• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.791-793
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• 2009

Escherichia coli RNase P is composed of a large RNA subunit (M1 RNA) and a small protein subunit (C5 protein). Since both subunits are assembled in a 1:1 ratio, expression of M1 RNA and C5 protein should be coordinately regulated for RNase P to be efficiently synthesized in the cell. However, it is not known yet how the coordination occurs. In this study, we investigated how overexpression of C5 protein affects expression of the rnpB gene encoding M1 RNA, using a lysogenic strain, which carries an rnpB-lacZ transcription fusion. Primer extension analysis of rnpB-lacZ fusion transcripts showed that the overexpression of C5 protein increased the amount of the fusion transcripts, suggesting that rnpB expression increases with the increase of intracellular level of C5 protein.

• 미생물과산업
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.8-17
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• 1993

젖산생성균의 .betha.-gal의 생성과 Bif. longum KCTC 3215에 의한 .betha.-gal 생산, 정제 및 특성에 관한 연구와 젖산생성균의 .betha.-gal 유전자의 클로닝 및 대장균에의 발현과 Str.thermophilus SKD 1006의 Lac Z 유전자를 비교 분석하였다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.215-221
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• 2009

대장균에서 비천연 아미노산을 단백질 생합성시 특정 위치에 삽입하는 방법의 하나로 amber suppressor tRNA와 여기에 비천연 아미노산을 특이적으로 결합할 수 있는 변형된 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase 쌍을 이용한다. 이러한 기술의 개발을 위해 필요한 여러 요소 중 하나는 이러한 시스템이 대장균에서 얼마나 잘 작동하는지를 확인할 수 있는 in vivo 보고시스템을 설정하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 $\beta$-galactosidase 유전자의 N-말단에 amber 코돈을 삽입한 보고유전자를 제작하였으며, 이를 대장균(DH10B)의 chromosomal DNA에 삽입하여 DH10B(Tn:lacZam) 균주를 개발하였다. Genomic PCR과 Southern blot 분석을 통하여 lacZ amber 유전자가 대장균의 염색체에 삽입된 것을 확인하였으며, DH10B(Tn:lacZam)은 amber suppression을 유도할 수 있는 벡터가 형질 전환될 경우만 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성을 나타냈다. DH10B(Tn:lacZam)에 효모균의 amber suppressor $tRNA^{Tyr}$와 Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase 쌍을 동시에 발현하는 벡터를 형질전환하였을 때, amber suppression에 의해서 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성이 나타났다. 하지만 이 활성은 대장균의 amber suppressor $tRNA^{Gln}$를 발현하는 pSupE2를 형질전환하였을 때와 비교 하여 매우 낮은 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성을 나타냈다. 이러한 결과는 DH10B(Tn:lacZam) 균주가 $\beta$-galactosidase 활성을 통하여 정성 및 정량적으로 in vivo amber suppression 활성을 비교 분석할 수 있는 특성을 가졌음을 나타낸다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.1569-1574
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• 2011

The presence of replication-competent adenovirus (RCA) subpopulations in adenoviral vector products raises a variety of safety issues for development of therapies based on gene therapy. To analyze the differing effects of adenoviral vector and RCA in vivo, we examined alterations in amino acids (AAs) using rat plasma following injection of ${\beta}$-galactosidase expressing recombinant adenovirus (designated rAdLacZ) or RCA. Plasma AAs were examined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. A total of 16 AAs were positively measured. In the rAdLacZ group compared to the control group, the level of aspartic acid was significantly increased (Student's t-test), while the level of glutamic acid was significantly reduced. Additionally, in the RCA group compared to the control group, the level of four AAs, valine, leucine, and isoleucine as branched-chain amino acids, and proline were significantly increased, whereas the levels of three AAs, glycine, threonine, and glutamic acid were significantly reduced. Altered plasma free AA metabolic patterns in rAdLacZ and RCA groups, compared with the control group, may explain the disturbance of AA metabolism related to viral infection.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.84-91
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• 2006

A Saccharomyces cerevisiae pgs1 nulI mutant, which is deficient with phosphatidyl glycerol (PG) and cardiolipin (CL) biosynthesis, grows well on most fermentable carbon sources, but fails to grow on non-fermentable carbon sources such as glycerol, ethanol, and lactate. This mutant also cannot grow on galactose medium as the sole carbon source. We found that the incorporation of $[^{14}C]-galactose$, which is the first step of the galactose metabolic pathway (Leloir pathway), into the pgs 1 null mutant cell was extremely repressed. Exogenously expressed PGS1 (YCpPGS1) under indigenous promoter could completely restore the pgs1 growth defect on non-fermentable carbon sources, and dramatically recovered $[^{14}C]-galactose$ incorporation into the pgs1 mutant cell. However, PGS1 expression under the GALl promoter $(YEpP_{GAL1}-PGS1myc)$ could not complement pgs1 mutation, and the GAL2-lacZ fusion gene $(YEpP_{GAL2}-lacZ)$ also did not exhibit its $\beta-galactosidase$ activity in the pgs1 mutant. In wild-type yeast, antimycin $A(1\;{\mu}g/ml)$, which inhibits mitochondrial complex III, severely repressed not only the expression of the GAL2-lacZ fusion gene, but also uptake of $[^{14}C]-galactose$. However, exogenously expressed PGS1 partially relieved these inhibitory effects of antimycin A in both the pgs1 mutant and wild-type yeast, although it could not basically restore the growth defect on galactose by antimycin A. These results suggest that the PGSI gene product has an important role in utilization of galactose by Gal genes, and that intact mitochondrial function with PGS1 should be required for galactose incorporation into the Leloir pathway. The PGS1 gene might provide a clue to resolve the historic issue about the incapability of galactose with deteriorated mitochondrial function.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.163-169
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• 2001

Despite the high potency of the retrovirus vector system in gene transfer, one of the main drawbacks of has been difficulty in preparing highly concentrated virus stock. Numerous efforts to boost the virus titer have ended in unsatisfactory results mainly due to fragile property of retrovirus envelope protein. In this study, to overcome this problem, we constructed our own retrovirus vector system producing vector viruses encapsulated with VSV-G (vesicular stomatitis virus G glycoprotein). Concentration process of the virus stock by ultracentrifuge did not sacrifice the virus infectivity, resulting in more than 108 to 109 CFU (colony forming unit) per ml on most of the target cell lines tested. Application of this high-titer retrovirus vector system was tested on chicken embryos. Injection of virus stock beneath the blastoderms of pre-incubated fertilized eggs resulted in chick embryos expressing E. coli LacZ gene with 100% efficiency. Therefore, our results suggest that it is possible to transfer the foreign gene into chicken embryo using our high-titer retrovirus vector.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1456-1463
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• 2009

Vibrio parahaemolyticus possessing urease-positive property is relatively rare, but such strains consistently exhibit the TDH-related hemolysin (TRH) gene. In this study, we examined the effects of incubation temperature on urease activity expression, using the TH3996 and AQ4673 strains where the enzyme activity is known to be temperature-dependent and -independent, respectively. In the TH3996 strain, $\beta$-galactosidase activity was 4.4-fold lower after $30^{\circ}C$ cultivation than after $37^{\circ}C$ in a ureR-lacZ fusion strain, but temperature dependency was not found in ureD- or nikA-lacZ fusion strains. However, ureR-, ureD-, and nikA-lacZ fusions of the AQ4673 strain was not influenced by incubation temperature. We compared the promoter sequences of ureR between the above two strains. Intriguingly, we detected mismatches of two nucleotides between the two strains located at positions -66 and -108 upstream of the methionine initiation codon for UreR. Additionally, urease activity was not affected by culture temperature at either $30^{\circ}C$ or $37^{\circ}C$ by allelic introduction of the AQ4673 ureR gene into the TH3996 ureR deletion mutant. Taken together, our study demonstrates that the transcriptional factor UreR is involved in the temperature dependency of urease activity, and two nucleotides within the ureR promoter region are of particular importance for the urease activity dependency of V. parahaemolyticus.

• BMB Reports
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2007

Adenoviral vectors are among the most promising vectors available for human gene therapy. However, the use of recombinant adenoviral vectors, including replicationcompetent adenovirus (RCA), raises a variety of safety concerns in relation to the development of new therapies based on gene therapy. To examine how organic compounds change in rat plasma following the injection of adenovirus, $\beta$-galactosidase expressing recombinant adenovirus (designated rAdLacZ) or RCA, we investigated the content of fatty acids (FAs), which are important biochemical indicators in pathological conditions. Pattern recognition analysis on the level of FAs in rat plasma is described for the visual discrimination of adenovirus infection groups from normal controls. Plasma FAs from four control rats (normal group), and from four rats with rAdLacZ infection and six rats with RCA infection (the two abnormal groups), were examined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in selected ion monitoring modes as their tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives. In total, 20 FAs were positively detected and quantified. The results of the Student's t-test on the normal mean of two abnormal groups, the levels of three FAs (p<0.05) from rAdLacZ group and eleven FAs (p<0.05) from RCA group were significantly different. When star symbol plotting was applied to the group mean values of 20 FAs after normalization to the corresponding normal mean values, the resulting eicosagonal star patterns of the two infected groups were distorted into similar shapes, but were distinguishable from each other. Thus, these approaches will be useful for screening and monitoring of diagnostic markers for the effects of infection following the use of adenoviral vectors in gene therapy.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.44-48
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• 2005

In our previous study, the first structural gene (GGTI) encoding ${\gamma}-glutamyl$ transpeptidase was cloned and characterized from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and its transcription, using the GGTI-lacZ fusion gene, containing the 1,085 bp upstream region from the translational initiation point, was found to be enhanced by sodium nitroprusside and L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO). In the present work, regulation of the GGTI gene was further elucidated. Non-fermentable carbon sources, such as acetate and ethanol, markedly enhanced the synthesis of ${beta}-galactosidase$ from the GGTI-lacZ fusion gene. However, its induction by non-fermentable carbon sources appeared to be independent of the presence of the Pap1 protein. Nitrogen starvation also gave rise to induction of GGTI gene expression in a Pap1-independent manner. The three additional fusion plasmids, carrying 754, 421 and 156 bp regions, were constructed. The sequence responsible for the induction by non-fermentable carbon sources and nitrogen starvation was identified to exist within a -421 bp region of the GGTI gene. Taken together, the S. pombe GGTI gene is regulated by non-fermentable carbon sources and nitrogen starvation.

• 자연과학논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.89-94
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 다양한 신호에 의해 면역세포를 세포사멸로 유도하는 22 kDa의 calcium-binding 단백질인 ALG-2 (apoptosis linked gene-2) 에 대해 LexA DNA blinding domain (DBD) 과 융합시킨 Lex/ALG-2 융합단백질을 이용하여 효모에서의 전사활성화 능력을 측정하였다. hALG-2의 전사활성화 능력을 측정한 결과 전체 ALG-2 (아미노산 1-191) 와 N-말단 (아미노산 1-98) 에서는 전사활성화 능력은 보이지 않았으나, C-말단 (아미노산 93-191) 에서는 reporter 유전자인 LacZ를 전사활성화 시킴을 확인하였다. hALG-2 C-말단의 전사활성화 능력은 양성 대조구로 사용한 Lex-B42에 비하여 2.7배 강한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 hALG-2의 N-말단에 전사 억제 조절 신호가 존재할 가능성을 시사한다고 보여진다 .