• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2016

Kaempferia galanga L. is one of the plants in Zingiberaceae family. It is used by people in many regions of Asia and Africa for relieving toothache, abdominal pain, muscular swelling and rheumatism. Tyrosinase is a key enzyme for melanogenesis, and hyperpigmentation is associated with abnomal accumulation of melanin pigment. This study aimed to investigate the inhibition of melanogenesis by hexane extract of Kaempferia galanga L. (HKG) in B16F10 melanoma cells. Cell-free tyrosinase, melanin contents, intracellular tyrosinase activity and western blot analysis were performed to elucidate the effects on anti-melanogenesis. Cytotoxicity of the extracts was measured using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and determined the concentration of 12.5, 25 μg/ml. HKG significantly inhibited to activities of intracellular tyrosinase and melanin synthesis in the absence or presence of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) with dose-dependent manner. And HKG inhibited the expression of tyrosinase, tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TRP-1) and tyrosinase-related protein 2 (TRP-2), regardless of the presence or absence of α-MSH. HKG also down-regulated phosphorylation of p38 and JNK, and up-regulated phosphorylation of Akt. These effects were not related to its cytotoxicity action. These results indicate that HKG has the potential to be a useful therapeutic agent for treating hyperpigmentation disorders and as a beneficial additive in whitening agents in cosmetics industry.

• BMB Reports
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.552-557
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• 2003

Oligomers with $\alpha$-aminooxy acids are reported to form very stable turn and helix structures, and they are supposed to be useful peptidomimetics for drug design. A recent report suggested that homochiral oxa-peptides form a strong eight-member-ring structure by a hydrogen bond between adjacent aminooxy-acid residues in a $CDCl_3$ solution. In order to design an $\alpha$-MSH analog with a stable turn conformation, we synthesized four tetramers and one pentamer, based on $\alpha$-MSH sequence, and determined the solution structures of the molecules by two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and simulated annealing calculations. The solution conformations of the three peptidomimetic molecules (TLV, TDV, and TLL) in DMSO-$d_6$ contain a stable 7-membered-ring structure that is similar to a $\gamma$-turn in normal peptides. Newly-designed tetramer TDF and pentamer PDF have a ball-type rigid structure that is induced by strong hydrogen bonds between adjacent amide protons and carbonyl oxygens. In conclusion, the aminooxy acids, easily prepared from natural or unnatural amino acids, can be employed to prepare peptidomimetic analogues with well-defined turn structures for pharmaceutical interest.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.135-144
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 목형 잎 추출물의 항산화 활성, 성분분석 그리고 mushroom tyrosinase 저해활성 측정, ${\alpha}$-MSH로 유도된 세포 내 멜라닌 생합성에 대한 저해활성에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 목형 잎 추출물의 자유라디칼 (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl, DPPH) 소거활성 ($FSC_{50}$)은 에틸아세테이트 분획에서 $14.51{\mu}g/ml$, 아글리콘 분획에서 $13.96{\mu}g/ml$로 측정되었다. Luminol-의존성 화학발광법을 이용한 $Fe^{3+}-EDTA/H_2O_2$ 계에서 생성된 활성산소종 (reactive oxygen species, ROS)에 대한 목형 잎 추출물의 총항산화능은 아글리콘 분획에서 $0.22{\mu}g/ml$로, 아글리콘 분획에서 가장 큰 활성을 나타내었다. 목형 잎 추출물에 대하여 rose-bengal로 증감된 $^1O_2$에 의한 적혈구 파괴에 대한 세포보호 효과는 모든 분획에서 농도 의존적($1{\sim}50{\mu}g/ml$)으로 증가하였으며, 특히 아글리콘 분획에서 지용성 항산화제인 (+)-${\alpha}$-tocopherol 보다 우수한 세포보호 활성이 있는 것으로 나타났다. Mushroom tyrosinase의 활성 저해 효과($IC_{50}$)를 측정한 결과 에틸아세테이트 분획($IC_{50}$ = $48.58{\mu}g/ml$)에서 우수한 효과를 나타났고, ${\alpha}$-MSH로 유도된 세포 내 멜라닌 합성 저해 활성을 측정한 결과 에틸아세테이트 분획물의 $50{\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 41.80% 저해활성을 나타내었다. TLC, HPLC 및 LC/ESIMS를 이용한 성분분석 결과 에틸아세테이트 분획 중에 luteolin, isoorientin이 존재함을 확인하였다. 이상의 결과들로부터 목형 잎 추출물은 활성산소종을 소거하는 항산화제로 이용가능하며, 특히 mushroom tyrosinase 저해효과와 ${\alpha}$-MSH로 유도된 멜라닌 생합성 저해 효과로부터 에틸아세테이트 분획 중 luteolin 및 isoorientin을 새로운 미백 화장품의 원료로써 이용가능성을 알 수 있었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2003

Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are potent mutagens generated during the cooking of meat and fish, and several of these compounds produce tumors in conventional experimental animals. During the past 5 years or so, HCAs have been tested in a number of novel in vivo murine models, including the following: lacZ, lacI, cII, c-myc/lacZ, rpsL, and $gpt{\Delta}$ transgenics, $XPA^{-/-}$, $XPC^{-/-}$, $Msh2^{+/-}$, $Msh2^{-/-}$ and $p53^{+/-}$ knock-outs, Apc mutant mice ($Apc^{{\Delta}716}$, $Apc^{1638N}$, $Apc^{min}$), and $A33^{{\Delta}N{\beta}-cat}$ knock-in mice. Several of these models have provided insights into the mutation spectra induced in vivo by HCAs in target and non-target organs for tumorigenesis, as well as demonstrating enhanced susceptibility to HCA-induced tumors and preneoplastic lesions. This review describes several of the more recent reports in which novel animal models were used to examine HCA-induced mutagenesis and carcinogenesis in vivo, including a number of studies which assessed the inhibitory activities of chemopreventive agents such as 1,2-dithiole-3-thione, conjugated linoleic acids, tea, curcumin, chlorophyllin-chitosan, and sulindac.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.218-233
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• 2017

To identify the natural and novel cosmeceutical ingredients which have whitening function, we examined the effects of tyrosinase activity and melanin production on halophyte Limonium tetragonum (Thunb.) A. A. Bullock extracts. As a result, the extracts showed whitening effect with no cytotoxicity. Melanin contents of B16F10 melanoma cells were decreased in a dose-dependent manner at 50, 100, $200{\mu}g/mL$ treatment of the extracts. In tyrosinase activity inhibition test, L. tetragonum (Thunb.) A. A. Bullock extracts showed decreased tyrosinase activity as the concentration of ${\alpha}-MSH$ was increased. Furthermore, it was observed that the tyrosinase and MITF expression was significantly downregulated by adding L. tetragonum (Thunb.) A. A. Bullock extracts in ${\alpha}-MSH$, a melanogenesis inducing material, treated B16F10 melanoma cells. These results indicate that L. tetragonum (Thunb.) A. A. Bullock extract might be an effective whitening agent by inhibit melanin formation.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2017

In this study, we investigated the effect of Rumex axetosella, Sonchus oleraceus and Euphoibia jolkini extracts on tyrosinase activity and melanin production as natural products of whitening functional cosmetics. To measure the melanin production, 50, 100, $200{\mu}g/mL$ of Rumex axetosella, Sonchus oleraceus and Euphoibia jolkini extracts were treated on ${\alpha}-MSH$ treated B16F10 melanoma cells, respectively. Melanin contents in ${\alpha}-MSH$ treated B16F10 melanoma cells were decreased by 41.5, 51.11, and 61% in $200{\mu}g/mL$ treatment compared to none treatment, respectively. In addition, the intracellular tyrosinase activity was decreased after treatments with all extracts. Furthermore, $100{\mu}g/mL$ of Euphoibia jolkini extract was decreased 81.5% of melanin production in B16F10 melanoma cells. When the three extracts were compared, Euphoibia jolkini extract was considered to be the most functional material for whitening effect.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.233-237
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• 2017

Melanin is one of the most important factors affecting skin color. Melanogenesis is the bioprocess of melanin production by melanocytes in the skin and hair follicles and is mediated by several enzymes, such as tyrosinase, tyrosinase related protein (TRP)-1, and TRP-2, MITF. In this study, we investigated the effect of Artemisia fukudo Makino extracts on tyrosinase activity and melanin production as natural products of whitening functional cosmetics. Melanin content in murine B16F10 melanoma cells were decreased by Artemisia fukudo Makino extracts in a dose-dependently. In addition, the inhibition of tyrosinase activity of Artemisia fukudo Makino extracts showed to decrease tyrosinase activity as the concentration of ${\alpha}-MSH$ was increased. Furthermore, western blot analysis revealed that Artemisia fukudo Makino extracts significantly downregulated the expression of tyrosinase, TRP-1 which treat of ${\alpha}-MSH-induced$ melanogenesis in murine B16F10 melanoma cells. As a result, Artemisia fukudo Makino extract showed functionalities as an effective whitening agent to inhibit melanin formation.

• 생약학회지
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.171-177
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-melanogenic effects of the extracts from Decaschistia intermedia craib (EDI). In this study, we examined the effects of EDI on mushroom tyrosinase activity in in vitro, melanin contents, and expression levels of mRNA and proteins of melanogenesis-related genes in B16F10 melanoma cells. The treatment of EDI significantly decreased both tyrosinase activity and melanin contents in B16F10 cells with dose-dependent manner. In addition, we found that the expression of mRNA or proteins of melanogenic proteins, such as, a-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (a-MSH)-induced microphthalmia associated transcription factor (MITF), tyrosinase, tyrosinase related protein-1 (TRP-1), and TRP-2 was significantly downregulated with dose-dependent manner in the EDI-treated B16F10 cells compared to controls. Our results suggest that the EDI inhibits cellular melanogenesis through downregulation of a-MSH-stimulated melanin synthesis. Thus EDI may potentially be an effective whitening agent.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2010

목적 : 월견초는 다량의 불포화 지방산인 리놀렌산과 감마 리놀렌산을 함유하고 있으며, 천식성 기침이나 아토피피부염에 효능이 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구는 월견초의 전초와 종자 추출물의 피부 멜라닌 합성에 대한 억제 효과를 조사하였다. 방법 : B16F10 멜라닌세포주를 이용하여 멜라닌, tyrosinase 활성 및 세포생존율을 측정하였다. 또한 멜라닌 합성- 관련효소인 tyrosinase, TRP-1, TRP-2의 단백질발현과 $\alpha$-MSH를 처리하여 색소침착을 유도 한 뒤 단백질 발현을 조사하였다. 결과 : 월견자는 B16F10 세포의 멜라닌 합성을 $5\;{\mu}g/ml$와 $10\;{\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 각각 대조군의 81.3%, 68.3%로 억제하였고 tyrosinase의 활성도 이와 유사하게 억제하였다. 멜라닌 합성-관련효소들의 단백질발현을 관찰한 결과 월견초와 월견자는 tyrosinase 발현을 억제하였으며 TRP-1과 TRP-2의 발현에는 영향을 주지 않았다. 특히 $\alpha$-MSH에 의한 과색소 유도 시 tyrosinase 발현이 현저하게 감소되었으며, 월견자의 멜라닌 합성 억제 효과가 월견초 보다 높게 나타났다. 결론 : 이상의 연구 결과 월견자는 멜라닌세포의 tyrosinase 단백질 발현과 tyrosinase 활성을 억제하여 멜라닌 생성을 감소시키는 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제78권4호
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• pp.401-411
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• 1989

시험관내 배양에 의한 테다, 리기다 및 그 교잡종 소나무의 배(胚)로부터 부정지(不定枝) 생산(生産)을 시도하였다. 배지1은 Gresshoff와 Doy, 배지2는 Murashige와 Skong, 배지3은 Lloyd와 McCown, 배지4는 Schenk와 Hildbrandt 식으로부터 가각 수정 변화하였다. 부정아(不定芽) 유도 외의 배지는 무기성분(단, 철 제외)을 반으로 감소시켰다. NAA(0.1 또는 0.01 mg/l)와 BAP(0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 또는 5 mg/l)가 10개 조합으로 첨가된 배지에서 배양체는 3-4주간 유도되었다. 광도는 $1500{\pm}540$ 룩스이었고, 광주기(光週期)는 16시간이었다. $25{\pm}2^{\circ}C$의 배양실에서 16주(부정아 유도 기간 포함) 배양후 부정지 생산 배(胚)의 비율과 배당(胚當) 평균 부정지의 수를 조사하여 분석하였다. 테다 소나무의 부정지 생산을 위해서는 5 mg/l BAP와 0.1 또는 0.01 또는 0.01 mg/l의 NAA를 첨가한 배지2, 배지3 또는 배지4가 바람직하며, 리기다 소나무의 경우는 2 또는 5 mg/l BAP와 0.1mg/l NAA의 배지2, 배지3 또는 배지4가 좋은 것으로 나타났다. 교잡종의 경우는 배지2와 배지3이 1, 2, 또는 5 mg/l BAP와 0.1 mg/l NAA를 첨가했을 때 효과적이었다. 부정아(不定芽) 형성 및 부정지(不定枝) 발달 양식에 있어 수종간 차이는 관찰되지 않았다. 부정아 유도와 유도된 부정아의 성장을 위한 기본배지는 각기 다른 것을 사용하는 것이 바람직하다.