• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

A $\beta$-agarase gene, agaB34, was functionally cloned from the genomic DNA of a marine bacterium, Agarivorans albus YKW-34. The open reading frame of agaB34 consisted of 1,362 bp encoding 453 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence, consisting of a typical N-terminal signal peptide followed by a catalytic domain of glycoside hydrolase family 16 (GH-16) and a carbohydrate-binding module (CBM), showed 37-86% identity to those of agarases belonging to family GH-16. The recombinant enzyme (rAgaB34) with a molecular mass of 49 kDa was produced extracellularly using Escherichia coli $DH5{\alpha}$ as a host. The purified rAgaB34 was a $\beta$-agarase yielding neoagarotetraose (NA4) as the main product. It acted on neoagarohexaose to produce NA4 and neoagarobiose, but it could not further degrade NA4. The maximal activity of rAgaB34 was observed at $30^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.0. It was stable over pH 5.0-9.0 and at temperatures up to $50^{\circ}C$. Its specific activity and $k_{cat}/K_m$ value for agarose were 242 U/mg and $1.7{\times}10^6/sM$, respectively. The activity of rAgaB34 was not affected by metal ions commonly existing in seawater. It was resistant to chelating reagents (EDTA, EGTA), reducing reagents (DTT, $\beta$-mercaptoethanol), and denaturing reagents (SDS and urea). The E. coli cell harboring the pUC18-derived agarase expression vector was able to efficiently excrete agarase into the culture medium. Hence, this expression system might be used to express secretory proteins.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.215-222
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• 2009

Many concepts of external magnetic field applications in crystal growth processes have been developed to control melt convection, impurity content and growing interface shape. Especially, travelling magnetic fields (TMF) are of certain advantages. However, strong shielding effects appear when the TMF coils are placed outside the growth vessel. To achieve a solution of industrial relevance within the framework of the $KRISTMAG^{(R)}$ project inner heater-magnet modules(HMM) for simultaneous generation of temperature and magnetic field have been developed. At the same time, as the temperature is controlled as usual, e.g. by DC, the characteristics of the magnetic field can be adjusted via frequency, phase shift of the alternating current (AC) and by changing the amplitude via the AC/DC ratio. Global modelling and dummy measurements were used to optimize and validate the HMM configuration and process parameters. GaAs and Ge single crystals with improved parameters were grown in HMM-equipped industrial liquid encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) puller and commercial vertical gradient freeze (VGF) furnace, respectively. The vapour pressure controlled Czochralski (VCz) variant without boric oxide encapsulation was used to study the movement of floating particles by the TMF-driven vortices.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2019

This paper describes the development of a 500W DC/DC converter for use with a thermoelectric module(TEM). A thermoelectric device is a structure in which a P-type semiconductor and an N-type semiconductor are electrically connected in series and thermally connected in parallel. There is a feature that an electromotive force is generated by making a temperature difference between both surfaces of a thermoelectric element. This feature can be used as a renewable power source without the need for fossil energy. The proposed converter boosts the low generation voltage of the thermoelectric element to secure the voltage for the grid connection. This converter is a combination of a resonant converter for boosting and a boost-converter for output voltage control. This structure has an advantage that a voltage can be stepped up at a high efficiency and precise output voltage control is possible. We carry out simulations and experiments to verify the validity.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.745-753
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• 2016

This paper presents a fully synthesizable low power interconnect bus for millimeter-scale wireless sensor nodes. A segmented ring bus topology minimizes the required chip real estate with low input/output pad count for ultra-small form factors. By avoiding the conventional open drain-based solution, the bus can be fully synthesizable. Low power is achieved by obviating a need for local oscillators in member nodes. Also, aggressive power gating allows low-power standby mode with only 53 gates powered on. An integrated wakeup scheme is compatible with a power management unit that has nW standby mode. A 3-module system including the bus is fabricated in a 180 nm process. The entire system consumes 8 nW in standby mode, and the bus achieves 17.5 pJ/bit/chip.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.337-343
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• 2009

목적: (R)-1-(2-Chlorophenyl)-N-methyl-N-1-(1-methyl-propyl)-3-isoquinoline carboxamide ((R)-PK11195)는 말초형 벤조디아제핀 수용체 (PBR)의 친화성이 높으며, 활성화된 소교세포(microglia)의 PBR에 선택적으로 결합하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 말초형 벤조디아제핀 수용체 (PBR)의 FET용 리간드인[$^{11}$C](R)-PK11195를, 절차가 빠르고 간단한 [$^{11}$C]CH$_3$I 자동합성장치 및 루프법을 도입해서 합성하였다. 대상 및 방법: 사이클로트론에서 $^{14}$N(p,a)$^{11}$C핵반응에 의하여 생산된 [$^{11}$C]Co$_2$를 0.2 M LiAlH$_4$/THF (0.2 mL)로 환원한 다음 HI (1 mL)과 반응하여 [$^{11}$C]CH$_3$I를 생산하였다. 반응용매인 NaH DMF complex (0.1 mL)와 녹인 전구물질 (R)-N-desmethyl-PK11195 (1 mg)을 녹인 DMSO (0.1mL)를 섞은 혼합액을 HPLC의 루프에 미리 주입하고 [$^{11}$C]CH$_3$I를 상온에서 5분 동안 질소가스로 불어준 뒤에 semi-preparative HPLC로 [$^{11}$C](R)-PK11195를 분리하였다. 결과: 전구물질과 [$^{11}$C]CH$_3$I의 [$^{11}$C]메틸화 반응에서의 표지효율은 71.8$\pm$8.5% 이었다. 분리 후 얻은 [$^{11}$C](R)-PK11195의 비방사능은 11.8$\pm$6.4 GBq/$\mu$mol이었으며, 방사화학적 순도는 99.2% 이상이었다. C-11 표지 후 얻어진 (R)-PK11195의 물질의 질량 분석은 m/z 353.1 (M+1)으로 물질구조를 확인 할 수 이었다. 결론: 뇌염증에 의한 활성화 소교세포의 영상화를 위한 PET용 방사성의약품인 [$^{11}$C](R)-PK11195를 반복적으로 생산해야 하는 임상 적용을 위해, 합성절차가 빠르고 간단한 [$^{11}$C]CH$_3$I 자동화 합성장치를 1차 루프 방법을 이용하여 $^{11}$C을 표지 할 수 있었다. 이 연구를 통해서 [$^{11}$C](R)PK11195 표지 할 때 반응 단계를 줄이고 반응을 실온에서 할 수 있어서 표지과정을 보다 단순화할 수 있었으며, NaH의 DMF현탁액을 사용함으로써 보다 안전하게 생산할 수 있게 되었다.

• 한국인지과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국인지과학회 2000년도 춘계 학술대회
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• pp.261-266
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• 2000

글을 이해하기 위해서는 어휘와 어휘간의 연결 및 전체 구조를 아는 것이 필요하다. 이는 비단 한국어뿐만 아니라 영어나 기타 다른 외국어에서도 마찬가지일 것이다. 본고는 두 가지를 고찰하기 위해 진행되었는데 우선 외국어로서 영어를 처리하는데 발생하는 구문적 중의성을 해결하는데 Garden Path Sentence(GPS), Late Closure(LC), PP의 세 문형에 따라 어떻게 해결하는지 알아보기 위한 것이다. 그리고 각 문형의 중의적 어절에서의 반응과 애매성 해소 어절에서의 반응에 따라 sysntactic module이 작용하는 것인지 알아보고자 한다. 예를 들어 "The boat floated down the streams sank"란 Garden Path 문장이 제시된 경우에 독자는 "sank"란 어휘가 제시되기 전까지 "floated"를 동사로 생각하게 되나 다음에 본동사인 "sank"가 제시될 경우 문장의 해석에 혼란을 갖게 될 것이다. 예문에서 "floated"가 문장에서 어떤 역할을 하는지 결정하는 것은 "sank"를 보고서야 가능하다. 이런 구문적 중의성을 해결하는 방식을 알아보기 위해 어절 단위로 제시된 자극을 읽는 자기 조절 읽기 과제(self-paced reading task)를 사용하였다. 각 어절을 읽는데 걸리는 시간을 측정한 실험 결과 GPS, PP, LC 모두 중의성을 지닌 영역이 중의성을 해소한 후와 각각 유형적으로 큰 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 다만 GPS, CGPS, PP와 CPP는 어절 후반으로 갈수록 반응시간이 짧아졌다. 이는 우리나라 사람의 경우 외국어인 영어의 구문 중의성 해소는 구문 분석 단원(syntactic module)에 의한 자동적 처리라기보다 의미를 고려해 가면서 문법지식을 이용해 추론을 통한 구문 분석이라 할 수 있다.에 의한 자동적 처리라기보다 의미를 고려해 가면서 문법지식을 이용해 추론을 통한 구문 분석이라 할 수 있다.많았다(P<0.05).조군인 Group 1에서보다 높은 수준으로 발현되었다. 하지만 $12.5{\;}\mu\textrm{g}/ml$의 T. denticola sonicated 추출물로 전처리한 Group 3에서는 IL-2와 IL-4의 수준이 유의성있게 억제되어 발현되었다 (p < 0.05). 이러한 결과를 통하여 T. denticola에서 추출된 면역억제 단백질이 Th1과 Th2의 cytokine 분비 기능을 억제하는 것으로 확인 되었으며 이 기전이 감염 근관에서 발견되는 T. denticola의 치수 및 치근단 질환에 대한 병인기전과 관련이 있는 것으로 사료된다.을 보였다. 본 실험 결과, $Depulpin^{\circledR}은{\;}Tempcanal^{\circledR}와{\;}Vitapex^{\circledR}$에 비해 높은 세포 독성을 보여주공 있으나, 좀 더 많은 임상적 검증이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 추론할 수 있다.근관벽을 처리하는 것이 필요하다고 사료된다.크기에 의존하며, 또한 이러한 영향은 $(Ti_{1-x}AI_{x})N$ 피막에 존재하는 AI의 함량이 높고, 초기에 증착된 막의 업자 크기가 작을 수록 클 것으로 여겨진다. 그리고 환경의 의미의 차이에 따라 경관의 미학적 평가가 달라진 것으로 나타났다.corner$적 의도에 의한 경관구성의 일면을 확인할수 있지만 엄밀히 생각하여 보면 이러한 예의 경우도 최락의 총체적인 외형은 마찬가지로 $\ulcorner$순응$\lrcorner$의 범위를 벗어나지 않는다. 그렇기 때문에도 $\ulcorner$순응$\lrcorner$과 $\ulcorner$표현$\lrcorner$의 성격과 형태를 외형상으로 더욱이 공간상에서는 뚜렷하게 경계

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2011

In this study, the system for application of the bone stimulation was implemented using high frequency and low strain method. The whole system consists of the high frequency and low strain vibration stimulation system 177 for stimulating bone, LVDT sensor, and wireless sensor based on tri-axial accelerometer. To evaluate the usefulness of the system, the frequencies and accelerations from function generator were applied to the vibration stimulation system. The range of frequency was 17 Hz, 30 Hz, 45 Hz, 50 Hz and the range of acceleration was set 0.3 g, 0.6 g, 1g, and 2 g. The measured frequencies and acceleration using LVDT (linear variable difference transformer) sensor and 3-axial accelerometer were estimated and compared. The range of frequencies average difference was from 0.0 to 0.004 Hz. As the standard deviation of frequencies estimated by LVDT sensor and accelerometer was below 0.03 Hz and the output frequencies of function generator were similar: Also the results of t-test were satisfied with conditions of p > 0.05. And the acquired frequencies and acceleration from vibration measuring device module were estimated and analyzed. As the mean of accelerations was similar to the acceleration applied from function generator. And the standard deviation of acceleration estimated from vibration measuring device module was ranged from 0.019 g to 0.038 g. Also the results of t-test were satisfied with conditions of p > 0.05. Therefore, these results were airy similar to the acceleration applied from function generator. As a result, the usefulness of the system was confirmed. n a further study, clinical experiment will be carried out with the authorization of IRB (institutional review board) so that appropriate frequency and strain would be investigated in clinical field.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1615-1615
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• 2001

During the past ten years, Near Infrared Spectroscopy has been successfully applied to the analysis of a great variety of agriculture products. Previous works (Morra et al., 1991; Salgo et al., 1998) have shown the potential of this technology for soil analysis, estimating different parameters just with one single scan. The main advantages of NIR applications in soils are the speed of response, allowing the increase of the number of samples analysed to define a particular soil, and the instantaneous elaboration of recommendations for fertilization and soil amendment. Another advantage is to avoid the use of chemical reagents at all, being an environmentally safe technique. In this paper, we have studied a set of 129 soil samples selected from representative glasshouse soils from Southern Spain. The samples were dried, milled, and sieved to pass a 2 mm sieve and then analysed for organic carbon, total nitrogen, inorganic nitrogen (nitrate ammonium), hygroscopic humidity, pH and electrical conductivity in the 1:1 extract. NIR spectra of all samples were obtained in reflectance mode using a Foss NIR Systems 6500 spectrophotometer equipped with a spinning module. Calibration equations were developed for seven analytical parameters (ph, Total nitrogen, organic nitrogen, organic carbon, C/N ratio and Electric Conductivity). Preliminary results show good correlation coefficients and standard errors of cross validation in equations obtained for Organic Carbon, Organic Nitrogen, Total Nitrogen and C/N ratio. Calibrations for nitrates and nitrites, ammonia and electric conductivity were not acceptable. Calibration obtained for pH had an acceptable SECV, but the determination coefficient was found very poor probably due to the reduced range in reference values. Since the estimation of Organic Carbon and C/N ratio are acceptable NIIRS could be used as a fast method to assess the necessity of organic amendments in soils from Mediterranean regions where the low level of organic matter in soils constitutes an important agronomic problem. Furthermore, the possibility of a single and fast estimation of Total Nitrogen (tedious determination by modifications of the Kjeldahl procedure) could provide and interesting data to use in the estimation of nitrogen fertilizer rates by means of nitrogen balances.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.1938-1946
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• 2019

Isomaltooligosaccharides (IMOs) have good prebiotic effects, and long IMOs (LIMOs) with a degree of polymerization (DP) of 7 or above show improved effects. However, they are not yet commercially available, and require costly enzymes and processes for production. The N-terminal region of the thermostable Thermoanaerobacter thermocopriae cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase (TtCITase) shows cyclic isomaltooligosaccharide (CI)-producing activity owing to a catalytic domain of glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 66 and carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) 35. In the present study, we elucidated the activity of the C-terminal region of TtCITase (TtCITase-C; Met740-Phe1,559), including a CBM35-like region and the GH family 15 domain. The domain was successfully cloned, expressed, and purified as a single protein with a molecular mass of 115 kDa. TtCITase-C exhibited optimal activity at 40℃ and pH 5.5, and retained 100% activity at pH 5.5 after 18-h incubation. TtCITase-C synthesized α-1,6 glucosyl products with over seven degrees of polymerization (DP) by an α-1,6 glucosyl transfer reaction from maltopentaose, isomaltopentaose, or commercialized maltodextrins as substrates. These results indicate that TtCITase-C could be used for the production of α-1,6 glucosyl oligosaccharides with over DP7 (LIMOs) in a more cost-effective manner, without requiring cyclodextran.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.158-166
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• 2020

Paenibacillus woosongensis의 xylanase 유전자를 클로닝하고 그 염기서열을 결정하였다. Xylanase 유전자는 xyn10A로 명명되었으며, 481 아미노잔기로 구성된 단백질을 코드하는 1,446개 뉴클레오티드로 구성되었다. 추론된 아미노산 배열에 따르면 Xyn10A는 glycosyl hydrolase family 10 xylanase와 상동성이 높은 활성영역과 카르복실 말단에 탄수화물을 결합하는 것으로 추정되는 영역이 포함된 다영역 효소로 확인되었다. DEAE-Sepharose와 Phenyl-Separose 컬럼 크로마토그래피 과정을 통해 P. woosongensis xyn10A 유전자를 함유한 재조합 대장균의 균체 파쇄상등액으로부터 Xyn10A를 정제하였다. 정제된 Xyn10A의 아미노 말단 배열이 GIANGSKF로 결정되었으며 이는 SignalP5.0 server로 예측된 signal peptide의 다음 아미노산 배열과 정확하게 일치하였다. 정제된 Xyn10A는 33 kDa 크기의 절단된 단백질이며 균체내 분해에 의해 카르복시 말단에서 CBM이 제거된 것으로 판단된다. 정제된 효소는 최적 pH와 온도가 6.0과 55-60℃이며 oat spelt xylan에 대한 반응 동력학적 계수 V_max와 K_m이 298.8 U/mg과 2.47 mg/ml로 각각 나타났다. 효소는 birchwood xylan이나 oat spelt xylan보다 arabinoxylan에 대한 활성이 높았으며 para-nitrophenyl-β-xylopyranoside에 대해 낮은 활성을 보였다. Xyn10A의 활성은 Cu²⁺, Mn²⁺과 SDS에 의해서 크게 저해되었으며 K⁺, Ni²⁺과 Ca²⁺에 의해는 상당하게 증진되었다. 또한 이 효소는 xylobiose 보다 중합도가 큰 자일로올리고당을 분해하였으며, 자일로올리고당의 최종 가수분해 산물은 xylose와 xylobiose로 확인되었다.