• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2007

목 적: 체외수정으로 출산한 쌍태아와 자연임신으로 출산한 쌍태아 간의 산과적 결과의 차이를 비교하고자 한다. 연구방법: 2000년 1월부터 2005년 6월까지 출산한 146건의 쌍태아에 관한 산과적 기록을 검토한 후, 출생 시 재태연령이 24주 이상이며 체외수정으로 임신한 72건을 연구군 (체외수정군), 자연임신한 51건을 대조군 (자연임신이군)으로 나누어 연구를 시행하였다. 결 과: 두 군 간에 산모 연령, 출산 시 재태 연령, 태아체중 등의 차이는 없었지만, 임신성 고혈압과 임신성 당뇨의 발생 위험도는 체외수정군에서 높았다 (OR 2.59; 95% CI 1.01$\sim$6.66). 20% 이상 태아 체중 차이와 같은 성의 쌍태아 발생의 위험도는 체외수정군에서 낮았다 (OR 0.37; 95% CI 0.14$\sim$0.96, OR 0.45; 95% CI 0.21$\sim$0.99). 결 론: 본 연구의 결과로는 체외수정으로 출생한 쌍태아는 자연임신으로 출생한 경우보다 태아 체중 차이의 빈도 및 같은 성 출생의 빈도가 낮았다.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-230
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• 2010

Growth hormone (GH) is known as one of the main osmoregulators in euryhaline teleosts during seawater (SW) adaptation. Many of the physiological actions of GH are mediated through insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), and the GH/IGF-I axis is associated with osmoregulation of fish during SW acclimation. However, little information is available on the response of fish IGF-II to hyperosmotic stress. Here we present the first cloned IGF-I and IGF-II cDNAs of marine medaka, Oryzias dancena, and an analysis of the molecular characteristics of the genes. The marine medaka IGF-I cDNA is 1,340 bp long with a 257-bp 5' untranslated region (UTR), a 528 bp 3' UTR, and a 555-bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding a propeptide of 184 amino acid (aa) residues. The full-length marine medaka IGF-II cDNA consists of a 639 bp ORF encoding 212 aa, a 109 bp 5' UTR, and a 416 bp 3' UTR. Homology comparison of the deduced aa sequences with other IGF-Is and IGF-IIs showed that these genes in marine medaka shared high structural homology with orthologs from other teleost as well as mammalian species, suggesting high conservation of IGFs throughout vertebrates. The IGF-I mRNA level increased following transfer of marine medaka from freshwater (FW) to SW, and the expression level was higher than that of the control group, which was maintained in FW. This significantly elevated IGF-I level was maintained throughout the experiment (14 days), suggesting that in marine medaka, IGF-I is deeply involved in the adaptation to abrupt salinity change. In contrast to IGF-I, the increased level of marine medaka IGF-II mRNA was only maintained for a short period, and quickly returned a level similar to that of the control group, suggesting that marine medaka IGF-II might be a gene that responds to acute stress or one that produces a supplemental protein to assist with the osmoregulatory function of IGF-I during an early phase of salinity change.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.806-811
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• 2007

Bacillus anthracis is a soil pathogen capable of causing anthrax that is closely related to several environmental species, including B. cereus, B. mycoides, and B. thuringiensis. DNA homology studies showed that B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, and B. thuringiensis are closely related, with a high sequence homology. To establish a method to specifically detect B. anthracis in situations such as environmental contamination, we initially performed RAPD-PCR with a 10-mer random primer and confirmed the presence of specific PCR bands only in B. anthracis species. One region specific for B. anthracis was cloned and sequenced, and an internal primer set was designed to amplify a 241-bp DNA fragment within the sequenced region. The PCR system involving these specific primer sets has practical applications. Using lyses methods to prepare the samples for PCR, it was possible to quickly amplify the 241-bp DNA segment from samples containing only a few bacteria. Thus, the PCR detection method developed in this study is expected to facilitate the monitoring of environmental B. anthracis contamination.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.166-178
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• 1976

서로 다른 11주의 Bacillus coagulans와 13종의 Bacillus 속 14주를 deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA)-DNA hybridization method에 의해서 분류학적인 연구를 하였다. 사용한 B. coagulans 11주중 6주는 흙에서(일본 오사까교외) 분리했고, 나머지 5주는 ATCC, IFO에서 authentic strains을 얻어서 사용했다. 사용된 B. coagulans는 Bergey's Manual(8th ed)에 의거 Gordon씨들의 방법으로 동정한 결과 B. coagulans로서 확인되었다. 이렇게 동정된 B. coagulans을 분자 생물학적 차원에서 지금까지의 Conventional taxonomic study와의 관계를 연구하기 위해서 사용한 11주의 B. coagulans중 ATCC 7070을 $^3$H labeled input 즉 standard로 해서 사용했을 때 B. coagulans 내의 intraspecific DNA homology indexes는 76% 이상으로 나타났다. 이와같은 발견은 Bergey's Manual에 의거한 conventional taxonomic study의 결과와 잘 일치하고 있었음으로 새로 분리한 6주와 authentic sources로부터 받은 5주는 같은 group의 B. coagulans라는 사실을 입증해 주었다. 그리고 B. coagulans와 다른 species의 Bacillus 속 즉 B. pumilus(168), B. licheniformis (IFO 12107), B. pumilus(IFO12110), B. firmus(ATCC 14575), B. lentus(ATCC 10840), B. circulans(ATCC 4513), B.macelans(ATCC 8244), B.polymyxa, (ATCC 842), B.sphaericus(ATCC 14577), B.brevis(ATCC 8246, IFO 12334), B.laterosporus(ATCC 64), B. pantothenticus(ATCC 14576) interspecific DNA homology indexes가 각각 2～4%을 보임으로써 B. coagulans는 molecular level면에서 이들 Bacillus 속과는 상동성 관계가 적음을 나타내었다. 반면에 B. coagulans(ATCC 7050)와 E. coli(F-12)와의 상동성은 1%이하였다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.172-177
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• 2023

BEST family is a class of Ca²⁺-activated Cl- channels evolutionary well conserved from bacteria to human. The human BEST paralogs (BEST1-BEST4) share significant amino acid sequence homology in the N-terminal region, which forms the transmembrane helicases and contains the direct calcium-binding site, Ca²⁺-clasp. But the cytosolic C-terminal region is less conserved in the paralogs. Interestingly, this domain-specific sequence conservation is also found in the BEST1 orthologs. However, the functional role of the C-terminal region in the BEST channels is still poorly understood. Thus, we aimed to understand the functional role of the C-terminal region in the human and mouse BEST1 channels by using electrophysiological recordings. We found that the calcium-dependent activation of BEST1 channels can be modulated by the C-terminal region. The C-terminal deletion hBEST1 reduced the Ca²⁺-dependent current activation and the hBEST1-mBEST1 chimera showed a significantly reduced calcium sensitivity to hBEST1 in the HEK293 cells. And the C-terminal domain could regulate cellular expression and plasma membrane targeting of BEST1 channels. Our results can provide a basis for understanding the C-terminal roles in the structure-function of BEST family proteins.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.73.2-73
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• 2003

Typical whiches broom symptoms caused by phytoplasma were observed in Ash (Fraxinus rhynchophylla Hence) in Korea. The symptoms were showing abnormally small leaves, short internodes, and proliferation of shoots. Fluorescence and electron microscopy of leaf midribs revealed phytoplasma positive DAPI fluorescence and numerous phytoplasma bodies localized in the phloem sieve tubes. Phytoplasma DNA of 1.8 Kb was detected consistently from all symptomatic samples by the amplification of phytoplasma DNA with the phytoplasma specific primer pair Pl/P7. But no phytoplasma DNA was detected in healthy ash seedlings. Based on sequence analyses of an amplified region, this phytoplasma is closely related to Eqilodium phyllody, Mulberry dwarf, and Aster yellows phytoplasmas with the homology of 99.95 ％, 99.79 ％ and 99.78 ％, respectively, This phylogenetic analyses indicate that ash witches broom phytoplasma but is evidently distinct from the ash yellows group 16SrⅦ and should be classified into the Aster yellows group 16SrⅥ.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.185-193
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• 1997

In this paper, we study the $BP_*$-module structure of $BP_*$(BG) mod $(p,v_1,{\cdots})^2$ for non abelian groups of the order $p^3$. We know $grBP_*(BG)=BP_*{\otimes}H(H_*(BG);Q_1){\oplus}BP^*/(p,v_1){\otimes}ImQ_1$. The similar fact occurs for $BP_*$-homology $grBP_*(BG)=BP_*s^{-1}H(H_*(BG);Q_1){\oplus}BP_*/(p,v)s^{-1}H^{odd}(BG)$ by using the spectral sequence $E^{*,*}_2=Ext_{BP^*}(BP_*(BG),BP^*){\Rightarrow}BP^*(BG)$.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.865-877
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• 2013

The disjoint union of mapping class groups of surfaces forms a braided monoidal category $\mathcal{M}$, as the disjoint union of the braid groups $\mathcal{B}$ does. We give a concrete and geometric meaning of the braidings ${\beta}_{r,s}$ in $\mathcal{M}$. Moreover, we find a set of elements in the mapping class groups which correspond to the standard generators of the braid groups. Using this, we can define an obvious map ${\phi}\;:\;B_g{\rightarrow}{\Gamma}_{g,1}$. We show that this map ${\phi}$ is injective and nongeometric in the sense of Wajnryb. Since this map extends to a braided monoidal functor ${\Phi}\;:\;\mathcal{B}{\rightarrow}\mathcal{M}$, the integral homology homomorphism induced by ${\phi}$ is trivial in the stable range.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1353-1362
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• 2016

Using the notion of complete nonabelian exterior square $G\hat{\wedge}G$ of a pro-p-group G (p prime), we develop the theory of the exterior degree $\hat{d}(G)$ in the infinite case, focusing on its relations with the probability of commuting pairs d(G). Among the main results of this paper, we describe upper and lower bounds for $\hat{d}(G)$ with respect to d(G). Here the size of the second homology group $H_2(G,\mathbb{Z}_p)$ (over the p-adic integers $\mathbb{Z}_p$) plays a fundamental role. A further result of homological nature is placed at the end, in order to emphasize the influence of $H_2(G,\mathbb{Z}_p)$ both on G and $\hat{d}(G)$.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.590-596
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• 1997

The NADH reductase component of the steroid 9.alpha.-hydroxylase from Mycobacterium fortuitum was purified to homogeneity. Recovery of the enzyme from the 50-60% ammonium sulfate saturated fraction was 49%, with a purification factor of 100-fold. The NADH reductase has a relative molecular of 60 KDa as determined by SDS-PAGE. The absorption maxima at 410 and 450 nm indicate the presence of iron-sulfur group and flavin. These prosthetic groups seemed to function as redox groups that transfer electrons from NADH to the following protein. The $K_M$ value for NADH as substrate was $68{\mu}M$. The $NH_2$-terminal amino acid sequence of the reductase was determined as Met-Asp-Ala-Ile-Thr-Asn-Val-Pro-Leu-Pro-Ala-Asn-Glu-Pro-Val-His-Asp-Tyr-Ala-Thr. This sequence does not show a homology with the $NH_2$ -terminal sequences reported for the reductase component of other monooxygenases, suggesting that the NADH reductase component of the steroid 9.alpha.-hydroxylase system is novel.