• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1306-1308
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• 1998

Diamond like carbon(DLC) thin films possesed not only marvelous material charateristics such as large thermal conductivity, high hardness and being chemically inert, but also possesed negative electron affinity(NEA) properties. The NEA is an extremely desirable property of the material used in microelestronics and vacuum microelestronics device. DLC films were fabricated by pulsed laser deposition(PLD). The effect of the laser energy density and the substrate temperature on the properies of DLC films was investigated. The experiment was accomplished at temperatures in the range of room temperature to $400^{\circ}C$. The laser energy density was in the range of $6 J/cm^2$ to $16 J/cm^2$.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.295-299
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• 1993

Human renal dipeptidase (RDPase) was purified from surgically removed kdneys of renal stone aptients by affinity chromatography using its specific inhibitor, cilastain, as the ligand. The partial purified RDPase of 6 mg exhivited specific activity of 99.4 unit/mg with 2, 029 fold purification. it was composed of a slow moving major band (96%) and a fast moving minor band (4%). The minor band was not a contaminant as it showed a dipeptidase-specific activity. The kinetic parameters determined with glycyldehydrophenylalanine (Gdp) as synthetic substrate were Vmax, $322.6\;\mu{mol/min/mg}$ and km, 0.120 mM. This experiment provided biochemical evidences that sugically removed, nonfunctional kidneys in respect of glomerular filtration still retained high activity of renal dipeptidase.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.278-284
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• 1987

사과의 건조, 가공 중의 갈변을 방지하기 위한 기초 조사로서 후지 사과로부터 추출한 crude polyphenol oxidase의 특성과 열에 대한 저항성, 갈변 저해제의 저해 효과 등을 조사하였다. Catechol을 기질로 사용하였을 때 polyphenol oxidase의 최적 pH는 5.5, 최적온도는 $20^{\circ}C$, $K_m$ 값은 0.14M이었고, 열불활성화는 유사일차반응을 보였으며 이때 활성화에너지$(E_a)$와 Z값은 각각 23.0cal/kmol, $19.7^{\circ}C$였다. 기질에 따른 친화력은 o-diphenol, 특히 chlorogenic acid에 대하여 높았고, monophenol과 m-diphenol, p-diphenol에 대해서는 나타나지 않았다. Polyphenol oxidase에 의한 갈변은 thiourea와 potassium metabisulfite는 10mM에서, L-cysteine과 ascorbic acid, sodium diethyldithiocarbamate는 1mM에서 현저하게 저해되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.2087-2097
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• 2016

Most cold-adapted enzymes possess higher $K_m$ and $k_{cat}$ values than those of their mesophilic counterparts to maximize the reaction rate. This characteristic is often ascribed to a high structural flexibility and improved dynamics in the active site. However, this may be less convincing to cold-adapted metabolic enzymes, which work at substrate concentrations near $K_m$. In this respect, cold adaptation of a shikimate kinase (SK) in the shikimate pathway from psychrophilic Colwellia psychrerythraea (CpSK) was characterized by comparing it with a mesophilic Escherichia coli homolog (EcSK). The optimum temperatures for CpSK and EcSK activity were approximately $30^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$, respectively. The melting points were $33^{\circ}C$ and $45^{\circ}C$ for CpSK and EcSK, respectively. The ${\Delta}G_{H_2O}$ (denaturation in the absence of denaturing agent) values were 3.94 and 5.74 kcal/mol for CpSK and EcSK, respectively. These results indicated that CpSK was a cold-adapted enzyme. However, contrary to typical kinetic data, CpSK had a lower $K_m$ for its substrate shikimate than most mesophilic SKs, and the $k_{cat}$ was not increased. This observation suggested that CpSK may have evolved to exhibit increased substrate affinity at low intracellular concentrations of shikimate in the cold environment. Sequence analysis and homology modeling also showed that some important salt bridges were lost in CpSK, and higher Arg residues around critical Arg 140 seemed to increase flexibility for catalysis. Taken together, these data demonstrate that CpSK exhibits characteristics of cold adaptation with unusual kinetic parameters, which may provide important insights into the cold adaptation of metabolic enzymes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.483-491
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• 2021

Two putative genes, lip29 and est29, encoding lipolytic enzymes from the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus thermocatenulatus KCTC 3921 were cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant Lip29 and Est29 were purified 67.3-fold to homogeneity with specific activity of 2.27 U/mg and recovery of 5.8% and 14.4-fold with specific activity of 0.92 U/mg and recovery of 1.3%, respectively. The molecular mass of each purified enzyme was estimated to be 29 kDa by SDS-PAGE. The alignment analysis of amino acid sequences revealed that both enzymes belonged to GDSL lipase/esterase family including conserved blocks with SGNH catalytic residues which was mainly identified in plants before. While Est29 showed high specificity toward short-chain fatty acids (C4-C8), Lip29 showed strong lipolytic activity to long-chain fatty acids (C12-C16). The optimal activity of Lip29 toward p-nitrophenyl palmitate as a substrate was observed at 50℃ and pH 9.5, respectively, and its activity was maintained more than 24 h at optimal temperatures, indicating that Lip29 was thermostable. Lip29 exhibited high tolerance against detergents and metal ions. The homology modeling and substrate docking revealed that the long-chain substrates showed the greatest binding affinity toward enzyme. Based on the biochemical and insilico analyses, we present for the first time a GDSL-type lipase in the thermophilic bacteria group.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.546-554
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• 2019

This study, for the first time, reports the functional expression of lipase B derived from the yeast Candida antarctica (CALB) in Corynebacterium strain using the Escherichia coli plasmid PK18. The CALB gene fragment encoding a 317-amino-acid protein was successfully obtained from the total RNA of C. antarctica. CALB was readily produced in the Corynebacterium strain without the use of induction methods described in previous studies. This demonstrated the extracellular production of CALB in the Corynebacterium strain. CALB produced in the Corynebacterium MB001 strain transformed with pEC-CALB recombinant plasmid exhibited maximum extracellular enzymatic activity and high substrate affinity. The optimal pH and temperature for the hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl laurate by CALB were 9.0 and 40℃, respectively. The enzyme was stable at pH 10.7 in the glycine-KOH buffer and functioned as an alkaline lipase. The CALB activity was inhibited in the presence of high concentration of Mg²⁺, which indicated that CALB is not a metalloenzyme. These properties are key for the industrial application of the enzyme.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2002년도 생물공학의 동향 (X)
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• pp.445-448
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• 2002

The Pseudomonas fluorescens KCTC 1767, a selected and identified as potential candidate for stereo-specific resolution of rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester, was systematically investigated in order to induce the high level expression and detailed characterization of the expressing enzyme esterase. We cloned the esterase gene from chromosomal DNA of Pseudomonas fluorescens KCTC 1767 by PCR with two synthetic primers that desinged for simple purification. The recombinant esterase from Pseudomonas fluorescens KCTC 1767 exibited a high conversion rate and enantioselectivity to the (S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester as expected. The enzyme was easily purified to homogeniety by using a metal chelating affinity chromatography as a protein with poly histidine taq, and thus obtained 0.6 mg of protein from a 100 mL culture broth in a single step. The purified enzyme was steadily stable at the pH range from 7.0 to 10. The activity was also retained to be about 70% after the preincubation at $40^{\circ}C$ but over $50^{\circ}C$ lost the activity completely. The molecular mass of the esterase was estimated to be about 43 kDa on SDS-PAGE, and an identical result was also shown in gel filteration chromatography. The specific activity was calculated 27 mM/mg-protein/min by using the rac-ketoprofen ethly ester as a substrate.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1516-1524
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• 2014

Flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase (FAD-GDH) can utilize a variety of external electron acceptors and also has stricter substrate specificity than any other glucose oxidoreductases, which makes it the ideal diagnostic enzyme in the field of glucose biosensors. A gene coding for a hypothetical protein, similar to glucose oxidase and derived from Aspergillus terreus NIH2624, was overexpressed in Pichia pastoris GS115 under the control of an AOX1 promoter with a level of 260,000 U/l in the culture supernatant after fed-batch cultivation for 84 h. After a three-step purification protocol that included isopropanol precipitation, affinity chromatography, and a second isopropanol precipitation, recombinant FAD-GDH was purified with a recovery of 65%. This is the first time that isopropanol precipitation has been used to concentrate a fermentation supernatant and exchange buffers after affinity chromatography purification. The purified FAD-GDH exhibited a broad and diffuse band between 83 and 150 kDa. The recombinant FAD-GDH was stable across a wide pH range (3.5 to 9.0) with maximum activity at pH 7.5 and $55^{\circ}C$. In addition, it displayed very high thermal stability, with a half-life of 82 min at $60^{\circ}C$. These characteristics indicate that FAD-GDH will be useful in the field of glucose biosensors.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.195-202
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• 1998

Rhodococcus sp. 3T6-5Mj 균주의 배양액으로부터 0.2${\mu}m$ membrane filter을 통과시키고, 아세톤 침전, DEAE-Sephadex A-50 column chromatography의 약음이온 교환수지,cholesterol affinity column chromatography를 통과시켜서 콜레스테롤 산화 효소를 25.6units/mg의 비활성도, 15%의 회수율,88배로 정제할 수 있었다. 본 균주가 생산하는 콜레스테롤산화효소의 분자량은 SDS-PAGE로 측정한 결과 약,52,000 daltons 정도로 추정되었다. 그리고 이 효소의 Km값은 콜레스테롤을 기질로 측정하였을 때 $3.2{\times}10^{-4}M$ 이었다. 본 효소의 최적온도는 $50^{\circ}C$최적 pH는 7.0으로 나타났으며, 열에 대한 안정성은 30~$45^{\circ}C$,pH에 대한 안정성은 6.5~11.0으로 나타났다. 본 효소는 cholesterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, hecogenin, $\beta$m-sistosterol의 기질에 특이성을 나타내었다. 본 효소의 아미노산 440개의 잔기로 이루어져 있으며,그 아미노산 조성은 aspararine/aspartate > glutamine/glutamate > proline > alaline > histidine 의 순으로 나타났다. 본 효소는 효소적 혈중 콜레스테롤의 측정방법에 필수적인 콜레스테롤 산화 효소의 이용 가능성을 보여 주었다.용 가능성을 보여 주었다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.791-796
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• 2003

박피된 절편 연근의 갈변억제를 효과적으로 하기 위한 기초연구로 갈변의 주원인 효소인 polyphenol oxidase(PPO)를 분리, 정제하여 특성을 조사하였다. 박피된 절편 연근을 24시간 동안 $4^{\circ}C$에 방치하여 PPO 활성을 증가시켜 조효소액을 제조하였으며 PPO 조효소액을 acetone으로 침전시킨 후 Q-Sepharose anion-exchange column, Phenyl-Sepharose hydrophobic interaction column의 conventional column과 Mono-Q anion-exchange column, Superdex 75 gel-filtration column의 HPLC column을 이용하여 PPO 활성이 가장 높은 한 개의 PPO isoform LPIII-2를 최종 분리 정제하였다. 분리 정제된 LPIII-2의 분자량을 gel-filtration chromatography를 이용하여 측정한 결과 56kDa이었으며 SDS-PAGE를 실시한 후 silver staining한 결과 LPIII-2의 분자량은 28kDa와 26kDa으로 2개의 band를 형성하는 것으로 보아 heterodimer인 것으로 추정되었다. PPO isoform의 특성 조사를 위하여 Q-Sepharose anion-exchange chromatography를 이용하여 부분분리 정제된 2개의 isoforms(LP-II, LP-III)를 가지고 기질 특이성을 조사한 결과 LP-II의 경우 $5^{\circ}C$와 $30^{\circ}C$ 모두 catechol에 대한 기질 친화력이 높았으며 LP-III의 경우 $5^{\circ}C$와 $30^{\circ}C$ 모두에서 pyrogallol에 기질 친화력이 높았다. 그리고 pH 7에서 최적 pH를 보였으며 열안정성은 $40^{\circ}C$에서 60분간 열처리했을 때 안정하였지만 $60^{\circ}C$에서 40분, $80^{\circ}C$에서 10분간 열처리했을 때 효소가 불활성화되었다. 특이하게도 연근의 PPO는 다른 과채류의 PPO와 반응온도에 따른 특성이 달랐는데 여러 반응온도에서 효소 활성을 측정한 결과 연근 PPO isoform LP-II와 LP-III 모두 $5^{\circ}C$의 반응온도에서 높은 효소활성을 보였으며 온도가 올라갈수록 반응속도가 떨어지는 특성을 보였다.