• 생명과학회지
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.985-991
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• 2018

생물시계(Biological clock)는 생명체에서 나타나는 반복되는 자율적인 리듬을 말하며, 단일세포는 물론 다세포 생명체의 기본적인 대사와 이에 따른 표현형과 행동을 직접적으로 조절하고 있다. 이러한 생물시계는 동면 리듬, 수면 리듬, 심장박동 리듬 및 짝짓기 노래 리듬 등 매우 다양하며, 24시간 이상의 주기를 infradian rhythm, 24시간 주기를 circadian rhythm, 24시간 이내의 짧은 주기를 ultradian rhythm으로 구분한다. 효모 Saccharomyces cerevisiae는 최소 5종 이상의 반복되는 자율적인 리듬이 알려져 있으며, 이중 일부는 생체시계로 인식되고 있다. 본 리뷰에서는 Saccharomyces cerevisiae의 glycolytic oscillation (T= 1~30분), cell cycle-dependent oscillation (T= 2~16 시간), ultradian metabolic oscillation (T= 15~50분), yeast colony oscillation (T= 수 시간) 및 circadian oscillation (T= 24시간)에 대한 연구 결과를 제시하고, 특히 ultradian metabolic oscillation의 특징, 집단 동조인자(population synchronizer), 동조인자의 조절 기작 및 효모 생물시계의 대사공학 분야의 이용성을 제시하여 효모를 이용한 동적 대사조절 및 생물시계 연구가 가능함을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.375-380
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• 2005

Autonomous ultradian metabolic oscillation (T$\simeq$50 min) was detected in an aerobic chemostat culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A pulse injection of GSH (a reduced form of glutathione) into the culture induced a perturbation in metabolic oscillation, with respiratory inhibition caused by $H_2S$ burst pro-duction. As the production of $H_2S$ in the culture was controlled by different amino acids, we attempted to characterize the effects of GSH on amino acid metabolism, particularly with regard to branched chain and sulfur-containing amino acids. During stable metabolic oscillation, concentrations of intra-cellular glutamate, aspartate, threonine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, and cysteine were observed to oscil-late with the same periods of dissolved $O_2$ oscillation, although the oscillation amplitudes and maximal phases were shown to differ. The methionine concentration was stably maintained at 0.05 mM. When GSH (100 $\mu$M) was injected into the culture, cellular levels of branched chain amino acids increased dramatically with continuous $H_2S$production, whereas the cysteine and methionine concentrations were noticeably reduced. These results indicate that GSH-dependent perturbation occurs as the result of the promotion of branched chain amino acid synthesis and an attenuation of cysteine and methionine synthesis, both of which activate the generation of $H_2S$. In a low sulfate medium containing 2.5 mM sulfate, the GSH injections did not result in perturbations of dissolved $O_2$ NAD(P)H redox oscillations without burst $H_2S$ production. This suggests that GSH-dependent perturbation is intimately linked with the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids and $H_2S$ generation, rather than with direct GSH-GSSG redox control.

• 한국미생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.206-208
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• 2002

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2003년도 제39회 학술심포지움
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• pp.114-114
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• 2003