• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2003

그람 양성세균에서 PyrR단백질에 의하여 피리미딘의 생합성이 조절된다는 발견을 바탕으로 하여, Synechocystis sp.PCC6803과 Haemophilus influenzae의 PyrR orthologue 유전자를 Bacillus subtilis에서 형질전환 시켜 피리미딘 생합성의 조절 유무를 조사하였다. Synechocystis sp.PCC6803과 H. influenzae의 PyrR orthologue유전자를 pUC19과 T-vector에 클로닝 한후 pKH1, pKH2, pHPSK1, pHPSK2으로 각각 명명하였다. 이것을 다시 Escherichia. coli와 B. subtiius용 shuttle vector인 pHPS9에 클로닝 하여 pKH3, pKH4, pHPSK3, pHPSK4로 각각 명명하였다. B. subtilis DB104Δ PyrR에 pKH3, pKH4, pHPSK3, pHPSK4을 형질전환후 ATCase 활성을 측정결과 pHPSK3을 가진 균주만 피리미딘에 의한 조절작용이 일어난다는 사실을 통하여, H. influenzae의 PyrR orthologue 유전자의 선도 부분에 조절에 관여하는 미지의 부분이 있음을 예측할 수 있었다. 서로 다른 유래의 PyrR orthologue단백질을 정제하기 위하여 pET14b에 클로닝후 pKH5, pHPSK5으로 각각 명명하였다. SDS-PAGE로 분석한 결과 각각 약 18 kDa과 21 kDa의 분자량을 나타내었다. 정제된 PyrR orthologue 단백질의 UPRTase 활성을 측정한 결과 H. infuenzae의 PyrR orthologue 단백질은 UPRTase 활성을 나타내었으며 다양한 pH에서 측정한 결과 pH 5에서 가장 높은 활성을 나타내었다. 반면에, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803의 PyrR orhologue 단백질은 UPRTase 활성을 나타내지 않았다. 여러 가지 균주의 PyrR 아미노산 서열을 비교한 계통수 분석은 PyrR 단백질의 조절기작과 어느 정도 연관됨을 시사해 주었다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.195-201
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• 2010

We studied on the proteomic characteristics of Toxoplasma gondii KI-1 tachyzoites which were originally isolated from a Korean patient, and compared with those of the well-known virulent RH strain using 2-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE), mass spectrometry, and quantitative real-time PCR. Two-dimensional separation of the total proteins isolated from KI-1 tachyzoites revealed up to 150 spots, of which 121 were consistent with those of RH tachyzoites. Of the remaining 29 spots, 14 showed greater than 5-fold difference in density between the KI-1 and RH tachyzoites at a pH of 5.0-8.0. Among the 14 spots, 5 from the KI-1 isolate and 7 from the RH strain were identified using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and database searches. The spots from the KI-1 tachyzoties were dense granule proteins (GRA 2,3,6, and 7), hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGRPTase), and uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (UPRTase). The spots from the RH strain were surface antigen 1 (SAG 1), L-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), actin, chorismate synthase, peroximal catalase, hexokinase, bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHTR-TS), and nucleosidetriphosphatases (NTPases). Quantitative real-time PCR supported our mass spectrometric results by showing the elevated expression of the genes encoding GRA 2,3, and 6 and UPRTase in the KI-1 tachyzoites and those encoding GRA 7, SAG 1, NTPase, and chorismate synthase in the RH tachyzoites. These observations demonstrate that the protein compositions of KI-1 and RH tachyzoites are similar but differential protein expression is involved in virulence.

• Journal of Life Science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.120-125
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• 2001

The pyrR gene of the pyrimidine biosynthesis (pyr) operon of the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus, encoding a uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (UPRTase), turned to rely as a pyr operon regulator. It has been proposed that PyrR mediates transcriptional termination-antitermination at three intercistronic regions of the par operon (S.-Y Ghim and J. Neuhard, J. Bacteriol.,176, 3698-3707, 1994). In this research, a plasmid carrying the pyrR region of B. caldolyticus could restore a pyrimidine regulation in a pyrR mutant of B. subtilis. Expression of pyrR was found to increase 6-7 fold during pyrimidine starvation. Additionally, a highly conserved nucleotide sequence which may constitute the binding site for a PyrR protein (PyrR-binding loop) in transcript was staggested. Alternative antiterminator and terminator structures involving three conserved motifs in front of the pyrR, pyrP and pyrB genes, respectively, are proposed to account for the observed regulation pattern.