• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2005

A novel rice (Oryza sativa L.) gene, homologous to Arabidopsis pathogenesis-related NDR1 gene, was cloned from cDNA library prepared from 30 min Magnaporthe grisea -treated rice seedling leaves, and named as OsNDR1. OsNDR1 encoded a 220-aminoacid polypeptide and was highly similar to the Arabidopsis AtNDR1 protein. OsNDR1 is a plasma membrane (PM)-localized protein, and presumes through sequence analysis and protein localization experiment. Overexpression of OsNDR1 promotes the expression of PBZ1 that is essential for the activation of defense/stressrelated gene. The OsNDR1 promoter did not respond significantly to treatments with either SA, PBZ, or ETP. Exogenously applied BTH induces the same set of SAR genes as biological induction, providing further evidence for BTH as a signal. Presumably, BTH is bound by a receptor and the binding triggers a signal transduction cascade that has an ultimate effect on transcription factors that regulate SAR gene expression. Thus OsNDR1 may act as a transducer of pathogen signals and/or interact with the pathogen and is indeed another important step in clarifying the component participating in the defense response pathways in rice.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.78.2-79
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• 2003

Pepper defensin ( CADEFl) clone was isolated from cDNA library constructed from pepper leaves infected with avirulent strain Bv5-4a of Xanthomonu campestris pv. vesicatoria. The deduced amino acid sequence of CADEFl is 82-64％ identical to that of other plant defensins. Putative protein encoded by CADEFl gene consists of 78 amino acids and 8 conserved cysteine residues to form four structure-stabilizing disulfide bridges. Transcription of the CADEF1 gene was earlier and stronger induced by X campestris pv. vesicatoria infection in the incompatible than in the compatible interaction. CADEF1 mRNA was constitutively expressed in stem, root and green fruit of pepper. Transcripts of CADEFl gene drastically accumulated in pepper leaf tissues treated With Salicylic acid (SA), methyl jasmonate (MeJA), abscisic acid (ABA), hydrogen Peroxide (H$_2$O$_2$), benzothiadiazole (BTH) and DL-${\beta}$-amino-n-butyric acid (BABA). In situ hybridization results revealed that CADEF1 mRNA was localized in the phloem areas of vascular bundles in leaf tissues treated with exogenous SA, MeJA and ABA. Strong accumulation of CADEF1 mRNA occurred in pepper leaves in response to wounding, high salinity and drought stress. These results suggest that bacterial pathogen infection, abiotic elicitors and some environmental stresses may play a significant role in signal transduction pathway for CADEF1 gene expression.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2020

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) which localizes the human body joints becomes a high potential for high-level applications in the field of computer vision. The main challenges of HPE in real-time are occlusion, illumination change and diversity of pose appearance. The single RGB image is fed into HPE framework in order to reduce the computation cost by using depth-independent device such as a common camera, webcam, or phone cam. However, HPE based on the single RGB is not able to solve the above challenges due to inherent characteristics of color or texture. On the other hand, depth information which is fed into HPE framework and detects the human body parts in 3D coordinates can be usefully used to solve the above challenges. However, the depth information-based HPE requires the depth-dependent device which has space constraint and is cost consuming. Especially, the result of depth information-based HPE is less reliable due to the requirement of pose initialization and less stabilization of frame tracking. Therefore, this paper proposes a new method of HPE which is robust in estimating self-occlusion. There are many human parts which can be occluded by other body parts. However, this paper focuses only on head self-occlusion. The new method is a combination of the RGB image-based HPE framework and the depth information-based HPE framework. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method by COCO Object Keypoint Similarity library. By taking an advantage of RGB image-based HPE method and depth information-based HPE method, our HPE method based on RGB-D achieved the mAP of 0.903 and mAR of 0.938. It proved that our method outperforms the RGB-based HPE and the depth-based HPE.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.891-896
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• 2007

We screened the Arabidopsis cDNA library to identify functional suppressors of AtBI-1, a gene that suppresses cell death induced by Bax gene expression in yeast. Cdf 3 encodes a 118-amino-acid protein with a molecular mass of 25 kDa. This protein has two uncharacterized domains at amino acids residues 5-64 and 74-117. In the present study, CDF3 was found to induce growth defects in yeast and arrested yeast growth, although the cell-growth defect was somewhat less than that of Bax. Its localization in the inner mitochondria was essential for suppression of yeast-cell proliferation. The morphological abnormality of the intracellular network, which is a hallmark of AtBI-1, was attenuated by Cdf3 expression.

• BMB Reports
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.709-716
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• 2006

Mammalian polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) acts at various stages in early and late mitosis. Plk1 localizes at the centrosome and maintains this position through mitosis. Thereafter Plk1 moves to the kinetochore and midbody region, important sites during chromosome separation and cytokinesis. The catalytic domain of Plk1 is in the N-terminus region, whereas the non-catalytic region in the C-terminus of Plk1 has a conserved motif, named the Polobox. This motif is critical for Plk localization. EGFP proteins fused with the N-terminus and C-terminus of Plk1 localize in the nucleus and centrosomes, respectively. The core sequences of the polo-box (50 amino acids) also localize in Plk1 target organelles. To screen for domain-specific target proteins of Plk1, we constructed an N-terminal domain and a tandem repeat polo-box motif, and used them as templates in a yeast two-hybrid screen. The HeLa cell cDNA library indicated several proteins including the centrosome/kinetochore components or regulators, to be characterized as positive clones. Through in vitro protein binding analyses, we confirmed an interaction between these proteins and Plk1. The data reported from this study indicate that the N- and C- termini of Plk1 may function through recruitment and/or activation of domain-specific target proteins in dividing cells. Additionally, tandem repeats of the conserved core motif of the polo-box are sufficient for targeting and may be useful as a centrosome/kinetochore-specific targeting peptide.

• 한국발생생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국발생생물학회 2003년도 전기 한국발생생물학회 제16차 학술대회논문집
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• pp.21-23
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• 2003

Mechanisms regulate the arrest and growth of the resting primordial follicles are very poorly understood. To elucidate genes involved in the early folliculogenesis, we conducted suppression subtractive hybridization using mRNA from day1 and day5 ovaries and selected weel for further analysis, since it was most frequent gene in the day1-subtracted cDNA library (1). Expression of weel and correlated components of the cell cycle machinery, such as cdc2, cyclin B1, cdc25C, and phosphorylated cdc2 was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. In primordial follicles, expression of weel, cdcw, and cyclin B1 was cytoplasmic in oocytes, but phosphorylated cdc2 was weakly expressed in oocytes. While cdc25C expression was in ovarian somatic and in some theca cells. None of components was expressed in the pre-granulosa cells of the primordial follicles, while weel weakly, and cdc2 and cyclin B1 was strongly expressed in the granulosa cells of the growing follicles. Results from the present study suggest that 1) the mejotic arrest of the oocytes may not due to of cell cycle machinery, and 2) the weel may arrest meiosis by sequestering cdc2 and cyclin B1 in the cytoplasm by protein-protein interactions and/or by inhibitory phosphorylation.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2004

The nfa 1 gene was cloned from a cDNA library of pathogenic Naegleria fowleri by immunoscreening; it consisted of 360 bp and produced a 13.1 kDa recombinant protein (rNfa1) that showed the pseudopodia-specific localization by immunocytochemistry in the previous study. Based on the idea that the pseudopodia-specific Nfa1 protein mentioned above seems to be involved in the pathogenicity of N. fowleri, we observed the effect of an anti-Nfa1 antibody on the proliferation of N. fowleri trophozoites and the cytotoxicity of N. fowleri trophozoites on the target cells. The proliferation of N. fowleri trophozoites was inhibited after being treated with an anti-Nfa1 polycional antibody in a dose-dependent manner for 48 hrs. By a light microscope, CHO cells co-cultured with N. fowleri trophozoites (group I) for 48 hrs showed severe morphological destruction. On the contrary, CHO cells co-cultured with N. fowleri trophozoites and anti-Nfa1 polyclonal antibody (1:100 dilution) (group II) showed less destruction. In the LDH release assay results, group I showed 50.6% cytotoxicity, and group II showed 39.3%. Consequently, addition of an anti-Nfa1 polyclonal antibody produced a decreasing effect of in vitro cytotoxicity of N. fowleri in a dose-dependent manner.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.316-322
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• 2007

Zinc finger transcription factor genes are a significant fraction of the genes in the vertebrate genome. Here we report the isolation and characterization of a human zinc finger-containing gene, ZNF435, from a fetal brain cDNA library. ZNF435 cDNA is 1290 base pairs in length and contains an open reading frame encoding 349 amino acids with four C2H2-type zinc fingers at its carboxyl terminus and a SCAN motif at its amino terminus. RT-PCR results showed that ZNF435 was expressed in all tested tissues. A ZNF435-GFP fusion protein was located in the nucleus and the four zinc fingers acted as nuclear localization signals (NLSs). ZNF435 was found to be capable of homo-association, and this effect was independent of its zinc fingers. Furthermore, ZNF435 proved to be a transcription repressor as its overexpression in AD293 cells inhibited the transcriptional activities of AP-1.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1025-1038
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• 2010

당근($Daucus$ $carota$ L. var. $sativa$)은 세계적으로 널리 이용되는 작물 중 하나이다. 또한 Vitamin A의 전구체인 ${\beta}$-carotene의 함량이 높아 영양적으로도 주요한 작물이다. 하지만 종자 표피세포에서 생성되는 종자모는 종자발아시 흡수를 저해하며 발아를 억제하여 기계적인 제모작업을 거쳐 상품화되고 있다. 이러한 과정에서 발생하는 여러가지 단점을 보완하기 위해 무모종자 당근 품종의 육종이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구는 단모종자 표현형 CT-ATR615 OP 666-13 개체와 control 유모종자 표현형 CR-ATR615 OP-CK1-9개체의 종자 cDNA library를 작성하여 EST sequence비교를 통해 표현형의 차이에 따라 종자모 형성에 관련하여 발현양상을 비교 분석하였다. BlastX 결과를 바탕으로 개체간 동일한 결과를 제외한 EST sequence를 각각 FunCat 기능별 category로 분류하였다. Metabolism category에서 단모종자 표현형 개체가 오히려 유모종자 표현형 개체보다 높은 발현량을 보이는 것을 확인하였으며, 단모 및 장모종자 개체간의 protein folding and stabilization, subcellular localization category에서 나타난 뚜렷한 발현량 차이는 종자모 형성에 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 예측되었다. 또한 분석된 EST sequece를 바탕으로 개체별로 각각 50개 및 59개의 SSR site를 확인하였으며, 각각 2개씩의 SNP site를 확인하였다. 이들 SSR 및 SNP site의 primer 작성하여 마커로 개발하였으며, 이를 종자모 형성에 관련된 분자마커 개발에 이용하는 것은 물론 당근의 계통 분류 및 여러가지 형질 관련 분자 마커 연구에 활용 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.411-415
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 Anisakis 연구를 위하여 웹을 기반으로 하는 데이터베이스를 리녹스 Cent OS 시스템이 설치된 Xeon 3.2 GHz cpu의 인텔 서버플랫폼 ZSS130 (삼성) 서버에 구축하였다. 운영체제를 설치한 후에 common gate interface(cgi) 기반의 웹서버 (http://www.anisakis.org)를 구축하고 NCBI에서 제공하는 WebBLAST 프로그램을 설치하였다. Anisakis 연구를 위한 웹기반 데이터베이스를 다음과 같은 순서로 구축하였다. 우선 회충목에 속하는 각종 서열(염기서열/ 아미노산서열, EST 서열, 미토콘드리아 Genome 서열)들을 멀티파스타 형식으로 다운로드 하였다. 다음으로NCBI에서 제공하는 formatdb 프로그램을 통하여 BLAST 검색이 가능하도록 데이터베이스화 하였으며 모든 염기서열들과 EST 서열들을 TGICL 프로그램을 통하여 clustering 및 assembing을 하였다. 그리고 NLS (Nuclear Localization Signal) 예측을 위해 EST 서열들은 Genscan 프로그램과 Emboss sixpack 프로그램을 사용하여 아미노산으로 변환하였다. 또한 벡터 서열과 E. coli 서열, 그리고 반복 서열들을 서버에 구축하여 서열들의 오염을 확인할 수 있게 하였다. 본 웹데이터베이스 서버의 구축을 통해 고래회충 및 회충목의 염기서열과 일치하는 서열을 자체 BLAST를 통해 매우 빠른 속도로 추출 할 수 있었으며, cDNA나 genomic DNA 라이브러리를 구축할 때 라이브러리의 상태를 쉽게 확인 할 수 있게 되었다. 또한 Clustering Res. 인터페이스를 통해 SNPs 연구 수행 시 매우 쉽게 실험용 시발체를 제작할 수 있으며 기 구축된 cDNA library의 활용을 annotated EST를 통해 극대화 시킬 수 있어 고래회충 관련 분자생물학적 연구에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.