• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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• pp.92-93
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• 2002

With the recent development of combinatorial chemistry, recombinant biotechnology and rational drug design, millions of compounds are being produced in the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies. These new drug candidates are evaluated their efficacy and toxicity through in vivo animal model studies which is very important in drug development. From these studies, very successful drug candidates are selected. (omitted)

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1-2
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• 2000

일반적인 신약 개발 방법으로는 천연물로부터 선도화합물이 발견되었을 때 의약화학자들은 그 물질의 화학구조식 중에서 약리 작용에 필수 요건이 되는 구조 요소를 규정하고, 체계적인 분자변형을 통하여 약리 작용의 최적화 작업을 추진한다. 그러나 분자 내에 여러 가지 치환기를 도입할 수 있는 경우 수많은 유도체가 합성 가능하며, 실제로 이와 같은 많은 수의 유도체를 합성한다는 것은 현실적으로 불가능하다. 통계적으로 하나의 신약 개발에 드는 시간과 경비는 약 10년 이상의 기간과 3,000 억원 이상의 경비가 소요된다. 따라서 시간과 경비를 줄이는 노력의 하나로 실험분야에서는 조합 화학합성 (Combinatorial Chemical Synthesis, CCS) 기술인 새로운 개념의 고효율 합성 기술이나 이를 대량 검색할 수 있는 초고속 활성 검색법 (High Through-put Screening, HTS) 기술이 1990년대 초에 본격적으로 각광 받게되었고, 정보관리 시스템을 통한 library 구축, 컴퓨터를 이용한 구조-활성 관계 및 분자 설계 기법이 급속히 발전하게 되었다. 따라서 기존의 random screening에 의한 신약개발 방법으로부터 탈피하여 새로운 차원의 신의약 개발 방법의 필요성이 절실히 요구되고 있다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.408-420
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• 2014

Yeast surface-displayed antibody libraries provide an efficient and quantitative screening resource for given antigens, but suffer from typically modest library sizes owing to low yeast transformation efficiency. Yeast mating is an attractive method for overcoming the limit of yeast transformation to construct a large, combinatorial antibody library, but the optimal conditions have not been reported. Here, we report a large synthetic human Fab (antigen binding fragment) yeast surface-displayed library generated by stepwise optimization of yeast mating conditions. We first constructed HC (heavy chain) and LC (light chain) libraries, where all of the six CDRs (complementarity-determining regions) of the variable domains were diversified mimicking the human germline antibody repertoires by degenerate codons, onto single frameworks of VH3-23 and $V{\kappa}1$-16 germline sequences, in two haploid cells of opposite mating types. Yeast mating conditions were optimized in the order of cell density, media pH, and cell growth phase, yielding a mating efficiency of ~58% between the two haploid cells carrying HC and LC libraries. We constructed two combinatorial Fab libraries with CDR-H3 of 9 or 11 residues in length with colony diversities of more than $10^9$ by one round of yeast mating between the two haploid HC and LC libraries, with modest diversity sizes of ${\sim}10^7$. The synthetic human Fab yeast-displayed libraries exhibited relative amino acid compositions in each position of the six CDRs that were very similar to those of the designed repertoires, suggesting that they are a promising source for human Fab antibody screening.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.792-802
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• 2009

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered to be a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics for future generations. We identified four novel hexapeptides with antimicrobial activity: KCM11 (TWWRWW-$NH_2$), KCM12 (KWRWlW-$NH_2$), KCM21 (KWWWRW-$NH_2$), and KRS22 (WRWFIH-$NH_2$), through positional scanning of a synthetic peptide combinatorial library (PS-SCL). The ability of these peptides to inhibit the growth of a variety of bacteria and unicellular fungi was evaluated. KCM11 and KRS22 preferentially inhibited the normal growth of fungal strains, whereas KCM12 and KCM21 were more active against bacterial strains. Bactericidal activity was addressed in a clear zone assay against phytopathogenic bacteria, including Pectobacterium spp., Xanthomonas spp., Pseudomonas spp., etc. KCM21 showed the highest activity and was effective against a wide range of target organisms. Application of KCM21 with inoculation of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum on detached cabbage leaves resulted in an immune phenotype or a significant reduction in symptom development, depending on the peptide concentration. Cytotoxicity of the four hexapeptides was evaluated in mouse and human epithelial cell lines using an MTT test. The results revealed a lack of cytotoxic effects.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제40권12호
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• pp.1170-1176
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• 2003

진화최적방법을 이용하여 alkali earth borosilicate 계열(Eu, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba)$_{x}$ $B_{y}$S $i_{z}$ $O_{d}$에 E $u^{3+}$ 를 도핑 하여 고효율 적색 형광체를 합성하였다. 본 연구는 삼원색 백색 LED로의 적용을 목적으로 한다. 진화최적방법은 유전알고리즘과 조합화학을 연계하여, LED형광체 개발을 위해 개발하였다. 유전알고리즘을 조합화학에 접목함으로써 시간과 자원의 낭비 없이 매우 효율적인 형광체 탐색을 꾀할 수 있었다. 실질적인 실험에 앞서 다양한 목적함수를 이용하여 시뮬레이션을 실시하여 본 연구의 타당성을 증명하고 실제 합성한 결과 삼원색 백색 LED용 적색형광체(E $u_{0.14}$M $g_{0.18}$C $a_{0.07}$B $a_{0.12}$ $B_{0.17}$S $i_{0.32}$ $O_{{\delta}}$)를 얻었다.얻었다.다.얻었다.얻었다.다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.278-284
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• 2007

생체 염 농도에서도 항균활성을 유지할 수 있는 선형 ${\alpha}$-helical 항균 펩타이드를 M13 펩타이드 라이브러리로부터 탐색할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 개발하였다. M13의 pIII은 magainin 유도체인 MSI-344와 indolicidin과 융합된 상태에서도 파아지의 viability에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 보아, MSI-344와 indolicidin의 대장균에 대한 독성을 중화할 수 있는 것으로 판단되며, 따라서 대장균에서 항균 펩타이드 라이브러리의 제조가 가능함을 증명하였다. 선형 항균 펩타이드의 보존된 부위를 바탕으로, 13개의 아미노산 잔기로 구성된 semi-combinatorial 항균 펩타이드 라이브러리를 M13를 이용하여 제조하였다. 제조된 파아지 라이브러리는 먼저 적혈구에 흡착시켜, 높은 용혈 역가를 가질 가능성이 있는 파아지를 제거한 후, 높은 염 농도에서 Pseudomonas aeruginosa와 Staphylococcus aureus에 흡착할 수 있는 파아지를 탐색하였다. 탐색된 펩타이드들은 염이 없는 조건에서는 비교적 낮은 항균 역가를 보였지만, P06와 S18 펩타이드의 경우, 생체 염 농도보다 높은 150 mM $Na^+$, 2 mM $Mg^{2+}$, 2 mM $Ca^{2+}$의 조건에서도 항균 역가가 영향을 받지 않았으며, 심각한 용혈 역가 또한 보이지 않았다. 본 연구에서 개발한 대상 세균에 대한 흡착능력을 이용한 탐색방법은 salt-tolerant antimicrobial peptide의 개발의 새로운 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제17권
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• pp.241-249
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• 2001

Toxicology is under challenge from several new trends in science and technology, namely computer, the Internet, genome projects, genomic technologies, and combinatorial chemistry. These new trends will drastically change research style of toxicology. In addition to conventional uni cellular tests and animal tests using rodents, computer simulation, DNA chips (microarrays), in vivo tests using simple model organisms such as nematodesor flies become important routine screening tests. How to arrange these tests in tiers will become a new problem. Endocrine disruptors hypothesis is a good example for this kind of futuristic approach. Computer, particularly the Internet, is also enabling toxicologists and regulatory experts to collaborate more closely. The IPCS (International Program for Chemical Safety) which is ajoint project of WHO, ILO and UNEP, is a well-known international collaborative research for chemical risk assessments. The GINC project of IPCS is an effort to utilize the Internet for such collaborations. Some efforts were also made to establish regional collaboration network in East Asia under this project.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.473-484
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• 2001

There is clearly a need for novel breast cancer chemopreventive agents with enhanced potency and specificity with tittle or no side effects. To this end, several new chemical moieties have been synthesized or isolated from natural sources. In this reviewal we have described some agents currently in use or under development for treatment or prevention of breast cancer, as well as our own strategies for the discovery of natural product modulators of estrogen biosynthesis and function. In particulars bioassay-guided fractionation of active plant extracts is a unique method for identifying agents with novel mechanisms of action, some of which should be useful for prevention of human cancer. Further, with the advent of combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening, even greater progress may now be expected with natural product leads.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2014

A positional scanning synthetic peptide combinatorial library (PS-SCL) was screened in order to identify antimicrobial peptides against the cariogenic oral bacteria, Streptococcus mutans. Activity against Streptococcus gordonii and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans was also examined. The library was comprised of six sub-libraries with the format $O_{(1-6)}XXXXX-NH_2$, where O represents one of 19 amino acids (excluding cysteine) and X represents equimolar mixture of these. Each sub-library was tested for antimicrobial activity against S. mutans and evaluated for antimicrobial activity against S. gordonii and A. actinomycetemcomitans. The effect of peptides was observed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Two semi-mixture peptides, RXXXXN-$NH_2$ (pep-1) and WXXXXN-$NH_2$ (pep-2), and one positioned peptide, RRRWRN-$NH_2$ (pep-3), were identified. Pep-1 and pep-2 showed significant antimicrobial activity against Gram positive bacteria (S. mutans and S. gordonii), but not against Gram negative bacteria (A. actinomycetemcomitans). However, pep-3 showed very low antimicrobial activity against all three bacteria. Pep-3 did not form an amphiphilic ${\alpha}$-helix, which is a required structure for most antimicrobial peptides. Pep-1 and pep-2 were able to disrupt the membrane of S. mutans. Small libraries of biochemically-constrained peptides can be used to generate antimicrobial peptides against S. mutans and other oral microbes. Peptides derived from such libraries may be candidate antimicrobial agents for the treatment of oral microorganisms.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.2046-2056
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• 2018

Phospholipase D has great commercial value due to its transphosphatidylation products that can be used in the food and medicine industries. In order to construct a strain for use in the production of PLD, we employed a series of combinatorial strategies to increase PLD expression in Bacillus subtilis WB600. These strategies included screening of signal peptides, selection of different plasmids, and optimization of the sequences of the ribosome-binding site (RBS) and the spacer region. We found that using the signal peptide amyE results in the highest extracellular PLD activity (11.3 U/ml) and in a PLD expression level 5.27-fold higher than when the endogenous signal peptide is used. Furthermore, the strain harboring the recombinant expression plasmid pMA0911-PLD-amyE-his produced PLD with activity enhanced by 69.03% (19.1 U/ml). We then used the online tool \RBS Calculator v2.0 to optimize the sequences of the RBS and the spacer. Using the optimized sequences resulted in an increase in the enzyme activity by about 26.7% (24.2 U/ml). In addition, we found through a transfer experiment that the retention rate of the recombinant plasmid after 5 generations was still 100%. The final product, phosphatidylserine (PS), was successfully detected, with transphosphatidylation selectivity at 74.6%. This is similar to the values for the original producer.