• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.140-144
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• 2003

신호펩디드 가수분해는 모든 생물에 필수적인 단백질로 N-말단에 신호서열을 가진 단백질들의 신호서열을 잘라내는 효소로 serine과 lysine을 활성부위로 하는 특이한 dyad serine 효소류로 알려져있다. 최근에 신호펩디드 가수분해효소의 특성으로 새로운 항생제 이용 가능성 때문에 그 활성 메카니즘의 연구가 중요시되고 있다. 본 연구는 E. coli 신호펩디드 효소가 serine/lysine/aspartic acid로 하는 전형적인 triad serine 효소류의 메카니즘을 갖는다는 가정하에 Type Ⅰ 신호펩디드류의 하나인 E. coli에서 aspartic acid 99을 alanine으로 치환하여 효소의 enzymatic activity를 조사하였다. 그 결과 D99잔기는 E. coli Type Ⅰ 신호펩디드 효소의 활성메카니즘에 직접적으로 관여한다기보다는 그 효소를 구조적으로 안정화하는데 중요한 역할을 할 가능성이 있는 것으로 암시되어진다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제42권12호
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• pp.840-845
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• 2009

Mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK1) palys a crucial role in the regulation of transcription downstream of extracellular-signal-regulated kinase1/2 (ERK1/2) and mitogen-activated protein kinase p38. MSK1 can be phosphorylated and activated in cells by both ERK1/2 and p38$\alpha$. In this study, Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) was identified as a binding and regulatory partner for MSK1. Using the yeast two-hybrid system, MSK1 was found to interact with the CK2$\beta$ regulatory subunit of CK2. Interactions between MSK1 and the CK2$\alpha$ catalytic subunit and CK2$\beta$ subunit were demonstrated in vitro and in vivo. We further found that CK2$\alpha$ can only interact with the C-terminal kinase domain of MSK1. Using site-directed mutagenesis assay and mass spectrometry, we identified five sites in the MSK1 C-terminus that could be phosphorylated by CK2 in vitro: Ser757, Ser758, Ser759, Ser760 and Thr793. Of these, Ser757, Ser759, Ser760 and Thr793 were previously unknown.

• BMB Reports
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2009

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is highly prevalent worldwide. The major challenge for current antiviral treatment is the elevated drug resistance that occurs via rapid viral mutagenesis. In this study, we developed AAV vectors to simultaneously deliver two or three shRNAs targeting different HBV-related genes. These vectors showed markedly better antiviral effects than ones that delivered a single shRNA in vitro. A dual shRNA expression vector (AAV-157i/1694i), which simultaneously expressed two shRNAs targeted the S and X genes of HBV, reduced HBsAg, HBeAg and HBV DNA levels by $87{\pm}4$, $80.3{\pm}2.6$ and $86.2{\pm}7%$ respectively, eight days post-transduction. In a mouse model of prophylactic treatment, HBsAg and HBeAg were reduced to undetectable levels and the serum HBV DNA level was reduced by at least 100 fold. These results indicate that AAV-157i/1694i generates potent anti-HBV effects and that the strategy of constructing multi-shRNA expression vectors may lead to enhanced anti-HBV efficacy and overcome the evading mechanism of the virus and thus the development of drug resistance.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.278-285
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• 2016

E. coli의 PheA 단백질은 chorismate mutase and prephenate dehydratase (CMPD) 활성을 가지며 마지막 산물인 페닐알라닌에 의하여 되먹임제어가 되는 생합성 경로의 주요 조절 효소 중의 하나이다. 그러므로, 이 PheA 단백질은 필수 아미노산 중의 하나인 페닐알라닌의 대량 생산에 이용하기 위한 단백질 공학의 타겟이 될 수 있다. 이러한 목적으로 PheA 단백질의 마지막 생산물인 페닐알라닌에 의한 되먹임저해 저항성 유전자원을 선별하였다. 이 유전자의 산물인 $PheA^{FBR}$은 118번째 류신이 페닐알라닌으로 치환되었고, 기질인 prephenate에 대한 친화도가 야생주단백질과 비교하여 약 3.5배 정도 높았다. $PheA^{FBR}$은 세포내에서 축척되어져 되먹임저해를 하는 페닐알라닌 농도에서(약1 mM와 10 mM)에서도 50%와 40%의 활성을 유지 하고 있었고, 페닐알라닌 존재하에서 기질의 결합 성향이 협동적(cooperative) 모드에서 단독적(hyperbolic) 모드로 전환되었다. 이는 기존 연구와 비교해 볼 때, 이 돌연변이 부위는 이 융합기능 효소인 PheA 단백질의 새로운 조절 부위의 존재를 암시 한다. 효소 동력학적 결과는 PheA 단백질의 되먹임저해 저항성 획득이 아미노산 돌연변이에 의한 단백질 구조의 변화 유도에 의한 것으로 생각된다. 더 나아가, 본 연구에서 선별된 돌연변이 유전자는 생물전환법을 이용한 필수아미노산 생산에 산업적으로 응용 가능성이 있다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2013

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CH51은 분자량 27 kDa 크기의 subtilisin 타입의 혈전용해능을 지니는 단백질분해효소인 AprE51을 생산하였다. 이전연구에서 더 우수한 혈전용해 활성을 갖는 AprE51-6이 세포외 돌연변이법으로 생산되었으며, 본 연구에서는 이 개선된 효소인 AprE51-6의 열안정성을 증진시킬 목적으로 B. subtilis subtilisin E의 아미노산과의 상동성 분석을 통하여 두 아미노산인 Gly-166과 Asn-218이 치환되었다. 그 결과 G166R과 N218S 돌연변이체는 혈전용해능을 보이는 용해능 배지에서 원 효소보다 각각 1.8배와 4.5배 높은 혈전용해능을 보였다. 정제된 두 돌연변이효소인 AprE51-7과 AprE51-8는 원효소인 AprE51-6에 비하여 1.9 그리고 2.5배 높은 $k_{cat}$값을 나타내었고, 2.1과 1.9배 낮은 기질친화력을 나타내는 $K_m$값을 보여주었다. 특히 AprE51-8는 나토키나아제에 비하여 알칼리 pH 영역에서 높은활성을 유지하였고, $60^{\circ}C$에서 더 우수한 열안정성을 보여주었다. 열안정성의 정도를 나타내는 척도인 반감기 값에서도 AprE51-7과 AprE51-8는 $50^{\circ}C$에서 21.5분과 27.3분으로 기존의 AprE51보다 2배 그리고 2.6배 더 긴 반감기를 보였다.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.19-29
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• 1996

The neurological manifestations of AIDS include dementia, encountered even in the absence of opportunistic superinfection or malignancy. The AIDS Dementia Complex appears to be associated with several neuropathological abnormalities, including astrogliosis and neuronal injury or loss. How can HIV-1 result in neuronal damage if neurons themselves are only rarely, if ever, infected by the vitus\ulcorner In vitro experiments from several different laboratiories have lent support to the existence of HIV- and immune-related toxins. In one recently defined pathway to neuronal injury, HIV-infected macrophages/microglia as well as macrophages activated by HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 appear to secrete excitants/neurotoxins. These substances may include arachidonic acid, platelet-activating factor, free radicals (NO - and O$_2$), glutamate, quinolinate, cysteine, cytokines (TNF-${\alpha}$, IL1-B, IL-6), and as yet unidentified factors emanating from stimulated macrophages and possibly reactive astrocytes. A final common pathway for newonal suscepubility appears to be operative, similar to that observed in stroke, trauma, epilepsy, and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This mechanism involves excessive activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-operated channels, with resultant excessive influx of Ca$\^$2+/ leading to neuronal damage, and thus offers hope for future pharmacological intervention. This chapter reviews two clinically-tolerated NMDA antagonists, memantine and nitroglycerin; (ⅰ) Memantine is an open-channel blocker of the NMDA-associated ion channel and a close congener of the anti-viral and anti-parkinsonian drug amantadine. Memantine blocks the effects of escalating levels of excitotoxins to a greater degree than lower (piysiological) levels of these excitatory amino acids, thus sparing to some extent normal neuronal function. (ⅱ) Niuoglycerin acts at a redox modulatory site of the NMDA receptor/complex to downregulate its activity. The neuroprotective action of nitroglycerin at this site is mediated by n chemical species related to nitric oxide, but in a higher oxidation state, resulting in transfer of an NO group to a critical cysteine on the NMDA receptor. Because of the clinical safety of these drugs, they have the potential for trials in humans. As the structural basis for redox modulation is further elucidated, it may become possible to design even better redox reactive reagents of chinical value. To this end, redox modulatory sites of NMDA receptors have begun to be characterized at a molecular level using site-directed mutagenesis of recombinant subunits (NMDAR1, NMDAR2A-D). Two types of redox modulation can be distinguished. The first type gives rise to a persistent change in the functional activity of the receptor, and we have identified two cysteine residues on the NMDARI subunit (#744 and #798) that are responsible for this action. A second site, presumably also a cysteine(s) because <1 mM N-ethylmaleimide can block its effect in native neurons, underlies the other, more transient redox action. It appears to be at this, as yet unidentified, site on the NMDA receptor that the NO group acts, at least in recombinant receptors.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.616-625
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• 2005

It is likely that maltose could provide a good substrate for the bacteria in the intestine, when the pathogenic bacteria invade and colonize in human gut. For better understanding of this organism's maltose metabolism, a mutant that was not able to grow with maltose as a sole carbon source was screened from a library of mutants constructed by a random transposon mutagenesis. By a transposon-tagging method, malPQ genes encoding a maltodextrin phosphorylase and a 4-${\alpha}$-glucanotransferase, were identified and cloned from Vibrio vulnificus. The deduced amino acid sequences of malPQ from V. vulnificus were 48 to $91\%$ similar to those of MalP and MalQ reported from other Enterobacteriaceae. Functions of malPQ genes were assessed by the construction of mutants whose malPQ genes were inactivated by allelic exchanges. When maltose was used as the sole carbon source, neither malP nor malQ mutant was able to grow to a substantial level, revealing that the MalP and MalQ are the only enzymes for metabolic utilization of maltose. The malQ mutant exhibited decreased adherence toward intestinal epithelial cells in vitro, but there was no difference in the $LD_{50}s$ of the wild-type and the malQ mutant in mice. Therefore, it appears that MalQ is less important in the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus than would have been predicted by considering maltose as a most common sugar in the intestine, but not completely dispensable for virulence in mice.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.721-727
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• 2007

Stability-enhanced mutants, H44, 11-94, 5A2-84, and F8, of L-threonine aldolase(L-TA) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)(SCO1085) were isolated by an error-prone PCR followed by a high-throughput screening. Each of these mutant, had a single amino acid substitution: H177Y in the H44 mutant, A169T in the 11-94 mutant, D104N in the 5A2-84 mutant and F18I in the F8 mutant. The residual L-TA activity of the wild-type L-TA after a heat treatment for 20 min at $60^{\circ}C$ was only 10.6%. However, those in the stability-enhanced mutants were 85.7% for the H44 mutant, 58.6% for the F8 mutant, 62.1% for the 5A2-84 mutant, and 67.6% for the 11-94 mutant. Although the half-life of the wild-type L-TA at $63^{\circ}C$ was 1.3 min, those of the mutant L-TAs were longer: 14.6 min for the H44 mutant, 3.7 min for the 11-94 mutant, 5.8 min for the 5A2-84 mutant, and 5.0 min for the F8 mutant. The specific activity did not change in most of the mutants, but it was decreased by 45% in the case of mutant F8. When the aldol condensation of glycine and 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde was studied by using whole cells of Escherichia coli containing the wild-type L-TA gene, L-threo-3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine(L-threo-DOPS) was successfully synthesized with a yield of 2.0 mg/ml after 20 repeated batch reactions for 100 h. However, the L-threo-DOPS synthesizing activity of the enzyme decreased with increased cycles of the batch reactions. Compared with the wild-type L-TA, H44 L-TA kept its L-threo-DOPS synthesizing activity almost constant during the 20 repeated batch reactions for 100 h, yielding 4.0 mg/ml of L-threo-DOPS. This result showed that H44 L-TA is more effective than the wild-type L-TA for the mass production of L-threo-DOPS.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.292-297
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• 2022

Direct injection of CRISPR/Cas9 into zygotes enables the production of genetically modified nonhuman primates (NHPs) essential for modeling specific human diseases, such as Usher syndrome, and for developing novel therapeutic strategies. Usher syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes loss of hearing, retinal degeneration, and problems with balance, and is attributed to a mutation in MYO7A, a gene that encodes an uncommon myosin motor protein expressed in the inner ear and retinal photoreceptors. To produce an Usher syndrome type 1B (USH1B) rhesus macaque model, we disrupted the MYO7A gene in developing zygotes. Identification of appropriately edited MYO7A embryos for knockout embryo transfer requires sequence analysis of material recovered from a trophectoderm (TE) cell biopsy. However, the TE biopsy procedure is labor intensive and could adversely impact embryo development. Recent studies have reported using cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from embryo culture media to detect aneuploid embryos in human in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics. The cfDNA is released from the embryo during cell division or cell death, suggesting that cfDNA may be a viable resource for sequence analysis. Moreover, cfDNA collection is not invasive to the embryo and does not require special tools or expertise. We hypothesized that selection of appropriate edited embryos could be performed by analyzing cfDNA for MYO7A editing in embryo culture medium, and that this method would be advantageous for the subsequent generation of genetically modified NHPs. The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether cfDNA can be used to identify the target gene mutation of CRISPR/Cas9 injected embryos. In this study, we were able to obtain and utilize cfDNA to confirm the mutagenesis of MYO7A, but the method will require further optimization to obtain better accuracy before it can replace the TE biopsy approach.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.516-523
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• 2015

도라지 추출물과 그것의 분획물들(헥산, 클로로포름, 에틸아세테이트, 부탄올 및 물)의 발암물질 N-nitrosodimethylamine(NDMA)과 유전독성에 대항하는 안전성, 항돌연변이 및 항암 효과를 연구하였다. 도라지 추출물과 그것의 분획물들의 유전독성학적 안전성 평가를 위한 복귀돌연변이 시험은 S. Typhimurium TA98과 TA100의 복귀변이 집락수를 조사하는 Ames test로 수행하였다. 도라지 추출물과 그것의 분획물들은 복귀변이 집락수를 유의적으로 변화시키지 않았고, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitroso-guanidine과 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide에 의해 유발된 돌연변이에 대해 농도 의존적으로 돌연변이 억제 효과가 있었다. 도라지 추출물과 그것의 분획물들 중에 에틸아세테이트 분획물이 가장 높은 항돌연변이 효과를 나타내었다. 도라지 70% 에탄올 추출물 및 분획물들은 인간 자궁경부암세포(HeLa), 인간 간암세포(HepG2), 인간 유방암세포(MCF-7) 및 인간 폐암세포(A549) 성장 억제 효과를 나타내었고, 인간 신장정상세포(293)는 암세포보다 억제 효과가 낮았다. 더하여 in vivo에서 도라지 70% 에탄올 추출물 및 분획물의 항암 효과를 검토하기 위하여 Balb/c 마우스에 sarcoma-180 종양세포로 고형암을 유발시키면서 도라지 추출물과 그것의 분획물들의 고형암 성장 억제 효과를 알아본 결과 농도 의존적으로 고형암 성장 억제 효과를 나타냈고 도라지 에틸아세테이트 분획물이 가장 높은 억제 효과를 보였다. 그리고 도라지 에틸아세테이트 분획물은 NDMA 생성을 억제하였다. 따라서 도라지 에틸아세테이트 분획물은 항돌연변이 및 항암 효과가 있었고 현재 실험 조건에서 안전한 새로운 항암 소재 후보라는 것을 알 수 있었다.