• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.89-92
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• 2011

Cyclic AMP receptor-like protein (Clp), is known to be a global transcriptional regulator for the expression of virulence factors in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc). Sequence analysis showed that Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) contains a gene that is strongly homologous to the Xcc clp. In order to determine the role of the Clp homolog in Xoo, a marker exchange mutant of $clp_{xoo4158}$ was generated. Virulence and virulence factors, such as the production of cellulase, xylanase, and extracellular polysaccharides (EPS) and swarming motility were significantly decreased in the $clp_{xoo4158}$ mutant. Moreover, the mutation caused the strain to be more sensitive to hydrogen peroxide and to over-produce siderophores. Complementation of the mutant restored the mutation-related phenotypes. Expression of $clp_{xoo4158}$, assessed by reverse-transcription realtime PCR and clp promoter activity, was significantly reduced in the rpfB, rpfF, rpfC, and rpfG mutants. These results suggest that the clp homolog, $clp_{xoo4158}$, is involved in the control of virulence and resistance against oxidative stress, and that expression of the gene is controlled by RpfC and RpfG through a diffusible signal factor (DSF) signal in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae KACC10859.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2011

자돈의 생시 체중은 자돈의 이유 체중 및 생존율에도 크게 영향을 미친다. 또한 출하 시까지 돼지의 성장률 뿐만아니라 출하 일령 단축 및 출하 체중과도 밀접한 연관성이 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구는 돼지 7번 염색체의 PGK 2 (phosphoglycerate kinase 2) 유전자의 promoter 영역 및 transcription 영역에 해당하는 DNA 염기서열을 유전체 구조분석을 통해 20개의 SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorpism)를 발굴하였고, 발굴된 SNP 중 PGK 2 유전자의 전사 조절 영역 내 g.122 T>G 다형을 재래돼지와 Landrace를 이용한 $F_2$ 집단 268두 자돈의 성장 형질과의 연관성 분석을 실시한 결과, 생시 체중(p<0.01) 및 3주령 체중(p<0.001)에서 통계적으로 고도의 유의적 연관성이 있음을 확인 할 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구를 통하여 확인된 PGK 2 유전자의 promoter 영역 내 성장 형질 관련 SNP는 건강한 자돈 및 종돈을 조기 선발하기 위한 유전자 marker로 활용 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.1078-1084
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• 2009

The Jindo dog is a Korean natural monument and is recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale. A prominent feature is the diverse coat color within the breed. To analyze the genetic basis of variation in the Jindo coat color, we sequenced the protein-coding regions of the melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R). The MC1R coding sequence was determined from 154 dogs in five breeds (Jindo, Labrador Retriever, English Springer Spaniel, Belgian Malinois, and German Shepherd). To confirm the genetic structure of sampled populations, we tested for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) and computed $F_{st}$ The sample populations did not significantly deviate from HWE. $F_{st}$ was 0.02 between white and fawn Jindo dogs; this was lower than $F_{st}$ between breeds. Six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected in the MC1R coding region. Among the six SNPs, five were non-synonymous (S90G, T105A, Q159P, M264V, and R306ter) and one was synonymous SNP (Y298Y). From the SNPs, we predicted four haplotypes (H1, H2, H3, and H4) for Jindo MC1R. Jindo dogs had different haplotypes corresponding to different coat colors. H1 was frequently observed in white Jindo dogs with an odds ratio of 5.03 (95% CI: 2.27-11.18, p<0.0001), whereas H2 and H4 were observed only in fawn Jindo dogs. Our findings indicate that SNP haplotype can influence coat color. Knowledge of MC1R haplotypes can help discriminate white and fawn coats in Jindo dogs. We hope this report will trigger more research into the genetics of this traditional Korean dog and will be a reference for dogs of Asian origin. Also, our results will provide a useful genetic marker for Jindo dog breeders who have selected for specific colors.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1636-1643
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• 2012

Enzymatic pre-bleaching by modification of pulp fibers with xylanases is an attractive approach to reduce the consumption of toxic bleaching chemicals in the paper industry. In this study, an alkaliphilic endoxylanase gene was isolated from metagenomic DNA of a structurally stable thermophilic lignocellulose-degrading microbial consortium using amplification with conserved glycosyl hydrolase family 10 primers and subsequent genome walking. The full-length xylanase showed 78% sequence identity to an endo-${\beta}$-1,4-xylanase of Clostridium phytofermentans and was expressed in a mature form with an N-terminal His6 tag fusion in Escherichia coli. The recombinant xylanase Xyn3F was thermotolerant and alkaliphilic, working optimally at $65-70^{\circ}C$ with an optimal pH at 9-10 and retaining >80% activity at pH 9, $60^{\circ}C$ for 1 h. Xyn3F showed a $V_{max}$ of 2,327 IU/mg and $K_m$ of 3.5 mg/ml on birchwood xylan. Pre-bleaching of industrial eucalyptus pulp with no prior pH adjustment (pH 9) using Xyn3F at 50 IU/g dried pulp led to 4.5-5.1% increase in final pulp brightness and 90.4-102.4% increase in whiteness after a single-step hypochlorite bleaching over the untreated pulp, which allowed at least 20% decrease in hypochlorite consumption to achieve the same final bleaching indices. The alkaliphilic xylanase is promising for application in an environmentally friendly bleaching step of kraft and soda pulps with no requirement for pH adjustment, leading to improved economic feasibility of the process.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.765-769
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• 2009

HPV-16형의 염기배열 변이는 지역적, 인종적으로 특징적인 차이가 있으며 특히 HPV-16형 E6/E7 유전자의 특정 염기 서열변이는 자궁경부암 및 자궁상피내 신생종양물의 발생을 일으키는 고위험 요인으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구는 2007년 부산지역 유흥업소 종사여성으로 분리된 HPV-16형 19건을 대상으로 E6/E7 유전자 영역(nt 34-880)을 표적으로 지역적 염기 서열 변이를 조사하였다. nucleotide 수준에서 HPV16형 E6 유전자는 T178G (n=11), T178A (n=1), T350G (n=4), A442C (n=2), A104T, A111G, C116T, G145T, T183G, C335T, G522C 등 11종의 변이주가 발견되었고, E7 유전자는 A647G (n=12), A645C, A777C, G663A, T732C, T760C, A775T, T789C, T795G 등 9종의 변이주가 발견되었다. 아미노산 수준에서는 HPV-16형 E6 단백질의 경우 D25E (n=12), L83V (n=4), E113D (n=2), MIL, Q3R, P5S, Q14H, D25N, 127R, H78Y, C140S 등 11종의 변이주를, HPV16형 E7 단백질의 경우 N29S (n=12), L28F, T72S 등 3종의 변이주를 관찰할 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과, 부산지역의 HPV-16형 E6/E7 우점 돌연변이주는 E6 D25E (75%), E7 N29S (78%)로 각각 나타났다. 앞으로 자궁경부암 환자 및 일반여성을 포함한 더 많은 모집 단을 대상으로 HPV-16형 E6/E7의 intratypic variants를 비교 조사하여 실제 HPV-16형 E6/E7 어떤 변이주가 자궁경부암 유발 위험성과의 관련성은 더 많이 연구되어져야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2004

이소플라본의 함량이 매우 높은 것으로 알려진 국내 콩품종 신팔달로부터 2개의 유전자 IFS1 (SinIFS1)과 IFS2(SinIFS2)가 클로닝되었다. 유전자의 염기서열을 밝힌 후, 기존에 알려진 콩과의 다른 IFS 유전자들과 유전자 염기서열의 유사성을 비교 분석하였다. 유전자 SinIFS1은 전체 1,828bp의 nucleotide와 521개의 아미노산으로 이루어져 있었고 SinIFS2의 경우, 1912bp의 nucleotide와 521의 아미노산으로 이루어져 있었다. 두 유전자 모두 cytochrome P45O superfamily의 일원이었고, 상응하는 conserve된 motif들을 가지고 있었다. 콩과의 다른 식물에서 클로닝된 IFS들과의 염기서열비교에서는 매우 높은 염기서열 유사성(98% 이상)이 관측되었다. 유전자의 발현과 유발에 관한 노던분석 실험 결과, 무처리구로 사용한 암처리보다 모두 유발된 유전자의 발현을 나타났는데, 특히 곰팡이 elicitor 처리구의 경우, 무처리보다 6배 이상의 유전자 유발을 보였다. 그 다음으로는 자외선 처리가 높은 유전자 발현 유발효과를 나타내었고, 그 다음으로 저온과 명처리순으로 유발효과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.115-128
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• 2019

본 연구는 전통 김치로부터 유단백질 분해능과 lactose 분해능을 가지는 유산균을 선발하고, 프로바이오틱 활성을 측정하여 발효유용 스타터로서의 이용가능성을 조사하였다. BCP agar에서 젖산생성력이 우수한 32 colony를 선발한 후 내산성 및 내담즙성 모두에서 90% 이상으로 내성이 우수한 2 colony(KC23, KF26)를 2차로 선발하였다. 이들을 대상으로 API 50CHL 탄수화물 이용성 테스트 및 16S rRNA 염기서열을 분석한 결과, L. plantarum KC23과 L. paracasei KF26으로 동정되었다. 이들 중 lactose와 raffinose를 포함하여 당분해능을 가진 L. plantarum KC23을 최종 선발하고 프로바이오틱 활성을 조사하였다. 우유단백질 분해능을 10% 환원탈지유 배양 중의 유리 tyrosine 함량으로 측정한 결과, 배양 8시간 후에는 $24.1{\mu}g/mL$에서 배양 16시간 후에는 $43.9{\mu}g/mL$로 급격하게 증가되었으며, 또한 clear zone형성 크기를 비교한 결과 12 mm로 상업균주인 L. acidophilus CSLA의 9 mm보다 우수한 특성을 보였다. 온도별 생장특성을 확인한 결과는 $45^{\circ}C$에서 보다 $35^{\circ}C$에서 잘 증식하는 중온균의 특성을 나타내었고, $37^{\circ}C$에서 12시간 동안 배양한 결과 배양 6-10시간 사이에 대수증식기를 보였으며, 배양 12시간 후 생균수는 $8.9{\times}10^8CFU/mL$와 pH 4.25 수준을 나타내었다. 항균활성을 측정한 결과는 5개 병원성균에 대하여 8-13 mm의 clear zone을 형성하여 우수한 저해특성을 보였으며, 그중 Salmonella typhimurium과 Bacillus cereus에 대한 항균활성이 가장 우수하였다. 장내부착능을 측정한 결과는 비교균주인 LGG에 비하여 2.23배의 우수한 결과를 보였으며, 10% 환원탈지유를 이용한 $37^{\circ}C$ 배양에서 젖산생성능을 확인한 결과는 대조군인 L. acidophilus CSLA에 비하여 다소 낮은 경향을 보였지만, 적정산도가 0.74% 수준으로서 저산성 발효유 제조를 위한 스타터로 활용 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1169-1173
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• 2007

The protein encoded by SLC27A2 gene is an isozyme of long-chain fatty-acid-coenzyme A ligase family, and it converts free long-chain fatty acids into fatty acyl-CoA esters, and thereby plays a key role in lipid biosynthesis and fatty acid degradation. In the present study, SLC27A2 located on human chromosome 15 was selected as candidate gene and we isolated and cloned partial fragments of mRNA sequence and genomic fragments of porcine SLC27A2 gene. The coding region of the gene as determined by alignments shared 90% and 82% identity with human and mouse cDNAs, respectively. Detection in LargeWhite and Meishan breeds showed that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) ($A{\rightarrow}G$) existed in exon 7, which caused corresponding amino acid changed for encoding. In LargeWhite pigs it encoded for Val while in Meishan pigs it encoded for Ile, so we developed the PCR-RFLP genotype method for detection of this polymorphism. Association study in 135 $F_2$ reference family indicated that significant correlation existed between the polymorphism and growth and carcass traits.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.95.2-96
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• 2003

In order to develop a new microbial fungicide for the control of vegetable diseases using endophytic bacteria, a total of 260 bacterial strains were isolated from fresh tissues of 5 plant species. After they were cultured in broth media, their antifungal activities were screened by in vivo bioassays against Botrytis cinerea(tomato gray mold), Pythium ultimum(cucumber damping-off), Phytopkhora infestans(tomato late blight), Colletotrichum orbiculare(cucumber anthracnose), and Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei(barley powdery mildew). As the results of screening, 38 bacterial strains showed potent antifungal activities against at least one of 5 plant pathogens. A bacterial strain EB072 displayed potent disease control activities against 3 plant diseases. Among the bacterial strains with a potent antifungal activity against cucunlber anthracnose, three bacterial strains, EB054, EB151 and EB215, also displayed a potent in vitro antifungal activity against C. acutatum, a fungal agent causing pepper anthracnose. A bacterial strain EB215 obtained from roots of cucumber was identified as Burkholderia cepacia based on its physiological and biochemical characteristics and 165 rRNA gene sequence. An antifungal substance was isolated from the liquid cultures of B. cepacia EB215 strain by ethyl acetate partitioning, repeated silica gel column chromatography, and invitro bioassay, Its structural determination is in progress by various instrumental analyses.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1027-1036
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• 2018

In this paper a new generalized space vector pulse width modulation scheme is proposed based on the principle of reverse mapping to drive the switches of multilevel inverters. This projected scheme is developed based on the middle vector of the subhexagon which holds the tip of the reference vector, which plays a major role in mapping the reference vector. A new approach is offered to produce middle vector of the subhexagon which holds tip of the reference vector in the multilevel space vector plane. By using middle vector of the subhexagon, reference vector is linked towards the inner two level sub-hexagon. Then switching vectors, switching sequence and dwell times corresponding to a particular sector of a two-level inverter are determined. After that, by using the two level stage findings, the switching vectors related to exact position of the reference vector are directly generated based on principle of the reverse mapping approach and do not need to be found at n level stage. In the reverse mapping principle, the middle vector of subhexagon is added to the formerly found two level switching vectors. The proposed generalized algorithm is efficient and it can be applied to an inverter of any level. In this paper, the proposed scheme is explained for a five-level inverter and the performance is analyzed for five level and three level inverters through MATLAB. The simulation results are validated by implementing the propose scheme on a V/f controlled three-level inverter fed induction motor using dSPACE control desk.