Abstract
It was found that petroleum ether extract of White Ginseng had a very slightly stimulating effect on the RNA biosynthesis of Baker's yeast, while both ethanol extract of White Ginseng(WGpet-alc) and Red Ginseng Extract(RGE) showed a significant stimulating effect on the RNA biosynthesis and its activity to change mononucleotide composition of the yeast RNA was noticeable; RGE induced a remarkable decrease of AMP, CMP and especially of UMP, however a marked increase of GMP, and it was observed that the molar ratio of GMP was 78.5 % of all mononucleotides of the yeast RNA. It is of interest that these results are closely related with the stimulating effect of protein biosynthesis of Baker's yeast cells.
백삼의 석유에테르추출물(WGpet)은 빵효모의 RNA생합성을 극히 미약하게 촉진시킬 뿐이지만, 백삼의 에탄올추출물(WGpet-alc) 및 홍삼정(RGE)의 성분은 다같이 RNA 생합성을 크게 촉진시킬뿐 아니라, 그 모노누클레오티드의 조성에까지 큰 변화를 일으키는 효과가 있음이 확인되었다. 즉 RGE에 의해 AMP와 CMP는 물론, 특히 UMP가 현저하게 감소된 반면, GMP는 크게 증가되었으며, 그 몰비는 총 모노누클레오티드의 78.5%에 달하였다. 이러한 결과는 인삼성분의 단백질 생합성 촉진효과와도 관련이 있는 퍽 흥미로운 점이라고 하겠다.