• 대한수의학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.95-105
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• 1995

The human homolog of position specific element of mouse Hoxa-7 was studied using transgene. It contains a 1.1 kb human DNA (HCR)- a homolog to the intergenic region between Hoxa-7 and -9, which directs the position specific expression of Hoxa-7-, tk promoter, LacZ (${\beta}$-galactosidase) gene as a reporter, and polyadenylation signal of SV40 large T antigen. It was injected into the mice embryos, and the resulting transgenic embryos were analysed through PCR as well as genomic Southern blotting with placenta DNA. Out of 20 embryos analysed, two were transgenic. Among them, one transgenic embryo expressed transgene when stained with X-gal. The expression pattern was in analogy to that of the mouse Hoxa-7, showing spatially restricted expression pattern, Since the expression of ${\beta}$-galactosidase is regulated by the upstream human HCR sequence, it implies that the HCR is the plausible position specific regulatory element of human.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.147-164
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• 2009

Objectives : We investigated the effects of Sopungsungi-won(Shu!engshunqiyuan) (SSEx1, SSEx2) to treat the metabolic syndrome by the molecular mechanism of regulation of PPAR and modulation of mitochondrial MCAD, VLCAD mRNA expression. Methods : Mouse NMu2Li liver cells and C2C12 skeletal muscle myogenic progenital cells were transiently transfected with expression plasmids for PPAR(PPAR${\alpha}$, PPAR${\delta}$), a luciferase reporter gene construct containing 3 copies of the PPRE from the rat acyl-CoA oxidase gene and ${\beta}$-galactosidase gene. Cells were treated with several concentrated kinds of SSEx1, SSEx2 at the initial time of culture and analyzed PPAR${\alpha}$, PPAR${\delta}$ reporter gene activity using spectrophotometer (405 nm). Total RNA was extracted from SSEx1, SSEx2 and measured mRNA levels of mitochondrial MCAD, VLCAD. Representative RT-PCR bands are shown. Results : 1. SSEx1 increased the expression of PPAR${\alpha}$ reporter gene activities at 0.1 ${\mu}$g/ml (p${\mu}$g/ml (p<0.05), SSEx2 at 0.1 ${\mu}$g/ml (p${\mu}$g/ml (p<0.05) significantly in NMu2Li liver cell lines. 2. SSEx1 increased the expression of PPAR${\alpha}$ reporter gene activities at 1 ${\mu}$g/ml (p${\mu}$g/ml (p${\alpha}$ reporter gene activities in C2C12 skeletal muscle cells. 4. SSEx1 increased the modulation of mitochondrial MCAD mRNA expression (p<0.05) significantly in NMu2Li liver cell lines. 5. SSEx1, SSEx2 both increased the modulation of mitochondrial MCAD mRNA expression (p<0.05) significantly in C2C12 skeletal muscle cells. Conclusions : These results show the SSEx1, SSEx2 can be used as therapeutic agent for metabolic syndrome and it's molecular mechanisms of PPAR more contribute to the activation of PPAR${\alpha}$ then PPAR${\delta}$ reporter gene activities and it's total RNA more contribute to the modulation of mitochondrial MCAD then VLCAD mRNA expression.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.218-222
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• 2007

에스트로젠 수용체와 리포터 유전자인 ${\beta}-galactosidase$가 도입된 효모재조합검색시험법을 이용하여 DEHP와 DBP의 내분비계 장애작용을 검색하였다. 양성대조 시험물질로 $17{\beta}-estradiol$을 설정하여 DEHP와 DBP의 에스트로젠 활성을 비교분석 하였을 때, $17{\beta}-estradiol$의 경우 $10^{-9}M$에서 가장 활성이 높게 관찰되었다. DEHP의 경우 $10^{-10}M$에서 $10^{-7}M$까지 시험하였을 때 농도의존적으로 에스트로젠활성이 증가하였으며, $10^{-7}M$의 경우 가장 강력한 에스트로젠활성을 보였다. DBP의 경우 $10^{-9}M$에서 $10^{-6}M$까지 에스트로젠활성이 관찰되었다. DEHP와 DBP의 경우 최대활성화 대비 50% 이상의 활성도를 보이기 시작하는 농도가 $10^{-9}M$로 나타나서 비슷한 농도에서 에스트로젠 활성화가 이루어지는 것으로 추측할 수 있었다. 그러나, 에스트로젠 최대활성화 시의 농도를 비교해 보면 DBP가 DEHP보다 10배 낮은 농도에서 최대활성치가 관찰되었기 때문에 DBP가 DEHP보다 에스트로젠 작용에 더 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 판단할 수 있었다. 결과적으로 본 실험에 사용되어진 시험물질인 DEHP와 DBP는 효모재조합시험법에 있어서 에스트로젠 활성을 유도하는 것으로 판단되어지며 감수성에 있어서는 DBP가 DEHP보다 높은 것으로 여겨진다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

xylA 프로모터는 대장균의 xylose 대사에 관여하는 xylose 오페론 상의 중요한 프로모터이다. 이 프로모터는 xylose에 의해 강하게 조절을 받는다고 알려져 있다. 이러한 특징은 새로운 발현 백터를 구축하는데 충분한 조건을 갖추고 있다고 생각된다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 xylose에 의해 유도 되는 발현벡터를 구축하기 위하여 600 bp의 xylA 프로모터를 증폭하여 pUC18의 AatII와 HindIII 사이에 삽입하여 pXA600을 구축하였다. 또한 조절단백질인 XylR의 영향을 조사하기 위하여 xylR 유전자를 삽입하여 pXAR600을 구축하였다. 발현의 강도를 측정하기 위하여 3,048 bp의 lacZ유전자를 xylA 프로모터의 하류에 연결하여 pXA600-lacZ와 pXAR600-lacZ를 구축하고 대장균 JM109에 형질전환시켰다. 구축된 pXA600-lacZ와 pXAR600-lacZ는 LB 배지에서 배양하였을 때 xylose 유도하에서 각각 1,641 unit와 2,304 unit의 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성을 보였으며, DM 배지상에서 배양했을 때 xylose 유도 시 각각 6,282 unit와 9,320 unit의 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성을 보였다. 또한 왜래 유전자의 발현 가능성을 확인하기 위하여 S. thermocyaneoviolaceus의 내열성 xylanase를 코딩하는 xynA 유전자를 실제로 구축된 pXA600과 pXAR600에서 발현을 확인하여 pXA600 및 pXAR600이 새로운 xylose 유도성 발현벡터로서의 사용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2003

본 연구의 목적은 토양미생물의 일종인 Pseudomonas putida 에서 추출한 탄소고갈 유전자로부터 starvation promoter를 분리한 후 starvation vector를 개발하여 이를 미생물로부터 유용물질의 생산 및 오염물질의 정화등에 활용하기 위한 것이다. Starvation 유전자란 영양분의 결핍시에만 특수하게 발현되는 유전자의 일종으로 본 유전자로부터 promoter를 분리한 후 특정 물질을 분해 또는 생성하는 유전자를 분리된 promoter에 유전자 재조합 방법에 의하여 연결시키면 영양분의 공급을 최소화하고 세균의 생장을 억제 시키는 동시에 promoter에 연결된 유전자의 발현 기능은 최대화 시킴으로써 그 목적을 달성할 수 있다 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 기 분리된 starvation gene으로부터 promoter를 분리한 후 이를 적절한 벡터에 연결시켜 starvation vector인 pYKS101을 완성하였다. 본 벡터의 성능을 시험하기 위하여 reporter gene으로 lacZ유전자를 벡터내에 클로닝하여 세균의 염색체에 삽입시킨후 그 성능을 조사하였다. 삽입된 유전자는 예상한 바와같이 세균이 영양분이 결핍되었을 때 충분한 영양분이 공급되었을 때보다 약 4배의 활성도를 나타냄으로써 본 벡터의 유용성을 입증할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.812-818
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• 2001

Alginate and alginate-derived oligomannuronate enhanced penicillin production in shake flask and fermentor cultures of Penicillium chrysogenum Wis 54-1255 (containing a single copy of the penicillin gene cluster) and in the high producter strain P. chrysogenum AS-P-99 (containing multiple copies of the penicillin gene cluster). Alginate was not used as a single carbon source by P. chryogenum. The stimulatory effect on penicillin production was observed in a defined medium and, to a lower extent, in a complex production medium containing corn steep liquor. Alginate-supplemented cells showed higher transcript levels of the three penicillin biosynthetic genes, pcbAB, pcbC, and penDE, than cells grown in the absence of alginate. The promoters of the pcbAB, pcbC, and penDE genes were coupled to the reporter lacZ gene and introduced as monocopy constructions in P. chrysogenum Wis 54-1225 npe10 by targeted integration in the pyrG locus; the reporter ${\beta}$-galactosidase activity expressed from the three promoters was stimulated by alginate added to the culture medium of the transformants. These results indicate that the stimulation of penicillin production by alginate was derived from an increase in the transcriptional activity of the penicillin biosynthesis genes. The induction by alginate of the transcription of the three penicillin biosynthetic genes is good example of the coordinated induction of secondary metabolism genes by elicitors of plant (or microbial) origin.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.1452-1459
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• 2007

The Dps protein, which is overexpressed in harsh environments, is known to playa critical role in the protection of DNA against oxidative stresses. In this study, the roles of Fur in the expression of the dps gene in Salmonella and the protection mechanisms against oxidative stress in Salmonella cells preexposed to iron-stress were investigated. Two putative Fur boxes were predicted within the promoter region of the S. typhimurium dps gene. The profile of dps expression performed by the LacZ reporter assay revealed growth-phase dependency regardless of iron-status under the culture conditions. The fur mutant, $_X4659$, evidenced a reduced level of ${\beta}$-galactosidase as compared to the wild-type strain. The results observed after the measurement of the Dps protein in various Salmonella regulatory mutants were consistent with the results acquired in the reporter assay. This evidence suggested that Fur performs a function as a subsidiary regulator in the expression of dps. The survival ability of Salmonella strains after exposure to oxidative stress demonstrated that the Dps protein performs a pivotal function in the survival of stationary-phase S. typhimurium against oxidative stress. Salmonella cells grown in iron-restricted condition required Dps for full protection against oxidative stress. The CK24 (${\Delta}dps$) cells grown in iron-replete condition survived at a rate similar to that observed in the wild-type strain, thereby suggesting the induction of an unknown protection mechanism(s) other than Dps in this condition.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.235-239
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• 2004

Drosophila melanogaster heat shock protein 70 gene promoter (Dhsp70p) is widely used in transgenic insect to drive exogenous gene, and the homologous region 3 from Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPVhr3) functions as an enhancer for several promoters. To test whether BmNPVhr3 can enhance the Dhsp70ps transcriptional activity, the reporter plasmids, which contain the Dhsp70p, the reporter $\beta$-galactosidase gene with SV40 terminator and BmNPVhr3 fragment, are constructed and transfected into the insect cell lines (Bm-N cells and Sf-21 cells) by lipofectin-mediated method. The results from the transient expression assay show that BmNPVhr3 significantly increases transcriptional activity of Dhsp70p both under the normal condition and under the heat-shock treatment, although the effects are significantly different between in Bm-N cells and in sf-21 cells. The enhancing behavior of BmNPVhr3 on the Dhsp70p is in an orientation-independent manner. Meanwhile, the effects of heat-shock treatment on Dhsp70p alone or Dhsp70p/BmNPVhr3 combination present no significant difference, indicating that BmNPVhr3 only enhances the transcriptional activity of Dhsp70p, but cant alter its characteristic of the response to the heat-shock stress. The above results suggest that the Dhsp70p/BmNPVhr3 combination is more effective one to drive exogenous gene for transgene or stable cell expression system in insects.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.498-502
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• 1998

The present study was designed, fIrst to develop the new methodology to measure the bioluminescence activity easily in live developing bovine embryos by photoncounting, and secondly to compare the expression efficiency of four luciferase reporter genes in bovine embryos at four- to 16-cell stages. In experiment 1, equimolar pSVlacZ and pSVEluc were microinjected into the pronucleus of fertilized bovine oocytes. At 2 days after micro injection, bioluminescence activity of these embryos was measured by photoncounting with a luminometer for 1 min, and lacZ gene expression in the same embryos was assayed by X-gal staining. All the luciferase-positive oocytes showed some bacterial ${\beta}$-galactosidase activity irrespective of the intensity. In experiment 2, four firefly luciferase genes (pTKEluc, pTK6WEluc, pSVEluc and pMiwluc) were introduced by micro injection, and the injected embryos were cultured for the following 2 days. Detection of the luciferase gene expression was done by photoncounting at 5 to 55 min. Over the measurement period, the luciferase activity was almost constant irrespective of the transgenes microinjected. The luciferase activity and expression efficiency at 2 days after microinjection were not significantly affected by the difference in the microinjected transgenes. The present results demonstrated that the bioluminescence activity in live developing bovine embryos could be measured quickly by photoncounting.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2002년도 춘계 학술대회지
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• pp.48-50
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• 2002

A strategy for development of a functional rice in proved with human lactoferrin and enhancement of nutrient compounds was planned. For the purposes we have cloned and characterized a human lactoferrin cDNA from human mammary gland cDNA library A endosperm storage vacuole targeting sequence and the cDNA fragment was linked to endosperm specific glutelin promoter. The fusion gene fragment was inserted into a binary vector containing MAR gene. In addition a new ${\beta}$-galactosidase gene from Bifidobacterium of human was used as a reporter gene in the vector system, Rice plants showing a high concentration of amino acids in the endosperm cells were developed by using a biochemical mutation and bred for the transformation with the binary vector system Finally we have established a transformation method for the rice endosperm cells.