• 생명과학회지
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.1545-1553
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• 2018

희소당(Rare Sugars)은 국제희소당학회(International Society of Rare Sugars, ISRS)에 의해 지구상에 극히 소량 존재하는 단당류 또는 단당 유도체로서 정의되어 있으며, 희소당이 보유하고 있는 저칼로리, 항암, 항염증 및 항산화와 같은 유용한 생리활성으로 인해 현대산업분야에서 높은 주목을 받고 있는 차세대 기능성 신소재이다. 희소당은 자연계에 존재의 희소성으로 인해 희소당의 원활한 공급을 위한 희소당 생산 연구는 무엇보다도 중요한 연구로서 인식되어져 있다. 일반적으로 희소당은 화학적 방법과 미생물 유래 효소를 이용한 생물학적 방법으로 생산이 가능한데, 친환경적이며 생산공정도 안전한 생물학적 방법이 최근에 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 현재까지 희소당은 약 50종류 이상이 보고되어져 있는데 저칼로리, 항산화, 설탕 유사 감도 및 감미 특성으로부터 D-Allulose, D-Allose, 그리고 D-Tagatose가 특히 많은 주목을 받고 있는 희소당으로서 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 식품산업 및 의약산업을 비롯하여 다양한 산업분야에서 향 후 높은 활용성이 기대되는 D-Allulose, D-Allose, 그리고 D-Tagatose에 대한 미생물 유래 효소를 이용한 생물전환 생산에 대하여 보고를 하고자 한다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2021

Insects affect crop harvest yield and quality, making plant response mechanisms to insect herbivores a heavily studied topic. However, analysis of plant responses to honeybees is rare. In this study, comprehensive metabolic profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to honeybees was performed to investigate which metabolites were changed by the insect. A total of 85 metabolites-including chlorophylls, carotenoids, glucosinolates, policosanols, tocopherols, phytosterols, β-amyrin, amino acids, organic acids, sugars, and starch-were identified using high performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The metabolite profiling analysis of Arabidopsis exposed to honeybees showed higher levels of stress-related metabolites. The levels of glucosinolates (glucoraphanin, 4-methoxyglucobrassicin), policosanols (eicosanol, docosanol, tricosanol, tetracosanol), tocopherols (β-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol), putrescine, lysine, and sugars (arabinose, fructose, glucose, mannitol, mannose, raffinose) in Arabidopsis exposed to honeybees were higher than those in unexposed Arabidopsis. Glucosinolates act as defensive compounds against herbivores; policosanols are components of plant waxes; tocopherols act as an antioxidant; and putrescine, lysine, and sugars contribute to stress regulation. Our results suggest that Arabidopsis perceives honeybees as a stress and changes its metabolites to overcome the stress. This is the first step to determining how Arabidopsis reacts to exposure to honeybees.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.1122-1132
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• 2018

In this study, we attempted to find new and efficient microbial enzymes for producing rare sugars. A ribose-5-phosphate isomerase B (OsRpiB) was cloned, overexpressed, and preliminarily purified successfully from a newly screened Ochrobactrum sp. CSL1, which could catalyze the isomerization reaction of rare sugars. A study of its substrate specificity showed that the cloned isomerase (OsRpiB) could effectively catalyze the conversion of $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnose to $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnulose, which was unconventional for RpiB. The optimal reaction conditions ($50^{\circ}C$, pH 8.0, and 1 mM $Ca^{2+}$) were obtained to maximize the potential of OsRpiB in preparing $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnulose. The catalytic properties of OsRpiB, including $K_m$, $k_{cat}$, and catalytic efficiency ($k_{cat}/K_m$), were determined as 43.47 mM, $129.4sec^{-1}$, and 2.98 mM/sec. The highest conversion rate of $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnose under the optimized conditions by OsRpiB could reach 26% after 4.5 h. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt of the novel biotransformation of $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnose to $\text\tiny{L}$-rhamnulose by OsRpiB biocatalysis.

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2005년도 국제학술심포지움 The 44th Annual Meeting of Korean Society for Life Science
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• pp.171-171
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• 2005

• 식품과학과 산업
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2016

The concerns over obesity and obesity-related health problems are increasing as many consumers relate these health problems with sugar. The demand for sugar reduction is also rising and regulatory movement by governments including Korea is driven to reflect such demand. For the past decades, there have been diverse development and marketing of various sweeteners to substitute sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. Low caloric alternative sweeteners can be divided into high intensity sweeteners that have greater sweetness potency compared to sucrose, and low intensity sweeteners such as polyols, oligosaccharides and rare sugars that have less sweetness potency. This paper discusses representative low caloric alternative sweeteners, their market and trend.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.212-220
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• 2001

S. cerevisiae HBC52와 S, diataticus K114 의 rare mating 에 의해 개발된 HCS 균주들은 크기가 약 $13\mu\textrm{m}$ karyotype 분석결과 K114 균주에만 있는 약 1150kb 분자량을 가지는 염색체 band를 유지하였으며 전분을 분해하여 halo 를 형성하였다. Glucoamylase 활성은 약 2.7~3.4 unti/ml 를 가진 균주임이 밝혀졌으며 당 발효실험과 응집성 실험을 수행한 결과 HBC52 균주와 유사한 당 발효특성을 보이고 응집성 특성도 약응집성의 floculation type으로 비슷하였다. 그리고 HCS 균주의 포자형성과 피막형성 유무 실험에서는 양조효모인 HBC52 균주와 같이 포자가 형성되지 않았으며, 피막도 형성되지않았다. 균주들의 최종당도 실험은 HBC52균주가 약 68%의 발효수준을 나타냈고, HCS 균주들은 이 보다 높은 76~78%의 수준을 보였따. 즉 HBC52 균주가 최종당도($ 2.00^{\circ}$P)를 보인 반면 HCS 균주들은 ($0.7~0.93^{\circ}$P)를 보이는 결괄르 나타내어 맥주양조에서 low carbohydrate beer를 생산할 수있음이 확인되었다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.330-335
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• 1987

인삼종자의 열매송이를 원이라 가정하고 그 원의 반지름을 3등분한 원을 각각 작도하여 1차원의 부분을 중앙부, 2차원의 부분을 중간부, 3차원의 부분을 외부라 구분하고 각 부위에 착생한 종자의 크기 및 ginsenoside, 유리당, 지방산의 차이를 조사하였다. 1. 100입의 종자중과 배유중은 열매송이의 외부나 중간부에 착생한 종자에 비해 중앙부에 착생한 종자에서 현저히 작았다. 2. 1입과의 종자가 2입과의 종자에 비해 소립이었고, 1입과의 착생비율은 열매송이의 외부나 중간부에 비해 중앙부에서 증가되었다. 3. 종자내의 주요 ginsenoside 는 Re, Rb$_1$, Rb$_2$,Rd 였고, 종자의 착생위치별는 Rb$_2$ 와 총사포닌 함량은 중앙부쪽에 착생한 종자일수록 감소했으나 Rd 함량은 오히려 증가되었다. 4. 종자내의 주요유리당은 sucrose, glucose 였고, 종자의 착생위치별로 보면 sucrose 는 열매송이의 중앙부쪽에 착생한 종자일수록 그 함량이 점점 감소되었다. 5. 종자내의 주요지방산은 oleic 산과 linoleic 산이었고, palmitic 산과 linolenic산의 함량은 종자의 착생위치에 따라 차이를 보였다.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.191-202
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• 1998

About 300 actinomycetes were isolated from two forest and one sea-shore soil and tested for inhibitory effects on mycelial growth of six plant pathogenic fungi Magnaporthe grisea, Alternaria mali, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Phytophthora capsici, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum, and Rhizoctonia solani. Among 300 actinomycetes tested, only 16 actinomycetes showed the antifungal activity against the test fungi. Isolate NH 50 was selected for production and purification of antifungal antibiotic substances. Actinomycete isolate NH 50 displayed the broad antifungal spectra against 11 plant pathogenic fungi. To identify actinomycete isolate NH 50, cultural characteristics on various agar media, diaminopimelic acid type, and morphological characteristics by scanning electron microscopy were examined. As a result, actinomycete isolate NH 50 was classified as a rare actinomycete that had LL-DAP type and did not produce spores. After incubation of isolate NH 50 in yeast extract-malt extract-dextrose broth, antifungal compound NH-B1 that inhibited mycelial growth of some plant pathogenic fungi was purified from the methanol eluates of XAD-16 resins by a series of purification procedures, i.e., silica gel flash chromatography, C18 flash chromatography, Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography, silica gel medium pressure liquid chromatography (MPLC), C18 MPLC, and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). UV spectrum and 1HNMR spectrum of antifungal compound NH-B1 dissolved in methanol were examined. The antibiotic NH-B1 showed the major peaks at 230 and 271.2nm. Based on the data of 1H-NMR spectrum, NH-B1 was confirmed to be an extremely complex polymer of sugars called polysaccharides. The antibiotic NH-B1 showed strong antifungal activity against Alternaria solani and Cercospora kikuchi, but weak activity against M. grisea.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.1293-1298
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• 2018

Phosphomannomutase (ManB) converts mannose-6-phosphate (M-6-P) to mannose-1-phosphate (M-1-P), which is a key metabolic precursor for the production of GDP-D-mannose used for production of glycoconjugates and post-translational modification of proteins. The aim of this study was to express the manB gene from Escherichia coli in Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris NZ9000 and to characterize the encoded enzyme. The manB gene from E. coli K12, of 1,371 bp and encoding 457 amino acids (52 kDa), was cloned and overexpressed in L. lactis NZ9000 using the nisin-controlled expression system. The enzyme was purified by Ni-NTA column chromatography and exhibited a specific activity of 5.34 units/mg, significantly higher than that of other previously reported ManB enzymes. The pH and temperature optima were 8.0 and $50^{\circ}C$, respectively. Interestingly, the ManB used in this study had two substrate specificity for both mannose-1-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate, and the specific activity for glucose-1-phosphate was 3.76 units/mg showing 70% relative activity to that of mannose-1-phosphate. This is the first study on heterologous expression and characterization of ManB in lactic acid bacteria. The ManB expression system constructed in this study canbe used to synthesize rare sugars or glycoconjugates.