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Green Tea Catechin Causes an Weight Loss in Transgenic Mice Over-expressing Carboxyl Terminus of Amyloid Precusor Protein

  • Lim Hwa-J.;Kim Yong-K.;Sheen Yhun-Y.
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 2006
  • Amyloid$\beta(A{\beta})$ has been reported have an effect on the induction of oxidative stress that involves the functional and structural abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease. As a role of a radical scavenger, a green tea treatment was found have some inhibitory effect on the neurodegenerative process. The aim of this study was to determine if green tea catechin (GTC) reduces in transgenic model. To test this, transgenic mice carrying neuronspecific enolase (NSE) controlled C-terminus (105) of APP (APP-C105) were created and treated them with a low ana high dose of GTC for 6 months. Herein, we conclude that transgenic mice expressing NSE/APP-C105 were successfully created and the GTC-treated group exhibited significant reduction in body weight. Thus, GTC might be a good prevention of obesity or good treatment for AD patient.

더덕 잎, 줄기, 뿌리 부위의 Triterpenoid 사포닌 함량 (Triterpenoid Saponin Contents of the Leaf, Stem and Root of Codonopsis lanceolata)

  • 김지아;문흥규;최용의
    • 한국약용작물학회지
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2014
  • Codonopsis lanceolata (Campanulaceae) has been used in traditional medicines, as its roots contain several kinds of 3,28-bidesmosidic triterpenoid saponin with high medicinal values. In this study, we induced hairy root-derived transgenic plants of C. lanceolata and analyzed triterpenoid saponins from the leaf, stem and root. Transgenic plants were regenerated from the hairy roots via somatic embryogenesis. The saponins are lancemaside A, B and E, foetidissimoside A, and aster saponin Hb. Transgenic plants contained richer triterpenoids saponin than wild-type plants. Major saponin lancemaside A was the most abundant saponin in the stem from transgenic-plant, $4.76mg{\cdot}1^{-1}dry$ stem. These results suggest that transgenic plants of C. lanceolata could be used as medicinal materials for the production of triterpene saponins.

Regulation of methionine biosynthesis in plants; transgenic study

  • Kim, Jungsup;Thomas Leustek
    • 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국식물학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표대회:발표눈문요지록
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2002
  • The committing step in Met and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) synthesis is catalyzed by cystathionine ${\gamma}$ -synthase (CGS). Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana overexpressing CGS under control of 35S promoter show increased soluble Met and its metabolite S-methylmethionine, but only at specific stages of development. CGS-overexpressing seedlings are resistant to ethionine. Similar results were obtained with transgenic potato plants overexpressing Arabidopsis CGS. Several of the transgenic lines show silencing of CGS resulting in deformed p]ants with a reduced capacity for reproductive growth similar as transgenic plants by antisense RNA (CGS[-]). Exogenous feeding of Met to the CGS[-] and CGS[+] silenced plants partially restores their growth. Similar morphological deformities are observed in plants cosuppressed for SAM synthetase, even though such plants accumulate 250 fold more soluble Met than wild type and they overexpress CGS. The results suggest that the abnormalities associated with CGS and SAM synthetase silencing are due in part to a reduced ability to produce SAM, and that SAM may be a regulator of CGS expression.

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Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation of Rice 'Ilmibyeo' using HPT Selection Maker Gene

  • Guo, Jia;Cho, Joon-Hyeong;Jo, Hye-Jeong;Seong, Eun-Soo;Wang, Myeong-Hyeon
    • 한국자원식물학회지
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.242-246
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    • 2007
  • This study was conducted to produce the transgenic plant of rice. We obtained Agrobacterium AGL1 harbaring pCambial 300 vector with HPT gene. We carried out PCR analysis of 22 ea putative transgenic rice to investigate transformed lines. The 3 ea transgenic lines were detected insertion of HPT gene. Transgenic lines selected from PCR analysis were performed by Southern blot. From Southern blot, we obtained that two transgenic lines detected single band. We are going to study the method improving of cotransformation as well as transformation efficiency in rice.

Herbicide-resistant Transgenic Mongolian Bentgrass (Agrostis mongolica Roshev.) obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation

  • Vanjildorj, Enkhchimeg;Bae, Tae-Woong;Song, In-Ja;Kim, Kyung-Moon;Lim, Yong-Pyo;Lee, Hyo-Yeon
    • 한국육종학회지
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    • 제40권2호
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    • pp.128-135
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    • 2008
  • Herbicide resistance is the most common trait being tested and thus herbicide?resistant genetically modified plants are now the most widely cultivated worldwide. Here we developed herbicide?resistant transgenic Agrostis mongolica Roshev. by employing an efficient Agrobacterium?mediated transformation procedure with 25.2% of transformation efficiency. The identification and employment of regenerable and reproducible type of callus was one of the most critical factors to ensure success in this study. PCR analysis confirmed that the bar transgene was integrated into the genome of transgenic plants. The expression of 35S?bar gene was confirmed by Northern blot analysis. The transgenic plants showed complete resistance to herbicide, indicating that the bar gene is functional in transgenic plants.

Expression of Rice Chitinase Gene in Genetically Engineered Tomato Confers Enhanced Resistance to Fusarium Wilt and Early Blight

  • Jabeen, Nyla;Chaudhary, Zubeda;Gulfraz, Muhammad;Rashid, Hamid;Mirza, Bushra
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • 제31권3호
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    • pp.252-258
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    • 2015
  • This is the first study reporting the evaluation of transgenic lines of tomato harboring rice chitinase (RCG3) gene for resistance to two important fungal pathogens Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) causing fusarium wilt and Alternaria solani causing early blight (EB). In this study, three transgenic lines TL1, TL2 and TL3 of tomato Solanum lycopersicum Mill. cv. Riogrande genetically engineered with rice chitinase (RCG 3) gene and their R1 progeny was tested for resistance to Fol by root dip method and A. solani by detached leaf assay. All the R0 transgenic lines were highly resistant to these fungal pathogens compared to nontransgenic control plants. The pattern of segregation of three independent transformant for Fol and A. solani was also studied. Mendelian segregation was observed in transgenic lines 2 and 3 while it was not observed in transgenic line 1. It was concluded that introduction of chitinase gene in susceptible cultivar of tomato not only enhanced the resistance but was stably inherited in transgenic lines 2 and 3.

Relationship between Poor Immunogenicity of HLA-A2-Restricted Peptide Epitopes and Paucity of Naïve $CD8^+$ T-Cell Precursors in HLA-A2-Transgenic Mice

  • Choi, Yoon Seok;Lee, Dong Ho;Shin, Eui-Cheol
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2014
  • We examined the immunogenicity of H-2 class I-restricted and HLA-A2-restricted epitopes through peptide immunization of HLA-A2-transgenic mice that also express mouse H-2 class I molecules. All four of the tested epitopes restricted by H-2 class I robustly elicited T-cell responses, but four of seven epitopes restricted by HLA-A2 did not induce T-cell responses, showing that HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitopes tend to be poorly immunogenic in HLA-A2-transgenic mice. This finding was confirmed in HLA-A2-transgenic mice infected with a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing hepatitis C virus proteins. We examined the precursor frequency of epitope-specific naïve $CD8^+$ T cells in HLA-A2-transgenic and conventional C57BL/6 mice and found that the poor immunogenicity of HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitopes is related to the paucity of naïve $CD8^+$ T-cell precursors in HLA-A2-transgenic mice. These results provide direction for the improvement of mouse models to study epitope repertoires and the immunodominance of human T-cell responses.

hEPO 유전자의 발현이 조절되는 형질전환 닭의 생산 (Generation of Transgenic Chickens Regulating hEPO Gene Expression)

  • 구본철;권모선;김태완
    • Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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    • 제34권3호
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2010
  • We report here the production of transgenic chickens that can regulate human erythropoietin (hEPO) gene expression. The glycoprotein hormone hEPO is an essential for viability and growth of the erythrocytic progenitors. Retrovirus vector system used in this study has two features including tetracycline-controllable promoter and woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulator element (WPRE). The former is for to reduce the possibility of physiological disturbance due to constitutional and unregulated expression of hEPO gene in the transgenic chicken. The latter is for maximum expression of the foreign gene when we turn-on the gene expression. A replication-defective Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV)-based vectors packaged with vesicular stomatitis virus G glycoprotein (VSV-G) was injected beneath the blastoderm of non-incubated chicken embryos (stage X). Out of 325 injected eggs, 28 chicks hatched after 21 days of incubation and 16 hatched chicks were found to express the hEPO gene delivered by the vector. The biological activity of the recombinant hEPO in transgenic chicken serum was comparable to its commercially available counterpart. The recombinant hEPO in transgenic chicken serum had N- and O-linked carbohydrate simillar to that produced from in vitro cultured cells transformed with hEPO gene.