• 생명과학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.349-357
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• 2011

EGFR kinase의 활성을 억제할 수 있는 억제제는 암뿐만이 아니라 성장성 질환에도 효과적인 치료제가 될 수 있다. 본 연구는 새로운 퀴나졸린계 물질인 화합물 63013과 63033의 EGFR kinase 활성억제 효과를 분석하였다. 이들 물질들은 기존의 디알콕시퀴나졸린의 용해성을 증가시키기 위하여 [1,4]-다이옥시노 퀴나졸린 구조를 가지며 알콕시 곁사슬로 연결되어있다. 화합물 63013과 63033은 A431 인간 피부암세포에서 EGF에의해 유도되는 EGFR의 kinase 활성을 저해, 세포 내에서 EGFR 신호체계에 관여하는 MEK1/2, MAPK p44/42, AKT, STAT3과 같은 하위 분자들의 활성저해 효과를 유도하였다. 이러한 활성저해 효과는 현재 상용화되어 있는 Gefitinib (Iressa$^{(R)}$)와의 비교연구에서 화합물 63013과 63033이 보다 더 낮은 처리 농도에서 EGFR kinase의 활성을 저해하며 암세포의 성장을 억제함을 관찰 할 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구는 이들 신규 물질들의 EGFR-연관 질환에 대한 EGFR kinase 선택적 억제제로서의 이용 가능성을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.356-359
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• 2000

Xylitol의 생산성을 높이기 위해 two-stage fed-batch를 수행하였다. Glucose가 고갈되어 pH가 5.7에서 올라가면 glucose를 공급하는 방법에서 최종세포의 OD 185.0과 최종 ethanol 농도 1.0 g/L를 얻었다. 산소전달에 대한 xylitol의 생성 영향에서는 통기량 1 vvm에서 500 rpm의 교반속도일 때 xylitol 수율 55.2%와 생산성 $2.19\;g-xylitol/L\;{\cdot}\;h$를 얻었다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제42권7호
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• pp.1125-1132
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• 2013

종균용 김치를 제조를 하기 위해서는 김치 공장에서 저가로 종균이 대량배양 되어야 한다. 그러나 현재의 유산균배지는 종균 생산용으로 사용하기에는 비용이 많이 든다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 새로운 배지를 개발해야 하는데 새로운 배지를 개발하기 위한 기본적인 요소에는 배추 추출액, 탄소원, 질소원, 무기염류가 있다. 선정된 최적배지 조성은 배추 추출액 잎 30%, maltose 2%, yeast extract 0.25%, $2{\times}$ salt stock(2% sodium acetate trihydrate, 0.8% disodium hydrogen phosphate, 0.8% sodium citrate, 0.8% ammonium sulfate, 0.04% magnesium sulfate, 0.02% manganese sulfate)으로 나타났다. 그리고 새롭게 개발된 배지의 이름은 MFL로 명명하였다. Leuconostoc(Leuc.) citreum GR1을 $30^{\circ}C$에서 24시간 배양하면 MRS 배지에서는 $3.41{\times}10^9$ CFU/mL, MFL 배지에서는 $7.49{\times}10^9$ CFU/mL의 생균수로 MFL 배지에서 배양하면 MRS 배지에서 배양했을 때보다 2.2배 더 높은 성장을 보였다. 또한 최적화 배지의 scale-up을 위해 5 L 발효조를 이용하여 2 L의 working volume으로 Leuc. citreum GR1을 배양하였다. 교반속도는 50 rpm에서 생균수 $8.60{\times}10^9$ CFU/mL를 얻었다. 발효조의 pH 조절은 pH-stat mode로 하였으며, 균체 성장의 최적 pH는 수산화나트륨 수용액을 이용한 pH 6.8이었고, 이 조건으로 20시간 배양 후 $11.42{\times}10^9(1.14{\times}10^{10})$ CFU/mL의 균체를 얻을 수 있었다. 이는 MRS 배지로 사용하여 얻은 생균수의 3.34배에 해당하는 높은 값으로, 본 연구에서 개발된 MFL 배지는 김치 종균용 Leuc. citreum GR1 배양을 위한 배지로 배지 단가 절감, 높은 균체 수율 등 충분한 경제적 장점을 기대할 수 있다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.466-471
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• 2003

양배추 포스포리파제 D(PLD)에 대한 포리아민들의 영향을 조사하였다. PLD 활성도는 phosphatidylcholine small unilamellar 베시클을 기질로 하여 pH- stat 방법으로 생성물질 phosphatidic acid를 적정하여 결정하였다. 양배추 PLD는 스퍼민 1 mM 농도에서 약 4배 활성화되었다. 이 스퍼민 효과는 전에 보고된 쥐 뇌 미토콘드리아 분획의 PLD 활성과 유사한 결과를 보여주고 있다. 양이온성 polypeptide인 polylysine과 polyhistidine에 의해서도 양배추 PLD가 상당히 활성화되는 것을 알았다. 특히 polyhistidine은 0.062 mM 농도에서 약 5.5배의 활성화 효과를 나타냈다. 이 포리아민 효과는 phosphatidylcholine/sodium dodecyl sulfate 혼합미셀계에서도 재확인하였다. 포리아민에 대한 PLD 활성화의 의미를 PLD 활성부위와 관계 지워 고찰하였다.

• 생약학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2012

In the present study, we investigated anti-inflammatory activity of artemisinic acid in HaCaT cells and RAW264.7 cells. Artemisinic acid showed inhibitory activity on macrophage-derived chemokines (MDC) expression, a factor related with atopic dermatitis (AD), in interferon (IFN)-${\gamma}$ and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-${\alpha}$-stimulated HaCaT cells. In the study on action mechanism, pretreated artemisinic acid reduced the phosphorylation of STAT1 and p38 and the degradation of $I{\kappa}B$ by IFN-${\gamma}$ and TNF-${\alpha}$ stimulations. However, artemisinic acid didn't show the inhibitory activity on LPS-induced inflammatory mediators (NO, $PGE_2$, IL-6) in RAW264.7 cell. These results indicate that artemisinic acid inhibits IFN-${\gamma}$ and TNF-${\alpha}$-induced MDC expression through inhibition of signal factors, STAT1, NF-${\kappa}B$, and p38, in HaCaT keratinocytes.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.513-519
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• 2012

Although the immense efforts have been made for cancer prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment, cancer morbidity and mortality has not been decreased during last forty years. Especially, lung cancer is top-ranked in cancer-associated human death. Therefore, effective strategy is strongly required for the management of lung cancer. In the present study, we found that novel daphnane diterpenoids, yuanhualine (YL), yuanhuahine (YH) and yuanhuagine (YG) isolated from the flower of Daphne genkwa (Thymelaeaceae), exhibited potent anti-proliferative activities against human lung A549 cells with the $IC_{50}$ values of 7.0, 15.2 and 24.7 nM, respectively. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the daphnane diterpenoids induced cell-cycle arrest in the G0/G1 as well as G2/M phase in A549 cells. The cell-cycle arrests were well correlated with the expression of checkpoint proteins including the up-regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 and p53 and down-regulation of cyclin A, cyclin B1, cyclin E, cyclin dependent kinase 4, cdc2, phosphorylation of Rb and cMyc expression. In the analysis of signal transduction molecules, the daphnane diterpenoids suppressed the activation of Akt, STAT3 and Src in human lung cancer cells. The daphnane diterpenoids also exerted the potent anti-proliferative activity against anticancer-drug resistant cancer cells including gemcitabine-resistant A549, gefitinib-, erlotinib-resistant H292 cells. Synergistic effects in the growth inhibition were also observed when yuanhualine was combined with gemcitabine, gefitinib or erlotinib in A549 cells. Taken together, these findings suggest that the novel daphnane diterpenoids might provide lead candidates for the development of therapeutic agents for human lung cancers.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2000

The expression of $p21^{WAF1/ClP1/SDl1}$, one of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, is regulated by a variety of transcription factors including p53 and STAT. Heat shock induces the expression of p21 in a temperature- and time-dependent manner. Although the p21 induction by heat shock has been reported to be controlled by p53, a p53-independent mechanism Is also involved. To understand the p53-independent regulation of heat shock-induced p21 expression, we searched the promoter region of p21 gene and found one or two heat shock element (HSE)-like sequences in human, rat, and mouse. Electromobility shift assay (EMSA) showed that heat shock factor (HSF) could bind to these HSE-like sequences In response to heat shock, even though to a lesser extent than to HSE. In addition, p21 promoter deletion analysis revealed that heat shock activated a p21 deletion promoter construct containing the HSE-like sequences but lacking p53-binding sites, but not a promoter construct containing neither HSE-like sequences nor the p53-responsive element. Furthermore, the p21 induction by heat shook was significantly inhibited in confluent cells in which heat shock-induced HSF activation was reduced. These results suggest that the transcriptional regulation of p21 by heat shock may be mediated through activation and binding to HSE-like sequences of HSF.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2002

C. tropicalis ATCC 20336을 이용하여 높은 수율과 생산성으로 xylitol을 생산하기 위하여 glucose 배지에서 짧은 시간에 고농도로 세포를 배양한 후에 xylose를 첨가하여 xylitol로 전환하는 2단계 유가식 발효공정에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. Cell growth-stage에서의 배지공급 방법으로는 glucose가 모두 고갈된 후에 pH가 5.7 이상으로 올라가는 것을 신호로 glucose를 첨가하는 pH-stat 방법으로 18.5시간 배양에 의하여 67.9 g/L의 세포 농도를 얻었으며, ethanol 생성은 1.0 g/L로 매우 낮았다. Production-stage에서 최적의 초기 xylose 농도는 150 g/L이었으며, 이때에 2 g/L ($NH_4)_2SO_4$, 1 g/L $K_2HPO_4$, 0.2 g/L $MgSO_47H_2$O로 구성된 mineral salt를 2회 첨가에 의하여 xylitol의 생성이 향상되었다 그러나 0.2 vvm에서 1.0 vvm 사이의 통기조건에서는 xylitol의 생산에 큰 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 반면에 production-stage에서 yeast extract를 10 g/L가 되도록 첨가한 경우에 xylitol 수율과 생산성이 큰 폭으로 증가하였다. 즉 xylose 농도가 약 150 g/L이 되도록 232.5 g의 xylose를 2회 첨가한 경우에 배양액의 최종 부피는 1.67 L이 되었고, 이때의 xylitol 농도는 193 g/L이었으며, 수율은 70%이고 생산성은 3.55 g/L.h이었다.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.72-83
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• 2006

Objective : This study was designed to identify lipid protection formation in stratum corneum and anti-inflammatory effects of Sopungdojeok-tang(SD) on atopic dermatitis(AD). Materials and Methods : In Vivo, SD extract was orally administered to BALB/c mice at $2.5m{\ell}/kg/day$ for 2 days after 5% sodium dodecyl sulfate evoked atopic dermatitis in abdominal skin. Morphological changes were observed by immunohistochemical stain using monoclonal antibodies(BrdU, ceramide, MIP-2, $NF-{\kappa}B$ p50, IL-4, and STAT6) and TUNEL method. In vitro, the alterations of IL-4 mRNA expression were detected by RT-PCT in SD extract treated EL4 cells after phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate and 4-tert-Octylphenol induce Th2 skewed condition. Results : SD is used in Oriental Medicine for its potential curative for atopic dermatitis. In this study, we have investigated the anti-inflammatory and lipid lamella repair effects of SD were investigated. SD decreased the number of eosinophil in atopic dermatitis induced mice. In the histological properties, the hyperplasia, edema, infiltration of lymphocytes, damage of intercellular space of stratum corneum, BrdU positive reacted cells in stratum basal, and degranulated mast cells and capillaries in dermal papillae decreased in mice with SD. Treatment of SD also decreased MIP-2, STAT6 and IL-4 in dermal papillae. The IL-4 mRNA expression decreased in a dose-dependant manner in SD treated EL4 cells. In addition, decrease of $NF-{\kappa}B$ p50 and increase of apoptotic cells in dermis were observed in SD treated mice. These data suggest that SD may beneficial for atopic dermatitis. Conclusions : These data suggest that SD is beneficial in treatment of atopic dermatitis, and that SD provides lipid protection in stratum corneum and anti-inflammatory effects on atopic dermatitis.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.244-255
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• 2018

Low-grade pro-inflammatory state and leptin resistance are important underlying mechanisms that contribute to obesity-associated hypertension. We tested the hypothesis that Astragaloside IV (As IV), known to counteract obesity and hypertension, could prevent obesity-associated hypertension by inhibiting pro-inflammatory reaction and leptin resistance. High-fat diet (HFD) induced obese rats were randomly assigned to three groups: the HFD control group (HF con group), As IV group, and the As IV + ${\alpha}$-bungaratoxin (${\alpha}-BGT$) group (As IV+${\alpha}-BGT$ group). As IV ($20mg{\cdot}Kg^{-1}{\cdot}d^{-1}$) was administrated to rats for 6 weeks via daily oral gavage. Body weight and blood pressure were continuously measured, and NE levels in the plasma and renal cortex was evaluated to reflect the sympathetic activity. The expressions of leptin receptor (LepRb) mRNA, phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (p-STAT3), phosphorylated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (p-PI3K), suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) mRNA, and protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) mRNA, pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA and neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA were measured by Western blot or qRT-PCR to evaluate the hypothalamic leptin sensitivity. Additionally, we measured the protein or mRNA levels of ${\alpha}7nAChR$, inhibitor of nuclear factor ${\kappa}B$ kinase subunit ${\beta}/nuclear$ factor ${\kappa}B$ ($IKK{\beta}/NF-KB$) and pro-inflammatory cytokines ($IL-1{\beta}$ and $TNF-{\alpha}$) in hypothalamus and adipose tissue to reflect the anti-inflammatory effects of As IV through upregulating expression of ${\alpha}7nAChR$. We found that As IV prevented body weight gain and adipose accumulation, and also improved metabolic disorders in HFD rats. Furthermore, As IV decreased BP and HR, as well as NE levels in blood and renal tissue. In the hypothalamus, As IV alleviated leptin resistance as evidenced by the increased p-STAT3, LepRb mRNA and POMC mRNA, and decreased p-PI3K, SOCS3 mRNA, and PTP1B mRNA. The effects of As IV on leptin sensitivity were related in part to the up-regulated ${\alpha}7nAchR$ and suppressed $IKK{\beta}/NF-KB$ signaling and pro-inflammatory cytokines in the hypothalamus and adipose tissue, since co-administration of ${\alpha}7nAChR$ selective antagonist ${\alpha}-BGT$ could weaken the improved effect of As IV on central leptin resistance. Our study suggested that As IV could efficiently prevent obesityassociated hypertension through inhibiting inflammatory reaction and improving leptin resistance; furthermore, these effects of As IV was partly related to the increased ${\alpha}7nAchR$ expression.