• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2000

Reaction characteristics of 4-methylcatechol 2,3-dioxygenase (4MC230) purified from Pseudomonas putida SU10 with a higher activity toward 4-methylcatechol than catechol or 3-cethylcatechol were studied by altering their physical and chemical properties. The enzyme exhibited a maximum activity at pH 7.5 and approximately 40% at pH 6.0 for 4-methylcatechol hydrolysis. The optimum temperature for the enzyme was around $35^{\circ}C$, since the enzyme was unstable at higher temperature. Acetone(10%) stabilized the 4MC230. The effects of solvent and other chemicals (inactivator or reactivator) for the reactivation of the 4MC230 were also investigated. Silver nitrate and hydrogen peroxid severely deactivated the enzyme and the deactivation by hydrogen peroxide severely deactivated the enzyme and the deactivation by hydrogen peroxide was mainly due to the oxidation of ferrous ion to ferric ion. Some solvents acted as an activator and protector for the enzyme from deactivation by hydrogen peroxide. Ascorbate, cysteine, or ferrous ion reactivated the deactivated enzyme by hydrogen peroxide. The addition of ferrous ion together with a reducing agent fully recovered the enzyme activity and increased its activity abut 2 times.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.379-385
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• 2007

Receptor-oriented pharmacophore-based in silico screening is a powerful tool for rapidly screening large number of compounds for interactions with a given protein. Inhibition of the enzyme catechol-Omethyltransferase (COMT) offers a novel possibility for treating Parkinson's disease. Bisubstrate inhibitors of COMT containing the adenine of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and a catechol moiety are a new class of potent and selective inhibitor. In the present study, we used receptor-oriented pharmacophore-based in silico screening to examine the interactions between the active site of human COMT and bisubstrate inhibitors. We generated 20 pharmacophore maps, of which 4 maps reproduced the docking model of hCOMT and a bisubstrate inhibitor. Only one of these four, pharmacophore map I, effectively described the common features of a series of bisubstrate inhibitors. Pharmacophore map I consisted of one hydrogen bond acceptor (to Mg2+), three hydrogen bond donors (to Glu199, Glu90, and Gln120), and one hydrophobic feature (an active site region surrounded by several aromatic and hydrophobic residues). This map represented the most essential pharmacophore for explaining interactions between hCOMT and a bisubstrate inhibitor. These results revealed a pharmacophore that should help in the development of new drugs for treating Parkinson's disease.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.692-699
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• 1994

A bacterial strain which formed a distinct colony on agar plate containing phenol as a vapor phase and grew well in a liquid minimal medium was isolated and identified as Acinetobac- ter sp. GEM2. The optimal temperature and initial pH for the growth of Acinetobacter sp. GEM2 were 30$\circ$C and 7.0, respectively. Cell growth was inhibited by phenol at the concentration over 1500 ppm. Cell growth dramatically increased from 10 hours after cultivation and almost showed a stationary phase within 24 hours at which 95% of phenol was concomitantly degraded. Acinetobac- ter sp. GEM2 was capable of growing on aromatic compounds, such as benzoic acid, phenol, m- cresol, o-cresol, P-cresol, catechol, gentisic acid, and toluene, but did not grow on benzene, salicylic acid, p-toluic acid, and p-xylene. By the analysis of catechol dioxygenase, it seemed that catechol was degraded through both meta- and ortho-cleavage pathway. The growth-limiting log P value of Acinetobacter sp. GEM2 on organic solvents was 2.0.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2001

A nonconventional yeast strain Y103 capable of degrading several aromatic hydrocarbons was isolated from the wastewater of the Yocheon industrial complex. The strain Y103 was identified as Yarrowia lipolytica on the basis of its unique dimorphic and biochemical characteristics as determined by a Biolog test. Y. lipolytica Y103 was found to degrade phenol and 4-chlorophenol to produce catechol. The catechol then will be further degraded to produce 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde via meta-cleavage. These results indicate that strain Y103 degrades 4-chlorophenol, phenol, and catechol through a consecutive reaction to produce 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde. The most active degradation of phenol by Y. lipolytica Y103 occurred with a 0.5 mM phenl concentration in an MM2 medium at $30^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.0.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.22-26
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• 1997

Pseudomonas sp. DJ77의 게놈 library로부터 phenanthrene 분해에 관련된 유전자를 포함하는 약 5-kb의 XhoI 절편을 pBLUESCRIPT SK(+)로 클로닝하였으며, 이 재조합 plasmid를 pUPX5라 명명하였다. 이 재조합 균주에 catechol과 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl 용액을 분무하면 노란색의 meta-cleavage 화합물이 생성됨을 관찰 할 수 있었다. 그리고 효소 활성을 측정한 결과 catechol에서보다 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl에 더 큰 활성을 나타냈다. 이 부분에 존재하는 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl 1,2-dioxygenase 유전자의 위치를 결정하고, 이 유전자를 phnQ라 명명하였다.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 1994

담배연기 수용성 물질 및 그 추출성분인 니코틴과 카테콜이 식물의 근단세포에 미치는 영향을 구명하기 위하여 양파(allium cepa L.)의 근단에 처리한 결과 식물세포에 유독한 영향을 미쳤으며 농도가 높을수록 염색체 이상은 증가하는 반면 분열지수는 점점 감소하는 경향을 보여주었다. 염색체 이상은 중기에서 polyploid, c-mitosis, stickness, 후기나 말기에 laggard나 bridge, 중간기에 micronucleus나 abnormal nucleus 등이 나타났다. 이러한 성분들을 각각 24시간 처리하였을 때 담배연기 수용액은 29.7%, 니코틴 15.8%, 카테콜 13.0%으로 염색체 이상을 유발시켰다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2022년도 봄 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.253-254
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• 2022

In this study, catechol-functionalized chitosan (Cat-Chit), a well-known bioinspired polymer that imitates the basic structures and functions of living organisms and biological materials in nature, was synthesized and combined with cement mortar in various proportions. The compressive strength, tensile strength, drying shrinkage, accelerated carbonation depth, and chloride-ion penetrability of these mixes were then evaluated. In the ultraviolet-visible spectra, a maximum absorption peak appeared at 280 nm, corresponding to catechol conjugation. The sample containing 7.5% Cat-Chit polymer in water (CPW) exhibited the highest compressive strength, and its 28-day compressive strength was ~20.2% higher than that of a control sample with no added polymer. The tensile strength of the samples containing 5% or more CPW was ~2.3-11.5% higher than that of the control sample. Additionally, all the Cat-Chit polymer mixtures exhibited lower carbonation depths than compared to the control sample. The total charge passing through the samples decreased as the amount of CPW increased. Thus, incorporating this polymer effectively improved the mechanical properties, carbonation resistance, and chloride-ion penetration resistance of cement mortar.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.583-593
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• 2013

본 연구는 크라프트 리그닌의 염기 촉매 분해(Based Catalyst Depolymerization, BCD)반응에서 생성되는 반응물의 화학적 특성을 조사하였다. 초임계 메탄올을 용매로 하고 염기 촉매로 사용한 NaOH의 농도를 7.5, 3.25, 6.13%로 변화를 주었다. BCD 반응물에서 불용성 고형 부산물, 수용성 부산물과 각 부산물에서 diethyl ether로 추출하여 DEE-1, DEE-2를 얻었고 그 화학적 조성을 분석하였다. 실험 결과 염기의 농도가 높아질수록 불용성 고형 부산물이 많이 생성된 반면 수용성 분액분의 수율은 낮아졌으나 DEE 추출분의 수율은 차이가 없었다. 불용성 부산물에서 추출한 DEE-1은 GC/MS 분석 결과 BHT외에 페놀성 화합물은 검출되지 않았다. 대부분의 저분자 리그닌 분해 산물은 DEE-2에서 GC/MS를 사용하여 30개 이상의 피크가 관찰되었고 21개 성분이 확인되었다. 7.5와 3.25%의 NaOH를 사용한 반응의 DEE-2 주성분은 catechol (20.3, 17.7%), 4-methylcatechol (18.2, 15.6%), 3-methoxycatechol (9.6, 14.5%), syringol (8.9, 10.9%)등으로 주로 catechol 계열의 화합물이었다. 1.63%의 NaOH를 사용한 반응의 DEE-2 주성분은 syringol (22.3%), isovanillic acid (12.6%), 3-methoxycatechol(12.1%), 4-methylcatechol (11.7) 등으로 나타났다. 염기의 농도가 저분자 페놀성 화합물들의 전체적인 수율에는 영향이 없었지만 3.25와 1.63%의 농도를 경계로 성분 조성에 큰 영향을 주는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2004

본 연구의 목적은 방향족 화한물인 aniline, benzoate, p-hydroxybenzoate를 분해할 수 있는 Delftia sp. JK-2에서 이들 각 기질에서 배양시 다른 종류의 dioxygenases를 분리 정제하고, 정제된 dioxygenases의 특성을 조사하기 위하여 실시하기 위한 것이다. 기질로서 benzoate, aniline, 또는 p-hydroxybenzoate에 따라 분리된 dioxygenases는 각각 catechol 1,2-dioxygenase (C1 ,2O), catechol 2,3-dioxygenase(C2, 3O), 그리고 protocatechuate 4,5-dioxygenase (4,5-PCD)였다. 각 dioxygenases의 특성을 조사하기 위하여 먼저 benzoate, aniline 또는 p-hydroxybenzoate에서 배양한 Delftia sp. JK-2 세포를 초음파 분쇄기로 파쇄하여, ammonium sulfate precipitation, DEAE-sepharose, 그리고 Q-sepharose의 순서로 정제하여 농축하였다. 정제$.$농축된 dioxygenases의 특이 활성도를 보면 C1, 2O는 3.3 unit/mg, C2, 3O는 4.7unit/mg이고, 4,5-PCD는 2.0 unit/mg이다 C1, 2O와 C2, 3O의 기질 특이성 조사에서는 catechol과 4-methylcatechol에서 두 효소 모두 효소 활성이 나타났으며, C1. 2O에서는 3-methylcatechol에서 약간의 활성이 확인되었고, 4,5-PCD는 protocatechuate에서만 효소 활성을 보여주었다. C1l, 2O와 C2, 3O는 3$0^{\circ}C$와 pH 8.0에서 최적의 활성을 나타내는 것으로 조사되었으며, 4,5-PCD는 3$0^{\circ}C$와 pH 7.0에서 최적의 활성이 조사되었다. Delftia sp. JK-2에서 정제된 C1, 2O와 C2, 3O의 효소활성은 Ag$^{+}$, Hg$^{+}$, 그리고 Cu$^{2+}$에 의해 억제되는 것으로 나타났으며, 4,5-PCD의 경우에는 Ag$^{+}$, Hg$^{+}$, 그리고 Cu$^{2+}$ 뿐만 아니라 Fe$^{3+}$ 에 이해서도 효소 활성이 억제되는 것이 확인되었다. C1, 2O, C2, 3O, 4,5-PCD의 분자량은 SDS-PAGE에 의해 각각 60kDa, 35kDa, 62kDa로 측정되었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.2390-2394
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• 2008