• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.99.1-100
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• 2003

E. intermedium Blocontrol activity of a P. chlororaphis rhizobacteium O6, depends to the synthesis of extracellular secondary metabolites and exoenzymes, thought to antagonize the pathogenicity of a variety of phytopathogenic fungi. The production of secondary metabolites and exoenzymes in O6, depends essentially on the GacS-mediated signal transduction pathway, which activates largely unknown signal transduction pathway. To exploit the GacS-mediated signal transdcution pathway involved in activation of ph genes that are necessary for biosynthesis of phenazine from P. chlororaphis O6, we cloned and sequenced the phz operon, rpoS gene encoding stationary specific sigma factor, ppx gene encoding polyphosphatase, and lon gene encoding ion protease. Expression of each gene in wild type and GacS mutant were analyzed by RT-PCR. Transcripts from rpoS, phzI enconing acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) synthase, and ph structural genes in the GacS mutant were reduced in each of these growth phases compared to the wild type. The GacS or Lon mutant was found to be deficient in the production of phenzines, exoenzymes, and the acylhomoserine lactone. These mutants were not complemented by ph operon and addition of exogenous AHL. These results indicate that the GacS global regulatory systems controls phenazine production at multiple levels. Future research will focus to identifying the GacS-mediated regulatory cascade involving in production of phenazine in P. chlororaphis.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 1999

Salmonella typhimurum은 생활사 동안에 다양한 환경과 접하게 된다. S. typhimurium은 오염된 웅덩이에서 숙주의 phgolysosome에 이르기까지 생태계에 널리 분포하면서 산성 스트레스를 경험하며 또한 생존할 수 있다. Salmonella 이와 같은 산저항능은 Acid Tolerance Response (ATR)에 의해 획득된다. 약산의 pH에 적응된 S. typhimurium은 낮은 pH 영역에서 생존할 수 있는 일종의 대항능을 갖게되며, 이런 생존 능력은 복잡한 유전적 유도현상 결과로 해석된다. Salmonella 있어서 ATR은 RpoS 의존적 그리고 RpoS 비의존적 현상으로 구분되며, 특히 혐기적 조건(5% $CO_2$, 5% H$_2$, 90% $N_2$)에서 rpoS$\Omega$Ap는 UK1과 동일한 ATR을 나타내어, 혐기적 조건의 ATR은 RpoS 비의존적인 것으로 판명되었다. P22와 MudJ (Km, lacZ)를 이용한 gene fusion기법과 sodium acetate (pH4.5)를 이용한 돌연변이체 분리방법을 병행하여 산민감성의 형질을 나타내는 LE487 aatA::MudJ를 얻었다. antA 는 Salmonella의 유전자 지도상에서 12min에 위치하는 것으로 조사되었다. antA는 혐기적 조건(5% $CO_2$, 5% H$_2$, 90% $N_2$)하의 pH4.3 조건에서 야생형 Salmonella 비해서 매우 높은 산민감성을 보여주었다. 그러므로 antA는 혐기적 ATR에 있어서 산적응 기전에 관여하는 중요한 유전자로 확인되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.558-565
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• 2007

Using microarray analysis, we determined those Salmonella genes induced at the entry of stationary phase, and subsequently discovered that uncharacterized yliH was induced most dramatically. We set out to establish the molecular mechanism underlying the stationary phase induction of yliH under the standard culture condition, LB with vigorous aeration, by analyzing its promoter activity in various mutant backgrounds, lacking stationary phase ${\sigma}$, $RpoS^-$, or stringent signal molecules ppGpp, ${\Delta}relA$ ${\Delta}spoT$. It was found that the stationary phase induction of yliHp was partially dependent on rpoS but entirely dependent on ppGpp. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the Salmonella yliH gene is composed of 381 base-pair nucleotides, with overall amino acid sequence revealing 76.38% amino acid identity and 88.98% similarity with Escherichia coli yliH, although no motif from data base was noted for its possible role. Recently however, it has been reported that yliH in E. coli was implicated in biofilm formation and motility by repressing these activities (Domka et al., 2006). We have constructed a mutant Salmonella deleting yliH gene by allele replacement and examined its phenotype, and found that the yliH in Salmonella more or less affects motility and adherence by enhancing these activities. The effect on biofilm formation in Salmonella was uncertain. Moreover, addition of cloned yliH of E. coli into Salmonella did not reduce motility or adherence. Taken together, it appears that the pathways implicating yliH for biofilm formation and motility in E. coli and in Salmonella are somewhat different.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.492-498
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• 2007

GacS and GacA proteins form a two component signal transduction system in bacteria. Here, Tn5 transposon gacS and gacA (Gac) mutants of Pseudomonas sp. KL28, an alkylphenol degrader, were isolated by selecting for smooth colonies of strain KL28. The mutants exhibited reduced ability to migrate on a solid surface. This surface motility does not require the action of flagella unlike the well-studied swarming motility of other Pseudomonas sp. The Gac mutants also showed reduced levels of biofilm and pellicle formation in liquid culture. In addition, compared to the wild type KL28 strain, these mutants were more resistant to high concentrations of m-cresol but were more sensitive to $H_2O_2$, which are characteristics that they share with an rpoS mutant. These results indicate that the Gac regulatory cascade in strain KL28 positively controls wrinkling morphology, biofilm formation, surface translocation and $H_2O_2$ resistance, which are important traits for its capacity to survive in particular niches.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.41-58
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• 2003

연구배경 : 약제내성 결핵권의 조기 진단을 위해서, 최근 돌연변이 검출 및 질병의 진단 등에 새로운 기술로 대두되고 있는 올리고뉴콜레오티드 칩 기술을 이용하여 결핵균의 리팜핀, 아이소나아지드와 스트렙토마이신 내성과 관련된 rpoB, katG와 rpsL 유전자의 주요 돌연변이를 신속하고 정확하게 검출하고자 하였다. 방 법 : 리팜핀 내성 검출의 야생형 7개와 돌연변이형 13개, 아이소니아지드 내성 검출의 야생형 2개와 돌연변이형 3개, 그리고 스트렙토마이신 내성 검출을 위한 야생형과 돌연변이형 프로브 각 2종류를 고안한 후, 유리 슬라이드에 고정시켜 올리고뉴클레오티드 칩을 제작하였고, 약제내성을 가지고 있는 배양균주 55균주를 선택하여 PCR 증폭반응과 혼성화 반응을 실시한 후 비공초점 레이저 스케너를 이용하여 돌연변이를 검출하였다. 이를 염기서열방법으로 확인하여 돌연변이 다형성을 분석하였다. 결 과 : 리팜핀 내성은 코돈 531과 코돈 526에서 65%의 돌연변이를 검출하였고, 현재까지 보고되어 있지 않은 D516F의 새로운 돌연변이도 검출하였다. 아이소니아지드 내성은 S315T와 R463L 돌연변이가 45.2%로 검출되었고, 스트렙토마이신 내성은 K43R과 K88R 돌연변이가 78%로 검출되었다. 리팜핀 내성의 88%(35/40), 아이소니아지드 내성의 50%(20/42), 그리고 스트렙토마이신 내성의 78%(7/9)를 검출함으로써 현재까지 보고되어 있는 세가지 약제내성과 관련된 rpoB, katG와 rpsL 유전자의 주요 돌연변이는 대부분 검출할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 염기서열분석 결과와 비교하였을 때 모두 일치하는 결과를 얻음으로써 올리고뉴콜레오티드 칩의 유용성을 확인할 수 있었다. 결 론 : 따라서 본 연구에서 개발한 올라고뉴클레오티드 칩은 약재내성 결핵균의 조기 진단에 유용한 도구가 될 것으로 사료된다.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2014

Antimicrobial actions of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) derived from products of NADPH oxidase and inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase in host phagocytes inactivate various bacterial macromolecules. To cope with these cytotoxic radicals, pathogenic bacteria have evolved to conserve systems necessary for detoxifying ROS/RNS and repairing damages caused by their actions. In response to these stresses, bacteria also induce expression of molecular chaperones to aid in ameliorating protein misfolding. In this study, we explored the function of a newly identified chaperone Spy, that is localized exclusively in the periplasm when bacteria exposed to conditions causing spheroplast formation, in the resistance of Salmonella Typhimurium to ROS/RNS. A spy deletion mutant was constructed in S. Typhimurium by a PCR-mediated method of one-step gene inactivation with ${\lambda}$ Red recombinase, and subjected to ROS/RNS stresses. The spy mutant Salmonella showed a modest decrease in growth rate in NO-producing cultures, and no detectable difference of growth rate in $H_2O_2$ containing cultures, compared with that of wild type Salmonella. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed that spy mRNA levels were similar regardless of both stresses, but were increased considerably in Salmonella mutants lacking the flavohemoglobin Hmp, which are incapable of NO detoxification, and lacking an alternative sigma factor RpoS, conferring hypersusceptibility to $H_2O_2$. Results demonstrate that Spy expression can be induced under extreme conditions of both stresses, and suggest that the protein may have supportive roles in maintaining proteostasis in the periplasm where various chaperones may act in concert with Spy, thereby protecting bacteria against toxicities of ROS/RNS.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.553-560
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• 2005

stf 오페론은 stfA CDEFG로 구성되며, S. typhimurium과 S. choleraesuis에서는 완전하게 존재한다. 그러나 S. typhi에서는 이 오페론이 결여되어 있고 S. paratyphi A에서는 stfC의 유전자가 돌연변이 되어 있다. 이 섬모는 class 1형태의 섬모로 분류되며, StfD chaperone을 다른 섬모를 구성하는 chaperone들과 비교할 때 각 subunit들의 C-말단 잔기의 분석은 StfD chaperone이 FGS subfamily와 유사한 특성을 보였다. stf 오페론이 lacZYA 유전자와 fusion된 S. typhimurium 돌연변이 균주를 사용하여 MacConkey 고체배지에서 장시간 배양한 후 $Lac^+$ 표현형을 보이는 21 isolate들을 분리하였다. $Lac^+$ 균주들은 34 세대 당 $0.28\~1.75$의 빈도로 발생하였다. 21 isolate들은 구성적으로 stf operon을 발현했지만, 범용의 조절자인 RpoS, OmpR, CpxR등에 의해 조절되지 않았다. Mouse독성 실험에서 S. typhimurium $_X8661$은 야생형인 $_X3761$에 비교하여 6.7배의 약독화를 보였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.277-283
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• 1997

Promoters inducible by paraquat, a superocide-generating agent, were isolated from Escherichia coli using a promoter-probing plasmid pRS415 with promoterless lacA gene. Twenty one promoters induced by paraquat were selected and further characterized. From sequence analysis, thirteen of the promoters were mapped to their specific loci on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Several promoters were mapped to the upstream of known genes such as usgl, katG, and mglB, whose relationships with superoxide response have not been previously reported. Other promoters were mapped to the upstream region of unknown open reading frames. Downstream of HC 96 promoter are uncharacterized ORFs whose sequences are homologous to ABC-transporter subunits. Downstream of HC84 promoter is an ORF encoding a transcriptional regulator-like protein, which contains a LysR family-specific HTH (helix-turn-helix) DNA bindign motif. We investigated whether these promoters belong to the soxRS regulon. All promoters except HC96 were found to belong to the soxRS regulon. The HC96 promoter was significantly induced by paraquat in the soxRS deletion mutant strain. The basal transcription level of three promoters (HE43, HC71, HD94) significantly increased at the stationary phase, implying that they are regulated by RpoS. However, paraquat inducibility of all promoters disappeared in the stationary phase, suggesting that SoxRS regulatory system is active only in rapidly growing cells.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.828-836
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• 2008

The biocontrol rhizobacterium Pseudomonas sp. M18 can produce two kinds of antibiotics, namely pyoluteorin (Plt) and phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA), and is antagonistic against a number of soilborne phytopathogens. In this study, a luxR-type quorum-sensing regulatory gene, vqsR, was identified and characterized immediately downstream of the Plt gene cluster in strain MI8. A vqsR-inactivated mutant led to a significant decrease in the production of Plt and its biosynthetic gene expression. However, this was restored when introducing the vqsR gene by cloning into the plasmid pME6032 in trans. The vqsR mutation did not exert any obvious influence on the production of PCA and its biosynthetic gene expression and the production of N-acylhomoserine lactones (C4 and C8-HSLs) and their biosynthetic gene rhlI expression. Accordingly, these results introduce VqsR as a regulator of Plt production in Pseudomonas spp., and suggest that the regulatory mechanism of vqsR in strain M18 is distinct from that in P. aeruginosa. In addition, it was demonstrated that vqsR mutation did not have any obvious impact on the expression of Plt-specific ABC transporters and other secondary metabolic global regulators, including GacA, RpoS, and RsmA.