• BMB Reports
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• 제42권8호
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• pp.467-474
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• 2009

The modification of proteins by reversible phosphorylation is a key mechanism in the regulation of various physiological functions. Abnormal protein kinase or phosphatase activity can cause disease by altering the phosphorylation of critical proteins in normal cellular and disease processes. Alzheimer' disease (AD), typically occurring in the elderly, is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder characterized by memory loss and cognitive decline. Accumulating evidence suggests that protein kinase and phosphatase activity are altered in the brain tissue of AD patients. Tau is a highly recognized phosphoprotein that undergoes hyperphosphorylation to form neurofibrillary tangles, a neuropathlogical hallmark with amyloid plaques in AD brains. This study is a brief overview of the altered protein phosphorylation pathways found in AD. Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which the activities of protein kinases and phosphatases are altered as well as the phosphorylation events in AD can potentially reveal novel insights into the role aberrant phosphorylation plays in the pathogenesis of AD, providing support for protein phosphorylation as a potential treatment strategy for AD.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.3011-3016
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• 2015

단백질의 삼차원 구조를 단백질의 국부적 구조인 단백질 조각의 일차원적 나열로 표현하면, 단백질 구조의 분석, 모델링, 탐색, 예측 등에 효과적으로 응용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 자연 상태의 단백질 구조를 정확하게 나타낼 수 있는 단백질 조각 라이브러리를 구성하기 위하여, 대규모 단백질 구조 자료를 이용 할 수 있는 거리 척도들의 효과적인 조합을 조사하였다. 단백질 조각 라이브러리를 구성하기 위해 군집화를 사용하였다. 초기 군집화 단계에서는 가장 계산량이 작은 내부 알파탄소간 거리를 사용하였고, 군집의 확장단계에서는 내부 알파탄소간 거리, 비네-코시거리와 평균 제곱근 오차를 조합하여 사용하였다. 제안한 거리 척도의 조합으로 대규모 자료를 이용하여 단백질 조각 라이브러리를 구성하였다. 구성된 라이브러리를 사용하여 단백질 구조를 나타내는 실험에서 작은 평균 제곱근 오차가 발생함을 확인하였다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.969-983
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• 2023

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: We investigated the association of plant and animal protein intake with grip strength in Koreans aged ≥ 50 yrs. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The data was collected from 3,610 men and 4,691 women (≥ 50 yrs) from the 2016-2018 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We calculated the total energy intake, and the intake of animal and plant protein and collected dietary data using 1-day 24-h dietary recalls. Low grip strength (LGS) was defined as the lowest quintile (men: up to 26.8 kg, women: up to 15.7 kg). The association of protein intake with grip strength was examined using Pearson's correlation and multiple linear regression analysis. RESULTS: The results proved that participants with LGS had lower daily energy, protein and fat intake, and percent energy from protein than those with normal or high grip strength (P < 0.0001). Total energy intake, animal protein, and plant protein were positively associated with grip strength. A higher intake of total plant protein (P for trend = 0.004 for men, 0.05 for women) and legumes, nuts, and seeds (LNS) protein (P for trend = 0.01 for men, 0.02 for women) was significantly associated with a lower prevalence of LGS. However, non-LNS plant protein intake was not associated with LGS (P for trend = 0.10 for men, 0.15 for women). In women, a higher total animal protein intake was significantly associated with decreased LGS (P for trend = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Higher total plant protein and LNS protein intake are negatively associated with LGS.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.185-192
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• 1996

박테리오파지 T7 gene 2.5 단백질은 single-stranded DNA 결합 단백질로 박태리오파지 T7의 DNA복제, 재조합, 및 수선에 필수적으로 요구된다. Gene 2.5 protein은 T7의 DNA 합성과 성장에 필수적인 단백질이다. Gene 2.5 Protein이 중요시 되는 이유는 이 단백질이 T7의 다른 복제 필수단백질인 T7의 다른 복제 필수단백질인 T7 DNA polymerase 와 gene 4 protein(helicase/primase)와 서로 상호작용할 것으로 제안되었기 때문이다. (Kim and Richardson, J. Biol. Chem., 1992;1994). 이 단백질의 단백질 상호작용을 가능하게 하는 domain은 carboxyl-terminal domain일 것으로 여러 실험에서 대두되었기에, 이 domain의 특성을 파악하기 위해 야생형과 변이체 gene 2.5 단백질들을 각각 GST에 융합한후 fusion 단백질을 정제하였다. 정제된 이 융합 단백질들의 carboxyl-terminal domain이 T7 복제 단백질들과 상호작용을 조사하는지를 조사하기 위해 affinity chromatography로 이용하였다. 실험 결과, 아생형 GST-gene 2.5 융합단잭질(GST-2.5 (WT))는 T7 DNA polymerase 와 상호작용을 하였지만. 변이형 융합단백질(GST-2.5$\Delta$21C)는 interaction을 하지 못했다. 이 결과는 carbohyl-terminal domain이 단백질-단백질 상호작용을 하는데 직접적으로 관여하는 것을 증명하였다. 또한,GST2.5(WT)는 gene 4 protein(helicase/primase)와 직접 상호작용을 하나. GST2.5$\Delta$21C는 상호작용을 하지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 gene 4 proteins와의 상호작용에도 gene 2.5 protein의 carboxyl-terminal domain이 직접 관여 한다는 것이 증명되었다. 이상의 결과에서 gene 2.5 protein은 박테리오파지 T7 의 유전자 목제 시 단백질-단백질 상호작용에 관혀아며, 특히 gene 2.5 protein의 carboxyl-terminal domain이 이러한 상호작용에 직접적으로 관여하는 domain이라는 것을 알 수가 있었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.504-508
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• 1998

포말분리 장치를 이용한 해수 중의 단백질 제거 특성을 조사한 결과, 단백질 농도가 높을 수록 그리고 포말층높이가 낮을수록 단백질의 제거속도는 증가는 것으로 나타났다. 단백질의 농도에 따른 제거속도의 변화는 단백질의 농도가 높을수록 그 제거 속도 또한 증가하는 것으로 나타났으며, 본 논문의 폭기량 0.65 cm/sec로 운전한 실험 결과에서 단백질 농도와 제거속도와의 관계가 다음과 같이 나타났다. (equation omitted) 또한 포말층높이의 변화에 대해서도 포말층의 높이가 클수록 그 제거속도는 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 이때에 폭기량이 많을수록 단백질의 제거속도 또한 크게 나타났으며, 포말층높이의 증가에 따른 제거속도의 감소 정도 또한 폭기량이 많을수록 크게 나타났다. 그러나 상대적인 수치에 따르면, 폭기량에 상관없이 포말층 높이가 10 cm증가함에 따라 낮은 포말층 높이에서의 제거속도의 대략 30 % 정도가 감소하는 것으로 나타나 상대적인 감소율의 비는 일정한 것으로 나타났다.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.43.1-43.12
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• 2021

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most prevalent organisms associated with foodborne illness across the globe causing campylobacteriosis and gastritis. Many proteins of C. jejuni are still unidentified. The purpose of this study was to determine the structure and function of a non-annotated hypothetical protein (HP) from C. jejuni. A number of properties like physiochemical characteristics, 3D structure, and functional annotation of the HP (accession No. CAG2129885.1) were predicted using various bioinformatics tools followed by further validation and quality assessment. Moreover, the protein-protein interactions and active site were obtained from the STRING and CASTp server, respectively. The hypothesized protein possesses various characteristics including an acidic pH, thermal stability, water solubility, and cytoplasmic distribution. While alpha-helix and random coil structures are the most prominent structural components of this protein, most of it is formed of helices and coils. Along with expected quality, the 3D model has been found to be novel. This study has identified the potential role of the HP in 2-methylcitric acid cycle and propionate catabolism. Furthermore, protein-protein interactions revealed several significant functional partners. The in-silico characterization of this protein will assist to understand its molecular mechanism of action better. The methodology of this study would also serve as the basis for additional research into proteomic and genomic data for functional potential identification.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권7호
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• pp.679-688
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• 2006

대용량 실험으로부터 산출된 단백질 상호작용 데이터는 위양성(false positive) 데이터의 비율이 높다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 오류가 섞여있는 단백질 상호작용 데이터를 입력으로 받아 각 단백질 상호작용의 신뢰도를 검증하는 시스템을 제안하고 구현하였다. 제안 시스템은 단백질 상호작용 데이터에 상호작용의 근거로서 사용될 수 있는 다양한 생물학적 특징들에 관한 데이터를 통합하고 특징 선택 방법을 사용하여 통합된 속성들 중 위양성 여부를 판별하는데 가장 적합한 특징들을 선택한 후 데이터 마이닝 분류 알고리즘을 적용하여 대용량 실험으로부터 산출된 단백질 상호작용 데이터의 신뢰도를 평가한다. 특징 선택의 결과와 분류 기법의 성능은 데이터 특성에 매우 의존하므로, 제안시스템에 가장 적합한 속성 부분집합과 가장 좋은 성능을 내는 분류 알고리즘을 찾기 위해 다양한 특징 선택 방법과 데이터 마이닝 분류 알고리즘들을 적용하고 그 성능을 다각적으로 비교분석 하였다. 실험 결과, 특징 선택 방법과 분류 알고리즘을 결합시킨 제안 시스템은 오류 데이터가 섞여있는 단백질 상호작용 데이터에서 실제로 상호작용하는 단백질 쌍을 골라내는 작업에 있어 기존 연구들에 비해 매우 뛰어난 성능을 보여줬다. 또한 본 연구를 통해 단백질 상호작용 데이터의 신뢰도를 검증함에 있어서 다양한 특징 선택 방법들과 분류 알고리즘들이 성능에 미치는 영향에 관해서도 정리할 수 있었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1713-1719
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• 2014

1FSD is a 28-residue designed protein with a ${\beta}{\beta}{\alpha}$ motif. Since this protein displays most essential features of protein structures in such a small size, this model protein can be an outstanding system for evaluating the balance in the propensity of the secondary structures and the quality of all-atom protein force fields. Particularly, this protein would be difficult to fold to its correct native structure without establishing proper balances between the secondary structure elements in all-atom energy functions. In this work, a series of the recently optimized five amber protein force fields [$ff03^*$, $f99sb^*$-ildn, ff99sb-${\phi}^{\prime}$-ildn, ff99sb-nmr1-ildn, ff99sb-${\Phi}{\Psi}$(G24, CS)-ildn] were investigated for the simulations of 1FSD using a conventional molecular dynamics (MD) and a biased-exchange meta-dynamics (BEMD) methods. Among those tested force fields, we found that ff99sb-nmr1-ildn and ff99sb-${\Phi}{\Psi}$(G24, CS)-ildn are promising in that both force fields can locate the native state of 1FSD with a high accuracy (backbone rmsd ${\leq}1.7{\AA}$) in the global free energy minimum basin with a reasonable energetics conforming to a previous circular dichroism (CD) experiment. Furthermore, both force fields led to a common set of two distinct folding pathways with a heterogeneous nature of the transition state to the folding. We anticipate that these force fields are reasonably well balanced, thereby transferable to many other protein folds.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.171-175
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• 2000

Determined sequences of 384 randomly selected clones in a PCR-based cDNA library of Antheraea yamamai could identify expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of highly expressed gene. One EST (fibroin) appeared 15 times, one EST (40S ribosomal protein S18) twelve times, one EST (ribosomal protein S24a) eleven times, ten times (ribosomal protein S8), nine times (60S ribosomal protein L10A), seven times (60S ribosomal protein S15A, S17, S17 and seroin), six times (ribosomal protein S8), five times (ribosomal protein S24, mariner transposase and P8 protein), four times (serpin 2), three times (heat shock protein 70 and poly A binding protein), and the remaining 6 ESTs twice (amylase, KIAA1006, elongation factor-1, transposon mag, translation initiation factor 4C, QM protein, transposase). Therefore, the 94 EST make it possible to identify 24 redundant clones that are candidates for highly expressed genes in posterior silk gland of this insect. The 24 redundant EST clones were identified in GenBank, but none of them was related to A. yamamai, suggesting that there are many unidentified genes which are highly expressed in the A. yamamai genome.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.148-148
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• 2017

Soybean is an important economical resource of protein and oil for human and animals. The genetic basis of seed protein and oil content has been separately characterized in soybean. However, the genetic relationship between seed protein and oil content remains to be elucidated. In this study, we used a combined analysis of phenotypic correlation and linkage mapping to dissect the relationship between seed protein and oil content. A $F_{10:11}$ RIL population containing 222 lines, derived from the cross between two Korean soybean cultivars Seadanbaek as female and Neulchan as male parent, were used in this experiment. Soybean seed analyzed were harvested in three different experimental environments. A genetic linkage map was constructed with 180K SoyaSNP Chip and QTLs of both traits were analyzed using the software QTL IciMapping. QTL analyses for seed protein and oil content were conducted by composite interval mapping across a genome wide genetic map. This study detected four major QTL for oil content located in chromosome 10, 13, 15 and 16 that explained 13.2-19.8% of the phenotypic variation. In addition, 3 major QTL for protein content were detected in chromosome 10, 11 and 16 that explained 40.8~53.2% of the phenotypic variation. A major QTLs was found to be associated with both seed protein and oil content. A major QTL were mapped to soybean chromosomes 16, which were designated qHPO16. These loci have not been previously reported. Our results reveal a signi cant genetic relationship between seed protein and oil fi content traits. The markers linked closely to these major QTLs may be used for selection of soybean varieties with improved seed protein and oil content.