• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2003년도 식물바이오벤처 페스티발
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• pp.126-126
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• 2003

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.174-179
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• 2004

We developed various plasmid cloning vectors that are useful in the construction of genomic and shotgun libraries. Two medium copy vectors, pCUGlblu21 (pCb21) and pAGlblu21 (pAb21), which are resistant to kanamycin ($Km^R$) and chloramphenicol ($Cam^R$), respectively, are useful for cloning DNA inserts ranging from 5kb to 15kb. Two high copy vectors, pCUGlblu31 (pCb31) and pAGlblu31 (pAb31), containing $Km^R$ and $Cam^R$, respectively, are useful for DNA inserts less than 5kb. These vectors are well adapted for large-scale genome sequencing projects by providing choice of copy number and selectable marker. The small vector size is another advantage of these vectors. All vectors contain lacZa including multicloning sites that originated from pBluscriptllsk- for easy cloning and sequencing. Two medium copy vectors contain unique and rare cutting Swal (ATTTAAAT) restriction enzyme sites for easy determination of insert size. We developed two combined vectors, pC21A31 and pC31A21, which are combinations of (pCb21 + pAb31) and (pCb31 + pAb21), respectively. These two vectors provide four choices of vectors such as $Km^R$ and medium, $Cam^R$ and high, $Cam^R$ and medium, and $Km^R$ and high copy vectors by restriction enzyme cutting, dephosphorylation, and gel purification. These vectors were successfully applied to high throughput shotgun sequencing of rice, tomato, and brassica BAC clones. With an example of extremely biased hydro sheared 3 kb shotgun library of a tomato BAC clone, which is originated from cytogenetically defined peri-centromeric region, we suggest the utility of an additional 10 kb library for sequence assembly of the difficult-to-assemble BAC clone.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권7호
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• pp.911-917
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• 2022

As valuable antibiotics, microbial natural products have been in use for decades in various fields. Among them are polyene compounds including nystatin, amphotericin, and nystatin-like Pseudonocardia polyenes (NPPs). Polyene macrolides are known to possess various biological effects, such as antifungal and antiviral activities. NPP A1, which is produced by Pseudonocardia autotrophica, contains a unique disaccharide moiety in the tetraene macrolide backbone. NPP B1, with a heptane structure and improved antifungal activity, was then developed via genetic manipulation of the NPP A1 biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC). Here, we generated a Streptomyces artificial chromosomal DNA library to isolate a large-sized NPP B1 BGC. The NPP B1 BGC was successfully isolated from P. autotrophica chromosome through the construction and screening of a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library, even though the isolated 140-kb BAC clone (named pNPPB1s) lacked approximately 8 kb of the right-end portion of the NPP B1 BGC. The additional introduction of the pNPPB1s as well as co-expression of the 32-kb portion including the missing 8 kb led to a 7.3-fold increase in the production level of NPP B1 in P. autotrophica. The qRT-PCR confirmed that the transcription level of NPP B1 BGC was significantly increased in the P. autotrophica strain containing two copies of the NPP B1 BGCs. Interestingly, the NPP B1 exhibited a previously unidentified SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibition activity in vitro. These results suggest that the Streptomyces BAC cloning of a large-sized, natural product BGC is a valuable approach for titer improvement and biological activity screening of natural products in actinomycetes.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2001년도 제2회 생물정보 워크샵 (DNA Chip Bioinformatics)
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• pp.61-86
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• 2001

All cancers are caused by abnormalities in DNA sequence. Throughout life, the DNA in human cells is exposed to mutagens and suffers mistakes in replication, resulting in progressive, subtle changes in the DNA sequence in each cell. Since the development of conventional and molecular cytogenetic methods to the analysis of chromosomal aberrations in cancers, more than 1,800 recurring chromosomal breakpoints have been identified. These breakpoints and regions of nonrandom copy number changes typically point to the location of genes involved in cancer initiation and progression. With the introduction of molecular cytogenetic methodologies based on fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), namely, comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and multicolor FISH (m-FISH) in carcinomas become susceptible to analysis. Conventional CGH has been widely applied for the detection of genomic imbalances in tumor cells, and used normal metaphase chromosomes as targets for the mapping of copy number changes. However, this limits the mapping of such imbalances to the resolution limit of metaphase chromosomes (usually 10 to 20 Mb). Efforts to increase this resolution have led to the "new"concept of genomic DNA chip (1 to 2 Mb), whereby the chromosomal target is replaced with cloned DNA immobilized on such as glass slides. The resulting resolution then depends on the size of the immobilized DNA fragments. We have completed the first draft of its Korean Genome Project. The project proceeded by end sequencing inserts from a library of 96,768 bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) containing genomic DNA fragments from Korean ethnicity. The sequenced BAC ends were then compared to the Human Genome Project′s publicly available sequence database and aligned according to known cancer gene sequences. These BAC clones were biotinylated by nick translation, hybridized to cytogenetic preparations of metaphase cells, and detected with fluorescein-conjugated avidin. Only locations of unique or low-copy Portions of the clone are identified, because high-copy interspersed repetitive sequences in the probe were suppressed by the addition of unlabelled Cotl DNA. Banding patterns were produced using DAPI. By this means, every BAC fragment has been matched to its appropriate chromosomal location. We have placed 86 (156 BAC clones) cytogenetically defined landmarks to help with the characterization of known cancer genes. Microarray techniques would be applied in CGH by replacement of metaphase chromosome to arrayed BAC confirming in oncogene and tumor suppressor gene: and an array BAC clones from the collection is used to perform a genome-wide scan for segmental aneuploidy by array-CGH. Therefore, the genomic DNA chip (arrayed BAC) will be undoubtedly provide accurate diagnosis of deletions, duplication, insertions and rearrangements of genomic material related to various human phenotypes, including neoplasias. And our tumor markers based on genetic abnormalities of cancer would be identified and contribute to the screening of the stage of cancers and/or hereditary diseases

• 한국식물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물생명공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.154-154
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• 2002

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.301-306
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• 2004

돼지 6번 염색체에서 근내지방 함량과 등지방 두께와 관련된 QTL이 탐색되어진 영역(6q28-6q32)에서 미세지도 작성을 위한 유용한 marker를 개발하기 위하여 실시하였다. 대량 염기서열 분석자료를 근거로, 반복염기서열 분석을 수행한 결과 KP0290F2(TTCC), KP0248C11(AAAT), KP1231C91(TAG), KP1231C92(TTG) 그리고 KP1231C93(GA)의 5 부위에서 다형성을 나타내었다. 이 부위들에 대한 랜드레이스, 재래돼지, 듀록, 요크셔, 버크셔, 오지산돈, 향돈 그리고 민돈의 8품종에 대한 유전자형 분석 결과 평균 대립유전자의 수는 2.13, 4.63, 7.38, 2.75 그리고 6.25로 나타났다. 그리고 8품종에 대한 KP0290F2, KP0248C11, KP1231C91, KP1231C92 그리고 KP1231C93에 대한 평균 heterozygosity 값을 산출한 결과, 0.2110, 0.6865, 0.8304, 0.4057 그리고 0.7051로 나타났으며, 5markers에 대한 8 품종의 평균 heterozygosity 값은 0.6313, 0.5662, 0.5814, 0.6957, 0.4517, 0.4847, 0.5758 그리고 0.5559로 나타났다. KP0248C11, KP1231C91 그리고 KP1231C93은 적절한 대립유전자 수를 나타내었고, 또한 hetetozygosity 값이 높게 나타났을 뿐만 아니라, 표준편차도 적게 나타난 점으로 미루어 보아 앞으로 유용한 marker로서 이용이 가능할 것이라 사료된다. 본 연구의 결과 개발된 marker는 SW71(98.6cM)과 SW1881(121.1 cM) 영역내에 존재하는 유용한 유전자를 발굴하기 위한 미세지도 작성에 유용하게 활용될 수 있는 marker로 판단되며, positional cloning에도 이용 할 수 있을 것이라 사료된다. 또한 돼지 게놈 연구가 완성되어 염기배열이 밝혀지기 전에 이용 가능한 표지인자들을 다량으로 확보 수 있을 것이라 사료된다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.245-253
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• 2010

The base sequences representing human- and cow-specific 168 rRNA gene markers identified in a T-RFLP analysis were recovered from clone libraries. The human- and cow-specific primers were designed from these sequences and their specificities were analyzed with fecal DNAs from human, cow, and pig. The AllBac primer set showed positive results for all human, cow, and pig samples, whereas the human-specific primer set showed positive result only for the human sample but not for the cow or pig samples. Likewise, the cow-specific primer set showed positive results only for the cow sample but not for the human or pig samples. Real-time PCR assay with these primers was developed for the identification and quantification of fecal pollution in the river water. The human- and cow-specific markers were detected in the order of 9 $\log_{10}$ copies per gram wet feces, which were two orders of magnitude lower than those of total Bacteroidales. For the river water samples, the human-specific marker was detected in $1.7-6.2\;\log_{10}$ copies/100 ml water, which was 2.4-4.9 orders of magnitude lower than those of total Bacteroidales. There was no significant correlation between total Bacteroidales and conventional fecal indicators, but there was a high correlation between Bacteroidales and the human-specific marker. This assay could reliably identify and quantify the fecal pollution sources, enabling effective measures in the watersheds and facilitating water quality management.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2003

Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) has been used to detect deleted regions of a specific chromosome in cancer cells. LOH on chromosome 16q has been reported to occur frequently in progressed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Liver tissues from 37 Korean HCC patients were analyzed for LOH by using 25 polymorphic microsatellite markers distributed along 16q. Out of the 37 HCC patients studied, 21 patients (56.8%) showed LOH in various regions of 16q with at least one polymorphic marker. Puring the analysis of these 21 LOH cases, 6 patients showed interstitial LOHs in which the boundary of the LOH region was defined. With two rounds of LOH analysis, five commonly occurring interstitial LOH regions were identified; 16q21-22.1, 16q22.2 - 22.3, 16q22.3, 16q23.2 and 16q23.3 - 24.1. Among the five LOH regions the 16q23.3 - 24.1 region has been reported to be related with chromosome instability. A complete physical map, which covers the 3.2 Mb region of 16q23.3 - 24.1 (D16S402 and D16S486), was constructed to identify novel candidate tumor suppressor genes. We provide the minimally tiling path map consisting of 28 BAC clones. There was one gap between NT_10422.11 and NT_019609.9 of the human genome sequence contig (NCBI sequence build 33, April 29, 2003). This gap can be filled by sequencing the R-1425M20 clone which bridges these sequence contigs.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2016

돼지에게 있어서 지방 형질은 가장 중요한 경제형질 중 하나다. 돼지의 렙틴수용체 유전자(LEPR)는 염색체 상의 위치와 그 생리 활성 측면에서 돼지 6번 염색체 상의 지방형질 관련 양적형질좌위(QTL)에 대한 주요 후보유전자로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 LEPR 유전자의 구조 변이와 돼지 경제형질과의 연관성을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 돼지 LEPR 유전자를 포함하고 있는 박테리아 인공 염색체(BAC) 클론에 대한 샷건 염기서열 해독을 수행하여 114 kb 크기의 유전체 서열을 확보하였다. 그리고 전사개시 코돈으로부터 1.2 kb 상위 영역에서 여러 전사인자 결합부위를 발견하였다. 또한 LEPR 유전자 엑손 영역의 6개 SNP와 5’ 조절영역의 18개 SNP에 대해 550두의 두록 개체를 대상으로 연관성 분석을 수행하였다. 이들 SNP 중, −790C/G만이 등지방두께와 정육율 형질과 유의적으로 연관되어 있었으며, 2개의 미스센스 다형성 SNP를 포함하여 다른 SNP에서는 어떤 형질과도 연관성을 보이지 않았다. 결론적으로 −790C/G SNP는 두록 돼지에서 지방과 정육형질을 유전적으로 개량하는데 유용한 마커로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.