• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2013

Heterologous expression of a putative $K^+/H^+$ antiporter of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) (designated as sha4) in E. coli and Streptomyces hygroscopicus JCM4427 showed enhanced tolerance to $K^+$ stress, acidic-pH shock, and/or geldanamycin production under $K^+$ stress. In a series of $K^+$ extrusion experiments with sha4-carrying E. coli deficient in the $K^+/H^+$ antiporter, a restoration of impaired $K^+$ extrusion activity was observed. Based on this, it was concluded that sha4 was a true $K^+/H^+$ antiporter. In different sets of experiments, the sha4-carrying E. coli showed significantly improved tolerances to $K^+$ stresses and acidic-pH shock, whereas sha4-carrying S. hygroscopicus showed an improvement in $K^+$ stress tolerance only. The sha4-carrying S. hygroscopicus showed much higher geldanamycin productivity than the control under $K^+$ stress condition. In another set of experiments with a production medium, the secretion of geldanamycin was also significantly enhanced by the expression of sha4.

• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2010

The over-expression of Arabidopsis CAX1 and CAX2 causes transgenic tomato plants to reveal severe $Ca^{2+}$ deficiency-like symptoms such as tip-burn and/or blossom end rot, despite there being sufficient $Ca^{2+}$ in each plant part. To correct the symptoms and to moderately enhance the calcium level, a worldwide vegetable tomato was genetically engineered using a modified Arabidopsis cation/$H^+$ antiporter sCAX2A, a mutant form of Arabidopsis CAX2. Compared with the wild-type, the sCAX2A-expressing tomato plants demonstrated elevated $Ca^{2+}$ levels in the fruits with almost no changes in the levels of $Mn^{2+}$, $Cu^{2+}$, and $Fe^{2+}$. Moreover, expression of sCAX2A in tomato plants did not show any significant alterations in their morphological phenotypes. Unlike 35S::sCAX1 construct, sCAX2A antiporter gene driven by 35S promoter can be a valuable tool for enriching $Ca^{2+}$ contents in the tomato fruit without additional accumulation of the undesirable cations.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.979-987
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• 2011

Culture pH change has some important roles in signal transduction and secondary metabolism. We have already reported that acidic pH shock enhanced actinorhodin production in Streptomyces coelicolor. Among many potential governing factors on pH variation, the putative $Na^+/H^+$ antiporter (sha) genes in S. coelicolor have been investigated in this study to elucidate the association of the sha on pH variation and secondary metabolism. Through the transcriptional analysis and overexpression experiments on 8 sha genes, we observed that most of the sha expressions were promoted by pH shock, and in the opposite way the pH changes and actinorhodin production were enhanced by the overexpression of each sha. We also confirmed that sha8 especially has a main role in maintaining cell viability and pH homeostasis through $Na^+$ extrusion, in salt effect experiment under the alkaline medium condition by deleting sha8. Moreover, this gene was observed to have a function of pH recovery after pH variation such as the pH shock, being able to cause the sporulation. However, actinorhodin production was not induced by the only pH recovery. The sha8 gene could confer on the host cell the ability to recover pH to the neutral level after pH variation like a pH drop. Sporulation was closely associated with this pH recovery caused by the action of sha8, whereas actinorhodin production was not due to such pH variation patterns alone.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.116-122
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• 1999

식물세포의 세포질 $Ca^{2+}$ 이동과 관련된 $Ca^{2+}$ 수송 특성을 조사하기 위하여, 토마토 뿌리조직으로부터 마이크로솜을 분리하고, $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수 실험을 수행하였다. 반응용액에 P-type ATPase의 선택적 저해제인 1 mM vanadate와 액포막 $H^+-ATPase$의 선택적 저해제인 50 mM $NO_3^-$를 첨가하였을 때, $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수는 각각 20%와 33%가 저해되었고, 두 가지 저해제를 동시에 첨가하였을 때, 약 47%가 저해되었다. 이러한 저해효과의 특성을 밝히기 위하여 protonophore인 gramicidin을 처리하여 막을 경계로 형성된 $H^{+}$의 농도기울기를 감소시켰을 때, $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수는 30% 가량 저해되어, 토마토 뿌리조직 마이크로솜에 $Ca^{2+}/H^+$ antiporter가 존재할 가능성을 확인하였다. Gramicidin의 저해효과는 vanadate에 의한 $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수 저해 이후에도 대조실험과 같은 정도로 얻어져 vanadate의 저해효과와는 무관한 것이 확인되었다. 그러나, $NO_3^-$를 처리하여 $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수를 저해시킨 후, gramicidin에 의한 추가저해는 거의 관측되지 않았다. 한편, 동물조직 ER/SR-type $Ca^{2+}-ATPase$의 선택적 저해제인 thapsigargin은 마이크로솜 $^{45}Ca^{2+}$ 흡수를 농도 의존적으로 저해하였으며, $10\;{\mu}M$ 농도에서 최대 저해효과를 나타냈다. Thapsigargin에 의한 저해효과는 $NO_3^-$를 사용하여 액포막 $H^{+}-ATPase$ 활성을 저해하였을 때와 gramicidin을 사용하였을 때, 현저하게 감소하였으며 , vanadate의 효과와는 무관하였다. 이러한 결과는 vanadate가 직접적으로 $Ca^{2+}-ATPase$를 저해하며, $NO_3^-$와 thapsigargin은 액포막에 위치한 $H^{+}-ATPase$의 활성을 저해하여 간접적으로 $Ca^{2+}/H^+$ antiporter를 저해함을 의미한다. 결론적으로, 본 연구의 결과는 토마토 뿌리조직에 $Ca^{2+}$ 이동을 유발하는 주요 효소로서 $Ca^{2+}-ATPase$와 액포막 $Ca^{2+}/H^+$ antiporter가 존재함을 보여준다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2002

Effects of cadmium (Cd) intoxication on renal endosomal accumulation of organic cations $(OC^+)$ were studied in rats using $^{14}C-tetraethylammnium$ (TEA) as a substrate. Cd intoxication was induced by s.c. injections of 2 mg Cd/kg/day for $2{\sim}3$ weeks. Renal cortical endosomes were isolated and the endosomal acidification (acridine orange fluorescence change) and TEA uptake (Millipore filtration technique) were assessed. The TEA uptake was an uphill transport mediated by $H^+/OC^+$ antiporter driven by the pH gradient established by $H^+-ATPase.$ In endosomes of Cd-intoxicated rats, the ATP-dependent TEA uptake was markedly attenuated due to inhibition of endosomal acidification as well as $H^+/TEA$ antiport. In kinetic analysis of $H^+/TEA$ antiport, Vmax was reduced and Km was increased in the Cd group. Inhibition of $H^+/TEA$ antiport was also observed in normal endosomes directly exposed to free Cd (but not Cd-metallothionein complex, CdMt) in vitro. These data suggest that during chronic Cd exposure, free Cd ions liberated by lysosomal degradation of CdMt in proximal tubule cells may impair the endosomal accumulation of $OC^+$ by directly inhibiting the $H^+/OC^+$ antiporter activity and indirectly by reducing the intravesicular acidification, the driving force for $H^+/OC^+$ exchange.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1122-1126
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• 2009

The exogenously added cadaverine is effective in protecting Vibrio vulnificus from methyl viologen (MV)-induced superoxide stress at pH 8.5. Such a protective effect by cadaverine was not observed at pH 7.5. Consistently, the accumulated level of intracellular cadaverine at pH 8.5 is approximately four times as much as that of the control cell at pH 7.5. Cadaverine accumulation is not affected by MV. The protection of V. vulnificus by cadaverine from superoxide stress was abolished when cadB coding for the lysine-cadaverine antiporter was interrupted. However, the cadaverine-mediated protection was complemented with cadB DNA. Therefore, CadB of V. vulnificus not only acts as a lysine-cadaverine antiporter at acid pH to neutralize the external medium, but also mediates cadaverine uptake at alkaline pH to result in cell protection from superoxide stress.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2005년도 국제학술회의
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• pp.202-203
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• 2005

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.255-260
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• 2016

This research was conducted to improve the cold tolerance of the gerbera cv. Gold Eye by introduction of the Arabidopsis $Ca^{2+}/H^+$ antiporter gene (CAX1) via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Prior to genetic transformation, we optimized a combination of plant growth regulators; $1.0mgl^{-1}$ 6-Benzyladenine (BA) and $0.1mgl^{-1}$3-indole-acetic acid (IAA) were found to lead to proper in vitro shoot regeneration from petiole explants. In addition, $50mgl^{-1}$ kanamycin was determined to be the minimal concentration useful for selection of putative transgenic plants. In this study, transgenic gerbera expressing the Arabidopsis $Ca^{2+}/H^+$ antiporter gene (CAX1) were obtained using the optimized concentrations. We expect that introduction of the gene to the cultivar will improve cold tolerance, which will be important in the winter months.

• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2006년도 한국육종학회 공동심포지엄 및 학술대회
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• pp.28-28
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• 2006

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2006년도 제47회 학술심포지움 및 추계국제학술대회
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• pp.42.2-42.2
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• 2006