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Suspension Culture of an Antibacterial Peptide Producing Cell Line from Bombina orientalis

  • KIM, YONG-HWAN;JAE-WON YANG;CHAN-WHA KIM
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.461-465
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    • 1998
  • The suspension culture of an anchorage-dependent cell line (Bok-l) from Bombina orientalis was successful in respects of cost and efficiency. The amount of cells obtained from the suspension culture was almost equivalent to that from the anchorage-dependent culture. This result shows the possibility of suspension culture for scale-up. The cells in suspension produced an antibacterial peptide as much as anchorage-dependent cells did. The cell growth ($6.0\times10^6cells/m\ell$) and viability (>80%) at 10 rpm were higher than that at 0 rpm ($1.9\times10^6cells/m\ell$, 65~80%) and 30 rpm ($1.8\times10^6cells/m\ell$ 40~76%). The size of cells became smaller at the agitation rate of 30 rpm. The antibacterial activities of cell extracts from suspension cultured cells were confirmed against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria by the inhibition zone assay and the liquid growth inhibition assay.

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Characterization of Bacterial Community Dynamics during the Decomposition of Pig Carcasses in Simulated Soil Burial and Composting Systems

  • Ki, Bo-Min;Kim, Yu Mi;Jeon, Jun Min;Ryu, Hee Wook;Cho, Kyung-Suk
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.2199-2210
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    • 2017
  • Soil burial is the most widely used disposal method for infected pig carcasses, but composting has gained attention as an alternative disposal method because pig carcasses can be decomposed rapidly and safely by composting. To understand the pig carcass decomposition process in soil burial and by composting, pilot-scale test systems that simulated soil burial and composting were designed and constructed in the field. The envelope material samples were collected using special sampling devices without disturbance, and bacterial community dynamics were analyzed by high-throughput pyrosequencing for 340 days. Based on the odor gas intensity profiles, it was estimated that the active and advanced decay stages were reached earlier by composting than by soil burial. The dominant bacterial communities in the soil were aerobic and/or facultatively anaerobic gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Gelidibacter, Mucilaginibacter, and Brevundimonas. However, the dominant bacteria in the composting system were anaerobic, thermophilic, endospore-forming, and/or halophilic gram-positive bacteria such as Pelotomaculum, Lentibacillus, Clostridium, and Caldicoprobacter. Different dominant bacteria played important roles in the decomposition of pig carcasses in the soil and compost. This study provides useful comparative date for the degradation of pig carcasses in the soil burial and composting systems.

Factors Affecting Mental Health among College Students - Sassang Constitution and Ego State centered Approach- (대학생의 정신건강에 영향을 주는 요인 - 사상체질과 자아상태를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Myoung-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.564-577
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to address differences between mental health according to sasang constitution and ego state among college students. Methods: Data for this cross-sectional study were collected by administration of questionnaires eliciting Woo's ego state scale, QSCC II for the sasang constitution classification, and SCL-90-R for mental health to 393 college students. Analysis was performed using IBM SPSS (version 19.0). Results: The Free Child ego and Adapted Child ego differed significantly among sasang types. The ego-gram pattern of So-eum type exhibited the N pattern (Nurturing Parent (NP)>Adapted Child (AC)>Adult (A)>Free Child (FC)>Critical Parent (CP), AC-high type), however, the ego-gram pattern of other constitution types showed the M pattern (NP>FC>A>AC>CP). No statistically significant differences in mental health were observed among sasang types, however, among ego states, AC and CP showed negative correlation with mental health status. Between So-eum type and So-yang type, AC was the factor predicting mental health. Between Tae-eum type and undefined type, AC and CP were factors predicting mental health. Conclusion: These findings suggest that sasang constitution could be an important factor in understanding the ego state and mental health status. We conclude that sasang constitution should be considered in interpretation of mental health status presentation in clients.

Effective Platform for the Production of Recombinant Outer Membrane Vesicles in Gram-Negative Bacteria

  • Kunjantarachot, Anthicha;Phanaksri, Teva
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.621-629
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    • 2022
  • Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) typically contain multiple immunogenic molecules that include antigenic proteins, making them good candidates for vaccine development. In animal models, vaccination with OMVs has been shown to confer protective immune responses against many bacterial diseases. It is possible to genetically introduce heterologous protein antigens to the bacterial host that can then be produced and relocated to reside within the OMVs by means of the host secretion mechanisms. Accordingly, in this study we sought to develop a novel platform for recombinant OMV (rOMV) production in the widely used bacterial expression host species, Escherichia coli. Three different lipoprotein signal peptides including their Lol signals and tether sequences-from Neisseria meningitidis fHbp, Leptospira interrogans LipL32, and Campylobactor jejuni JlpA-were combined upstream to the GFPmut2 model protein, resulting in three recombinant plasmids. Pilot expression studies showed that the fusion between fHbp and GFPmut2 was the only promising construct; therefore, we used this construct for large-scale expression. After inducing recombinant protein expression, the nanovesicles were harvested from cell-free culture media by ultrafiltration and ultracentrifugation. Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the obtained rOMVs were closed, circular single-membrane particles, 20-200 nm in size. Western blotting confirmed the presence of GFPmut2 in the isolated vesicles. Collectively, although this is a non-optimized, proof-of-concept study, it demonstrates the feasibility of this platform in directing target proteins into the vesicles for OMV-based vaccine development.

Vocabulary Recognition Retrieval Optimized System using MLHF Model (MLHF 모델을 적용한 어휘 인식 탐색 최적화 시스템)

  • Ahn, Chan-Shik;Oh, Sang-Yeob
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.217-223
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    • 2009
  • Vocabulary recognition system of Mobile terminal is executed statistical method for vocabulary recognition and used statistical grammar recognition system using N-gram. If limit arithmetic processing capacity in memory of vocabulary to grow then vocabulary recognition algorithm complicated and need a large scale search space and many processing time on account of impossible to process. This study suggest vocabulary recognition optimize using MLHF System. MLHF separate acoustic search and lexical search system using FLaVoR. Acoustic search feature vector of speech signal extract using HMM, lexical search recognition execution using Levenshtein distance algorithm. System performance as a result of represent vocabulary dependence recognition rate of 98.63%, vocabulary independence recognition rate of 97.91%, represent recognition speed of 1.61 second.

Biosynthesis of Apigenin Glucosides in Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum

  • Obed Jackson Amoah;Samir Bahadur Thapa;Su Yeong Ma;Hue Thi Nguyen;Morshed Md Zakaria;Jae Kyung Sohng
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.1154-1163
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    • 2024
  • Glucosylation is a well-known approach to improve the solubility, pharmacological, and biological properties of flavonoids, making flavonoid glucosides a target for large-scale biosynthesis. However, the low yield of products coupled with the requirement of expensive UDP-sugars limits the application of enzymatic systems for large-scale. C. glutamicum is a Gram-positive and generally regarded as safe (GRAS) bacteria frequently employed for the large-scale production of amino acids and biofuels. Due to the versatility of its cell factory system and its non-endotoxin producing properties, it has become an attractive system for the industrial-scale biosynthesis of alternate products. Here, we explored the cell factory of C. glutamicum for efficient glucosylation of flavonoids using apigenin as a model flavonoid, with the heterologous expression of a promiscuous glycosyltransferase, YdhE from Bacillus licheniformis and the endogenous overexpression of C. glutamicum genes galU1 encoding UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and pgm encoding phosphoglucomutase involved in the synthesis of UDP-glucose to create a C. glutamicum cell factory system capable of efficiently glucosylation apigenin with a high yield of glucosides production. Consequently, the production of various apigenin glucosides was controlled under different temperatures yielding almost 4.2 mM of APG1(apigenin-4'-O-β-glucoside) at 25℃, and 0.6 mM of APG2 (apigenin-7-O-β-glucoside), 1.7 mM of APG3 (apigenin-4',7-O-β-diglucoside) and 2.1 mM of APG4 (apigenin- 4',5-O-β-diglucoside) after 40 h of incubation with the supplementation of 5 mM of apigenin and 37℃. The cost-effective developed system could be used to modify a wide range of plant secondary metabolites with increased pharmacokinetic activities on a large scale without the use of expensive UDP-sugars.

Large-Scale Synthesis of Plate-Type ZnO Crystal with High Photocatalytic Activity (광촉매 활성이 우수한 판상형 ZnO 결정의 대용량 합성)

  • Kim, Da-Jung;Kim, Bo-Mi;Joe, Ara;Shim, Kyu-Dong;Han, Hyo-Won;Noh, Gyung-Hyun;Jang, Eue-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.59 no.2
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    • pp.148-155
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    • 2015
  • ZnO nanoplates were prepared by seed-mediated soft-solution process. Photocatalytic property of ZnO nanoplates was superior to that of conventional ZnO nanoparticles owing to the enhanced (0001) plane with large defect sites. In addition, we found that silica coating method could provide to reduce cytotoxicity of ZnO nanoplates. Finally, we have successfully synthesized for the first time large-scale synthesis of plate-type ZnO as few hundreds gram scale for industrial applications through controlling various reagents of growth solution.

Lipase Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of rac-2-(3-Methoxy-4-methylphenyl) propan-1-ol and rac-2-(3-Hydroxy-4-methylphenyl)propyl propanoate for S-(+)-Xanthorrhizol

  • Shafioul, Azam Sharif Mohammed;Cheong, Chan-Seong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.409-414
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    • 2012
  • Xanthorrhizol is a bisabolane type of natural sesquiterpene, the major component of essential oils of Curcuma xanthorrhiza. 2-(3-Methoxy-4-methylphenyl)propan-1-ol and 2-(3-hydroxy-4-methyl phenyl)propan-1-ol could be essential building block for enantioselective synthesis of xanthorrhizol. Enantioselective (c = 53%, E = $80{\pm}3$) for R-(+)-2-(3-hydroxy-4-methylphenyl) propan-1-ol and (c = 58%, E = $27{\pm}1$) for R-(+)-2-(3-methoxy-4-methylphenyl) propan-1-ol resolution processes were developed via lipase-catalyzed reaction. We found lipase Aspergillus oryzae (AOL) and Porcine pancreas (PPL) are selective to transesterification and hydrolysis in organic and aqueous phase. Modified demethylated substrate is appropriate for enantioselective hydrolysis reaction without any additives. Enantiopure chiral alcohol was crystallized from ethyl acetate/n-hexane co-solvent system. Gram scale resolved chiral intermediate will facilitate the synthesis of the unnatural S-(+)-xanthorrhizol, the corresponding isomer of the natural one.

Simple Purification of shiga Toxin B Chain from Recombinant Escherichia coli

  • Oh, Young-Phil;Jeong, Seong-Tae;Kim, Dae-Weon;Kim, El-Chae;Yoon, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.986-988
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    • 2002
  • A plasmid expression vector of pEStxl encoding a mature form of the B chain of the Shiga toxin was constructed without a signal peptide under the control of an inducible n promoter. The encoded protein was purified to 90% by simple heat treatment, and then further purified to 95% by Phenyl-Sepharose and DEAE-Sepharose chromatographies, all in a single day. Accordingly, this expression system and heat treatment could facilitate the rapid purification of gram-scale amounts of the Shiga toxin B subunit from recombinant Escherichia coli cells.

In-line System for Large Scale OLED Manufacturing using Nozzle Source

  • Hwang, Chang-Hun Chriss;Jeong, Kwang-Ho;Choi, Myung-Woon;Noh, Myung-Kun;Whang, Chung-Nam;Kim, Sung-Moon;Min, Chi-Hoon;Moon, Soo-Jeong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.411-413
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    • 2003
  • When manufacturing large sized OLED devices, the evaporation source is the most important technology. The nozzle source maintains the uniformity of the large-size deposited organic thin film at the 2-3% level and its usage is only 0.8 gram/hour. The in-line manufacturing deposition system combining with an encapsulation system is proposed.

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