• BMB Reports
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.359-366
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• 2003

The effects of zinc on arginine kinase and its collapsed-state intermediate were studied. Both arginine kinase and the collapsed-state intermediate were inactivated in the presence of zinc, following a biphasic kinetic course. The corresponding apparent rate constants of inactivation at different zinc concentrations and conformational changes in the presence of 0.5 mM zinc were obtained. The conformational changes of arginine kinase and the collapsed-state intermediate were followed by fluorescence spectra and circular dichroism spectra. Comparison of the results for arginine kinase and the collapsed-state intermediate showed that the collapsed-state intermediate was more susceptible to zinc, which indicated that the collapsed-state intermediate was more flexible and unstable than arginine kinase. The special structure of arginine kinase might explain these diverse phenomena.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2004

Ubiquitin 폴딩 반응의 초기에 나타나는 transient 폴딩 intermediate 상태의 열역학적인 특성을 연구하였다. 온도와 화학변성제의 농도를 바꾸어주면서 측정한 폴딩 kinetics의 결과로부터 unfolded 상태와 intermediate 상태의 평형상수 및 자유에너지를 quantitative kinetic modeling을 통하여서 구하였으며 또한 온도에 따른 자유에너지의 변화로부터 unfolded 상태에서 intermediate 상태로 전환될 때의 열역학적 함수인 ${\Delta}H,\;{\Delta}S,\;{\Delta}C_p$를 구하였다. Ubiquitin이 unfolded 상태에서 intermediate 상태가 될 때의 ${\Delta}C_p$는 unfolded 상태에서 native 상태로 되는 과정의 ${\Delta}C_p$의 약 80% 정도 되었다. 이것은 intermediate가 native 상태에 가까운 매우 조밀한 구조를 이루고 있는 ensemble state임을 나타낸다. 상온에서의 ${\Delta}H$는 양의 값을 보였다. 이는 ubiquitin의 unfolded 상태에서 소수성 잔기 주위에 위치한 물 분자의 규칙적인 구조가 intermediate 상태가 될 때 와해되기 때문이라고 여겨진다. 이러한 양의 enthalpy는 자유로워진 물 분자에 의한 전체 계의 entropy의 증가에 의하여서 보상되어 unfolded 상태에서intermediate 상태로의 전환은 음의 자유에너지를 갖게 되며 폴딩 반응의 초기에 관찰되는 것으로 여겨진다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1509_1510
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• 2009

This paper presents the design and simulation results of ohmic contact RF MEMS silicon switch with a high isolation at high frequencies along with the position of a contact part, initial off-state and intermediate off-state including the state where a contact part is placed right over a signal line of coplanar waveguide (CPW). The ohmic contact part is connected with comb drives made of high resistivity single crystalline silicon. The released contact part is $30{\mu}m$ apart from the edge of signal line on the glass substrate along the lateral direction (x-direction) at initial off-state. The electrostatic force of the comb electrode creates the x-directional movement thus initial state is converted to the intermediate off-state. The initial off-state of the switch results in isolations of -31 dB, -24 dB and reflections of -0.45 dB, -0.67 dB at 50 GHz and 110 GHz, respectively. It shows the isolation degradation when the contact part moves right over the signal line of CPW like an initial off-state of a conventional MEMS switch. The isolations and reflections are -31 dB, -24 dB and -0.50 dB, -1.31 dB at 50 GHz and 110 GHz, respectively at the intermediate off-state.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.63-66
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• 2005

The azomethine ylide forming photoreaction has been explored by probing the excited state chemistry of several N-trimethylsilylmethyl substituted cyclic and acyclic imides and amide analogs. N-[(Trimethylsilyl)methyl]-N-mesylbenzamide (5) undergoes the excited state C to O silyl migration reaction to produce azomethine ylide intermediate 13. This ylide undergoes electrocyclization to form transient aziridine intermediate 14 which react further by ring opening to generate N-phenacylamine product 10. On the other hand, photolysis of N-[N-mesyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)methyl]aminoethyl-N-mesylbenzamide (8) brings about desilylation resulting in the production of dimer 17.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.1311-1327
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 종말 사건에 대한 정보는 주어져 있지만 중간 사건이 구간 중도절단되었거나 연구 기간 도중에 추적이 끊겨 중간 사건의 발생 유무를 모르는 준 경쟁 위험 자료에 다중상태모형을 적용하여 모수를 추정하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 상태 간 전이 강도는 정규 프레일티를 랜덤효과로 가진 Cox 비례위험모형을 따른다고 가정하였다. 다섯 가지 상태를 가진 다중상태모형에서 가능한 여섯 가지 경로별로 조건부 우도를 정의하였고 주변 우도를 구하기 위해 조정 가우스 구적법을 적용하였으며 뉴튼-랩슨 방법으로 최적 해를 구하였다. 모수의 95% 신뢰구간 포함률을 통해 제안한 방법의 소표본 성질을 살펴보기 위해 모의실험을 수행하였으며, Persones $Ag{\acute{e}}es$ Quid(PAQUID) 자료 (Helmer 등, 2001)에 제안한 모형을 적용하고 그 결과를 해석하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.2877-2883
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• 2010

The folding kinetics of $WT^*$ ubiquitin variant with valine to alanine mutation at sequence position 26 (HubWA) was studied by stopped-flow fluorescence spectroscopy. While unfolding kinetics showed a single exponential phase, refolding reaction showed three exponential phases. The semi-logarithmic plot of urea concentration vs. rate constant for the first phase showed v-shape pattern while the second phase showed v-shape with roll-over effect at low urea concentration. The rate constant and the amplitude of the third phase were constant throughout the urea concentrations, suggesting that this phase represents parallel process due to the configurational isomerization. Interestingly, the first and second phases appeared to be coupled since the amplitude of the second phase increased at the expense of the amplitude of the first phase in increasing urea concentrations. This observation together with the roll-over effect in the second folding phase indicates the presence of intermediate state during the folding reaction of HubWA. Quantitative analysis of Hub-WA folding kinetics indicated that this intermediate state is on the folding pathway. Folding kinetics measurement of a mutant HubWA with hydrophobic core residue mutation, Val to Ala at residue position 17, suggested that the intermediate state has significant amount of native interactions, supporting the interpretation that the intermediate is on the folding pathway. It is considered that HubWA is a useful model protein to study the contribution of residues to protein folding process using folding kinetics measurements in conjunction with protein engineering.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.216-220
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• 2013

The hydroalumination of cyclopropane has been investigated using the B3LYP density functional method employing several split-valence basis sets. It is shown that the reaction proceeds via an intermediate weakly bound complex and a four-centered transition state. Calculations at higher levels of theory were also performed at the geometries optimized at the B3LYP level, but only slight changes in the barriers were observed. Structural parameters for the transition state are also reported.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.134-137
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• 2002

PYP consists of a water-soluble apoprotein and 4-hydroxycinnamyl chromophore bound to Cys69 via thiolester linkage, Upon absorption of a photon, the photocycle is initiated, leading to formation of several photo-intermediates. Among them, M intermediate is important to understand the signal transduction mechanism of PYP, because it is a putative signaling state. As well known, the dynamics of a protein is closely correlated with the occurrence of its function. Here we report the results of IO ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for the M intermediate in aqueous solution and discuss the characteristic feature of this state from a viewpoint of structural fluctuation.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.102-106
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• 1999

Ce exhibits the intermediate valence (IV) state both as an element and in its compounds. In the present review characteristic behavior of the materials showing the IV state are described. Then the methods of producing this state : the application of the external pressure, temperature and magnetic field as well as the alloying are being discussed. An identification of the IV state is frequently not a simple goal and the best results can be obtained using a combination of various independent methods. Particular attention is paid to the X-ray spectroscopy, lattice parameters and the magnetic properties. As the examples of the IV state in the Ce compounds the properties of following materials are reported : CeRhSb, $CeCu_5In_7, CeAg_6In_6, Sc_{1-x}Ce_xFe_4Al_8 $and for comparison Sc1-xYbxFe4Al8.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.84.2-84.2
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• 2014

The intermediate polar V1323 Her = RXS J180340.0+401214 returned from its faint state 19.4-20.5 mag (mean brightness during the run, the instrumental system close to R or clear filter) (vsnet-alert 16958). On March 1, 2014, the brightness was 17.50 (clear filter) and next night 17.8 (R). During previous observations on January 24, the object was 19.6. We reported this findings to vsnet-alert 16958 and to The Astronomer's Telegramm (ATel #5944). The characteristics of the runs obtained before/after a switch between the high and low states will be presented.