• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2008

The free-living photoheterotrophic Gram-negative bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides possesses a quorum-sensing (QS) regulatory system mediated by CerR-CerI, a member of the LuxR-LuxI family. To identify the genes affected by the regulatory system, random lacZ fusions were generated in the genome of R. sphaeroides strain 2.4.1 using a promoter-trapping vector, pSG2. About 20,000 clones were screened and 23 showed a significantly different level of ${\beta}$-gal activities upon the addition of synthetic 7,8-cis-N-tetradecenoyl-homoserine lactone (RAI). Among these 23 clones, the clone showing the highest level of induction was selected for further study, where about a ten-fold increase of ${\beta}$-gal activity was exhibited in the presence of RAI and induction was shown to be required for cerR. In this clone, the lacZ reporter was inserted in a putative gene that exhibited a low homology with catD. A genetic analysis showed that the expression of the catD homolog was initiated from a promoter of another gene present upstream of the catD. This upstream gene showed a strong homology with luxR and hence was named qsrR (quorum-sensing regulation regulator). A comparison of the total protein expression profiles for the wild-type cells and qsrR-null mutant cells using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and a MALDI-TOF analysis allowed the identification of sets of genes modulated by the luxR homolog.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.460-468
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• 2004

Quality of Service (QoS) 제약을 통한 자원관리 정책은 사용자에 의해 요구되는 서비스를 보장해줄 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 쿼럼 시스템은 중복되어 저장되어 있는 데이타의 무결성과 가용성을 보장해 줄 수 있는 특성을 의미한다. 이 논문에서 우리는 사용자의 응용프로그램이 요구하는 시스템 자원 및 네트워크 자원의 QoS를 만족시킬 수 있는 쿼럼 기반의 자원관리방법을 제안한다. 또한 우리는 쿼럼 시스템내의 자원에서 실행되고 있는 응용프로그램의 실행시간을 통하여 자원의 상태예측을 하고 기대되는 자원의 서비스 수준을 유지하기 위한 자원의 재구성기법을 제안하고 있다. 자원의 재구성은 현재의 가용한 쿼럼내의 자원의 집합을 요구되는 서비스 수준으로 새롭게 재구성하는 것을 의미한다. 자원 재구성 정책의 효율성을 평가하기 위해서 우리는 인공심장혈류해석 병렬 프로그램을 사용하였다. 실험결과는 자원의 재구성 방식이 자원의 재구성 방식을 채택하지 않은 경우와 비교해서 응용프로그램의 실행완료시간을 감소시킬 뿐 아니라 실행환경의 안정성을 증가시키고 있다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.271-280
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• 2010

Vibrio alginolyticus, a Gram-negative marine bacterium, is one of the causative agents of fish vibriosis. Its virulence factors and pathogenesis mechanism are barely known, except for some extracellular products (ECPs) that are known to be regulated by quorum sensing system. Therefore, the present study used a microarray to analyze the transcription profiles of the wild-type V. alginolyticus and a deletion mutant of luxO, the pivotal regulator in Vibrio quorum sensing systems, which resulted in the identification of a putative virulence factor, MviN. Quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR confirmed that the transcription of mviN was upregulated in the luxO mutant when compared with wild-type, and down regulated in a luxO-con complemented strain. Furthermore, Western blotting indicated that MviN was greatly induced during the late-exponential and stationary phases of growth, indicating that the expression of MviN was cell-density dependent and quorum sensing regulated in V. alginolyticus. Meanwhile, the mviN null mutant displayed a much slower growth rate than the wild type, signifying the essential role of MviN in V. alginolyticus. Western blotting also revealed that MviN was present as an extracellular protein in V. alginolyticus. When epithelioma papulosum cyprini (EPC) cells were treated with the ECPs of the mviN mutant, no cytotoxicity was observed, whereas EPC cells treated with the wild type exhibited pathological changes, which increased with the ECPs concentration and treatment time. Therefore, the results demonstrated that MviN is a LuxO-regulated ECPs component and involved in the pathogenicity of V. alginolyticus.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2004

무선 인터넷을 이용하여 사용자들은 공간적 제약 없이 중요한 정보를 신속하게 제공 받을 수 있지만, 무선 통신의 특성상 불안전하고 시간 지연된 서비스에 대한 불편이 있다. 이를 개선하기 위한 방안으로 데이터 복제 기법이 제안되었으나, 복제 데이터를 유지하기 위한 부담을 극복할 필요가 있다. 본 논문은 이동형 환경에서의 거래 안정성과 데이터 가용성 증대를 위한 새로운 복제 데이터 관리 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 위임 정족수 합의(Proxy Quarum Consensus) 모델은 프락시를 이용하여 불안정한 상태의 다수의 모바일 사이트에 직접적인 투표를 하지 않는 대신이 미리 선출한 대표 정족 집단에 위임함으로써, 안정된 위임 투표(Proxy Voting)를 진행하는 제어 기법이다. 또한, 시뮬레이션과 성능 분석을 통하여 제안 기법이 기존의 복제 데이터 제어 기법에 비하여 처리 성능이 우수함을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.226-232
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• 2006

Swarming has proven to be a good in vitro model for bacterial surface adherence and colonization, and the swarming differentiation of a bacterium has been shown to be coupled with changes in the expression of virulence factors associated with its invasiveness, particularly in the early stages of infection. In this study, we attempted to determine whether the expression of vvhA, which encodes for hemolysin/cytolysin (VvhA), is either upregulated or downregulated during the swarming differentiation of V. vulnificus. The insertional inactivation of vvhA itself exerted no detectable effect on the expression of V. vulnificus swarming motility. However, in our lacZ-fused vvhA transcriptional reporter assay, vvhA expression decreased in swarming V. vulnificus as compared to non-swarming or planktonic V. vulnificus. The reduced expression of vvhA in swarming V. vulnificus increased as a result of the deletional inactivation of luxS, a gene associated with quorum sensing. These results show that vvhA expression in swarming V. vulnificus is downregulated via the activity of the LuxS quorum-sensing system, suggesting that VvhA performs no essential role in the invasiveness of V. vulnificus via the adherence to and colonization on the body surfaces required in the early stages of the infection. However, VvhA may playa significant role in the pathophysiological deterioration occurring after swarming V. vulnificus is differentiated into planktonic V. vulnificus.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.1390-1400
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• 2015

Quorum sensing is a process of cell-to-cell communication in which bacteria produce autoinducers as signaling molecules to sense cell density and coordinate gene expression. In the present study, a LuxI-type synthase, AnoI, and a LuxR-type regulator, AnoR, were identified in Acinetobacter nosocomialis, an important nosocomial pathogen, by sequence analysis of the bacterial genome. We found that N-(3-hydroxy-dodecanoyl)- _L -homoserine lactone (OH-dDHL) is a quorum-sensing signal in A. nosocomialis. The anoI gene deletion was responsible for the impairment in the production of OH-dDHL. The expression of anoI was almost abolished in the anoR mutant. These results indicate that AnoI is essential for the production of OH-dDHL in A. nosocomialis, and its expression is positively regulated by AnoR. Moreover, the anoR mutant exhibited deficiency in biofilm formation. In particular, motility of the anoR mutant was consistently and significantly abolished compared with that of the wild type. The deficiency in the biofilm formation and motility of the anoR mutant was significantly restored by a functional anoR, indicating that AnoR plays important roles in the biofilm formation and motility. Furthermore, the present study showed that virstatin exerts its effects on the reduction of biofilm formation and motility by inhibiting the expression of anoR. Consequently, the combined results suggest that AnoIR is a quorum-sensing system that plays important roles in the biofilm formation and motility of A. nosocomialis, and virstatin is an inhibitor of the expression of anoR.

• 멤브레인
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2022

역세척이 가능한 평막형 분리막 모듈을 분리막 생물반응기(MBR)에 침지시켜 운전 시간에 따른 흡입 압력을 측정하였다. MLSS 8,000 mg/L 활성 슬러지 수용액에 공칭 세공크기가 0.2 ㎛, 유효막면적이 128 cm² 인 분리막 모듈을 침지시킨 후 투과 유속, quorum qeunching (QQ) 비드를 변화하며 흡입 압력을 확인하였다. Vacant bead (VB), BH4와 DKY-1의 실험군에서 FR과 SFCO 운전방식에 따른 효과를 비교, 분석하였다. 투과 유속 40 L/m² ⋅h 이고 DKY-1 QQ 비드를 주입할 경우 흡입 압력 감소는 가장 효과적이었다. 또한 역세척에 의한 흡입 압력 감소 효과는 DKY-1 QQ 비드의 경우보다 2배 이상 높게 나타났다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2024

The removal of phosphorus, especially phosphate-form phosphorus, is necessary in wastewater treatment. Biofouling induced by the quorum sensing mechanism is also a major problem in membrane bioreactor (MBR), which reduces membrane flux. This study introduces lanthanum-doped quorum quenching (QQ) beads into MBR, confirming their inhibitory effect on biofouling due to Rhodococcus sp. BH4 and their capacity for phosphorus removal through lanthanum adsorption. A batch test was conducted to access the phosphate adsorption of lanthanum-QQ (La-QQ) beads and lab-scale MBR to verify the effect of inhibition. The study aimed to identify distinctions among the MBR, QQ MBR, and La-QQ MBR. In the batch test, the phosphate removal rate increased as the volume of beads increased, while the unit volume removal rate of phosphate decreased. In the lab-scale MBR, the phosphate removal rates were below 20% in the control MBR and QQ MBR, whereas the La-QQ MBR achieved a phosphate removal rate of 74%. There was not much difference between the ammonia and total organic carbon (TOC) removal rates. Regarding the change in transmembrane pressure(TMP), 3.7 days were taken for the control MBR to reach critical pressure. In contrast, the QQ-MBR took 9.8 days, and the La-QQ MBR took 6.1 days, which confirms the delay in biofouling. It is expected that La-QQ can be used within MBR to design a more stable MBR process that regulates biofouling and enhances phosphate removal.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1142-1149
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• 2009

Several bioactive metabolites, including pyrrolnitrin, N-acylhomoserine lactones, and polyhydroxyalkanoates were isolated from Burkholderia sp. O33. Effects of various nutrients, including sugars, gluconolactone, glycerol, tryptophan, chloride, and zinc were investigated in relation to the production of these metabolites. Logarithmic increase of pyrrolnitrin was observed between 2-5 days and reached a maximum at 7-10 days. Tryptophan concentration reached the maximum at 3 days, whereas 7-chlorotryptophan was gradually increased throughout the studies. Among various carbon sources, gluconolactone, trehalose, and glycerol enhanced pyrrolnitrin production, whereas strong inhibitory effects were found with glucose. Relative concentrations of pyrrolnitrin and its precursors were in the order of pyrrolnitrin$\gg$dechloroaminopyrrolnitrin or aminopyrrolnitrin throughout the experiments. Among three N-acylhomoserine lactones, the N-octanoyl analog was the most abundant quorum sensing signal, of which the concentrations reached the maximum in 2-3 days, followed by a rapid dissipation to trace level. No significant changes in pyrrolnitrin biosynthesis were observed by external addition of N-acylhomoserine lactones. Polyhydroxyalkanoates accumulated up to 3-4 days and decreased slowly thereafter. According to the kinetic analyses, no strong correlations were found between the levels of pyrrolnitrin, N-acylhomoserine lactones, and polyhydroxyalkanoates.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2008

모바일 애드-혹 망(MANET)은 고정 인프라 구조 없이 모바일 노드들이 자유롭게 이동하면서 통신하는 무선망이다. 망 내의 모바일 노드들은 빈번하게 이동하므로 위치정보 관리는 MANET에서 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 MANET 내의 모든 모바일 노드에 대한 위치정보를 효율적으로 관리하기 위해 모바일의 이동성을 퍼지논리를 이용하여 지역 중요도를 적응적으로 적용한 새로운 쿼럼 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 쿼럼 시스템의 성능은 분석적 방법으로 평가하였고, 그 성능을 기존의 UQS와 DQS 시스템과 비교하였다.