• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.341-344
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• 2015

Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic protozoan parasite that can infect almost all warm-blooded animals including humans with a worldwide distribution. Micronemes play an important role in invasion process of T. gondii, associated with the attachment, motility, and host cell recognition. In this research, sequence diversity in microneme protein 6 (MIC6) gene among 16 T. gondii isolates from different hosts and geographical regions and 1 reference strain was examined. The results showed that the sequence of all the examined T. gondii strains was 1,050 bp in length, and their A + T content was between 45.7% and 46.1%. Sequence analysis presented 33 nucleotide mutation positions (0-1.1%), resulting in 23 amino acid substitutions (0-2.3%) aligned with T. gondii RH strain. Moreover, T. gondii strains representing the 3 classical genotypes (Type I, II, and III) were separated into different clusters based on the locus of MIC6 using phylogenetic analyses by Bayesian inference (BI), maximum parsimony (MP), and maximum likelihood (ML), but T. gondii strains belonging to ToxoDB #9 were separated into different clusters. Our results suggested that MIC6 gene is not a suitable marker for T. gondii population genetic studies.

• 환경생물
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.526-534
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• 2019

Chlorella gloriosa (Chlorellaceae, Trebouxiophyceae) was isolated from seawater off the coast of the Dokdo Islands in Korea. An axenic culture was established using the streak-plate method on f/2 agar media supplemented with antibiotics, allowing identification of the isolate by morphological, molecular, and physiological analyses. The morphological characteristics observed by light and electron microscopy revealed typical morphologies of C. gloriosa species. The molecular phylogenetic inference drawn from the small-subunit 18S rRNA sequence verified that the microalgal strain belongs to C. gloriosa. Additionally, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis showed that the isolate was rich in nutritionally important omega-3 and -6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and high-performance liquid chromatography analysis revealed that the high-value antioxidants lutein and violaxanthin were biosynthesized as accessory pigments by this microalga, with arabinose, galactose, and glucose as the major monosaccharides. Therefore, in this study, a Korean marine C. gloriosa species was discovered, characterized, and described, and subsequently added to the national culture collection.

• ALGAE
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.217-228
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• 2019

The marine brown algal genus Colpomenia has a worldwide distribution, with five species reported in Korea and Japan. However, no studies to date attempted to identify the number of species and geographical distribution of Colpomenia along Chinese coast. To fill the biodiversity knowledge gap, we analyzed 63 mitochondrial cox3 and 62 mitochondrial atp6 sequences of Colpomenia specimens collected from 30 localities along the Chinese coast. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference trees suggest the presence of at least three Colpomenia species (i.e., C. peregrina, C. claytoniae, and C. sinuosa) in China. C. peregrina and C. claytoniae are documented for the first time. C. sinuosa was only found in the South China Sea and its distribution didn't overlap with that of C. peregrina which was found in the Yellow-Bohai Sea and the East China Sea. C. claytoniae appears to be confined to three isolated islands in the East and the South China Sea, where it occurs in sympatry with, respectively, C. peregrina and C. sinuosa. Future study can focus on comparing eco-physiological differences of Colpomenia species in response to environmental variables and exploring possible genetic hybridization / introgression at inter-specific contact zones.

• Mycobiology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.139-147
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• 2023

Aspergillus sojae has long been considered a domesticated strain of Aspergillus parasiticus. This study delineated relationships among the two species and an Aspergillus PWE36 isolate. Of 25 examined clustered aflatoxin genes of PWE36, 20 gene sequences were identical to those of A. sojae, but all had variations to those of A. parasiticus. Additionally, PWE36 developmental genes of conidiation and sclerotial formation, overall, shared higher degrees of nucleotide sequence identity with A. sojae genes than with A. parasiticus genes. Examination of defective cyclopiazonic acid gene clusters revealed that the PWE36 deletion pattern was identical only to those of A. sojae. Using A. sojae SMF134 genome sequence as a reference, visualization of locally collinear blocks indicated that PWE36 shared higher genome sequence homologies with A. sojae than with A. parasiticus. Phylogenetic inference based on genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and total SNP counts showed that A. sojae strains formed a monophyletic clade and were clonal. Two (Argentinian and Ugandan) A. parasiticus isolates but not including an Ethiopian isolate formed a monophyletic clade, which showed that A. parasiticus population is genetically diverse and distant to A. sojae. PWE36 and A. sojae shared a most recent common ancestor (MRCA). The estimated divergence time for PWE36 and A. sojae was about 0.4 mya. Unlike Aspergillus oryzae, another koji mold that includes genetically diverse populations, the findings that current A. sojae strains formed a monophyletic group and shared the MRCA with PWE36 allow A. sojae to be continuously treated as a species for food safety reasons.

• 식물병연구
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2022

Charcoal canker of oak, which has recently increased in southern Iran, could pose a serious threat to the entire forest ecosystem in the near future. In addition, it seems that climate change and its consequences, such as drought in the southern regions of Iran, have exacerbated this phenomenon. Consequently, the objective of this study was to identify the fungal pathogens that could cause charcoal canker disease in the oak forests of South Zagros. It was also sought to find associations between changes in the occurrence/exacerbation of charcoal canker disease under non and intense drought stress in non-inoculated or inoculated Quercus brantii seedlings. In total, 120 isolates were obtained from eight oak forests located in the Zagros Mountains of Southern Iran, Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad and Fars provinces, which were classified as Biscogniauxia mediterranea based on morphological assessment. Subsequently, molecular assay confirmed the result by phylogenetic inference of internal transcribed spacer-rDNA regions, α-actin, and β-tubulin genes. The results of the pathogenicity test showed that the response of isolates of B. mediterranea (Iran-G1 and Iran-M70) was varied in different environments for the measured necrotic lesion length. In comparison with the control moisture treatments (non-stress), the necrotic lesion length in inoculated treatments increased under intense drought stress. In general, inoculated oak seedlings' exposure to water-deficient stress by the pathogen of B. mediterranea could affect the spread/severity of the charcoal canker disease.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.126-133
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 정치 배양법으로 고농도의 초산을 생산할 수 있고 에탄올 내성이 우수한 균주를 확보하고자 농가형 발효식초에서 초산균을 분리 및 선발하였고, 이들 초산균의 형태적 특징을 조사한 바, 분리균 CV1은 그람 음성으로 운동성이 없는 간균으로 나타났다. 분리균의 chemotaxonomy를 분석한 결과, meso-DAP이며, 대표 퀴논은 Q₁₀이고, G+C mol 함량은 61.0 mol %로 나타났으며 16S rDNA 유전자의 염기서열을 분석한 결과, Gluconacetobacter saccharivorans로 동정되어 Glu. saccharivorans CV1로 명명하였다. CV1 초산균의 최적 성장조건은 30℃, pH 3.0 이상으로 판단되었고 에탄올 농도에 따른 초산 생성능은 10% 에탄올 농도에서 9.3%, 9% 에탄올 농도에서는 8.4% 적정산도를 나타내어 고농도 에탄올 조건에서도 높은 산 생성능을 나타내는 우수한 균주로 판단되었다.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2016

화장품 소재로서 천연고분자 물질인 Biocellulose (BC)를 형성하는 균주를 선발하여 초산생성 균주를 선발하였다. SM 배지를 통하여 초산 생성 균주 1종을 선발하고 형태학적인 분석을 통하여 간균형태의 그람음성균임을 확인하였다. 또한 균주의 동정을 위하여 16S rDNA 유전자 분석을 통하여 계통도를 분석한 결과 Gluconobacter uchimurae (G. uchimurae)와 높은 상동성을 나타내어 G. uchimurae GYS15 균주로 명명하였다. 선발된 균주는 pH 5, $25^{\circ}C$ 조건의 환경적 요인에서 14일간 배양하였을 때 가장 높은 생육을 나타내었다. 또한 탄소원으로 glucose 이외에 이당류인 sucrose와 fructose를 첨가 하였을 때 가장 높은 생육활성을 보였고 최적의 염농도와 질소원은 0.5% NaCl과 malto extract로 확인하였다. 확인된 조건 하에서 G. uchimurae GYS15 균주를 배양하여 얻어진 BC의 물성을 확인하였다. 전자 주사현미경을 통하여 확인된 표면구조는 높은 표면적을 갖는 초미세망상구조로서 다공성 구조를 나타내었다. 이로 인해 수분의 경우 $8.6{\pm}0.38$배, 유분의 경우 $6.6{\pm}0.51$배까지 재흡수 되는 것으로 확인하였다. 따라서 BC의 이러한 구조적 특성을 이용하여 마스크팩 등의 다양한 화장품 소재로 활용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.140-150
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• 2023

깔따구류 유충(Chironomidae larvae)은 저서성대형무척추동물로 수질 및 환경오염 생물 모니터링에 중요한 지표생물이다. 본 연구에서는 2022년 7월에서 9월 동안 한강의 다양한 수계에서 서식하는 깔따구류 유충을 채집하여 형태적 동정 및 유전자 계통 분석을 실시하였다. 20개 지점에서 총 3아과 18속 32종의 깔따구류 유충이 출현하였으며, 반지깔따구속에 속하는 1개 종이 6개 지점에서 우점하였다. 깔따구류 유충을 분류하는 데 이용하는 몸통, 두부, 하순기절, 촉각 등을 관찰하여 특징을 Pictorial key로 제시하였고, 유전자 계통분석 결과 3개 아과가 명확하게 구분되었으며, 속 수준에서도 구분이 되었다. 이러한 결과들은 깔따구류 유충 동정에 도움이 될 것이고, 수질 조사 및 관리에 기초적인 자료로 활용할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.377-385
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• 2017

멸구과(Delphacidae) 8종의 internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) DNA 염기서열로 종간 차이 추정값을 비교하고 분자계통수를 추론하였다. ITS2 DNA 염기서열 길이는 종(species)마다 550 bp (흰등멸구)에서 699 bp (겨풀멸구)까지 차이를 보였다. 같은 Nilaparvata 속의 겨풀멸구와 벼멸구붙이 사이의 염기서열 차이 추정값($d{\pm}S.E.$)은 $0.001{\pm}0.001$로 가장 낮았으며, 사슴멸구와 일본멸구 사이는 $0.579{\pm}0.021$로 가장 높았다. 벼멸구와 다른 멸구류들과의 종간 염기서열 차이 추정값은 $0.056{\pm}0.008$ (겨풀멸구)에서부터 $0.548{\pm}0.021$ (일본멸구)로 구분되었다. 반면, Neighbor-joining 방법으로 추론된 분자계통수에서는 겨풀멸구와 벼멸구붙이를 제외하고 나머지 멸구류들은 독립된 다른 그룹으로 분지되었다. 벼멸구의 ITS2 염기서열을 참고하여 벼멸구 특이 고리매개등온증폭(loop-mediated isothermal amplification, LAMP) 프라이머 4 세트(BPH-38, BPH-38-1, BPH-207 및 BPH-92)를 제작하였다. 이들 각각을 벼멸구, 흰등멸구 및 애멸구의 게놈 DNA와 $65^{\circ}C$에서 60분간 반응시켰을 때, 벼멸구 시료에서만 증폭 산물들이 관찰되었다. BPH-92 LAMP 프라이머 세트로 $65^{\circ}C$에서 벼멸구 DNA의 양(0.1 ng, 1 ng, 10 ng, 100 ng)과 반응시간(20분, 30분, 40분, 60분)을 달리하여 형광반응을 관찰하였을 때, 20분과 30분 반응에서는 100 ng 까지에서도 발광여부 구별이 어려웠다. 그러나 40분 반응에서는 10 ng 이상에서, 60분 반응에서는 0.1 ng 이상에서 발광여부가 명확히 구별되었다.