• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.51-55
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• 2018

Capture of non-glycoproteins during lectin affinity chromatography is frequently observed, although it would seem to be anomalous. In actuality, lectin affinity chromatography works at post-translational modification (PTM) sites on a glycoprotein which is not involved in protein-protein interactions (PPIs). In this study, serial affinity column set (SACS) using lectins followed by proteomics methods was used to identify PPI mechanisms of captured proteins in human plasma. MetaCore, STRING, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA), and IntAct were individually used to elucidate the interactions of the identified abundant proteins and to obtain the corresponding interaction maps. The abundant non-glycoproteins were captured with the binding to the selected glycoproteins. Therefore, depletion process in sample pretreatment for abundant protein removal should be considered with more caution because it may lose precious disease-related low abundant proteins through PPIs of the removed abundant proteins in human plasma during the depletion process in biomarker discovery. Glycoproteins bearing specific glycans are frequently associated with cancer and can be specifically isolated by lectin affinity chromatography. Therefore, SACS using Lycopersicon esculentum lectin (LEL) can also be used to study disease interactomes.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제51권spc1호
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• pp.92-102
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• 2006

본 연구는 벼종자 미량 단백질의 프로테오믹스 연구를 위하여 벼종자에 고 함량으로 존재하는 벼종자 글루테린 저장 단백질을 제거하는 방법에 관한 것이다. 따라서 본 연구는, (A) 벼종자에 액체 질소를 가하고 분쇄하여 벼종자 가루를 만드는 분쇄단계; (B) 상기 분쇄된 벼종자 가루를 물에 현탁하여 현탁액을 만드는 현탁단계; (C)상기 현탁액 중 미용해 물질을 제거하는 분리단계를 포함하는, 벼종자 미량 단백질의 프로테오믹스 연구를 위한 벼종자 글루테린 저장 단백질의 제거방법에 관하여 검토하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 단순하고 신속하며 저렴하고 효율적인 방법으로 미량 비글루테린 단백질들을 용이하게 동정할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.255-261
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• 2013

To profile the proteome in porcine plasma, blood samples were collected from adult male barrows and those plasma were retrieved. For the depletion or pre-fractionation of high-abundance proteins, plasma samples were treated with commercial kits. Then, protein profiling was initiated using one and two-dimensional electrophoresis. Proteins were spotted and then identified by MALDI-TOF-TOF and LC-MS-MS. In the results, more than forty six proteins were identified and the reference map was constructed. The pre-treatment for the removal of high-abundance proteins caused the changes in 2-DE images and some of the proteins were newly uncovered after the most of high abundant proteins were removed. However, it is expected for further steps necessary to identify more low-abundance proteins that may contain potential bio-markers.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1459-1469
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• 2008

Using a rotating biological contactor modified with a sequencing bath reactor system (SBRBC) designed and operated to remove phosphate and nitrogen [58], the microbial community structure of the biofilm from the SBRBC system was characterized based on the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) constituents, electron microscopy, and molecular techniques. Protein and carbohydrate were identified as the major EPS constituents at three different biofilm thicknesses, where the amount of EPS and bacterial cell number were highest in the initial thickness of 0-100${\mu}m$. However, the percent of carbohydrate in the total amount of EPS decreased by about 11.23%, whereas the percent of protein increased by about 11.15% as the biofilm grew. Thus, an abundant quantity of EPS and cell mass, as well as a specific quality of EPS were apparently needed to attach to the substratum in the first step of the biofilm growth. A FISH analysis revealed that the dominant phylogenetic group was $\beta$- and $\gamma$-Proteobacteria, where a significant subclass of Proteobacteria for removing phosphate and/or nitrate was found within a biofilm thickness of 0-250${\mu}m$. In addition, 16S rDNA clone libraries revealed that Klebsiella sp. and Citrobacter sp. were most dominant within the initial biofilm thickness of 0-250${\mu}m$, whereas sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, such as Beggiatoa sp. and Thiothrix sp., were detected in a biofilm thickness over 250${\mu}m$. The results of the bacterial community structure analysis using molecular techniques agreed with the results of the morphological structure based on scanning electron microscopy. Therefore, the overall results indicated that coliform bacteria participated in the nitrate and phosphorus removal when using the SBRBC system. Moreover, the structure of the biofilm was also found to be related to the EPS constituents, as well as the nitrogen and phosphate removal efficiency. Consequently, since this is the first identification of the bacterial community and structure of the biofilm from an RBC simultaneously removing nitrogen and phosphate from domestic wastewater, and it is hoped that the present results may provide a foundation for understanding nitrate and phosphate removal by an RBC system.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.14.1-14.10
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• 2016

Isoelectric solubilization/precipitation (ISP) processing allows selective, pH-induced water solubility of proteins with concurrent separation of lipids and removal of materials not intended for human consumption such as bone, scales, skin, etc. Recovered proteins retain functional properties and nutritional value. Four roe protein isolates (RPIs) from yellowfin tuna roe were prepared under different solubilization and precipitation condition (pH 11/4.5, pH 11/5.5, pH 12/4.5 and pH 12/5.5). RPIs contained 2.3-5.0 % moisture, 79.1-87.8 % protein, 5.6-7. 4 % lipid and 3.0-3.8 % ash. Protein content of RPI-1 and RPI-2 precipitated at pH 4.5 and 5.5 after alkaline solubilization at pH 11, was higher than those of RPI-3 and RPI-4 after alkaline solubilization at pH 12 (P < 0.05). Lipid content (5.6-7.4 %) of RPIs was lower than that of freeze-dried concentrate (10.6 %). And leucine and lysine of RPIs were the most abundant amino acids (8.8-9.4 and 8.5-8.9 g/100 g protein, respectively). S, Na, P, K as minerals were the major elements in RPIs. SDS-PAGE of RPIs showed bands at 100, 45, 25 and 15 K. Moisture and protein contents of process water as a 2'nd byproduct were 98.9-99.0 and 1.3-1.8 %, respectively. Therefore, yellowfin tuna roe isolate could be a promising source of valuable nutrients for human food and animal feeds.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2011

In this study, we report the generation and analysis of a total of 1,211 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from Pinus koraiensis. A cDNA library was generated from the young leaf tissue and a total of 1,211 cDNA were partially sequenced. EST and unigene sequence quality were determined by computational filtering, manual review, and BLAST analyses. In all, 857 ESTs were acquired after the removal of the vector sequence and filtering over a minimum length 50 nucleotides. A total of 411 unigene, consisting of 89 contigs and 322 singletons, was identified after assembling. Also, we identified 77 new microsatellite-containing sequences from the unigenes and classified the structure according to their repeat unit. According to homology search with BLASTX against the NCBI database, 63.1% of ESTs were homologous with known function and 22.2% of ESTs were matched with putative or unknown function. The remaining 14.6% of ESTs showed no significant similarity to any protein sequences found in the public database. Gene ontology (GO) classification showed that the most abundant GO terms were transport, nucleotide binding, plastid, in terms biological process, molecular function and cellular component, respectively. The sequence data will be used to characterize potential roles of new genes in Pinus and provided for the useful tools as a genetic resource.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.542-550
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• 2016

굴 가수분해물의 이취 제거를 위한 가수분해 및 발효의 최적 조건과 이의 항산화 효과를 검토하였다. 이취 제거를 위한 굴 가수분해물의 최적 추출 조건은 Neutrase를 이용하여 E/S 3.3%, $50^{\circ}C$, 8.3시간이었으며, 발효 공정은 $24^{\circ}C$에서 glucose 0.5%와 Saccharomyces cerevisiae를 5% 접종하였다. 굴 가수분해 발효물의 구성 아미노산은 25.7%에 해당하였으며, Glu, Asp, Lys, Leu, Arg, Gly 및 Ala이 전체의 61.2%를 차지하였다. 유리 아미노산 조성의 경우 Leu, Ala, Phe, Val 및 Tau의 순으로 높게 나타났다. 또한 무기질 함량은 Na, P, K, Zn, Fe이 높게 나타났으며, 정상 간세포주인 Chang cell에 대한 독성은 나타나지 않았다. 이상의 결과로 미루어 S. cerevisiae에 의해 수산물의 이미취를 masking 할 수 있으나, 기능성 원료로 사용하기 위해 최종 제품의 카드뮴 함량을 저감시킬 대책이 필요하다.

• 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경농학회 2009년도 정기총회 및 국제심포지엄
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• pp.273-282
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• 2009

The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) disease group are fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting a wide range of hosts. The group includes kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, scrapie in sheep and goats and Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. The exact nature of the infectious agent involved in the transmission of these diseases remains controversial. However, a central event in their pathogenesis is the accumulation in infected tissues of an abnormal form of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein (PrP). Whereas the normal cellular protein is fully sensitive to protease ($PrP^{sen}$), the disease-associated prion protein ($PrP^d$) is only partly degraded ($PrP^{res}$), its amino-terminal end being removed. BSE was first reported in the mid-80s in the UK. Ten years later, a new form of human prion disease, variant CJD (vCJD) developed in the wake of the BSE epidemic, and there is now strong scientific evidence that vCJD was initiated by the exposure of humans to BSE-infected tissues, thus indicating a zoonotic disease. However, the ban on the feeding of animal-derived proteins to ruminants, and the apparent lack of vertical transmission of BSE, have led to a decline in the incidence of the disease within cattle herd and therefore, an assumed decreased risk for human contacting vCJD. The origin of the original case(s) of BSE still remains an enigma even though three hypotheses have been raised. Hypotheses are i) sheep- or goat-derived scrapie-infected tissues included in meat and bone meal fed to cattle, ii) a previously undetected sporadic or genetic bovine TSE contaminating cattle feed or iii) originating from a human TSE through animal feed contaminated with human remains. A host cellular membrane protein ($PrP^C$), which is abundant in central nervous system tissue, appear to be conformationally altered in the diseased host into a prion protein ($PrP^{Sc}$). This $PrP^{Sc}$ is detergent insoluble and partially protease-resistant ($PrP^{res}$). The term $PrP^{res}$ is normally used to describe the protein detected after protease treatment, in techniques such as Western immunoblotting, and enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay using fresh/frozen tissue. Immunohistochemistry may performed with formalin-fixed tissues. Also, clinical signs of the BSE are one of the major diagnostic indicators. Recently, atypical forms (known as H- and L-type) of BSE have appeared in several European countries, Japan, Canada and the United States. An unusual case was also reported in a miniature zebu. The atypical BSE fall into two groups based on the relative molecular mass (Mm) of the unglycosylated $PrP^{res}$ band relative to that of classical BSE, one of the higher Mm (H-type) and the other lower (L-type). Both types have been detected worldwide as rare cases in older animals, at a low prevalence consistent with the possibility of sporadic forms of prion diseases in cattle. This raises the unwelcome possibility that vCJD could increase in the human population. Now, active surveillance program against BSE is going on in Korea. In regional veterinary service lab, ELISA is applied to screen the BSE in slaughter and confirmatory tests by Western immunoblotting and immunohistochemisty are carried out if there are positive or suspect in the screening test. Also, the ruminant feed ban is rigorously enforced. Removal of specified risk materials such as brain and spinal cord from cattle is mandatory process at slaughter to prevent the infected material from entering the human food chain.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 지리산에서 자생하는 한국 특산종인 노각나무(Stewartia koreana Nakai)의 EST library를 제작하고 서열을 분석하였다. 노각나무의 유엽을 재료로 cDNA library 만들었고 1,392개의 cDNA에 대한 부분 서열 분석을 진행하였다. EST와 unigene 서열의 분석은 컴퓨터를 기반으로한 filtering과 수작업 그리고 NCBI의 BLAST 분석을 통해 수행하였다. 벡터 서열과 100bp 이하의 서열을 제거한 후 1,301개의 EST를 분석하였다. 전체 150개의 contig와 743개의 singleton을 분리하여 총 893개의 unigene을 분리해냈으며 서열 분석을 통해 95개의 microsatellite를 확인하였다. NCBI 데이터베이스의 BLASTX로 상동성을 검색한 결과 EST의 65%는 기능을 알고 있는 유전자와 11.6%의 EST는 아직까지 기능이 보고되지 않은 유전자와 높은 상동성을 보였다. 남아 있는 23.2%의 EST는 기존에 데이터베이스에 보고된 유전자와 상동성을 보이지 않는 유전자로 밝혀졌다. 다양한 데이터베이스를 기반으로 한 유사성 기반 기능 분석은 노각나무의 EST가 포도나무와 포플러와 높은 유사성을 보인 것을 확인하였다. 기능에 따른 분류에 있어 molecular function은 nucleotide binding, biological process는 transport, cellular component는 plastid가 가장 높은 비율로 나왔다. 본 연구를 통해 얻어진 EST 자료는 노각나무의 새로운 유전자원에 대한 연구의 기본 자료로 유용하게 활용될 것이다.