• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2003

The effects of cultivation methods (cultivation of curled-shaped type, M-1; conventional cultivation, M-2; growing after treatment with a growth regulator, M-3; cultivation by the combination of M-1 and treatment with oak charcoal, M-4) on the quality characteristics of soybean sprouts were studied by the measurement of growth characteristics. This study also investigated the changes in shelf-life stability of the new soybean sprouts (NSB) using M-4, which was cultivated with oak charcoal and treated with antimicrobial Citrus sunki seed extract. Among the soybean sprouts grown for six days at the high temperature and humidity environment (90$\pm$5% RH, 25$\pm$1$^{\circ}C$), M-1 revealed no significant difference in terms of quality, such as the harvest yield, the rot rate and the growth characteristics when compared with M-2. M-3 showed no significant difference in growth characteristics, of hardness, and sensory evaluation scores when compared with the soybean sprouts grown by conventional methods. NSB had a low number of total microorganisms and had a better appearance after five days of storage than did the control group (M-2). These findings demonstrate that chemical-free and clean soybean sprouts can be grown by combining oak charcoal and antimicrobial Citrus sunki seed extract, thereby meeting the consumer demand for safe, chemical free sprouts.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.314-321
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• 2014

CDK2 is a key regulator of cell cycle progression. In this study, we screened for miRNAs targeting CDK2 using a luciferase-3'-untranslated region reporter assay. Among 11 hit miRNAs, miR-509-3p reduced CDK2 protein levels and significantly inhibited cancer cell growth. Microarray, Western blotting, and luciferase reporter analyses revealed additional targets of miR-509-3p, including Rac1 and PIK3C2A. Overexpression of miR-509-3p induced G1 cell-cycle arrest and inhibited colony formation and migration. RNAi experiments indicated that the growth-inhibitory effects of miR-509-3p may occur through down-regulation of CDK2, Rac1, and PIK3C2A. Targeting of multiple growth regulatory genes by miR-509-3p may contribute to effective anti-cancer therapy.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.243-256
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• 2022

Transcriptional regulation, a core component of gene regulatory networks, plays a key role in controlling individual organism's growth and development. To understand how plants modulate cellular processes for growth and development, the identification and characterization of gene regulatory networks are of importance. The SHORT-ROOT (SHR) transcription factor is known for its role in cell divisions in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, whether SHR is involved in hypocotyl cell elongation remains unknown. Here, we reveal that SHR controls hypocotyl cell elongation via the transcriptional regulation of XTH18, XTH22, and XTH24, which encode cell wall remodeling enzymes called xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolases (XTHs). Interestingly, SHR activates transcription of the XTH genes, independently of its partner SCARECROW (SCR), which is different from the known mode of action. In addition, overexpression of the XTH genes can promote cell elongation in the etiolated hypocotyl. Moreover, confinement of SHR protein in the stele still induces cell elongation, despite the aberrant organization in the hypocotyl ground tissue. Therefore, it is likely that SHR-mediated growth is uncoupled from SHR-mediated radial patterning in the etiolated hypocotyl. Our findings also suggest that intertissue communication between stele and endodermis plays a role in coordinating hypocotyl cell elongation of the Arabidopsis seedling. Taken together, our study identifies SHR as a new crucial regulator that is necessary for cell elongation in the etiolated hypocotyl.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.435-441
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate the quality of seeds, the germination rates and the days required for germination, to examine the patterns of protein expressions during the germination and to improve the techniques of managing and storing seeds and viability of the seeds of Lithospermum erythrorhizon Sieb. et Zucc. After collecting and harvesting seeds, they were classified to white and brown colors of seed coat through testing their seed size, weight, and quality. The germination rates, the days required for germination, and the protein expressions were examined with different colors of seed coats, storing temperatures and durations by treating the different plant growth regulators and primings. One hundred seed weight of white color was heavier about 1.17 g than those of brown one about 0.81 g. The germination rates in white color of seed coat was higher, 3.05 ~ 5.75%, than those in brown one. Its rates were decreased with getting longer in storage durations. There was no big differences on germination rates between storage temperatures. The plant growth regulator of $GA_3$ and Kinetin was affected to improve the seed germination. $GA_3$ increased the seed germination clearly at 25 ppm level, while kinetin increased it gradually from 25 to 100 ppm levels. In germination by seed primings, PEG6000 made higher germination rate with increasing their levels, whereas $KNO_3$ increased the germination until 100 mM level and then decreased it with 200 mM unlike PEG6000. The protein expressed during the seed germination were appeared more and clearer bands in the seed after germination, especially 20 ~ 30 kDa, compared to those in the seed before germination. These results showing more and clearer bands were positively related to the germination rates which were different by seed colors, storage temperatures and durations, and plant growth regulators and primings.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.62-66
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• 1997

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 1994년부터 1995년까지 전남농촌진흥원(全南農材振興院) 특용작물(特用作物) 시험포장(試驗圃場)에서 삼도(三島) 시호(柴胡)을 공시(供試)하여 생장조정제(生長調整劑) C-MH 처리(處理)가 시호(柴胡)의 생육(生育) 및 근수량(根收量)에 미치는 영향(影響)을 구명(究明)하기위해 실시(實施)한 시험결과를 요약(要約)하면 다음과 같다. 1. C-MH 액제(液劑) 살포(撒布)가 처리농도(處理濃度)가 높을수록, 살포회수(撒布回數)가 많을수록 개화기(開花期)는 점차 늦어졌으며 무처리(無處理)에 비하여 개화(開花)가 $17{\sim}21$일 지연(遲延)되었고 화아분화(花芽分化)가 억제(抑制)되어 주당(株當) 화경수(花莖數)의 감소효과(減少效果)가 있었다. 2. C-MH 액제(液劑) 2,000ppm 살포농도(撒布濃度)로 하여 처리시기(處理時期)는 초장(草長)이 30cm 및 40cm일때 2회(回) 살포(撒布)하면 무처리(無處理)에 비해 초장(草長)은 15.2cm 짧아졌으나 주당(株當) 분기수(分枝數)가 3.0개로 많아졌으며, 규근장(圭根長) 3.8cm, 규근경(圭根徑) 0.65mm 및 주당(株當) 기근수(支根數) 3.0개(個) 정도로 지하부(地下部)의 생장량(生長量)이 증가(增加)되었다. 3. 건근(乾根) 수량(收量)은 초장(草長)이 30cm및 40cm인 시기에 C-MH액제(液劑) 2,000ppm 농도(濃度)로 2회살포(回撒布)하였을 때 상근중(上根重) 비율(比率)이 10% 높아 전체적인 개체(個體) 생육량(生育量)이 많아 근부(根部)의 비대(肥大)로 무처리(無處理) 65kg/10a에 비하여 27% 증수(增收)를 가져왔다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제49권11호
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• pp.598-606
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• 2016

ARF is an alternative reading frame product of the INK4a/ARF locus, inactivated in numerous human cancers. ARF is a key regulator of cellular senescence, an irreversible cell growth arrest that suppresses tumor cell growth. It functions by sequestering MDM2 (a p53 E3 ligase) in the nucleolus, thus activating p53. Besides MDM2, ARF has numerous other interacting partners that induce either cellular senescence or apoptosis in a p53-independent manner. This further complicates the dynamics of the ARF network. Expression of ARF is frequently disrupted in human cancers, mainly due to epigenetic and transcriptional regulation. Vigorous studies on various transcription factors that either positively or negatively regulate ARF transcription have been carried out. However, recent focus on posttranslational modifications, particularly ubiquitination, indicates wider dynamic controls of ARF than previously known. In this review, we discuss the role and dynamic regulation of ARF in senescence and cancer.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표대회:발표눈문요지록
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• pp.73-82
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• 2002

The committing step in Met and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) synthesis is catalyzed by cystathionine ${\gamma}$ -synthase (CGS). Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana overexpressing CGS under control of 35S promoter show increased soluble Met and its metabolite S-methylmethionine, but only at specific stages of development. CGS-overexpressing seedlings are resistant to ethionine. Similar results were obtained with transgenic potato plants overexpressing Arabidopsis CGS. Several of the transgenic lines show silencing of CGS resulting in deformed p]ants with a reduced capacity for reproductive growth similar as transgenic plants by antisense RNA (CGS[-]). Exogenous feeding of Met to the CGS[-] and CGS[+] silenced plants partially restores their growth. Similar morphological deformities are observed in plants cosuppressed for SAM synthetase, even though such plants accumulate 250 fold more soluble Met than wild type and they overexpress CGS. The results suggest that the abnormalities associated with CGS and SAM synthetase silencing are due in part to a reduced ability to produce SAM, and that SAM may be a regulator of CGS expression.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2001

식물조직배양기술을 이용하여 사포닌 함량이 높은 인삼 root를 생산하고자, 인삼 root의 생장과 사포닌생산에 미치는 배지와 식물생장조절물질의 영향을 조사하였다. 인삼 root를 여러 종류의 배지에 배양하였을 때, 인삼 root의 생장과 사포닌 생산은 SH배지에서 가장 우수하였고, SH배지에 배양시, 접종후 약 10일후에 생체중량이 초기접종량의 2배가 되었다. 각 배지별로 배양한 인삼 root의 진세노사이드 패턴과 함량은 다소 차이가 있었는데, SH배지와 White배지에서 성장한 인삼 root의 총진세노사이드 함량이 가장 높았다. 생장조절물질에 있어서는 4.0mg/L NAA를 함유한 SH배지에서 성장한 인삼 root의 생장이 가장 우수하였고, 사포닌 함량은 0.5mg/L BAP 처리구에서 가장 높았다. 이러한 결과들은 인삼 root 배양에 의해 사포닌을 단기간에 생산할 수 있는 가능성을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.138-140
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• 2005

천문동 (Asparagus cochinchinesis (Lour.) Merr.)의 기내생장과 증식의 가능성을 검토하기 위하여 신초의 유기, 생장 및 발근에 적합한 배지, 식물생장조절제, 배양온도를 검정한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. MS 기본배지에 3.0 mg/l BA 처리시 신초의 유기 및 생장이 가장 양호하였으며 MS 기본배지에 0.5 mg/l IBA 처리가 발근에 가장 효과적이었고 기내배양 온도는 $23{\sim}25^{\circ}C$가 적합하였다.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2001

예취한 페레니얼 라이그라스의 재생에 미치는 식물 생장 조절물질의 영향을 조사한 결과, 0.1. 0.5 mg/L의 cytokinin 처리시 가장 높은 재생력을 나타내었으며, kinetin과 2iP가 BAP보다 재생에 보다 좋은 영향을 미쳤다. 2,4-D의 경우, 0.1 mg/L에서 가장 높은 재생력을 나타내었으며, GA$_3$은 초기재생력은 왕성하였으나 예취 2주 이후의 생장이 느린 것으로 나타났다. Cytokinin과 auxin의 세포분열에 미치는 경합을 조사한 결과, kinetin과 2,4-D를 단독으로 처리했을 때보다 두 생장 조절물질을 함께 처리했을 때 더 좋은 재생력을 나타내었다. 페레니얼 라이그라스의 현탁 배양세포에서도 cytokinin 과 auxin을 단독으로 처리했을 때보다 함께 처리했을 때 세포분열이 왕성한 것으로 나타났다.