• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.125-129
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• 2000

A rapid and efficient assay to determine melanin biosynthesis inhibition of Magnaporthe grisea, a causal agent of the rice blast, by chemicals was developed. Wells in 24-well plates were loaded with spore suspension of the fungus and three known melanin biosynthesis inhibitors of KC10017, tricyclazole, and carpropamid. Subsequent color changes of mycelia and culture media in the wells were observed 7 days after incubation. The wells treated with KC10017 (an inhibitor of polyketide synthesis step and/or pentaketide cyclization step) became colorless, whereas tricyclazole (an inhibitor of 1, 3, 8-trihydroxynaphthalene reductase) or carpropamid (an inhibitor of scytalone dehydratase)-treated wells exhibited red color. They did not show any inhibitory effect on fungal growth. The inhibition of reaction steps prior to 1, 3, 6, 8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene formation was easily determined by colorless medium and mycelia. However, it was impossible to distinguish between inhibition of reduction steps and inhibition of dehydration steps by colors of the cultures. It was accomplished through HPLC analysis of the melanin biosynthesis-involving pentaketide metabolites accumulated by the inhibitors. Through screening of a number of synthetic chemicals using the in vitro assay, we could find a novel chemical group of melanin biosynthesis inhibitor.

• 대한바이러스학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.69-75
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• 1997

To evaluate in vitro anti-HIV efficacies of nucleoside derivatives, MT-4 cell line was infected with HIV-1 and HIV-2 respectively and treated with various compounds and the formerly approved drugs such as AZT, d4T, ddC and ddI. CPE method was used to evaluate their antiviral activity. Most dideoxynucleosides, AZT, d4T, ddC and ddI, showed anti-HIV activities against both viruses but no other compounds including anti-herpesvirus drugs did any. Further experiments were carried out to study their inhibitory mechanism of viral adsorption. The results showed no inhibition of syncytium formation due to an interaction between the gp120 expressed in HIV -infected cell surface and CD4 receptor on the uninfected cell surface in the presence of AZT. AZT showed no activity up to $100\;{\mu}g/ml$. Inhibition of reverse transcriptase (RT) in the presence of AZT-triphosphate was tested by using RT expressed in E. coli and purified and its $IC_{50}$ was 4.5 nM.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2001

물달개비에 병을 일으키는 Pythium myriotylum 균주를 2000년 충청남도 유성 지역에서 수집한 시료로부터 분리하였으며, 실험실과 온실에서 생물학적 방제제로서의 가능성을 조사하였다. 이 곰팡이는 넓은 온도 범위에서 잘 자랐으며 특히 생장적온은 $35^{\circ}C$ 이었다. 또한 $30{\sim}35^{\circ}C$에서 물달개비에 강한 병원성을 나타냈다. 여뀌바늘, 알방동사니, 사마귀풀, 올챙이고랭이 등의 논잡초에는 병원성이 강하였으나, 강피에는 병을 일으키지 못하였다. 벼에 대한 생육시기별 및 품종에 따른 병 발생을 조사한 결과, 발아 직후의 벼는 생육에 저해를 받았으나 1엽기 이상의 벼는 영향을 받지 않았다. 또한 12 품종의 $3{\sim}4$엽기 벼도 MD2에 의하여 영향을 받지 않았다. 그리고 배추, 옥수수, 콩 등 12종의 작물에 대한 병원성 실험을 실시하였는데, 밀을 제외한 11종의 작물은 영향이 없었다. 이상의 결과로부터 Pythium myriotylum MD2는 1엽기 이상의 벼에 대하여 선택성이 있으며, 물달개비뿐만 아니라 여러 종류의 일년생 논잡초에 대하여 강한 병원성을 보이고 또한 작물에 대한 영향도 적어서 생물적 방제제로서 가능하리라 생각되었다.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2007

Computational virtual screening has become an essential platform of drug discovery for the efficient identification of active candidates. Moleculardocking, a key technology of receptor-centric virtual screening, is commonly used to predict the binding affinities of chemical compounds on target receptors. Despite the advancement and extensive application of these methods, substantial improvement is still required to increase their accuracy and time-efficiency. Here, we evaluate several advanced structure-based virtual screening approaches for elucidating the rank-order activity of chemical libraries, and the quantitative structureactivity relationship (QSAR). Our results show that the ensemble-average free energy estimation, including implicit solvation energy terms, significantly improves the hit enrichment of the virtual screening. We also demonstrate that the assignment of quantum mechanical-polarized (QM-polarized) partial charges to docked ligands contributes to the reproduction of the crystal pose of ligands in the docking and scoring procedure.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권spc8호
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• pp.2861-2862
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• 2011

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권spc8호
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• pp.3101-3104
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• 2011

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권7호
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• pp.2449-2452
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• 2011

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.1861-1864
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• 2006

• 농약과학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2002

피에서 분리한 Fusarium oxysporum균주로부터 여러 번의 chromatography를 통하여 좀개구리밥의 생장을 억제하는 물질을 분리하였다. 질량분석과 핵자기공명분석을 통하여 이 물질은 dehydrofusaric acid로 동정되었다. Dehydrofusaric acid는 좀개구리밥의 생장에 대한 $EC_{50}$ 값이 $1.5{\mu}g/ml$로 매우 활성이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이 물질은 식용피, cress, 강피 및 동진벼의 뿌리의 생장도 억제하였으나, 식용피와 cress의 발아 및 네 가지 식물의 지상부의 생장에는 전혀 영향을 주지 않았다.