• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.212-226
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• 2006

The involvement of arachidonic acid (AA) metabolizing enzyme, lipoxygenase (LOX), in the development of particular tumors in humans has gradually been acknowledged and LOX has emerged as a novel target to prevent or treat human cancers. In the mouse skin carcinogenesis model, which provides an excellent model to study multistage nature of human cancer development, many studies have shown that some of the LOXs are constitutively upregulated in their expression. Moreover, application of LOX inhibitors effectively reduced tumor burdens, which implicates the involvement of LOX in mouse skin tumor development as well. 8S-LOX is a recently cloned LOX, which is specifically expressed in mouse skin after 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) treatment but not in normal skin. Unlike other members of the LOX 'family' expressed in mouse skin, this TPA-induced expression of 8S-LOX is prominent only in the skin of the TPA tumor promotion-sensitive strains of mice (SENCAR, CD-1, and NMRI) but not in the promotion-resistant C57BL/6J mice. This is a very unique phenomenon among strains of mice. Constitutive upregulation of 8S-LOX was also found in early stage papillomas and the expression was gradually reduced as the tumors became malignant. Based on these observations, it has been thought that 8S-LOX is involved in TPA-induced tumor promotion as well as in tumor conversion from papillomas to carcinomas. In accordance with this hypothesis, several studies have suggested possible roles of 8S-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (HETE), an AA metabolite of 8S-LOX, in mouse skin tumor development. A clastogenic activity of 8S-HETE was demonstrated in primary keratinocytes and a close correlation between the levels of etheno-DNA adducts and 8S-HETE during skin carcinogenesis was also reported. On the other hand, it has been reported that 8S-LOX protein expression is restricted to a differentiated keratinocyte compartment Moreover, reported findings on the ability of 8S-HETE to cause keratinocyte differentiation appear to be contrary to the procarcinogenic features of the 8S-LOX expression, presenting a question as to the role of 8S-LOX during mouse skin carcinogenesis. In this review, molecular and biological features of 8S-LOX as well as current views on the functional role of 8S-LOX/8S-HETE during mouse skin carcinogenesis are presented.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.159-164
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• 1981

부분적 항상성변이주인 Bacillus megaterium (KFCC 10029)가 생산하는 페니실린 아미다제를 예로하여 강화된 $Ca^{++}$-alginate gel에 의한 포괄방법을 이용하는 효소 고정화 방법을 제시하였다. 발효액으로 부터 celite 흡착법에 의해 효소를 분리한 후 alginate의 gellatin용액에 혼합하고 $Ca^{++}$ 용액에서 응고시키고 glutaraldehyde로 처리하여 성형하였다. 이렇게 하여 얻은 고정화효소의 최적 pH 및 온도는 각각 8.0과 6$0^{\circ}C$였다. Km value 와 6-APA 및 페닐초산에 의한 저해 상수는 각각 2.6mM, 7.4mM, 21.2mM이었다. Gel의 증가된 물리적 강도 때문에 반응조 조작중 흡착효소의 유실을 성공적으로 없앨수 있었다. 관형식 반응조에서의 고정화 효소의 반감기는 4$0^{\circ}C$와 3$0^{\circ}C$에서 각각 6일 및 30일이었으며, 이것은 흡착효소와 비교해 볼 때 6-8배의 증가치이다. 결론적으로 alginate gel 포괄방법에 의한 효소고정화 방법에 있어, 본 연구에서 개발된 개량된 방법을 사용함으로써 고정화효소의 물리적 강도 및 안정도를 크게 증가시킬 수 있었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.375-381
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• 1992

Streptomyces sp. S34가 분비하는 exoinulase의 생산조건을 검토하고 정제하였으며 이 호소의 성질을 조사하여 Streptomyces sp. S56이 생산하는 endoinulase와 비교하였다. 이 효소는 같은 속에서 분비되는 endoinulase와는 달리 탄소원으로 inulin이외에 glucose 및 soluble starch를 사용할 때도 효소가 생산되어 구성효소로 생각되었으며 유기질소원으로 대두박을 사용할 때 최대의 효소생산을 보였다. DEAE-cellulose에 이어 Sephadex G-200 chromatography로 정제한 효소의 최적 pH는 $5.5{\sim}6.0$이었고 최적온도 $50^{\circ}C$에서의 열안정성은 1시간 처리로 45%의 잔류활성이 있었다. 효소활성은 $Mn^{+2}$ 이온에 의하여 증가되나 $Ag^+$, $Hg^{+2}$, $Fe^{+3}$ 이온들에 의하여는 80% 이상 감소되었으며 특히 EDTA, 8-hydroxyquinoline에 의해 저해되어 metalloenzyme으로 생각되었다. 본 효소는 inulase 활성 대 invertase 활성비가 0.52로 전형적인 exoinulase로서 inulin 및 sucrose에 대한 친화도는 거의 같으나 최대속도는 inulin이 기질일 경우 sucrose보다 약 10배 빨랐다. 같은 Streptomyces 속에서 분비되는 endoinulase와 비교하면 작용 pH 범위가 $5{\sim}7$로 더 좁고 열안정성도 낮으며 저해 금속이온도 상이하나 두 효소 모두 metalloenzyme으로 추정되었다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.583-589
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• 2009

GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCH) is a key enzyme in the de novo synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin. Previously, the Drosophila melanogaster GTPCH gene has been shown to be expressed from two different promoters (P1 and P2). In our study, the 5'-flanking DNA regions required for P1 and P2 promoter activities were characterized using transient expression assay. The DNA regions between -98 and +31, and between -73 and +35 are required for efficient P1 and P2 promoter activities, respectively. The regions between -98 and -56 and between -73 and -41 may contain critical elements required for the expression of GTPCH in Drosophila. By aligning the nucleotide sequences in the P1 and P2 promoter regions of the Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilrs GTPCH genes, several conserved elements including palindromic sequences in the regions critical for P1 and P2 promoter activities were identified. Western blot analysis of transgenic flies transformed using P1 or P2 promoter-lacZ fusion plasmids further revealed that P1 promoter expression is restricted to the late pupae and adult developmental stages but that the P2 promoter driven expression of GTPCH is constitutive throughout fly development. In addition, X-gal staining of the embryos and imaginal discs of transgenic flies suggests that the P2 promoter is active from stage 13 of embryo and is generally active in most regions of the imaginal discs at the larval stages.

• 약학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 1994

Nitric oxide(NO) synthase was identified and characterized by determining the L-citrulline formed in the NO-Arg pathway in pancreatic tissues. NO synthase activities in chicken pancreas were dependent upon the concentration of L-Arg which is the substrate molecule for the NO synthase, the amount of the enzyme protein used, and linearly on the incubation time. NO synthase in mouse pancreas was found to be constitutive, not induced by lipopolysaccharide treatment. In vitro NO synthase activities of chicken pancreas were inhibited 36%, 21%, 12% and 44% by $200\;{\mu}M$ of MMA, DMA, D'MA and NAME respectively. These results suggest the presence of NO and NO synthase in the pancreas.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.385-392
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• 1996

Bacillus stearotheymophilus, a potent xylanolytic bacterium isolated from soil, was tested for the strain's strategies of pentose utilization and the evidence of substrate preferences. The strain metabolized glucose, xylose, ribose, maltose, cellobiose, sucrose, arabinose and xylitol. The efficacy of the sugars as a carbon and energy source in this strain was of the order named above. The organism, however, could not grow on glycerol as a sole growth substrate. During cultivation on a mixture of glucose and xylose or arabinose, the major hydrolytic products of xylan, B. stearothermophilus displayed classical diauxic growth in which glucose was utilized during the first phase. On the other hand, the pentose utilization was prevented immediately upon addition of glucose. Cellobiose was preferred over xylose or arabinose. In contrast, maltose and pentose were co-utilized, and also no preference on between xylose and arabinose. Enzymatic studies indicated that B. stearothermophilus possessed constitutive hexokinase, a key enzyme of the glucose metabolic system. While, the production of $^{D}$-xylose isomerase, $^{D}$-xylulokinase and $^{D}$-arabinose isomerase essential for pentose phosphate pathway were induced by xylose, xylan, and xylitol but repressed by glucose. Taken together, the results suggested that the sequential utilization of B. stearothermophilus would be mediated by catabolite regulatory mechanisms such as catabolite inhibition or inducer exclusion.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2016

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is still used in certain areas of tropics and subtropics to control malaria and other insect-transmitted diseases. DDT and its metabolites have been extensively studied for their toxicity and carcinogenicity in animals and humans and shown to have an endocrine disrupting potential affecting reproductive system although the effects may vary among animal species in correlation with exposure levels. Epidemiologic studies revealed either positive or negative associations between exposure to DDT and tumor development, but there has been no clear evidence that DDT causes cancer in humans. In experimental animals, tumor induction by DDT has been shown in the liver, lung, and adrenals. The mechanisms of hepatic tumor development by DDT have been studied in rats and mice. DDT is known as a non-genotoxic hepatocarcinogen and has been shown to induce microsomal enzymes through activation of constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and to inhibit gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) in the rodent liver. The results from our previously conducted 4-week and 2-year feeding studies of p,p'-DDT in F344 rats indicate that DDT may induce hepatocellular eosinophilic foci as a result of oxidative DNA damage and leads them to hepatic neoplasia in combination with its mitogenic activity and inhibitory effect on GJIC. Oxidative stress could be a key factor in hepatocarcinogenesis by DDT.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.277-283
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• 2011

Glyoxalase I catalyzes the conversion of methylglyoxal to S-D-lactoylglutathione in the presence of glutathione. The structural gene of glyoxalase I (GLO1) was cloned from an osmotolerant yeast, Candida magnoliae, which produces a functional sweetener, erythritol, from sucrose. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the uninterrupted open reading frame (ORF) of C. magnoliae GLO1 (CmGLO1) spans 945 bp, corresponding to 315 amino acid residues, and shares 45.2% amino acid sequence identity to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Glo1. The cloned ORF in a multicopy constitutive expression plasmid complemented the glo1 mutation of S. cerevisiae, confirming that it encodes Glo1 in C. magnoliae. The responses of CmGLO1 to environmental stresses were different from those of S. cerevisiae, which only responds to osmotic stress. An enzyme activity assay and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction revealed that the expression of CmGLO1 is induced by stress inducers such as methylglyoxal, $H_2O_2$, KCl, and NaCl. The GenBank Accession No. for CmGLO1 is HM000001.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.200-206
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• 2001

In this study we tried to optimize the enzyme reaction conditions for the synthesis of highly branched isomaltodextrin (Mw > 2.5 kDa) using two dextransucrases from L. mesenteroides B-742CB and B-512FMCM that are dextransucrase constitutive mutants. As the concentration of sucrose or the ratio of maltose to sucrose increased, the amount of dextran decreased and the number and the amount of acceptor-products (of sucrose or maltose) increased. With high sucrose concentration (over 34%), there was more branched isomaltodextrin (as acceptor products) than dextran. When the ratio of sucrose to maltose was 2.5, there produced 86.7% of isomaltodextrin were produced. The Mw of dextrans, however, was over 2${\times}$10(sup)6 and there was no significant amounts of branched clinical dextran or high molecular weight oligosaccharides. With the combined activities of B-742CB dextransucrase and B-512FMCM dextransucrase we could synthesize high molecular weight branched isomaltodextrin (Mw>2.5 kDa). The high molecular weight dextran was composed of high branches as B-742CB dextran.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2007

Pseudoalteromonas carrageenovora 유래의 arylsulfatase 유전자는 PCR로 증폭한 후 Geobacillus toebii의 D-amino acid aminotransferase(D-ATT) 유전자 유래의 구성적 발현 promoter를 함유하는 pHCE-IA vector로 subcloning 하였다. 4-Methylumbelliferyl sulfate가 포함된 LB 평판배지 상에서 자란 형질전환체 Escherichia coli BL2l (DE3)/pHCE-AST는 360 nm상에서 4-methylumbellifrrone에 의한 강한 형광을 보였고, 이는 대장균에서 arylsulfatase가 활성형으로 생산되었음을 의미하였다. E. coli BL21 (DE3)/pHCE-AST를 0.4% glycerol 또는 0.4% glucose가 포함된 LB 배지로 배양했을 때 arylsulfatase활성은 glycerol이 포함된 배지에서 활성이 더 높게 나타났다. 2% glycerol이 포함된 LB배지에서 arylsulfatase 활성은 약 15.0 unit/ml에 달했으며, 이는 1% glycerol을 첨가해서 배양했을 때보다 2.6배 이상의 높은 발현 수준이였다. 재조합 arylsulfatase 효소로 제조된 agarose와 시판용 agarose를 DNA markers를 이용해서 전기영동 성능을 비교했을 때 우수한 이동성과 분리능을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과, E. coli에서 과발현 생산된 arylsulfatase 효소를 이용하여 전기영동용 고순도 agarose생산 공정에 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.