• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.297-302
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• 1985

미생물중 urease생성능이 아주 강한 B. pasteurii의 Hind III partial digest 된 chromosomal DNA를 E. coli-B. subtilis bifunctional plasmid vector pGR 71으로 E. coli RR1 균주에 cloning 하므로써 그 urease gene을 expression시킬 수 있었다. 그러나 B. subtilis에서는 insertion DNA fragment의 deletion으로 expression되지 않았다. Cloning된 E.coli RR1 균주로부터 분리 정제한 urease gene함유 Plasmid(pGU66)의 restriction map을 작성하여 본 결과 7.1 Mdal의 insertion fragment가 삽입된 12.6Mdal의 plasmid에 Hind III, Bgl II, Xba I, Sal I등 몇 개의 cleavage site 위치를 찾을 수 있었다. Cloning된 E. coli의 urease는 periplasmic space에 많은 비율로 축적되며, 그 효소학적 성질은 donor인 B.pasteurii의 그것과 매우 유사하였다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.153-161
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• 2004

Antibiotic resistance is often associated with the production of inner membrane proteins (for example, AcrAB/TolC efflux pump) that are capable to extrude antibiotics, detergents, dyes and organic solvents. In order to evaluate the unknown MarB function of Escherichia coli, especially focused on the function of OmpF porin, several mutants were construted by T4GT7 transduction. MarA plays a major roles in mar (multiple antibiotic resistance) phenotype with AcrAB/TolC efflux pump in E. coli K-12. Futhermore, MarA decreases OmpF porin expression via micF antisense RNA. Expression of acrAB is increased in strains containing mutation in marR, and in those carrying multicopy plasmid expressing marA. MarB protein of E. coli K-12 showed its activity at OmpF porin & TolC protein as target molecule. Some paper reported MarB positively regulates OmpF function. MarA shows mar phenotype, and MarB along with MarA show decreased MIC through OmpF function. By this experiment, MarB could decrease MIC through the OmpF porin & TolC protein as target.

• 한국유가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국유가공기술과힉회 2007년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.13-20
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• 2007

Bovine lactoferricin(LFcin B) is a peptide of 25 amino acids that originated from the N terminus of bovine lactoferrin, and is characterized as having potent antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses. But, direct expression of Lfcin B is lethal to Escherichia coli. For the efficient production of Lfcin B in E. coli, we developed an expression system in which the gene for cationic Lfcin B was fused to an anionic peptide gene, and successfully expressed the concatemeric fusion gene in E. coli. The purified recombinant Lfcin B was found to have antimicrobial activity, as the native Lfcin B peptide does.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2001

E coli O157:H7은 식품과 물에 의해서 전염되는 식중독균으로서 이들의 생성하는 vero toxin 이 장관의 상피세포내로 침입되어 질병을 유발시키게 된다. 또한 E coli O157:H7 이 체내에 감염되기 위해서는 유산균과 마찬가지로 장상피세포에 정착하여야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 비피더스균이 E. coli O157:H7의 생육 및 정착에 대해서 억제효과가 있는지를 파악하기 위해서 비피더스균과 E. coli O157:H7을 혼합 배양했을 때의 억제 효과 비피더스균의 Caco-2 세포 정착에 따른 억제 효과 등을 조사하였다. B infantis K9 균주와 E. coli O157:H7을 단독 또는 혼합배양하면서 배양시간에따른 pH 균수 암모니아 함량을 측정하였다. 그결과 배양시간이 결과되어 B infantis K9 균주에 의해서 산성물질이 생성되면서 E. coli O157:H7의 균수는 급격히 감소되는것으로 나타났다. 한편 암모니아 함량은 E. coli O157:H7 단독배양 시료에 비해서 혼합배양 시료에서 8시간 이후부터 감소되는 것으로 볼때 비피더스 균 E. coli O157:H7이 생성하는 암모니아를 이용하는것으로 확인되었다.B infantis K9 균주와 E. coli O.157:H7 P4 균주를 정착시기를 달리하여 Caco-2 세포에 혼합 정착시켰을 때 B. onfantis K9 균준느 정착시기에 상관없이 유사한 정착율을 나타냈다. 반면에 B infantis K9 균주가 2시간 전에 미리 정착되어 있을 때에는 E. coli O157: HP P4 균주의 정착율이 2.6%에서 1.86%로 감소되는 경향을 보였다. 결론적으로 비피더스균의 E coli O157:H7에 대한 생육 및 정착 억제를 검토한 결과 생육억제효과는 비피더스균에 의해서 생성된 산성물질 에 의해서 pH4.40 이하 일때 저해 효과를 보였으며 비피더스균과 E. coli O157:H7 이 정착 부위를 동일하게 이용하지만 비피더스균이 우선적으로 정착이 되었을 때 E. coli O157:H7의 정착율이 저하되는 결과를 나타냈다.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.257-262
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• 2018

Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) causes severe economic losses in the poultry farms, due to systemic infections leading to lethal colisepticemia. It causes a variety of diseases from air sac infection to systemic spread leading to septicemia. Secondary infection contains opportunistic infections due to immunosuppression disease. Collibacillosis causes the great problems in the poultry industry in Korea. Thus, it is necessary to identify and classify the characteristics of E. coli isolate of chicken origin to confirm the diversity of symptoms and whether they are transmitted among the farms. Fragment analysis is identify the difference in the number of Variable-Number Tandem-Repeats (VNTRs) for genotyping. VNTRs have repeating structure (Microsatellite, Short tandem repeats; STR, Simple sequence repeats; SSR) in the chromosome. This region can be used as a genetic marker because of its high mutation rate. And various lengths of the amplified DNA fragment cause the difference in the number of repetition of the DNA specific site. The number of repetition sequences indicates the separated size of fragments, so the each fragments can be distinguished by specific samples. The results of the sample show that there is no difference in six microsatellite loci (yjiD, aidB, molR_1, ftsZ, b1668, yibA). There are differences among the farms in relation of the number of repetitions of other six microsatellite loci (ycgW, yaiN, yiaB, mhpR, b0829, caiF). Four (ycgW, yiaB, b0829, caiF) of these six microsatellite loci show statistically significant differences (P<0.05). It means that the analysis using four microsatellite loci including ycgW, yiaB, b0829, and caiF can confirm among the farms. Five E. coli samples in one farm have same SSR repetition at all markers. But, there are significant differences from other farms at Four (ycgW, yiaB, b0829, caiF) microsatellite loci. These results emphasize again that the four microsatellite loci makes a difference in the amplified DNA fragments, enabling it to be used for E. coli genotyping.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.161-168
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• 1986

E. coli-S. cerevisiae shuttle vector인 plasmid YRp7을 이용하여 B. amyloliquefaciens의 $\alpha$-amylase gene을 E. coli 내에 cloning하였다. 이때 제한 효소 Sau 3 AI에 의해 얻어진 $\alpha$-amylase gene의 크기는 약 1.95kb정도였으며 E. coli내에서 비교적 안정하게 유지되고 발현되었다. 재조합 plasmid p-EA24를 함유한 E. coli는 B. amyloliquefaciens의 약 65% 정도의 $\alpha$-amylase를 생성하였으며, 최적온도, pH, CaCl$_2$의 영향등 $\alpha$-amylase의 효소학적인 성질을 비교 조사해 본 결과 B. amyloliquefaciens의 $\alpha$-amylase와 동일하였다. 또한 E. coli에서 생성된 $\alpha$-amylase로 70% 정도가 periplasmic space에 존재하였으며 나머지는 세포 내부에 존재함을 알았다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.299-304
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• 1997

Expression in the periplasm of Escherichia coli of cloned heavy and light chain cDNAs for Fab fragment of a murine monoclonal antibody MabB9 (${\gamma}2b$, K), specific for human plasma apolipoprotein B-100 of LDL, was studied. For the purpose, a vector for two-cistronic expression of the heavy chain cDNA, at the 5' terminus, and light chain cDNA, at the 3' terminus, was constructed using the signal sequences, pelB (for heavy chain) and ompA (for light chain) in a pET vector system. The constructed vector was transformed into E. coli BL21(DE3). The expressed heavy chain (25 kDa) and light chain (23 kDa) of the antibody molecule were detected in total cell extracts as well as in the periplasmic extracts of E. coli.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.157-160
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• 2019

The production of rmtB-encoded 16S rRNA methylases has emerged as a novel mechanism promoting high-level resistance toward aminoglycosides in Gram-negative bacteria. Between 2015 and 2017, 636 distinct commensal Escherichia (E.) coli isolates were collected from different farms in South Korea to determine the prevalence and molecular characteristics of rmtB. The positive rates of rmtB between all the isolates and amikacin-resistant isolates were 1.1 and 100%, respectively. High-level aminoglycoside resistance could be transferred by conjugation from rmtB-positive donors to higher amikacin-resistance efficacies. This is the first report of 16S rRNA methylase-encoding genes in E. coli isolated from food-producing animals in Korea.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2000

Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia coli, normal colonic inhabitants, are the most frequently isolated bacteria in infected tissues, particularly in intraabdominal abscesses. This study was designed to determine whether enteric bacteria may alter the B. fragilis-induced expression of pro inflammatory cytokines in mouse peritoneal tissue (MPT). After C57BL/6 mice were inoculated with abscess-forming mixture containing B. fragilis in the presence or absence of E. coli, RNA was extracted from MPT. Expression of interleukin (IL)-$1{\alpha}$ and tumor necrosis factor $(TNF){\alpha}$ mRNA was assessed using RT-PCR and standard RNA. Each cytokine protein was also measured by ELISA. The co-inoculation of E. coli into mouse peritoneal cavity advanced the onset of abscess development by B. fragilis infection. When mouse was co-infected with E. coli and B. fragilis intraperitoneally, there was a synergistic increase in the expression of IL-$1{\alpha}$ and $TNF{\alpha}$ mRNA in MPT and this was paralleled by increased cytokine protein secretion. Mixed inoculation of heat-killed E. coli and B. fragilis did not cause a synergistic increase in those cytokine mRNA expression. These results suggest that enteric bacteria may significantly affect proinflammatory cytokine signal produced by host peritoneal cavity in response to B. fragilis infection.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.146-151
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• 2012

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections and is predominantly caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). UPEC strains generally possess several genes encoding virulent factors, which are mostly adhesins, toxins, bacteriocin and siderophores. E. coli is composed of four main phylogenetic group (A, B1, B2, D) and virulent extra-intestinal strains mainly belong to groups B2 and D. Prescription of ciprofloxacin, a kind of fluoroquinolone group antibiotics, is increasing now a days, but resistance to this drug is also increasing. A total of 188 strains of E. coli were collected. Thirteen strains were collected from healthy students in 2011 and 175 strains from patients with urinary tract infection in 2010. Virulence factor genes (papC, fimG/H, sfaD/E, hlyA, cnf1, and usp) were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods for phylogenetic group (A, B1, B2, D) detection. Ciprofloxacin susceptibility test was performed by disk diffusion method. The identified virulence factors (VFs), phylogenetic groups and ciprofloxacin resistance in 13 E. coli strains isolated from healthy students were papC (15.4%), fimG/H (76.9%), sfaD/E (30.8%), hlyA (23.1%), cnf1 (23.1%), usp (7.7%), phylogenetic group A (23%), B1 (8%), B2 (46%), D (23%) and ciprofloxacin resistance (7.7%), while those of in 175 E. coli strains isolated from patients with UTI were papC (41.1%), fimG/H (92.5%), sfaD/E (30.3%), hlyA (10.3%), cnf1 (30.3%), usp (27.4%), phylogenetic group A (9.1%), B1 (5.1%), B2 (60.6%), D (25.1%) and ciprofloxacin resistance (29.7%). In this study, 10 out of 13 E. coli strains (76.9%) from healthy students were found to possess more than one virulence factor associated with adhesion. In addition, one E. coli strain isolated from healthy students who had never been infected with UPEC showed ciprofloxacin resistance. According to these results between the virulence factors and phylogenetic groups it was closely associated, and UPEC strains isolated from patients showed high level of ciprofloxacin resistance.