• 생명과학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2002

세포막 유동성은 생체의 항상성 유지의 가장 기본적이며 중요한 기능으로서, 도라지의 용매별 분획물의 첨가로 세포막 유동성에 미치는 영향을 열시차 열량분석법 (differential scanning calorimetry, DSC)으로 측정하였다. DPPC liposome에 도라지의 용매별 분획물 첨가시 첨가물의 농도 증가에 따라 서서히 상전이 온도가 저하되었고 thermogram도 넓어졌으며 이에 따라 협동 단위($\Delta$ $H_{vH}$ /$\Delta$ $H_{cal}$)수도 감소됨을 알 수 있었다. 이는 도라지 분획물의 첨가로 DPPC liposome의 유동성이 증가하였음을 보여주는 결과로 생각 되어진다. 시료의 각 용매별 분획물의 유동성 효과는 ethyl-ether 분획층인 PGMEE의 경우 상전이온도 Tm이 시료첨가 최고농도에서 DPPC liposome 만의 경우보다 4.3$^{\circ}C$가 저하되어 다른 분획물보다 그 정도가 두드러졌으며 그 순서는 hexane 분획층 PGMH, ethylacetate 분획층인 PGMEA 및 methanol 분획층 PGMM의 순이었으며 butanol 층인 PGMB는 그 효과가 미미하여 앞서의 열역학적 요소에 거의 영향을 미치지 못했다. 이와 같은 결과는 PGMB를 제외한 시료의 각 분획물 성분 중 분자내 hydrophobicity가 큰 물질들이 DPPC liposome 이중층의 소수성부분에 더 깊숙히 침투됨으로써 인지질 liposome의 유동성을 증가시킨 현상이라고 생각된다. 도라지의 용매별 분획물의 막유동성 증가는 이온, 약물, 영양물의 흡수, 수송 및 교환등 생체막의 주요기능에 영향을 미치므로 막유동성을 증가시키는 도라지 분획물들의 생리활성물질에 대한 더욱 구체적인 연구가 기대되어 진다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.662-668
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• 1997

MG-63 골육암세포 및 AZ-521 인체 위 암세포 성장에 미치는 리놀레산(LA)의 성장 억제효과와 이때 암세포막의 인지질 유리지방산 조성 변화에 대한 연구를 하였다. LA 첨가 농도 0.005%에서 MG-63 암세포와 AZ-521 암세포는 대조군에 비해 각각 54% 및 52%의 암세포 성장이 억제되었다. 또한 LA 첨가(0.01%)시 이들 암세포의 ［$^3$H］ thymindine 결합능은 90% 이상이 억제되어 암세포의 DNA합성이 크게 억제되었다. 한편 LA(0.005 %) 첨가시 각 암세포의 형태학적인 변형을 유발시켰으며 세포막의 인지질 지방산 조성의 변화가 관찰되었다. LA처리는 이런 세포의 형태적 변형과 함께 세포막의 인지질 중 16:0과 18:0의 지방산은 현저히 감소되었으나 탄소수가 20 이상의 탄소수를 가지거나 불포화 도가 높은 지방산(20 : 4, 22 6, 24 : 4)은 증가되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.1060-1068
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• 2021

Community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is notorious as a leading cause of soft tissue infections. Despite several studies on the Agr regulator, the mechanisms of action of Agr on the virulence factors in different strains are still unknown. To reveal the role of Agr in different CA-MRSA, we investigated the LACΔagr mutant and the MW2Δagr mutant by comparing LAC (USA300), MW2 (USA400), and Δagr mutants. The changes of Δagr mutants in sensitivity to oxacillin and several virulence factors such as biofilm formation, pigmentation, motility, and membrane properties were monitored. LACΔagr and MW2Δagr mutants showed different oxacillin sensitivity and biofilm formation compared to the LAC and MW2 strains. Regardless of the strain, the motility was reduced in Δagr mutants. And there was an increase in the long chain fatty acid in phospholipid fatty acid composition of Δagr mutants. Other properties such as biofilm formation, pigmentation, motility, and membrane properties were different in both Δagr mutants. The Agr regulator may have a common role like the control of motility and straindependent roles such as antibiotic resistance, biofilm formation, change of membrane, and pigment production. It does not seem easy to control all MRSA by targeting the Agr regulator only as it showed strain-dependent behaviors.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.215-221
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• 1995

This paper examines the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid/saturated fatty acid (p/s) ratios and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) on the hepatic microsomaI mixed-function oxidase sy. stem in 2~acetylaminofiuorene (2-AAF) treated rats. Sprague-Dawley male rats were fed the diet of beef tallow (p/s 0.08), beef tallow plus soybean oil (p/s 1.0), and soybean oil (p/s 4.0) at the level of 15%fat and with or without 0.3% BHT. After 2-AAF was injected twice at the ages of 23 and 27 weeks, cholesterol/phospholipid molar ratio, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) level, cytochrome P450, cytochrome $b_5$, NADPH-cytochrome $b_5$, and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity were measured from isolated hepatic microsomal fractions. In the beef tallow (p/s 0.08) and beef tallow plus soybean oil (p/s 1.0) groups, cholesterol/phospholipid molar ratio showed decreasing tendency by 2-AAF and BHT. Cytochrome P-450 content was decreased in the group of soybean oil (p/s 4.0) and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity was increased by 2-AAF and BHT in all the dietary groups. While TBARS levels were increased by 2-AAF in all the dietary groups, they were reduced by BHT in the soybean oil (p/s 4.0) group. These results suggest that long term intake of soybean oil (p/s 4.0) diet induced changes in the nature of microsomal membrane and induced less cytochrome P-450, low level feeding of BHT increased cytochrome c reductase activity and lowered microsomal lipid peroxidation levels, which were increased by 2-AAF treatment.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.144-150
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• 2002

쑥갓(Chrsanthemum coronarium L., CC)은 국화과(Compositae)에 속하는 일년생 초본식물로 독특한 향기를 가진 지중해 원산 식물이다. 우리 나라에는 중국을 거쳐 조선초기에 전해졌으며 시기용으로 널리 애용되고 있다. 본 연구는 쑥갓의 메타놀 분획물(CCMM), 헥산분획물(CCMH), 에틸아세테이트 분획물(CCMEA), 부타놀분획물 (CCMB) 및 수층인 CCMA 분획물을 얻고 각각 일정량을 불포화인지질인 L-$\alpha$-dilinoleoylphosphatidylcholine(DLPC) liposome에 가하고 benzoyl peroxide를 가하여 산화시켜 분광광도법에 의하여 산화지수 ( $A_{234nm}$/ $A_{202nm}$)를 측정 비교하였다. 그 결과 쑥갓의 각 분획물 일정량을 가한 경우의 DLPC liposome의 산화지수는 시료를 가하지 않은 경우보다 낮아 높은 항산화력을 나타내었으나 강한 항산화제인 BHT를 가한 경우 보다는 항산화 정도가 낮았다. 그러나 특히 본 연구에서 알려진 결과로는 쑥갓 분획물들의 항산화력이 널리 알려진 항산화제인 $\alpha$-tocopherol을 가한 경우와 그 효과가 비슷하여 식용으로 애용되고 있는 쑥갓의 항산화적 생리활성이 본 연구에서 입증되었으며 이 효과를 기초로하여 식물 속의 항산화성을 이용한 식품의 개발이 기대 된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.1478-1484
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• 2003

CRAMP was identified from a cDNA clone derived from a mouse femoral marrow cells as a member of cathelicidin-derived antimicrobial peptide. Tertiary structure of CRAMP in TFE/$H_2O$ (1 : 1, v/v) solution has been determined by NMR spectroscopy previously and consists of two amphipathic $\alpha-helices$ from Leu4 to Lys10 and from Gly16 to Leu33. These two helices are connected by a flexible region from Gly11 to Gly16. Analysis of series of fragments composed of various portion of CRAMP revealed that an 18-residue fragment with the sequence from Gly16 to Leu33 (CRAMP-18) was found to retain antibacterial activity without cytotoxicity. The effects of two Phe residues at positions 14 and 15 of CRAMP-18 on structure, antibacterial activity, and interaction with lipid membranes were investigated by $Phe^{14,15}$ ${\rightarrow}$ Ala substitution (CRAMP-18-A) in the present study. Substitution of Phe with Ala in CRAMP-18 caused a significant reduction on antibacterial and membrane-disrupting activities. Tertiary structures of CRAMP-18 in 50% TFE/$H_2O$ (1 : 1, v : v) solution shows amphipathic ${\alpha}$-helix, from $Glu^2{\;}to{\;}Leu^{18}$, while CRAMP-18-A has relatively short amphipathic ${\alpha}$-helix from $Leu^4{\;}to{\;}Ala^{15}$. These results suggest that the hydrophobic property of $Phe^{14}{\;}and{\;}Phe^15$ in CRAMP-18 is essential for its antibacterial activity, ${\alpha}$-helical structure, and interactions with phospholipid membranes.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2007

The lyotropic behaviors to form the structure of distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DSPC)-based liquid crystal (LC) hydrated by only propylene glycol (PG) without water were examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffractions (XRD), polarized microscope (PM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). By increasing the amount of PG instead of water, it showed the phase transition to be gradually changed from anisotropic structures to other structures more close to isotropic ones and their appearance to be changed from solid-like states to liquid-like ones with more fluidity. Below 50% w/w PG, the mixtures of DSPC and PG resulted in no direct observation of LC structure through PM because they were very close to solid-states. From 55% w/w to 90% w/w of PG, the dense lamella crystalline structures were observed through PM, and their thickness and area decreased as the content of PG increased. Measured by DSC with heating process, the main phase transition from α -lamella phase to isotropic phase appeared from 52.89 °C to 47.41 °C to show linearly decreasing behaviors because PG affects the hydrophobic region of DSPC-based lamella phase. The repeating distance of the lamella phase and the interlayer distance between bilayers were calculated with XRDs and the average number of bilayers related to the thickness in LC structure was approximately estimated by combining with TEM results. The WAXS and DSC measurements showed that all of PG molecules contributed to swelling both the lipid layer in the edge region of lamella phase close to phosphate groups and the interlayer between bilayers below 90% w/w of PG. The phase and thermal behaviors were found to depend on the amount of PG used by means of dissolving DSPC as a phospholipid and rearranging its structure. Instead of water, the inducement of PG as a polar solvent in solid-lamella phase is discussed in terms of the swelling effect of PG for DSPC-based lamella membrane.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1997

We determined the microviscosity of synaptosomal plasma membrane vesicles (SPMV) isolated from bovine cerebral cortex and liposomes of total lipids (SPMTL) and phospholipids (SPMPL) extracted from SPMV. Changes in the microviscosity induced by the range and rate of lateral diffusion were measured by the intramolecular excimerization of 1, 3-di(1-pyrenyl)propane (Py-3-Py). The microviscosity values of the direct probe environment in SPMV, SPMTL and SPMPL were 38.17, 31.11 and 27.64 cP, respectively, at$37^{\circ}C$and the activation energies $(E_a)$ of the excimer formation of Py-3-Py in SPMV, SPMTL and SPMPL were 8.236, 7.448 amd 7.025 kcal/mol, respectively. Probe location was measured by polarity and polarizability parameters of the probe Py-3-Py and probe analogues, pyrene, 1-pyrenenonanol and 1-pyrenemethyl-3${\beta}$-hydroxy-22, 23-bisnor-5-cholenate (PMC), incorporated into membranes or solubilized in reference solvents. There existed a good linear relationship between the first absorption peak of the $^1_a$ band and the polarizability parameter $(n^{2}-1)/(2n^{2}+1)$.The calculated refractive index values for SPMV, SPMTL and SPMPL were close to 1.50, which is higher than that of liquid paraffin (n=l.475). The probe location was also determined by using a polarity parameter $(f-1/2f^{I})$. Here f=$({\varepsilon}-1)/(2{\varepsilon}+1)$ is the dielectric constant function and $f^I=(n^2-1)/(2n^2+1)$ is the refractive index function. A correlation existed between the monomer fluorescence intensity ratio and the solvent polarity parameter. The probes incorporated in SPMV, SPMTL, and SPMPL report a polarity value close to that of 1-hexanol $({\varepsilon}=13.29)$. In conclusion, Py-3-Py is located completely inside the membrane, not in the very hydrophobic core, but displaced toward the polar head groups of phospholipid molecules, e.g., central methylene region of aliphatic chains of phospholipid molecules.

• BMB Reports
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.561-566
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• 1999

CA(1-8)-ME(1-12) [CA-ME], composed of cecropin A(1-8) and melittin(1-12), is a synthetic antimicrobial peptide having potent antibacterial and antitumor activities with minimal hemolytic activity. In order to investigate the effects of the flexible hinge sequence, Gly-Ile-Gly, of CA-ME on antibiotic activity, CA-ME and three analogues, CA-ME1, CA-ME2, and CA-ME3, were synthesized. The Gly-Ile-Gly sequence of Ca-ME was deleted in CA-ME1 and replaced with Pro and Gly-Pro-Gly in CA-ME2 and CA-ME3, respectively. CA-ME1 and CA-ME3 showed a significant decrease in antitumor activity and phospholipid vesicle-disrupting ability. However, CA-ME2 showed similar antitumor and vesicle-disrupting activities, as compared with CA-ME. These results suggest that the flexibility or ${\beta}$-turn induced by Gly-Ile-Gly or Pro in the central part of CA-ME may be important in the electrostatic interaction of the N-terminus cationic ${\alpha}$-helical region with the cell membrane surface and the hydrophobic interaction of the C-terminus amphipathic ${\alpha}$-helical region with the hydrophobic acyl chains in the cell membrane. CA-ME3 exhibited lower antitumor and vesicle-disrupting activities than CA-ME and CA-ME2. This result suggests that the excessive ${\beta}$-turn structure caused by the Gly-Pro-Gly sequence in CA-ME3 seems to interrupt ion channel/pore formation in the lipid bilayer. We concluded that the appropriate flexibility or bilayer. We concluded that the appropriate flexibility or ${\beta}$-turn structure provided by the central hinge is responsible for the effective antibiotic activity of the antimicrobial peptides with the helix-hinge-helix structure.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2020

Milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) is a lipid carrier in mammals including humans that consists mainly of polar lipids, like phospholipids and glycolipids. In this study, a process to enrich polar lipids in commercial butter and whey powder, including polar lipids of MFGM, was developed. WPC (whey protein concentrate) 60 was selected as the most suitable raw material based on the yield, phospholipid, protein, and lactose content of the polar lipid fraction obtained by ethanol extraction of two WPC (WPC60 and WPC70) and two buttermilk (A and B). After fractionation under optimum conditions, the polar-lipid enriched fraction from WPC60 contained 38.56% phospholipids. The content of glycolipids, cerebroside, lactosylceramide, ganglioside GM3, ganglioside GD3, was 0.97%, 0.55%, 0.09%, and 0.14%, respectively. Rancimat results showed that the oxidation stability of fish oil increased with an increase in the polar-lipid fraction by more than 30 times. In addition, the secretion of IL-6 and TNF-α decreased in a concentration-dependent manner after treatment of RAW 264.7 cells with 0.1 to 100 ppm of the polar lipid fraction. In this study, polar lipid concentrates with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, were prepared from milk processing by-products. The MFGM polar lipid concentrates made from by-products are not only additives for infants, but are also likely to be used as antioxidants in cooking oils and as active ingredients for functional foods.