• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2011

Artemisinin is effective against both chloroquine-resistant and -sensitive strains of Plasmodium species. However, the low yield of artemisinin from cultivated and wild plants is a serious limitation to the commercialization of this drug. Optimization of artemisinin yield either in vivo or in vitro is therefore highly desirable. To this end, we have overexpressed the 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGR) gene (hmgr) from Catharanthus roseus L. in Artemisia annua L. and analyzed its influence on artemisinin content. PCR and Southern blot analyses revealed that the transgenic plants showed stable integration of the foreign hmgr gene. The reverse transcriptase-PCR results suggested that the hmgr was expressed at the transcriptional level in transgenic lines of Artemisia annua L., while the high-performance liquid chromatography analysis showed that artemisinin content was significantly increased in a number of the transgenic lines. Artemisinin content in one of the A. annua transgenic lines was 38.9% higher than that in non-transgenic plants, and HMGR enzyme activity in transgenic A. annua L. was also higher than that in the non-transgenic lines.

• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.239-250
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• 2023

Background and Objectives: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited arrhythmia syndrome that presents as sudden cardiac death (SCD) without structural heart disease. One of the mechanisms of SCD has been suggested to be related to the uneven dispersion of transient outward potassium current (I_to) channels between the epicardium and endocardium, thus inducing ventricular tachyarrhythmia. Artemisinin is widely used as an antimalarial drug. Its antiarrhythmic effect, which includes suppression of I_to channels, has been previously reported. We investigated the effect of artemisinin on the suppression of electrocardiographic manifestations in a canine experimental model of BrS. Methods: Transmural pseudo-electrocardiograms and epicardial/endocardial transmembrane action potentials (APs) were recorded from coronary-perfused canine right ventricular wedge preparations (n=8). To mimic the BrS phenotypes, acetylcholine (3 μM), calcium channel blocker verapamil (1 μM), and I_to agonist NS5806 (6-10 μM) were used. Artemisinin (100-150 μM) was then perfused to ameliorate the ventricular tachyarrhythmia in the BrS models. Results: The provocation agents induced prominent J waves in all the models on the pseudo-electrocardiograms. The epicardial AP dome was attenuated. Ventricular tachyarrhythmia was induced in six out of 8 preparations. Artemisinin suppressed ventricular tachyarrhythmia in all 6 of these preparations and recovered the AP dome of the right ventricular epicardium in all preparations (n=8). J wave areas and epicardial notch indexes were also significantly decreased after artemisinin perfusion. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that artemisinin has an antiarrhythmic effect on wedge preparation models of BrS. It might work by inhibition of potassium channels including I_to channels, subsequently suppressing ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.2823-2826
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• 2011

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.737-740
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• 2011

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2005

쑥의 어린 잎은 민간요법에서 복통이나 구토, 월경불순 등의 치료에 사용되어 온 귀중한 약재로 최근에는 항 말라리아 효과를 나타내는 artemisinin 성분이 주목을 받고 있다. 국내에 자생하는 야생 쑥에 대한 자원식물로써의 가능성을 제시하기 위하여 야생쑥과 이로부터 유도한 기내배양세포로부터 artemisinin의 생합성 여부를 조사하였다 그 결과 그 동안 개똥쑥에서만 존재하는 것으로 알려진 artemisinin이 국내 야생 쑥에서도 생합성되는 것을 확인하였다. Artemisinin 및 유용한 이차대사산물의 기내 배양을 통한 대량생산의 가능성을 조사하기 위해 쑥의 어린 식물체로부터 조직 및 현탁 세포배양계를 확립하였다. Callus와 현탁배양 세포의 유도 및 성장은 $0,2\;mg/{\ell}$ 2,4-Df와 $0.1\;mg/{\ell}$ BAP가 처리되고 2% sucrose를 첨가한 MS배지에서 가장 좋게 나타났다. 이들 callus와 현탁배양세포 그리고 식물체에 존재하는 다양한 대사물질들을 비교하기 위해 TLC분석을 실시한 결과, 기내배양세포에서 특이적인 페놀 화합물, 터펜화합물, 아미노산 등이 존재하고 있는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 쪽의 기내 배양계를 통해 다양한 유용물질의 대량생산에 대한 가능성을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1998년도 Proceedings of UNESCO-internetwork Cooperative Regional Seminar and Workshop on Bioassay Guided Isolation of Bioactive Substances from Natural Products and Microbial Products
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• pp.121-121
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• 1998

Artemisia annua, an indigenous plant in Korea, contains a clinically important potent antimalarial principle, artemisinin. Artemisinin is a cadinane-type sesquiterpene endoperoxide. Cadinane synthase catalyzes the first committed step in artemisinin biosynthesis by cyclizing farnesyldiphosphate. In hopes of finding a cadinane synthase gene involved in artemisinin biosynthesis, oligonucleotides were synthesized on. the basis of the consensus nucleotide sequences and Nco I restriction sites for convenience in cloning. Specifically, nucleotide sequences of two highly conserved regions were deduced from the genes of similar function of Hyoscyamus muticus, Nicotiana tabacum, Abies grandis, Lycopersicon esculentum, and Gossypium hirsutum to construct a set of primers for polymerase chain reation (PCR). A 184 bp fragment was found to be amplified by PCR, and subsequently cloned. The gene revealed 62.8% identity in nucleotide and 55.6% in amino acid sequence to correspondent gene of N. tabacum. The gene was different from another sesquiterpene cyclase gene of A. annua, germacranadiene synthase gene, recently reported by Mercke and Bordelius (1998).

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2015

The anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties of artemisinin derived from water, methanol, ethanol, or acetone extracts of Artemisia annua L. were evaluated. All 4 artemisinin-containing extracts had anti-inflammatory effects. Of these, the acetone extract had the greatest inhibitory effect on lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandin $E_2$ ($PGE_2$), and proinflammatory cytokine ($IL-1{\beta}$, IL-6, and IL-10) production. Antioxidant activity evaluations revealed that the ethanol extract had the highest free radical scavenging activity, ($91.0{\pm}3.2%$), similar to ${\alpha}$-tocopherol (99.9%). The extracts had antimicrobial activity against the periodontopathic microorganisms Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. animalis, Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum, and Prevotella intermedia. This study shows that Artemisia annua L. extracts contain anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial substances and should be considered for use in pharmaceutical products for the treatment of dental diseases.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.433-438
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• 2013

This study was conducted to obtain the basic data for using the Artemisia anuua as a new economic crop, thus Artemisia anuua was investigated their cultivation characteristics, yield, and variation of artemisinin contents by planting density and harvesting times. Seed characteristics of A. anuua have observed micro-size, and their germination optimum temperature was at 15 to 20 celsius degree. Planting density on the yield of A. anuua was increased high density better than low density. The highest yield was planted in the space of $30{\times}10$cm. Moreover, optimum harvesting time of A. anuua was investigated in early september and a periods of most highly detected artemisinin was time of before and after blooming of A. anuua.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.123-126
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• 2005

Each diastereomer of 10-thiophenyl- and 10-benzenesulfonyl-dihydroartemisinin was synthesized from artemisinin in three steps, and screened against chloroquine-resistance and chloroquine-sensitive Plasmodium falciparum. Three of the four tested compounds were found to be effective. Especially, 10$\beta$-benzenesulfonyl-dihy-droartemisinin showed stronger antimalarial activity than artemisinin.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2011

가끔 먼 지역 거주자들은 현대 의약품이나 의학 서비스에 있어서 불충분하거나 접근할 수 없다. 그들은 개똥쑥의 선택된 품종을 경작하고 차 제조의 적절한 방법에 따라 식물로부터 차나 달인즙을 만드는 것에 의해 말라리아에 대항한 치료의 관점에서 이익을 얻을 수 있다. 아르테미시닌에 대한 최대 추출 효율을 위해, 개똥쑥의 차제조의 다른 방법들은 발달된 DPP방법을 적용하여 연구되었고 이 논문에 서술되었다. 차는 시간을 다르게 하여 3가지 다른 방법으로 제조된다(굽기, 섞거나 섞지 않으면서 굽지 않기 그리고 마이크로 웨이브 오븐). 결과로부터, 아르테미시닌의 더 높은 농도(84.7%)는 15분 동안 섞으면서 굽지 않는 차 제조법에 의해 도달될 수 있다는 것을 발견했다(R.S.D. 2.34%). 아르테미시닌의 농도는 마이크로 웨이브 오븐에서 1.5분 이상 구울 때 감소한다. 최대한도의 추출(88.9%)은 증류수에서 5%에탄올과 함께 섞는 추출방법에서 가능했다(R.S.D. 2.28%).