• KSBB Journal
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.387-391
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• 2005

고온성 및 초고온성 세균과 고세균 13종 모두에서 관찰되는 167종류 총 16,299개의 보존적 유전자들에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 단백질대사 관련 유전자들이 80개로 전체 보존적 유전자의 $47.9\%$였으며, 중온성 세균을 제외하고 고온성과 초고온성 세균들에서만 관찰되는 공통유전자는 없어 열 안정성은 특정 단백질의 유무에 따라 이루어지지 않는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만 초고온성 세균들은 reverse gyrase를 공통적으로 가지고 있어 고온에서의 DNA의 열안전성에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 생각되었다. 유전자보유 계통수와 165 rRNA 유전자 계통수의 비교결과 초고온성 진정세균과 고온성 고세균인 Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum의 분포 양상이 서로 다르게 나타났다. 167개의 공통 유전자가 한 유전체에서 보이는 distance value들의 평균과 분산에서는 초고온성 진정세균, 초고온성 고세균, 고온성 고세균들끼리 유사한 값을 갖는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.663-671
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• 2022

The saccharification of cellulose and hemicellulose is essential for utilizing lignocellulosic biomass as a biofuel. While cellulose is composed of glucose only, hemicelluloses are composed of diverse sugars such as xylose, arabinose, glucose, and galactose. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is a good potential candidate for biofuel production using hemicellulose as this archaeon simultaneously utilizes various sugars. However, S. acidocaldarius has to be manipulated because the enzyme that breaks down hemicellulose is not present in this species. Here, we engineered S. acidocaldarius to utilize xylan as a carbon source by introducing xylanase and β-xylosidase. Heterologous expression of β-xylosidase enhanced the organism's degradability and utilization of xylooligosaccharides (XOS), but the mutant still failed to grow when xylan was provided as a carbon source. S. acidocaldarius exhibited the ability to degrade xylan into XOS when xylanase was introduced, but no further degradation proceeded after this sole reaction. Following cell growth and enzyme reaction, S. acidocaldarius successfully utilized xylan in the synergy between xylanase and β-xylosidase.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2000년도 International Symposium on Bioinformatics
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• pp.17-20
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• 2000

Structural genomics aims to provide a good experimental structure or computational model of every tractable protein in a complete genome. Underlying this goal is the immense value of protein structure, especially in permitting recognition of distant evolutionary relationships for proteins whose sequence analysis has failed to find any significant homolog. A considerable fraction of the genes in all sequenced genomes have no known function, and structure determination provides a direct means of revealing homology that may be used to infer their putative molecular function. The solved structures will be similarly useful for elucidating the biochemical or biophysical role of proteins that have been previously ascribed only phenotypic functions. More generally, knowledge of an increasingly complete repertoire of protein structures will aid structure prediction methods, improve understanding of protein structure, and ultimately lend insight into molecular interactions and pathways. We use computational methods to select families whose structures cannot be predicted and which are likely to be amenable to experimental characterization. Methods to be employed included modern sequence analysis and clustering algorithms. A critical component is consultation of the presage database for structural genomics, which records the community's experimental work underway and computational predictions. The protein families are ranked according to several criteria including taxonomic diversity and known functional information. Individual proteins, often homologs from hyperthermophiles, are selected from these families as targets for structure determination. The solved structures are examined for structural similarity to other proteins of known structure. Homologous proteins in sequence databases are computationally modeled, to provide a resource of protein structure models complementing the experimentally solved protein structures.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.104-110
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• 2012

Glycosynthase는 친핵성 아미노산을 비친핵성 아미노산으로 치환하여 당전이 산물의 가수분해를 막아서 당전이 효율을 증가시킬 수 있다. 이전 연구에서 본 실험실은 열에 안정하고 산에 강한 Thermoplasma acidophilum 유래의 ${alpha}$-glucosidase (AglA)가 당전이 활성이 있음을 입증하였으나 시간이 지남에 따라 당전이 산물이 가수분해 되었다. 이러한 AglA의 당전이 효율을 개선하기 위하여 친핵성 아미노산인 아스파라긴산을 글리신으로 치환하였다. 이 치환된 glycosynthase는 니켈 친화력 크로마토그래피를 통하여 정제되었으며, 정제된 돌연변이 단백질의 배당체를 합성하는 능력이 말토오스를 공여체로 그리고 p-nitrophenyl-${alpha}$-D-glucopyranoside($pNP{\alpha}G$)를 수용체로, 그리고 $pNP{\alpha}G$가 당공여체 및 수용체로 이용될 수 있는지 검사하였다. Glycosynthase를 이용한 당전이 산물의 수율은 약 42.5%를 보였으며 시간이 지남에 따라서 가수분해되지 않았다. 박막 크로마토그래피법을 이용한 반응산물의 분석은 수용체의 높은 농도에서 기존의 효소보다 많은 양의 배당체를 합성할 수 있음을 보여주었고, 특히 중성보다 낮은 pH 영역에서 가장 높은 활성을 보여줌을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 glycosynthase가 산업적으로 배당체를 합성하는데 유용성이 크다는 것을 나타낸다.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.263-271
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• 1999

We checked the presence of phospholipase $A_2(PLA)_2$ which could split the ester bond at the position 2 in the glycerol backbone of glycerophospholipids, in the cells of hyperthermophiles of Pyrococcus horikoshii and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. The results obtained are as follows; (1). Pyrococcus horikoshii cells were grown in obligate anaerobic conditions at $95^{\circ}C$ and they needed sulfur as energy source instead of oxygen, while Sulfolobus acidocaldarius species grew well in the aerobic medium (pH 2.5) containing yeast and sucrose at $75^{\circ}C$. (2). Pyrococcus horikoshii cells produced phospholipase $A_2$ in the cell culture media although this species did not show lipase activity at least in the pH range of 1.5 ${\sim}$ 3.5. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius cells produced lipase hydrolyzing triacylglycerols such as triolein, but did not split any kind of phospholipids used as substates. (3). The compound of 1-decanoyl-2-(p-nitrophenylglutaryl) phosphatidylcholine was not suitable for a substrate in this experiment, though frequently used as a subtrate for checking presence of phospholipase $A_2$, for its decomposi-tion in this experiment. The L-${\alpha}$-phosphatidylcholine-${\beta}$-[N-7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1, 3-diazol]aminohexanoyl-${\gamma}$-hexadecanoyl labelled with a fluorescent material, did not show any migration of acyl chains in the molecule during the reaction with phospholipase $A_2$ under a hot condition. (4). Phospholipase $A_2$ in the cells of Pyrococcus horikoshii, showed the optimum activity at $pH6.7{\sim}7.2$ and $95{\sim}105^{\circ}C$, respectively, and was activated by addition of calcium chloride solution. Andthe phospholipase $A_2$ specifically hydrolyzed glycero-phospholipids such as phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl ethanolamine, phosphatidyl serine and phosphatidyl inositol, but could not split phospholipid containing ether bonds in the molecule such as DL -${\alpha}$-phosphatidylcholine-${\beta}$-palmitoyl-${\gamma}$-O-hexadecyl, DL-${\alpha}$-phosphati- dylcholine-${\beta}$- oleoyl-${\gamma}$-O-hexadecyl, DL-phosphatidylcholine-dihexadecyl.