• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2002

We describe here the cDNA sequence and mRNA expression of a novel serine pretense from the firefly, Pyrocoelia rufa. The 771 bp cDNA encodes for 257 amino acid residues. The deduced protein of P. rufa serine pretense gene contains the catalytic triad and six-conserved cysteine residues. Alignment of the deduced protein of P. rufa serine pretense gene showed 47.4% protein sequence identity to known coleopteran insect Rhyzopertha dominica midgut trpsin-like enzyme. Northern blot analysis revealed that the P. rufa serine pretense is specifically expressed in the midgut of P. rufa larvae.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.58-62
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• 2003

An extracellular pretense of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens S94 was purified to apparent homogeneity. The enzyme activity was strongly inhibited by general inhibitor for serine protease, PMSF, suggesting that the enzyme is a serine pretense. The purified enzyme activity was inhibited by leucine peptidase inhibitor, bestatin, suggesting that the enzyme is a leucine endopeptidase. The maximum proteolytic activity against different protein substrates occurred at pH 10, 45$^{\circ}C$ (protein substrate) and pH 8, 45$^{\circ}C$ (synthetic substrate). The purified enzyme was specific in that it readily hydrolyBed substrates with Leu or Lys residues at P$_1$ site. The pretense had characteristics of a cold-adapted protein, which was more active for the hydrolysis of synthetic substrate in the range of 15$^{\circ}C$ to 45$^{\circ}C$, specially at low temperature.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2002

From the culture supernatant of the psychrotrophic strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens an extracellular serine protease was purified to apparent homogeneity by successive purification steps using QAE-Sephadex, SP-Sephadex and Sephacryl S-100 column chromatography. The pretense is monomeric, with a relative molecular mass of 23,000. It is inhibited by the serine protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, but not by EDTA. The enzyme is most active at pH 9-10 and at $45^{\circ}C$, although it is unstable at $60^{\circ}C$.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.196-201
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• 1997

Lysine 특이적 serine protease인 Achromobacter protease I(API)의 기질특이성을 결정하는 아미노산 잔기가 255위치에 존재하는 가정하에 이 잔가에 변이를 도입하여 기질특이성의 변화 유무를 조사하였다. 그리고 pro-API이 자기촉매적으로 소화될 수 있도록 Lys(-1) 또는 다른 아미노산 잔기로 치환하였다. 그러나 예상과는 달리 제작된 모든 변이체는 발현되지 않았거나 불활성전구체로서 발현되었다. 이 결과로부터 225위치의 잔기는 API의 maturation과정에 있어 Iysylendopeptidase활성에 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있으나 APl의 기질특이성은 225위치 잔기의 특성에 한정되지 않을 가능성이 시사되었다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.20-27
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• 2006

미생물 및 동물에 비해 식물에서는 혈전용해효소에 대한 연구가 부족한 실정이며, 기존의 혈전용해효소가 가지는 혈전에 대한 비특이적, 부작용, 고가 등의 단점을 해결할 수 있는 새로운 혈전용해효소의 개발을 위하여 율무, 홍화, 아욱의 종자로부터 추출된 수용성 단백질의 혈전용해 활성을 조사하였다. 각각의 식물들로부터 추출된 조효소 용액은 기존 혈전 용해효소인 plasmin과 양성 대조군으로 하여 비교하여 fibrin 평판법으로 확인한 결과 피브린 응집을 효과적으로 분해하였다. 그 중 율무종자의 수용성 추출물의 혈전용해 활성은 양성 대조군인 plasmin과 비교하여 1.3배의 높은 활성을 나타내었다. 전체 수용성 단백질은 50-75% 에탄올을 이용하여 농축하였으며 율무의 혈전용해효소는 fibrin zymography를 수행하여 확인하고 직접 추출하였다. SDS-PAGE에 의하여 추출효소의 분자량을 측정한 결과 7.8 kDa으로 단일 polypeptide임을 확인하였으며, 효소 활성에 미치는 온도의 효과는 $50^{\circ}C$ 이상에서는 비교적 안정하였으나 더 낮은 온도에서는 급격히 효소활성이 감소하였다. 또한, 각종 단백질분해효소 저해제에 의한 영향을 조사한 결과 APMSF, PMSF, pepstatin A 그리고 TPCK에 강력하게 저해되는 것으로 보아 추출효소는 chymotrypsin과 유사한 serine protease의 하나로 생각되었다. 그러나 EGTA와 EDTA 처리에 의해서는 효소활성의 저해가 두드러지게 나타나지 않았다. 더욱이, 종자저장 중에 미생물에 의한 부패, 활력저하, 생리활성물질의 감소와 장기저장에 따른 에너지소비 증가 등이 문제가 되고 있어 저선량의 감마선 조사를 통해 율무, 홍화, 아욱의 종자로부터 혈전용해 효소활성에 미치는 효과 및 선량에 따른 차이를 조사하였는데 비조사 종자인 대조구와 비교하여 1 Gy, 4 Gy, 16 Gy, 32 Gy선량에서는 낮은 활성을 보였으면 반면에 8 Gy와 64 Gy의 선량에서는 더 높은 활성을 나타내었다. 이러한 결과는 Y선 조사가 종자의 혈전용해 활성을 향상시킬 가능성이 있을 것으로 생각된다. 이상의 모든 결과로 볼 때 율무의 추출 효소는 chymotrypsin-like serine protease에 속하는 혈전용해효소임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2002

Subpopulations of nucleotides that bind specifically to a variety of proteins have been isolated from a population of random sequence RNA/DNA molecules. Roughly one in $10^{13}$ random sequence RNA/DNA molecules folds in such a way as to create a specific binding site for small ligands. Since the development of in vitro selection procedure, more than 50 nucleic acid ligands (aptamers) have been isolated. These molecules are very useful for the study of molecular recognition between nucleic acid and protein/organic compound. In addition to these basic studies this method gives us a dream to produce new drugs against several diseases. We focused on several aptamers which specifically binds to trypsin-like serine proteases (thrombin, human neutrophil elastase, activated protein C and NS3 protease of human hepatitis C virus) and want to introduce their structural characteristics and some functions.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.915-921
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• 1996

한국재래간장으로부터 분리한 Bacillus subtilis CCKS-111이 생성하는 protease 생산의 최적 배양조건은 2% soluble starch, 0.2% peptone, 0.1%(MH$_4$)$_2$S$_2$O$_{8}$ , 0.2% MgSO$_4$, pH 7.0, 35$^{\circ}C$ 에서 24시간 배양했을 때이다. 효소의 최적 작용 pH와 온도는 pH 9.0, 5$0^{\circ}C$였으며 , pH 6.0~11.0의 범위와 5$0^{\circ}C$이상에서 불안정하였다. 금속이온 중 Cu$^{2+}$에 의하여 활성이 증대되었으나 $K^{2+}$, Hg$^{2+}$등에 의하여 효소활성이 저해되었다. Ethylenediamineteraacetic acid 와 phenylmethane sulfonyl fluoride 처리에 의해 활성이 저해되어 금속이온의 영향을 받는 serine protease로 확인되었다. Km값은 2.313$\times$$10^{-4}$ M, V$_{max}$ 값은 39.216$\mu\textrm{g}$/min이었으며, hemoglobin보다 casein을 더 잘 가수분해하였다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.165-170
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• 1995

The biochemical properties of the fibrinolytic protease of 50,800 Da isolated from the venom of Kgdistrodon blomhoffi brevicaudus were characterized. The enzyme hydrolyzed the carboxyl side of arginine in the synthetic chromogenic peptides, N-Benzoyl-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and N-p-Tosyl-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA, and the enzyme activity was inhibited by phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride indicating that the enzyme belongs to the serine protease family. The pretense showed maximum activity at pH 7.5 and inhibited by ZnCl$_2$, CuSO$_4$, but not by soybean trypsin inhibitor, pepstatin A, 2-mercaptoethanol and EDTA. The fm value determined with N-p-Tosyl-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA was 0.2 mM. The thrombolytic activity of the purified enzyme was evaluated by platelet aggregation test in rabbits. While the platelet count ratio in blood of the rabbits injected with thrombin alone declined from 1.0 to 0.6 within 7 min and maintained around 0.6 for 24 hours thereafter, the ratio rapidly recovered from around 0.6 to 0.8 in 1 hr, to 1.0 in 24 hrs when the rabbits were sequentially treated with thrombin and the purified enzyme. The result showed that the serine protease from A. blomhoffi brevicoudus of 50,800 Da had a thrombolytic activity in vivo and the enzyme might be developed as a therapuetic agent for the treatment of thrombic disease.

• 한국결정학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국결정학회 2002년도 정기총회 및 추계학술연구발표회
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• pp.24-24
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• 2002

HtrA (high temperature requirement A), a periplasmic heat shock protein, is known to have molecular chaperone function at low temperatures and proteolytic activity at elevated temperatures. To investigate the mechanism of functional switch to pretense, we have determined the crystal structure of the N-terminal protease domain (PD) of HtrA from Thermotoga maritima. HtrA PD shares the same fold with chymotrypsin-like serine professes. However, crystal structure suggests that HtrA PD is not an active pretense at current state since its active site is not formed properly and blocked by an additional helical lid. On the surface of the lid, HtrA PD has hydrophobic patches that could be potential substrate binding sites for molecular chaperone activity. Present structure suggests that the activation of the proteolytic function of HtrA PD at elevated temperatures might occur by the conformational change.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.321-330
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• 2006

The pathogenic mechanism of granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) and amebic keratitis (AK) by Acanthamoeba has yet to be clarified. Pretense has been recognized to play an important role in the pathogenesis of GAE and AK. In the present study, we have compared specific activity and cytopathic effects (CPE) of purified 33 kDa serine proteinases from Acanthamoeba strains with different degree of virulence (A. healyi OC-3A, A. lugdunensis KA/E2, and A. castelianii Neff). Trophozoites of the 3 strains revealed different degrees of CPE on human corneal epithelial (HCE) cells. The effect was remarkably reduced by adding phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride (PMSF), a serine proteinase inhibitor. This result indicated that PMSF-susceptible proteinase is the main component causing cytopathy to HCE cells by Acanthamoeba. The purified 33 kDa serine proteinase showed strong activity toward HCE cells and extracellular matrix proteins. The purified proteinase from OC-3A, the most virulent strain, demonstrated the highest enzyme activity compared to KA/E2, an ocular isolate, and Neff, a soil isolate. Polyclonal antibodies against the purified 33 kDa serine proteinase inhibit almost completely the proteolytic activity of culture supernatant of Acanthamoeba. In line with these results, the 33 kDa serine proteinase is suggested to play an important role in pathogenesis and to be the main component of virulence factor of Acanthamoeba.