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Structure-Based Virtual Screening and Biological Evaluation of Non-Azole Antifungal Agent

  • Lee, Joo-Youn;Nam, Ky-Youb;Min, Yong-Ki;Park, Chan-Koo;Lee, Hyun-Gul;Kim, Bum-Tae;No, Kyoung-Tai
    • 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2005년도 BIOINFO 2005
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    • pp.139-143
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    • 2005
  • Cytochrome P450 14${\alpha}$-sterol demethylase enzyme (CYP51) is the target a of azole type antifungals. The azole blocks the ergosterol synthesis and thereby inhibits fungal growth. A three-dimensional (3D) homology model of CYP51 from Candida albicans was constructed based on the X-ray crystal structure of CYP51 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Using this model, the binding modes for the substrate (24-methylene-24, 25-dihydrolanosterol) and the known inhibitors (fluconazole, voriconazole, oxiconazole, miconazole) were predicted from docking. Virtual screening was performed employing Structure Based Focusing (SBF). In this procedure, the pharmacophore models for database search were generated from the protein-ligands interactions each other. The initial structure-based virtual screening selected 15 compounds from a commercial available 3D database of approximately 50,000 molecule library, Being evaluated by a cell-based assay, 5 compounds were further identified as the potent inhibitors of Candida albicans CYP51 (CACYP51) with low minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) range. BMD-09-01${\sim}$BMD-09-04 MIC range was 0.5 ${\mu}$g/ml and BMD-09-05 was 1 ${\mu}$g/ml. These new inhibitors provide a basis for some non-azole antifungal rational design of new, and more efficacious antifungal agents.

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표고 액체종균 배양시 배지와 균사체의 양분변화 (Changes of Nutrients in Media and Mycelia on Liquid Spawn Culture of Lentinula edodes)

  • 심규광;유영진;구창덕;김명곤
    • 한국균학회지
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    • 제42권2호
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    • pp.144-149
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구에서는 효율적으로 표고 액체종균을 생산하기 위하여, 액체배지에 폭기방법으로 산소를 공급하고, 대두박을 첨가하여 표고균사체 생장량과 잔존 배양액의 유리당함량을 조사하였다. 그 결과 폭기방법은 균질화된 표고균사가 생장하면서 서로 뭉치지 않고 균질하게 증식하고, 대두박 첨가는 대수기 이후에도 지효성 질소영양원이 공급되도록 하는 효과가 있었다. 배양 중 침전 균사체의 중량은 13일째에 가장 많았으며, 배양용기의 배출구에서 이산화탄소 농도는 13일째에 가장 높았다. 상층 수용액에서 환원당은 폭기 12일째에 거의 소비되었다. 그리고 배양균사체에서 총질소(T-N)량은 폭기 배양 13일째에 최고 수준이며, 키틴함량과 5종의 유리당 중에서 수크로즈함량은 폭기 배양 18일째에 가장 높았으나, 에르고스테롤 함량은 폭기 배양 22일째에 가장 높았다. 이와 같은 결과를 종합적으로 판단할 경우 표고액체 종균으로서 사용 적기는 균사활력이 가장 왕성하고 균체량이 많은 배양 18일째로 판단되었다.

Synergistic Interactions of Schizostatin Identified from Schizophyllum commune with Demethylation Inhibitor Fungicides

  • Park, Min Young;Jeon, Byeong Jun;Kang, Ji Eun;Kim, Beom Seok
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • 제36권6호
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    • pp.579-590
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    • 2020
  • Botrytis cinerea, which causes gray mold disease in more than 200 plant species, is an economically important pathogen that is mainly controlled by synthetic fungicides. Synergistic fungicide mixtures can help reduce fungicide residues in the environment and mitigate the development of fungicide-resistant strains. In this study, we screened microbial culture extracts on Botrytis cinerea to identify an antifungal synergist for tebuconazole. Among the 4,006 microbial extracts screened in this study, the culture extract from Schizophyllum commune displayed the most enhanced activity with a sub-lethal dosage of tebuconazole, and the active ingredient was identified as schizostatin. In combination with 5 ㎍/ml tebuconazole, schizostatin (1 ㎍/ml) showed disease control efficacy against gray mold on tomato leaf similar to that achieved with 20 ㎍/ml tebuconazole treatment alone. Interestingly, schizostatin showed demethylation inhibitor (DMI)-specific synergistic interactions in the crossed-paper strip assay using commercial fungicides. In a checkerboard assay with schizostatin and DMIs, the fractional inhibitory concentration values were 0.0938-0.375. To assess the molecular mechanisms underlying this synergism, the transcription levels of the ergosterol biosynthetic genes were observed in response to DMIs, schizostatin, and their mixtures. Treatment with DMIs increased the erg11 (the target gene of DMI fungicides) expression level 15.4-56.6-fold. However, treatment with a mixture of schizostatin and DMIs evidently reverted erg11 transcription levels to the pre-DMI treatment levels. These results show the potential of schizostatin as a natural antifungal synergist that can reduce the dose of DMIs applied in the field without compromising the disease control efficacy of the fungicides.

복령 균핵의 에탄올 추출물에서 분리한 화합물의 조골세포 분화 촉진 및 파골세포 생성 억제 효과 (Effects of Compounds Isolated from an Ethanol Extract of the Sclerotium of Wolfiporia hoelen on Osteoblast Differentiation and Osteoclast Formation)

  • 이소라;김석주;문보욱;최식원;유림;이형원
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제113권1호
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    • pp.73-87
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    • 2024
  • 복령(Wolfiporia hoelen (Fr.) Y.C.Dai & V. Papp)은 아시아 및 유럽 등 많은 나라에서 약용 및 식용으로 사용하고 있는 중요한 약재이다. 복령의 주요 성분들의 약리 활성이 많은 연구를 통해 밝혀지고 있으며, 골대사에도 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 본 연구는 복령 균핵 50% 에탄올 추출물이 골질환 예방 및 천연 치료제의 소재로 활용 가능성이 있는지 알아보고자 하였다. 복령 균핵의 에탄올 추출물을 계통분획법에 따라 n-헥산, 디클로로메탄, 에틸아세테이트순으로 분획하여 C2C12세포에 처리하였으며, 디클로로메탄 분획물에서 C2C12 세포의 ALP 분화 활성이 대조구보다 약 29%가 증가함을 알 수 있었다. 활성을 보인 디클로로메탄 분획물로부터 총 4개의 화합물을 분리하였으며, 기기분석 결과와 문헌을 참고하여 3α-dehydrotrametenolic acid, ergosterol, pachymic acid와 dehydrotumulosic acid로 동정할 수 있었다. 골대사 효능이 있는 지표물질을 찾기 위하여 4개의 화합물을 C2C12 세포의 ALP 분화 활성과 BMMs의 RANKL 유도 억제 활성을 농도별(1, 3, 10, 30, 100 μM)로 평가하였으며, 세포독성 검정도 동일한 농도에서 수행하였다. 그 결과 분리된 화합물 중 dehydrotumulosic acid의 3 μM 농도에서 ALP 활성이 160%로 나타났으며, BMP-2 대조구보다 약 24% 유의미하게 증가하였다. 또한 BMMs의 RANKL 유도 억제 활성은 dehydrotumulosic acid를 10-100 μM 농도로 처리할 때 대조구보다 약 15-86%로 유의미하게 감소하였으며, 10 μM 농도에서 나타난 RANKL억제 활성은 세포독성과 다른 패턴으로 나타나는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 복령의 균핵 에탄올 추출물이 골모세포 분화를 증진시키거나 억제할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였으며, 복령의 디클로로메탄 분획물로부터 분리 정제된 dehydrotumulosic acid가 골다공증 예방 및 치료에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

버섯의 자외선조사와 조리조건에 따른 $Vit.D_2$$Vit.B_2$ 함량의 변화 (The Changes of $Vit.D_2$ and $Vit.B_2$ Contents according to Ultraviolet rays and Cooking Methods of Mushrooms)

  • 오혜숙;윤선;박희옥
    • 한국식생활문화학회지
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.463-469
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    • 2001
  • This study was to investigate the effect of ultraviolet rays, soaking, boiling and baking to ergocalciferol ($Vit.D_2$) and riboflavin($Vit.B_2$) contents of mushrooms, Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus and Agaricus bisporus. The results were as follow: 1. Mushrooms were exposed to ultraviolet rays Lentinus edodes : $10J/cm^2$, Pleurotus ostratus : $2J/cm^2$ and Agaricus bisporus : $2J/cm^2$. 2. Before exposing to ultraviolet rays, the ergocalciferol contents of mushrooms were all $0{\mu}g/g$ dry base, but after exposing to it , those of Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus and Agaricus bisporus were $222.50{\pm}5.30{\mu}g/g$ dry base, $150.90{\pm}6.60{\mu}g/g$ dry base and $23.98{\pm}1.20{\mu}g/g$ dry base, respectively 3. Before and after exposing to ultraviolet rays, the riboflavin contents of Lentinus edoes, Pleurotus ostreatus and Agaricus bisporus were $18.22{\pm}0.71{\mu}g/g$ dry base and $11.72{\pm}0.50{\mu}g/g$ dry base, $4.57{\pm}0.20{\mu}g/g$ dery base and $3.26{\pm}0.15{\mu}g/g$ dry base, and $37.42{\pm}1.20{\mu}g/g$ dry base and $27.33{\pm}2.10{\mu}g/g$ dry base, respectively. 4. The ergocalciferol contents of mushrooms according to boiling time were not significantly different but the riboflavin contents of them were decreased according to the increase of boiling time. 5. The ergocalciferol and riboflavin contents of mushrooms were decreased according to the increase of NaCl concentration and baking temperature. 6. The ergocalciferol content of Lentinus edodes after a short time soaking at $80^{\circ}C$ was higher than a long time soaking at $20^{\circ}C,\;40^{\circ}C$ and $60^{\circ}C$.

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Disinfection of Fusarium-infected Rice Seeds by Prochloraz and Gaseous Chlorine Dioxide

  • Jeon, Young-ah;Lee, Young-yi;Lee, Ho-sun;Sung, Jung-sook;Lee, Seokyoung
    • 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국균학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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    • pp.25-25
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    • 2014
  • Three species of Fusarium, F. fujikuroi, F. verticillioides and F. proliferatum, are known to be associated with bakanae disease of rice [1, 2]. F. fujikuroi infects rice flowers and survive in endosperm and embryo of the seeds. Infected seed is an important source of primary inoculum of pathogens [3]. Seeds of rice (Oryza sativa cv. Boramchan) collected from bakanae-infected field were found to be 96% infected with Fusarium sp., 52% with F. fujikuroi, 42% with F. verticillioides, and 12% with F. proliferatum as determined by incubation method and species-specific PCR assays. F. fujikuroi was detected at lemma/palea, endosperm and embryo whereas F. verticillioides and F. proliferatum were recovered only from lemma/palea by means of component plating test. Seed disinfection methods have been developed to control bakanae disease and prochloraz has been most widely used for rice seeds. Two chemicals formulated with prochloraz (PC 1) and prochloraz + hexaconazole (PC 2) that inhibit biosynthesis of ergosterol strongly reduced the incidence of Fusarium spp. on selective media to 4.7% and 2.0%, respectively. Disease symptoms of rice seedlings in nursery soil were alleviated by chemical treatment; seedlings with elongated leaves or wide angle between leaf and stem were strikingly reduced from 15.6 to 3.2% (PC 1) and 0 (PC 2), stem rots were reduced from 56.9 to 26.2% (PC 1) and 32.1% (PC 2), and normal seedling increased from 0.4 to 13.3% (PC 2). Prochloraz has some disadvantages and risks such as the occurrence of tolerant pathogens [4] and effects on the sterol synthesis in animals and humans [5]. For these reasons, it is necessary to develop new disinfection method that do not induce fungal tolerance and are safe to humans and animals. Chlorine dioxide ($ClO_2$), that is less toxic, produces no harmful byproducts, and has high oxidizing power, has been reported to be effective at disinfection of several phytopathogenic fungi including Colletotrichum spp. and Alternaria spp. [6]. Gaseous $ClO_2$ applied to rice seeds at a concentration of 20 ppm strongly suppressed mycelial growth of Fusarium fujikuroi, F. verticillioides and F. proliferatum. The incidence of Fusarium spp. in dry seed with 8.7% seed moisture content (SMC) tended to decrease as the concentration of $ClO_2$ increased from 20 to 40 ppm. Applying 40 ppm $ClO_2$ at 90% relative humidity, incidence was reduced to 5.3% and resulted in significant reduction of disease symptoms on MS media. In nursery soil, stem rot was reduced from 56.9 to 15.4% and the number of normal seedlings increased from 0.4 to 25.5%. With water-soaked seeds (33.1% SMC) holding moisture in the endosperm and embryo, the effectiveness of disinfection using $ClO_2$ increased, even when treated with only 20 ppm for four hours. This suggests that moisture was a key element for action of $ClO_2$. Removal of the palea and lemma from seeds significantly decreased the incidence of Fusarium spp. to 3.0%. Seed germination appeared to decrease slightly by water-soaking at $30^{\circ}C$ because of increased SMC and by physical damage of embryos from hulling. These results indicate that the use of gaseous $ClO_2$ was effective as a means to disinfect rice seeds infected with Fusarium spp. and that moisture around the pathogens in the seed was an important factor for the action of $ClO_2$. Further investigations should be conducted to ascertain the best conditions for complete disinfection of Fusarium spp. that infect deep site of rice seeds.

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