• BMB Reports
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.429-435
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• 1999

Unlike the mammalian glucose transporter GLUT1, little is known about the nature of the endogenous sugar transporter(s) in insect cells. In order to establish the transport characteristics and other properties of the sugar transport proteins of Sf9 cells, a series of kinetic analyses was performed. A saturable transport system for hexose uptake has been revealed in the insect cells. The apparent affinity of this transport system(s) for 2-deoxy-D-glucose was relatively high, the $K_m$ for uptake being <0.5 mM. To further investigate the substrate and inhibitor recognition properties of the insect cell transporter, the ability of other sugars or drugs to inhibit 2-deoxy-D-glucose transport was examined by measuring inhibition constants ($K_j$). Transport was inhibited by D-mannose, D-glucose, and D-fructose. However, the apparent affinity of the C-4 epimer, D-galactose, for the Spodoptera transporter was relatively low, implying that the hydroxyl group at the C-4 position may play a role in the strong binding of glucose and mannose to the transporter. The results also showed that transport was stereoselective, being inhibited by D-glucose but not by L-glucose. It is therefore concluded that insect cells contain an endogenous glucose transport activity that in several aspects resembles the human erythrocyte glucose transporter. However, the mammalian and insect transporters were different in some of their kinetic properties, namely, their affinities for fructose and for cytochalasin B.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.257-267
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• 2015

Insects are the most successful organisms on earth in terms of their diversity and adaptability. Insect biotechnology using this insect resource is an emerging area for future biotechnology with various applications. Insect resources have long been used to make food and/or functional food, feed, cosmetics as well as medicine and industrial ingredients. Recently, one of the most well-known industrial material from insect is spider silk that could be commercialize in near future. The insect cell lines have been used to express recombinant proteins that were difficult to be functional expression. For public purpose, while, the insect could be good amenity source and plant farming, so leisure resource. Only the interdisciplinary research will guarantee the successful story for insect biotechnology. And biochemical engineers should used insect as a bioresource for new products with applications in medicine, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology in near future. This review will cover state-of-the art of this field and the research and application areas of insect biotechnology and the possible role of biochemical engineer for the development of the future biotechnology using this bioresource.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.352-355
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• 2004

Heliothis zea (HzAM1) insect cells were immobilized in microspheres by sodium-cellulosesulfate (NaCS) and polydiallyldimethylammoniumchloride (PDADMAC). The highest HzAMl cell density was $7.5{\times}10^7$ cells/mL in the microspheres. After infection of the immobilized cells by Heliothis zea single nuclear polyhedrosis virus (HzSNPV), the highest concentration of HzSNPV (polyhedral inclusion bodies: PIBs) produced was $2.87{\times}10^{10}$ PIBs/mL in the microspheres.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.266-270
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• 1989

실험실 규모의 배양기에서 곤충세포의 배양을 수행하였다. 회분식 배양에서의 곤충 세포의 성장은 serum의 농도, 다른 영양소, 초기 정종 농도, 기계적인 교반파 같은 변수에 의해 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. Lactate와 ammonium은 회분식 배양에서의 말기에 관찰되는 농도에서는 세포의 성장을 저해하는 원인은 아닌것 같았다. 또한. redox potential은 공충세포의 배양 용존산소를 측정할 수 있는 좋은 index 임을 알 수 있었다. 아울러 유전공학적으로 재조합된 baculovirus를 곤충세포에 감염시켜 재조합 단백질의 생산을 시도하였으며 dilution rate 가 $0.006\;hr^{-1}$일때 반응기당 최대 2800 units 의 beta-galactosidase 가 생산되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.361-368
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• 1998

The E2 protein of HCV (hepatitis C virus) is thought to have a potential role in the development of subunit vaccines and diagnostics. To express it by the insect cell/baculovirus expression (Bacu) system, we constructed a recombinant Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcIL3E2), determined the most appropriate expression conditions in terms of host cell line and culture medium, and characterized the expressed HCV E2 protein. A culture system using Trichoplusia ni BTI-TN5Bl-4 cells and SF 900IISFM medium expressed a relatively high level of HCV E2 protein. It was revealed that its glycosylation properties and subcellular localization were almost the same as the ones in the mammalian cell expression system previously reported, suggesting the recombinant HCV E2 protein derived from our Bacu system can be utilized for development of a subunit vaccine and diagnostics. Interestingly, HCV E2 protein was not degraded at all even at 43 h post-heat shock in the heat shock-induced necrotic cells, probably due to its integration into the microsomal membrane, indicating that heat shock can be employed to purify HCV E2 protein.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.301-307
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• 2006

고추좀잠자리의 장으로부터 리그닌 분해활성을 보이는 미생물을 분리하였으며 16s rDNA 서열분석 및 생리 생화학적 동정에 의해 Serratia marcescens에 속하는 새로운 균주로 밝혀졌다. 분리된 균주는 리그닌 화합물을 포함하는 배지에서 배양하였을 때 cell growth의 증가에 따라 리그닌 화합물에 대한 분해능이 증가하였으며 48시간의 배양에 의해 20-45%의 분해능을 나타내었고, 특히 monomer 화합물인 vanillin 및 guaiacol과 dimer 화합물인 dealkaline 리그닌에 대한 분해능이 높았다. 분리된 균주 S. marcescens HY-5는 PCR에 의한 16S rDNA의 증폭과 denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis에 의한 장내 세균의 분포를 조사하였을 때 높은 밀도의 분포를 나타내었으며 서로 다른 지역에서 채집된 고추좀잠자리에서 공통적으로 발견되는 특징을 보여주었다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.396-397
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• 2000

$TGF-{\beta}_1$을 insect cell-baculovirus system을 이용하여 생산하였으며, 이 경우 낮은 세포밀도와 암모니아 같은 노폐물에 의한 생산성 저해 문제를 해결하기 위해 유가식 배양과 흡착제에 의한 암모니아 제거를 동시에 수행함으로써 $TGF-{\beta}_1$의 생산성을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.177-181
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• 2003

The baculovirus/Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf) cell system has become popular for the production of large amounts of the human erythrocyte glucose transporter, GLUT1, heterologously. However, it was not possible to show that the expressed transporter in insect cells could actually transport glucose. The possible reason for this was that the activity of the endogenous insect glucose transporter was extremely high and so rendered transport activity resulting from the expression of exogenous transporter very difficult to detect. Sf21-AE cells are commonly employed as the host permissive cell line to support the baculovirus AcNPV replication and protein synthesis. The cells grow well on TC-100 medium that contains 0.1 % D-glucose as the major carbon source, strongly suggesting the presence of endogenous glucose transporters. However, unlike the human glucose transporter, very little is known about properties of the endogenous sugar transporter(s) in insect cells. Thus, the uptake of 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2dGlc) by Sf21-AE cells and the inhibition of 2dGlc transport in the insect cells by fructose and cytochalasin B were investigated in the present work. The binding assay of cytochalasin B was also performed, which could be used as a functional assay for the endogenous glucose transporter(s) in the insect cells. Sf21-AE cells were infected with the recombinant virus AcNPV-GT or no virus, at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 5. Infected cells were resuspended in PBS plus and minus 300 mM fructose, and plus and minus 20 $\mu$M cytochalasin B for use in transport assays. Uptake was measured at 28$^{\circ}C$ for 1 min, with final concentration of 1 mM deoxy-D-glucose, 2-[1,2-$^3$H]- or glucose, L-[l,$^3$H]-, used at a specific radioactivity of 4 Ci/mol. The results obtained demonstrated that the sugar uptake in uninfected cells was stereospecific, and was strongly inhibited by fructose but only poorly inhibitable by cytochalasin B. It is therefore suggested that the Sf21-AE glucose transporter has very low affinity for cytochalasin B, a potent inhibitor of human erythrocyte glucose transporter.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2005년도 한국식물병리학회 임시총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.68.1-68.1
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• 2005

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2009

Salivary lipocalin (SAL1) is a member of the lipocalin protein family that has a property to associate with many lipophilic molecules. The importance of SAL1 during pregnancy in pigs has been suggested by our previous study which has shown that SAL1 is expressed in the uterine endometrium in a cell type- and implantation stage-specific manner and secreted into the uterine lumen. However, function of SAL1 in the uterus during pregnancy in pigs is not known. To understand SAL1 function in the uterus during pregnancy, we generated recombinant porcine SAL1 protein in an insect cell line. Porcine SAL1 cDNA was cloned into a baculovirus expression vector using RT-PCR and total RNA from uterine endometrium on day 12 of pregnancy, and the expression vector was used to generate recombinant Bacmid containing the SAL1 gene. The recombinant Bacmid was then transfected Sf9 cell to produce recombinant baculovirus. By infecting Sf9 cell with recombinant baculovirus, we established a SAL1-expressing insect cell expression system. Immunoblot analysis confirmed SAL1 expression in the infected cells. Recombinant SAL1 produced by the Sf9 cell line will be useful for understanding physiological function of SAL1 during pregnancy in pigs.