• 한국버섯학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2022

Pleurotus ostreatus is a globally cultivated mushroom crop. Cap color is a quality factor in P. ostreatus. However, cap color can spontaneously mutate, degrading the quality of the mushroom on the market. Early detection and removal of mutant strains is the best way to maintain the commercial value of the crop. To detect the cap color mutant Gonji7ho, molecular markers were developed based on insertion/deletions (InDels) derived from the comparison of mitogenomes of Gonji7ho and Gonji7hoM mushrooms. Sequencing, assembly, and comparative analysis of the two mitogenomes revealed genome sizes of 73,212 bp and 72,576 bp with 61 and 57 genes or open reading frames (ORFs) in P. ostreatus Gonji7ho and Gonji7hoM, respectively. Fourteen core protein-encoding genes, two rRNA, and 24 tRNA with some OFRs were predicted. Of the 61 genes or OFRs in the wild type, dpo, rpo, and two orf139 were missing (or remnant) in the mutant strain. Molecular markers were developed based on the sequence variations (InDels) between the two mitogenomes. Six polymorphic molecular markers could detect the mutated mitochondria by PCR. These results provide basic knowledge of the mitogenomes of wild-type and mutant P. ostreatus, and can be applied to discriminate mutated mitochondria.

• BMB Reports
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.82-85
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• 1999

The movement protein of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is required for cell-to-cell movement of viral RNA. The movement of viral RNA occurs through the plant intercellular connection, the plasmodesmata. The viral movement protein was known to be multi-functional. In this work, a series of deletion mutants of CMV movement protein gene were created to identify the functional domains. The mutated movement proteins were produced as inclusion body in E. coli, and purified and renatured. A polyclonal antibody was raised against the CMV-Kor strain (Korean isolate) movement protein expressed in E. coli. The ability of the truncated proteins to bind to ssRNA was assayed by UV cross-linking and gel retardation analyses. The results indicate that the domain between amino acids 118 and 160 of CMV movement protein is essential for ssRNA binding.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.1500-1509
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• 2008

The hybridization patterns with the avrBs3 gene that is known to determine the recognition of host specificity were used to study the diversity of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines causing bacterial leaf pustule in soybean. A total of 155 strains were isolated from diverse tissues of soybean cultivars collected in Korea and were classified into six different type strains of OcsF, SL1017, SL1018, SL1045, SL1157, and SL2098 according to the patterns of avrBs3-homologous bands. When these type strains were inoculated on various cultivars, most of the Korean strains mildly induced disease symptoms on the resistant CNS1 cultivars. Unlike other type strains, strain SL2098, which appeared not to contain any avrBs3 homolog, induced only a few pustules on even highly susceptible cultivars. When a plasmid carrying the 3.7-kb avrBs3-homologous gene from strain SL1045 was introduced into SL2098, the transformant could not recover the pathogenicity in susceptible host plants. However, when avrBs3-homologous genes of strain SL1018 were mutated by transposon mutagenesis, one of the mutants in which a 5.2-kb chromosomal band homologous to avrBs3 was disrupted could not induce the hypersensitive response on resistant cultivars such as William82 or CNS2. Our results suggest that the avrBs3 homologs may play important roles in the pathogenicity of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines and the recognition of soybean cultivars.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.304-312
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• 2013

The thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha is attracting interest as a potential strain for the production of recombinant proteins and biofuels. However, only limited numbers of genome engineering tools are currently available for H. polymorpha. In the present study, we identified the HpPOL3 gene encoding the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase ${\delta}$ of H. polymorpha and mutated the sequence encoding conserved amino acid residues that are important for its proofreading 3'${\rightarrow}$5' exonuclease activity. The resulting $HpPOL3^*$ gene encoding the error-prone proofreading-deficient DNA polymerase ${\delta}$ was cloned under a methanol oxidase promoter to construct the mutator plasmid pHIF8, which also contains additional elements for site-specific chromosomal integration, selection, and excision. In a H. polymorpha mutator strain chromosomally integrated with pHIF8, a $URA3^-$ mutant resistant to 5-fluoroorotic acid was generated at a 50-fold higher frequency than in the wild-type strain, due to the dominant negative expression of $HpPOL3^*$. Moreover, after obtaining the desired mutant, the mutator allele was readily removed from the chromosome by homologous recombination to avoid the uncontrolled accumulation of additional mutations. Our mutator system, which depends on the accumulation of random mutations that are incorporated during DNA replication, will be useful to generate strains with mutant phenotypes, especially those related to unknown or multiple genes on the chromosome.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.68-72
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• 2002

RNA 함량이 증가되고, 증식속도가 더 빠른 효모 변이주를 선별하기 위해, 모균주 Saccharomyces cerevisiae MTY62 세포에 화학적 돌연변이제인 ethylmethane sulfonate를 처리하여, YPD 배지에서는 잘 자라고 KCl 함유 배지에서는 자라지 않는 변이주들을 선별하였다. 이 변이주들 중 시험관 및 플라스크 배양을 통해 균체농도와 RNA 함량이 모균주 MTY62에 비해 각각 1.5배, 1.3배 증가한 M40-10 변이주를 최종적으로 선별하였다. 변이주 M40-l0을 발효조 회분배양한 결과, 최대비증식속도는 $0.38 h^{-1}$ , RNA 농도는 3210 mg-RNA/1, RNA 함량은 183mg-RNA/g-DCW 값을 보여, 모균주에 비해 각각 23%, 15%, 12%씩 증가하였다. M40-10 변이주를 간헐적 유가배양한 결과, 최대 균체농도는 35.6 g-DCW/1을, 최대 RNA 농도는 5677mg-RNA/l을, RNA함량은 160 mg-RNA/g-DCW을 나타내어 모균주보다 우수하였다. 일정속도의 유가배양에서도 M40-10 변이주의 최대 균체농도는 46.4g-DCW/1, RNA 농도는 6270mg-RNA/1, RNA 함량은 135mg-RNA/g-DCW을 보였다. 이들 유가배양에서 배양 중반기인 20시간 전후에서는 모균주에 비해 변이주의 세포농도는 30%, RNA 농도는 10% 정도 증가되었다. 또한 유가배양 말기까지도 RNA 분해는 거의 일어나지 않아, M40-10 변이주는 산성 RNase 활성이 크게 감소한 변이주임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.554-562
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• 2003

Xylitol은 대체감미제로써 mutans streptococci에 의해서 대사되지 않으며 오히려 이들 균체내에서 glucose대사를 억제하여 mutans streptococci의 성장을 저해하고, 산성 대사물의 생산을 감소시킴으로써 치아우식억제효과를 나타내는 것으로 알려져 있다. 이와 같이 xylitol에 의해 성장의 억제를 받는 S. mutans strain을 xylitol-sensitive($X^S$) strain이라고 한다. 하지만 xylitol에 지속적으로 노출될 경우 더 이상 xylitol에 의해 성장억제가 나타나지 않는 xylitol-resistant($X^R$) strain이 출현함이 실험적이나 임상적으로 보고 되었다. 본 연구는 $X^S$ strain과 여기에서 얻은 변이종 $X^R$ strain의 성장과 세포외 pH 그리고 수산화인회석 표면에 대한 부착능과 세균응집능을 비교함으로써 $X^R$ strain의 출현이 xylitol의 치아우식억제효과에 미치는 영향을 확인하고자 하였으며, 다음과 같은 결론를 얻었다. 1. $X^R$ strain은 $X^S$ strain의 성장과 세포외 pH와 차이를 나타내지 않았다. 2. $X^R$ strain과 $X^S$ strain은 수산화인회석 부착능에 있어서 차이를 나타내지 않았으며(p>0.05), 자당 의존성 수산화인회석 부착에서는 $X^R$ strain에 비해 $X^S$ strain이 더 높은 부착능을 나타내었다(p<0.05). 3. 타액유도성 응집에서는 $X^R$ strain이 더 낮은 타액의 농도에서 응집 반응을 보였다.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.71.2-71
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• 2003

Ralstonia solancearum infects many solanaceous plants, however race 3 infects only potato and tomato weakly. To identify genes responsible for race specificity of R. solanacearum, we mobilized genomic library of LSD2029 (race 3) into LSD341 (race 1) and inoculated 1,000 transconjugants into hot pepper. One transconjugant that did not induce wilt symptom in hot pepper was isolated. We found that a cosmid clone, pRSl, conferred avirulence to LSD341. By deletion and mutational analyses of pRSl, we found the 0.9-kb PstI/Hindlll fragment carries avirulence functions. We sequenced the fragment and identified one possible open reading frame, a rsal gene, possibly encoding 110 amino acids. The rsal was preceded with a plant-inducible promoter (PIP) box, indicating that the gene might be regulated by HrpB. Interestingly, the promoter region of the rsal homolog in the strain GM11000 (race 1) did not have the PIP box. Rsal did not show any significant homologies with proteins in the database, indicating th e protein is different from the previously reported avirulence proteins. When we mutated the rsal gene by marker-exchange in LSD2029, the mutant was less virulent in potato.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.163-167
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• 2015

Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a major diarrhea-causing agent in puppies. Since CPV type 2 (CPV-2) emerged in 1978, new antigenic variants including CPV-2a, CPV-2b, and CPV-2c have been identified in many countries. Two puppies died suddenly at a veterinary clinic in Gyeonggi province, South Korea. Two viruses were isolated in A72 cells, confirmed as CPV strains based on a CPV rapid kit and an indirect fluorescence test and designated QIACP1403 and QIACP1404. The nucleotide sequences of complete VP2 genes of QIACP1403 and QIACP1404 were determined, and the corresponding amino acid sequences were deduced. Molecular analyses revealed that the QIACP1403 and QIACP1404 isolates were type CPV-2b. Several mutated amino acids were detected on VP2 gene residues of the two isolates. Phylogenetic analyses showed that the two isolates were most closely related to strain CPV-BM11, which was isolated from Chinese dogs in 2011. Our results suggest that these isolates may be a candidate for a vaccine to prevent CPV infection in dogs after conducting passages of the isolates in an in vitro culture system.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.154-158
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• 1999

The arginine residue at position 243 (Arg 243) of the yeast transcription factor, Gcn4p, is invariably conserved among bZIP transcription factors. Using site-directed oligonucleotide saturation mutagenesis involving two-step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, random mutations were successfully introduced at the codon of 243 in the basic domain of Gcn4p. This mutant library was transformed ito Gcn4p defective yeast strain and selected for the transcriptionally active colonies. All colonies which were transcriptionally active had arginines in the codon 243. In this study, the strand preference by Taq polymerase during mutagenesis was also tested. Oligonucleotides were specially designed to test whether or not the polymerase was preferred using the strand as a template. A population of randomly mutated products were cloned into an appropriate vector and characterized by DNA sequencing analysis. Saturation mutagenesis which was performed efficiently by this method revealed a strong bias in terms of strand preference of Taq polymerase by an approximate ratio of 3 to 1 in this study.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.1533-1537
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• 2007

In this study, in order to develop a continuous production process of lactosucrose in a packed-bed reactor, Sterigmatomyces elviae ATCC 18894 was selected and mutated. The mutant strain of S. elviae showed 54.3% higher lactosucrose production than the wild type. Reaction conditions such as temperature, pH, substrate concentration and flow rate were also optimized. Under optimized reaction conditions ($50^{\circ}C$, pH 6.0, 25% sucrose and 25% lactose as substrate, flow rate 1.2 ml/min), the maximum concentration of lactosucrose (192 g/l) was obtained. In a packed-bed reactor, continuous production of lactosucrose was performed using S. elviae mutant immobilized in calcium alginate, and about 180 g/l of lactosucrose production was achieved for 48 days.