• 생명과학회지
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.1455-1460
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• 2018

최근 들어 급속한 고령화 사회가 진행되고 있으며 이로 인해 골관절염과 골다공증 등의 퇴행성 골질환 환자수도 동반하여 증가하고 있다. 따라서 고령화에 따른 골관련 질환의 새로운 제어와 치료법 개발을 위해 성체줄기세포의 골세포 분화유도를 활용한 재생의학도 활발히 연구되고 있다. 또한 관련 연구에서 줄기세포의 분화과정에서 미토콘드리아의 산화적인산화가 중요하다고 알려지고 있다. 흥미롭게도 최근 연구에서 아스피린의 주성분인 salicylate가 동물세포의 미토콘드리아 생합성을 증진시키는 효과가 보고되었다. 그러나 성체줄기세포에서 salicylate가 골세포분화나 미토콘드리아 생합성을 유도할 수 있는지에 대한 연구결과는 미비한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 인체 골막 유래의 성체줄기세포를 이용하여 골세포분화나 미토콘드리아 생합성에 대한 salicylate의 영향을 분석하였다. 골막 유래 성체줄기세포의 골세포 분화유도 과정에 동반한 salicylate 처리는 잘 알려진 골세포분화 표지자인 alkaline phosphatase의 활성을 증가시키는 결과를 본 연구에서 얻었다. 이러한 연구결과는 salicylate가 줄기세포로부터 골세포로의 분화를 조절할 수 있는 물질이 될 수 있음을 제시한다. 또한 이러한 골세포 분화과정에서 미토콘드리아 생합성도 salicylate 처리에 의해 증가됨이 관찰되었다. 따라서, 미토콘드리아 생합성이나 기능을 조절하는 물질이 성체줄기세포의 골세포 분화과정에도 영향을 줄 수 있으며, 이러한 물질이 골세포분화나 재생의학의 새로운 조절 물질로 응용될 수 있음을 제시한다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.547-551
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• 2009

팥나방(Matsumuraeses phaseoli)과 어리팥나방(M. falcana)은 유사한 종으로 작물에 상이한 피해를 주고 있다. 그러나 형태적 특징만으로 이 두 동소적 유사종을 쉽게 구분하기 어렵다. 본 연구는 이 두 종을 뚜렷하게 판별할 수 분자마커를 개발했다. 두 종의 시토크롬 옥시다아제-I의 부분(약 500 bp) 염기서열이 밝혀졌다. 이를 바탕으로 두 종을 구분하는데 이용될 수 있는 판별 제한효소인 Rsa I이 선발되었고 PCR-RFLP를 통해 입증되었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1859-1866
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• 2010

우리나라는 세계 녹용 생산량의 80% 이상을 소비한다. 하지만, 중국산, 뉴질랜드산 녹용과 수입이 금지된 북미산 녹용이 원용이라고 불리는 고가의 러시아산 녹용으로 둔갑 판매, 유통되는 문제가 다수 보고되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 녹용의 원산지 동정 기술을 개발하고자 러시아, 중국, 뉴질랜드 및 북미산 녹용으로부터 미토콘드리아 D-loop 영역에 대한 원산지 특이적인 분자 마커를 탐색할 목적으로 수행되었다. 결과적으로 중국산 녹용으로부터 약 60~70 bp의 결실 부위를 확인하고 이들 부위를 특이적으로 확인할 수 있는 PCR법을 통해서 중국산 녹용의 정확한 감별 가능성을 확인하였다. 따라서 본 연구는 미토콘드리아 DNA 유래의 유전자들에 대한 염기서열 분석과 이를 이용한 PCR 동정법이 녹용의 원산지 감별에 적용될 수 있음을 보여주는 사례라 생각된다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.513-519
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• 2012

Aged garlic extract (AGE) is known to have a protective effect against immune system, endothelial function, oxidative stress and inflammation. We examined the effects of exercise with and without aged garlic extract administration on body weight, lipid profiles, inflammatory cytokines, and oxidative stress marker in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese rats. Forty-five Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a HFD (HFD, n = 40) or a normal diet (ND, n = 5) for 6 weeks and thereafter randomized into ND (n = 5), HFD (n = 10), HFD with AGE (n = 10), HFD with Exercise (n = 10), or HFD with Exercise+AGE (n = 10) for 4 weeks. AGE groups were administered at a dose of 2.86 g/kg body weight, orally. Exercise consisted of running 15-60 min 5 days/week with gradually increasing intensity. AGE (P<0.01), Exercise, and Exercise+AGE (P<0.001) attenuated body weight gain and food efficiency ratio compared to HFD. Visceral fat and liver weight gain were attenuated (P<0.05) with all three interventions with a greater effect on visceral fat in the Exercise+AGE than AGE (P<0.001). In reducing visceral fat (P<0.001), epididymal fat (P<0.01) and liver weight (P<0.001), Exercise+AGE was effective, but exercise showed a stronger suppressive effect than AGE. Exercise+AGE showed further additive effects on reducing visceral fat and liver weight (P<0.001). AGE significantly attenuated the increase in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol compared with HFD (P<0.05). Exercise+AGE attenuated the increase in triglycerides compared with HFD (P<0.05). Exercise group significantly decrease in C-reactive protein (P<0.001). These results suggest that AGE supplementation and exercise alone have anti-obesity, cholesterol lowering, and anti-inflammatory effects, but the combined intervention is more effective in reducing weight gain and triglycerides levels than either intervention alone.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.4493-4496
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• 2015

Alterations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been studied in various cancers. However, the clinical value of mtDNA copy number (mtCN) alterations in gastric cancer (GC) is poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated whether alterations in mtCNs might be associated with clinicopathological parameters in GC cases. mtCN was measured in 109 patients with GC by real-time PCR. Then, correlations with clinicopathological characteristics were analyzed. mtCN was elevated in 64.2% of GC tissues compared with paired, adjacent, non-cancerous tissue. However, the observed alterations in mtCN were not associated with any clinicopathological characteristics, including age, gender, TN stage, Lauren classification, lymph node metastasis, and depth of invasion. Moreover, Kaplan-Meier survival curves revealed that mtCN was not significantly associated with the survival of GC patients. In this study, we demonstrated that mtCN was not a significant marker for predicting clinical characteristics or prognosis in GC.

• 한국패류학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.285-290
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• 2010

본 연구는 우리나라 무안, 태안, 여수, 제주 지역 및 중국 영성, 대련 지역의 낙지 개체군의 종 및 집단분석을 위해 미토콘드리아 CO1유전자의 염기서열을 조사하였다. 유전자 분석은 총 60 개체로부터 6개의 haplotype이 조사되었다. 제주 개체군인 경우 모든 개체 (N = 10) 가 다른 집단에서는 관찰되지 않은 A haplotype으로 구성되어 있어 다른 지역과 뚜렷한 차이를 나타내었다. 이들 haplotype은 MEGA 4 분석에 의해 두 개의 clade로 나뉘어지는데 하나는 무안, 태안, 여수, 중국 대련집단이었고 다른 하나는 제주, 중국 영성집단으로 나뉘는 구조를 하고 있었다. 집단 간 유연관계 분석에서도 같은 현상이 관찰되었다. Group A에 속하는 무안, 태안, 여수, 대련 집단의 낙지 개체군은 group B (제주, 영성) 에 속하는 집단 개체군 보다 유전적 거리가 아주 가까웠다. 본 연구에서 사용한 CO1 universal primer는 종 판별 유전자 마커로서 낙지류에서도 유용하게 활용될 수 있었으나 partial CO1 유전자 내의 변이가 많지 않기 때문에 집단분석에는 한계가 있으나, 지역적 거리 및 장벽 그리고 서식지 차이 등에서 오는 제한적 gene flow에 대한 논의는 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권17호
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• pp.7105-7112
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated oxidative stress and tumor marker levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in 136 coke oven workers and in 60 control subjects, and evaluated the correlation between oxidative stress and tumor marker levels. Questionnaires on basic demographic information were also administered. Significant differences in employment time and percentages of alcohol drinkers were observed between the control and exposed groups. PAH exposure was assessed using urinary 1-hydroxy-pyrene (1-OHP) levels and was found to be significantly higher in workers than in the controls. Significant differences (P<0.001) of MDA, GST, LDH, NSE, Cyfra21-1, and of SCC and TNF-a (P<0.0001 and P<0.05, P<0.001, respectively) levels were observed among controls and coke-oven workers, except for bottom coke oven workers. Associations between age and risk of increased TNF-a, smoking and increased GST activities, and drinking with increased MDA concentrations, were marginal (P=0.055, P=0.048, P=0.057, respectively). The association between smoking with MDA (P=0.004), NSE (P=0.005), SCC (P=0.004) andTNF-a (P<0.001), and drinking with TNF-a levels was significant (P=0.012). In addition, a significant positive correlation between oxidative stress and tumor markers was found in the present study. These results suggest that a synergistic increase of oxidative stress and tumor markers induced by PAHs may play a role in toxic responses for PAHs in coke oven workers.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.457-466
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• 2015

Taoyuan pig is a native Taiwan breed. According to the historical record, the breed was first introduced to Taiwan from Guangdong province, Southern China, around 1877. The breed played an important role in Taiwan's early swine industry. It was classified as an indigenous breed in 1986. After 1987, a conserved population of Taoyuan pig was collected and reared in isolation. In this study, mitochondrial DNA sequences and 18 microsatellite markers were used to investigate maternal lineage and genetic diversity within the Taoyuan pig population. Population differentiation among Taoyuan, Asian type, and European type pig breeds was also evaluated using differentiation indices. Only one D-loop haplotype of the Taoyuan pig was found. It clustered with Lower Changjiang River Basin and Central China Type pig breeds. Based on the polymorphism of microsatellite markers, a positive fixation index value ($F_{IS}$) indicates that the conserved Taoyuan population suffers from inbreeding. In addition, high $F_{ST}$ values (>0.2105) were obtained, revealing high differentiation among these breeds. Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling showed a clear geometric structure among 7 breeds. Together these results indicate that maternally Taoyuan pig originated in the Lower Changjiang River Basin and Central China; however, since being introduced to Taiwan differentiation has occurred. In addition, Taoyuan pig has lost genetic diversity in both its mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.155-166
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• 2011

The leaf beetle, $Chrysolina$ $aurichalcea$ (Coleoptera: Chysomelidae), is a pest damaging plants of Compositae. In order to understand the genetic diversity and geographic variation we sequenced a portion of mitochondrial COI gene (658 bp) and complete nuclear internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of the species collected from seven Korean localities. A total of 17 haplotypes (CACOI01~CACOI17), with the maximum sequence divergence of 3.04% (20 bp) were obtained from COI gene sequence, whereas 16 sequence types (ITS2CA01~ITS2CA16), with the maximum sequence divergence of 2.013% (9 bp) were obtained from ITS2, indicating substantially larger sequence divergence in COI gene sequence. Phylogenetically, the COI gene provided two haplotype groups with a high nodal support (${\geq}87%$), whereas ITS2 provided only one sequence type group with a high nodal support (${\geq}92%$). The result of COI gene sequence may suggest the presence of historical biogeographic barriers that bolstered genetic subdivision in the species. Different grouping pattern between COI gene and ITS2 sequences were interpreted in terms of recent dispersal, reflected in the ITS2 sequence. Finding of unique haplotypes and sequence types only from Beakryeng-Islet population was interpreted as an intact remnant of ancient polymorphism. As more samples are analyzed using further hyper-variable marker, further fruitful inference on the geographic contour of the species might be available.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2009

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletion is a well-known marker for oxidative stress and aging and also contributes to their unfavorable effects in cultured cells and animal tissues. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ionizing radiation (IR) on mtDNA deletion and the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in this process in human lung fibroblast (IMR-90) cells. Young IMR-90 cells at population doubling (PD) 39 were irradiated with $^{137}Cs$ $\gamma$-rays and the intracellular ROS level was determined by 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) and mtDNA common deletion (4977bp) was detected by nested PCR. Old cells at PD 55 and $H_2O_2$-treated young cells were compared as the positive control. IR increased the intracellular ROS level and mtDNA 4977 bp deletion in IMR-90 cells dose-dependently. The increases of ROS level and mtDNA deletion were also observed in old cells and $H_2O_2$-treated young cells. To confirm the increased ROS level is essential for mtDNA deletion in irradiated cells, the effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on IRinduced ROS and mtDNA deletion were examined. 5 mM NAC significantly attenuated the IR-induced ROS increase and mtDNA deletion. These results suggest that IR induces the mtDNA deletion and this process is mediated by ROS in IMR-90 cells.