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Effects of heat and ethanol shock on the membrane proteins of Vibrio vulnificus (열 및 에탄을 shock이 Vibrio vulnificus의 막단백질에 미치는 영향)

  • Heo, Moon-Soo;Jung, Cho-Rok
    • Journal of fish pathology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 1999
  • New sixteen heat shock proteins (Hsps) and ten ethanol shock proteins were appeared on the analysis with SDS-PAGE when cultivation temperature for the Vibrio vulnifrcus ATCC 27562 strain was shifted-up to $42^{\circ}C$ from $30^{\circ}C$ for 20 mins and treated with of 6% ethanol for 10 mins, respectively. Even the induction of thermotolerance in V. vulnificus was coincided with the induction of Hsps if the pre-shock was adjusted to thermal temperature. Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that were purified from the membrane of cells after heat shock showed more immunodominant pattern to the immunized rabbit anti-V. vulnificus O serum in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). On the western immunoblot analysis it was confirmed that both 62 kDa IMP and 69 kDa OMP in the Hsps and 48 kDa IMP a major OMP in the ethanol shock proteins were reacted with rabbit anti-V. vulnificus O sera. Agglutination titer of the heat shocked V. vulnificus with rabbit anti-V. vulnificus O serum was higher than that of the untreated bacteria.

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Protective Effect of Cheonjeongkibo-Dan UV-Induced Cellular Damage in Human Dermal Fibroblast (천정기보단(天精氣保丹)의 자외선에 의한 세포 손상 억제 효과)

  • Lee, Ghang-Tai;Park, Si-Jun;Lee, Jung-No;Lee, Kwang-Sik;Kim, Dae-Sung;Mun, Yeun-Ja;Lee, Kun-Kuk;Woo, Won-Hong
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.950-955
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    • 2010
  • In this study, we prepared CheonJeongKiBo-Dan(7 oriental medicinal plants, 7OMP: Astragalus Membranaceus root, Panax Ginseng root, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (licorice) root, Schizandra Chinensis fruit, Polygonatum Odoratum, Rehmannia Glutinosa root, Paeonia Albiflora root) by extracting them in one reactor and studied its efficacies on skin. UV irradiation has been suggested as a major cause of photoaging in skin. In order to investigate protective effects against UV-B induced cellular damage, 7OMP was extracted with 70% ethanol and dissolved in DMSO. The protective effect was detected by MTT assay, reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, phosphorylation of ATR and p53 in human dermal fibroblast cell system after UV-B irradiation. 7OMP reduced UV-B-induced cellular damage in HDFs cells, and inhibited ROS generation. UV-B-induced toxicity accompanying ROS production and the resultant DNA damage are responsible for activation of ATR, p53 and Bad. In this study, 7OMP hampered phosphorylations of ATR and p53 in human dermal fibroblasts. Therefore, 7OMP may be protective against UV-induced skin photoaging.

Surface Display of $Poly(His)_n$ on the Escherichia coli using OmpC as Surface Anchoring Motif

  • Choe, Jong-Hyeon;Xu, Zhaohui;Lee, Sang-Yeop
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.523-526
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    • 2000
  • A novel cell surface display system was developed by employing the Escherichia coli outer membrane protein C (OmpC) as an anchoring motif. Poly-histidine (poly-His) peptides of 19, 32, 45, 84, and 162 amino acids (aa) could be successfully displayed by inserting them into the seventh exposed loop(L7) of OmpC. Recombinant cells displaying poly-His of 19, 32, 45, and 84 aa could absorb 18.9, 23.9, 26.1, and 32.0 ${\mu}mol$ of $Cd^{2+}$ per gram cell dry weight, respectively and therefore, would be useful as the biosorbents of heavy metals.

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Combination of berberine and ciprofloxacin reduces multi-resistant Salmonella strain biofilm formation by depressing mRNA expressions of luxS, rpoE, and ompR

  • Shi, Chenxi;Li, Minmin;Muhammad, Ishfaq;Ma, Xin;Chang, Yicong;Li, Rui;Li, Changwen;He, Jingshan;Liu, Fangping
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.808-816
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    • 2018
  • Bacterial biofilms have been demonstrated to be closely related to clinical infections and contribute to drug resistance. Berberine, which is the main component of Coptis chinensis, has been reported to have efficient antibacterial activity. This study aimed to investigate the potential effect of a combination of berberine with ciprofloxacin (CIP) to inhibit Salmonella biofilm formation and its effect on expressions of related genes (rpoE, luxS, and ompR). The fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) index of the combination of berberine with CIP is 0.75 showing a synergistic antibacterial effect. The biofilm's adhesion rate and growth curve showed that the multi-resistant Salmonella strain had the potential to form a biofilm relative to that of strain CVCC528, and the antibiofilm effects were in a dose-dependent manner. Biofilm microstructures were rarely observed at $1/2{\times}MIC/FIC$ concentrations (MIC, minimal inhibition concentration), and the combination had a stronger antibiofilm effect than each of the antimicrobial agents used alone at $1/4{\times}FIC$ concentration. LuxS, rpoE, and ompR mRNA expressions were significantly repressed (p< 0.01) at $1/2{\times}MIC/FIC$ concentrations, and the berberine and CIP combination repressed mRNA expressions more strongly at the $1/4{\times}FIC$ concentration. The results indicate that the combination of berberine and CIP has a synergistic effect and is effective in inhibiting Salmonella biofilm formation via repression of luxS, rpoE, and ompR mRNA expressions.

Detection of low frequency tonal signal of underwater radiated noise via compressive sensing (압축센싱 기법을 적용한 선박 수중 방사 소음 신호의 저주파 토널 탐지)

  • Kim, Jinhong;Shim, Byonghyo;Ahn, Jae-Kyun;Kim, Seongil;Hong, Wooyoung
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2018
  • Compressive sensing allows recovering an original signal which has a small dimension of the signal compared to the dimension of the entire signal in a short period of time through a small number of observations. In this paper, we proposed a method for detecting tonal signal which caused by the machinery component of a vessel such as an engine, gearbox, and support elements. The tonal signal can be modeled as the sparse signal in the frequency domain when it compares to whole spectrum range. Thus, the target tonal signal can be estimated by S-OMP (Simultaneous-Orthogonal Matching Pursuit) which is one of the sparse signal recovery algorithms. In simulation section, we showed that S-OMP algorithm estimated more precise frequencies than the conventional FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) thresholding algorithm in low SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) region.

Biological Characterization of the Omp1-like Protein from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

  • Ha, Jung-Hye;Jeong, Mi-Suk;Jo, Wol-Soon;Jeong, Min-Ho;Jang, Se-Bok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.275-280
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    • 2010
  • Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a gram-negative, nonmotile coccobacillus bacterium that is associated with several human diseases, including endocarditis, meningitis, osteomyelitis, subcutaneous abscesses and periodontal diseases. A full-length Omp1-like protein gene from A. actinomycetemcomitans was cloned into a pQE30 vector and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) cells. The protein revealed sequence homologies to Seventeen kilodalton proteins (Skp) from Pasteurella multocida and E. coli that have been characterized as periplasmic chaperones. This soluble Omp1-like protein was successfully purified to homogeneity for further folding and functional studies. The purity, identity, and conformation of the protein were determined using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopic, and differential scanning calorimetric studies. We showed that the protein formed an oligomer larger than a tetramer. We found, further, that it is comprised of mostly $\alpha$-helices and boasts high thermal stability.

Motion Control of Omnidirectional Mobile Platform for Path Following Using Backstepping Technique

  • Dinh, Viet-Tuan;Thinh, Doan-Phuc;Hoang, Giang;Kim, Hak-Kyeong;Oh, Sea-June;Kim, Sang-Bong
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes a controller design for an omnidirectional mobile platform (OMP) with three wheels using backstepping control. A kinematic model and dynamic model of the system are presented. Based on the dynamic modeling, a backstepping controller is designed to stabilize the OMP when following a desired path. The controller is designed based on a backstepping control theory. It includes two steps: first, a virtual state and a stability function are introduced. Second, Lyapunov functions for the system are chosen and an equation for the virtual control that makes the system stabile is obtained. The system stability is guaranteed by the Lyapunov stability theory. The simulation and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

High-throughput and low-area implementation of orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm for compressive sensing reconstruction

  • Nguyen, Vu Quan;Son, Woo Hyun;Parfieniuk, Marek;Trung, Luong Tran Nhat;Park, Sang Yoon
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.376-387
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    • 2020
  • Massive computation of the reconstruction algorithm for compressive sensing (CS) has been a major concern for its real-time application. In this paper, we propose a novel high-speed architecture for the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm, which is the most frequently used to reconstruct compressively sensed signals. The proposed design offers a very high throughput and includes an innovative pipeline architecture and scheduling algorithm. Least-squares problem solving, which requires a huge amount of computations in the OMP, is implemented by using systolic arrays with four new processing elements. In addition, a distributed-arithmetic-based circuit for matrix multiplication is proposed to counterbalance the area overhead caused by the multi-stage pipelining. The results of logic synthesis show that the proposed design reconstructs signals nearly 19 times faster while occupying an only 1.06 times larger area than the existing designs for N = 256, M = 64, and m = 16, where N is the number of the original samples, M is the length of the measurement vector, and m is the sparsity level of the signal.

Bacterial Cell Surface Display of a Multifunctional Cellulolytic Enzyme Screened from a Bovine Rumen Metagenomic Resource

  • Ko, Kyong-Cheol;Lee, Binna;Cheong, Dae-Eun;Han, Yunjon;Choi, Jong Hyun;Song, Jae Jun
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.1835-1841
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    • 2015
  • A cell surface display system for heterologous expression of the multifunctional cellulase, CelEx-BR12, in Escherichia coli was developed using truncated E. coli outer membrane protein C (OmpC) as an anchor motif. Cell surface expression of CelEx-BR12 cellulase in E. coli harboring OmpC-fused CelEx-BR12, designated MC4100 (pTOCBR12), was confirmed by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and analysis of outer membrane fractions by western blotting, which verified the expected molecular mass of OmpC-fused CelEx-BR12 (~72 kDa). Functional evidence for exocellulase activity was provided by enzymatic assays of whole cells and outer membrane protein fractions from E. coli MC4100 (pTOCBR12). The stability of E. coli MC4100 (pTOCBR12) cellulase activity was tested by carrying out repeated reaction cycles, which demonstrated the reusability of recombinant cells. Finally, we showed that recombinant E. coli cells displaying the CelEx-BR12 enzyme on the cell surface were capable of growth using carboxymethyl cellulose as the sole carbon source.

Proteomic Analysis of Outer Membrane Proteins in Salmonella enterica Enteritidis

  • Cho, Youngjae;Park, Soyeon;Barate, Abhijit Kashinath;Truong, Quang Lam;Han, Jang Hyuck;Jung, Cheong-Hwan;Yoon, Jang Won;Cho, Seongbeom;Hahn, Tae-Wook
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.288-295
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    • 2015
  • Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is the predominant agent causing salmonellosis in chickens and other domestic animals. In an attempt to identify antigenic S. Enteritidis outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that may be useful for subunit vaccine development, we established a proteomic map and database of antigenic S. Enteritidis OMPs. In total, 351 and 301 spots respectively from S. Enteritidis strain 270 and strain 350 were detected by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Fifty-one antigen-reactive spots were detected by antisera on two-dimensional immunoblots and identified as 12 specific proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. OmpA and DNA starvation/stationary phase protection protein (Dps) were the most abundant proteins among the identified OMPs, comprising 22 and 12 protein species, respectively. Interestingly, we found that the Dps of S. Enteritidis is also antigenic. OmpW was also verified to have high antigenicity. These results show that OmpA, Dps, and possibly OmpW are antigenic proteins. This study provides new insights into our understanding of the immunogenic characteristics of S. Enteritidis OMPs.