• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.382-390
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• 2020

Periplanetasin-4 is an antimicrobial peptide with 13 amino acids identified in cockroaches. It has been reported to induce fungal cell death by apoptosis and membrane-targeted action. Analogs were designed by substituting arginine residues to modify the electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions accordingly and explore the effect of periplanetasin-4 through the increase of net charge and the decrease of hydrophobicity. The analogs showed lower activity than periplanetasin-4 against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Similar to periplanetasin-4, the analogs exhibited slight hemolytic activity against human erythrocytes. Membrane studies, including determination of changes in membrane potential and permeability, and fluidity assays, revealed that the analogs disrupt less membrane integrity compared to periplanetasin-4. Likewise, when the analogs were treated to the artificial membrane model, the passage of molecules bigger than FD4 was difficult. In conclusion, arginine substitution could not maintain the membrane disruption ability of periplanetasin-4. The results indicated that the attenuation of hydrophobic interactions with the plasma membrane caused a reduction in the accumulation of the analogs on the membrane before the formation of electrostatic interactions. Our findings will assist in the further development of antimicrobial peptides for clinical use.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.30-34
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• 2014

Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermal driven separation process in which separation a hydrophobic membrane is a barrier for the liquid phase, letting the vapor phase pass through the membrane pores. Therefore, a porous and hydrophobic membrane should be used in membrane distillation. MD cannot work if water penetrates into the pores of the membrane (membrane wetting). Accordingly, it is necessary to prevent wetting of MD membranes and to remove water inside the pores of the wetted membranes if possible. In this context, our study aimed to develop methods to recover wetted membranes in MD processes. Poly-vinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes were used in this study. A laboratory-scale direct contact MD (DCMD) system was used to examine the effect of operating parameters on wetting. For dewetting the wetted membranes, specific techniques including the use of high temperature air were applied. The performances of the membranes before and after dewetting were compared in terms of flux, salt rejection and liquid entry pressure(LEP). The surface morphology of dewetted membrane was confirmed by scanning electron microscope (SEM).

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2010

This study was carried out to compare the performances of hydrophobic and hydrophilic membranes in the filtration of the pretreatment waters using coagulants such as PAC and PAHCs, and to investigate the influence of NOM characteristics on the fouling of membranes. As a result, the hydrophobic fraction was more effectively removed by PAHCs, however the transphilic and hydrophilic fraction were more effectively removed by PAC on NOM removal. Raw water showed the highest response in the range of humic substances, and pre-coagulated waters with PAC and PAHCs followed. It was also observed that the fouling effect for a hydrophobic membrane was greater than that of a hydrophilic membrane with a similar pore size, due to fouling caused by adsorption. Foulants causing significant flux decline were alcoholic compounds (polysaccharide-like) and humic substances including aromatic groups. Especially, it appeared that alcoholic compounds such as polysaccharide-like substances which mostly remained after coagulation pretreatment had most influence on fouling. It was found that fouling were influenced by each fraction NOM components depending on coagulants used. And PAHCs was more efficient for membrane fouling than PAC.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.658-668
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• 1997

Path of a small hydrophobic molecule through the aqueous cytoplasma is not linear. Partition may favor membrane binding by several orders of magnitude : thus significant membrane association will markedly decrease the cytosolic transport rate. The presence of high concentration of soluble binding proteins for these hydrophobic molecules would compete with membrane association and thereby increase transport rate. For long chain fatty acid molecules, a family of cytosolic binding proteins collectively known as the fatty acid binding proteins(FABP), are thought to act as intracellular transport proteins. This paper examines the mechanism of transfer of fluorescent antyroyloxy-labeled fatty acids(AOFA) from purified FABPs to phosholipid membranes. With the exception of the liver FABP, AOFA is transferred from FABP by collisional interaction of the protein with a acceptor membrane. The rate of transfer increased markedly when membranes contain anionic phospholipids. This suggests that positively charged residues on the surface of the FABP may interact with the membranes. Neutralization of the surface lysine residues of adipocyte FABP decreased fatty acid transfer rate, and transfer was found to proceed via aqueous diffusion rather than collisional interaction. Site specific mutagenesis has further shown that the helix-turn-helix domain of the FABP is critical for interaction with anionic acceptor membranes. Thus cytosolic FABP may function in intracellular transport of fatty acid to decrease their membranes association as well as to target fatty acid to specific subcellular sites of utilization.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.523-528
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 막분리 공정의 전처리 공정으로 응집 공정을 적용할 경우 응집 공정의 적용 가능성을 평가하고자 하였으며 사용된 응집제 종류에 따라 발생하는 금속염이 막오염에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 하였다. 응집제 종류에 따른 투과 flux 실험결과 응집 공정을 전처리 공정으로 적용할 경우 막의 재질에 상관없이 응집효율이 우수한 PACl의 경우 투과 flux가 높게 나타났으며 전처리 응집 공정의 적용시 급속교반+UF 공정에 비하여 급속-완속교반+UF 공정의 경우 투과 flux 감소율이 낮게 나타났다. 급속교반 공정에 응집제를 첨가할 경우 다양한 형태의 가수분해종이 형성되어졌으며 금속염 응집제가 막오염에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 시간에 따른 투과 flux 실험결과 금속염 응집제에 의한 막오염이 발생하였으며 응집제 주입량이 증가할수록 침전물 형태의 금속염 가수분해종의 발생이 증가하여 투과 flux 감소가 크게 나타났다.

• 한국막학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국막학회 2008년도 춘계 총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.126-129
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• 2008

• 멤브레인
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.197-204
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• 2016

에스테르(ester)의 모델 수용액으로부터 에스테르 성분을 회수하기 위한 투과증발 공정에서, 공급액의 농도와 온도 변화에 따른 에스테르와 물의 플럭스를 측정하였다. 공급액의 에스테르 농도가 0.15 wt%에서 0.60 wt%로 증가함에 따라 에틸 아세테이트(EA), 프로필 아세테이트(PA), 에틸 프로피오네이트(EP), 부틸 아세테이트(BA), 그리고 에틸 부티레이트(EB)의 플럭스는 증가하였으며, 공급액의 온도가 $30^{\circ}C$에서 $50^{\circ}C$로 증가함에 따라 플럭스가 증가하였다. 에스테르 플럭스의 크기는 (EA) < (PA, EP) < (BA, EB) 순서이었으며, 이는 에스테르와 막 표면과의 친화도에 크게 의존하는 것을 보여준다. 즉, EA는 분자쇄 내에 소수성 기($-CH_2-$)를 1개, (PA, EP)는 2개를 포함하고 있으나, (BA, EB)는 3개를 가지고 있어 가장 소수성이 크기 때문이다. 이러한 에스테르 분자의 소수성이 에스테르 플럭스에 미치는 영향뿐 아니라 막 표면의 소수성이 에스테르 플럭스에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구가 더 필요할 것이다. 온도가 증가함에 따라, EA, PA, EP, BA, and EB 수용액의 물 플럭스는 증가하였으나, 농도 변화에 따른 물 플럭스는 거의 변화가 없었다. 본 투과증발에 대한 실험결과는 기존의 열을 이용하는 증발공정과 증류공정을 대체할 수 있는 공정으로서 향 성분의 회수공정을 개선하는 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.1139-1142
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• 2009

Refinement of NMR structures by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with a solvent model has improved the structural quality. In this study, we applied MD refinement with the generalized Born (GB) implicit solvent model to protein structure determined under membrane-like environments. Despite popularity of the GB model, its applications to the refinement of NMR structures of hydrophobic proteins, in which detergents or organic solvents enclose proteins, are limited, and there is little information on the use of another GB parameter for these cases. We carried out MD refinement of crambin NMR structure in dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelles (Ahn et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4398-4404) with GB/Surface area model and two different surface tension coefficients, one for aquatic and the other for hydrophobic conditions. Our data show that, of two structures by MD refinement with GB model, the one refined with the parameter to consider hydrophobic condition had the better qualities in terms of precision and solvent accessibility.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.783-792
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• 2014

The binding interaction between a hemolytic peptide ${\delta}$-lysin and a zwitterionic lipid bilayer POPC was investigated through a series of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. ${\delta}$-Lysin is a 26-residue, amphipathic, ${\alpha}$-helical peptide toxin secreted by Staphylococcus aureus. Unlike typical antimicrobial peptides, ${\delta}$-lysin has no net charge and it is often found in aggregated forms in solution even at low concentration. Our study showed that only the monomer, not dimer, inserts into the bilayer interior. The monomer is preferentially attracted toward the membrane with its hydrophilic side facing the bilayer surface. However, peptide insertion requires the opposite orientation where the hydrophobic side of peptide points toward the membrane interior. Such orientation allows the charged residues, Lys and Asp, to have stable salt bridges with the lipid head-group while the hydrophobic residues are buried deeper in the hydrophobic lipid interior. Our simulations suggest that breaking these salt bridges is the key step for the monomer to be fully inserted into the center of lipid bilayer and, possibly, to translocate across the membrane.

• 공업화학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.177-182
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• 1999

대기중의 이산화탄소가 공기-아연전지에 미치는 영향을 검토하기 위하여 수산화칼륨 수용성 전해액을 공기와 접촉시킨 다음 시간의 경과에 따라 전해액중의 탄산칼륨 농도를 분석하여 전지 용량과의 관계를 규명하고자 하였다. 전해액은 공기와 접촉하는 시간이 경과함에 따라 대기중의 이산화탄소 흡수로 인하여 탄산칼륨의 농도가 증가하였으나 이에 비례하여 전지의 용량은 선형적으로 감소하였다. 이산화탄소의 흡수반응속도는 소수성 막의 세공크기가 주 인자로 작용하였으며, 세공크기를 조절한 소수성 막을 사용한 결과 이산화탄소 흡수로 인한 전지용량 열화현상을 현저히 감소시킬 수 있었다.