• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2005

This study was conducted to estimate the effects of genotype for chicken major histocompatibility complex (MHC) B-LB genes on economic traits. To detect polymorphism, 400 bp fragments of MHC B-LB genes were obtained and sequenced. After digestions using restriction enzyme Hea III, two restriction enzyme sites were observed. There were two mutations at position 427 and 651 those were decided as Type I and Type II, respectively. Using RFLP analyses, type I were genotyped to TT, TC and CC, and type II to MM, Mm and mm. The relatively higher TC genotype frequencies (0.8) of Type I and Mm genotype frequencies (0.88) of Type II were observed in Korean native chickens. The effects of the genotype on 150 days body weight trait were investigated by the associations of CC and Mm genotypes (P<0.05) in Korean native chickens. This result suggests that a significant association exists between the SNP and 150 days body weight.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.24 no.2 s.62
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• pp.112-118
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• 2006

We report mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) genes from greenling Hexagrammos otakii (Jordan et Starks) and spotty belly greenling, H. agrammus (Temminck et Schlegel) within Hexagrammidae, two species of aquaculture importance. Of 489 bp of the cytochrome b gene, a little variation occurred between species (96% similarity). The pairwise distance (0.0342) between greenling and spotty belly greenling in term of the Neighbor-joining method indicated that two species was close in molecular phylogenetic consideration. These findings are applicable to aquaculture, fisheries genetics and molecular phylogenetics in the genus Hexagrammos.

• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.46-49
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• 1989

단백질의 아미노산 서열에 변화를 줄려고 할 때 대상단백질의 3차구조에 대한 충분한 정보가 있고 시험해 보고자 하는 가설이 확실할 때에는 특정잔기를 다른 특정잔기로 치환시켜 효능을 전환시키는 것이 효과적이겠고, 3차구조가 안밝혀져 있거나 어떻게 치환해야 할지 모를 경우에는 무작위 변이유도법과 세포에 의한 형질선별법이 바람직하다 하겠다. 이러한 관점에서 볼 때 유전자 재조합기법을 통한 신물질창출을 성공적으로 수행하기 위해서는 유전자 조작기술과 단백질 분석기술은 물론 단백질생화학, 분자유전학, 미생물생리학 등에 대한 충분한 이해를 바탕으로하여 여러 분야에서 협동적으로 연구되어야 하겠다.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.446-453
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• 2009

RAPD analyses were performed to investigate genetic relationships and useful molecular maker for 3 species and their 17 regional populations of the Pueraria lobata and related taxa. The length of amplified DNA fragments ranged from 200 to, 2,800 bp. Two hundred and eight scorable polymorphic makers and three scorable monomorphic makers were found from the PCR reactions with 15 random oligo primers, and those were analyzed by Nei's genetic distance coefficient. Based on the UPGMA phenogram from RAPD analyses, two major groups (9 populations from Korea; 3 populations from foreign countries) were recognized. And it showed distinct genetic differences from related taxa. The RAPD results was very useful to define the samples by geographical distribution and to discuss the relationships among the populations and their related taxa of the Pueraria lobata.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.16-28
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• 2018

Although physiological and ecological characteristics of cyanobacteria have been studied extensively for decades, unknown areas still remain greater than the already known. Recently, the development of omics techniques based on molecular biology has made it possible to view the ecosystem from a new and holistic perspective. The molecular mechanism of toxin production is being widely investigated, by comparative genomics and the transcriptomic studies. Biological interaction between bacteria and cyanobacteria is also explored: how their interactions and genetic biodiversity change depending on seasons and environmental factors, and how these interactions finally affect each component of ecosystem. Bioinformatics techniques have combined with ecoinformatics and omics data, enabling us to understand the underlying complex mechanisms of ecosystems. Particularly omics started to provide a whole picture of biological responses, occurring from all layers of hierarchical processes from DNA to metabolites. The expectation is growing further that algal blooms could be controlled more effectively in the near future. And an important insight for the successful bloom control would come from a novel blueprint drawn by omics studies.

• Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.222-226
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• 2013

As Carangoides ferdau was previously reported based on its underwater photograph, morphological descriptions have been incomplete up to the presence in Korea. On the base of two samples collected at the coast of Jeju island, morphological characters of C. ferdau are described in detail. This species is characterized by having the forepart of second dorsal fin much prolonged, 7~8 transverse dark bands on body, and snout length almost equal to eye diameter. It is morphologically very similar to C. orthogroammus, but is easily distinguished in having transverse dark bands instead of yellow spot on the body of C. orthogroammus. Phylogenetic relationships based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b (1,141 base pairs) sequences shows that C. ferdau is closely related to C. orthogroammus, and C. dinema also has a sister group relationship with C. ablongus. Both genetic distances (p-distances) are 8.2%, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.303-305
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• 2019

An actinobacterial strain designated Gordonia sp. MMS17-SY073 (=KCTC 49257) was isolated from a coastal soil of an island, and its complete genome was analyzed. A single contig consisting of 5,962,176 bp with the G + C content of 67.4% was obtained, and the annotation resulted in 5,201 protein-coding genes, 6 rRNA genes and 45 tRNA genes. Strain MMS17-SY073 was closest to the type strain of Gordonia soli based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison, sharing 98.5% sequence similarity. A number of biosynthetic gene clusters for secondary metabolites, non-ribosomal peptide synthetase types in particular, could be identified from the genome.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.839-848
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• 2015

A molecular marker is a molecule contained within a sample taken from an organism or other matter. The development of molecular techniques for genetic analysis has led to a great contribution to our knowledge of plant genetics and our understanding of the structure and behavior of various genomes in plants. Recently, functional molecular markers have been developed to detect the presence of major genes from the analysis of pedigreed data in absence of molecular information. DNA markers have developed into many systems based on different polymorphism-detecting techniques or methods such as RFLP, AFLP, RAPD, SSR, SNP, etc. A new class of very useful DNA markers called genic molecular markers utilizing the ever-increasing archives of gene sequence information being accumulated under the EST sequencing projects on a large number of plant species. Functional markers are derived from polymorphic sequences, and are more likely to be involved in phenotypic trait variation. Based on this conceptual framework, the marker systems discussed below are all (gene)-targeted markers, which have the potential to become functional. These markers being part of the cDNA/EST-sequences, are expected to represent the functional component of the genome i.e., gene(s), in contrast to all other random DNA based markers that are developed/generated from the anonymous genomic DNA sequences/domains irrespective of their genic content/information. Especially I sited Poczai et al’ reviews, advances in plant gene-targeted and functional markers. Their reviews may be some useful information to study molecular markers in plants.

• Korean Journal of Cleft Lip And Palate
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2007

이차구개는 발생과정에서 구개선반의 형성과 성장, 거상과 융합의 과정을 통해 형성된다. 이와 같은 이차구개의 형성과정은 미세한 분자유전학적 신호전달기전에 의해 조절되는 것으로 알려져 있어서, 신호전달과정에 관여하는 유전인자의 발현이상이 되면 정상적인 이차구개가 형성되지 못하고 구개파열이라는 선천성 기형이 발생된다. 구개파열의 유발인자들에 대한 많은 연구에도 불구하고 현재까지 정상적인 이차구개의 형성을 조절하는 분자유전학적 기전에 대해서는 명확히 알려져 있지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이차구개의 형태분화를 조절하는 분자유전학적 기전을 알아보고자, 이차구개 형성의 내적 조절인자 중 핵심유전자로 알려져 있는 Osr2가 결손된 생쥐의 이차구개 형성과정에서 정상생쥐에 비해 발현의 변동이 나타나는 유전자를 확인하였다. 유전자 발현의 변동은 발생 14.5일(E14.5)의 구개선반으로부터 추출한 total RNA를 이용하여 ACP-based GeneFishing PCR을 시행하여 확인하였고, 각각의 변동된 유전자를 동정하여 정상생쥐의 이차구개 형성과정에서의 발현양상을 in situ hybridization을 시행하여 확인하였다. 총 120쌍의 primer를 이용한 검색을 통해서 정상생쥐의 구개선반에 비해 mutant에서 발현이 변동된 유전자는 7개가 검출되었고, 이들은 모두 정상생쥐에 비해 mutant에서 발현이 증가되는 것으로 확인되었다. 검출된 유전자는 vimentin(Vim), ${\beta}$-tropomyosin 2(Tpm2), thioredoxin-like 5(Txnl5), procollagen type II alpha 1(Col2a1), Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7(IGFbp7), Sui 1 homologs(Sui 1), Defender against cell death1(Dad1)이었다. 검출된 유전자를 동정하여 정상생쥐의 구개 형성과정에서의 발현양상을 알아본 결과, Col2a1 을 제외한 유전자들은 모두 E13.5의 구개선반에서 특이적으로 발현되고 있었으나 구개선반이 융합된 E15.5에서는 Vim, Txnl5 그리고 Dad1 만이 봉합선을 따라 발현이 지속되고 있었다. 이상의 결과로 보아 검출된 유전자들은 구개선반의 형태분화과정에서 발현되어 이차구개의 형성과정에 관여할 것으로 여겨진다. 또한 이들은 이차구개 형성의 내적조절인자인 Osr2의 downstream target 으로 구개선반의 성장과 융합과정에 직접적으로 관여하는 유전물질일 것으로 추정된다.

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.127-136
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• 2019

Three strains of infectious bronchitis viruses (IBVs), designated VNUA3, VNUA8 and VNUA11, were isolated from diseased/infected chickens in Hanoi, Thainguyen, and Haiphong provinces of Vietnam. These birds had received a live IBV vaccination but still suffered from infectious bronchitis. VNUA3, VNUA8 and VNUA11 harbor cleavage sites (RRTGR, HRRRR, and HRRKR, respectively) within the S protein. A BLASTN search revealed that the S gene of VNUA3, VNUA8, and VNUA11 showed the highest nucleotide identity with those of IBV strains CK/Italy/I2022/13, CK/CH/LHLJ/08-6, and GX-NN120084, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses based on the S gene nucleotide sequences revealed that VNUA3, VNUA8 and VNUA11 clustered with Q1-like, QX-like and TC07-2-like genotypes, respectively, and were closely related to reference IBV strains from China. However, the Vietnam IBVs showed high divergence from vaccine strains 4/91 and Ma5, which are used in the Vietnamese farms from which the isolates were obtained. Taken together, these results indicate that at least three genotypes of IBV are circulating among chickens in North Vietnam. This is the first report of the molecular epidemiology of IBV in Vietnam.