• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1992

물분자와 전리방사선과의 상호작용에 의하여 생성된 방사능극소입자에 관한 많은 연구결과가 보고되어 왔으며, 특히 이전 연구에서는 물분자의 방사성분해에 의해 발생한 수산화라디칼의 높은 농도는, 유기물기체와 같은 실내기체와 반응즉시 낮은 증기압의 화학물로 변하여 극소입자가 된다고 알려져 왔다. 본 연구에서는, 라돈의 첫째딸핵종인 Po-218에 대한 물분자와의 의존성을 조사할 목적으로, 실내기체의 최적제어가 가능한 라돈챔버를 사용하여 일련의 실험들을 수행하였다. 특별히 설계 제작된 평행등급 금속망필터시스템을 사용하여, 서로 다른 습도조건하에서 0.5-100nm 크기의 라돈딸핵종에 대한 방사능크기분포도가 얻어졌으며, 그 결과가 분석되었다. 라든가스챔버내에 수증기분자의 첨가와 동 수증기분자의 방사성분해에 의하여 생성된 수산화라디칼에 의한 극소입자들의 형성을 확인하였는데 이는 수증기의 방사성분해과정에서 Po-218이온과 수증기분자 사이에 중화과정 때문인 것으로 밝혀졌다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.275-280
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• 2005

Bacillus anthracis는 탄저병의 병원체이다. 탄저병의 독소는 Bacillus anthracis가 가진 세가지 독소로 이루어져 있다. protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF)그리고 edema factor (EF)로 구성되어 있다. PA는 세포수용체와 결합하여 활성화 과정을 거친 후 LF 흑은 EF를 세포질 안으로 이동시켜 주는 역할을 한다. LF는 금속이온 $(Zn^{2+})$ 의존적 단백질 가수분해 효소로써 탄저병에 감염된 동물들의 치사독소로 작용하게 된다. 따라서 LF에 대한 특성 분석 및 억제재 개발에 관한 연구는 탄저치료제 개발에 매우 중요한 과정이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 탄저독소의 치료제 개발을 위해 선행되어야 하는 LF 고처리량 활성검증방법 및 저해제 선별에 더 높은 효율을 가지기 위해 이러한 시스템 방법 등을 이용하여 세포내 검정방법의 기초 자료를 마련하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 yeast를 숙주로 한 LF 발현 vector의 구축과, 구축한 발현 시스템을 yeast에 형질전환 하여 plasmid의 안정성 및 LF유전자의 발현을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 LF유전자의 발현을 진핵세포 내에서 처음으로 시도했으며, 세포내 검증 시스템 도입의 기초적 자료를 제공하였다. Yeast내에서의 LF의 발현은 탄저병의 저해제 선별이나 활성측정검증을 생체 내에서 용이하게 할 수 있다는 가능성을 나타냈다.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2001

Recently, single cell gel electrophoresis, also known as comet assay, is widely used for the detection and measurement of DNA strand breaks in vitro and in vivo in many toxicological fields such as radiation exposure, human monitoring and toxicity evaluation. As well defined, comet assay is a sensitive, rapid and visual method for the detection of DNA strand breaks in individual cells. Briefly, a small number of damaged cells suspended in a thin agarose gel on a microscope slide were lysed, unwinded, electrophoresed, and stained with a fluorescent DNA binding dye. The electric current pulled the charged DNA from the nucleus such that relaxed and broken DNA fragments migrated further. The resulting images which were subsequently named for their appearance as comets, were measured to determine the extent of DNA damages. However, some variations could be occurred in procedures, laboratories's conditions and kind of cells used. Hence, to overcome and to harmonize these matters in comet assay, International Workshop on Genotoxicity Test Procedure (IWGTP) was held with several topics including comet assay at Washington D.C. on March, 1999. In spite of some consensus in procedures and conditions in IWGTP, there are some problems still remained to be solved. In this respect, we attempted to set the practical optimal conditions in the experimental procedures such as lysis, unwinding, electrophoresis and neutralization conditions and so on. First of all, we determined optimal lysis and unwinding time by using 150 $\mu$M methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) which is usually used concentration. And then, we determined optimal positive control concentrations of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and MMS in the presence and absence of S9 metabolic activation system, respectively.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2020

Cre recombinase is widely used to manipulate DNA sequences for both in vitro and in vivo research. Attachment of a trans-activator of transcription (TAT) sequence to Cre allows TAT-Cre to penetrate the cell membrane, and the addition of a nuclear localization signal (NLS) helps the enzyme to translocate into the nucleus. Since the yield of recombinant TAT-Cre is limited by formation of inclusion bodies, we hypothesized that the positively charged arginine-rich TAT sequence causes the inclusion body formation, whereas its neutralization by the addition of a negatively charged sequence improves solubility of the protein. To prove this, we neutralized the positively charged TAT sequence by proximally attaching a negatively charged poly-glutamate (E12) sequence. We found that the E12 tag improved the solubility and yield of E12-TAT-NLS-Cre (E12-TAT-Cre) compared with those of TAT-NLS-Cre (TAT-Cre) when expressed in E. coli. Furthermore, the growth of cells expressing E12-TAT-Cre was increased compared with that of the cells expressing TAT-Cre. Efficacy of the purified TAT-Cre was confirmed by a recombination test on a floxed plasmid in a cell-free system and 293 FT cells. Taken together, our results suggest that attachment of the E12 sequence to TAT-Cre improves its solubility during expression in E. coli (possibly by neutralizing the ionic-charge effects of the TAT sequence) and consequently increases the yield. This method can be applied to the production of transducible proteins for research and therapeutic purposes.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2011

우리나라 양식 넙치에서 분리한 VHSV (KR'01-1)의 glycoprotein 아미노산 배열을 기초로 단백질 전환 구조상 유연성, 친수성 및 항원성이 높고, 표면에 노출되어 있을 가능성(surface probability)이 높다고 분석되는 3개의 peptide (Gp1, Gp2, Gp3)를 선정하였다. 정제한 바이러스 입자 및 3개의 합성 peptide에 대한 polyclonal 항체를 제작하여 항원성 분석을 실시한 결과, 합성 peptide로 제작한 모든 항혈청은 Western blotting 결과 VHSV의 구조단백질과 특이적으로 결합하는 나타났으며, 이 가운데 Gp1 및 Gp2 합성 peptide에 대한 항혈청은 양식 넙치에서 분리한 VHSV를 중화시키는 것으로 나타나, peptide-based antigen의 이용 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 공업화학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.443-450
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• 1994

Polyacrylic acid를 NaOH와 $NH_4OH$로 중화시켜 중화도가 다른 polyelectrolyte를 만든 후, 수용액 상에서 ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether(EGDE)로 가교시켜 안정한 상태의 젤을 얻었다. 안정한 젤이 얻어지는 가장 작은 polyelectrolyte의 농도인 $C_{gel}$은 polyelectrolyte의 extended from에도 불구하고 비슷한 분자량의 중성 고분자의 간과 비슷하였다. 전해질 고분자에 대한 scaling이론에 의하면 semi-dilute영역에서의 전해질 고분자용액은 분자량 의존성이 없어야 함에도 불구하고 gelation결과는 중성 고분자와 흡사한 분자량 의존성을 보이며 entanglement 농도인 $C^{**}$와 비교했을 때에도 $C_{gel}$은 훨씬 큰 값을 갖는다. 이는 고분자 전해질의 농도가 진해질수록 용액의 이온세기가 증가하여 extended from에서 coil form으로 변화되기 때문으로 보인다. 고분자 전해질의 중화도에 따른 gelation은 100% 중화된 시료의 $C_{gel}$값과 분자량 의존성에 있어 거의 비슷한 경향을 보이며 이는 고분자 전해질의 conformation변화가 이온세기에 상당히 민감함을 보여 준다. 고분자 전해질 수용액에 추가로 저분자량의 염을 가하면 고분자의 용액 속에서의 크기가 더욱 축소하여 더 큰 $C_{gel}$값을 보인다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.487-493
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• 2017

This study was conducted to propose measures of water quality management as the water criteria for waterscape facilities which have been highlighted as alternatives to wading pools in summer season was legislated. The number of public waterscape facilities has reached 290 sites in Gyeounggi province and 971 sites in South Korea in 2017. The water tank capacity of 80.3 % public waterscape facilities was less than $100m^3$. Facilities with disinfection system were only 6.5 % and facilities with filtration function were also very low at 6.9 %. Most of the waterscape facilities, about 93%, are expected to be vulnerable to complying with revised water quality criteria because they have to be disinfected by handling. Chlorine disinfectants, which are more persistent than ozone or ultraviolet sterilization methods, are more preferred. However, care should be taken when adding disinfectans because hypochlorous acid, which is an effective component of chlorine disinfectant, remains after the disinfection, but it is easily decomposed with time. For this study, ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ park floor fountain with a capacity of $63m^3$ was selected and the amount of free residual chlorine concentration was measured by injecting a certain amount of chlorine bleach. As a result, it took 5 hours to decrease from the water quality standard of 4 mg/L to 0.04 mg/L. If the waterscape facility is operated for 7 to 8 hours, the chlorine bleach should be re-injected after 5 hours. In addition, the problem of pH increase due to the input of chlorine disinfectant is expected, and the neutralization method using vinegar was proposed.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.262.1-262.1
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• 2014

Lipid peroxidation induces functional deterioration of cell membrane and induces cell death in extreme cases. These phenomena are known to be related generally to the change of physical properties of lipid membrane such as decreased lipid order or increased water penetration. Even though the electric property of lipid membrane is important, there has been no report about the change of electric properties after lipid peroxidation. Herein, we demonstrate the molecular energy band change in red blood cell membrane through peroxidation by air-based atmospheric pressure DBD plasma treatment. Ion-induced secondary electron emission coefficient (${\gamma}$ value) was measured by using home-made gamma-focused ion beam (${\gamma}$-FIB) system and electron energy band was calculated based on the quantum mechanical Auger neutralization theory. The oxidized lipids showed higher gamma values and lower electron work functions, which implies the change of surface charging or electrical conductance. This result suggests that modified electrical properties should play a role in cell signaling under oxidative stress.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2005

중금속과 황산이온의 농도가 높은 산성광산배수(AMD)를 배출하는 강원도 정선군에 위치한 삼척탄좌 정암광업소 유출수를 대상으로 제강 슬래그, 우분 및 석회석 등을 활용하여 처리실험을 수행하였다. Batch test와 적용성 시험 결과, 원수 1 L당 15 g의 제강 슬래그, 15 g의 우분 및 500 g의 석회석이 최적의 기질물질 양으로 조사되었다. 이를 기초로 제강 슬래그, 우분과 석회석으로 충진한 SAPS조, 침전조, 산화조 순서로 구성된 처리시스템을 구성하였다. 총 54일간 시행된 실험결과, 원수에 비해 pH의 상승(3.0에서 8.3)과 더불어 61%의 황산염이온 농도가 저감되었다 (1,042 mg/L에서 409 mg/L). 또한, 초기농도 대비 최종 방류수의 중금속 처리효율은 매우 높은 수준으로써 99.9% 이상의 Al, Fe, Zn과 92.6% Mn이 제거되었다. 즉, 제강 슬래그, 우분 및 석회석을 활용하면 산성광산수의 중화와 금속 침전효과를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.73-82
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• 1999

The objectives of this study are to investigate soil contamination in the vicinity of abandoned Au-Ag mine and to apply a remediation technique of liming to tailings. In the study area of the Imcheon Au-Ag mine, soils were sampled in and around the mine the analyzed by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry extracted by both 0.1N HCl and aqua regia. Elevated levels of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn concentrations extracted by 0.1N HCl were found in soils taken from tailings site. These high contents directly influenced metal concentrations in soils taken in the vicinity of the site. This is mainly due to clastic movement by wind and effluent of mine waste water. In addition, relatively enriched concentrations of the metals were found in soils extrated by aqua regia due to strong decomposition of the samples compared with 0.1N HCl extration. According to the statistical approach, metal concentrations in soils by 0.1N HCl had a positive correlation with those by aqua regia extraction. Mine waste waters and stream waters were also sampled around the mine in spring and summer and analyzed by AAS for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn, and by Ion Chromatography for anions. Like soils developed over tailings, significant levels of metals and sulphates were found in the mine waste waters ranging of 0.2~0.3, 0.5~2.0, 0.2~2.8, 30~50 and 1,240~4,700 mg/l of Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn and $SO_4^{2-}$, respectively. These elevated levels influenced in the stream waters in the vicinity of the tailings site. In seasonal variation of metal and anion contents, relatively high levels were found in waters sampled on summer due to leaching the metals and anions from tailings by rain. This study also examined the possibility of lime treatment for remediation of acid mine tailings and assumed to be 46 tones of pulverized lime for neutralization of the tailings.