• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.371-376
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• 2012

Purpose: Puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) specifically injures podocytes, leading to foot process effacement, actin cytoskeleton disorganization, and abnormal distribution of slit diaphragm proteins. p130Cas is a docking protein connecting F-actin fibers to the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) and adapter proteins in glomerular epithelial cells (GEpCs; podocytes). We investigated the changes in the p130Cas expression level in the PAN-induced pathological changes of podocytes in vitro. Methods: We observed changes in the p130Cas expression in cultured rat GEpCs and mouse podocytes treated with various concentrations of PAN and antioxidants, including probucol, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), and vitamin C. The changes in the p130Cas expression level were analyzed using confocal immunofluorescence imaging, Western blotting, and polymerase chain reaction. Results: In the immunofluorescence study, p130Cas showed a diffuse cytoplasmic distribution with accumulation at distinct sites visible as short stripes and colocalized with P-cadherin. The fluorescences of the p130Cas protein were internalized and became granular by PAN administration in a dose-dependent manner, which had been restored by antioxidants, EGCG and vitamin C. PAN also decreased the protein and mRNA expression levels of p130Cas at high doses and in a longer exposed duration, which had been also reversed by antioxidants. Conclusion: These findings suggest that PAN modulates the quantitative and distributional changes of podocyte p130Cas through oxidative stress resulting in podocyte dysfunction.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.94-99
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• 2013

Proteinuric conditions demonstrate structural and compositional changes of the foot processes and slit diaphragms between podocytes. p130Cas in podocytes serves as an adapter protein anchoring glomerular basement membrane to actin filaments of podocyte cytoskeleton. To investigate the effect of ginseng total saponin (GTS) on the pathologic changes of podocyte p130Cas induced by diabetic conditions, we cultured mouse podocytes under: 1) normal glucose (5 mM, control); 2) high glucose (HG, 30 mM); 3) advanced glycosylation endproducts (AGE)-added; or 4) HG plus AGE-added conditions and treated with GTS. In confocal imaging, p130Cas colocalized with zonula occludens-1 and synaptopodin connecting to F-actin. However, diabetic conditions relocalized p130Cas molecules at perinuclear cytoplasmic area and reduced the intensity of p130Cas. In Western blotting, diabetic conditions, especially HG plus AGE-added condition, decreased cellular p130Cas protein levels at 24 and 48 h. GTS improved such quantitative and qualitative changes. These findings imply that HG and AGE have an influence on the redistribution and amount of p130Cas of podocytes, which can be reversed by GTS.

• 한국동물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물학회 2001년도 한국생물과학협회 학술발표대회
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• pp.203.3-204
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• 2001

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• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.23-28
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• 2007

작물의 생육촉진과 식물 진균병의 생물방제능 효과를 동시에 나타내는 다기능 유기농업용 미생물제제를 개발하고자 경북지역 저병해 경작지 토양으로부터 옥신생산성 균주들을 분리하였다. 그 중 auxin, siderophore, 그리고 항진균성 cellulase를 동시에 생산하는 K11 균주를 선발하였으며, 선발된 K11 균주는 형태 및 생화학적 test 후 Biolog사의 동정시스템(Microlog$^{TM}$ 4.0)과 16s rDNA 상동성을 조사한 결과 Bacillus licheniformis로 동정되었으며, 이를 Bacillus licheniformis K11로 명명하였다. B. licheniformis K11은 고추역병의 원인균인 Phytophthora capsici에 대하여 in vitro 상에서 63%의 길항능을 보였으며, in vivo pot test에서도 뛰어난 방제능을 나타내었다. 또한 B. licheniformis K11의 배양액을 10ml/l로 처리한 녹두발근생검법에서 시판중인 IAA(0.1 mg/l)보다 발근율이 15% 증가됨을 확인 할 수 있었다. 또한 배추, 완두, 녹두를 대상으로 B. licheniformis K11에 의한 식물 생장촉진을 조사한 결과 녹두, 완두 그리고 배추의 뿌리 생육을 각각 160, 150, 130% 증가시켰다. 상기 연구 결과들로 미루어 볼 때 다기능 생물방제균인 B. licheniformis K11을 경작지에 관주하거나 적합한 미생물제제로 제제화한다면 토양전염성 질병의 방제와 함께 옥신 생산성에 의한 작물생육의 촉진으로 수확시기를 조기화 함으로 농가에 수익 증대 효과를 줄 수 있을 것이므로 친환경 농업용 미생물제제로 개발 가능성이 있음을 확인 할 수 있었다.