• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

Secondary walls have recently drawn research interest as a primary source of sugars for liquid biofuel production. Secondary walls are composed of a complex mixture of the structural polymers cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. A matrix of hemicellulose and lignin surrounds the cellulose component of the plant's cell wall in order to protect the cell from enzymatic attacks. Such resistance, along with the variability seen in the proportions of the major components of the mixture, presents process design and operating challenges to the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fuel. Expanding bioenergy production to the commercial scale will require a significant improvement in the growth of feedstock as well as in its quality. Plant biotechnology offers an efficient means to create "targeted" changes in the chemical and physical properties of the resulting biomass through pathway-specific manipulation of metabolisms. The successful use of the genetic engineering approach largely depends on the development of two enabling tools: (1) the discovery of regulatory genes involved in key pathways that determine the quantity and quality of the biomass, and (2) utility promoters that can drive the expression of the introduced genes in a highly controlled manner spatially and/or temporally. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of the transcriptional regulatory network that controls secondary wall biosynthesis and discuss experimental approaches to developing-xylem-specific utility promoters.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2004년도 임시총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.290-292
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• 2004

Heavy metal contamination has been increased in aqueous environments near many industrial facilities, such as metal plating facilities, mining operations, and tanneries. The soils in the vicinity of many military bases are also reported to be contaminated and pose a risk of groundwater and surface water contamination with heavy metals. The biological removal of metals through bioaccumulation has distinct advantages over conventional methods; the process rarely produces undesirable or deleterious chemical byproducts, it is highly efficient, easy to operate and cost-effective in the treatment of large volumes of wastewater containing toxic heavy metals. In addition, a recent development of molecular biology shed light on the enhancing the microorganism's natural remediation capability as well as improving the current biological treatment. In this study, characteristics of the cell growth and heavy metal accumulation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing phytochelatin syntahse (PCS) gene were studied in batch cultures. The AtCRFI gene was demonstrated to confer substantial increases in metal tolerance in yeast. PCS-expressing cells tolerated more Cd$^{2＋}$ than controls.

• BMB Reports
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.297-301
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• 2002

Membrane lipid peroxidation processes yield products that may react with DNA and proteins to cause oxidative modifications. The oxyR gene product regulates the expression of enzymes and proteins that are needed for cellular protection against oxidative stress. Upon exposure to tert-butylhydroperoxide (t-BOOH) and 2,2'-azobis (2-amidinopropane) hydrochloride (AAPH), which induce lipid peroxidation in membranes, the Escherichia coli oxyR overexpression mutant was much more resistant to lipid peroxidation-mediated cellular damage, when compared to the oxyR deletion mutant in regard to growth kinetics, viability, and DNA damage. The deletion of the oxyR gene in E. coli also resulted in increased susceptibility of superoxide dismutase to lipid peroxidation-mediated inactivation. The results indicate that the peroxidation of lipid is probably one of the important intermediary events in free radical-induced cellular damage. Also, the oxyR regulon plays an important protective role in lipid peroxidation-mediated cellular damage.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1041-1046
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• 2014

Evidence is growing that the $GABA_B$ receptor, which belongs to the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, is involved in tumorigenesis. Recent studies have shown that ${\beta}$-arrestin can serve as a scaffold to recruit signaling protein c-Jun N-terminal knase (JNK) to GPCR. Here we investigated whether ${\beta}$-arrestin recruits JNK to the $GABA_B$ receptor and facilitates its activation to affect the growth of cancer cells. Our results showed that ${\beta}$-arrestin expression is decreased in breast cancer cells in comparison with controls. ${\beta}$-arrestin could enhance interactions of the $GABA_BR{\cdot}{\beta}-arrestin{\cdot}JNK$ signaling module in MCF-7 and T-47D cells. Further studies revealed that increased expression of ${\beta}$-arrestin enhances the phosphorylation of JNK and induces cancer cells apoptosis. Collectively, these results indicate that ${\beta}$-arrestin promotes JNK mediated apoptosis via a $GABA_BR{\cdot}{\beta}-arrestin{\cdot}JNK$ signaling module.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2983-2986
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• 2013

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs (18-25 nucleotides) that post-transcriptionally modulate gene expression by negatively regulating the stability or translational efficiency of their target mRNAs. In this context, the present study aimed to evaluate the in vitro effects of miR-153 inhibition in the breast carcinoma cell line MDA-MB-231. Forty-eight hours after MDA-MB-231 cells were transfected with the miR-153 inhibitor, an MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay was utilized to determine the effects of miR-153 on cell viability. Flow cytometry analysis and assessment of caspase 3/7 activity were adopted to determine whether miR-153 affects the proliferation rates and apoptosis levels of MDA-MB-231 cells. Our results showed that silencing of miR-153 significantly inhibited growth when compared to controls at 48 hours, reducing proliferation by 37.6%, and inducing apoptosis. Further studies are necessary to corroborate our findings and examine the potential use of this microRNA in future diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제94권4호통권161호
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• pp.236-242
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• 2005

다양한 광조건에서 식물의 생장조절에 관여하는 광수용체인 phytochrome B(PhyB) 유전자를 교잡종 포플러 수항1호에서 분리하였다. 염기서열분석 결과, PhyB cDNA는 길이가 3,456bp 이었으며 1,156개의 아미노산으로 구성된 단백질을 암호화하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. PhyB 단백질은 아미노산 수준에서 Populus balsamfera PhyB1과 98%의 높은 상동성을 나타내었다. Northern blot 분석 결과, PhyB 유전자는 광조건에서는 높은 수준으로 발현되지만, 암조건에서는 발현되지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과들을 종합하여 볼 때 PhyB는 빛에 의하여 발현이 유도되며 광수용체 역할을 하는 것으로 여겨진다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1059-1065
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 임베디드 RTOS와 퍼지제어 알고리즘을 이용하여 양액의 농도와 공급량을 자동으로 조절하는 양액 공급 제어 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다. 작물의 생육에 영향을 미치는 인자는 일사량, 외부온도, 외부습도, 생육단계로 구성하였으며, 양액온도, 전기전도도(EC), 산도(pH)가 측정되었다. 그 결과를 바탕으로 양액의 농도와 공급량 조절을 위해 양액 조절 퍼지제어 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 일반 사용자를 위하여 임베디드 RTOS, 한글 LCD, 그리고 그래픽으로 구성된 양액 전용 임베디드 제어기를 개발하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.161-164
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• 2012

위치 기반 서비스(Location-Based Services)란 사용자의 위치를 통하여 사용자가 필요한 정보를 전달해주는 서비스를 말한다. 최근 휴대용 스마트 기기(스마트폰, 태블릿 PC 등)를 사용하는 사람들이 급격하게 증가하면서 위치 기반 서비스의 이용률 역시 급격하게 증가하고 있다. 위치 기반 서비스에서 가장 중요한 것 중 하나가 보안이다. 사용자의 개인 정보, 특히 질병 등의 민감한 내용의 정보가 노출 되어서는 안 된다. 본 논문에서는 위치 기반 서비스를 공격하는 방법의 예와, 이를 방어하기 위한 보안 기술을 제시한다. 그리고 이를 실제 서비스에 도입하였을 경우 어떤 방식으로 적용할 수 있는지를 제시한다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2002년도 생물공학의 동향 (X)
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• pp.261-264
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• 2002

CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells were transfected with plasmids containing both cis-acting HRE (hypoxia response element) and CMV-promoter that controls tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA). CHO cells with HRE produced 16.2 fold higher t-PA concentration than CHO cells without HRE. It was noted that hypoxia strongly induced CHO cell apoptosis. which resulted in decrease of cell viability and protein production. In this study. by introducing Bcl-2, anti-apoptotic gene, we tried to recover cell viability and increase the protein production. When batch culture of both control cells without transfection of Bcl-2 and cells transfected with Bcl-2 were performed in the absence of CoCl ι hypoxia mimic condition. the cells with Bcl-2 were effected specific cell growth rates, maximum cell density. Immunoblotting assay showed Bcl-2 was recombinant with HRE dependent t- P A expression cassette, and their expression level was depended on hypoxia. By introducing Bcl-2, both cell viability and maximum cell density could be increased.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2016

The growth of mobile devices in Internet of Things (IoT) leads to a number of remote and controlling system related IoT applications. For instance, home automation controlling system uses client system such web apps on smartphone or web service to access the home server by sending control commands. The home server receives the command, then controls for instance the light system. The web service gateway responsible for handling clients' requests attests an internet latency when an increasing number of end users requests submit toward it. Therefore, this web service gateway fails to detect several commands, slows down predefined actions which should be performed without human intervention. In this paper, we investigate the performance of a web server-side platgorm based event-driven, non-blocking approach called Node.js against traditional thread-based server side approach to handle a large number of client requests simultaneously for remote and controlling system in IoT remote monitoring applications. The Node.JS is 40% faster than the traditional web server side features thread-based approach. The use of Node.js server-side handles a large number of clients' requests, then therefore, reduces delay in performing predefined actions automatically in IoT environment.