• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.114-118
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• 2017

While saliva can be considered as good biological fluid for monitoring biomarkers due to many advantages including its communication with blood and the non-invasive nature during its sampling, its applications to that purpose is still limited. As a part of efforts to expand the applications of saliva to the protein biomarker research, we carried out global absolute quantitation of proteins in human whole saliva (WS) by bottom-up proteomics techniques mainly based on nLC-Q-IMS-TOF employing $MS^E$. From the analyses of a pooled WS sample collected from 22 healthy Korean volunteers, 93 proteins ranging from $5.89{\times}10^1ng/mL$ (immunoglobulin heavy chain) to $1.59{\times}10^4ng/mL$ (${\alpha}-amylase$ 1) were confirmed. For the validation of the present results, human serum albumin in the same sample was quantitated by ELISA and its result was compared with that from the nLC-Q-IMS-TOF study. As a result, there was no significant difference between two results from individual approaches ($1.18{\times}10^4{\pm}0.03{\times}10^4 ng/mL$ from nLC-Q-IMS-TOF experiments vs. $1.23{\times}10^4{\pm}0.07{\times}10^4ng/mL$ from ELISA experiments, n=3, p=0.309). To our knowledge, this is the first global absolute quantitation of proteins in human whole saliva and information from the present study can be widely used as the first level reference for the discovery of new protein biomarkers from human whole saliva as well as for quantitative applications of human whole saliva proteins.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2000

Currently asthma is considered to be an inflammatory disease characterized by airway hyperresponsiveness and pulmonary eosinophilia, and mediated by Th lymphocytes expressing a Th 2 cytokine pattern. In many recent studies, molecular biological methods have been used to investigate the role of cytokines in pathogenesis and new therapeutic targets of asthma. Objectives: We aimed to identify the effect of Haepyoijin-tang on the transcriptional activities of cytokines involved in the asthma model. Materials and Methods: RBL-2H3 cell lines were used. Cells were stimulated with DNP-IgE or Calcium inophore+PMA for maximal gene expression. After 24 hours of Haepyoijin-tang-treatment, total cellular RNAs were collected using the Trizol solution method. Then the transcriptional activities of cytokines(IL-1, 4, 5, 10, 13, $TNF-{\alpha}$) were measured by RT-PCR with electrophoresis. Results: DNP-IgE and Calcium inophore+PMA induced IL-4/IL-5 production separately peaked at 3 hours after the stimulation, but the efficacy was better in the Calcium inophore+PMA group. In the IL-4 study, sample groups of 10%, 1 %, 0.01 % Haepyoijin-tang-treatment showed 83%, 98%, 96% of transcriptional activities compared to the control group. In the IL-5 study, sample groups of 10%, 1%, 0.1 %, 0.01 % Haepyoijin-tang showed 97%, 99%, 99%, 99% of transcriptional activities compared to the control group. In other studies any result was not obtained. Conclusions: This study shows that Haepyoijin-tang has an inhibitory effect on the transcription of IL-4 and IL-5 gene expression in RBL-2H3 cell lines. Advanced studies are required to investigate the mechanisms of inhibition by herbal medicine in the asthma model.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.46-58
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• 2007

마이크로어레이 데이타는 동시에 수 만개 유전자의 발현 값을 포함하고 있기 때문에 질병의 발현 형질 분류에 매우 유용하게 쓰인다. 그러나 동일한 생물학적 주제라 할지라도 여러 독립된 연구 집단에서 생성된 마이크로어레이의 분석결과는 서로 다르게 나타날 수 있다. 이에 대한 주된 이유는 하나의 마이크로어레이 실험에 참여한 샘플의 수가 제한적이기 때문이다. 따라서 개별적으로 수행된 마이크로어레이 데이타를 통합하여 샘플의 수를 늘리는 것은, 보다 정확한 분석을 하는데 있어 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 이에 대한 해결 방안으로 두 단계 접근방법을 제안한다. 제 1 단계에서는 개별적으로 생성된 동일주제의 마이크로어레이 데이타를 통합한 후 인포머티브(Informative) 유전자를 추출하고 제 2 단계에서는 인포머티브 유전자만을 이용하여 클래스 분류(Classification) 과정 후 분류자를 추출한다. 이 분류자를 다른 테스트 샘플 데이타에 적용한 실험결과를 보면 마이크로어레이 데이타를 통합하여 샘플의 수를 증가시킬수록, 비교 방법에 비해 정확도가 최대 24.19% 높은 분류자를 만들어 내는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 분석과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.145-160
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• 1996

한국표준과학연구원 무기분석그룹에서는 1994년과 1995년도에 카나다 퀘백주 독성센터에서 실시한 혈액시료의 국제공동분석프로그램에 참여하였다. 이 프로그램의 목적은 생체시료에 있는 미량의 독성원소에 대해 참여하는 각국 실험실의 재현성과 정확도의 평가이다. 본 실험실에서는 3개 농도수준의 Pb과 Cd이 함유된 혈액시료를 동위원소희석 유도결합플라스마 질량분석법으로 분석하였다. 0.5mL의 혈액시료에 농축 동위원소를 첨가하고 질산 2mL와 함께 마이크로파 가압분해장치에서 분해한 후 약 10mL로 묽힌 후 ICP-MS에 주입하였다. 각국 실험실에서 보고한 Pb과 Cd의 농도를 나타내고 서로 비교하였으며 본 실험실에서 보고한 값은 모두 목표값에 매우 가까운 값을 얻었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.88-92
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• 2010

DNA 구조를 밝히기 위해 의학, 약학 그리고 생명과학분야 등에서 활발한연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그 중 DNA의 염기쌍은 생명체의 정보 전달에 매우 중요한 역할을 하므로 염기쌍의 집중적인 분석이 필요하다. 그래서 DNA의 염기쌍 중 하나인 구아닌과 시토신을 선택하여 분석 실험을 하였다. 구아닌과 시토신의 분석은 Aspen chromatography 전산모사와 HPLC(High Performance Liquid Chromatography) 실험을 통하여 이루어졌다. Aspen Chromatography(ver. 2006 Aspen Tech. U.S.A)로 시료농도, 이동상 유속 그리고 이론단수를 변화시켜 전산모사하였다. HPLC 실험은 $C_{18}$ HPLC column 칼럼과 이동상 water/methanol/acetic acid 혼합액(90/10/0.1)을 이용하여 시료의 주입 농도와 이동상 속도를 변화시켰고 구아닌과 시토신의 크로마토그램의 분리도와 이론단수를 비교하였다. 실험과 전산모사 크로마토그래피 결과가 비교적 일치하였다.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.25-25
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• 2018

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011 caused severe radioactive contamination in the surrounding environment. Since the accident, much attention has been paid to the biological and genetic consequences of organism inhabiting the contaminated area. The effect of radiation exposure on genetic mutation rates is little known, especially for low doses and in situ conditions. Evaluating DNA mutation by low levels of radiation dose is difficult due to the rare mutation event and lack of sequence information before the accident. In this study, correlations with air dose levels and somatic DNA mutation rates were evaluated using Next Generation Sequencer for the clonal plant, Phyllostachys edulis. This bamboo is known to spread an identical clone throughout Japan, and it has the advantage that we can compare genetic mutation rate among identical clone growing different air dose levels. We collected 94 samples of P. edulis from 14 sites with air dose rates from $0.04{\sim}7.80{\mu}Gy/h$. Their clonal identity was confirmed by analysis using 24 microsatellite markers, and then, sequences among samples were compared by MIG sequence. The sequence data were obtained from 2,718 loci. About ~200,000 bp sequence (80 bp X 2,718 loci) were obtained for each sample, and this corresponds to about 0.01% of the genome sequence of P. edulis. In these sequences, 442 loci showed polymorphism patterns including recent origin mutation, old mutation, and sequence errors. The number of mutations per sample ranged from 0 to 13, and did not correlate with air dose levels. This result indicated that DNA mutations have not accumulated in P. edulis living in the air doses levels less than $10{\mu}Gy/h$. Our study also suggests that mutation rates can be assessed by selecting an appropriate experimental approach and analyzing with next generation sequencer.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.1086-1092
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• 2012

본 촉매가스화 실험에서 촉매로서 가치가 있는 천연광물과 순수촉매를 사용하여 저급석탄의 $CO_2$분위기하 활성화 에너지 및 생성된 합성가스의 성분을 분석하였다. 먼저 공업 분석과 원소 분석을 통해 6가지 저급석탄의 회분과 황 함유량을 측정하였다. 그 후 Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)를 통해 저급석탄 열분해반응 특성을 고려하여 실험에 가장 적합한 저급석탄을 선정하였다. 선정된 삼화 저급석탄은 촉매와 섞어 $CO_2$분위기하 TGA실험을 진행하였으며, 결과를 토대로 Kissinger 방법을 이용한 활성화 에너지를 구하였다. 또한 shrinking core model을 이용해 활성화 에너지를 구하여 Kissinger 방법과 비교하였다. 그리고 반응기에서 이산화탄소 분위기하 생성된 합성가스는 Gas Chromatography (GC)를 이용하여 분석하였다. 가스를 분석한 결과 수소의 생성량은 $K_2CO_3$를 촉매로 사용하였을 경우 가장 크게 나타났으며, 앞서 구한 활성화 에너지 결과와 일치하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.111-111
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• 2017

The development and productivity of maize (Zea mays L.) is frequently impacted by water scarcity, and consequently to increased drought tolerance in a priority target in maize breeding programs. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms of resistance to drought stress in maize, RNA-seq of the public database was used for transcriptome profiling of the seedling stage exposed to drought stress of three levels, such as moderate, severe drought stress and re-watering. In silico analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 176 up-regulated and 166 down-regulated DEGs was detected at moderated stress in tolerance type. These DEGs was increasing degradation of amino acid metabolism in biological pathways. Six modules based on a total of 4,771 DEGs responses to drought stress by the analysis of co-expression network between tolerance and susceptible type was constructed and showed to similar module types. These modules were discriminated yellow, greenyellow, turquoise, royalblue, brown4 and plum1 with 318, 2433, 375, 183, 1405 and 56 DEGs, respectively. This study was selected 30 DEGs to predicted drought stress response gene and was evaluated expression levels using drought stress treated sample and re-watering sample by quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR). 23 genes was shown increasing with drought stress and decreasing with re-watering. This study contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of maize seedling stage responses to drought stress and could be useful for developing maize cultivar resistant to drought stress.

• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.30-33
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• 2013

Chalcones are naturally occurring, biologically active molecules generating interest from a wide range of research applications including synthetic methodology development, biological activity investigation and studying fragmentation patterns. In this article, a series of chalcones has been synthesized and their fragmentation behavior was studied using modern ambient ionization technique Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART). DART ion source connected with an ion trap mass spectrometer was used for the fragmentation of various substituted chalcones. The chalcones were introduced to the DART source using a glass capillary without sample preparation step. All the chalcones showed prominent molecular ion peaks $[M]^{{\cdot}+}$ corresponding to the structures. Multistage mass spectral data $MS^n$ ($MS^2$ and $MS^3$) were collected for all the chalcones studied. The chalcones with substitutions at 3, 4 or 5 positions gave product ion peaks with the loss of a phenyl radical ($Ph^{\cdot}$) by radical initiated ${\alpha}$-cleavage, while substitution at 2 position of chalcone in the A-ring gave a product ion peak with the loss of substituted styryl radical (PhCH = $CH^{\cdot}$). In case of the chalcones with the substituent at 4 positions in A and B rings gave both types of fragmentation patterns. In conclusion, chalcones can be easily characterized using modern DART interface in very short time and efficiently without any cumbersome sample pretreatment.

• ALGAE
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.479-483
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• 2006

In preparation of the biological samples for electron microscopy, the chemical fixation by glutaraldehyde, paraformaldehyde, and OsO4 has been generally used for a long time. However, the chemical fixation method has some problems: the infiltration time is a little bit long and the ultrastructure of cell or tissue transforms before complete fixation of sample. So, recently, cryo-fixation is considered more often in biomedical field. In this study, we compared High Pressure Freezing (HPF) method with chemical fixation method using a algal sample (Ptilota filicina J. Agardh), which was difficult to fix using chemical fixation method. In chloroplast, the ultrastructure of thylakoid lamella and phycobilisome can not show clearly by chemical fixation. In this study we could observe the ultrastructure of thylakoid lamella and phycobilisome of chloroplast very clearly using HPF fixation. An improved images of ultrastructures of nucleus, mitochondrion and floridean starch could obtain. These results suggest that HPF method is very useful method in algal specimen for electron microscopy.