• KSBB Journal
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.213-227
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• 2002

To date, the majority of biosensor technologies use binding components such as enzymes antibodies, nucleic acids and protein ligands. In contrast, the goal underlying the use of cells and tissues of animals and plants for a sensor system is to obtain systems capable of extracting information based on the biological activity, mechanisms of action and consequences of exposure to a chemical or biological agent of interest. These systems enable the interrogation of more complex biological response and offer the potential to gather higher information content from measuring physiologic and metabolic response. In these articles, same of the recent trends and applications of microbial biosensors in environmental monitoring and for use in food and fermentations have been reviewed. This endeavor presents many technological challenges to fabricate new microbial biosensors for other scientific field.

• BMB Reports
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.149-158
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• 2016

Plants have evolved a vast chemical cornucopia to support their sessile lifestyles. Man has exploited this natural resource since Neolithic times and currently plant-derived chemicals are exploited for a myriad of applications. However, plant sources of most high-value natural products (NPs) are not domesticated and therefore their production cannot be undertaken on an agricultural scale. Further, these plant species are often slow growing, their populations limiting, the concentration of the target molecule highly variable and routinely present at extremely low concentrations. Plant cell and organ culture constitutes a sustainable, controllable and environmentally friendly tool for the industrial production of plant NPs. Further, advances in cell line selection, biotransformation, product secretion, cell permeabilisation, extraction and scale-up, among others, are driving increases in plant NP yields. However, there remain significant obstacles to the commercial synthesis of high-value chemicals from these sources. The relatively recent isolation, culturing and characterisation of cambial meristematic cells (CMCs), provides an emerging platform to circumvent many of these potential difficulties.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.294-298
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• 2001

감염성 바이러스의 발생은 세계적인 현상으로 어린이는 물론 성인의 건강을 위협하고 있는 실정이다. 1998년 -2000년 사이에 부산지역 바이러스성 전염병 유행예측사업의 과정에서 소화기계 바이러스가 탐색되었다. 의심되는 환자의 대변 및 뇌척수액, 인후가검물에서 세포배양, Latex 응집반응, 간접면역형광항체법, 전자현미경 관찰 등을 행하여 바이러스를 확인하였다. 총 검체 중에서 바이러스의 확인 율은 12.5% 이었다. 이 과정을 통하여 3 사례의 장 adenovirus 및, 23 사례의 echovirus, 31 사례의 coxsackievirus, 36 사례의 rotavirus, 45 사례의 small round structured virus (SRSV), 7 사례의 poliovirus가 확인되었다. 확인된 주요 혈청형으로는 장 adenovirus 41형 및 echovirus 6, 9, 11, 25, 30형, coxsackievirus B2, B3, B4, B6 형 등이 탐색되었다. 각 바이러스의 월별 발생별로는 SRSV는 12월에서 다음해 4월 사이, echovirus와 coxsackievirus는 4월에서 10월 사이에, rotavirus는 1월에서 4월 사이에 각각 분리 율이 높았다. 전자현미경 관찰에서는 30-80 nm의 작은 크기의 바이러스들이 확인되었다.