• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1336-1344
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• 2011

This study details and examines a novel ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction (LM-PCR) method. Named the LM-PCR/Shifter, it relies on the use of a Class IIS restriction enzyme giving restriction fragments with different 4-base, 5' overhangs, this being the Shifter, and the ligation of appropriate oligonucleotide adapters. A sequence of 4-base, 5' overhangs of the adapter and a 4-base sequence of the 3' end of the primer(s) determine a subset of the genomic restriction fragments, which are amplified by PCR. The method permits the differentiation of bacterial species strains on the basis of the different DNA band patterns obtained after electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels stained with ethidium bromide and visualized in UV light. The usefulness of the LM-PCR/Shifter method for genotyping is analyzed by a comparison with the restriction endonuclease analysis of chromosomal DNA by the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (REA-PFGE) and PCR melting profile (PCR MP) methods for isolates of clinical origin. The clustering of the LM-PCR/Shifter fingerprinting data matched those of the REA-PFGE and PCR MP methods. We found that the LM-PCR/Shifter is rapid, and offers good discriminatory power and excellent reproducibility, making it a method that may be effectively applied in epidemiological studies.

• Mycobiology
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2003

Roots of Glycine max and Miscanthus sinensis and soil samples were collected from various field sites at Goesan, Chungbuk in Korea. Microscopic observations of the roots indicated high colonization rates of both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi(AMF) and other fungi. The partial small subunit of ribosomal DNA genes were amplified with the genomic DNA extracted from their roots by nested polymerase chain reaction(PCR) with universal primer NS1 and fungal specific primers AML Restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP) was analyzed using the combinations of three restriction enzymes, HinfI, AluI and AsuC21. Nucleotides sequence analysis revealed that ten sequences from Miscanthus sinensis and one sequence from Glycine max were close to those of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Also, 33% of total clones amplified with NS31-AM1 primers from M. sinensis and 97% from G. max were close to Fusarium oxysporum or other pathogenic fungi, and they were successfully distinguished from AME Results suggested that these techniques could help to distinguish arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from root pathogenic fungi in the plant roots. Especially, DNA amplified by these primers showed distinct polymorphisms between AMF and plant pathogenic species of Fusarium when digested with AsuC21.

• 한국미생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.15-21
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• 2002

Terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis has been optimized by using in vitro model community composed of genomic DNAs of known bacterial strains and has been applied to assess the bacterial community structure in marine sediments. The specific fluorescence-labeled terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) between 39 and 839 base long specifying each strain were precisely measured for known bacterial strains. The addition of a co-solvent (dimethylsulfoxide or glycerol) into PCR reactions has reduced differential PCR amplification. Comparative bacterial community structure was investigated for pristine and polluted sediments. A complex T-RFLP pattern showing complex bacterial community structure was obtained in the pristine sediment, whereas simple T-RFLP pattern (low bacterial diversity) was shown in polluted sediments where caged aquaculture has been conducted for several years. The results of T-RFLP analysis were compared with that of cloning and sequencing 16S rDNA clones from the same sediments. Sequence analysis of 16S rDNA clones (72) of the pristine sediment revealed a diverse collection of lineages, largely of the class Proteobacteria ($6\%$ alpha subdivision, $46\%$ gamma subdivision, $13\%$ delta subdivision, and $3\%$ epsilon subdivision), Nitrospina $(8\%)$, high G+C gram positive $(8\%)$, Verrucomicrobia $(7\%)$, and Planctomycetes $(6\%)$. In the contaminated sediments, 17 $(59\%)$ of the 16S rDNA clones (29) were related to Campylobacter and symbiont of Rimicaris exoculata belonging to epsilon subdivision of Proteobacteria. The results obtained indicated that T-RFLP analysis is a rapid and precise technique for comparative bacterial community analysis.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.47-52
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• 1986

A heat-labile enterotoxin and no heat-stable enterotoxin producing($LT^+ST^-$) plasmid (110 kilobases in size) was isolated from an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli of human strain O15:H11 and used for analysis of the $LT^+$ deoxyrionucleic acid region using recombinant DNA technology. A DNA segment containing the $LT^+$ DNA region which was one restriction endonuclease BamHl fragment(6.2 kb in size) was joind to a small multicopy plasmid, pUC9. E. coli K-12 strain, JM103 harboring the chimeric plasmid produced greater amounts of LT than did the enterotoxigenic E. coli O15:H11 strain. The BamHl fragment was further digested with various restriction endonucleases and contained no HindIll restriction site which is an essential in $LT^+ST^+$ plasmid. The detailed DNA sequencing of this $LT^+ST^-$ plasmid is required.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.57-61
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• 2001

Phytoplasmas were identified from two chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflorum) plants showing different symptoms ; one with stusting, rosette, and excessive branching (Ph-ch1), and the other with stunting and chlorosis (Ph-ch2). Electron microscopy of midrib of the plants with the symptoms revealed that numerous phytoplasmas were localized in the phloem cells. The disease was transmitted from infected plants to healthy ones by grafting. Phytoplasma-specific DNA was detected in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis with template DNA extracted from the leaves of Ph-ch1 and Ph-ch2, both of which yielded a same DNA band corresponding to 1.5 kb. Using a specific primer pair (R16F1/R1) synthesized based on aster yellows (AY) phytoplasma, a DNA fragment of 1.1 kb was amplified by PCR. Endonuclease restriction patterns of the 1.1 kb PCR products from Ph-ch1 and Ph-ch2, which were dgeste with each of the restriction endonucleases Sau3A, Hha, Alu and Rsa, were same as those of AY phytoplasma from periwinkle. This suggests that the chrysanthemum plants (Ph-ch1 and Ph-ch2) be infected with a phytoplasma belonging to AY phytoplasma.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.450-455
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• 1996

The genomic DNA was prepared from trout liver which was treated with 3-methycholanthrene, and cloned into lambda EMBL3 at BamHl site. The genomic library was constructed via infections of these recombinant phages into E. coli K802, and screened by the most $5^I$-portion of trout CYP1A1 cDNA. After the screening of $10^9$ clones of the amplified library, 12 positive clones were isolated, and subjected to further screenings. The results of southern blot hybridization of genomic DNA prepared from the positive clone showed the presence of a single gene of CYP1A1, and 3.5 Kb PstI fragment that hybridizes with the most $5^I$-region DNA of CYP1A1 cDNA. The restriction map of PstI fragment was determined by the restriction digestion with various enzymes. The nucleotide sequence of the upstream genomic DNA of CYPIAI was determined by DNA sequencing of exonuclease III unidirectionally deleted PstI fragment DNA using $[^{35}/S]$dATP. This paper presented the upstream genomic DNA of CYP1A1 contained a part of coding region which was about 351 base pairs (from ATG to PstI site at 3563).

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.61-65
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• 1997

Wild type nodulin 26(nod 26) cDNA(S262) and phodphorylation aite mutant(S262D) were constructed by a yeast expression system using pYES2 plasmids(pTES2-D262 and pTES2-S262D) were sc-reened by restriction mapping with BamHI of KpnI. S262 nod 26 contained a sreine residue at position 262 and S262D nod 26 contained the substitution mutation of serine to aspartic acid residue at position 262 were verified by automated floursent DNA sequencing.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.285-290
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• 1994

자연계에서 새로운 제한효소 생산균을 검색하여 한 균주를 선발하고, 형태학적, 생리학적, 생화학적 특성들을 조사하여 Alcaligenes sp.로 동정하고 제한효소의 특성을 조사하였다. Alcaligenes sp. J-482가 생산하는 제한효소를 AspJI으로 명명하였다. AspJI은 pBR322, Adenovirus 2-DNA, ${lambda}$ DNA 등에 대한 절단양식이 AatII와 같아 AatII의 isoschizomer로 추정 되었으며, 효소활성에 12.5mM 이상의 $MgCl_2$를 필요로 하였으며, NaCl에 의하여 저해되었다. AspJI의 반응 최적 온도는 $37^{circ}C$, 최적 pH는 7.5로 확인 되었으며, 내열성을 조사한 결과 $85^{circ}C$이상에서 15분처리 할 때 안전히 실활되는 것으로 관찰되었다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2001

A cDNA of coagulation Factor IX gene has been screened from the $\lambda$gt11 human fetal liver cDNA library, and used to construct a 2.8-kb full length cDNA after recombining with the N-terminal fragment from pTZ-FIX. Human genomic DNA was isolated, digested with the restriction endonucleases, TaqI, EcoRI, and HindIII, and Southern hybridization was performed using the full length factor IX cDNA as a probe. The hybridized bands generated by the restriction endonucleases were the followings: TaqI, 0.3, 1.0, 1.6, 1.8, 2.7, 3.7, and 5.3 kb bands; EcoRI, 1.8, 4.8, 4.9, 5.5, 6.8, and 12.6 kb bands; HindIII, 4.1, 4.4, 5.2, 5.8, 7.6, and 12.5 kb bands. When the Southern bands were physically mapped along the genome, about 50-kb continuous region harboring almost all of the genomic region of Factor Ⅸ gene was covered. These results suggest a possibility of using an exonal cDNA probe to diagnose abnormalities including large deletions, insertions, and rearrangements along the genome, if there is any.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.879-883
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• 2005

한국산과 중국산 피조개의 신속 진단, 유전적 특성 및 유연관계를 분석하기 위하여 DNA 수준에서 확인 할 수 있는 PCR-aided RFLP를 사용하였다. 피조개 mtDNA 165 rDNA gene를 제한효소로 처리하여 그 band 양상을 조사하고자 하였다. 165 rDNA gene을 분리하기 위하여 ArkF-3, ArkR-3 primer를 사용한 결과 한국산과 중국산 피조개 모두 분자량이 720 bp band가 나타났다 PCR에 의하여 증폭된 16S rRNA gene을 총 8종류의 제한효소(PvuII, BamHI, HinfI, HaeIII, EcoRI, RsaI, Ksp221, BstX21)로 절단하여 RFLP 양상을 보았다. HinfI의 제한효소 처리 시 득량, 가막, 남해, 진해, 태안산 피조개 모두 275 band절편이 관찰되었으나, 중국산은 나타나지 않았다. HinfI를 제외한 나머지 제한효소는 다형형이 관찰되지 않았고 한국산과 중국산 모두 700 bp의 동일한 band를 보였다. HaeIII에서도 득량, 가막, 태안과 남해와 진해산 PCR product가 700 bp위치에서 상이하게 보였다. 또한 한국산과 중국산 절편이 다르게 나타났다. 한국산 피조개 종내 restriction 쇼pe에 의해 유연관계의 결과에 의하면 득량, 가막, 태안은 동일한 유사도를 보였고, 남해와 진해와는 거리가 7 정도로 나타났다. 특히 한국산과 중국산 거리는 25로 나타났다. 이상의 결과를 보아서,HinfI 제한효소는 한국산과 중국산을 구별하는데 매우 유용한 molecular marker가 될 수 있을 것으로 판단되며, 유전적으로 거리가 먼 것으로 보인다. 또한 HaeIII은 한국산 종내 구분 및 중국산 신속 동정에 좋은 molecular tool로 사용될 것으로 예상된다.