• Molecules and Cells
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.448-458
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• 2020

T-DNA insertional mutations in Arabidopsis genes have conferred huge benefits to the research community, greatly facilitating gene function analyses. However, the insertion process can cause chromosomal rearrangements. Here, we show an example of a likely rearrangement following T-DNA insertion in the Anti-Silencing Function 1B (ASF1B) gene locus on Arabidopsis chromosome 5, so that the phenotype was not relevant to the gene of interest, ASF1B. ASF1 is a histone H3/H4 chaperone involved in chromatin remodeling in the sporophyte and during reproduction. Plants that were homozygous for mutant alleles asf1a or asf1b were developmentally normal. However, following self-fertilization of double heterozygotes (ASF1A/asf1a ASF1B/asf1b, hereafter AaBb), defects were visible in both male and female gametes. Half of the AaBb and aaBb ovules displayed arrested embryo sacs with functional megaspore identity. Similarly, half of the AaBb and aaBb pollen grains showed centromere defects, resulting in pollen abortion at the bi-cellular stage of the male gametophyte. However, inheritance of the mutant allele in a given gamete did not solely determine the abortion phenotype. Introducing functional ASF1B failed to rescue the AaBb- and aaBb-mediated abortion, suggesting that heterozygosity in the ASF1B gene causes gametophytic defects, rather than the loss of ASF1. The presence of reproductive defects in heterozygous mutants but not in homozygotes, and the characteristic all-or-nothing pollen viability within tetrads, were both indicative of commonly-observed T-DNA-mediated translocation activity for this allele. Our observations reinforce the importance of complementation tests in assigning gene function using reverse genetics.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 내륙에서 수신한 로란 9930M 포항 송신국의 로란신호를 이용하여 Loran differential ASF를 측정하였고, 이를 통해 로란 신호의 시각동기 정확도를 향상시켰다. Differential ASF는 한국표준과학연구원(KRISS)의 UTC(KRIS) 기준 TOA 데이터에서 충남대학교와 국립해양측위정보원에 설치된 원자시계를 기준으로 동시에 측정된 TOA 데이터를 각각 차분함으로써 구하였다. 자기장 안테나를 이용한 충남대학교에서의 60분 평균 TOA 측정결과는 $0.1{\mu}s$ 이내의 변동성을 보였고 국립해양측위정보원에서의 TOA 측정결과는 $0.05{\mu}s$ 이내의 변동성을 보였다. 또한 충남대학교와 국립해양측위정보원에서의 60분 평균 differential ASF 측정결과는 수신국의 주변 환경 영향에 의해 최대 $0.1{\mu}s$ 정도까지 시각 변동성을 나타냈다. 따라서 UTC(KRIS)를 기준으로 측정한 TOA 데이터로 충남대학교와 국립해양측위정보원 측정 데이터를 각각 보상하면 differential ASF 변화가 상쇄되어 로란 신호를 이용한 시각동기 정확도를 10 ns 정도 이내로 향상시킬 수 있다. 그리고 세슘원자시계를 기준으로 포항 송신국 로란 신호의 기준위상과 KRISS에서의 로란 수신기의 출력 기준위상을 측정하여 두 지점 사이의 ASF는 약 $3.5{\mu}s$로 나타났다.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2022

African swine fever (ASF) is fatal to domestic pigs and wild boars (Sus scrofa) and affects the domestic pig industry. ASF is transmitted directly through the secretions of infected domestic pigs or wild boars, an essential source of infection in disease transmission. ASFV is also very stable in the environment. Thus, the virus is detected in the surrounding environment where ASF-infected carcasses are found. In this study, ASF infection monitoring was conducted on the swab and whole blood samples from wild animals, various hematopoietic arthropod samples that could access infected wild boar carcasses or habitats to cause maintenance and spread of disease, and soil samples of wild boar habitats. ASF viral DNA detection was confirmed negative in 317 wildlife and environmental samples through a real-time polymerase chain reaction. However, ASF occurs in the wild boars and spreads throughout the Korean peninsula. Therefore, it is necessary to trace the route of ASF virus infection by a continuous vector. Additional monitoring of various samples with potential ASF infection is needed to help the epidemiologic investigation and disease prevention.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.13.1-13.14
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• 2021

African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most complex infectious swine diseases and the greatest concern to the pig industry owing to its high mortality and no effective vaccines available to prevent the disease. Since the first outbreak of ASF in pig farms, ASF has been identified in 14 pig farms in four cities/counties in South Korea. The outbreak was resolved in a short period because of the immediate control measures and cooperative efforts. This paper reviews the ASF outbreak and the experience of successfully stopping ASF in pig farms in South Korea through active responses to prevent the spread of ASF. In addition, suitable changes to build a sustainable pig production system and collaborative efforts to overcome the dangerous animal disease, such as ASF, are discussed.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2013

The vulnerability of GPS to interference signals was reported in the early 2000s, and an eLORAN system has been suggested as a backup navigation system for replacing the existing GPS. Thus, relevant studies have been carried out in the United States, Europe, Korea, etc., and especially, in Korea, the research and development is being conducted for the FOC of the eLORAN system by 2018. The required performance of the eLORAN system is to meet the HEA performance, and to achieve this, it is essential to perform ASF correction based on a dLORAN system. ASF can be divided into temporal ASF, nominal ASF, and spatial ASF. Spatial ASF is the variation due to spatial characteristics, and is stored in an eLORAN receiver in the form of a premeasured map. Temporal ASF is the variations due to temporal characteristics, and are transmitted from a dLORAN site to a receiver via LDC. Unlike nominal ASF that is obtained by long-term measurement (over 1 year), temporal ASF changes in a short period of time, and ideally, real-time correction needs to be performed. However, it is difficult to perform real-time correction due to the limit of the transmission rate of the LDC for transmitting correction values. In this paper, to determine temporal ASF correction frequency that shows satisfactory performance within the range of the limit of data transmission rates, relative variations of temporal ASF in summer and winter were measured, and the stability of correction values was analyzed using the average of temporal ASF for a certain period.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2005

African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease of domestic and wild pigs for which there is no vaccine in the world. A proper surveillance of viral activity and a timely response to ASF outbreaks depend upon the rapid diagnosis of ASF viral infection. Internationally prescribed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a fast, sensitive test routinely used in the diagnosis of the ASF. However, inactivated whole ASF virus antigen used in this test is a tedious to prepare and has a risk of outside exposure of infectious virus by laboratory accident during the preparation. An ASF virus noninfectious recombinant antigen is a safe and easily produced alternative antigen for use in diagnostic assay. We have cloned the ORF O61R gene of the ASF virus to generate a recombinant baculovirus producing the p12 protein in insect cells under control of the polyhedrin promoter as non-fusion protein. When used in an indirect ELISA, the p12 antigen showed reactivity with all known ASF positive pig sera but not with negative pig sera. Our results indicated that the p12 protein would be one of alternative antigens for diagnosis of the ASF.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.21.1-21.5
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• 2023

Under the current African swine fever (ASF) epidemic situation, a science-based ASF-control strategy is required. An ASF transmission mechanistic model can be used to understand the disease transmission dynamics among susceptible epidemiological units and evaluate the effectiveness of an ASF-control strategy by simulating disease spread results with different control options. The force of infection, which is the probability that a susceptible epidemiological unit becomes infected, could be estimated by applying an ASF transmission mechanistic model. The government needs to plan an ASF-control strategy based on an ASF transmission mechanistic model.

• BMB Reports
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• 제48권12호
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• pp.685-690
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• 2015

The eukaryotic genome is packed into chromatin, which is important for the genomic integrity and gene regulation. Chromatin structures are maintained through assembly and disassembly of nucleosomes catalyzed by histone chaperones. Asf1 (anti-silencing function 1) is a highly conserved histone chaperone that mediates histone transfer on/off DNA and promotes histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation at globular core domain of histone H3. To elucidate the role of Asf1 in the modulation of chromatin structure, we screened and identified small molecules that inhibit Asf1 and H3K56 acetylation without affecting other histone modifications. These pyrimidine-2,4,6-trione derivative molecules inhibited the nucleosome assembly mediated by Asf1 in vitro, and reduced the H3K56 acetylation in HeLa cells. Furthermore, production of HSV viral particles was reduced by these compounds. As Asf1 is implicated in genome integrity, cell proliferation, and cancer, current Asf1 inhibitor molecules may offer an opportunity for the therapeutic development for treatment of diseases.

• 적정기술학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2020

아프리카에서 시작돼 전 세계를 위협하는 ASF는 2018년 중국지역에서 발생해 아시아에 상륙하였고 2019년 5월 북한이 OIE에 ASF를 정식신고 함으로써 한반도 축산안보에 엄중한 위협으로 되었다. 1921년 영국의 수의병리학자 몽고메리는 동아프리카에서 풍토병으로 존재하던 치사율이 높은 바이러스에 의한 열성 돼지열병에 '아프리카돼지열병 African swine fever(ASF),'이라는 이름을 달아 세상에 알렸다. 아프리카지역에서 풍토병으로 유행하던 ASF는 1957년경 포르트갈에 상륙하여 포르투갈 리스본의 농장을 휩쓸었다. ASF는 계속하여 스페인과 포르투갈에 정착하여 1990년대 말까지 40년 동안 피해를 주었으며, 1978년에 이탈리아의 사르디니아섬에 상륙하여 현재진행형이다. 2007년에 흑해 연안의 죠지아 공화국의 포티항구에 상륙한 바이러스는 러시아까지 퍼졌고, 2018년에 중국에 침입하여 막대한 피해를 주면서 베트남, 라오스, 미얀마 등지로 급속히 퍼지다가 2019년 5월 북한에서 발병하여 전국에 확산되어 양돈업계에 막대한 피해를 주었으며 현재 진행형이다. 북한에서의 발병사실 확인후 불과 3개월 만에 2019년 9월 16일 파주와 연천의 농가에서 발병이 확인되면서 한국도 ASF발병국의 오명을 가지게 되었으며 ASF의 전국확산은 막았지만 야생 멧돼지에서 현재 진행형이다. 남북한에서 현재 진행중인 ASF가 토착화된다면 양돈산업은 물론 한반도 경제에 막대한 피해를 주는 역대 급 재앙으로 될 것이다. 현재의 상황상 ASF 발병으로 인한 위험요인을 배제하고, 남한지역에 국한된 수의방역에만 치중할 수 없다. 현재 북한의 열악한 수의방역현실로는 ASF발생으로 인한 양돈업계의 피해를 방지하기 어렵고, 지리적으로 각종 유행성 전염병의 발병위험이 높은 중국과 인접되어 있어 국경지역에 대한 검역과 방역을 남북한이 공동으로 진행하여야 할 필요성이 제기된다. 우선 한반도공동방역체계를 구축하기전 과제로 ASF 및 기타 질병에 대한 신속한 정보교류와 교육이 필요하다고 생각한다. 북한의 ASF발생지역 및 중국, 러시아 접경지역에 대한 철저한 방역과 소독을 실시하고 유통되는 가축 및 축산물에 대한 철저한 검역과 통제 등을 공동으로 진행하는 것이 중요하다. 모든 수단과 방법을 동원하여 한반도에서 ASF의 장기화를 막아 한반도 축산안보를 보장하기 위한 남북한 수의방역업계의 협력이 필수적이다.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.81-88
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• 1995

Culture medium (ASF-301) of tHUE-2 cell, human endothelial cell line, and culture medium of these cells (conditioned medium : CM) which affect embryonic development of in vivo fertilized 1-cell embryos of mouse were examined. Two-cell stage block of mouse embryos was overicomed in ASF-301 and CM without EDTA, which usually added in basic medium (modified Whitten Medium: MWM, control) to overcome the 2-cell stage block. The developmental rates of embryos to the blastocyst stage were significantly increased in MWM containing 12.5% of growth factors added to ASF-301 (10mg/ $\ell$ transferrin, 1mg/$\ell$ insulin, 0.01mg/$\ell$ EGF) than those of 100% addition and control, 78.0% vs 20.8 and 52.3%, respectively (P<0.05), but the growth factors was not affected the hatching rate of blastocyst. Using ASF-301 or CM which was not treated, embryonic development into the blastocyst and hatched blastocyst stages were not affected. However, proportions of embryonic development into the blastocyst and hatched blastocyst stages were significantly higher in dilution (ASF-301 1:10; CM 1:3~1:6) than those in control (P,0.05). In ASF-301 dialyzed M.W.<10000 dialysis membrane, the developmental rate upto the hatched blastocyst stage was significantly increased, compared to ASF-301 which was not dialyzed (P<0.05), and hatching rate of blastocyst of these group was singnificantly increased than those in MWM (P<0.05). Compared to CM which was not dialyzed, however, in dialyzed CM was significantly decreased, compared to untreated CM (P<0.05), especially any hatched blastocyst was not appeared. As a result of these experiments indicated that a kind or porper treatment such as a dilution of complex synthetic cell culture medium and conditioned medium, and that a optimal concentration of growth factors are usuful for embryo cultrue in vitro.