean floor surface from a virgin field located in the Atlantic Ocean, Rio de Janeiro. To address the bacterial diversity of these rock samples, PCR amplicons were obtained using the DNA from four core sections and universal primers for 16S rRNA and for APS reductase (aps) genes. Clone libraries were generated from these PCR fragments and 87 clones were sequenced. The phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rDNA clone libraries showed a wide distribution of types in the domain bacteria in the four core samples, and the majority of the clones were identified as belonging to Betaproteobacteria. The sulfate-reducing bacteria community could only be amplified by PCR in one sample, and all clones were identified as belonging to Gammaproteobacteria. For the first time, the bacterial community was assessed in such a deep subsurface environment.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.506-514
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• 2020

4-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol (4-HB alcohol)은 두통, 경련 행동, 현기증과 같은 신경계 질환에 유익한 효과를 나타내며 천마의 주요 생리활성 성분 중의 하나이다. 대사공학을 통해 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-HBA)를 생산하는 균주로부터 4-HB alcohol을 생산하는 재조합 Corynebacterium glutamicum을 개발하였다. 먼저 4-HBA를 생산하는 APS809로부터 염색체 내 NCgl2922 유전자에 Methanocaldococcus jannaschii 유래의 aroK 유전자를 삽입한 APS963을 개발하였다. 4-HBA의 카로복실 산을 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (4-HB aldehyde)로의 환원을 촉매하는 Nocardia iowensis 유래의 car 유전자를 염색체에서 발현하는 균주를 개발하기 위해 NCgl1112 유전자 일부 단편에 car 유전자가 삽입된 GAS177를 개발하였다. 더 높은 농도의 4-HB alcohol을 생산하기 위해 4-HB alcohol을 aldehyde로 산화를 촉매하는데 관여하는 creG 유전자를 염색체상에서 제거된 GAS255를 개발하였다. 최종적으로 chorismate를 4-HBA로 전환하는 효소의 유전자 ubiCpr을 pcaHG에 삽입된 GAS355를 개발하였으며, 80 g/l 포도당을 함유한 삼각플라스크에서 발효하여 생산성을 평가한 결과, 2.3 g/l 4-HB alcohol이 생산되었으며 부산물로 0.32 g/l 4-HBA, 0.3 g/l 4-HB aldehyde가 축적되었다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 1996

Bacillus subtilis를 재조합이종 단백질 생산에 응 용하고 그 발현효율의 향상을 위하여, aprE 프로모 터를 모델계로서 이에 작용하는 전이상태 조절유전 자 변이와 포자형성변이의 영향을 살펴보았다. 사용 된 균주는 두 개의 프로테아제가 제거된 DB104이며, 조절인자 변이주는 $degU^h$와 hpr을 각각 활성인자와 억제인자로 선택하였고, 이중변이주는 DB104 ($\DeltaspoIIG(Pm) degU^h his^+$) 및 DB104($\DeltaspoIIG(Pm) \Deltahpr(Em)$) 를 제조하였다. 이에 목적유전 자연 aprE유전자를 재조합하여 변이에 의한 과발현 양상을 확인하였다. degUh 및 hpr 조절변이주는 야 생주와 비교하여 각각 약 7배 빛 약 2배의 발현효율 향상을 보여주었다. 이들 전이상태 조절유전자 변이 는 모두 목적유전자 복제 수의 증가에 따라 발현효 율의 감소를 나타내어 증폭된 목적유전자에 대한 조 절유전자의 희석효과(gene dosage effect)를 확인할 수 있었다. 이중변이주 DB104($\DeltaspoIIG(Pm) degU^h his^+$)::pMK101 및 DB104($\DeltaspoIIG(Pm) \Deltahpr(Em)$)::pMK101에서의 aprE 발현은 각각 약 10배 빛 3배의 발현증가를 가져와 aprE 발현에 대한 포자변이주 및 전이상태 조절유전자의 독립적인 부가효과를 확인하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1977-1980
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• 2015

Objective: The Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHLD), an inherited neoplastic syndrome predisposing to central nervous system hemangioblastoma (CNS), pheochromocytoma (PCC), renal cell carcinoma(RCC), retinal hemangioma (RA) and renal cysts, is caused by mutations or deletions of the VHL tumor-suppressor gene. To assess VHL genotype-phenotype correlations with function of pVHL a gene mutation analysis of members in a Chinese family with non-syndromic PCCs and individuals with apparently sporadic pheochromocytoma (ASP) was performed. Materials and Methods: DNA samples of 20 members from the Chinese family with non-syndromic PCCs and 41 patients with ASP were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing, confirmed by Taqman probe. Results: Three novel mutations (H125P, 623(^TTTGTtG) and R120T) were identified in the Chinese family and in 3 among 41 ASP patients. The mutations were all located in exon 2 of VHL gene encoding ${\beta}$-domain of pVHL. The tumor type in H125P carriers and R120T carriers was VHL type 2C. And 623(^TTTGTtG) carriers presented VHL type 2B or type 2C. Conclusions: VHL gene abnormalities were identified in the Chinese family with non-syndromic PCCs and patients with APS, resulting in dysfunction of pVHL. H125P and R120T could be associated with VHL type 2C, while 623(^TTTGTtG) might be linked with VHL type 2B or type 2C. Not only is the genetic analysis helpful for early diagnosis and treatment of patients with VHLD, it is also benefitial for research intoVHLD pathogenesis.

• BMB Reports
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.101-105
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• 2009

The homozygous T-DNA mutant of the AMY1 gene in Arabidopsis was identified and importantly, shown to cause an early flowering phenotype. We found that the disruption of AMY1 enhanced expression of CO and FT. The expression analyses of genes related to starch metabolism revealed that expression of the AGPase small subunit APS1 in the wild type was higher than in the amy1 mutant. However, there were no significant differences in expression levels of the AGPase large subunit genes ApL1, AMY2, or AMY3 between wild type and the amy1 mutant. Expression profiling showed that AMY1 was highly expressed in leaves, stems, and flowers, and expressed less in leafstalks and roots. Furthermore, the level of AMY1 mRNA was highly elevated with age and in senescing leaves. RT-PCR analyses showed that the expression of AMY1 was induced by heat shock, GA, and ABA, while salt stress had no apparent effect on its expression.

• BMB Reports
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.262-267
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• 2001

A cDNA coding alkaline phosphatase (AP) homologue was isolated from a cDNA library of Schizosaccharomyces pombe by colony hybridization. The nucleotide sequence of the cloned cDNA appeared to lack the N-terminal coding region. The genomic DNA encoding alkaline phosphatase homologue was isolated from S. pombe chromosomal DNA using PCR. The amplified DNA fragment was ligated into plasmid pRS315 to generate the recombinant plasmid pSW20. The DNA insert was subcloned as two smaller fragments for nucleotide sequencing. The sequence contains 2,789 by and encodes a protein of 532 amino acids with a molecular mass of 58,666 daltons. The S. pombe cells containing plasmid pSW20 showed much higher AP activity compared with the yeast cells with vector only This indicates that the cloned AP gene apparently encodes AP The predicted amino acid sequence of the S. pombe AP shares homology with those of other known APs.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.676-686
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• 2013

Background To overcome the potential drawbacks of a short half-life and dose-related adverse effects of using active transforming growth factor-beta 1 for cartilage engineering, a cell-mediated latent growth factor activation strategy was developed incorporating latent transforming growth factor-${\beta}$1 (LTGF) into an electrospun poly(L-lactide) scaffold. Methods The electrospun scaffold was surface modified with NH3 plasma and biofunctionalised with LTGF to produce both random and orientated biofunctionalised electrospun scaffolds. Scaffold surface chemical analysis and growth factor bioavailability assays were performed. In vitro biocompatibility and human nasal chondrocyte gene expression with these biofunctionalised electrospun scaffold templates were assessed. In vivo chondrogenic activity and chondrocyte gene expression were evaluated in athymic rats. Results Chemical analysis demonstrated that LTGF anchored to the scaffolds was available for enzymatic, chemical and cell activation. The biofunctionalised scaffolds were non-toxic. Gene expression suggested chondrocyte re-differentiation after 14 days in culture. By 6 weeks, the implanted biofunctionalised scaffolds had induced highly passaged chondrocytes to re-express Col2A1 and produce type II collagen. Conclusions We have demonstrated a proof of concept for cell-mediated activation of anchored growth factors using a novel biofunctionalised scaffold in cartilage engineering. This presents a platform for development of protein delivery systems and for tissue engineering.