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Characterization of the Replication Region of the Enterococcus faecalis Plasmid p703/5

  • Song, Joon-Seok;Park, Jin-Hwan;Kim, Chan-Wha;Kim, Young-Woo;Lim, Wang-Jin;Kim, Ick-Young;Chang, Hyo-Ihl
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 1999
  • In this work, a 1.9-kb region of enterococcal plasmid p703/5 was isolated and the nucleotide sequence analysis of the region was performed. One major open reading frame (ORF) was identified encoding a polypeptide of 28 kDa. Database comparisons suggested that the protein showed some homology with other bacterial RepA proteins. Upstream of the ORF, a potential dnaA box, AT-rich region and 22-bp tandemly repeated sequences (DNA iterons), a feature typical for many replication ori sites, were recognized. Deletion analysis using Exonuclease III and several restriction enzymes indicated that the three elements and the gene product from the ORF were essential for replication and that the minimum unit of DNA required for replication resided on the 1.2-kb AvaII subfragment. Thus, this gene product was referred to as RepA.

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Optimization of Ultrasonic Imprinting Using the Response Surface Method (반응표면법을 이용한 초음파 임프린팅 공정의 최적화)

  • Jung, W.S.;Cho, Y.H.;Park, K.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2013
  • The present study examines the micro-pattern replication on a plastic film using ultrasonic imprinting. Ultrasonic imprinting uses ultrasonic waves to generate repetitive microscale deformation in the polymer film. The resulting deformation heat on the surface of the film causes the surface region to soften sufficiently so that a replication of the micro-pattern can be obtained. To successfully replicate the micro-pattern on a large area of polymer film, a high replication ratio is needed as well as good uniformity over the entire region. In this study, a horn design is investigated by finite element analysis and is optimized through a response surface analysis. In the ultrasonic imprinting experiments, the response surface method was also used to determine the optimal processing conditions for better replication characteristics.

Phenotypes of Integrase-Mutated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1(HIV-1)

  • ;Chris M. Farnet;William A. Haseltine
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1993.04a
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    • pp.92-92
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    • 1993
  • Point mutations in a highly conserved central region of the HIV-1 integrase protein were analyzed for their effects on viral replication and virion morphogenesis. Conservative amino acid replacements of two amino acid residues invariant un retroviral integrases, D116 and E152 of HIV-1, as well as the highly conserved amino acid S147, completely blocked viral replication in two CD4$\^$+/ human T cell lines. Mutation of four other highly conserved amino acids in the region had no detectable effect on viral replication, while Mutations at two positions, N117 and Y143, resulted in viruses with a delayed replication phenotype. Characteristic and reproducible defects id virion core structure were observed by electron microscopic analysis of sore of the replication defective integrase point mutants, indicating that mutant integrase proteins can interfere with the process of virion core maturation.

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Identification and Characterization of the Replication Region of Virulence Plasmid pEIB202 in Edwardsiella piscicida

  • Chang, Xinyue;Teng, Chengli;Wu, Haizhen;Ye, Jiang;Wang, Qiyao;Zhang, Huizhan
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.1273-1280
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    • 2019
  • Edwardsiella piscicida is the causative agent of edwardsiellosis, which has caused enormous economic losses worldwide. In our previous research, an attenuated live vaccine known as WED and based on the virulent strain E. piscicida EIB202 can effectively protect turbots against edwardsiellosis via intraperitoneal injection, while vaccination by immersion exhibits a weaker effect. During the development of the immersion vaccine, we surprisingly found the counts of ${\Delta}pEIB202/EIB202$ colonized on zebrafish were 100 times lower than those of EIB202. However, pEIB202 carries 53 predicted ORFs and has several copies in E. piscicida EIB202, impeding the study of its function. Thus, the replication region is located at a 1,980 bp fragment (from 18,837 to 20,816 bp), containing a transcriptional repressor and a replication protein. Moreover, the minimal replication plasmid, named pRep-q77, has low copies in both E. coli and E. piscicida, but is more stable in E. piscicida than in E. coli. This work lays a foundation for further examination of the function of the virulence plasmid pEIB202.

Cloning and Base Sequence Determination of Replication Initiation Gene (rep) Isolated from Staphylococcus aureus DH1 R-plasmid pSBK203 (Staphylococcus aureus DH1에서 분리된 R-plasmid pSBK203의 복제 개시 유전자(rep) 분리 및 염기서열 결정)

  • Park, Seung-Moon;Kwon, Dong-Hyun;Byeon, Woo-Hyeon
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.44-47
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    • 1993
  • A replication initiation gene was identified and its nucleotide sequence has been determined from a 3.8 kb, chloramphenicol acethyltransferase conferring R-plasmid pSBK203 of Staphylococcus aures. Location of the replication related region of pSBK 203 was determined by interuption with pUC 119 at XBaI and MspI sites which resulted in inactivation of replication in Bacilius subtilis. Base sequence of this region revealed on open reading frame of 942 base pairs, which encoded a 314 amino acid protein. Base sequence homology with other rep of pT181 family plasmids such as pT181, pC221, pC223, pS194, pU112, and pCW7 was ranged from 78% to 97% and the predicted amino acid sequence homology was from 72% to 95%.

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Cloning of ori region of R-plasmid pSBK203 and construction of new shuttle-vectors for E. coli & B. subtilis using cloned fragments (R-plasmid pSBK203의 ori 부위 재조합 및 이를 이용한 E.coli와 B.subtilis 간의 Shuttle-Vector 구성)

  • 권동현;석종성;변우현
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.262-273
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    • 1987
  • The replication region of the chloramphenical resistance plasmid pSBK203 of Staphylococcus aureus was cloned using pBR322 and pBD9 as vectors. Cloned replication tegion and chloramphenicol resistance gene were recombined to pBR322. The reconstructed vector behaved as a shuttle vector for E. coli and B. subtilis.

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Binding of IciA protein to the dnaA promoter region

  • Kim, Hakjung;Hwang, Deog-Su
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.191-195
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    • 1995
  • IciA protein has been shown as an inhibitor for the initiation of E. coli chromosomal DNA replication at oriC. IciA protein binds the AT-rich region in oriC and then blocks the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication. Two binding sites for IciA protein were identified in dnaA gene, encoding the initiator for the E. coli chromosomal replication, promoter region by gel-shift assay and DNase I footprinting, One, named as IciA site I, is located upstream of the dnaA promoter 1P. The other, named as IciA site II, is located downstream of the dnaA promoter 2P. The sequence comparison of the regions protected from the DNase I cleavage did not result in a clear consensus sequence for the binding of IciA protein, suggesting that IciA protein may be a member of multimeric complex dsDNA binding proteins. This study provided information about the binding mode of IciA protein. Even though the IciA site II and IciA binding site in oriC seem to be composed of two IciA binding units, one binding unit is likely enough to cause the binding of IciA protein to the IciA site I. The binding of IciA protein to the dna4 promoter implies that IciA protein may involve not only the control of the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication but also the control of the dna4 gene expression.

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Pathogenesis, Dianosis, and Prophylactic Vaccine Development for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (구제역의 병리기전 및 진단, 예방백신 개발)

  • Moon, Sun-Hwa;Yang, Joo-Sung
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.301-310
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    • 2005
  • Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease of mammals and has a great potential for causing severe economic loss in susceptible cloven-hoofed animals, such as cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and buffalo. FMDV, a member of the Aphthovirus genus in the Picornaviridae family, is a non-enveloped icosahedral virus that contains a positive sense RNA of about 8.2 kb in size. The genome carries one open reading frame consisting of 3 regions: capsid protein coding region P1, replication related protein coding region P2, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase coding region P3. FMDV infects pharynx epithelial cell in the respiratory tract and viral replication is active in lung epithelial cell. Morbidity is extremely high. A FMD outbreak in Korea in 2002 caused severe economic loss. Although intense research is undergoing to develop appropriate drugs to treat FMDV infection, there is no specific therapeutic for controlling FMDV infection. Moreover, there is an increasing demand for the development of vaccine strategies against FMDV infection in many countries. In this report, more effective prevention strategies against FMDV infection were reviewed.

Service Profile Replication Scheme with Local Anchor for Next Generation Personal Communication Networks

  • Jinkyung Hwang;Bae, Eun-Shil;Park, Myong-Soon
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.215-221
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    • 2003
  • It is expected that per-user customized services are widely used in next generation Personal Communication Network. To provide personalized services for each call, per-user service profiles are frequently referenced and signaling traffic is considerably large. Since the service calls are requested from the places where user stays, we can expect that the traffic is localized. In this paper, we propose a new service profile replication scheme, named Follow-Me Replication with local Anchor (FMRA). By replicating user's service profile in a user-specific location area, local anchor of each region, the signaling traffic for call and mobility can be distributed to local network. We compared the performance of the FMRA with two typical schemes: Intelligent Network-based !Central scheme and IMT-2000 based full replication scheme, as we refer it to Follow-Me Replication Unconditional (FMRU). Performance results indicate that FMRA lies between Central and FMRU schemes according to call to mobility ratio, and we identified the efficient ranges of CMR for FMRA depending on the various network parameters.