• 대한바이러스학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.175-182
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• 1998

We investigated the rate of hepatitis G virus infection among 50 patients who were not infected with the hepatitis C virus but showed symptoms of hepatitis. Viral RNA was extracted from the patients' sera and cDNA was synthesized and amplified by RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) using random hexamer and 5 primers (470-20-1-77F, 470-20-1-211R, 470-20-1-211R-biotin, GV57-4512MF, GV57-4657MR). The amplified PCR products were confirmed by electrochemiluminescence (ECL), liquid hybridization (LH) and Southern blotting (SB). Among the 50 PCR products, by means of ECL, we found 4 samples to be positive and 5 samples to be indeterminate. The GV45-89M probe (5'-CYCGCTGRTITGGGGTGTACfGGAAGGC-3') was end-labelled with gamma-$^{32}P$ ATP and used for liquid hybridization with the PCR products. By using liquid hybridization, we detected specific bands from 4 positive sera and also from one indeterminate serum as determined by ECL. An 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis of the 9 PCR products which were HGV positive or indeterminate as determined by ECL showed a 160bp band from 4 positive and one indeterminate serum. The 5 PCR products proved to be positive when SB was applied with the GV45-89M probe as well as when LH was applied. LH and SB were shown to have higher sensitivity and specificity than ECL. Two cases among 5 positive cases had relatively high SGOT, SGPT, ALP values when compared with other 48 cases. In summary, we confirmed hepatitis G virus infection in 5 cases among 50 Korean patients showing symptoms of viral hepatitis.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2016

Molecular detection methods such as RT-PCR for detecting breast cancer-associated gene expression in the peripheral blood have the potential to modify breast cancer (BC) staging and therapy. In this regard, we evaluated the potential of erb-B2 molecular marker in BC detection and analyzed the expression of erb-B2 mRNA in the peripheral blood and fresh tissue samples of 50 pretreated female BC patients and 50 healthy females by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method. We also assessed the correlation of erb-B2 mRNA marker positivity in peripheral blood and tumor tissue samples with clinical and pathological factors in BC patients in order to evaluate its prognostic value. It was shown that there is a significant difference between healthy females and BC patients with expression of the erb-B2 molecular marker (p<0.01). A significant difference between the expression of erb-B2 in the peripheral blood and tissue samples of BC patients (p<0.01) and the frequency of circulating erb-B2 mRNA expression in peripheral blood and in tissue was detected by RT-PCR. No correlation was found between erb-B2 mRNA expression in blood or tumor tissue samples and lymph node, tumor grade, tumor stage, tumor size, patient's age, ki67, estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PGR), P53, and HER-2 status. However, in a small subset of 31 BC patients we found that expression of erb-B2 in peripheral blood or in both peripheral blood and tumor tissue was directly correlated with lympho-vascular invasion and perineural invasion as poor prognostic features. The highest rates of erb-B2 expression in peripheral blood or tumor tissue were in the ER and PR negative and HER-2 positive group. This study suggests that the application of the RT-PCR and immunohistochemical methods for erb-B2 molecular marker detection would provide a higher detection rate, especially in early stage BC.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.513-517
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• 2000

우리나라 난 재배 농가에서 많이 재배하고 있는 호접란 대만 수입묘의 바이러스 감염 정도를 검정하기 위하여 플라스크묘 상태의 실생 번식 식물체를 공시하여 역전사 중합효소 연쇄반응(RT-PCR) 기술에 의해 CymMV와 ORSV의 감염 여부를 검정하였다. 호접란 식물체의 잎에서 조즙액을 추출하여 RT-PCR을 위한 total RNA로 사용하였다. $42^{\circ}C$에서 45분간 반응시켜 cDNA를 합성하였으며, $96^{\circ}C$에서 2분간 template를 예비 변성시킨 후, $96^{\circ}C$에서 30초간 template 변성, $60^{\circ}C$에서 30초간 primer 부착 및 $72^{\circ}C$에서 1분간 DNA 합성을 1cycle로 하여 총 36cycle을 반응시키고, $72^{\circ}C$에서 10분간 안정화하는 조건으로 one-step RT-PCR을 수행하였다. 바이러스 검정 결과 정도의 차이는 있으나, 40개 시료 모두 CymMV에 감염되어 있었으며, ORSV에 감염된 식물체는 없었다.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.292-299
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• 2019

Interferon tau (IFNT) regulation, an anti-luteolytic factor produced by conceptuses of the ruminant ungulates, is essential for the maintenance of early pregnancy, but a definitive mechanism for its temporal transcription has not been elucidated. We and others have observed the T-box protein eomesodermin (EOMES) exhibited high mRNA expression in the ovine embryonic trophectoderm; thus, both caudal-relatedhomeobox-2 (CDX2) and EOMES coexist during the early stages of conceptus development. Objective of this study was to examine the effect of EOMES on ovine IFNT gene transcription when evaluated with CDX2, ETS2 and AP1 transcription factors implicated in the control of cell differentiation in the trophectoderm. In this study, quantitatively via reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis between ovine trophoblast cells was initially performed, finding that transcription factors CDX2 and 'EOMES transcription factor mRNAs' were specific to trophectoderm cells. These mRNAs were also found in days 15, 17, and 21 ovine conceptuses. Furthermore, human choriocarcinoma JEG3 cells (trophoblast cell line) were cotransfected with an ovine IFNT (-654bp)-luciferase reporter (-654-oIFNT-Luc) construct and several transcription factor expression plasmids. Cotransfection of the reporter construct with CDX2, ETS2 and AP1 increased transcription of -654-oIFNT-Luc by about 11-fold compared with transfection of the construct alone. When cells were initially transfected with EOMES followed by transfection with CDX2, ETS2 and/or AP1, the expression of -654-oIFNT-Luc was decreased. Also, EOMES factor inhibited the stimulatory activity of CDX2 alone. These results suggest that when conceptuses attach to the uterine epithelium, ovine IFNT gene transcription is down-regulated by an increase of EOMES factor expression in the attached ovine trophoblast cells.

• 식물병연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.30-33
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• 2004

현재까지 벼 줄무의잎마름병(Rice stripe virus, RSV)은 남부지방에 국한되어 발생되어 왔다. 그러나 최근에는 RSV의 발생이 충청도, 경기도를 포함한 중부지방까지 확산되는 경향을 나타내고 있다. 이병의 병징은 육안으로는 생리적인 장해 현상과 구분하기가 힘들다 본 실험에서는 이병주 및 애멸구(Laodelphax striatellus)로 부터 viral RNA를 추출한 후 RNA복제효소 및 외피단백질유전자에 특이적인 primer를 제작하여 RT-PCR법에 의해 RSV를 검정하였다. 그결과 이병식물체 및 보독 애멸구로부터 RNA복제효소 유전자에 특이적인 band(1,023 bp) 및 외피단백질유전자에 특이적인 band(969 bp)가 관찰되었다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.331-338
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• 2019

Human Aichivirus A1 (HuAiV-A1) is a waterborne human pathogenic virus classified as Picornaviridae and Kobuvirus. In this study, we developed a method that can detect about 35 minutes faster with the same detection sensitivity level than the previously reported HuAiV-A1 diagnostic RT-PCR primer. The RT-PCR primer sets developed in this study are capable of detecting HuAiV-A1 at a level of about 100 ag and formed 563 bp amplification product. In addition, the RT-nested PCR method was able to amplify 410 bp using the RT-PCR product as a template. The detection sensitivity of our method was 10 times higher than the method with the highest detection sensitivity to date. Therefore, the detection method of HuAiV-A1 developed in this study is expected to be used in the water environment in which a small amount of virus exists. Also, this detection method is expected to be used as HuAiV-A1 diagnostic technology in both clinical and non-clinical field.

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2004

A cDNA encoding the masu salmon, Oncorhynchus masou, estrogen receptor $\alpha$ (msER$\alpha$) was cloned from the pituitary gland by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This cDNA contains an open reading frame encoding 513 amino acid residues, and the calculated molecular weight of this protein is about 56,430 Dalton. The amino acid sequences of the DNA binding and ligand binding domains of msER$\alpha$ showed high homology to those of other fish species (84-100%). Reverse transcription PCR analysis showed that the mRNA level of msER$\alpha$ in the pituitary was slightly higher in estradiol-17$\beta$(E2) injected masu salmon than that of control fish. To test the biological activity of msER$\alpha$, the cDNA was ligated to a mammalian expression vector and transfected into a gonadotrope-derived cell line, L$\beta$T2, with a reporter plasmid including estrogen responsive element. Expression of the reporter protein, luciferase, was E2 and msER$\alpha$-dependent. The masu salmon ER$\alpha$ is structurally conserved among teleost species and functions as a transcriptional activator in the pituitary cells.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.196-203
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• 1995

The c-myc proto-oncogene, one of the immediately earlY genes, is expressed in various mammalian cell types and heavily involved in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation. To determine endogeneous expression pattern of c-myc gene in preimpBantation mouse embwos, we employed a reverse transcription coupled to polvrnerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Transcript of c-myc was detected at fertilized embryos as a maternal transcript. At the early two-cell stave, transcript of c-myc gene was hardly detected, bu, appeared at late two-cell embryos as a zygotic transcript. The level of c-myc expresion was increased at later stases and peaked at blastocvst stage. To examine the functional role of promoter region for c-myc gene transcription, we fused the 5'upstream region (1.8 kb) including econ 1 of c-myc genomic DNA with E. coli lacE gene fnamed as pcMYC-laczl. pcMYC-lacZ was microiniected into the pronscleus of mouse one-cell embryovs, and p·salactosidase activity was determined tv histochemical staining with X-gal at different stases. f-galactosidase activity was detected only at blastocyst, but not at the earlier stage embryos. This result indicates that c-myc gene is transcriptionallv active during mouse preimplantation development.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.453-459
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• 1999

Astrovirus is frequently associated with diarrhea in children. It can not be readily isolated by cell culture, and an electronmicroscope is usually used for detection of this agent. Recently in 1995 a combined method of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was designed for easier detection of astrovirus, which is based on the conserved sequence in 3'-end of genomes of the 7 known serotypes of human astrovirus. As of yet there has not been any report of astrovirus data in Korea using the RT-PCR methods. The purpose of this study was to detect astrovirus incidence, severity of symptoms, seasonal variation and co infection rate with rotavirus in Korean children inpatients with diarrhea. Fecal specimens from 61 young children hospitalized with gasteroenteritis Korea from Jan. 1996 through Mar. 1997. They were examined for astroviurs infection by RT-PCR method. Results are as follows:1. Astrovirus was detected at 9.8% (6/61) from fecal specimens of children with severe diarrhea by EIA using monoclonal antibody coated plates. 2. Astorvirus was detected at 29.5% (18/61) from fecal specimens of children with severe diarrhea by RT-PCR. 3. The age of the 18 children affected by astrovirus ranged from 2 monthes to 7 years with mean of 3.0 years. 4. Mean hospital stay of the 18 children was 6.1 days. 5. Five (27.8%) astrovirus RT-PCR positive strains were confirmed in November and in December, respectively out of 18 specimens in total. 6. Astrovirus coinfection with rotavirus type G1 was confirmed in 15/16 specimens (93.8%), and with type G2 was in 1/16 specimens (6.3%).

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.62-72
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• 2023

목적: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) 발생 이후 인간 코로나바이러스를 포함한 호흡기 바이러스의 패턴에 변화가 있을 것으로 생각되어, COVID-19 발생 이전 경기도 명지병원에 급성 호흡기 감염증으로 입원한 소아청소년을 대상으로 바이러스 감염의 패턴을 보고하였다. 방법: 2017년 1월부터 2019년 12월까지 급성 호흡기 감염증으로 명지병원에 입원한 18세 이하 소아청소년을 대상으로 하였고 real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) 결과를 바탕으로 후향적으로 의무기록을 고찰하였다. 결과: 총 3,557명 중에서 중복감염 포함하여 3,686건의 바이러스가 검출되었고 평균 양성률은 78.6%이었으며 여름에 비해 겨울에 PCR 양성률이 높았다. 파라인플루엔자바이러스, 메타뉴모바이러스, 보카바이러스는 4-6월에 주로 검출되고, 인간엔테로바이러스는 7-9월에, 호흡기세포융합바이러스와 인플루엔자바이러스는 겨울철에 주로 검출되었다. 진단별로 인두편도염에서는 아데노바이러스가 가장 많았고 폐렴에서는 호흡기세포융합바이러스가 가장 많이 검출되었다. 인간 코로나 바이러스는 겨울철에 주로 검출되었으며, 크루프 환자 중에서 3번째 높은 빈도로 나타났다. 결론: 본 연구결과가 이전에 보고되었던 소아청소년의 호흡기 바이러스 역학과 크게 다르지 않았다. 또한 COVID-19 발생 이후 호흡기 바이러스 패턴 비교 연구에 도움이 되고자 COVID-19 발생 이전 호흡기 바이러스 역학정보를 보고하는 바이다.