• BMB Reports
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• 제41권10호
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• pp.733-738
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• 2008

Although previous studies have implicated a role for TC1 (C8orf4) in cancer cell proliferation, the molecular mechanism of its action is still largely unclear. In this study, we showed, for the first time, that the mRNA levels of TC1 were upregulated by mitogens (FBS/thrombin) and at least partially, through the ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Interestingly, the over-expression of TC1 promoted the $G_1$- to S-phase transition of the cell cycle, which was delayed by the deficiency of ERK1/2 signaling in fibroblast cells. Furthermore, the luciferase reporter assay indicated that the over-expression of TC1 significantly increased Cyclin D1 promoter-driven luciferase activity. Taken together, our findings revealed that TC1 was involved in the mitogen-activated ERK1/2 signaling pathway and positively regulated $G_1$- to S-phase transition of the cell cycle. Our results may provide a novel mechanism of the role of TC1 in the regulation of cell proliferation.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.92.1-92.8
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• 2022

Background: Feline calicivirus (FCV) is widespread throughout the world. An FCV infection is associated with conjunctivitis, rhinitis, and mouth ulcers that can lead to the animal's death. Because vaccination is not always effective, it is necessary to monitor the infection regularly. Objectives: This study examined the FCV epizootic situation in the Moscow metropolitan area by conducting a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the virus isolates. Methods: Samples from 6213 animals were examined by a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. For phylogenetic analysis, 12 nucleotide sequences obtained from animal samples were selected. Sequencing was performed using the Sanger method. Phylogenetic analysis was conducted using the Maximum Likelihood method. Results: The FCV genome was detected in 1,596 (25.7%) samples out of 6,213. In 2018, calicivirus was detected in 18.9% of samples, 27.8% in 2019, 21.4% in 2020, and 32.6% in 2021. Phylogenetic analysis of the F ORF2 region and the ORF3 start region led to division into two FCV genogroups. Most of the isolates (8 out of 12) were close to the Chinese strains. On the other hand, there were isolates closely related to European and American strains. The isolates circulating in Moscow were not included in clusters with vaccine strains; their nucleotide similarity varied from 77% to 83%. Conclusions: This study revealed a high prevalence and genetic diversity of the FCV in Moscow. The epizootic situation remains stably tense because 24 viruses were detected in 25% of animals annually.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.108-113
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• 2005

목 적 : 최근 HHV-8는 면역력이 정상인 소아에서 원발성 감염에 의해 발진이 동반된 발열성 질환을 유발하는 것으로 알려지고 있다. 본 연구는 국내 정상 소아의 항 HHV-8 항체 양성률을 알아보기 위해 시행되었다. 방 법 : 항 HHV-8 항체의 양성률을 파악하기 위하여 인제의대 상계백병원을 방문한 환자 중에서, 최근 3주간 발열 증상이 없었던 건강한 소아 112명의 혈청을 대상으로 하였다. Lytic 바이러스 항원에 대한 IgG 항체 검사는 간접면역 형광검사법, HHV-8의 ORF에 대한 특이 항체 검사는 peptide mix ELISA 검사법을 사용하였다. 결 과 : 대상 환아는 총 112명이었으며 남아 64명, 여아 48명이었다. 1세 이하의 연령군은 17명이었으며, 2~5세 연령군 24명, 6~9세 연령군 24명, 10~15세 연령군은 47명이었다. HHV-8에 대한 혈청 항체 양성률은 간접 면역 형광검사법으로 3.5%(4/112), ELSIA로는 1.8%(2/112)였다. 결 론 : 국내 소아의 HHV-8 항체의 양성률은 비교적 낮았지만 앞으로 발진이 동반된 발열성 질환에서 HHV-8의 역할에 대한 추가적인 연구가 필요할 것으로 보인다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.128-138
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• 2007

연구배경: INH 내성은 katG 와 inhA(ORF와 promoter)의 변이에 의한 것으로 알려져 있다. 유전자 변이는 지역적으로 종류와 빈도가 다르게 나타날 수 있는데 기존 국내의 연구보고들은 흔하다고 알려진 katG의 463 코돈만을 추적한 것들이었다. 따라서 본 연구는 국내에서 분리된 INH 내성균들의 두 유전자에서 나타날 수 있는 변이의 종류와 빈도를 확인하고자 하였다. 연구방법: 대한결핵협회 결핵연구원에서 MDR-TB로 판명된 INH 내성 결핵균 29주로부터 bead beater-phenol법으로 DNA를 추출하여 katG(2,223 bp), inhA ORF(-77~897, 975 bp) 및 inhA promoter(-168~80, 248 bp) 염기서열 결정 및 분석은 ABI PRISM 3730 XL Analyzer 및 MegAlign package를 사용하였다. 결과: 모든 균주들은 분석 표적으로 사용한 세 유전자 부위 중에서 적어도 한 개 이상의 유전자 부위에 변이가 있었다. INH 내성균은 거의 대부분(>93%) katG의 변이를 갖고 inhA 유전자 변이만 있는 경우는 드물어 INH 내성을 결정하는 중요한 요인은 katG의 변이 인 것을 확인할 수 있었다. katG 부위에서 Arg463Leu 변이와 Ser315Thr 변이가 높은 빈도(62.1% 및 55.2%)로 발견되었고, katG 완전결실과 inhA promoter-15($C{\rightarrow}T$) 변이도 일정한 빈도로 나타남을 볼 수 있었다. 그 외 inhA ORF 변이도 1주에서 1종류의 변이가 발견되었다. 결론: 기존 연구결과에서는 보고되지 않고 본 연구에서 처음으로 확인된 변이들도 14 종류나 있어서, INH 내성은 주로 katG 혹은 일부 inhA 특정 부위의 변이가 주도하지만 이들 외에도 다양한 변이가 존재한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이들 새로이 확인된 변이들은 염기서열 분석에 의한 INH 내성 여부 판단 시, 기존 알려진 변이 외에 보조 자료로 사용할 수 있을 것으로 생각한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.748-755
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• 2014

In the genome annotation of Escherichia coli MG1655, the orf382 (1,149 bp) is designated as a gene encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase that may be Fe-dependent. In this study, the gene was amplified from the genome by PCR and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). The recombinant $6{\times}$His-tag protein was then purified and characterized. In an enzymatic assay using different hydroxyl-containing substrates (n-butanol, $\small{L}$-threonine, ethanol, isopropanol, glucose, glycerol, $\small{L}$-serine, lactic acid, citric acid, methanol, or $\small{D}$-threonine), the enzyme showed the highest activity on $\small{L}$-threonine. Characterization of the mutant constructed using gene knockout of the orf382 also implied the function of the enzyme in the metabolism of $\small{L}$-threonine into glycine. Considering the presence of tested substrates in living E. coli cel ls and previous literature, we believed that the suitable nomenclature for the enzyme should be an $\small{L}$-threonine dehydrogenase (LTDH). When using $\small{L}$-threonine as the substrate, the enzyme exhibited the best catalytic performance at $39^{\circ}C$ and pH 9.8 with $NAD^+$ as the cofactor. The determination of the Km values towards $\small{L}$-threonine (Km = $11.29{\mu}M$), ethanol ($222.5{\mu}M$), and n-butanol ($8.02{\mu}M$) also confirmed the enzyme as an LTDH. Furthermore, the LTDH was shown to be an ion-containing protein based on inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry with an isoelectronic point of pH 5.4. Moreover, a circular dichroism analysis revealed that the metal ion was structurally and enzymatically essential, as its deprivation remarkably changed the ${\alpha}$-helix percentage (from 12.6% to 6.3%).

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.304-310
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• 2006

본 연구는 치주질환 주요 병인균주 중의 하나인 P. intermedia를 대상으로 하여, 이 균주에서의 hemin 결합 단백질 유전자를 분리하고 염기서열을 결정하기 위하여 수행되었다. 본 연구에서는 약 5,000개의 recombinant colony들을 스크리닝하여 hemin 결합 단백질 유전자를 포함하고 있는 것으로 여겨지는 1개의 클론(pHem1)을 확인하였다. Restriction enzyme mapping 결과 pHem1의 insert DNA의 크기는 약 2.5kb이었으며 P. intermedia chromosomal DNA 내에는 hemin 결합 단백질 유전자가 single copy로 존재하였고, transcript의 크기는 약 1.8kb이었다. 분리한 pHem1 유전자는 1개의 ORF를 가지고 있으며, ORF의 크기는 2,550bp로 약 850개의 아미노산 폴리펩타이드로 구성되어 있다. 또한, pHem1 유전자는 이미 밟혀진 다른 유전자들과 상동성을 보이지 않았다. 본 연구는 P. intermedia에서의 porphyrin생리 및 hemin 획득기전을 분자생물학적으로 규명하는데 있어 중요한 의의가 있으리라 사료된다. 향후 pHem1 유전자의 특성 분석 등이 수행되어야 할 것으로 여겨진다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2010

식품단백질의 물성과 기능성을 개선시켜 산업적인 가치가 매우 높은 TGase를 생산하는 S. platensis YK-2의 분자 유전학적인 연구를 위해 형질전환방법을 확립하였으며 본 연구를 위해 도입된 방법은 대장균을 plasmid DNA의 공여체로, S. platensis의 포자를 수용체로 사용하는 접합전달법이다. S. platensis를 위한 최적 접합전달조건은 50 mM의 $MgCl_2$를 첨가한 MS배지에 열처리를 하지 않은 포자와 $5{\times}10^7$의 plasmid DNA 공여체인 E. coli를 사용하는 것이다. 또 본 연구를 통해 얻어진 접합전달체의 attB site에 대한 분석을 통해 S. platensis chromosome의 pirin 상동체를 코드하는 ORF내에 attB site가 단일위치로 존재하고 있으며 이미 밝혀진 다른 방선균유래 attB site의 염기서열에 대해 77.8%~96.3%의 상동성을 나타냈다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권23호
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• pp.10513-10524
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• 2015

Background: Metastasis is a major reason for poor prognosis in patients with cancer, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A salient feature is the ability of cancer cells to colonize different organs. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in numerous cellular processes, including metastasis. Materials and Methods: In this study, the lncRNA expression profiles of two HCC cell lines, one with high potential for metastasis to the lung (HCCLM3) and the other to lymph nodes (HCCLYM-H2) were assessed using the Arraystar Human LncRNA Array v2.0, which contains 33,045 lncRNAs and 30,215 mRNAs. Coding-non-coding gene co-expression (CNC) networks were constructed and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was performed to identify lncRNAs with potential functions in organ-specific metastasis. Levels of two representative lncRNAs and one representative mRNA, RP5-1014O16.1, lincRNA-TSPAN8 and TSPAN8, were further detected in HCC cell lines with differing metastasis potential by qRT-PCR. Results: Using microarray data, we identified 1,482 lncRNAs and 1,629 mRNAs that were differentially expressed (${\geq}1.5$ fold-change) between the two HCC cell lines. The most upregulated lncRNAs in H2 were RP11-672F9.1, RP5-1014O16.1, and RP11-501G6.1, while the most downregulated ones were lincRNA-TSPAN8, lincRNA-CALCA, C14orf132, NCRNA00173, and CR613944. The most upregulated mRNAs in H2 were C15orf48, PSG2, and PSG8, while the most downregulated ones were CALCB, CD81, CD24, TSPAN8, and SOST. Among them, lincRNA-TSPAN8 and TSPAN8 were found highly expressed in high lung metastatic potential HCC cells, while lowly expressed in no or low lung metastatic potential HCC cells. RP5-1014O16.1 was highly expressed in high lymphatic metastatic potential HCC cell lines, while lowly expressed in no lymphatic metastatic potential HCC cell lines. Conclusions: We provide the first detailed description of lncRNA expression profiles related to organ-specific metastasis in HCC. We demonstrated that a large number of lncRNAs may play important roles in driving HCC cells to metastasize to different sites; these lncRNAs may provide novel molecular biomarkers and offer a new basis for combating metastasis in HCC cases.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.4509-4513
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• 2013

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has long been the most common cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, some aspects of the pathogenesis of HBV infection and genesis of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are still inconclusive. An increasing number of published studies indicate that hepatitis B virus mutations are associated with risk of HCC. These variations include, in particular, mutations in ORF S,C,X gene regions. This mini-review summarizes results of clinical studies and molecular mechanisms on the possible relations of HBV mutations with the development of hepatocellular carcinoma.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.77-81
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• 2020

This study was performed for screening yellow head virus(YHV) complex in 252 including 235 white leg shrimps (Litopenaeus vannamei) and 17 oriental shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) collected from 18 farms located in southwestern province of Korea. The virus complex was detected by nested reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. In the assay, amplicons were resulted in RNAs exracted from 38 shrimps (21 white leg shrimps and 17 oriental shrimps) obtained from 7 farms. In phylogenetic analysis using sequences of ORF1b gene, all 38 sequences obtained in this study formed an independent lineage with YHV-8 genotype firstly isolated in China, belonged to an YHV-8 clade.