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Structural Characterization of the J-domain of Tid1, a Mitochondrial Hsp40/DnaJ Protein

  • Sim, Dae-Won;Jo, Ku-Sung;Ryu, Kyoung-Seok;Kim, Eun-Hee;Won, Hyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.22-33
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    • 2012
  • Tid1, belonging to the Hsp40/DnaJ family of proteins, functions as a cochaperone of cytosolic and mitochondrial Hsp70 proteins. In particular, the N-terminal J-domain of Tid1 (Tid1-JD) constitutes the major binding sites for proteinprotein interactions with client proteins, including p53, as well as its partner chaperone, Hsp70. In the present study, soluble, recombinant protein of Tid1-JD could be obtained by using the pCold vector system, and backbone NMR assignments were completed using the isotope $[^{13}C/^{15}N]$-enriched protein. Far-UV CD result implied that Tid1-JD is an ${\alpha}$-helical protein and the secondary structure determined using chemical shift data sets indentified four ${\alpha}$-helices with a loop region containing the HPD (conserved tripeptide of His, Pro and Asp) motif. Additionally, NMR spectra under different conditions implied that the HPD motif, which is a critical region for protein-protein interactions of Tid1-JD, would possess dynamic properties.

Homology Modeling of Chemokine Receptor CXCR3: A Novel Therapeutic Target against Inflammatory Diseases

  • M, Shalini;Madhavan, Thirumurthy
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.164-175
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    • 2015
  • CXCR3 is a C-X-C chemokine receptor type 3 also known as GPR9 and CD183. CXCR3 is a G-Protein coupled chemokine receptor which interacts with three endogenous interferon inducible chemokine's (CXCL9, CXCL10 and CXCL11) and is proved to play a vital role in the Th1 inflammatory responses. CXCR3 has been implicated to be associated with various disease conditions like inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, type I diabetes and acute cardiac allograft rejection. Therefore CXCR3 receptor is found to be an attractive therapeutic target for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Inorder to decipher the biological function of a CXCR3, 3D structure is of much important but the crystal structure for CXCR3 has not yet been resolved. Hence, in the current study Homology modeling of CXCR3 was performed against various templates and validated using different parameters to suggest the best model for CXCR3. The reported best model can be used for further studies such as docking to identify the important binding site residues.

Fine Seek Control of Extended Applicable Range for Optical Disk Drives

  • Ryoo, Jung-Rae;Jin, Kyoung-Bog;Doh, Tae-Young;Chung, Myung-Jin
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.146-151
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    • 2001
  • Optical disk drive has excellent advantage of random accessibility of which performance is measured by access time. However, due to the increased rotational velocity of the disk and constraints of mechanical structure, two-stage seek algorithm which executes coarse and fine seeks sequentially has been adopted in most commercial optical disk drives. Although the laser spot is moved to a target track by a single seek operation, the limited operation range of the fine actuator restricts the application of the fine seek algorithm below a few hundreds of tracks. Especially, excessive movement of the objective lens causes a failure in generation of track-cross pulse and results in an unstable seek operation. In this paper, a new control algorithm for extending the fine seek range is proposed with an appropriate control structure. The coarse actuator is utilized to reduce the misalignment between the objective lens and the laser beam axis, and the fine actuator is controlled to follow the reference velocity trajectory. The proposed algorithm is applied to a CD-ROM drive to show its feasibility and some experimental results are presented.

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White OLEDs with a Single Emissive Layer (단일발광층을 이용한 백색 OLED)

  • Chu, Hye-Yong;Lee, Jeong-Ik;Yang, Yong-Suk;Oh, Ji-Young;KoPark, Sang-Hee;Kim, Mi-Kyung;Hwang, Chi-Sun;Jung, Byung-Jun;Shim, Hong-Ku;Jang, Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 2004
  • We demonstrated efficient white light emitting OLEDs with a single emissive layer structure, which was blue-emitting 1,4-bis[2,2-diphenylvinyl]biphenyl (DPVBi) doped with blue luminescent amino-substituted distyrylarylene amine (DSA-amine) and red luminescent [2,6-bis[2-[5-(dibutylamino) phenyl]vinyl]-4H -pyran-4-ylidene]propanedinitrile (DADB). Through the optimization of the device structure, the white light emission with full visible spectral range was obtained. Its CIE color coordinates was (0.32,0.42) at 10 $mA/cm^2$ and the external quantum efficiency, the luminance efficiency and the luminance yield were 3.7 %, 3.3 lm/W and 9.0 cd/A, respectively.

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The Study on Dielectric layer Design and Manufactor for Luminance Improvement of Red Organic Light Emitting Device (적색 유기발광소자의 휘도향상을 위한 Dielectric layer 설계 및 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Ki, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Seon-Hoon;Kim, Doo-Gun;Kim, Sang-Gi;Jeong, Haeng-Yun;Choi, Young-Sung;Hong, Kyung-Jin
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.5
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    • pp.918-921
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    • 2010
  • We have proposed an dielectric layer to improve the luminance of red organic light emitting device. Here, we have calculated refractive index of dielectric layer material that was revised refractive index of organic material, ITO and glass. Refractive index of dielectric layer material was 1.711. The structure of dielectric layer was designed in organic material/ITO/dielectric layer/glass. Dielectric material changed thickness that deposited by ion-assisted deposition system. Transmittances of ITO were 95.66-98.85 [%]. Red OLED was fabricated with the structure of TPD($400[{\AA}]$)/DCMII($20[{\AA}]$), Rubrene($20[{\AA}]$)/Alq3($500[{\AA}]$)/LiF($15[{\AA}]$)/Al($1,000[{\AA}]$). Turn-on voltage and Luminance of Red OLED were 10 [V] and 5,857 cd/m2.

The Effect of a Bypass Flow Penetrating through a Gas Diffusion Layer on Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell (가스확산층을 통과하는 반응가스 우회유동이 고분자 연로전지의 성능에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Choong-Won;Ahn, Eun-Jin;Lee, Seung-Bo;Lee, Won-Yong
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.147-151
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    • 2007
  • A serpentine channel geometry often used in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell has a strong pressure gradient between adjacent channels in specific regions. The pressure gradient helps some amount of reactant gas penetrate through a gas diffusion layer(GDL). As a result, the overall serpentine flow structure is slightly different from intention of a designer. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of serpentine flow structure on current density distribution. By using a commercial code, STAR-CD, a numerical simulation is performed to analyze the fuel cell with relatively high aspect ratio active area. To increase the accuracy of the numerical simulation, GDL permeabilities are measured with various compression conditions. Three-dimensional flow field and current density distribution are calculated. For the verification of the numerical simulation results, water condensation process in the cathode channel is observed through a transparent bipolar plate. The result of this study shows that the region of relatively low current density corresponds to that of dropwise condensation in cathode channels.

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Growth and characterization of $Cu_2ZnSnSe_4$ (CZTSe) thin films by sputtering of binary selenides and selenization

  • Munir, Rahim;Jung, Gwang-Sun;Ahn, Byung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.98.2-98.2
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    • 2012
  • Thin film solar cells are growing up in the market due to their high efficiency and low cost. Especially CdTe and $CuInGaSe_2$ based solar cells are leading the other cells, but due to the limited percentage of the elements present in our earth's crust like Tellurium, Indium and Gallium, the price of the solar cells will increase rapidly. Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide (CZTS) and Copper Zinc Tin Selenide (CZTSe) semiconductor (having a kesterite crystal structure) are getting attention for its solar cell application as the absorber layer. CZTS and CZTSe have almost the same crystal structure with more environmentally friendly elements. Various authors have reported growth and characterization of CZTSe films and solar cells with efficiencies about 3.2% to 8.9%. In this study, a novel method to prepare CZTSe has been proposed based on selenization of stacked Copper Selenide ($Cu_2Se$), Tin Selenide ($SnSe_2$) and Zinc Selenide (Zinc Selenide) in six possible stacking combinations. Depositions were carried out through RF magnetron sputtering. Selenization of all the samples was performed in Close Space Sublimation (CSS) in vacuum at different temperatures for three minutes. Characterization of each sample has been performed in Field Emission SEM, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, EDS and Auger. In this study, the properties and results of $Cu_2ZnSnSe_4$ thin films grown by selenization will be presented.

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Structural and Optical Properties of Er(III) Complex with ODA and Phen (ODA = Oxydiacetate, Phen = 1,10-Phenanthroline)

  • Kang, Jun-Gill;Kim, Tack-Jin;Park, Kwan-Soo;Kang, Sung-Kwon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.373-376
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    • 2004
  • A novel Er(III) complex with oxydiacetate and 1,10-phenanthroline was synthesized and its structure and luminescence properties were characterized. The complex of $[Er(ODA){\cdot}(phen){\cdot}4H_2O]^+$ crystallizes in the monoclinic space group $P2_1$/n with a = 12.216(4) ${\AA}$, b = 16.680(2) ${\AA}$, c = 12.627(3) ${\AA}$, ${\beta}=108.30(2)^{\circ}$, V = 2442.7(11) ${\AA}^3$, Z = 4 and ${\rho}=1.841 g/cm^3$. When the complex is excited at the He-Cd 325-nm line, it produces two broad bands spanning the regions 350-650 nm and 1200-1650 nm. The emission band of the complex is characterized by a series of spectral dips in the visible emission profile. The complex exhibits sensitized near- IR emission via two kinds of energy transfers from phen to Er(III): nonradiative and radiative energy transfers.

Conformational Stability of Proteins in Colloidal Food Model System (콜로이드 모델 식품에 있어 단백질의 구조적 안정성)

  • Song, Kyung-Bin
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.277-281
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    • 1993
  • To elucidate the conformational stability of proteins in colloidal food system, molecular properties of various proteins such as chemically modified ${\beta}-lactoglobulin$, bovine serum albumin (BSA) structural intermediates, and ${\beta}-casein$ under chaotropic conditions, were examined using circular dichroism, SS bond content, and hydrodynamic radius determination. As refolding time increases, BSA intermediates approach the conformation of native BSA. And succinylation made ${\beta}-lactoglobulin$ have more aperiodic structure by increasing net negative charge. Also, under chaotropic conditions, the conformation of P-casein was affected by hydrophobic interactions. This study clearly indicates that hydrophobic interactions and electrostatic interactions are major contributing factors in conformational stability of proteins.

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Synthesis and Characterization of New Anthracene-Based Blue Host Material

  • So, Ki-Ho;Park, Hyun-Tae;Shin, Sung-Chul;Lee, Sang-Gyeong;Lee, Dong-Hui;Lee, Kyeong-Hoon;Oh, Hyeong-Yun;Kwon, Soon-Ki;Kim, Yun-Hi
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.7
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    • pp.1611-1615
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    • 2009
  • We designed new anthracene-based host material to increase color purity as well as device efficiency. The new blue host, 9,10-bis(2,4-dimethylphenyl)anthracene (BDA), has highly twisted structure and wide band gap due to ortho interaction between anthracene and introduced 2,4-dimethylphenyl substituents. BDA exhibited deep blue fluorescence in solution (${\lambda}_{max}$ = 410 nm) and in solid state (${\lambda}_{max}$ = 429 nm), respectively, with the wide optical band gap (E = 3.12 eV). Blue-light-emitting OLEDs using obtained host and 2% Flu-DPAN as emitter showed 8 cd/A of high efficiency as well as high color purity [CIE coordinates = (0.15, 015)].