• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.147-160
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• 2006

GATA transcription factors are widespread eukaryotic regulators whose DNA-binding domain is a class IV zinc finger motif in the form $CX_{2}CX_{17-20}CX_{2}C$followed by a basic region. In fungi, they act as transcriptional activators or repressors in several different processes, ranging from nitrogen source utilization to mating-type switching. Using an in-house bioinformatics portal system, we surveyed 50 fungal and 9 out-group genomes and identified 396 putative fungal GATA transcription factors. The proportion of GATA transcription factors within a genome varied among taxonomic lineages. Subsequent analyses of phylogenetic relationships among the fungal GATA transcription factors, as well as a study of their domain architecture and gene structure, demonstrated high degrees of conservation in type IVa and type IVb zinc finger motifs and the existence of distinctive clusters at least at the level of subphylum. The SFH1 subgroup with a 20-residue loop was newly identified, in addition to six well-defined subgroups in the subphylum Pezizomycotina. Furthermore, a novel GATA motif with a 2f-residue loop ($CX_{2}CX_{21}CX_{2}C$, designated 'zinc finger type IVc') was discovered within the phylum Basidiomycota. Our results suggest that fungal GATA factors might have undergone multiple distinct modes of evolution resulting in diversified cellular modulation in fungi.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1484-1490
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• 2004

Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes from the displacement-loop (D-loop) region (436 bp) were genotyped and sequenced in Japanese Black beef cattle raised in the same herd. Correlation coefficients between mitochondrial DNA haplotypes, maternal lineage, birth weight, preweaning average daily gain, weaning weight, post weaning average daily gain and yearling weight were computed. The objective was to study the relationship between maternal and postnatal growth traits and to investigate if postnatal growth of calves to yearling age could be accurately predicted from mitochondrial DNA haplotypes. Results of the phylogenetic analysis revealed 17 maternal lineages and four mitochondrial DNA haplotypes. There were strong, positive and highly significant (p<0.001) correlations among maternal traits ranging from 0.52 to 0.98. Similarly, among postnatal growth traits, most of the correlations were also strong, positive and highly significant (p<0.001); the highest correlation of 0.94 was between preweaning average daily gain and weaning weight. However, correlations between mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and postnatal growth traits were very low, mostly negative and non-significant (p>0.05) ranging from -0.05 to 0.1. Prediction of postnatal growth from mitochondrial DNA yielded very low $R^{2}$ values ranging from 0.002 to 0.019. It was concluded that mitochondrial DNA polymorphism has no significant association with postnatal growth from birth to yearling age, and by implication, nuclear rather than cytoplasmic DNA, accounts for most of the genetic variation observed in postnatal growth of Japanese Black cattle. Therefore, mitochondrial DNA genotyping at an early age has no bearing on the accurate prediction of the future growth performance of calves.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.5.1-5.16
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• 2021

Background: Arctic-like (AL) lineages of rabies viruses (RABVs) remains endemic in some Arctic and Asia countries. However, their evolutionary dynamics are largely unappreciated. Objectives: We attempted to estimate the evolutionary history, geographic origin and spread of the Arctic-related RABVs. Methods: Full length or partial sequences of the N and G genes were used to infer the evolutionary aspects of AL RABVs by Bayesian evolutionary analysis. Results: The most recent common ancestor (tMRCA) of the current Arctic and AL RABVs emerged in the 1830s and evolved independently after diversification. Population demographic analysis indicated that the viruses experienced gradual growth followed by a sudden decrease in its population size from the mid-1980s to approximately 2000. Genetic flow patterns among the regions reveal a high geographic correlation in AL RABVs transmission. Discrete phylogeography suggests that the geographic origin of the AL RABVs was in east Russia in approximately the 1830s. The ancestral AL RABV then diversified and immigrated to the countries in Northeast Asia, while the viruses in South Asia were dispersed to the neighboring regions from India. The N and G genes of RABVs in both clades sustained high levels of purifying selection, and the positive selection sites were mainly found on the C-terminus of the G gene. Conclusions: The current AL RABVs circulating in South and North Asia evolved and dispersed independently.

• BMB Reports
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.505-515
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• 2021

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) include human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) derived from blastocysts and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) generated from somatic cell reprogramming. Due to their self-renewal ability and pluripotent differentiation potential, hPSCs serve as an excellent experimental platform for human development, disease modeling, drug screening, and cell therapy. Traditionally, hPSCs were considered to form a homogenous population. However, recent advances in single cell technologies revealed a high degree of variability between individual cells within a hPSC population. Different types of heterogeneity can arise by genetic and epigenetic abnormalities associated with long-term in vitro culture and somatic cell reprogramming. These variations initially appear in a rare population of cells. However, some cancer-related variations can confer growth advantages to the affected cells and alter cellular phenotypes, which raises significant concerns in hPSC applications. In contrast, other types of heterogeneity are related to intrinsic features of hPSCs such as asynchronous cell cycle and spatial asymmetry in cell adhesion. A growing body of evidence suggests that hPSCs exploit the intrinsic heterogeneity to produce multiple lineages during differentiation. This idea offers a new concept of pluripotency with single cell heterogeneity as an integral element. Collectively, single cell heterogeneity is Janus-faced in hPSC function and application. Harmful heterogeneity has to be minimized by improving culture conditions and screening methods. However, other heterogeneity that is integral for pluripotency can be utilized to control hPSC proliferation and differentiation.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.698-702
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• 2021

Yellow head virus (YHV) is a rod-shaped positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus, classified into the genus Okavirus, family Roniviridae, and order Nidovirales. In this study, 200 fleshy prawns (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) collected from the vicinity of Narodo in Goheung-gun, Korea, were screened for the presence of yellow head complex viruses and related genotype such as YHV genotype 8. The detection rate of YHV genotype 8 among the 200 fleshy prawns, determined using nested RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reation), was 39.0%. Phylogenetic analysis of the ORF1b gene of YHV showed that eight distinct genetic lineages were detected. The four strains of YHV genotype 8 obtained in this study formed a robust clade with the YHV genotype 8 group that was first isolated from fleshy prawns in China suspected to have acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND).

• ALGAE
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2024

Oomycetes are ubiquitous heterotrophs of considerable economic and ecological importance. Lately their diversity in marine environments has been shown to be greatly underappreciated and many lineages of intracellular holocarpic parasites, infecting micro- and macro-algae, remain to be fully described taxonomically. Among them, pathogens of marine red algae have been studied extensively as they infect important seaweed crops. Throughout the 20th century, most intracellular, holocarpic biotrophic oomycetes that infect red algae have been assigned to the genus Olpidiopsis Cornu. However, 18S rRNA sequencing of Olpidiopsis saprolegniae, the species considered the generitype for Olpidiopsis, suggests that this genus is not closely related to the marine pathogens and that the latter requires a nomenclatural update. Here, we compile and reanalyze all recently published 18S rRNA sequence data for marine holocarpic oomycetes, with a particular focus on holocarpic pathogens of red algae. Their taxonomy has been revised twice over the past four years, with suggestions to transfer them first into the genus Pontisma and then Sirolpidium, and into a monogeneric order, Pontismatales. We show however, that previously published topologies and the proposed taxa Pontisma, Sirolpidium, and Pontismatales are unsupported. We highlight that name changes that are unfounded and premature create confusion in interested parties, especially concerning pathogens of marine red algae that infect important seaweed crops. We thus propose that the names of these holocarpic biotrophic parasites of red algae are retained temporarily, until a supported topology is produced with more genetic markers to enable the circumscription of species and higher-level taxa.

• 생태와환경
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.212-220
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• 2022

재첩은 하구생태계에 서식하는 종으로, 우리나라에는 섬진강 하구에서 가장 많이 분포하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 섬진강 하구에 서식하는 재첩은 담수와 해수생태계의 변화를 잘 반영하는 종이다. 재첩은 외부형태만으로는 종 동정이 어려운 분류군에 속한다. 본 연구에서는 섬진강 서식 재첩의 종 동정을 위해 형태적 관찰뿐만 아니라 미토콘드리아 DNA의 COI 유전자 기반 DNA 바코딩을 통해 분석하였다. 그 결과 재첩 간 다른 두 종을 확인하였으며, COI 염기서열의 다중배열 분석결과 약 98%의 높은 상동성을 보였다. 재첩과 내 다양한 종들과 계통수 분석으로 계통유 전학적 위치를 확인한 결과, 본 연구에서 사용한 재첩은 C. japonica, C. fluminea와 하나의 계통군으로 묶여졌고 진화적 거리는 0.003 이하로 나타났다. 또한 재첩속인 C. leana와 0.089, C. fluminalis와 0.096으로, 재첩과 내 3종과는 약 0.2로 C. japonica에 비해 상대적으로 진화적 거리가 먼 것으로 나타났다. 계통유전학적 분석을 통해 본 연구에서 사용한 재첩은 C. japonica이고, 그중 한 개체가 C. fluminea인 것으로 확인되었다. 이러한 연구 결과는 DNA 바코딩을 이용한 섬진강 하류 지역에 서식하는 재첩의 COI 시컨스를 통해 계통유전학적 정보를 제공하여 형태학적 분석에 어려움이 있는 종에 대한 중요한 자료로 활용될 것이다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2020

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae (Fof) 에 의한 딸기 시들음병은 국내 딸기재배에서 가장 중요한 병해 중 하나이다. 국내 발생하는 Fof의 특성을 분석하고자 시들음병균의 유전적 다양성, 병원성과 살균제 반응을 조사하였다. 분리균은 Fo080701를 제외한 모든 균주에서 Fof 특이적 primer에 증폭되었다. 분리균의 nuclear ribosomal intergenic spacer region과 EF-1α sequences 분석 결과 3개의 lineage를 형성하였다. 대부분의 분리균은 lineage 1에 속하였으며 lineage 3에 3개 균주와 lineage 2에 1개 균주가 포함되었다. 분리된 모든 균주는 설향품종에 병원성을 보였다. Prochloraz는 DNA lineage 2에 속하는 Fo080701균주를 제외하곤 시들음병균의 EC₅₀값이 0.02-0.1 ㎍/ml로 낮은 농도에서 효과적으로 균사 생장을 억제하였다. Metconazole의 EC₅₀값도 0.04-0.22 ㎍/ml로 prochloraz와 비슷한 억제 효과를 보였다. Pyraclostrobin의 EC₅₀값은 0.23-168.01 ㎍/ml로 균주에 따라 차이가 컸다. 딸기 재배포장에서 boscalid+fludioxonil, fluxapyroxad+pyraclostrobin, prochloraz manganese이 딸기 시들음병 방제에 효과적이었다.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.550-556
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• 1995

c-myc proto-oncogene은 여러 세포들의 분화와 형질전화에 뿐만 아니라 정상세포의 분열조절에도 관여한다고 알려져왔다. 특히 생쥐의 초기배아에서 c-myc mRNA가 발현되고 antisense c-myc oligomer의 미세주입에 의해 배발생이 억제된다는 연구결과는 c-myc이 초기배아의 발생 및 분열에 관여하는 것을 시사한다. 그러나 최근까지 초기배아에 존재하는 c-myc promoter의 기능적 활성화에 관한 연구는 미진하였다. 이를 위하여, c-myc promoter와 대장균의 lacZ 유전자를 결합시킨 두 종류의 vector(pcmyc-Gall, pcmyc-Ga12)를 만들어 수정란의 전핵에 미세주입한 후, 배 발생에 따른 c-myc promoter의 활성화를 lacZ 유전자의 산물인 $\beta$-galactosidase 에 의한 X-gal 염색으로 조사하였다. 미세주입된 초기 배아는 2세포기 배아를 포함하는 여러 발생단계에서 $\beta$-galactosidase 의 활성을 보였다. 이는 c-myc 유전자가 배아의 게놈유전자로부터 발현되며, 또한 궁극적으로 초기 배아의 발생과정에 중요한 역할을 하고 있음을 시사하고 있다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2021

키위에 세균성 궤양병을 일으키는 Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae는 유전적 특성과 생산하는 독소에 따라 5개의 biovar (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)로 나누어진다. 그중 최근 전 세계적으로 유행하고 있는 biovar 3는 2011년부터 국내에서 분리되고 있다. RAPD 분석을 바탕으로 국내에서 분리된 biovar 3 균주는 6개의 subgroup (I, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII)으로 나누어진 바 있다. 본 연구에서는 차등되는 RAPD 밴드의 염기서열로부터 6개 subgroup 각각에 특이적인 SCAR primers를 개발하였다. 각 subgroup에 특이적인 이들 primers를 사용하여 2011-2017에 국내에서 분리한 biovar 3 균주들의 subgroup 분포를 조사하였다. 조사된 54개 균주 중 35개(64.8%)가 subgroup V에, 9개(16.7%) 균주가 subgroup IV, 4개(7.4%)가 subgroup VI, 3개(5.6%) 균주가 subgroup VII, 2개(3.7%)가 subgroup VIII, 그리고 1개(1.9%) 균주가 subgroup I에 속하였다. Subgroups IV, V 및 VI에 속하는 균주들은 각각 중국, 뉴질랜드, 칠레 균주와 연관이 있었다. 이 연구에 따르면 우리나라의 biovar 3 균주들은 유전적으로 다양하며 꽃가루를 통해 외국으로부터 유입된 것으로 추정된다.