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A Study on the Phase Transition of DPPC Organic Films (DPPC 유기박막의 상전이에 관한 연구)

  • 김동관;이순형;최영일;최충석;장희동;이경섭
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.07a
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    • pp.491-494
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    • 2000
  • Conductive Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) films have recently attracted much interest from the viewpoint of ultrathin film conductors at the molecular level. The result shows that the Maxwell-displacement-current(MDC) measuring technique is useful in the detection of phase-transition over the entire range of molecule areas. At the liquid-solid phase transition, a striking feature in the present current measurement was observed; the I-A isotherm for a DPPC monolayer has sharp bend. Dynamic behavior of monolayers in the presence of an external field was also investigated using the current-measuring technique. Dynamic behavier of DPPC monolayer was measured by displacement current when the molecules are stimulated by pressure velocity. As result, it is known that current is generated of higher current pe마 as compression velocity become faster. Also, in order to clarify the reorganization of the lipid monolayers, it is instructive to plot the relationship between I and 1/$A^2$.

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Construction of a Dynamic Laser Light Scattering System Using a Personal Computer$^\dag$

  • Kim, Myung-Joong;Lee, Sang-Yong;Chung, Koo-Soon;Lee, Hoo-Sung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.403-405
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    • 1987
  • A dynamic laser light scattering system has been constructed using a personal computer. The intensity of the scattered light was detected with a photomultiplier tube and a photon counter. The BCD output of the photon counter which is proportional to the intensity of scattered light is fed into a personal computer via an interface card. The personal computer was programmed as an autocorrelator in machine language. The data acquisition rate of the system was about 600 samples/s which is adequate for studies on the molecular dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions, polymer latices with large particle size, and polymer glass systems. The constructed system was tested with polystyrene latex and the measured diameter of the latex particle agrees well with the supplier's value.

High-pressure NMR application for amyloid-beta peptides

  • Kim, Jin Hae
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.17-20
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    • 2022
  • High-pressure (HP) NMR is a versatile tool to investigate diverse features of proteins. This technique has been particularly powerful to elucidate structural dynamics that only populates sufficiently in a pressurized condition. Amyloidogenic proteins, which are prone to aggregate and form amyloid fibrils, often maintains highly dynamic states in its native or aggregation-prone states, and HP NMR contributed much to advance our understandings of the dynamic behaviors of amyloidogenic proteins and the molecular mechanisms of their aggregation. In this mini review, we therefore summarize recent HP NMR studies on amyloid-beta (Aβ), the representative amyloidogenic intrinsically disordered protein (IDP).

Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression in Innate Immune Responses: Dynamic Interactions between MicroRNA and Signaling Molecules

  • Piras, Vincent;Selvarajoo, Kumar;Fujikawa, Naoki;Choi, Sang-Dun;Tomita, Masaru;Giuliani, Alessandro;Tsuchiya, Masa
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2007
  • MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to negatively control protein-coding genes by binding to messenger RNA (mRNA) in the cytoplasm. In innate immunity, the role of miRNA gene silencing is largely unknown. In this study, we performed microarray-based experiments using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated macrophages derived from wild-type, MyD88 knockout (KO), TRIF KO, and MyD88/TRIF double KO mice. We employed a statistical approach to determine the importance of the commonality and specificity of miRNA binding sites among groups of temporally co-regulated genes. We demonstrate that both commonality and specificity are irrelevant to define a priori groups of co-down regulated genes. In addition, analyzing the various experimental conditions, we suggest that miRNA regulation may not only be a late-phase process (after transcription) but can also occur even early (1h) after stimulation in knockout conditions. This further indicates the existence of dynamic interactions between miRNA and signaling molecules/transcription factor regulation; this is another proof for the need of shifting from a 'hard-wired' paradigm of gene regulation to a dynamical one in which the gene co-regulation is established on a case-by-case basis.

Nanometer-scale Imaging in Thin Films by Scanning Maxwell-stress Microscopy (주사형 맥스웰 응력 현미경을 이용한 박막의 Nanometer-scale 이미지)

  • 신훈규;유승엽;권영수
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.133-136
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    • 1998
  • The scanning Maxwell-stress microscopy (SMM) is a dynamic noncontact electric force microscopy that allows simultaneous access to the electrical properties of molecular system such as surface potential, surface charge, dielectric constant and conductivity along with the topography. Here we report our recent results of its application to nanoscopic study of domain structures and electrical functionality in organic thin films prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique.

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Multiple Roles of Phospholipase D in Growth Factor Signaling

  • Ryu, Sung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.107-108
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    • 2003
  • The epidermal growth factor (EGF) is an important signaling ligand for the mitogenesis of many cells. The EGF receptors use signaling molecule multicomplexes and dynamic protein networks for the transmission and amplification of the signals as well as for the regulation of the cellular responses. EGF signaling has been reported to be enhanced in various tumors by the overexpressed EGF receptor and/or the mediators such as phospholipase C-$\gamma$1(PLC$\gamma$1). (omitted)

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Modeling and controller design for a continuous copolymerization reactor (연속식 공중합 반응기의 모델링 및 제어기 설계)

  • 황우현;이현구
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.788-791
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    • 1996
  • A mathematical model is developed for thermal solution copolymerization of styrene and acrylonitrile in a continuous stirred tank reactor(CSTR). Computational studies are carried out with the continuous copolymerization system model developed in this work to give the monomer conversion, copolymer composition and the average molecular weights of the copolymer. By performing the dynamic analysis of the reaction system, the polymer properties against the changes in the operating conditions are determined quantitatively. The cascade PID and fuzzy controller show satisfactory performances for both set point tracking and disturbance rejection. Especially, the fuzzy controller is superior to the PID controller.

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Transmission Mode of HPDLC Based on Rubbery Polymers

  • Kim, Eun-Hee;Woo, Ju-Yeon;Kim, Byung-Kyu
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.520-523
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    • 2003
  • We used three types of reactive diluents with different chemical structures, N-vinyl-pyrrollidone(NVP), ethyl hexyl acrylate(EHA) and hydroxyehtyl methacrylate(HEMA). It was founded that N-vinylpyrrollidone(NVP) and ethyl hexyl acrylate(EHA) based PUA with low molecular weight polypropylene glycol(PPG) at low oligomer content give high diffraction efficiency. The morphology of the resultant gratings was analyzed by using scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and Tg of the polymer matrix by dynamic mechanical thermal analysis(DMTA).

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Quantum Mechanical Effects on Dynamical Behavior of Simple Liquids

  • Kim, Tae-Jun;Kim, Hyo-Joon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.2233-2236
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    • 2011
  • We evaluate quantum-mechanical velocity autocorrelation functions from classical molecular dynamics simulations using quantum correction approaches. We apply recently developed approaches to supercritical argon and liquid neon. The results show that the methods provide a solution more efficient than previous methods to investigate quantum-mechanical dynamic behavior in condensed phases. Our numerical results are found to be in excellent agreement with the previous quantum-mechanical results.