• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.1321-1330
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• 2021

Objective: Transgenic hens hold a great promise to produce various valuable proteins. Through virus transduction into stage X embryo, the transgene expression under the control of constructed chicken ovalbumin promoters has been successfully achieved. However, a validation system that can evaluate differently developed ovalbumin promoters in in vitro, remains to be developed. Methods: In the present study, chicken oviduct epithelial cells (cOECs) were isolated from oviduct tissue and shortly cultured with keratinocyte complete medium supplemented with chicken serum. The isolated cells were characterized with immunofluorescence, western blot, and flow cytometry using oviduct-specific marker. Chicken mutated ovalbumin promoter (Mut-4.4-kb-pOV) was validated in these cells using luciferase reporter analysis. Results: The isolated cOECs revealed that the oviduct-specific marker, ovalbumin protein, was clearly detected by immunofluorescence, western blot, and flow cytometry analysis revealed that approximately 79.40% of the cells contained this protein. Also, luciferase reporter analysis showed that the constructed Mut-4.4-kb-pOV exhibited 7.1-fold (p<0.001) higher activity in the cOECs. Conclusion: Collectively, these results demonstrate the efficient isolation and characterization of cOECs and validate the activity of the constructed ovalbumin promoter in the cultured cOECs. The in vitro validation of the recombinant promoter activity in cOECs can facilitate the production of efficient transgenic chickens for potential use as bioreactors.

• BMB Reports
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.247-253
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• 1999

Chicken egg ovalbumin is a non-inhibitory member of the serpin (serine protease inhibitors) family whose members share a common tertiary fold. In the present study, we succeeded in high-level production of a disulfide-free form of refolded recombinant ovalbumin. Conformational characterization of the recombinant ovalbumim revealed that it is well-folded, following two-state unfolding transition with the midpoint of transition at 4.7 M at $25^{\circ}C$. This value is very close to that of the reduced form of authentic ovalbumin. The recombinant ovalbumin can serve as a model molecule of non-inhibitory serpins in comparative studies with inhibitory members of the serpin family.

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2005년도 국제학술심포지움 The 44th Annual Meeting of Korean Society for Life Science
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• pp.228-228
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• 2005

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2013

Transgenic chickens have been spotlighted as an highly potent bioreactor for their fecundity, short generation time, and eggs associated with mass production of protein. In this study, we generated transgenic chickens exhibiting oviduct specific expression of human growth hormone fused to human transferrin for oral administration. Gene of the modified growth hormone located at downstream ovalbumin promoter (~3.6 kb) was introduced to stage X blastodermal cell employing retrovirus vector system. Several transgenic chickens were successfully generated. However, genomic analyses showed unexpected deletion within the transgene. The modification of the transgene seemed to occur during germ cell formation because the deletion was detected only from the sperm DNA of the G0 founder animal. There was no evidence of deletion in the somatic cell DNA samples of the same chicken. Consequently, same pattern of the deletion was confirmed in both somatic and germ cells of the G1 progeny.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.147-151
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• 2004

난백에 NaOH, 열, 및 효소를 처리하였을 때, 난백 중의 ovomucoid(OM) 및 ovalbumin(OA)의 항원성 변화를 항OM 및 항OA 항체를 이용하여 간접경합 ELISA로 조사하였다. 효소처리는 OM의 항원성을 효과적으로 감소시키지 못한 반면 OA의 항원성은 식물성, 미생물성 protease를 사용하였을 때 약 1/5,000-1/100,000로 감소되었다. 열처리를 한 난백 중 OM은 $100^{\circ}C$까지 거의 변화하지 않으나 $121^{\circ}C$ 처리에서는 난백의 항원성이 OM은 1/250으로 감소되었다. OA의 항원성은 열처리에 의해 오히려 증가되었으며 최고 100배까지 증가되는 것으로 나타났다. NaOH를 농도별로 처리한 난백 중 OM의 항원성 변화는 0.3%부터 감소하기 시작하여 1%이상에서 항원성이 거의 제거되었다. 반면 OA의 경우는 모든 NaOH 처리농도에서 항원성이 증가하였다. NaOH 처리에 추가적인 열처리($70^{\circ}C$, 15분)를 실시한 것은 난백중 OM과 OA의 항원성 감소에 다소 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국가금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가금학회 1999년도 제16차 정기총회및학술발표회
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• pp.60-61
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• 1999

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.501-507
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• 2013

Lysozyme was trapped from $2{\times}$ diluted egg white using Amberlite FPC 3500 ion exchange resin (1 g/10mL of egg white). The lysozyme bound to the resin was recovered using 0.1 N glycine-NaOH buffers, pH 9.0, containing 0.5 M NaCl. After separating lysozyme, the pH of the egg white solution was adjusted to 4.75 and centrifuged to remove interfering proteins. The supernatant was collected, added with 2.5% citric acid and 5.0% ammonium sulfate combination to precipitate egg white proteins, except for ovalbumin. After centrifugation, both supernatant (S1) and precipitant were collected. The precipitant was dissolved with 4 volumes of distilled water, and then 2.0% ammonium sulfate and 1.5% citric acid combinations added, stirred overnight in a cold room, and centrifuged. The resulting supernatant (S2) was pooled with the first supernatant (S1), desalted using an ultrafiltration unit, heat-treated at $70^{\circ}C$ for 15 min, and then centrifuged. The supernatant was collected as an ovalbumin fraction and lyophilized. The separated proteins were confirmed using Western blotting. The yield of lysozyme and ovalbumin was > 88.9% and > 97.7%, respectively, and the purity of lysozyme and ovalbumin was > 97% and 87%, respectively. The results indicated that the protocol was simple, and separated lysozyme and ovalbumin effectively.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2019

본 연구는 오브알부민 프로모터의 최적 크기를 결정하기 위해 수행하였고, 이를 위해 2.8, 5.5, 그리고 Mut-4.4 kb의 오브알부민 프로모터를 리포터 벡터에 클로닝하여 다양한 세포들에서 프로모터의 활성을 검증하였다. Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 HeLa, MES-SA, 그리고 LMH/2A에서 높은 수준의 프로모터 활성을 유도하였으나, cEF 세포에서는 낮은 활성을 보였다. 한편, Mut-4.4kb-pOV/pGL4.11 벡터가 도입된 HeLa, MES-SA, LMH/2A, 그리고 cEF 세포에서 에스트로겐 처리에 의한 반응성을 검증한 결과, cEF 세포를 제외한 나머지 세포들은 에스트로겐을 처리했을 때 리포터 유전자의 발현량이 증가하였다. 또한 LMH/2A 세포에 500 nM 에스트로겐 처리 결과, Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 에스트로겐 처리 후에도 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 높은 수준의 프로모터 활성을 유도하였다. 더불어 ERE 영역이 없는 2.8kb-pOV는 LMH/2A 세포에서 500 nM 에스트로겐 처리 후 프로모터의 활성에 효과가 없었으나, ERE 영역을 포함하는 5.5 그리고 Mut-4.4kb-pOV는 에스트로겐 처리에 의해 프로모터의 활성이 증가한 결과를 보였다. 이상의 결과는 Mut-4.4kb-pOV가 형질전환 암탉을 생산하기 위한 재조합바이러스 벡터의 프로모터 영역으로 2.8와 5.5kb-pOV에 비해 보다 효율적인 크기임을 보여주는 결과이다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.1025-1032
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• 2005

난백 단백질 중 ovotransferrin을 gel chromato- graphy와 heparin affinity chromatography를 통하여 분리 하였다. 1차 gel filtration의 경우에 샘플인젝션 후 65-70min(fraction No. 14) 이후에는 ovalbumin이 ovotransferrin과 혼입되어 분리되고 오히려 ovalbumin의 농도가 더 높은 분포를 보였다. 고순도의 ovotransferrin을 분리하기 위하여 다시 fraction No. 12-14을 농축한 뒤 gel filtration을 실시한 결과 ovotransferrin이 완전히 분리되지 않았는데 이는 gel filtration만의 반복을 통해서 순수한 ovotransferrin을 얻는 것이 비효과적임을 의미하는 것으로 판단된다. Ovotransferrin을 heparin affinity chromatography을 이용하여 분리한 경우 칼럼에 Fe2+를 고정시킨 후 50mM EDTA를 흘려 주었는데 ovalbumin이 5-10분경에 용출이 되었고 10-15분경에 ovalbumin과 ovotransferrin이 같이 용출되었다. 그 후에 50mM Phosphate buffer (pH 7.2, 0.15M salt)를 흘려주었는데 여전히 ovalbumin의 밴드가 보여 순수하지 않음을 확인하였다. Fe3+를 컬럼에 고정시킨 후 50mM EDTA를 흘려주었을 때 ovalbumin이 10-15분경에 용출이 되었고 15-20분경에 ovalbumin과 ovotransferrin이 같이 용출되었지만 50mM Phosphate buffer (pH 7.2, 0.15M salt free)를 흘려주었을 때 156-165분경에 ovalbumin이 혼입되지 않은 매우 순수한 ovotransferrin이 용출되는 것을 확인하였다. 위의 결과를 종합해볼 때 gel chromatography를 반복적으로 실시한 경우 보다는 heparin affinity chromatography를 이용하여 분리하고 컬럼에 Fe2+를 고정시킨 경우보다 Fe3+를 고정시켰을 때 더욱 순수한 ovotransferrin을 분리해낼 수 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.1137-1144
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• 2010

In this study, to examine genetic variability within a breed and genetic relationships between populations/breeds, we genotyped 606 birds from seven Japanese native chicken breeds at seven polymorphic loci of egg white proteins and compared those with Asian native chicken populations and commercial breeds. Genotyping of the Japanese native breeds showed that ovalbumin, two ovoglobulins and ovotransferrin were polymorphic, but ovomacroglobulin, ovoflavoprotein and lysozyme were monomorphic. The proportion of polymorphic loci ($P_{poly}$) and average heterozygosity ($\bar{H}$) within a population ranged from 0.286 to 0.429 and from 0.085 to 0.158, respectively. The coefficient of gene differentiation ($G_{ST}$) was 0.250 in the Japanese native chicken breeds. This estimate was higher than that of Asian native chicken populations ($G_{ST}$ = 0.083) and of commercial breeds ($G_{ST}$ = 0.169). Dendrogram and PCA plot showed that Satsuma-dori, Jitokko, Amakusa-daio and Hinai-dori were closely related to each other and grouped into Asian native chickens and that Tsushima-jidori, Nagoya and Chan (Utaichan) were ramified far from other Japanese native chicken breeds. The egg white protein polymorphisms demonstrated that the population differentiation of the seven Japanese native chicken breeds was relatively large.