• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.347-355
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• 1994

Indolo[3,2-b]carbazole(ICZ) is a potent Ah receptor agonist with biological activities similar in several respects to those of the potent environmental toxin, TCDD. ICZ is produced during the oilgomerization of indole-3-carbinol(I3C), a breakdown product of the glucobrassicin present in food plants of the Brassica genus. In the present study we examined ICZ levels in tissues and excreta of rats treated with I3C or dietary cabbage of established glucobrasicin content, and in feces of conventional and germfree rats fed on a basal diet, and of humans. We also examined the levels of cytochrome P4501A1 induction, as determined by the ethoxyresorufin ο-deethylase assay, in tissues of animals that received cabbage-supplemented diets, or which were treated with purified I3C or ICZ. Our findings indicated that incorporation of either homogenized or whole freeze-dried cabbage in the feed led to large increases(16-60 fold) in the levels of ICZ in the feces and lower gastrointestinal tract of rats. We observed that whereas ICZ is readily detectable at about the same levels(2.00$\pm$0.50 ppb) in the feces of conventional rats fed on a purified diet and in human feces, levels of ICZ in the feces of germfree animals fed on the basal diet were at the limits of detection(0.40$\pm$0.20 ppb), indication that gut bacteria are important for the production of ICZ from essential dietary constituents in the basal diet. We showed that in contrast to the near 7000-fold difference in CYP1A1 inducing potencies of ICZ and TCDD in cells in culture, their inducing potencies differ by only about an order of magnitude in rats. Nonetheless, the levels of ICZ remaining in livers twenty hours after I3C treatment appear too low to account for the induced activity. This result indicates that ICZ may be rapidly cleared from the liver or that substances other than, or in addition to, ICZ be responsible for the enzyme-inducing activity of orally administered I3C or its precursors.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.516-522
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• 1998

검정해면 (Halichondlia okadai)에 공생하는 것으로 추정되는 항균성을 가진 방선균주를 분리하여 SEM, 형태학적, 화학 분류학적 방법에 의하여 균주를 동정하였으며, 이 균주를 marin broth 2216 배지에서 대량 b배양하여 균사체로부터 항균물질을 각종 HPLC에 의하여 분리하고 X선 결정 구조 해석. MS, NMR spectrum에 의하여 구조를 확인하였다. ISP 2 배지에서 $30^{\circ}C$, 7일간 배양 결과, 기질균사는 갈색을 띄었고 그 위로 ivory색의 기중균사를 형성하였다. spore chain은 flexibilis로서 10개 이상의 oval 형의 포자가 사슬을 형성하고 있었으며 표면은 smooth하였다. 한편. 화학적 특성으로는 L-form의 DAP를 가지며 특징적인 당이 없는 cell wall type I 이었고. 인지질은 PII형 이었으며, 주요 지방산은 iso-14 : 0, anteiso-15 : 0, iso-16 : 0, 16 : 0 및 iso-17:0 이었다. 이들 결과와 Bergey's Manual에 의해 이 균주는 Strptomyces sp.로 동정하였다. 대량 배양한 동결 건조 균체 70g으로 부터 10mg의 연한 노란색의 항균 물질을 분리 정제하였다. 질량 분석에서 이 물질의 분자량은 466으로 확인되었고, 이를 benzene-acetone 용매중에서 결정화하여 X선 결정 구조 해석을 행한 결과 indolo[2,3-a]carbazole alkaloid의 staurosporine 으로 판명되었으며 proton 및 carbon NMR data도 이와 잘 일치하였다.