• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1109-1121
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• 2009

In an attempt to discover novel biomarker proteins in type 2 diabetes prognosis, we investigated the influence of hypoglycemic extracellular polysaccharides (EPS) obtained from the macrofungus Tremella fuciformis on the differential levels of plasma proteins in ob/ob mice using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE). The 2-DE analysis demonstrated that 92 spots from about 900 visualized spots were differentially regulated, of which 40 spots were identified as principal diabetes-associated proteins. By comparing control with EPS-fed mice, we found that at least six proteins were significantly altered in ob/ob mice, including Apo A-I, IV, C-III, E, retinol-binding protein 4, and transferrin, and their levels were interestingly normalized after EPS treatment. Western blot analysis revealed that the altered levels of the two regulatory molecules highlighted in diabetes and obesity (e.g., resistin and adiponectin) were also normalized in response to EPS. The Mouse Diabetes PCR Array profiles showed that the expression of 84 genes related to the onset, development, and progression of diabetes were significantly downregulated in liver, adipocyte, and muscle of ob/ob mice. EPS might act as a potent regulator of gene expression for a wide variety of genes in ob/ob mice, particularly in obesity, insulin resistance, and complications from diabetes mellitus.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1760-1772
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• 2006

Mature acetylcholinesterase (AChE) gene (gm, 1,836 bp) was cloned from the housefly and successfully expressed in the E. coli CodonPlus (DE3) RIL system (GM-E, 72 kDa) with a yield of 1,630 mU/g fresh cells. Using the gm, 10 kinds of mutants were constructed and expressed for enhancing sensitivity to insecticides. The sensitivity of these mutants to five kinds of organophosphate (OP) and three carbamate insecticides was investigated by measuring the apparent bimolecular inhibition constant ($k_i=k_2/K_d$). Surprisingly, the sensitivity of quadruple mutant IGFT was enhanced as much as 7-fold for acephate, 164-fold for demeton-S-methyl, 484-fold for dichlorvos, 523-fold for edifenphos, 30-fold for ethoprophos, 30-fold for benfuracarb, 404-fold for carbaryl, and 107-fold for furathiocarb, compared with that of GM-E, although the sensitivity of each single point mutant was slightly increased. These mutational studies indicated that (i) contradictory to Walsh et al. [39], the residue 327 is the important key residue for enhancing sensitivity as much as the residue 262, (ii) the residue 82 and additional residues of 234, 236, and 585 are also important, and (iii) sensitivity was cooperatively accelerated as the number of strategic mutations increased.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.868-873
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• 2004

Renal dysfunction could be developed as the secondary disease of liver cirrhosis. Delayed or suppresed lipid peroxidation by the treatment with physiological active substances could be explained as the antioxidative and protective effect in tissue damage. In this study, we investigated an antioxidative effect and renal function improvement of Hovenia dulcis in liver fibrosis(cirrhosis) induced rats. The female Sprague-Dawley rats (180∼210 g) were divided into 3 groups (Normal, AC: CCl₄ mixture treated group, AC-HV: CCl₄ mixture+ Hovenia dulcis treated group) and renal damage was developed by CCl₄ mixture administration in 4 weeks (0.8 ㎖/rat). The tissue of kidney and liver and sera were used for quantitative measurement of enzyme activity, MDA and Hyp. The histological change and gene expression of collagen α1(III) mRNA and a1(IV) mRNA were observed by Masson's trichrome staining and RT-PCR. As a result, the clinical biochemical parameters of liver function (AST and ALT) in sera of AC-HV group showed significantly 46.4% and 104.8% lower (p<0.005), and the level of ALP and BUN as the parameter of protein urine and azotemia showed 17.8 % and 25.8 % lower than in AC group. In AC-HV group, the concentration of MDA in kidney and liver was decreased significantly 15.8% and 21.3% when compared with AC group (p<0.01 -0.005). The content of Hyp in kidney of AC-HV group is merely higher than in AC group, in contrast to liver tissue. The expression of collagen α1(III) mRNA and collagen α1(IV) mRNA was decreased in AC, but both of collagen mRNA in normal and AC-HV group expressed fast similar. More massive lipid droplets, thicker collagen fiber bundles in portal triads and more formation of portal central septum were observed in the liver of AC group than in AC-HV group. In conclusion, CCl₄ mixture intoxication could be developed not only liver fibrosis(cirrhosis) but also renal dysfunction by the massive lipid peroxidation and suppression of interstitial collagen and basement membrane collagen synthesis. And the water extract of Hovenia dulcis may be possessed the antioxidative and protective effect and improvement of kidney function in renal dysfunction induced rats.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.879-885
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• 2013

Fifty-four, mixed-sex, halothane-carrier crossbred (Yorkshire${\times}$Landrace) pigs with an average initial BW of $108.2{\pm}0.8$ kg were randomly allotted to one of three dietary treatments for 5 d before slaughter: i) a control corn-soybean meal finisher diet devoid of supplemental magnesium; ii) a diet supplemented with 1.5 g/kg of elemental Mg from magnesium acetate; and iii) a diet supplemented with 1.5 g/kg of elemental Mg from magnesium sulfate heptahydrate. Serum creatine kinase (CK), lactate and glucose were analyzed at slaughter. Muscles from longissimus (LM) were packaged and stored to simulate display storage for muscle lactate and glycogen determinations at 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 d. Mg supplementation reduced (p<0.05) serum CK and lactate concentration, but had no effect (p>0.05) on serum glucose. Daily change of muscle lactate concentration linearly increased (p<0.01), while glucose concentration linearly decreased (p<0.05) as storage time increased in all treatments. However, dietary Mg acetate and Mg sulfate supplementation in pigs elevated (p<0.05) muscle glycogen and reduced (p<0.05) muscle lactate concentrations, especially during the first 2 d of display, compared with pigs fed the control diet. This study suggests that short-term feeding of magnesium acetate and magnesium sulfate to heterozygous carriers of the halothane gene has beneficial effects on stress response and pork quality by improving blood and muscle biochemical indexes.

• 대한바이러스학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.107-118
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• 1999

To characterize the molecular nature of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1, we determined the full-length HIV-1 sequences from cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of a Korean long-term nonprogressor (LTNP). Without antiretroviral therapy, the individual has maintained CD4+ T counts over $500/{\mu}l$ from 1989 to 1999. Plasma viral RNA copy was 992 U/ml in 1998. Culture supernatant showed positive from culture days 9. A series of 9 overlapping PCR products were amplified from cultured PBMC and cloned About 9.2 kb from R of 5' LTR to R of 3' LTR was determined by automated sequencing. The G-to-A hypermutations were shown throughout the entire region. As a result of G to A hypermutations, premature stop codon was found in integrase coding region. Though there was no recombination between subtypes over all genomes, TATA box in both LTRs was TAAAA which is detected in subtype E instead of TATAA in subtype B. And, there were nucleotide GC insertion between $NF-{\kappa}B$ I and Sp1 III, and duplication of $TCF-1{\alpha}$ in LTR. We could not find any deletion of amino acid in Nef, Gag, Pol and Env gene. This study is the first report on molecular nature of full genomes of HIV-1 isolated in Korea.

• Plant Resources
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.120-128
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• 2003

The objectives of this study, an analysis of the variation for leaf and fruit characteristics among the selected ten populations of Sorbus commixta Hedl. could be used for the conservation of gene resources and could provide information to superior trees selection. The results obtained from this study can be summarized as follows; Approximately, the Mt. Sungin population at Ulleung island showed larger values in overall characteristics and populations. On the other hand, Mt. Halla population at Jeju island showed the smaller values of the overall characteristics and populations. ANOV A tests showed that there were statistically significant differences in all leaf characteristics among the populations as well as individual trees within populations. But, for fruit characteristics, differences were statistically significant only among the populations. Cluster analysis using single linkage method based on leaf and fruit characteristics showed that ten selected populations of S. commixta in Korea could be clustered into three groups. Group I is Mt. Sungin at Ulleung island, Group II is Mt. Halla at Jeju island, and Group III comprises Osan, Mt. Kaji, Mt. Duckyoo, Mt. Balwang, Mt. Sobaek, Mt. O-dae, Mt. Jiri, and Mt. Taebaek. The selection level based on major agronomic traits, which are the Number of Fruit per Fruiting Lateral(NFL) over 50, and Fruit Length(FL) and Width(FW) over 10 mm, and Weight of 100 Fruit(WFI00) over 66 g, was applied on 100 sample trees, and five trees were selected. The selection effects from selected trees in NFL, FL, FW, and WF100 were evaluated as 132%, 151 %, 142%, and 264% compared to the mean of those 100 sample trees, respectively. Especially, Ulleung 2 showed excellent values that NFL and WFI00 were 95, and 69 g, respectively, suggesting a promising new cultivar for larger fruit and high productivity.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.906-912
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• 2004

한국에서 분리한 Helicobacter pylori 균주가 위암 세포주에서 IL-8를 유도하는 유도능을 관찰하고자 하였으며, 특히 4형 분비구조의 주요 구성체인 cagE 유전자의 다형성에 따라 IL-8 유도능의 차이 및 각 질환에서 분리한 균주에서의 차이가 있는지 검토하고자 하였다. 강남성모병원 내시경검사를 받은 환자들 중 H. pylori 감염 양성으로 확인된 위암 23명 $(31.0\%)$, 위염 24명$(32.6\%)$, 십이지장궤양27명$(36.4\%)$ 총 74명을 대상으로 하여 H. pylori를 분리한 후 PCR-RFLP방법을 이용하여 cagE 다형성을 확인하였으며, PCR 및 Real-time PCR을 이용하여 ragA TPMs를 결정하였다, 또한 분리된 균주를 위암세포주에 감염시켜 상등액을 취하여 ELISA방법으로 IL-8을 정량화 하였다. 전체 74개의 분리 균주 중 59개의 균주$(79.7\%)$에서 IL-8 유도능이 있는 것으로 확인되었으며, cagE 다형성 중에서 가장 높은 빈도로 관찰되는 형태는 MboI/NlaIII B-C, A-C 및 C-C 타입 이었으며, 이중 A-C와 B-C 형태가 C-C 형태에 비해 유의적으로 높은 IL-8 유도능을 나타냈다. 그러나 cagA TPMs의 분류 및 vacA m-아형 분류와 IL-8 유도능과는 연관성이 없었다. 비록 본 연구에서 cagE 다형성과 IL-8 유도능과 아주 밀접한 연관성이 나타나지는 않았지만 vacA m-아형이나 cagA TPMs 보다는 cagE 다형성이 IL-8 유도능과 연관성이 클 것으로 생각된다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.479-485
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• 2005

2002년 2월부터 2005년 2월까지 성인 및 소아 호홉기질환자 994명의 상기도 도말물에서 M. pneumoniae 균주를 분리하고, 분리 균주의 ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, minecline, tetracycline, sparfloxacin, josamycin, erythromycin에 대한 감수성 검사를 실시하였으며, 분리된 균주의 235 rRNA domain II와 V에서 erythromycin저항성 변이가 일어났는가를 PCR과 유전자 염기서열분석으로 erythromycin에 감수성인 M. pneumonine균주의 염기서열과 비교분석하여 확인하였다. 호흡기질환자에서 M. pneumoniae의 분리율은 123/994$(12.4\%)$이었으며, 분리된 M. pneumoniae 균주의 minocycline, sparfloxacin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, josamycin, erythromycin MIC 범위는 각각 $0.015\~0.25,\;0.06\~0.5,\;0.06\~0.5,\;0.25\~0.5,\;0.25\~0.5,\;0.015\~8.0,\;0.015\~8.0{\mu}m$이었다. 분리 동정된 M. pneumoniae 균주 중에서 erythromycin에 저항성인 균주가 60주$(48.8\%)$였으며, 모두가 ribosomal protein L4 영역과 23S rRNA domain V에 내성변이가 일어났으며, 이 중 2균주는 23S rRNA domain II에도 변이가 일어난 균주도 있었다. 국내에서 분리되는 M. pneumoniae균주의 $48\%$가 erytomycin에 저항성인 균주이므로 앞으로 이 균에 의한 폐렴의 치료에 주의가 요구된다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.947-956
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• 2004

생물체의 체내 지방대사에 아주 중요하게 작용하는 LPL의 유전자 구조변이가 한우의 경제형질에 미치는 효과를 구명하고자, 사람 등 포유류에서 주요한 변이부위로 인식되어 온 LPL유전자의 exon 5${\sim}$exon 6 영역에서 구조변이를 탐색하였다. 부모가 각기 다른 한우 24두를 이용하여 PCR 증폭산물 1674 bp (exon 5${\sim}$exon 6)에서 총 8 좌위의 SNP 검출하였는데, 이는 SNP 검출율이 약 1SNP/210bp로 기존 SNP 검출율 보다 비교적 높은 비율이며, 검출된 SNP들 간에 95% 이상의 높은 연관(linkage) 관계를 보여 비교적 잘 보존되어 있는 영역으로 사료된다. 그리고 검출된 SNP를 PCR-RFLP 기법을 이용하여 표현형질 기록치를 확보한 한우 33차 후대검정축 129두의 유전자형을 결정하였다. 그 결과 intron 5번의 제한효소 Hae III로 처리한 823A\longrightarrowG 변이부위가 측정된 모든 도체형질에서 유전자형에 따라 뚜렷한 차이를 보였으며, 특히 근내지방도와 통계적 유의성이 인정되었다(p<0.05). 사람 및 생쥐에서 LPL의 촉매활성부위를 암호화하는 exon 5번 및 6번에서의 변이는 LPL의 활성도에 영향을 미치며, 이는 혈액내의 중성지방농도 및 지방대사에 작용한다는 보고가 있다. 이들 변이구조와 95% 이상 강한 연관을 보이는 intron 5번의 구조변이는 근내지방도와 유의적으로 관찰되었다. 앞으로, intron 5번의 823A\longrightarrowG 변이가 어떤 근거로 근내지방도와 유의적으로 나타났는지 그 근거를 증명할 수 있는 추가적인 실험이 필요한 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.294-304
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• 2020

Objective: The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the absorbent (a mixture of activated carbon and hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate) on growth performance, blood profiles and hepatic genes expression in broilers fed diets naturally contaminated with aflatoxin. Methods: A total of 1,200 one-day-old male chicks were randomly assigned to 6 treatments with 10 replicate cages per treatment. The dietary treatments were as follows: i) control (basal diets); ii) 50% contaminated corn; iii) 100% contaminated corn; iv) control+1% adsorbent; v) 50% contaminated corn+1% absorbent; vi) 100% contaminated corn+1% absorbent. Results: During d 1 to 21, feeding contaminated diets reduced (p<0.05) body weight (BW), average daily gain (ADG), and average daily feed intake (ADFI), but increased (p<0.05) feed-to-gain ratio (F/G). The absorbent supplementation increased (p<0.05) BW, ADG, and ADFI. There were interactions (p<0.05) in BW, ADG, and ADFI between contaminated corn and absorbent. Overall, birds fed 100% contaminated diets had lower (p<0.05) final BW and ADG, but higher (p<0.05) F/G compared to those fed control diets. The absorbent addition increased (p<0.05) serum albumin concentration on d 14 and 28 and total protein (TP) level on d 28, decreased (p<0.05) alanine transaminase activity on d 14 and activities of aspartate aminotransferase and alkaline phosphatase on d 28. Feeding contaminated diets reduced (p<0.05) hepatic TP content on d 28 and 42. The contaminated diets upregulated (p<0.05) expression of interleukin-6, catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD), but downregulated (p<0.05) glutathione S-transferase (GST) expression in liver. The absorbent supplementation increased (p<0.05) interleukin-1β, CAT, SOD, cytochrome P450 1A1 and GST expression in liver. There were interactions (p<0.05) in the expression of hepatic CAT, SOD, and GST between contaminated corn and absorbent. Conclusion: The results suggest that the naturally aflatoxin-contaminated corn depressed growth performance, while the adsorbent could partially attenuate the adverse effects of aflatoxin on growth performance, blood profiles and hepatic genes expression in broilers.