• 대한수의학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.7-17
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• 1985

Many investigators have been pursuing various attempts so far to produce hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg) vaccines using the techniques such as isolation from plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier, recombinant DNA technique or preparation of synthetic peptides specific for immunogenic determinants. Hepatitis B virus can not grow on any cell lines by the tissue culture technique at the present time. The plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier is expensive and its source is limited. The HBsAg from the recombinant DNA technique gave still very low yield. Another approach, therefore, has been initiated to develop a synthetic hepatitis B virus vaccine. The possible use of several distinct synthetic vaccines in prophylaxis can be facilitated by availability of full synthetic immunogens. Peptides synthesized for potential application as antiviral vaccines have been mostly tested in the form of conjugates with carrier proteins, although the free synthetic peptide can be immunogenic. To understand basic knowledges on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of a synthetic peptide specific for major immunogenic determinant of HBsAg, a nonapeptide, $H_2N^{139}Cys-Thr-Lys-Pro-Thr-Asp-Gly-^{146}Asn-Aba$ COOH, which corresponds to HBsAg amino acid residues 139 to 147, was synthesized by the Merrifield's solid-phase method with a slight modification. The antigenicity and immunogenicity of this specific synthetic peptide were examined comparing with purified plasma-derived natural HBsAg. The results obtained are as follows; 1. The peptide synthesized showed the identical amino acid composition to the theoretical value. The degree of purification and molecular weight were acertained by methods of high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. 2. Using m-maleimidobenzoyl-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester as a conjugating agent, the synthetic peptide was conjugated to rabbit albumin and ${\gamma}$-globulin, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, and keyhole limpet hemocyanin. Their conjugation yields were 8.3, 9.5, 15.8, 13.5, and 11.2%, respectively. 3. The natural HBsAg was purified from plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier. By the electron microscopic observation of the purified natural HBsAg preparation, no Dane particles were observed and the preparation showed negative DNA polymerase activity. 4. Antigenicity of the synthetic peptide and the plasma-derived natural HBsAg was determined by competition radioimmunoassay using $^{125}I$-natural HBsAg. Their 50% inhibitions appeared as $90{\mu}g/ml$ and $0.12{\mu}g/ml$ for the synthetic peptide and the natural HBsAg, respectively. This indicates that the former was about 750-fold less antigenic than the latter. 5. Immunogenicity of the synthetic peptide was determined by administering the peptide-carrier conjugates into rabbits with and without Freund's complete adjuvant. Regardless the carrier proteins and adjuvant, positive immune responses to the synthetic peptide were observed. The higher antibody titers, however, were shown in the groups administered with Freund's complete adjuvant. 6. Immunizing dose 50% in mice of the various peptide-carrier conjugates was 5.47, 6.00, 65.16, 31.25 and $13.03{\mu}g/dose$ for rabbit albumin and ${\gamma}$-globulin, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, and keyhole limpet hemocyanin, respectively, while the natural HBsAg showed $0.65{\mu}g/dose$. 7. It was postulated that homologous proteins prefer to heterologous ones as the carriers.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제50권
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• pp.248-254
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• 2023

본 연구는 종유용 들깨 품종인 다유들깨'의 유식물체에서 캘러스 유도를 통한 고효율의 재분화 체계를 구축하기 위해 수행되었고 이미 보고된 바 있는'남천들깨'와 함께 연구를 진행하였다. 캘러스는 잎, 자엽, 하배축 중 0.1 mg/L NAA와 0.5 mg/L BA가 첨가된 배지에서 배양된 다유들깨의 하배축에서 가장 건강한 캘러스가 형성되었다. 암상태와 장일조건에서 각각 캘러스를 유도한 후 신초 재분화를 유도했을 때 모든 조건에서 남천들깨보다 다유들깨가 재분화율이 월등하게 높았다. 또한 0.1 mg/L NAA와 0.5 mg/L BA 배지의 암상태와 장일조건에서 다유들깨 하배축의 신초 재분화율은 각각 86.7%와 84.4%로 두 조건 간 차이는 낮은 것으로 조사되었지만 전체적으로 암조건에 비해 장일조건에서 유도된 캘러스의 재분화 빈도가 높았다. 본 연구에서 다유들깨의 하배축으로부터 고효율의 재분화 조건을 확립하기 위해 다양한 식물생장호르몬 조합실험을 수행한 결과 NAA 없이 0.5 mg/L BA 만 첨가된 배지에서 가장 높은 90%의 재분화율을 보여 주었으며 이 중 정상적인 식물체가 70.5% 와 비정상적인 식물체가 19.3%로 조사되었고 NAA가 첨가되거나 농도가 높아질수록 비정상 식물체의 출현율이 높아졌다. 정상적으로 재분화된 신초는 1/2 MS 배지로 옮긴 후 10~15일 후에 뿌리가 관찰되었고 30일 후에는 완전한 식물체로 성장하였다. 본 연구에서 확립된 다유들깨 하배축을 이용한 재분화체계는 지금까지 보고된 다른 들깨 품종들의 재분화 체계에 비해 재분화 효율이 높았으며 향후 들깨에서 조직배양과 형질전환에 의존하는 유전자편집 등의 분자육종 분야에 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.