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Disrupting Escherichia coli: A Comparison of Methods

  • Benov, Ludmil;Al-Ibraheem, Jameela
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제35권4호
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    • pp.428-431
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    • 2002
  • The often-encountered problem of disrupting bacteria for the purpose of extracting soluble protein has generated various methods. Many require specialized equipment. Very often, especially during preliminary studies, investigators need a simple, fast, and inexpensive method for cell disruption that preserves biological activity. This paper compares some simple and inexpensive methods for cell disruption, such as bead-vortexing, freesing-thawing, French pressing, and sonication. It also provides some tips to increase protein yield and preserve biological activity. If performed under optimal conditions, bead-vortexing gives protein yields that are comparable to French pressing and sonication. It also preserves the activities of labile enzymes and releases periplasmic enzymes. Vortexing with glass beads appears to be the simplest method for cell disruption.

A Study on Performance comparison of two-size Tesla Turbines Application in Organic Rankine Cycle Machine

  • Thawichsri, Kosart;nilnont, Wanich
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2015
  • This paper aims to study and design of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Machine using Isopentane as working fluid expanding through Tesla turbine. The study on ORC machine expanding through Tesla turbine has result on the efficiency of Tesla turbine. In addition, Thermodynamics theory on isentropic efficiency proved to be a successful method for overcoming the difficulties associated with the determination of very low torque at very high angular speed. By using an inexpensive experiment device and a simple method, the angular acceleration method, for measuring output torque and power in a Tesla turbine is able to predict a tendency of output work. The experiments using two Tesla turbine sizes, the first size is 1.6 bigger than the second one. In comparison with the first size, the tesla turbine can produce power output more than 62% of the second size. Further study on the machine can be developed throughout the county due to its low cost and efficiency.

Cross-linked Leucaena Seed Gum Matrix: An Affinity Chromatography Tool for Galactose-specific Lectins

  • Seshagirirao, Kottapalli;Leelavathi, Chaganti;Sasidhar, Vemula
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제38권3호
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    • pp.370-372
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    • 2005
  • A cross-linked leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) seed gum (CLLSG) matrix was prepared for the isolation of galactose-specific lectins by affinity chromatography. The matrix was evaluated for affinity with a known galactose-specific lectin from the seeds of snake gourd (Trichosanthes anguina). The matrix preparation was simple and inexpensive when compared to commercial galactose-specific matrices (i.e. about 1.5 US$/100 ml of matrix). The current method is also useful for the demonstration of the affinity chromatography technique in laboratories. Since leucaena seeds are abundant and inexpensive, and the matrix preparation is easy, CLLSG appears to be a promising tool for the separation of galactose-specific lectins.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SNORT IN AN INEXPENSIVE HIGH-AVAILABILITY SYSTEM

  • Kim, Wan-Kyung;Soh, Woo-Young;Jason S. Seril
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국해양정보통신학회 2004년도 SMICS 2004 International Symposium on Maritime and Communication Sciences
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    • pp.88-92
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    • 2004
  • Most studies in the past in testing and benchmarking on Intrusion Detection System (IDS) were conducted as comparisons, rather than evaluation, on different IDSs. This paper presents the evaluation of the performance of one of the open source IDS, snort, in an inexpensive high availability system configuration. Redundancy and fault tolerance technology are used in deploying such IDS, because of the possible attacks that can make snort exhaust resources, degrade in performance and even crash. Several test data are used in such environment and yielded different results. CPU speed, Disk usage, memory utilization and other resources of the IDS host are also monitored. Test results with the proposed system configuration environment show much better system availability and reliability, especially on security systems.

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INMARSAT-C를 통한 인트라넷 기반의 통합 통신 서비스의 설계 및 구현 (Design and Implementation of an Intranet-based Integrated Communication Services via INMARSAT-C)

  • 신송아;강병훈;임재홍
    • 한국항해학회지
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    • 제24권4호
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    • pp.299-312
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    • 2000
  • Because shore(ship) to ship(shore) communication service via INMARSAT pay expensive cost, satellite service typically use two stage service that land users dial up LES(Land Earth Station) for sending or receiving message. In order to send and receive message, land users must maintain online state with LES on dedicated line. Also, two stage INMARSAT communication service must consume long time that processes step by step. In case of large company, they have own communication system, but small companys communicate simple messages with only telex. This paper describes the design and implementation of an integrated communication services via INMARSAT-C. This system uses inexpensive INMARSAT-C for transmission between ship and land. Because this system provides web and E-Mail interface, users send and receive messages easily and quickly. This system provides most users with inexpensive and easy communication facilities between ship and land.

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Development of Inexpensive High Energetic Electrodes Ni-Cu and Ni-CeO2-Cu for Renewable Energy through Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell

  • Guchhait, Sujit Kumar;Paul, Subir
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.190-198
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    • 2016
  • Application of fuel cell to produce renewable energy for commercial purpose is limited by the high cost of Pt based electrode materials. Development of inexpensive, high energetic electrode is the need of the hour to produce pollution free energy using bio-fuel through a fuel cell. Ni-Cu and Ni-CeO2-Cu electrode materials, electro synthesized by pulse current have been developed. The surface morphology of the electrode materials is controlled by different deposition parameters in order to produce a high current from the electro-oxidation of the fuel, the ethanol. The developed materials are electrochemically characterized by Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Chronoamperometry (CA) and Potentiodynamic polarization tests. The results confirm that the high current is due to their enhanced catalytic properties viz. high exchange current density (i0), low polarization resistance (Rp) and low impedance. It is worthwhile to mention here that the addition of CeO2 to Ni-Cu has outperformed Pt as far as the high electro catalytic properties are concerned; the exchange current density is about eight times higher than the same on Pt surface. The morphology of the electrode surface examined by SEM and FESEM exhibits that the grains are narrow and sub spherical with 3D surface, containing vacancies in between the elongated grains. The fact has enhanced more surface area for electro oxidation of the fuel, giving rise to an increase in current. Presence of Ni, CeO2, and Cu is confirmed by the XRD and EDXS. Fuel cell fabricated with Ni-CeO2-Cu material electrode is expected to produce clean electrical energy at cheaper rates than conventional one, using bio fuel the derived from biomass.

저항소자를 이용한 휴대형 Real-time PCR 기기용 히터 제작 (Design of an Inexpensive Heater using Chip Resistors for a Portable Real-time Microchip PCR System)

  • 최형준;김정태;구치완
    • 전기전자학회논문지
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    • 제23권1호
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    • pp.295-301
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    • 2019
  • 바이오샘플의 DNA를 대량 증폭할 수 있는 휴대형 실시간 중합효소연쇄반응(Real-time PCR) 기기에서 히터는 PCR 반응 온도를 제어하기 위한 중요한 요소 중의 하나이다. 보통 빠른 히팅을 위해 소형 PCR 칩에 집적화되어 있고, 반도체 공정을 이용하여 박막형태로 제작되어 PCR 칩 제작 단가가 높은 편이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 값싸고 온도제어를 정확히 할 수 있는 히터로 칩 저항을 사용하는 것을 제안한다. 칩 저항을 사용한 히터는 구조가 단순하고 제작이 쉽다는 장점이 있다. $2.54{\times}2.54cm^2$ 크기의 실시간 PCR 칩 위에 칩 저항을 1개 또는 2개를 사용했을 때 온도분포를 시뮬레이션 하였고, 고른 온도분포를 갖는 PCR 칩을 제작했다. 또한 효율적인 PCR 칩 냉각을 위해 소형 fan이 내장된 하우징을 설계하였고, 3D 프린터로 제작했다. 온도제어는 마이크로프로세서를 이용한 PID제어법(Proportional-Integral-Differential control)을 적용했다. 온도상승비와 하강비는 각각 $18^{\circ}C/s$, $3^{\circ}C/s$이며, 각 PCR 반응 단계의 유지 시간을 30초로 하였을 때, 한 사이클은 약 2.66분이 걸렸고, 35 사이클은 약 93 분 내로 진행할 수 있었다.

분자농업의 현황 및 전망 (Current status in molecular farming)

  • 김태금;양문식
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • 제37권3호
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 2010
  • Molecular farming is production of pharmaceutically and industrially important proteins in plants. Plants and plant cell culture systems have been used as bio-factory to produce recombinant proteins such as monoclonal antibodies, enzymes, vaccines, hormones, interleukins, commercial enzymes and etc. The terms molecular farming, biofarming, molecular pharming, phytomanufacturing, recombinant or plant-made industrials, planta-pharma, plant bioreactors, plant biofactory, and pharmaceutical gardening are used interchangeably. Molecular farming can provide safe and inexpensive pharmaceutical proteins as well as commercial ones. In spite of several advantages of molecular farming such as safety and inexpensive cost, there are also a couple of drawbacks in the existing technology. One of them is low expression level of target gene in plants, which has been improved by optimizing gene-based codon usage, screening of strong promoters, expression of transcription factors, subcellular targeting of target proteins, chloroplast transformation, and transient expression using viral expression system (magnifection). Some plant-based commercial proteins have already been in markets and more than twenty plant-based pharmaceuticals have been in clinical trials, from that we can expect that several plant-based pharmaceutical proteins will be seen in the markets in the near future.