• 한국양식학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.137-143
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• 1999

The effects of dietary protein level on growth, feed utlization and liver size were studied with juvenile haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) of 6.88$\pm$0.54 g (mean$\pm$SD). Five isoenergetic diets containing 44.4 to 64.7% protein were fed to triplicate groups of 50 fish in a flow-through system for 6 weeks. All fish showed a relative increase of more than 300% in final weight. There were, however, no significant differences (P>0.05) in weight gain (16.1 to 17.3 g) and specific growth rate (2.9 to 3.0) among fish groups. A higher protein diets resulted in a lower feed intake. Feed: gain ratio linearly improved (P<0.05) when protein level increased from 44.4 to 59.7%. The lowest protein efficiency ratio was observed in fish fed the highest protein diet. Hepatosomatic index of fish significantly decreased from 10.7 to 7.3% with an increase in protein level. Results from this study suggest that haddock could grow well even when fed the diet with protein lower than 44.4%.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.81-85
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• 1979

1. Gram Quality Analyzer로 측정한 단백질과 Kjeldahi치와는 곡종에 관계없이 고도의 상관(상관계수 $0.97{\sim}0.98$)을 나타내었으며 반복 측정시 의미있는 차이를 보이지 않았다. 2. 밀의 경우 경연질별로 큰 차이가 없었으나 보리의 경우 겉보리가 쌀보리보다 상관계수가 약간 낮았고 반복간 오차도 컸다. 3. 측정시료의 입자크기는 단백질 측정치에 직접 영향은 없었으나 입자크기가 작을수록 측정오차가 작았다. 4. 측정 cell에 충진하는 시료는 12 g 정도가 적합하였으며 시료를 많이 넣는 경우 적외선 reflectance가 많아 단백질 측정치는 다소 증가하였으며, 8 g 이하로 넣는 경우 오차가 컸다.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.855-868
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• 2021

The present study was designed to investigate the effects of protein formula with different casein (C) to whey protein (W) ratios on dispersion stability, protein quality and body composition in rats. Modification of the casein to whey protein (CW) ratio affected the extent of protein aggregation, and heated CW-2:8 showed a significantly increased larger particle (>100 ㎛) size distribution. The largest protein aggregates were formed by whey protein self-aggregation. There were no significant differences in protein aggregation when the CW ratios changed from 10:0 to 5:5. Based on the protein quality assessment (CW-10:0, CW-8:2, CW-5:5, and CW-2:8) for four weeks, CW-10:0 showed a significantly higher feed intake (p<0.05), but the high proportion of whey protein in the diet (CW-5:5 and CW-2:8) increased the feed efficiency ratio, protein efficiency ratio, and net protein ratio compared to other groups. Similarly, CW-2:8 showed greater true digestibility compared to other groups. No significant differences in fat mass and lean mass analyzed by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry were observed. A significant difference was found in the bone mineral density between the CW-10:0 and CW-2:8 groups (p<0.05), but no difference was observed among the other groups. Based on the results, CW-5:5 improved protein quality without causing protein instability problems in the dispersion.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2005

It was previously shown that AtNAP1 is a plastidic SufB protein involved in Fe-S cluster assembly in Arabidopsis. In this study, we investigated the effects of depleting SufB protein from plant cells using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). VIGS of NbNAP1 encoding a Nicotiana benthamiana homolog of AtNAP1 resulted in a leaf yellowing phenotype. NbNAP1 was expressed ubiquitously in plant tissues with the highest level in roots. A GFP fusion protein of the N-terminal region (M1-V103) of NbNAP1 was targeted to chloroplasts. Depletion of NbNAP1 resulted in reduced numbers of chloroplasts of reduced size. Mitochondria also seemed to be affected. Despite the reduced number and size of the chloroplasts in the NbNAP1 VIGS lines, the expression of many nuclear genes encoding chloroplast-targeted proteins and chlorophyll biosynthesis genes remained unchanged.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.375-382
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• 2010

The precise effects of protein intake on fractional synthesis rate (FSR) of muscle protein are still under debate. The sample size of these studies was small and the conclusions in young and elderly subjects were inconsistent. To assess the effect of dietary protein intake on the FSR level, we conducted a meta-analysis of controlled protein intake trials. Random-effects models were used to calculate the weighted mean differences (WMDs). Ten studies were included and effects of short-term protein intake were evaluated. In an overall pooled estimate, protein intake significantly increased the FSR (20 trials, 368 participants; WMD: 0.025%/h; 95%CI: 0.019-0.031; P < 0.0001). Meta-regression analysis suggested that the protein dose was positively related to the effect size (regression coefficient = 0.108%/h; 95%CI: 0.035, 0.182; P = 0.009). A subgroup analysis indicated that protein intake significantly increased FSR when the protein dose was ${\leq}$ 0.80 g/kg BW (16 trials, 308 participants; WMD: 0.027%/h; 95%CI: 0.019-0.031; P < 0.0001), but did not affect FSR when the protein dose was > 0.80 g/kg BW (4 trials, 60 participants; WMD: 0.016%/h; 95%CI: 0.004-0.029; P = 0.98). In conclusion, this study is the first integrated results showing that a short-term protein intake is effective at improving the FSR of muscle protein in the healthy elderly as well as young subjects. This beneficial effect seems to be dose-dependent when the dose levels of protein range from 0.08 to 0.80 g/kg BW.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.74-78
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• 2011

Numerous restraints and simplifications have been developed for methods that anticipate protein structure to reduce the colossal magnitude of possible conformational states. In this study, we investigated if globularity is a general characteristic of proteins and whether they can be applied as a valid constraint in protein structure simulations with approximated measurements (Gb-index). Unexpectedly, most of the proteins showed strong structural globularity (i.e., mode of approximately 76% similarity to the perfect globe) with only a few percent of proteins being outliers. Small proteins tended to be significantly non-globular ($R^2$=0.79) and the minimum Gb-index showed a logarithmic increase with the increase in protein size ($R^2$=0.62), strongly implying that the non-globular characteristics might be more acceptable for smaller proteins than larger ones. The strong perfect globe-like character and the relationship between small size and the loss of globular structure of a protein may imply that living organisms have mechanisms to aid folding into the globular structure to reduce irreversible aggregation. This also implies the possible mechanisms of diseases caused by protein aggregation, including some forms of trinucleotide repeat expansion-mediated diseases.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.261-268
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• 1988

단백질 수준이 각각 18%(초생추 사료)와 12% (비육우 사료)인 사판 사료를 사료 입자 크기로 나누어서 1.1mm이하가 전사료에 대한양외 80%와 40%인 것으로 만든 다음 각각 다른 단백질 수준과 입자 크기가 배합 사료내에 함유된 항곰광이제(0.1% W/W)의 효능에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지에 관하여 연구하였다. 시험 사료내에 함유된 수분의 함량은 12.6% (초생추 사료)와 12.7%(비육우 사료)였다. 시험 사료를 각 처리 별로 1kg씩 나누어 플라스틱통에 넣은 후 뚜껑을 약간 열어둔 상태로 상대습도가 85% 저장 온도를 $29{\pm}$$1^{\circ}C$ 되게 유지시킨 채 5일에서 40일 동안 보전한 후 곰팡이수, 생성된 탄산 가스양 그리고 생성된 아플라 톡신의 양을 측정하였다. 형성된 곰팡이 수(P＜0.05)와 탄산가스 발생양(P＜0.01)은 항곰팡이제가 가해졌을 때 사료의 입자 크기가 1.1mm이하인 것이 전사료의 40%인 구에서 현저히 높았으나 단백질 수준의 차이는 항곰팡이제의 작용에 영향을 미치지 못했다. 그러나 아플라 톡신의 생성은 사료중의 단백질 수준이 높을 수록 많았고(P＜0.05) 또 입자가 큰 것이 많은 사료일수록 현저히 높았다(P＜0.05).

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.517-524
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• 1990

CTAB/hexanol/isooctane 역미셀을 이용하여 단백질을 선택적으로 분리할 수 있는 분리조건을 밝히기 위해서 먼저 분자량과 등전점이 다른 여러 단백질의 용해와 회수에 미치는 pH, 이온의 종류 및 이온 강도, 계면활성제의 종류 등 system parameters에 대해 연구 검토하였다. pH에 따른 단백질의 용해는 등전점이 낮은 pepsin이 pH5-7 이상, 등전점이 높은 lisozyme이나 ribonuclease-a는 pH11-12 이상으로 단백질이 계면활성제의 (+)전하와 반대전하인 (-)를 띠는 등전점 이상의 pH역역에서 용해가 가능하였다.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2003년도 제2차 연례학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.133-138
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• 2003

The prediction of protein secondary structure has been an important bioinformatics tool that is an essential component of the template-based protein tertiary structure prediction process. It has been known that the predicted secondary structure information improves both the fold recognition performance and the alignment accuracy. In this paper, we describe several novel ideas that may improve the prediction accuracy. The main idea is motivated by an observation that the protein's structural information, especially when it is combined with the evolutionary information, significantly improves the accuracy of the predicted tertiary structure. From the non-redundant set of protein structures, we derive the 'potential' parameters for the protein secondary structure prediction that contains the structural information of proteins, by following the procedure similar to the way to derive the directional information table of GOR method. Those potential parameters are combined with the frequency matrices obtained by running PSI-BLAST to construct the feature vectors that are used to train the support vector machines (SVM) to build the secondary structure classifiers. Moreover, the problem of huge model file size, which is one of the known shortcomings of SVM, is partially overcome by reducing the size of training data by filtering out the redundancy not only at the protein level but also at the feature vector level. A preliminary result measured by the average three-state prediction accuracy is encouraging.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.315-321
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• 1999

Poly (lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microspheres containing ovalbumin (OVA) as a model protein drug were prepared by double emulsification method, and various conditions such as mixing rate, volume of outer phase and isopropyl alcohol concentration in outer phase during secondary emulsification were observed to control the size of microspheres. In addition, entrapment efficiency of OVA and protein denaturation were also evaluated. As the rate of stirring was increased, the size of particles was decreased. But excessive stirring increased the particle size of microspheres. In a preparation condition of small volume of outer phase, the particle size was decreased but the entrapment efficiency was increased. Adding isopropyl alcohol to outer phase decreased the size of particles, but increased the entrapment efficiency. Microparticles should have smaller size than $10\;{\mu}m$ to be uptaked by Peyer's patch in small intestine. High speed of mixing and relatively small volume of outer phase are needed to reduce the size. In addition, appropriate amount of isopropyl alcohol in outer phase also plays an important role in size reduction of PLGA microspheres.