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A Study on PE Fence Design Using Pung-hyeol of the Joseon Dynasty Furniture (조선조 가구의 풍혈을 활용한 PE 휀스 디자인 연구)

  • Kim, Chung Ho;Kang, Ho Yang
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.148-155
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    • 2013
  • Appear on the furniture design concept of the Joseon Dynasty Pung-hyel design was developed that is imaged by implication. Was enough of our culture, tradition and the wisdom of our ancestors to the development of a design that reflects the traits to fit the purpose of each form to proceed. Based building materials, technology, and how to identify and develop products as competitive PE fence, and at the same time to develop an international product design is based. Was designed with functionality and mass production to be faithful as a function fence productivity. Formative elements where you can rub shoulders with the modern urban environment alive excavated features leads in the traditional culture, aesthetics, design emphasized a new sense of harmony. Improvements were becoming increasingly aware that traditional culture of Korea's own traditional forms of social concern of modern design. Other products and take advantage of the traditional pattern, with figurative motifs and differentiation, and faithful to its original function as a fence brings out the basic elements of the visual motif has a distinctive beauty.

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Characterization of an Abiotic Stress-inducible Dehydrin Gene, OsDhn1, in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

  • Lee, Sang-Choon;Lee, Mi-Yeon;Kim, Soo-Jin;Jun, Sung-Hoon;An, Gynheung;Kim, Seong-Ryong
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.212-218
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    • 2005
  • A full-length 1.1 kb cDNA, designated Oryza sativa Dehydrin 1 (OsDhn1), was isolated from the seed coat of rice. The deduced protein is hydrophilic and has three K-type and one S-type motifs (SK3-type), indicating that OsDhn1 belongs to the acidic dehydrin family, which includes wheat WCOR410 and Arabidopsis COR47. Expression of OsDhn1 was strongly induced by low temperature as well as by drought. Induction of OsDhn1 by cold stress was clearcut in the roots of seedlings and the epidermis of palea and lemma. OsDhn1 was also up-regulated in UBI::CBF1/DREB1b transgenic plants indicating that it is regulated by the CBF/DREB stress signaling pathway.

Discovery of Novel 4${\alpha}$ helix Cytokine by Hidden Markov Model Analysis

  • Du, Chunjuan;Zeng, Yanjun;Zhu, Yunping;He, Fuchu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2005
  • Cytokines play a crucial role in the immune and inflammatory responses. But because of the high evolutionary rate of these proteins, the similarity between different members of their family is very low, which makes the identification of novel members of cytokines very difficult. According to this point, a new bioinformatic strategy to identify novel cytokine of the short-chain and long-chain 4${\alpha}$ helix cytokine using hidden markov model (HMM) is proposed in the paper. As a result, two motifs were created on the two train data sets, which were used to search three different databases. In order to improve the result, a strict criterion is established to filter the novel cytokines in the subject proteins. Finally, according to their E-value, scores and the criterion, four subject proteins are predicted to be possible novel cytokines for each family respectively.

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Expression and cDNA Cloning of klp-12 Gene Encoding an Ortholog of the Chicken Chromokinesin, Mediating Chromosome Segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans

  • Ali, M. Yusuf;Khan, M.L.A.;Shakir, M.A.;Kobayashi, K. Fukami;Nishikawa, Ken;Siddiqui, Shahid S.
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.138-146
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    • 2000
  • In eukaryotes, chromosomes undergo a series of complex and coordinated movements during cell division. The kinesin motor proteins, such as the chicken Chromokinesin, are known to bind DNA and transport chromosomes on spindle microtubles. We previously cloned a family of retrograde C-terminus kinesins in Caenorhabditis elegans that mediate chromosomal movement during embryonic development. Here we report the cloning of a C. elegans klp-12 cDNA, encoding an ortholog of chicken Chromokinesin and mouse KIF4. The KLP-12 protein contains 1609 amino acid and harbors two leucine zipper motifs. The insitu RNA hybridization in embryonic stages shows that the klp-12 gene is expressed during the entire embryonic development. The RNA interference assay reveals that, similar to the role of Chromokinesin, klp-12 functions in chromosome segregation. These results support the notion that during mitosis both types, the anterograde N-terminus kinesins such as KLP-12 and the retrograde C-terminus kinesins, such as KLP-3, KLP-15, KLP-16, and KLP-17, may coordinate chromosome assembly at the metaphase plate and chromosomal segregation towards the spindle poles in C. elegans.

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Nucleotide Sequence of Rat Transketolase and Liver-Specific Pretranslational Activation During Postnatal Development

  • Kim, Sung-Min F.;Kim, Byung-Moon;Jeng, Jingjau;Soh, Yun-Jo;Bak, Choong-Il;Huh, Jae-Wook;Song, Byoung-J.
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.146-150
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    • 1996
  • A 2.1 kb cDNA clone for rat transketolase was isolated from rat liver ${\lambda}gt11$ cDNA library and its sequence was determined. The predicted rat transketolase (655 amino acids with $M_r$ 71,186) is highly similar (92%) to that of the human enzyme except that it contains an extra 32 amino acids at its N-terminus. Although it is less similar (<27%) to transketolases from non-mammalian species, the functional motifs such as the catalytic sites and thiamine binding domain are well conserved in the rat enzyme. Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA verified that transketolase appears to be derived from a single gene. Immunoblot and Northern blot analyses suggested that hepatic transketolase was activated pretranslationally by a 2.1-fold while little change was observed in brain enzyme, indicating a tissue-specific pretranslational activation during postnatal development.

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A Study on the Design and Pattern Applying Men's Coat of 18th and 19th Century (18, 19세기 남성 코트를 응용한 디자인과 패턴 연구)

  • An, Hyun-Joo
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.145-157
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest new designs and patterns for men's coat by deconstructing and restructuring 18th and 19th century men's coat. In the postmodern society, the reinterpretation of the past fashion trends or items through extensive historical investigation has been frequently used as new design motifs and the new source of creative fashion design. Especially in the contemporary society, as multifarious forms and presentations are emphasized even in the men's fashion, it is urgently required more than ever to do thorough and extensive research for the design and structure of men's fashion. Therefore, through historical research on men's fashion, the 18th and 19th century men's coat, which is generally considered to be the most developed one in the concept and shape of 'coat,' has been reinterpreted and deconstructed to make new design for men's coat which corresponds to the trends and sensibility of contemporary fashion. In addition to this, to facilitate practical use of this new design by fashion public, the plane patterns for the actual production of these coat designs were presented.

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The Solution Structure of 18 residue YH motif Peptide within the Second fas-1 domain of ${\beta}ig-h3$

  • Han, Kyung-Doo;Son, Woo-Sung;Kim, Won-Je;Lee, Bong-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2007
  • [ ${\beta}ig-h3$ ] is an extracellular matrix protein that mediates cell adhesion through interaction with integrins. The 18 residue YH motifs within each fas-1 domain are known to be responsible for the interaction with the ${\alpha}_v{\beta}_5$ integrin, and the synthetic YH motif peptides are known to inhibit endothelial tube formation and reduces the number of blood vessels, and so expected to be an effective inhibitor of angiogenesis. In this study, we solved the 3D structure of the 18 residue YH motif peptide (EALRDLLNNHILKSAMCA; D2 peptide) within the second fas-1 domain of ${\beta}ig-h3$ using NMR. The Peptide has ${\alpha}-helix$ structure at the C terminal region but the N terminal region is flexible. The present structural information may be helpful for developing more effective peptide drug candidate for the treatment of diseases dependent on angiogenesis.

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Informatics Network Representation Using Probabilistic Graphical Models of Network Genetics (유전자 네트워크에서 확률적 그래프 모델을 이용한 정보 네트워크 추론)

  • Ra Sang-Dong;Park Dong-Suk;Youn Young-Ji
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.1386-1392
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    • 2006
  • This study is a numerical representative modelling analysis for applying the process that unravels networks between cells in genetics to WWW of informatics. Using the probabilistic graphical model, the insight from the data describing biological networks is used for making a probabilistic function. Rather than a complex network of cells, we reconstruct a simple lower-stage model and show a genetic representation level from the genetic based network logic. We made probabilistic graphical models from genetic data and extends them to genetic representation data in the method of network modelling in informatics.

Implementation of Protein Motif Prediction System Using integrated Motif Resources (모티프 자원 통합을 이용한 단백질 모티프 예측 시스템 구현)

  • Lee, Bum-Ju;Choi, Eun-Sun;Ryu, Keun-Ho
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.4
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    • pp.679-688
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    • 2003
  • Motif databases are used in the function and structure prediction of proteins which appear on new and rapid release of raw data from genome sequencing projects. Recently, the frequency of use about these databases increases continuously. However, existing motif databases were developed and extended independently and were integrated mainly by using a web-based cross-reference, thus these databases have a heterogeneous search result problem, a complex query process problem and a duplicate database entry handling problem. Therefore, in this paper, we suppose physical motif resource integration and describe the integrated search method about a family-based protein prediction for solving above these problems. Finally, we estimate our implementation of the motif integration database and prediction system for predicting protein motifs.

Mapping of the Interaction Domain of DNA Topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ and $II{\beta}$ with Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase 2

  • Park, Gye-Hwa;Bae, Young-Seuk
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.85-89
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    • 2001
  • Both topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ and $II{\beta}$ east as phosphoproteins in the cells. Recently it was reported that DNA topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ associates with and is phosphorylated by the extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 (ERK2). Also, ERK2 stimulates the activity of topoisomerase II by a phosphorylation-independent manner [Shapiro et al., (1999) Mol. Cell. Biol. 19, 3551-3560]. In this study, a yeast two-hybrid system was used to investigate the binding site between topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ or $II{\beta}$ and ERK2. The two-hybrid test clearly showed that topoisomerase $II{\beta}$ residues 1099-1263, and topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ residues 1078-1182, mediate the interaction with ERK2, and that the leucine zipper motifs of topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ and $II{\beta}$ are not required for its physical binding to ERK2. Our results suggest that topoisomerase $II{\beta}$ residues 1099-1263, and topoisomerase $II{\alpha}$ residues 1078-1182, may be common binding sites for activator proteins.

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