• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.941-946
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• 2013

Objective: The nucleotide excision repair (NER) and base excision repair (BER) pathways, two DNA repair pathways, are related to platinum resistance in cancer treatment. In this paper, we studied the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of involved genes and response to platinum-based chemotherapy in epithelial ovarian cancer. Method: Eight SNPs in XRCC1 (BER), XPC and XPD (NER) were assessed in 213 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and primer-introduced restriction analysis-polymerase chain reaction (PIRA-PCR) techniques. Results: The median progression-free survival (PFS) of patients carrying the Lys/Lys and Lys/Gln+Gln/Gln genotype of the XPC Lys/Gln polymorphism were 25 and 12 months, respectively (P=0.039); and the mean overall survival (OS) of patients was 31.1 and 27.8 months, respectively (P=0.048). Cox's multivariate analysis suggested that patients with epithelial ovarian cancer with the Gln allele had an increased risk of death (HR=1.75; 95% CI=1.06-2.91) compared to those with the Lys/Lys genotype. There are no associations between the XPC PAT+/-, XRCC1 Arg194Trp, Arg280His, Arg399Gln, and XPD Asp312Asn, Lys751Gln polymorphisms and the survival of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer when treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. Conclusion: Our results indicated that the XPC Lys939Gln polymorphism may correlate with clinical outcome of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer when treated with platinum-based chemotherapy in Northern China.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.179-182
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• 2000

This study was performed to determine whether the $LH{\beta}$-subunit gene missense mutation is present in Korean infertile patients with 46,XX POF women. The variants of $LH{\beta}$ exon 2 (Trp 8Arg; TGG to CGG and Ile15Thr; ATC to ACC) were studied in forty-four 46,XX idiopathic POF and 54 nonpregnant women. The $LH{\beta}$ exon 2 variants were more frequent in POF patients (20.5%) than nonpregnant (16.7%) women (p>0.05). POF patients with the variant was slightly higher than nonpregnant women with the variant.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.86-90
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• 2014

Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase deficiency. The characteristic clinical features are syndactyly of the second and third toes, facial dysmorphism, multiple malformations, and intellectual disability. Few cases of SLOS have been reported in Korea. We observed a male patient with SLOS who presented with typical facial features, undescended testes, microcephaly, bilateral syndactyly of the second and third toes, and cardiac defects, including patent ductus arteriosus and atrial septal defect. Mutation analysis of the DHCR7 gene identified compound heterozygous mutations of c.907G>A (p.Gly303Arg) and c.1055G>A (p.Arg352Gln). In a review of the literature, c.1054C>T (p.Arg352Trp) was the most common mutation reported in Far East Asian countries. This report describes the clinical features, biochemical data, molecular characteristics, and clinical outcome of a Korean patient with SLOS.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.26.1-26.14
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• 2020

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a lethal cancer type that is associated with multiple gene mutations in somatic cells. Genetically engineered mouse is hardly applicable for developing a pancreatic cancer model, and the xenograft model poses a limitation in the reflection of early stage pancreatic cancer. Thus, in vivo somatic cell gene engineering with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats is drawing increasing attention for generating an animal model of pancreatic cancer. In this study, we selected Kras, Trp53, Ink4a, Smad4, and Brca2 as target genes, and applied Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 (CjCas9) and Streptococcus pyogens Cas9 (SpCas9) for developing pancreatic cancer using adeno associated virus (AAV) transduction. After confirming multifocal and diffuse transduction of AAV2, we generated SpCas9 overexpression mice, which exhibited high double-strand DNA breakage (DSB) in target genes and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) lesions with two AAV transductions; however, wild-type (WT) mice with three AAV transductions did not develop PanIN. Furthermore, small-sized Cjcas9 was applied to WT mice with two AAV system, which, in addition, developed high extensive DSB and PanIN lesions. Histological changes and expression of cancer markers such as Ki67, cytokeratin, Mucin5a, alpha smooth muscle actin in duct and islet cells were observed. In addition, the study revealed several findings such as 1) multiple DSB potential of AAV-CjCas9, 2) peri-ductal lymphocyte infiltration, 3) multi-focal cancer marker expression, and 4) requirement of > 12 months for initiation of PanIN in AAV mediated targeting. In this study, we present a useful tool for in vivo cancer modeling that would be applicable for other disease models as well.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.120-125
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• 1998

pNPG는 염색체 1번의 동원체 왼편에 위치하는 npgA1을 상보할 수 있는 genomic DNA를 포함하는 플라스미드인데 Aspergillus nidulans의 형질전환율을 현저히 증가시키는 특징을 보여주었다. 이 플라스미드로 형질전환시켰을 때 $Trp^+$형질전환체 모두가 $Npg^+$이었고 이들 중에 불완전 형질전환체는 전혀 형성되지 않았다. pNPG를 제한효소 PstI으로 절단하여 얻어진 10.4 kb 절편내에 형질전환율을 증가시키는 DNA서열이 존재함을 확인하고 pILJ16의 PstI site에 재조합하여 pKJH10.4라 명명하였다. pKJH10.4에 의한 A. nidulans의 형질전환율은 pILJ16 보다 대략 200배 이상 증가하였다. pKJH10.4에 의한 형질전환체를 비선택적 조건에서 배양하였을 때 $Arg^+$무성생식포자의 약 80%이상이 $Arg^-$로 복귀됨으로써 플라스미드가 매우 불안정함을 보여주었다. argB2 지표와 다른 종류의 연관된 유전자 지표를 지니는 플라스미드로 형질전환하였을 경우 비선택적 조건에서 argB2 지표가 결손될 때 연관된 다른 지표도 항상 함께 결손되는 현상을 보여주었다. 이 결과는 이 플라스미드에 의한 형질전환체의 불안정성이 염색체로 삽입되었다가 절제되어 나오기 때문이기보다는 염색체 밖에서 자가 복제하기 때문임을 시사한다. 형질전환율을 증가시키는 최소한의 DNA절편은 EcoRI-HaeIII 4.9 kb 절편이었으며 PvuII-EcoRI 2.2 kb 절편은 플라스미드의 불안정성과 관련이 있었다. 이러한 결과들을 종합해 볼 때 형질전환율을 증가시키는 새로운 DNA 서열의 특성이 ANS1 보다는 AMA1과 유사하였으므로 AMA2라 명명하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.371-380
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• 2019

Termites are pests that cause serious economic and cultural damage by digesting wood cellulose. Termites are arthropods and have an epidermis surrounded by a chitin layer. To maintain a healthy epidermis, termites have chitinase (${\beta}$-1,4-poly-N-acetyl glucosamidinase, EC 3.2.1.14), an enzyme that hydrolyzes the ${\beta}$-1,4 bond of chitin. In this study, the amino acid sequence of the gene, which is presumed to be termite chitinolytic enzyme (NCBI accession no. KC477099), was obtained from a transcriptomic analysis of Reticulitermes speratus KMT001 in Bukhan Mountain, Korea. An NCBI protein BLAST search confirmed that the protein is a glycoside hydrolase family 18 (GH18). The highest homology value found was 47%, with a chitinase from Araneus ventricosus. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the KC477099 protein has the same origins as those of arthropods but has a very low similarity with other arthropod chitinases, resulting in separation at an early stage of evolution. The KC477099 protein contains two conserved motifs, which encode the general enzymatic characteristics of the GH18 group. The amino acid sequences $Asp^{156}-Trp^{157}-Glu^{158}$, which play an important role in the enzymatic activity of the GH18 group, were also present. This study suggests that the termite KC477099 protein is a new type of chitinase, which is evolutionarily distant from other insect chitinases.

• 대한유전성대사질환학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2015

당원병 Ib형은 드문 유전 대사 질환 중 하나로 SLC37A4 유전자의 장애로 인해 발생한다. 특징적으로 간비대, 저혈당, 고젖산혈증, 고지혈증, 고뇨산증의 임상양상을 보인다. 총 3명(남자 1명, 여자 2명)이 포함되었고 의무기록을 후향적으로 분석하였다. 평균 진단시 나이는 각각 8개월, 26개월, 10세이다. 2명의 환자가 영유아기에 간비대, 저혈당 등으로 발견되었고, 다른 환자는 사춘기에 성장 발육 부전으로 인한 저신장으로 진단되었다. 유전학적 검사에서 c.412T>C (p.Trp 138Arg) (3/6 alleles, 50.0%)가 가장 흔했고 다음으로 p.Leu348Valfs*53 (1 allele), p.Pro191Leu (1 allele), p.Ala148Val (1 allele)가 확인되었다. 요산 강하제, 생 옥수수 전분 복용을 시작하였으며, 모든 환자가 중성구 감소 소견이 관찰되어 G-CSF 투여하였다. 이들 모두 구내염, 장염, 뇌농양과 같은 반복적인 감염이 관찰되었다. 또한 2명은 심한 골다공증으로 칼슘 보충제가 필요하였다. 비교적 일찍 진단된 2명에 비해 10세에 진단된 경우 중증 감염 및 간과 신장의 합병증을 보이고 있었다. 통계학적으로 유의하지 않지만, 비교적 전자의 환자들이 비교적 예후가 좋았다. 본 연구를 통해 동시에 한국의 GSD Ib형 환자의 임상적, 생화학적, 분자유전학적인 특징과 후기 합병증에 대해 보고하는 바이다.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2011

Objective: This study was performed to compare the efficiency of slow freezing and vitrification based on survival, development to blastocysts, and cell numbers of blastocysts. Changes in embryonic gene expression in fresh and frozen-thawed embryos were also examined. Methods: Eight-cell stage embryos were collected from superovulated female BDF1 mice. The collected embryos were randomly divided into three groups. One group was maintained as fresh controls (n=42), one was frozen by slow freezing (n=43), and one was cooled by vitrification (n=43). After thawing or cooling, survival rates, development to blastocyst, and cell numbers and inner cell mass (ICM) cell numbers of blastocysts were compared with those of the control group. The expressions of eight genes ($Rbm3$, $Birc5$, $Sod1$, $Sod2$, $Cirbp$, $Caspase3$, $Trp53$, $Hsp70.1$) were examined by real time-quantitative polymerase chain reaction in the fresh and frozen-thawed embryos. Results: There were no significant differences in the slow freezing and vitrification groups' survival rate after thawing (88.4% vs. 88.4%), development to blastocyst (100% vs. 97.4%), cell numbers ($107.0{\pm}21.0$ vs. $115.0{\pm}19.7$), or ICM cell numbers of blastocysts ($11.3{\pm}5.2$ vs. $11.1{\pm}3.7$). Cell numbers of blastocysts were significantly ($p$ <0.05) lower in the frozen-thawed embryos than the fresh embryos. There were no significant differences in the slow freezing and the vitrification groups' expressions of the eight genes. The expressions of $CirbP$ and $Hsp70.1$ were higher in the frozen-thawed embryos than in the fresh embryos but there were no significant differences. Conclusion: These results suggest that there were no significant differences between embryos that underwent slow freezing and vitrification.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.308-316
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• 1992

유전자 재조합 균주의 성질이 불안정할 경우,2 단 연속 배양조를 사용하면 여러가지 이점이 있다. 본 논문은 2단 연속 배양조의 최적화를 목적으로 유전자 재조합 대장균의 과도상태 거동을 1단 및 2단 연속 배양조에서 연구한 결과를 다룬다. 희석율이 갑자기 변할 때 대장균은 새로운 희석율에 적응하기 위해 성장속도를 바꾸는데 적응 속도가 성장 잠재력에 비례한다는 가정아래 수학적 이론식을 도출하였으며, 이때 중요한 동력학적 변수는 무차원의 순간속도 증가(a) 빛 적응속도 상수(k)이었다. 이 상수들을 여러 온도와 희석 속도에서 실험적으로 측정하였고, 이 측정값을 모렐식에 적용한 결과 실제 2단 배양조의 미생물 성장속도의 과도기적인 성질을 잘 묘사하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.173-177
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• 2000

연구목적: 한국여성의 다낭성 난포증후군 환자에서 황체형성 호르몬 exon 2 유전자의 변이를 탐색하여 이들 변이와 질환과의 관련성 여부를 밝히고자 하였다. 연구재료 및 방법: 21명의 다낭성 난포증후군 환자를 대상으로 황체형성 호르몬 exon 2(Trp8Arg;TGG to CGG and Ile15Thr; ATC to ACC)의 변이를 탐색하였다. 혈액에서 Genomic DNA를 추출하여 PCR로 증폭한 후 RFLP 방법으로 변이형을 구분하였다. 결과: 황체형성 호르몬 exon 2의 변이형이 다낭성 난포증후군 환자에서 28.6%로 이미 조사된 바 있는 대조군의 16.7% 보다 약간 높게 나타났으나 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다(p>0.05). 결론: 황체형성 호르몬 exon 2의 변이가 한국인의 다낭성 난포증후군 발병과 관련이 있는지를 밝히기 위해 더 많은 개체에 대한 연구가 요구된다.