• Title/Summary/Keyword: Copy Amount

Search Result 65, Processing Time 0.029 seconds

The Terminal and Internal Hairpin Loops of the ctRNA of Plasmid pJB01 Play Critical Roles in Regulating Copy Number

  • Kim, Sam Woong;Jeong, In Sil;Jeong, Eun Ju;Tak, Je Il;Lee, John Hwa;Eo, Seong Kug;Kang, Ho Young;Bahk, Jeong Dong
    • Molecules and Cells
    • /
    • v.26 no.1
    • /
    • pp.26-33
    • /
    • 2008
  • The plasmid pJB01, a member of the pMV158 family isolated from Enterococcus faecium JC1, contains three open reading frames, copA, repB, and repC. Plasmids included in this family produce counter-transcribed RNA (ctRNA) that contributes to copy number control. The pJB01 ctRNA, a transcript which consists of 54 nucleotides (nts), is encoded on the opposite strand from the copA/repB intergenic region and partially overlaps an atypical ribosome binding site (ARBS) for repB. The ARBS is integrated by the two underlined conserved regions: 5'-TTTTTGTNNNNTAANNNNNNNNNATG-3', and the ctRNA is complementary only to the 5' conserved sequence 5'-TTTTTGT-3'. This complementary sequence is located at a distance from the terminal loop of the ctRNA secondary structure. The ctRNA structure predicted by the mfold program suggests the possible generation of a terminal and an internal hairpin loop. The amount of in vitro translation product of repB mRNA was inversely proportional to the ctRNA concentration. Mutations in the terminal and internal hairpin loops of the ctRNA had inhibitory effects on its binding to the target mRNA. We propose that the intact structures of the terminal and internal hairpin loops, respectively, play important roles in forming the initial kissing and extending complexes between the ctRNA and target mRNA and that these regulate the copy number of this plasmid.

Improved BVP Candidate Selection Algorithm for HEVC Screen Content Coding (HEVC기반 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩을 위한 개선된 BVP 후보 선정 방법)

  • Kim, Yu-Seon;Lee, Si-Woong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
    • /
    • v.17 no.5
    • /
    • pp.1-7
    • /
    • 2017
  • Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T developed the HEVC Screen Content Coding (HEVC SCC) standard as the HEVC extension for the screen content video coding. The Intra Block Copy (IBC) is the most effective tool adopted in HEVC SCC and predicts current block from already reconstructed neighboring blocks in the same picture. To reduce the amount of data in BV (Block Vector) to be transmitted, a BV predictor (BVP) is used to generate the BV differences in the IBC BV coding. In this paper, we analyze the current BV prediction process using HEVC reference software SCM-2.0 and SCM-4.0. Based on the analysis results, we propose an improved BVP candidate selection algorithm by adding a search process for adjacent BVs in addition to the existing spatial BVP candidates. Experimental results show that the BD-rate reduction of our proposed improvements ranges from 0.2% to 1%.

Overproduction of Escherichia coli D-Xylose Isomerase Using ${\lambda}P_L$ Promoter

  • Park, Heui-Dong;Joo, Gil-Jae;Rhee, In-Koo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • /
    • v.7 no.1
    • /
    • pp.8-12
    • /
    • 1997
  • In order to overproduce D-xylose isomerase, the Escherichia coli D-xylose isomerase (D-xylose ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.5) gene (xylA) was fused to ${\lambda}P_{L}$ promoter. The promoterless xylA gene containing the ribosome binding site and coding region for D-xylose isomerase was cloned into a site 0.3 kb downstream from the ${\lambda}P_{L}$ promoter on a high copy number plasmid. An octameric XbaI linker containing TAG amber codon was inserted between 33rd codon of ${\lambda}N$ and the promoterless xylA gene. The resulting recombinant plasmid (designated as pPX152) was transformed into E. coli M5248 carrying a single copy of the temperature sensitive ${\lambda}cI857$ gene on its chromosomal DNA. When temperature-induced, the transformants produced 15 times as much D-xylose isomerase as that of D-xylose-induced parent strain. The amount of overproduced D-xylose isomerase was found to be about 60% of total protein in cell-free extracts.

  • PDF

Effects of feed intake on the diversity and population density of homoacetogens in the large intestine of pigs

  • Matsui, Hiroki;Mimura, Ayumi;Maekawa, Sakiko;Ban-Tokuda, Tomomi
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
    • /
    • v.32 no.12
    • /
    • pp.1907-1913
    • /
    • 2019
  • Objective: Homoacetogens play important roles in the production of acetate in the large intestine of monogastric mammals. However, their diversity in the porcine large intestine is still unknown. Marker gene analysis was performed to assess the effects of energy level on the diversity and population densities of homoacetogens in porcine feces. Methods: Crossbred pigs were fed high or low energy-level diets. The high-intake (HI) diet was sufficient to allow a daily gain of 1.2 kg. The low-intake (LI) diet provided 0.6 times the amount of energy as the HI diet. Genetic diversity was analyzed using formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase gene (FHS) clone libraries derived from fecal DNA samples. FHS DNA copy numbers were quantified using real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results: A wide variety of FHS sequences was recovered from animals in both treatments. No differences in FHS clone libraries between the HI and LI groups were found. During the experimental period, no significant differences in the proportion of FHS copy numbers were observed between the two treatment groups. Conclusion: This is the first reported molecular diversity analysis using specific homoacetogen marker genes from the large intestines of pigs. There was no observable effect of feed intake on acetogen diversity.

A Study on the Real-Time File Copy Leakage Prevention System (실시간 파일 복사 유출 방지 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ho-Yoon;Kim, Hyo-Jong;Lee, Jun-Yeon;Shin, Seung-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
    • /
    • 2021.10a
    • /
    • pp.217-219
    • /
    • 2021
  • With the development of ICT, the amount of data increases, and the technology of storing and processing becomes important. In this study, we study real-time file copy leakage prevention system to prevent leakage of important data in enterprises, public places, etc. As a research method, we propose a system that detects events in real time to prevent data leakage after analyzing data leakage cases and problems. The file leakage prevention system compares and analyzes with the existing EDLP system, and the proposed system reduces load and detects events. Future research requires research on the prevention of leaks through networks and various channels.

  • PDF

Secretion of Human Growth Hormone from Mammary Gland of Transgenic Mice (형질전환동물의 유선조직으로부터 인간 성장호르몬의 분비)

  • 구덕본;최강덕;정형민;이상민;이경광;이훈택;정길생
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
    • /
    • v.17 no.4
    • /
    • pp.375-383
    • /
    • 1994
  • The human growth hormone (hGH) gene uder the control of the rat $\beta$-casein promoter gene was designed to produce transgenic mouse expressed hGH gene in only mammary gland. One hundred seventy two eggs microinjected were transferred to the oviducts of pseudopregnants and 43 offspring were delivered. By Southern blotting hybridization, 3 were transgenic with rat $\beta$-casein/hGH gene. The copy numbers of three transgenic founder were 1, 5, and 15, respectively. A radioimmunoassay was developed to quantitate the amount of expression of the hGH gene in mammary gland of transgenic mice. The amount of hGH was 13.3ng/ml in the lactating milk of one transgenic line, showing predominantly higher than 3.0ng/ml in milk of control mice. Therefore, our findings suggested that $\beta$-casein promoter may induce the tissue specific expression of structural gene.

  • PDF

Distribution of the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes derived from microorganisms in the waterfront environments (주변 수계에서 미생물유래 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase 유전자의 분포)

  • Young-Min Bae
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
    • /
    • v.39 no.6
    • /
    • pp.916-923
    • /
    • 2022
  • Water samples were collected from three spots(Namcheon, Changwoncheon and Cheongwoonji) in Changwon and genomic DNA was isolated from them. Quantitative PCR was performed with the isolated DNA as template and primers targeting five different class A extended-spectrum beta-lactamase(ESBL) genes(blaOXA-1, blaSHV, blaTEM, blaCTX-M-1, blaCTX-M-9). The number of total ESBL genes from each sample showed large variations between each sample. Thirty nanograms of DNA from Namcheon contained 1.93×106 copies of ESBL genes whereas the same amount of DNA from Changwoncheon contained 1.47×105 copies of ESBL genes. However, the same amount of DNA from Cheongwoonji pond contained only 9.5×103 copies of ESBL genes. The ratio of each ESBL genes showed little difference between Namcheon river and Changwoncheon river, but DNA from Cheongwoonji pond showed a large difference from the rest. blaOXA-1 gene was present at 65.3%, and blaCTX-M-1 gene 33.6% for Namcheon comprising together almost 99%. blaOXA-1 gene was present at 64.1%, and blaCTX-M-1 gene 19.1% for Changwoncheon comprising together over 83%. blaCTX-M-1 gene was present at 87.5% and blaCTX-M-9 genes 9.8% for Cheongwoonji, a pond which is a closed and isolated environment.

Design and Implementation of a Backup System for Digital Contents (디지털콘텐츠의 특성을 고려한 백업 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee Seok Jae;Yun Jong Hyun;Hwang Sok Choel;Yoo Jae Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
    • /
    • v.6 no.2
    • /
    • pp.105-116
    • /
    • 2006
  • With the development of IT technology, the amount of digital contents used in various environments of wired/wireless networks have been increased hugely and rapidly To protect the loss of the digital contents from the sudden accident, continuous data backup is required. In this paper, we design and implement the backup system that stores digital contents in backup storage by objectifying the contents with a unit of I/O size and giving them the unique E using the properties of digital contents to avoid duplicated store of the same data. The backup system reduces the amount of backup data efficiently by backing up the only one copy of the duplicated data. as a result, the backup system can back up the digital contents more efficiently in a constrained storage space.

  • PDF

A Research on the Digital Restoration of the Analog by Removing Hiss Noise (Using X-NOISE Based on Hiss-Noise Reduction) (히스 노이즈제거를 통한 아날로그의 디지털 복원에 대한 연구 - X-NOISE를 활용한 히스 노이즈리덕션을 중심으로 -)

  • Byun, Jung Min;Doo, Ill Chul
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
    • /
    • v.10 no.4
    • /
    • pp.161-170
    • /
    • 2014
  • Analog cassette tapes are easily changed due to environmental factors. To digitize is the best way to preserve a sound source. The way to digitize is to deal with the original sound to be enhanced to a variety of sources by playing through the audio card after recording. In this process to occur, it's the most important to remove various noise and equalizing sound in a method for preserving. It's studied about how to remove noise by using one of softwares, Cubase 5. 5, to remove hiss noise, which happens changing analog tape into digitalization. A amount of hiss noise is reduced to use X-Noise software of Wave which uses in Cubase 5.0, one of PLUG-IN. The noise is removed changing value of threshold and reduction every 10 times in no change of origin sound. To keep regular condition, the experiment to remove the hiss noise is conducted based on sound meondle, which is one of sound Nonmaegi. The noise is removed easily when the value of threshold is getting high in spite of giving a little value of reduction. However, as it gives a amount of reduction high, the damage rate of the sound source gets high.

Comparison of Non-amplified and Amplified DNA Preparation Methods for Array-comparative Gnomic Hybridization Analysis

  • Joo, Hong-Jin;Jung, Seung-Hyun;Yim, Seon-Hee;Kim, Tae-Min;Xu, Hai-Dong;Shin, Seung-Hun;Kim, Mi-Young;Kang, Hyun-Mi;Chung, Yeun-Jun
    • Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
    • /
    • v.4 no.3
    • /
    • pp.246-252
    • /
    • 2008
  • Tumor tissue is usually contaminated by normal tissue components, which reduces the sensitivity of analysis for exploring genetic alterations. Although microdissection has been adopted to minimize the contamination of tumor DNA with normal cell components, there is a concern over the amount of microdissected DNA not enough to be applied to array-CGH reaction. To amplify the extracted DNA, several whole genome amplification (WGA) methods have been developed, but objective comparison of the array-CGH outputs using different types of WGA methods is still scarce. In this study, we compared the performance of non-amplified microdissected DNA and DNA amplified in 2 WGA methods such as degenerative oligonucleotide primed (DOP)-PCR, and multiple strand displacement amplification (MDA) using Phi 29 DNA polymerase. Genomic DNA was also used to make a comparison. We applied those 4 DNAs to whole genome BAC array to compare the false positive detection rate (FPDR) and sensitivity in detecting copy number alterations under the same hybridization condition. As a result microdissected DNA method showed the lowest FPDR and the highest sensitivity. Among WGA methods, DOP-PCR amplified DNA showed better sensitivity but similar FPDR to MDA-amplified method. These results demonstrate the advantage and applicability of microdissection for array-CGH analysis, and provide useful information for choosing amplification methods to study copy number alterations, especially based on precancerous and microscopically invaded lesions.