• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.414-422
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• 2016

Eucalyptus dieback disease, caused by Cylindrocladium scoparium, has occurred in last few years in large Eucalyptus planting areas in China and other countries. Rapid, simple, and reliable diagnostic techniques are desired for the early detection of Eucalyptus dieback of C. scoparium prior to formulation of efficient control plan. For this purpose, three PCR-based methods of nested PCR, multiplex PCR, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) were developed for detection of C. scoparium based on factor 1-alpha (tef1) and beta-tubulin gene in this study. All of the three methods showed highly specific to C. scoparium. The sensitivities of the nested PCR and LAMP were much higher than the multiplex PCR. The sensitivity of multiplex PCR was also higher than regular PCR. C. scoparium could be detected within 60 min from infected Eucalyptus plants by LAMP, while at least 2 h was needed by the rest two methods. Using different Eucalyptus tissues as samples for C. scoparium detection, all of the three PCR-based methods showed much better detection results than regular PCR. Base on the results from this study, we concluded that any of the three PCR-based methods could be used as diagnostic technology for the development of efficient strategies of Eucalyptus dieback disease control. Particularly, LAMP was the most practical method in field application because of its one-step and rapid reaction, simple operation, single-tube utilization, and simple visualization of amplification products.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2015

Genome walking is a par ticular application for identifying sequences of unknown genomic regions adjacent to a known region. Many genome walking methods based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are available. Even if earlier techniques suffer from low reproducibility, inefficiency, and non-specificity, improved strategies have been developed. In this study, we present an alternative strategy: the genomic DNA is digested with restriction enzymes. After cytosine overhangs at 5' ends, the fragments are ligated to linker adaptor s had guanine overhang at 3' ends. Then nested PCR is performed. The improvements in this strategy focus on two points. The first is the C tailing method using Pfu polymerase instead of the A tailing method based on nontemplate-dependent terminal transferase activity of Taq polymerase. Therefore unintended modification of target DNA can be prevented without A tailing error. The second point is the use of C/G-specific ligation had advantage in the ligation efficiency compared with A/T-specific ligation. Therefore, the C-G linker PCR method increases ligation efficiency between digested genomic DNA and adaptor DNA. As a result, the quantity of target DNA to amplify by PCR is enriched. We successfully used G-C linker PCR to retrieve flanking regions bordering the phophinothricin resistance gene in genetically modified tobacco (GMO).

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.105-108
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• 2000

Oligonucleotide primers amplifying a 344 bp fragment on the integrin-like protein alpha-INT1p gene (${\alpha}$INT1) of Candida albicans were synthesized for screenign of C. albicans from clinicalsamples by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The PCR specifically amplified DNA from C. albicans and none from any other Candida, fungal, or human DNA in standard used here. The PCR assay showed that the primers (LH1 and LH2) were specific for 26 isolates of C. albicans from clinical smaples, whereas the positive fragment, 344 bp, was not amplified from 15 clinical isolates including 14 other medically important Candida species and an isolate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PCR was conducted on the urine samples of 20 patients and 4 samples were C. albicans positive. The detection limit of the PCR assay for C. albicans was shown to be approximately 10 cells/ml saline. The PCR system using 344 bp ${\alpha}$INT1 as a target is more specific and rapid than the conventional culture method, and the sensitive detection method is applicable to clinical diagnosis of C. albicans infections.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.1134-1139
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• 2002

Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter는 분류학적으로 동일한 rRNA superfamily Ⅵ로 식중독 이외에도 위궤양, 위암, 유산 및 신경 장애를 유발한다. Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter를 오염된 식품 등에서 선택적으로 검출하기 위해 PCR, multiplex-PCR, RFLP(restriction fragment length polymorphism)의 기법을 이용하였다. Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter의 16S rRNA를 target으로 하는 CHA primer를 사용하여 동일한 PCR product의 검출할 수 있었다. C. jejuni와 C.coli를 A. butzleri와 H. pylori로부터 선택적으로 검출하기 위해 fla A gene을 target으로 하는 pg3, p50을 사용하였으며, A. butzleri는 23S rRNA를 target으로 하는 Arco2, Butz를 이용했다. 또한 H. pyloyi는 isocitrate dehydrogenase gene을 target으로 하는 icd1, icd2를 사용하였고, C. jejuni는 ceuE gene을 target으로 하는 JEJ1, JEJ2를 이용하여 효과적으로 분리검출이 이루어졌다. 또한 제한효소 Dde I 을 사용하여 PCR-RFLP를 통해 C. jejuni, C. coli를 A. butzleri, H. pylori로부터 분리할 수가 있었다. 따라서 이러한 primer를 이용하여 C. jejuni, C. coli, A. butzleri, H. pylori가 함께 오염되었을 때 각각 균주의 선택적인 검출이 가능할 것이다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.83-86
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• 2003

A reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) protocol was developed using two specific 22-mer primers located in coat protein gene of SPFMV. A 411 bp PCR-product was detected in virus infected plants as well as tissue culture raised sweet potato but not in healthy plants. For optimization of RT-PCR protocol, the optimum crude nucleic acid concentration, annealing temperature, primer concentration and numbers of PCR-cycle for maximum sensitivity and specificity were determined. The optimum condition for RT-PCR was as follows: RT-PCR reaction mixture was one-step mixture, containing 50 pmol of primer, 30 units of reverse transcriptase, 5 units of RNasin, and the crude nucleic acid extracts (200 ng). In RT-PCR, cDNA was synthesized at $42^{\circ}C$ for 45 min before a quick incubation on ice after pre-denaturation at $95^{\circ}C$ for 5 min. The PCR reaction was carried out for 40 cycles at $96^{\circ}C$ for 30 see, $63^{\circ}C$ for 30 sec, $72^{\circ}C$ for 1 min, and finally at $72^{\circ}C$ for 10 min. The viral origin of the amplified product was confirmed by sequencing, with the sequence obtained having $95-98\%$ homology with published sequence data for SPFMV. The benefits of this RT-PCR based detection of SPFMV would be simple, rapid and specific.

• 식물병연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.193-201
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• 2017

국내의 토마토에서 발생하는 주요 바이러스는 Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Pepper mottle virus (PepMoV), Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV)이다. 이들 바이러스를 진단하기 위해 프라이머 세트와 반응액을 포함하는 역전사중합반응(RT-PCR)법의 조건을 조사하였다. 공시한 바이러스에 특이적인 염기서열로부터 모두 46개 프라이머 세트를 설계하고, 이를 이용해 주형을 넣지 않은 RT-PCR에서 비특이 반응을 조사하였다. 이들 가운데 16개 조합을 건전한 토마토 RNA에 적용한 결과 프라이머 세트와 RT-PCR 반응액 간의 친화성이 비특이 반응 감소에 영향을 주었다. cDNA 합성과 관련된 인자와 RT-PCR 반응액 사이의 조합을 근거로 ToCV 진단을 위한 두 종류의 반응액을 선발하였다. ToCV 진단 시 수립된 조건을 나머지 바이러스 진단에 적용했을 때, 특이성이 높은 프라이머 세트 C029 (ToCV), C072 (TSWV), C070 (CMV), C048 (PepMoV), C065 (ToMV)를 선발할 수 있었다. 이들 프라이머 세트는 공시한 바이러스를 특이적으로 진단하는 데 유용할 것으로 판단된다.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.387-391
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• 2005

Competitive polymerase chain reaction (cPCR) was used to develop a direct enumeration method of Listeria monocytogenes in pork meat. Pork meat was artificially inoculated with L. monocytogenes and DNA was extracted using guanidine thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform and subjected to PCR amplification. Sixteen primer sets for L. monocytogenes hlyA gene were tested for sensitive detection and the DG69/DG74 primer set was selected. The detection limit achieved with this primer set was as low as 860 colony-forming units (cfu) per 0.1 g of pork meat. When the samples were cultured at $30^{\circ}C$ for 16 hr in Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) medium, even a single bacterium could be detected with this primer set by PCR. For cPCR, the hlyA gene, which features a 148 bp-deletion, was cloned in the pGEM-4Z vector. A known amount of competitor DNA which has the same primer binding sites was co-amplified with L. monocytogenes total DNA from the artificially inoculated pork meat. The cell-number determined by cPCR was approximately equal to cfu from the Most Probable Number (MPN) method. The whole procedure took only 5 hr.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.253-261
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• 2014

Porcine circovirus disease (PCVD) is a major problem of swine industry worldwide, and diagnosis of PCV2, causal agent of PCVD, has been doing in clinical laboratories of pig disease by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods. But the PCR analyses have a serious problem of misdiagnosis by contamination of DNA, in particular, from carryover contamination with previously amplified DNA or extracted DNA from field samples. In this study, an uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG)-based direct PCR (udPCR) without DNA extraction process and DNA carryover contamination was developed and evaluated on PCV2 culture and field pig samples. The sensitivity of the udPCR combined with dPCR and uPCR was same or better than that of the commercial PCR (cPCR) kit (Median diagnostics, Korea) on PCV2-positive serum, lymph node and lung samples of the pigs. In addition, the udPCR method confirmed to have a preventing ability of mis-amplification by contamination of pre-amplified PCV2 DNA from previous udPCR. In clinical application, 170 pig samples (86 tissues and 84 serum) were analysed by cPCR kit and resulted in 37% (63/170) of positive reaction, while the udPCR was able to detect the PCV2 DNA in 45.3% (77/170) with higher sensitivity than cPCR. In conclusion, the udPCR developed in the study is a time, labor and cost saving method for the detection of PCV2 and providing a preventing effect for DNA carryover contamination that can occurred in PCR process. Therefore, the udPCR assay could be an useful alternative method for the diagnosis of PCV2 in the swine disease diagnostic laboratories.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.114-119
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 신선편의 채소와 과일에서 주로 검출되는 대장균(E. coli Ol577:H7), 리스테리아(L. monocytogenes), 살모넬라(Salmonella, spp.), 형색포도상구균(S. aureus)을 검출하고 동정할 수 있는 real time PCR 방법을 melting curve 분석을 활용하여 single tube 반응으로 두 종의 식중독균을 동시 검출하는 방법을 개발하고자 하였다. 대장균의 ${\beta}$-glucuronidase (uidA), 황색포도상구균의 thermonuclease (nuc), 리스테리아의 hemolycin (hly), 살모넬라의 tetrahionate reductase (ttr) 를 특이적으로 검출할 수 있는 4종의 프라이머 세트에 대한 real-time PCR의 melting curve 분석을 통하여 황색포도상구균과 대장균 동시분석 시 $T_m$ 값이 $80.6{\pm}0.9^{\circ}C$와 $86.9{\pm}0.5^{\circ}C$, 리스테리아와 살모넬라 동시분석 시 Tm 값이 $80.4{\pm}0.6^{\circ}C$와 $88.1{\pm}0.11^{\circ}C$로 확인하였고, 그 결과 정제되어진 각 식중독균의 genomic DNA를 주형으로 한 duplex real-time PCR 방법이 uniplex real-time PCR 방법과 마찬가지로 10 genome equivalents 까지 검출할 수 있는 민감도를 나타내었다. 또한, 양배추에 네 종의 식중독균을 접종하고, 증균배양 없이 DNA를 추출하여 duplex real-time PCR 을 수행한 결과 모든 식종목균에서 $10^3$ CFU/g의 검출 한계를 나타내었다. 결과적으로 개발된 melting curve 분석을 이용한 duplex real-time PCR 방법은 식품안전 증진을 위한 시간, 노동력, 비용 절감에 있어서 유효한 방법이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.264-270
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• 1995

Trigonopsis variabilis는 버l타락탐 항생제인 cephalosporin C (ceph C)를 ${\alpha}$-keto-adipyl-7 a aminocephalosporanic acid(AKA-7 ACA)로 생변 환하는 강력한 D-amino acid oxidase 효소를 갖고 있다. 본 연구는 이 D-AAO 효소의 유전자를 추출하기 위하여 polymerase chain reaction (PCR)을 사용하였다. PCR 단편을 콜로닝하기 위하여 Taq D DNA polymerase, Klenow, T4 DNA polymerase I, Alkaline phosphatase Calf Intestinal와 T4 kinase 의 효소반응을 이용하여 4가지의 방법을 샤용한 결 과, blunt - end 의 PCR fragment 를 phosphory­l lation하고 blunt -end의 pUC18 plasmid를 dephos phorylation 한 후 ligation 한 것 이 가장 좋은 클로 닝 효율을 보였다. Ceph C에 대한 D-AAO 효소의 활성은 재조합 E. coli의 세포추출액과 permea bilized cells에서 모두 확인할 수 있었다.